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Books in the toilet....

273 replies

alphabetsoup1980 · 16/08/2020 13:14

Just euugghhh Or is it just me???

My grandad always kept a pile of crossword books on the windowsill next to the toilet and it made me really uncomfortable 😂😂😂

Please say I'm not the only one who thinks it's a bit grim??

OP posts:
littlepeas · 16/08/2020 15:02

My most germ phobic friend has a couple of books in the downstairs loo! She used to sit her son down for a poo with a book and leave him there when he was little. If she’s ok with it then it must be ok (she is a crazy dettol lady usually).

LaMarschallin · 16/08/2020 15:03

LillianBland

lockdownbreakdown

You are all crazy! I physically cannot poo without something to read. I have a mini library in there!

I have a mini library in there.

That’s possibly why you can’t poo. Most people store their books on a shelf/rack.

Smile

That did actually make do that "Hah!" snorty sound I produce instead of lolling or pml etc

Although I read in the loo too.
I have an extremely low boredom threshold. It also takes my mind off what I'm actually doing.

Doggybiccys

I hate the image of someone sitting shitting and making such a meal of it they need to pass the time reading. I don’t really know why as we all do it. I think it’s cos if you go in after, the seat is still warm and the air is not fresh. Grim.

Ah, the old proverb: Swinging chain indicates warm seat.

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 16/08/2020 15:03

@DadDadDad
Great Expections

therhubarbbrothers · 16/08/2020 15:03

I have a kindle in the bathroom.

Babs709 · 16/08/2020 15:05

@CreatureComfy good spot, I meant ‘presence’. But I wonder if ‘presents’ would also be applicable.

wanderings · 16/08/2020 15:07

Only on Mumsnet are people so hysterical about toilets.

LaMarschallin · 16/08/2020 15:07

My stepdad used to take a newspaper or Viz annuals in. Grimm.

Quite eclectic tastes then.
Any Hans Christian Andersen?

TorgosPizza · 16/08/2020 15:08

I close the lid. Pretty sure that's recommended. Even if particles do shoot out at lightning speed, they're aimed lower and not going right up into my breathing space.

I'd much rather have a magazine for browsing than take my phone with me. You finish with the magazine (before wiping, so the worst I've touched has been the door handle and the lid to lift it up), then you wash your hands and leave the magazine behind. If you use you phone, you're taking it with you. And phones are notorious for being covered in germs, anyway.

Babs709 · 16/08/2020 15:09

@DadDadDad Is Lord of the Rings taking it too far?

ravenmum · 16/08/2020 15:09

wanderings Not just about toilets 😂

Spidey66 · 16/08/2020 15:09

I have a collection of books and magazines in the bathroom. My mum used to as well, I think that's were it came from.

I only put the lid down if I need to use the loo as a seat.

I'm minging and proud!

DadDadDad · 16/08/2020 15:10

Catch Twenty-poo - Heller

Er, yes, I think I'd better stop... Blush

bettsbattenburg · 16/08/2020 15:10

[quote Babs709]@DadDadDad Is Lord of the Rings taking it too far?[/quote]
Yes, it's sufficiently long that you'll make a hobbit of reading in there.

WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat · 16/08/2020 15:10

@DadDadDad
Gone with the Wind

I think this requires it own thread!

CreatureComfy · 16/08/2020 15:10

Babs709 you're probably right Smile, and the presents lead to presence...

TorgosPizza · 16/08/2020 15:11

...Also, it's different if it's your own toilet and your own book/magazine vs a stack of strange books in another house. I might be mildly grossed out by other people's books, but I know that doesn't make much sense, so I'd just ignore them and get on with my life.

ravenmum · 16/08/2020 15:13

I mainly put the seat down as I hate it when you look in the bathroom and see the toilet staring back at you. Looks so much neater closed!

DadDadDad · 16/08/2020 15:13

[quote Babs709]@DadDadDad Is Lord of the Rings taking it too far?[/quote]
A whole new meaning to the Cracks of Doom... Confused

Babs709 · 16/08/2020 15:13

The grapes of wrath.

therhubarbbrothers · 16/08/2020 15:15

Chocolat

Zaphodsotherhead · 16/08/2020 15:15

As long as you aren't sucking the books in the loo, what's the problem? Next you'll be worrying about the end of the loo roll that may have been contaminated when someone before you had a poo and held the roll to pull off some sheets...

Has anyone in the history of toilets, ever caught anything from simply touching something in a loo? Or is it, in fact, the other people that use the toilet that you are far far more likely to catch 'germs' off?

Maybe we should get rid of people. That ought to do it.

BreconBeBuggered · 16/08/2020 15:16

Some of you must be very slow readers.

Listen, I'm not the infuriating DH who can spend 20 minutes or longer in there creating the kind of stench that creeps under the door. I'm not even a bloke. But 30 seconds on the toilet gives you at least half a page, surely? If people aren't shitting on the book then bobbing it down the loo, I don't have a problem.

Fruitsaladjelly · 16/08/2020 15:18

Grim, I bet they were crawling

JaneJeffer · 16/08/2020 15:18

Surely the lid keeps everything inside the loo?!

DadDadDad · 16/08/2020 15:19

@Zaphodsotherhead - your username has inspired me:
The Shithikers' Guide to the Galaxy
The Restroom at the End of the Universe
Life, the Pooniverse, and Everything
So Pong and Thanks for all the Fish
...