What's your feelings on bathroom duties?

@dloveli (4366)
United States
December 8, 2009 6:38am CST
When I use the restroom I am in and out. I do my thang and move on. My husband and daughter however take a lifetime. My uncle used to go in there and read the morning paper in its entirety.lol. I cant seem to do it. I even take a shower fast. I get in take care of business and get out. I have tried to take a little more time but I simply dont need a lot of time. How bout you? Please tell me what you do in there besides the obvious.lol dl
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
9 Dec 09
Hey dloveli! I am the same way as you! I just don't have the patience to spend hours in the bathroom either! I get in there, take care of my business and am out! I also don't spend a long time in the shower, unless it is really cold in the apartment (like it is getting now) and I want to stand under really hot water to warm up! My boyfriend on the other hand spends over an hour in there and it drives me crazy! He is worse than any woman that I know! He spends more time in front of the mirror than I do!
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
13 Dec 09
OMG Opal I swear you are my twin sister! That's the same here. My boyfriend is the same way. He gets in there and forget it. You wont see him until hours later. I have literally had to knock and ask if he was okay. LMAO. Well you never know. dl
@dloveli (4366)
• United States
13 Dec 09
Now that we're in agreement sis, If asked I am going to say yes I am a twin. lol dl
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
13 Dec 09
Hey dl! That's exactly how I felt when I was reading your discussion! So, it is a pleasure to be your twin! I only wish more people thought like we do and weren't afraid to pitch just because!
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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
9 Dec 09
I do what I need to do and get out. Not one of my favorite places to hang out. Even though it is quiet and you could (I guess) have a little bit of 'me' time, I can find somewhere else a little more comfortable where I could go and get away from everyone else....somehow I end up going in and within one minute, someone 'needs' in, usually one of those that like to spend a lot of time in there.
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@mzz663 (2772)
• United States
11 Dec 09
LMAO!! Glad I could help!! Got a good book you've been wanting to read and haven't got the time?! Don't forget a couple scented candles! You could always yell through the door and say that you'll be out in a few minutes and that it smells in there so they might want to wait. (technically telling them that it smells in there, wouldn't be a lie with the candles in there!)
@dloveli (4366)
• United States
11 Dec 09
Sounds like my house. I actually ask if anyone needs the bathroom. The minute I get in there I hear "MOM I need to go". I really never thought about the bathroom being a place for quiet, me time. I do now! Thanks to you Mzz. I may have to escape to the bathroom for a little "ME" time. LMAO dl
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
9 Dec 09
That is the same way with me. I am in there and out if at all possible. I do not have precious time to waste, by sitting in the bathroom. I like to get in and get out too.
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• Philippines
9 Dec 09
When I am inside our bathroom, I do my thing. When i need to pee or go to toilet directly I go there. When i will go shower I go there. The maximum I stay inside the bathroom is 1 hour. But that is during weekend. I stayed in the bathroom for 1 hour because i go to bath, there is a girly routine I do like hair conditioning, lotioning, milk bath. I cut my nails there. I do all the girly routine. But during weekdays the maximum I could stay is only 25 minutes.
@dloveli (4366)
• United States
11 Dec 09
Dag 25 minutes? If I did that I would have my daughters and my dogs beating the door down. lol. I even shower and do the "girly" thing fast. I dont like to waste time. I am one of those people that do what I have to do and when all is done I relax. I think Im just weird. dl
@sulsisels (1685)
• United States
8 Dec 09
hi dloveli Well don't feel bad. My husband goes in there and falls asleep, almost every night,,he'll wake up somewhere in the middle of the night, go in there and I'll fall back to sleep. Sometimes I wake up two hours later and he is still not back in bed. I have to then get up, wake him up and make him get out..Its so stupid..No one should have to look at a grown man with his pants down around his ankles asleep on the john..He has even fallen off a few times!!! I'll wake up to a crashing sound which of course wakes up the dogs and starts them barking like crazy. I scream at him but he just blows me off and so what if he has disturbed me, our dogs and probably half the neighborhood from the dogs barking!!. I'll tell ya, its like a three ring circus..I guess this is what happens after 33 years of marriage..Nothing left for the imagination if you know what I mean..sigh...
