Flushing Out The Truth About Snooping

If you want to keep those family secrets private, better not hide them in the bathroom. That’s the finding of a new survey, which confirms what many of us have suspected all along: Guests snoop in our bathroom cabinets.

According to the 1995 Bathroom Tissue Report, an annual survey of preferences and behavior in the bathroom, two out of five Americans open medicine chests in bathrooms of homes they are visiting and investigate.

The telephone survey of 1,000 women and men also revealed some of the most unusual items bathroom detectives have discovered behind closed cabinet doors: whiskey, WD-40, an ice pick, a passport, underwear and a bagel, to name a few.

Other survey tidbits:

Cleaning the bathroom remains “woman’s work,” say 87 percent of the women and 45 percent of the men.

Women also retain the role of replacing the empty roll, according to 46 percent of the women and 59 percent of the men.