LOL. Playboy magazine. 70% was real articles. When you weren't pooping you wood use the other 15%.

Dr. Bronner's magic soap label

I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet

What else were you supposed to do on the bus ride home?

Take a book with you....or start reading the backs of the cleaning products under the sink

maintain eye contact with yourself in the mirrored shower door.

I had a basket full of comics in the bathroom. I would get stuck there for hours sometimes

My grandparents had like a basket full of magazines, comic books, etc beside the toilet. It was pretty good. They often buy weekly reader's digest and stuff like that. So it was usually new every time we visit.

you stare at a wall.

Try it next time.

We didn't have to poop back then. The act of pooping was invented by Larry Smartphone, who also happened to invent the smartphone. They were released together originally as a bundle but everyone has both nowadays anyways and you can mix and match.

I was lucky enough to grow up through the gameboy-->DS era so I've always been covered

Kids these days dont even know about disassociating lmao

We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.

We were much more use to undistracted time

Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.

Presumably on a toilet.

Books.

Well, before phones made social media conveniently available, people largely had to deposit their shit via telephone, written word, or in person.

We read the backs of shampoo bottles.