Shoot–now I gotta pee.
You’ve been holding it for two weeks???
So how come women who hover don’t put the seat up?
No shit, guys get lambasted daily for doing that !!
You’d think on a college campus people would be smart enough to flush the goddamn toilet. Not so at my school. I walked in the bathroom the other day and there was a line of people and 2 out of 7 open stalls. The hell? So I check it out and there’s one clogged and one with a few droplets of YELLOW (emphasis to avoid the “it’s just oversplash from the flushing” comments) when I grabbed a bunch of paper towels and started wiping I heard the girls in line (about 3 of them) whispering “ohmygod, she’s wiping the seat!!” I just walked out, threw the towels away, and told them “yeah I wiped the seat, and now I get to go to the bathroom!”
Buncha babies :rolleyes:
I don’t know why I felt I had to tell that story right now, but I just had to. Sorry bout the hijack.
Alice: ALWAYS do a pre-wipe. 
Oh yeah, the flushing comment was due to the fact that there is NEVER less than one toilet unflushed in any bathroom at any time, anywhere on campus.
It’s sad really. :mad:
I’m tellin’ ya. I’ve got to stick to hovering. I’m scared for life now.
Many of us who hover do not put the seat up because we find the very act of TOUCHING the seat AT ALL a deplorable thing!
The very thought of my ass touching a toilet seat without first wiping it clean sends a quake of cringes rolling through my psyche! Frankly, despite the lack of truth (urban legend): due to my arachnaphobia, the thought of spiders living under toilet seats and coming anywhere NEAR my assets is enough…
All together now: EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Really, I just try to avoid public bathrooms. However, when you gotta go, you just gotta go.
Bleh.
I was dismayed yesterday when I tried out one of the newly-remodeled bathrooms at work. I flushed, and the thing had an astonishing amount of pressure, it really churned up the water. Then I noticed - all that water under pressure had actually splattered the seat! I am not a hover-er, and didn’t dribble as I was standing up, either. So I repeated the flush, and again saw a couple more dots of water appear on the seat. I wiped everything up and left the stall.
I can’t blame overclocked plumbing fixtures on the mess I saw the day before though, ew. It looked like some hovering woman had sneezed during the process! :eek:
I just wipe down the seat with toilet paper before I go, if I’m suspicious, and afterwards I wash my hands with soap and water. You touch plenty of other dirty surfaces during the course of a day, anyway.
If you have to wash your hands afterwards anyway, whats the problem?
Remember this axiom: in a public bathroom, whenever possible use your feet to operate anything, from lifting the seat to flushing the toilet to pushing open the door.
jesus christ people, its not like your going to get the bubonic plauge from touching a toilet lid.
Wash your hands when your finished and you’ll be ok.
Christ, its like Howard Hughes sock puppets when ever this topic comes up.
Maybe not bubonic plague, but I’d sure hate to get a chunk of crap on my fingers.
well, I’d imagine that
a) People would look at the seat before they touched/sat
b) It’s pretty hard to get a chunk of crap onto the seat
I don’t understand all this fastidiousness about public toilets. There are as many - if not more - germs on the door handle than on any toilet seat.
How do you even breathe when in there? When someone in the next stall flushes, you’re breathing the aerosolized droplets of whatever was in that toilet.
Clearly, you’ve never been into the ladies at my place of employment - yucko off.
Amanita, I don’t touch the door handle either.
As to breathing - you’d be amazed at what the practice of yoga can do for one’s ability to hold their breath. 
Here, the seat is often soaking wet, along with half the stalls, because of the high pressure fanny-splashers (these hose things with a lever you press to spray your nethers which the arabs and subcontinentals apparently use in place of lavatory paper).
I quite like the fanny splashers on occasions, but feel they are a supplementary aid in the wiping process, not a full substitution to tissue. The reason why (after personal experience and experimentation) are quite TMI, so perhaps it’s best not to share.
But it is now my belief that all newcomers to this region should be given an intensive 20-hour diploma use on fanny-splasher handling and target practice. Because if your finger slips on the trigger and you press too hard…
Fer cryin’ out loud people, ya’ll need to chill. You’re sounding just as bad as those prissy little girls in the ladies room I was just posting about. Chunks of crap on the toilet? I’d hate to see where you work. And if you can’t see crap on a toilet seat, then you need to get thee to an eye doctor, real quick.
Seriously, why don’t you guys just carry some antiseptic wipes or something with you and wipe down the seat with those before parking your pristine little booties down if you’re so worried about, well, I don’t really know what you all are so worried about really…
I think I learned about how you can get a hell of a lot more diseases from touching a doorknob than a toilet seat in the seventh grade. 
I work in a hospital/medical research facility. Yes, I’ve seen great honking chunks of shit on the seat. And just because a cursory wipe as been done to remove those honking chunks of shit, that doesn’t mean I’m gonna set my butt down there, thankyouverymuch.
And as I said - I don’t touch the handle either.