# Another SDMB Bathroom Habits Poll: Pants- At Knees or Ankles? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455 "2001-10-25T02:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/1 "2001-10-25T02:46:48Z")
When sitting on the throne, who pulls their pants all the way down to their ankles and who just pulls them down to their knees? The knee method, I admit, has a certain efficiency inherent in it. If, ferinstance, you needed to get up right away and make a hasty exit. And if you’re in a public john, the knee method saves you from having your underpants down at your ankles for all to see (not that anyone would actually look :eek: ). However, I find the knee method a bit uncomfortable. It’s as if I’m reluctant to admit to the job at hand and only want to lower my drawers as far as is absolutely necessary. So, it’s ankles for me. All or nothing, I always say. hee hee ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/2 "2001-10-25T02:53:43Z")
I’m a knee’s man myself. Several reasons for this. If I’m doing the deed and I’m NOT reading a magazine, then this was most certainly an emergency trip. The knee method has obvious advantages to magazine reading. The other reason is that I’m a bit anal about fun things like public restroom floors. I dont even want to think about whats down there(shudders), so there is no way in hell an article of clothing is gonna touch the ground. dead0man ---
**Author:** ![ski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ski)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/3 "2001-10-25T02:57:40Z")
Got to be ankles for me. Around the knees just seems so _restrictive_! I like my freedom of leg movement. Although since I really don’t like the idea of anything I’m wearing touching a bathroom floor, I do try to make it so nothing touches. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/4 "2001-10-25T05:03:58Z")
Usually ankles, but if I don’t want my pants to touch the floor or I’m wearing pants that are too tight to make it past my buff-ass calves easily, I settle for knees. (That’ll teach my roommates to read over my shoulder while I’m on the internet!) ---
**Author:** ![Candlemas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Candlemas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candlemas)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/5 "2001-10-25T14:23:00Z")
The ankles. And I don’t care if they touch the ground. Once as a young man at a football game I left my pants around my knees (it was very cold that day) while doing my business and my penis somehow caught on the lip of my jeans. Unaware of this (I was so focused on the cold) I proceeded to pee directly into the seat of my pants. The ankles. Always the ankles. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/6 "2001-10-25T14:28:46Z")
If I’m at home, ankles. If I am anywhere other than my bathroom, knees. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/7 "2001-10-25T16:41:17Z")
Knees…unless I have to empty my Keeper, then it’s ankles. (Aren’t you sorry you asked now?) ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/8 "2001-10-25T18:03:10Z")
Knees. For sure, no exceptions. I don’t like being so exposed, as to put my pants around my ankles. :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/9 "2001-10-25T22:30:12Z")
Knees–it’s a lot warmer that way in some of these hyperchilled restrooms I’ve had to use lately. It also makes a handy bookrest. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/10 "2001-10-25T22:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*Knees…unless I have to empty my Keeper, then it’s ankles. (Aren’t you sorry you asked now?) \*\* I din’t know [these](http://www.keeper.com/) existed before. Fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/11 "2001-10-25T23:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*Knees…unless I have to empty my Keeper, then it’s ankles. (Aren’t you sorry you asked now?) \*\* I’m very sorry and I didn’t ask :eek: !!! ---
**Author:** ![BoiToi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@BoiToi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoiToi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/12 "2001-10-25T23:34:45Z")
Since my pants are usually close fitting, wearing them at the knees is uncomfortable. Tried, but ankles it is. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/13 "2001-10-26T01:26:35Z")
At the knees - I’m very lazy. When I was little, for some reason I would take my pants _and_ my underwear off. ---
**Author:** ![spheric\_thor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@spheric\_thor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spheric_thor)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/14 "2001-10-26T01:58:24Z")
I pull mine down just below the knees.I don’t want them hitting the ground and i can’t confine my knees. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/15 "2001-10-26T02:21:32Z")
All the way down to the ankles for me. I pish then down as far as I can get them, and my underwear too. All this because once, I didn’t pull my pants down all the way and I got a wet surprise in the seat of my pants. ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/16 "2001-10-26T02:26:00Z")
I had an episode several years back where I dropped trou all the way down. When I started to pull them back up, I discovered the previous…occupant…had pissed all over the floor. I gotta tell you, there is nothing like wearing pants soaked with someone else’s pee. Ever since, I’m a half-way-down-the-calf-man and I _always_ check the floor… ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/17 "2001-10-26T02:27:57Z")
At the ankles, **unless** it’s a nasty restroom with frighteningly unclean floors with toilet paper and piss and roaches on the floor, and I’m wearing long pants. (I’m short, so most of my jeans, etc. tend to come down past my feet and shoes.) Then I distastefully avoid the floor at all cost. -shudder- Naaaasty. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/18 "2001-10-26T03:18:57Z")
I rarely use the toilet, sit down style, when I’m not at home. And then I’m generally a between the knee and ankle guy. But I bunch it up so it hangs and doesn’t touch the ground, which I am squeamish enough with it seeming clean. When I’m at home I walk around wearing only boxers, all the time man. So when I go I just drop em and get naked to go which, let me tell you, is the very best way of all. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/19 "2001-10-26T03:22:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Originally posted by Sofis \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*Originally posted by voguevixen \*\* > > Knees…unless I have to empty my Keeper, then it’s ankles. (Aren’t you sorry you asked now?) \*\* > > I din’t know [these](http://www.keeper.com/) existed before. Fascinating. In the French translation it’s called a Menstrual Coup. ---
**Author:** ![Hokienautic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455/20 "2001-10-26T14:59:05Z")
In public restrooms, I do the floor-check and assuming all is well, they go around the ankles. At home though (where I’m usually shoeless), I pull one leg completely out and let them bunch at the ankle of the other leg so I can spread out wide to do my duty. Just more comfortable to me that way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-sdmb-bathroom-habits-poll-pants-at-knees-or-ankles/89455.md?page=2)