The bathroom has traditionally been the one place where you can escape from all of your problems. People used to take a newspaper or a magazine into the bathroom with them and enjoy a few minutes of uninterupted time while doing their business. One morning while I was in a hurry to get to a meeting, my laptop followed me into the bathroom.
Technology is a wonderful thing.
But that was just the beginning. With homework, telephone calls, and classes on the other side of the door, it seemed that with every visit to the bathroom it became harder and harder to leave. Schemes for lengthening my daily stay in the bathroom started to creep into my head. It started fairly harmlessly with little things like taking longer showers, brushing my teeth a little bit longer, and getting dressed in the bathroom instead of wearing a towel to my room and dressing there. But soon I started making technological improvements to the bathroom.