I’m hoping the men in the audience tonight can help me out with this one: what the hell is with men and taking laptops into the bathroom?!
Josh has lived with us for just over a week, and I’ve noticed that he takes his laptop into the bathroom a lot. I tried not to think too much about it, because that’s disgusting and my brain just doesn’t want to go there. I sort of hoped it was an isolated Josh-thing, but tonight Ed casually tells me he has to go to the bathroom – and he’s planning on taking the laptop with him.
WHOA. HOLD ON A SECOND THERE, BUSTER. The laptop Ed is currently using is MINE, and I absolutely do not want to know that he’s perched on the toilet and using my laptop for god knows what. Ed was offended at my distaste, asking how pooping with the laptop was any different than pooping with the DS. First off, his DS is his and I do not care what he does with it. Second, the laptop is MINE and it’s pretty damn universally known that I have an extreme aversion to poo – to the point of my not ever pooping – and I would seriously freak the fuck out if I knew he was pooping and using Matilda at the same time.
Do all guys do this? Do WOMEN do this? I’ve been guilty of taking various gaming devices in the bathroom with me for entertainment while I’m not pooping, but never a laptop. Hell, it hadn’t even occurred to me until I experienced the joy of living with Josh first hand. I am utterly horrified at this development and am now terrified that Ed will poop with my laptop perched atop his naked knees, concentrated evil streaming out his backside. Oh god, I’m breaking out into hives. Where’s my medication?
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I don’t. I don’t think I would, even if I had a laptop. Umm… mostly because it’s too big and bulky though. I take my DS Lite in sometimes. More often I just read a book. :x
wt! My face was not mad. It was more like.. :S or :G or :M or some other nonsense.
Reilly does this. Once recently when I was chatting on MSN with him from work I asked what he was doing and he said pooping. POOPING. While CHATTING with me. I told him I couldn’t talk to him and it would have to wait until he was done.
I don’t get it. I’m never in there so long that I find myself feeling like I need to haul my laptop with me in the first place, and I’m convinced the whole ritual actually causes him to spend much longer in there than necessary.
But, it certainly is not just the boys in your house, this one does it too.
hee! I’m a chick and I take my laptop into the bathroom all the time! I also have a magazine rack in there. Can i still read your blog?
What’s the difference between taking a book and reading it or taking a gadget and reading the internet. I usually don’t contribute, same as I wouldn’t talk on the phone, but I make an exception in the case of making this comment from your bathroom.
What’s the difference between taking a book and reading it or taking a gadget and reading the internet. I usually don’t contribute, same as I wouldn’t talk on the phone, but I make an exception in the case of making this comment from your bathroom.
When did I have corn?
i do the phone texting when i’m in there. but thats because one of my friends started the whole, call while taking a dump thing. he had an idea for a song and called up while on the pot…
had i a laptop i probably wouldnt take it in there. i have music equiptment magazines in there. those are more fun because you go OOOOOOOOOOOO F! look at that price
haha this *cracked* me up-LOL! we don’t have a laptop but if we did, i’m sure my hubby would *never* emerge from the bathroom…
you know, it’s so weird, but i’ve never noticed him doing that… maybe i’ve blocked it out or something. oh wait. the more i think about it… yes, i’ve seen it and questioned it. hmmm…
Books only. Although the laptop would warm my bare knees quite nicely, I don’t like to spend THAT much time. I can read a page or two.
Hmm. Would be handy for those brutal warcraft sessions where I’ve been downing diet coke like nothing else, but if I get up, then Princess Huhuran will rape my sweet green orcish ass. Hard. The bitch.
Doug doesn’t take a laptop into the bathroom. Nor do I. We take books or magazines from time to time, but that’s about it.
I think the major flaw in Ed’s logic is taking YOUR laptop into the bathroom. I mean, magazines you can throw away. Books, well, books are books and they are probably fecal laden as is. Laptops? You touch them ever so gently with your fingers. You get up close and personal with them. They are an extension of you. If you want to take your own hardware into the bathroom for poopification, so be it. Your call. But someone else’s? EW!!! That’s like using someone else’s toothbrush. Gluh.
Make him get his own damn laptop, take his DS, or suck it up and enjoy paper-based reading.
I mean, what if you dropped it? In the toilet? You think you’ve got it secure when you stand up, but then you turn around and bang your elbow on something and *splash*! I’ve been on the losing end of that kind of stupid accident enough to have learned to never tempt the fates, my friend. Also, there was far too much poo in this entry. I have to go shower now. Should I take my tv with me? I could get bored.
I’m guilty of this, maybe one or five times. I was in a good conversation once and another time I was bidding on eBay and it was down to the last minute! Sometimes things can’t wait!
But I do agree, like everyone else, that he needs to get his own laptop!
Now that you know this Dee, I think you used my laptop in San Francisco!
Muahahhaaa…..
Josh has many strange habits… many.