I know this might be pretty strange behavior, but I have this dumb habit of flushing the toilet before I am done peeing. I think it started due to impatience and boredom, sort of a game I can play to see if I can time the flush so that I finish peeing just before the flush completes. But I mistime it sometimes, and have to flush the toilet again, which makes me feel ashamed for wasting water. Anyways, just curious if I’m the only one that’s nuts.
I have done this, but I always lose the game.
Yeah I do it sometimes. If I mistime it I don’t bother to flush a second time.
The Game. I just lost it. Thanks, folks.
I’m a gal, so mine are more courtesy flushes than races to win The Toilet Bowl.
I bet Charmin would be happy to sponsor you all!
Yep, I do this too. Not all the time but probably 50%. I think it’s a boredom thing. Or else I am overly competitive.
No way! The water would splash my butt. Yuck!
RACE TO THE FINISH! Doesn’t everyone? (Well, everyone who pees standing up anyway.)
I think this might be pretty well divided along gender lines - or whether you’re sitting or standing, more precisely. Since I’m a sitter at all toilet times- no, never, wouldn’t want to for any reason whatsoever.
Only when a courtesy flush is obviously called for.
I do this often when I am peeing into a toilet while standing. Never at a urinal (they flush too quickly) or while sitting. I don’t know why; I guess to save time.
I’ll sometimes do it, but usually only for the first pee of the day. Sometimes I’m surprised at just how much there is.
My boyfriend does this. I have no idea why. I ask him, but he tells me to mind my own damned business. So I tell him I wouldn’t have to mind his business if he CLOSED THE DOOR.
I do it too. I thought I was the only one.
I do it. I flush again if I mistime and there is obvious discolouration of the water, otherwise I don’t bother.
With my old toilet, if I was dropping a heavy load, I had to give the toilet a head start or it would clog. The idea was to use the swirling water to help align the emerging log with the drain thereby allowing a smooth and orderly transit. If I waited until I was finished, it would almost always get jammed. Sometimes that would happen anyway, but I had much better odds of avoiding a clog if I flushed early.
The new power flush toilet can handle anything so I don’t have to screw around with getting just the right timing any more.
I guess guys can get away with this. Us ladies not so much. When you flush, the bacteria rises and will get into our girl parts as we are still sitting there. We’re more susceptible to UTIs. Not playing those games…
If you do that in the southern hemisphere, do you try and finish after the flush?
Oh, and I too just lost the game
I always flush at least twice – once in midstream, once when I’m done. Wasteful, I know, but it’s not like the Earth isn’t due to be obliterated next June anyway.