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
13 Dec 09
OMG I can stop laughing sulsisels! Its the same here at my house. Only My husband falls asleep sitting up on the side of the bed. When I wake him up and tell him to go to bed he yells at me and tells me to let him be. So you know what I do. Now if he falls asleep anywhere I LEAVE HIM THERE! That's what he gets. We too have dogs and they are just as bad. My dog falls asleep going to bathroom on the paper. Yes, girlfriend the paper. The whole family is crazy! Im telling you the truth. Sometimes I think this is a cruel joke someone is playing on me! Help! If You find a solution to the lunacy, please pass it along. You know what Im going to do? The next time he falls asleep anywhere but the bed I am going to put make up on him or some other crazy thing. Then I will take a picture. When I do I am going to show you. Seriously. Happy Husbands dl
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@sulsisels (1685)
• United States
13 Dec 09
Hi dl..well, again, you are not alone. My husband can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, and does. One minute he'll be talking to me, next minute, snoring..Just a few days ago, he was doing something at the kitchen sink with the water running. I was in the office and heard the water running and running and running. I get up to investigate and there he is, sound asleep standing up but leaning forward so much that his forehead was actually resting on the water spickett and the little round logo on the thing that says "Keystone" embedded on his head!! I woke him up, screamed, "Jim" and he says, "What,,,I was just thinking about something"!!! Yeah, right, you were thinking about something allright!! I thought, "You better think about how stupid you look with that thing on your forehead!! My whole house is nuts too..My little Irish Setter chases her tail for 15 straight minutes and my Bijon "Lambchop" sits in the window waiting for someone to go by so that he can scare the shxx out of them barking. They don't see him there and as they are passing by, he waits until just the right moment and barks like a crazy dog and the person or persons jump a mile as they were not expecting it. He (the dog) thinks this is very funny and does it in the car too. He hides in the back seat, just waiting for someone to dare come near the car then BAM,,attacks the window. He is all of 3 lbs and I think has that little dog syndrome where they think they are or want to be a big dog. Its a good idea you have about leaving your husband wherever he falls asleep,,I've been doing that for years. I could, as you suggest, dress my husband up while sleeping too, he'd never wake up..In fact I really like the idea and am going to think up something good to do to him!! His son once was shaving his head for him and shaved in a lightening bolt in the back where he couldn't see it..When he went to work that night, (he drives a tanker) he went to the yard to pick up his rig and the other guys were saying, "Hey Jim,,Nice lightening bolt"!! He had no idea what they were talking about until later that night when one of the girls at a gas station he delivers too mentioned it and he then went and looked in mirror..His son and wife and I laughed for days..It was so funny and the only thing we missed was the look on his face when he finally saw it. He came home the next morning and wanted to kill his kid!! Jim just isn't the lightening bolt in the hair type which is what made it so funny..Anyway, from one crazy house to another, Merry Christmas and have a great, safe, happy healthy new year...J
@MrKennedy (1978)
8 Dec 09
Thanks to a busy life-style (), I'm usually in and out and rushing on to the next thing.
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
13 Dec 09
Hey Mr. Kennedy! Its one thing to be in and out but its another to rush. Be very careful when your doing your business. Sometimes rushing to get things done can be detrimental to your health. OMG I sound like my grandmother! That woman was a viper when it came to bm's. If she didnt go at least once a day she was at the emergency room. lol. I am in the medical field my friend and I know how busy life can be. Please try to take some "me" time for yourself so that your body can catch up.Have a happy healthy holiday my friend. dl
• Canada
9 Dec 09
Funny you should ask. I have learned to get in and out in about one minute. LOL My husband's ex-wife, on the other hand, would stay in there all day if you let her. Give her a book of crossword puzzles, and she may never come out. Unfortunately their teenaged son inherited his mother's habits. When he stayed with us during the summer, he'd let me know ahead of time if he was going in there, and if I had to go too, I'd go first, and be out in a matter of seconds. LOL But a really funny story about the whole thing. One night Hubby and I were watching a movie, and I had to go to the bathroom. I was afraid to ask, because he'd have to pause the movie. Then my body told me it wasn't going to wait anymore, so i asked him to pause the movie "for a minute" while I went to the bathroom. Hubby, used to old habits (ex-wife and son) went to the kitchen and started tinkering around with something. Out of respect for him because he put the movie on pause, and out of my natural habits, I was out of there "in a minute" and went to the kitchen to see what the heck he was doing, as i really reeeeeeally wanted to get back to the movie we were watching. He was assembling a stupid BLENDER. I asked him why he was doing it, and not believeing it, I asked him another question, which he thought to be the SAME question, and boy did he flip. This was known from that time forward as "the great blender fight" I told him that I was in and out in a minute for a reason, and that i wanted to get back to the movie. He told me that when a wife says she wants to go to the bathroom, he has learned over time that it will TAKE TIME. I told him that if he thought I was so much like his ex, why did he marry me, or if he was so used to her habits, why didn't he just stay with her? Or if he hated her habits so much, why did he expect me to have those same habits? Needless to say, from that point on, when I told my hsuband I needed to go to the bathroom, during a movie, he knew not to go do something else, that I would be back before he even had time to think of something else to do. LOL
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
10 Dec 09
Danish why is it that men are so annoying. Here you are trying to get back to movie night with your family and he has to tell you about his ex-wife and yell at you? Mine is the same as far as yelling. He takes forever in the bathroom and I hate if I am getting dressed to go somewhere and he's in there. Especially if I need my hairspray or something out of there while he's in there. You must get so tired of having him refer to things about his ex wife. That's why she is ex because they annoyed him so. Men dont think. You know what I would do so that nothing gets pulled into a big argument.When he mentions the ex mention yours. See how he likes it. You guys are creating a new chapter in your lives. No need to remember the past. That's why its the past. Hang tough girlfriend! You are not alone. dl
• United States
22 Dec 09
i'm usually in and out. once in a while i need something to read LOL my brother's horrible.you could die of old age waiting for him to get out of there,no matter what he went in for.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
8 Dec 09
The bathroom use to be the only place in the house where I couldn't be reached by phone. Now it no longer is the case, so I don't hide in there, I'm in an out fast.
