Fathers on the crapper

Did your father spend a lot of time on the crapper when you where a child? To me it seemed that anyone who could take a crap for an hour probably had some digestive problems, but for some reasons it seemed like not only mine, but a fair few of my friends, had dads who spent an abnormal amount of time in the men's room. Now, reading a paper while sitting on the throne seems all well and good and overall as time fairly decently spent, but somewhere you'd have to draw the line. Even the few times I've read a paper while doing my dirty deed I seldom have spent more then maybe 15 or 20 minutes of my precious time. This was all a big mystery for me until my fiance moved in with me, quite unexpectedly, a few months back.

I do love my girl a lot and for the most part I enjoy the time we spend together. I feel good, I sleep well except for the times her monster of a cat decides that it's time for breakfast and tries to tell me this by running around on top of me and overall I'm happy with the situation. Yet I find myself spending an increasing amount of time reading a paper while taking a shit. My eating, sleeping and work out habits have not change enough for it to be an explanation.

Instead I believe that everyone needs some time to themselves now and then and when you live with someone, sleep with someone and even try to find out how to ride a horse so you can hang out with someone even more, you do not get enough time for yourself. Now, the toilette is the last fortress of “alone time” in the modern home, unless you have a study (which I won't have until we buy a house) or something. And thus I found out what young men who decides to live with a girl (or a guy, I supposed) have found out time and time again through history; “I you want to have some time by yourself, tell them you need to take a crap”.