Sugar&Spice

Background: I got my boyfriend a subscription to popular science for his birthday, and he was happy that he'd now have bathroom reading material. Somehow it came up in conversation that girls read in the bathroom too, neither I my roomates or any girl I know keeps reading material in the bathroom. So i was wondering about all of you. Readers or All Business.

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maleficent

In my bathroom, I have a small bookshelf, over the toilet. On said bookshelf, I have The Ladies Bathroom Reader, 2 editions of Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader, and about 4 editions of Randy Cassingham's This is True books. plus there are a few other books of that story.

I keep reading material in the bathroom, let's just say I am a multi-tasker, it's a good place to keep up with trivial stuff.

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ShaniFaye

It is physically impossible for me to go to the bathroom if I dont have a book in my hand

and just for the record no other woman in my entire family can either

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*Nikki*

I for one am always in to much of a hurry to read, least of all in the bathroom.

The bathroom is not at all a place of leasure for me. *sigh*

jaded

Me, always reading. Shani put it well, can\'t go without something to read.

snowy

I read. I keep a stack of magazines on the back of the toilet in case I'm not in the middle of reading something else at the moment.

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ColonelSpecial

It is only because of the special time I spend reading in the bathroom that I am able to win so often at Trivial Pursuit. To those women who don't read while in the can: start! It is great

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gremlinx8

The bathroom is just such a boring room, having something to read makes it so much better.

Supple Cow

I never used to read in there, but since college has made my leisure reading time much less leisurely, I find myself taking my pleasure books into the can with me every now and then. Last year, I kept a gameboy with tetris in the bathroom. My suitemates sure enjoyed that. This year, the bathroom's so small that there's no safe place to put the darn thing without risking a dip in the toilet, but I'm probably better off... I would sometimes forget to do my business and sit in there playing for way too long.

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pinkie

I don't spend that much time on the pot. Only guys do that, I thought.

(hey, that rhymed)

CinnamonGirl

I don't keep things in there to read, but if crackprogram's left a magazine (or ten), I'll pick it up and browse through.

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sapphire

From time to time I'll grab a magazine but I can't just sit there and read. My exboyfriend always had to take something with him to read and he would be in there for ever. I never understood that.

Hash_Browns

I keep my parenting mags in the bathroom, they don't get tore up and put all over the house, and I love to read in the bathroom, so they get done together...

If I am at someone else's house and I have to 'take care of business', I will get so desperate as to pick up a shampoo bottle and read the description or something to make the time go by faster!

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bernadette

typically i am quick like a ninja, but i will grab the front section of the newspaper & at least get through the headlines!

my house & garden magazine is a good back up plan if i've already done the newspaper.

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ShaniFaye

ahahahahha so Im not the ONLY one that does that hehehehe

My grandmother always kept readers digest in her bathroom....Being able to read them there was always one of my favorite parts of going to visit her

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Dezeba

I've never read in the bathroom. I'd rather get in and get out. But I bet that once I have children I'll be more then happy to have some quite reading time in the bathroom!

Nancy

hahah no I never read in the bathroom. I haven't got time for that.

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Hash_Browns

My Dad keeps MAD mag. in the bottom drawer of the bathroom cabinet, that's how it all got started It is still there and I still read whenever I am over!

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Jonsgirl

I read everything. If I don't have a book, I'll read a magazine, if I don't have one, I've even been known to read the backs of the shampoo bottles and such.

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little_tippler

I enjoy my time in the bathroom and I like to read an ocasional magazine on the toilet or in the tub. Why not? It's very relaxing lol

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We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

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sillygirl

I don't really read a lot... my hunny gets Maxim, and one day I picked it up and started flipping through it. *shhhh don't tell him that* and now when there's one in the bathroom I'll read it. Also a few car mags. Damn.... I'm turning into a guy!! *goes and buys a Ladies Home Journal*

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RMMsGirl

I have to say I am always reading while in there.. whether it be a book, magazine, shampoo bottle or the tube of toothpaste.

Averett

I don't. I do what I have to do and get out of there. Who wants to sit on that cold, hard seat longer than is necessary?

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ShaniFaye

I have one of those nice cushy toilet seats....very comfy

so my answer Averett is ME I want to sit there longer than necessary

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Averett

Cushion seats?!? They've always reminded me of old people

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ShaniFaye

hey now....all my toilets have always had them

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Sugar&Spice

Wow, I am amazed at how many of you ladies always read on the toilet. Maybe I'll have to give it a try and see what I have been missing.

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maleficent

They wouldn't have made The Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Series if it weren't intended for people to read in the bathroom.... That book woudl look pretty silly in the living room, and peoplemight get confused...

Start slow-- take a book into a bubble bath with you... you will love it...

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ngdawg

I always thought it was a guy thing! No woman I know reads on the toilet!! hmmmm..

Ananas

I read all the time in the bathroom, rarely go without something to read.

Soft, cushy seats are the way to go.

The only problem is sometimes I stay on the seat so long that my legs/feet go numb.

little_tippler

cushion seats? that's really strange...how do you clean those, do they attach with velcro or something? sorry, getting off subject heh. I must be weird because I find it quite comfortable enough on the hard toilet seat...lol

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Averett

I did that once. And dropped the book.

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snowy

Try a cheapie magazine at first, and only read cheap paperbacks in the tub. I can't imagine taking a bath without reading. I do it all the time.

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Amethyst

I try to spend as little time in the bathroom as I have to so No, I don't read in the bathroom. It's in and out for me.

absolutangel

Me too.. very relaxing

Trisk

I don't always bring something in the bathroom with me, but sometimes you just get the feeling that it's going to take a while...

Redgirl

When I get the urge I've been known to run all over the house looking for something new to read while in the bathroom!

We have a magazine rack right by the toilet so if I'm not reading a book ATM I can grab something to flip thru. I don't know why but it's so much easier to concentrate on stuff while you're in there. Sensory deprivation or something. I usually end up sitting there until my legs go numb, too. Guess I need to get an old lady cushioned seat!

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onodrim

I've never read anything in the bathroom before, and I've never had the urge too. *shrug* For me, I just want to go in there, do what I need to do, and get out.

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xxSquirtxx

Usually "all business" for me. Very rarely will I read.

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Acetylene

bodily wastes are unpleasant by nature and I would prefer comic-book distraction.

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