What did people do before smartphones on the john?

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Read tp package labels or magazines

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Don't forget about reading the labels to whatever hygiene products were in the shower. Growing up my mom always read her romance novels in the bath so I could always pick up one of those books and learn about rhythmic thrusts.

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Read shampoo bottles 🧴

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Stall graffiti 👍

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Gameboys and whatnot.

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They pooped.

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A lot of reading!

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My family had a magazine rack in the bathroom!

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Bathroom Readers

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Ancient Roman middle and lower classes talked to each other since they were seated less than a foot apart and there weren’t dividers. They also used communal sponges attached to a stick to wipe. So there’s that.

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Toilet specific books

Read readers digest

Readers Digest

Actually sat with their thoughts

magazines … bathrooms had (some still have) magazine holders

Magazine.

Playboy

Dropped a deuce and got TF outta there.

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