Actually, this is about potty reading. Don't know if it's genetic, or a man thing or what, but sometimes reading while on the can "helps." Yeah, that's kind of gross, but it's a fact of life. Must be why in the olden days, before toilet paper and indoor plumbing, more often than not the Sears catalog was used for certain after-poo hygienics (aka "wiping yer butt"). It also was handy for reading, too! One of my grannies tells stories about using dried corn cobs, but that's another subject altogether (and explains a LOT about her).
So yeah, there are a stack of magazines in the b.r. at home. I've worked at places (mostly newspapers) where the men's room stalls had baskets to keep the day's editions at the ready. Strangely, female co-workers told me the women's restrooms offered no such amenity. The glass ceiling, partial salaries and now this! I'm outraged and saddened for the ladies who like to learn something new while in the loo.
It's a little harder (aka "embarassing") to sneak in reading material to the so-called "men's room" here at work. Our hopper's entry is in the middle of the office, and so there's a reduction of privacy in using it. That said, there was a new package of paper towels in there and I learned some things. Like, for example, did you know that the current design of Bounty paper towels involves about 40 patents (really, 41, but I only read it once)? When did they start putting Spanish translations on paper towel packaging (which is fine by me), and why aren't other languages represented? Are French people innately smarter and therefore need no further instructions, or do they just not use paper towels? What about our friends in China, Africa and England? Where are their translations?
To sum up, literature on the pooper=good; lack of diversity in paper towel packaging=bad.
* photo via Google search from here.
If you've never come across this immense series of books, then I suggest you get thee to your nearest bookstore and pick up any one of the fine volumes published by the Bathroom Readers Institute. I couldn't believe it when I first saw one. I thought it was "too silly" to buy. I finally broke down, bought one, and it's the best reading material ever, for the "biffy" and anywhere in the house, as well. Oh... and in my family, the biffy is also known as THE LIBRARY.
Isn't everyone's second library in the "water closet"? Hell, in my house, it is the only place where you might only get interrupted three times instead of the average six.
Yes, women are strange when it comes to public bathroom usage. There are unspoken rules of etiquette that the male species would never get.
Yeah..I'd say it's definitely a pretty common male trait. My husbands minimum time in the bathromm is at least a half an hour. This can be slightly annoying at times....but, oh well..
Just hopping by to wish you a Happy Easter! :)
Yes, it is the only place to get in any kind of reading at my house. Beside I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if it weren't holding a book or magazine.
you guys are weird!