Random Bathroom Statistics

[Mr. DS]

From my desk callender;

74% of people read in the bathroom
47% talk on the phone
11% eat in there
40% flush restroom toilets with their feet instead of their hand
51% crumple toilet paper, 49% fold it

I personally am guilty of the kick flush.  Its one of my most favorite maneuvers.  As for reading, I have a pretty decent stack of magazines on my toilet lid. 

[RCMerchant]

 I read in the bathroom all the time. Currently on the back of my toilet is:
.an old Psychotronic Video magazine with no cover
.a MAD magazine from the 80's
.an old Kalamazoo Gazzette from about a month ago
.a book about  James Bond movies (?)
 I don't like to talk on the phone in the bathroom.
 Eat in the bathroom?!?! Yuck!!!
 Flush with my feet...never occured to me.
 Toilet paper? Before or after? Not sure on that one...
 
I smoke on the toilet and I sneak a smoke at work in the bathroom.

[trekgeezer]

I read the paper, the book I'm currently reading, old magazines, or I just peruse one of my electronic catalogs.  I'm so bad that if I'm at someone else's house I'll start reading the back of shaving cream cans and stuff.

[BTM]

Sometimes I just don't feel "right" using the restroom without a book... maybe it's just become an ingrained habit.

I remember Stephen King once said this about his love of reading, "You know how some people read while they're taking a crapper?  Well, I read even while I'm taking a p**s!"

:)

[Shadow]

My dad would spend the better part of an hour in the bathroom reading. While I like reading when in there, I don't stay as long. Right now my reading material in the bathroom is:

The encyclopedia of monsters
Psychotronic film encyclopedia
The Star Wars essential guide to alien species
a book of Star Trek maps
plus the latest issues of Fangoria, Starlog, Anime Insider and Sci-Fi magazines

[flackbait]

My wonderful bathroom library includes bloom county comic books,various military books and occaionly the paper. Never really seen anyone take the phone or food to the crapper though.

[Raffine]

Psychotronic film encyclopedia

This, and the follow-up Psychotronic Video Guide both have an honored permanent place in my toilet library.

 

HELPFUL HINT: The toilet library is a great place for those big comicstrip compilation books like Bloom County and The Far Side.

In my house you usually have to flush the toilet before you use it because the dogs have drank all of the water out of the bowl.

[zombie no.one]

51% crumple toilet paper, 49% fold it
 

that would be a good icebreaker on a date, I'd imagine.

so........do you crumple or fold?

[Mr. DS]

.a MAD magazine from the 80's
.

MAD is always in heavy supply in my bathroom along with their Bathroom Reader.  I love that magazine and subscribe to it. 

so........do you crumple or fold?

I guess that would determine personality at any given moment.  The crumplers don't have time for perfection, just get the job done.  Meanwhile the folders, although time consuming, are quality against quantity.  Theres a lot to learn from crapping.
 

My dad would spend the better part of an hour in the bathroom reading.

Your father too?  My dad would sit on the pot and read from Reader's Digest until I swear his legs were numb.  Only problem is, he'd have this thing against closing the door so whenever the neighbor came over we'd have to mad dash to the bathroom to close the door.

[Zapranoth]

Dad in the bathroom for an hour, eh?  There can be only one conclusion (unless the door is open, of course).

I think they have to rewrite the song to

"the bathroom is really really great..
  ... FOR PORN!"

http://forporn.ytmnd.com/   (needs sound)

[Shadow]

Your father too?  My dad would sit on the pot and read from Reader's Digest until I swear his legs were numb.  Only problem is, he'd have this thing against closing the door so whenever the neighbor came over we'd have to mad dash to the bathroom to close the door.

Hahahahahaha!! OMG, that was my dad, too! He always left the door open. I remember so many times making a mad dash to close the door because the downstairs bathroom was so near the front door.
 

[indianasmith]

When I was in the Navy, I had a shipmate from Oklahoma named Ruttman.  He went  on watch one night, sit at his console for about an hour, then announced to his chief, "I need to go to the head."  He then made a quick run to the ship's store and got a soda, a Snickers bar, and a MAD magazine and disappeared into the forward head for TWO HOURS!!!  He headed back to his watch station at CIC, leaving an empty can, Snickers wrapper, and thoroughly dogeared MAD in the stall.  His chief saw him and screamed "Ruttman!! Where the hell have you been for two hours????"
  He replied, "In the head."
  Chief:  "What does anyone do in the head for TWO HOURS???"

Ruttman's reply was a classic: "I was . . . . thinking!"

Needless to say, Ruttman was a living legend on our ship.

[RCMerchant]

When I was in the Navy, I had a shipmate from Oklahoma named Ruttman.  He went  on watch one night, sit at his console for about an hour, then announced to his chief, "I need to go to the head."  He then made a quick run to the ship's store and got a soda, a Snickers bar, and a MAD magazine and disappeared into the forward head for TWO HOURS!!!  He headed back to his watch station at CIC, leaving an empty can, Snickers wrapper, and thoroughly dogeared MAD in the stall.  His chief saw him and screamed "Ruttman!! Where the hell have you been for two hours????"
  He replied, "In the head."
  Chief:  "What does anyone do in the head for TWO HOURS???"

Ruttman's reply was a classic: "I was . . . . thinking!"

Needless to say, Ruttman was a living legend on our ship.

 yeah---MAD is a bathroom staple!I v'e done a lotta bathroom thinking with MAD maagazine! 

[Dennis]

I read in the bathroom, grew up with 5 sisters in a small house, the bathroom was one of the only places you could get some peace and quiet, so it's a habit I acquired early. Now we have a neat stack of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines along with Dancing Dragon and interior decorating catalogues in the linen cupboard, Poogie goes in there to smoke and read, I quit smoking and she doesn't want to tempt me.

As for the rest, eating, you're joking, right.
Hand or foot flush, crumple or fold, does it really matter?
There was an outside salesman at the lumber company I worked for who loved to call in on his cell phone, he'd ask whoever answered if they knew where he was and what he was doing, then he'd tell you he was in the rest room at Denny's or K-Mart or some such and prove it by letting you hear what was going on.
I don't use the phone in the bathroom.

[Mr. DS]

Lets open the topic to public restrooms and what annoys you about them. For me, heres just a few of them;

1.) Sinks that you have to hold the faucet on. Do your hands ever get clean?
2.) Hand blow dryers.  Don't they always result in one wiping their hands on their jeans?
3.) People who manage to get sh*t in the oddest of places in the bowl.  That and the dudes who p*ss on the seat.
4.) Paper sani-covers that cover 2% of the bowl. 
5.) Toilet paper that is 2 inches across.

Might I say that through my experience, Wal-Mart is guilty of all these infractions.  I'd rather use a port-a-potty.