Books in the toilet....

[alphabetsoup1980]

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??

@Mothership4two

A library book *@Nellisterr*?!

Yes, it has been spotted on an occasion couple years back...

I keep all my books about pubs in the toilet, plus usually the latest copy if Viz. I often have a little read even if it’s just a wee for a treat.

We have a good supply of magazines in ours. It’s my favourite time of day when I can have my post breakfast poi and magazine read! It’s probably gross but My household is all still alive so we are evidently immune to it all.

My dc have a dictionary next to ours.. it’s worked as they’ve come out with some brilliant words in their time

I think the people who don't get it must be slow readers. It hardly takes a moment to read a page or two.

Tangental I know but my boss kept taking our team’s newspapers and magazines into the gents with him. Which I thought really grim.

Exactly @fruitpastille It's one of life's great pleasures 😂😂 (and escapes from the madness sometimes 👍)

My dad does this. He spends up to an hour on the loo. It’s his peace time he says

I always have a pile of books in my bathroom. However they're on a shelf next to my bath, as I love reading whilst hiding out in the bath for an hour or so every couple evenings haha.

In fact I've been to homes where they have a 'loo journal' in their loo, which is a great source of amusement! People add various jottings, doodles, entries of various sorts to the book as they 'do their business'. You can simply read it and acknowledge if you wish (or not!) or add a great tome of your own...length would of course depend on what you were doing in there I guess 🤷‍♀️

I did try this one time in my own house but it quickly descended into gratuitous insults 😂

YANBU. This is just plain grotty.

AllergictoIroning - my mum would do that too! How do old women manage to do it so damn fast?

LilianBland WHERE did you find that?! I want at least 3.....

No problem, I don't...but maybe I'll put a little bookshelf there. People who find it grim won't touch it. I would put book down b4 wipage then wash hands no worries.
Unless of course the toilet is generally very grim then I would hover n dash

Horrid

Not just a shelf then. Why not create a whole 'Loobrary'. Multiple shelves, and books arranged by subject based on the Dewey Decimal Classification?

Reading on the loo reflects potty training. Some parents put their kids on the potty as soon as they finish a meal. Therefore, out of habit, they go andsit on the loo to wait for a happening. Hence the books. A no no to me. Get out as soon as. Not putting the seat down after flushing shoots the germs into the air and over everything.

@Aglet with respect, that is the most insane theory I have ever heard!

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

Not just a shelf then. Why not create a whole 'Loobrary'. Multiple shelves, and books arranged by subject based on the Dewey Decimal Classification?

Surely you'd use the Poo-ey Decimal Classification?

Or else the Library of Pongress Catalog... (yes, I did say log).

@Jux

AllergictoIroning - my mum would do that too! How do old women manage to do it so damn fast?

LilianBland WHERE did you find that?! I want at least 3.....

She wasn't old - in her 40's/50's. I think it's down to the education she had, either side of WW2, that encouraged that way of thinking. Plus she did an awful lot of reading (as do all her offspring even now in our 50's/60's) of very eclectic subjects which I'm sure helped.

But she DID come 3rd in the Times National Crossword Championships once, so she was exceptional.

@alphabetsoup1980
Why are you worried about what someone else does in their own home?
Their home = their choice.
If you don’t like it, don’t use their loo.
I don’t have books/magazines in mine, because that’s my choice but I hardly care what anyone else chooses to do.

Sorry.I should have used the past tense. I don't think modern potty training is quite so regimented. But I stand by the reason why a lot of the older generation go and sit on the loo with a book.

@Nellisterr

I am was a regular library user

We all do it but I find the stack of books or magazines a bit too obvious 😂

presumably you don't change/wash your clothes every time you go for a dump? After all, you're taking THEM into the toilet with you. And pulling your knickers/trousers up with unwashed hands.

This is why there have been people on previous MN threads who mentioned that they have family members who do undress completely.

But this is also why kitchen staff etc. are told to remove their aprons etc. when they visit the lavatory. And, depending on where you do your hygiene training, you are advised to wash your hands before adjusting your clothes back. Then you put your apron/overalls back on and return.

A lot of this depends on having a handbasin in the cubicle so that you aren't waddling anywhere with your clothing unadjusted.

For something so notionally straightforward…

I think the people who don't get it must be slow readers. It hardly takes a moment to read a page or two

Or quick loo users. No time to even read a page (not that I would want to frankly) but then I am a vegetarian