@anniefannie (1737)
• United States
8 Dec 09
i am like you,i go in and out i have never understood why people stay in the bathroom so long unless they just want to be left alone for a while.maybe they use it for their quiet time.
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
14 Dec 09
i guess what people do in the bathroom for so long will go down in history as another unsolved mystery. lol If they have to use their bathroom time as their quiet time, I must wonder what's going on in that house or how many kids they have? sorry but I will never understand it. I have asked my husband and he says he is taking care of his daily duties. Okay. So you SH*T, SHOWER, AND SHAVE. You know what's worse? He smokes while he's in there. After he comes out the bathroom is hot, steamy, and smells like smoke. YUK! Leave to my man. lol Happy MyLotting and Have a nice holiday. dl
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
8 Dec 09
I like to get in there, do my business and get out as soon as possible! Often when I visit other peoples homes and use their little room, I see a magazine rack in there full of things to read and I wonder why anyone would want to stay in there longer than they have to. Perhaps it is because of my good diet that I can get in and out in only a couple of minutes as my digestion is great! Maybe these other people need to look at their diets if they are spending that long doing their business that they need to read in there!
@dloveli (4366)
• United States
8 Dec 09
You have me laughing so hard Bill! You're so funny! I would go over my godmother's house when I was little and I would see all these magazines in a rack in the bathroom. I never understood what they were there for. I used to think it was so my aunt could get makeup tips when she was putting on her makeup.lol Then there was this family across the street from my grandmother and I used to play with their daughter. Their father would always ask for the yellow pages when he was going into the bathroom. I thought he liked to read them. Come to find out he wiped his A** with them. What a pig. After I told my mom she never let me go over there again. lol. I, too am in and out. I dont need to be in there any longer than I have to. dl
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
8 Dec 09
Yellow Pages! That is a bit weird. I have have to admit here that I have done this once. But it was out of desperation when I was at a friends house that he had just moved into that day and there was no paper in there yet and the first thing I could find was the Yellow Pages! Not something that I would ever choose to use frequently!
@hvedra (1619)
8 Dec 09
People who lock themselves in with the newspaper or book are often just reading and don't want to be disturbed - in many houses it was the only door with a lock on so the only way to escape everyone! I tend to be in and out mostly unless I'm really achy and want to soak in the tub or I'm dyeing my hair.
@etongong (164)
• Philippines
8 Dec 09
LOL, I really like the comment about your uncle, we are kind of alike. I really like to read my morning paper and take my time while doing the obvious. Well, its my way of taking a leisure time for the day while inside hahaha. That's why I am not happy when the bathroom is all wet, I feel like being deprive of my pleasure time doing the obvious while reading my paper. Its a habit I guess that I really like.
• United States
8 Dec 09
I hate to see some of the long hours my daughter can take. It is a no win situation with her. the toilet,her hair,the shower you name it it's being done. She even messed up my walls dying her friends hair. I don't blame you for wanting to get in and out. that is how I do it.
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
13 Dec 09
I have two daughters so I definitely know that scenario. Between the shower, the makeup and hair. Oh and the latest..... Taking pictures of yourself in the bathroom mirror. I thought it was just my kids but the other day I was on facebook and saw that others were doing it too. The look in the mirror and take the picture. These kids are ingenious! Next thing they'll want to eat in there! Happy Holidays. dl
• United States
8 Dec 09
I have to admit that before I injured my back I used to have a weekend ritual of an hour long, warm bubble bath relaxing and listening to music. My family knew that was my special time and not to bother me. Unfortunately now I have a problem getting out of the tub and am petrified of falling and breaking my back again. Now I am just in and out again as now I have 3 dogs sitting and eyeballing me...perverts!
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
8 Dec 09
lol.. must be a man thing. i will read too but i will sit in there and write songs. my wife asked me that the other day why it takes me so long. to me its away from others and i can think about things or songs i want to write. but with one bathroom i dont get to stay there too long. lol