Question #1: Do you like to read while on the toilet?
Question #2: Do you feel that reading on the toilet contaminates the book, magazine, newspaper, etc.?
Question #3: If you lent someone a book and found out they read it while on the toilet, how would you feel about it?
Question #4: If someone lent you a book they had read on the toilet, what would you think?
Question #5: If you have borrowed a book from someone else, do you think it’s okay to read it on the toilet?
Question #6: If you were in clean public restroom, and there were a magazine rack by the toilet that also looked clean, would you pick up a magazine and read it?
Question #7: What about reading in the bathtub?
My answers are as follows:
1. Always. 2. Not really, but even if it does, our immune systems need something to fight. 3. I would be fine with it. 4. Also no big deal. 5. Um, I don’t know if it’s okay, but I do it anyway. I don’t really even think about it. 6. Yes. 7. It’s the one place to read that’s even better than the toilet.
11 comments:
I'm sorry Clark, but I'm gonna have to a take a serious, scientific type approach to this, but here are my answers:
1.Yes, but I never do because I'm too busy taking a dump and cleaning up aftwards to get any good reading time in. 2.Depends on how you mean by "contaminate". Yes, fecal matter gets on the book. But it also gets on you, in your hair, on your toothbrush, up your nose (what do you think that smell is? It's fecal matter going up your nose!) 3. Depends how clean of a person they are. Generally I'd be okay with it. 4.Again, depends how clean they are, but generally okay with it. 5.If I think they'd be okay with it. Some people are just freaky about stuff like that. 6.No, I wouldn't even touch them, but only because you don't know what other people have been doing to them (I don't even like handling cash). 7. It's all good.
I should say further that I generally try to avoid touching things that are exposed to the general public. I'm not as bad a clean freak as you might think though. If I know a person is a generally clean person, then I don't have much problem touching things that they have touched.
I just happen to know some people get crap on their hands and don't bother doing a thorough wash, or any wash at all. I guess you could say I don't like shaking the hands of strangers.
Based on stu's comments I would say he seems a little insecure, and a little germ-a-phob.
I'll agree with you ryan, but I think you should post your answers as well so we can over-analyze your personality too. :)
Also, Stu, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the bad smell of crap coming primarily from microscopic bits of fecal matter up your nose. After all, farts smell bad too. So does sulphur or methane or a number of other substances. Sometimes gases emmited along with the poo can enter your nose and cause the bad smell.
Wow.... Before I read Stu's comments I was totally cool. But now, having been reminded, it's just nasty. So I say no, to all the questions. I don't want to read anything in the toilet cause I'm busy. I don't see why people have to read in the bathroom. There are so many comfortable places to read. Maybe if it was the last place on earth. I mean you have the bed (which is better than the tub because it's cushioned), desk, leather chair, in a cafe, on the floor, road trip… Those places would also allow you to read for a longer period of time. Now, I am definitely a multi-tasker but that's just a task I like to get over and done with quickly. :) I can't believe Stu gave all the details. Now I think Clark is yucky. ;) J/K I still love you.
Oh P.S. I meant No & Yes. Nasty stuff reading on the Toilet. And heck no am I going to read magazines in a public Poo room.
Quiet place to read....Ha...I think it's more like stinky place to read or Infested place to read, or Worst place to read...
Ok my friends. I'm gonna have to pull out the ol' "How the Human Body Works" book on you now.
What is smell? It's your nose sensing solid particals (molecules) and sending a signal to your brain.
Now you can say farts are a gas, not solid. But the truth is, gas is made up of solid molecules.
If you don't believe me, believe Bill Nye. How can you not believe a guy that wears such a sweet bow tie?
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/?article=BN_smell
I suppose if it makes you feel better, you can say that you're inhaling poo molecules. Mmmm... maybe not. *blech*
I say who gives a rats ass, if clark wants to pop and read at the same time so be it, I try not to go in after him anyway...
-R-
and sorry, thats poop, not pop...
Nobody cares that Clark reads while on the potty. The real question is, would you care if the book he took into the potty happened to be yours?
Hmmm...
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