How old are you?
I’m 45 and more and more I find myself getting up at 3:00 AM to take a whiz.
I don’t think my toilet seats have ever even been closed before.
Closed. My daughter knows not to play splash in the potty anymore (and my son knows better now than to egg her on), but I’m still scarred for life.
I’ve always had to pee in the middle of the night, ever since I can remember. It got worse when I was pregnant, and then after I gave birth I peed when I had to get up anyway to feed my daughter. I’ve never been a good sleeper, and if I wake up, I go pee so that I won’t have to wake up because I have to pee, if you understand what I’m saying.
My husband has always been quite a sound sleeper, but as he’s gotten older, he’s had to get up and pee just about every night. And of course diabetics are famous for peeing.
Closed. Lots of reasons to close it, no reason not to.
Eeewww. I don’t care about the plume and always wait to make sure everything flushed, and flush a second time if need be (my toilet especially likes to occasionally spit out a wad of TP just after you think everything has gone down–grr!) before I put the lid down. I’ve encountered remnants of a previous user’s turd in the bowl before and it grosses me right out.
I like to hold and pet and kiss my cats. I don’t want to think that their paws/mouth has been where I shit. And yes, I know they climb in the litter box with those paws, but that doesn’t bother me as much as imagining human shit particles on them. And these days (for the last year or so) we have Kaboom tablets in the tank to help keep the toilet clean and I’m certain that those chemicals would not be good for the kitties to ingest.
Like a fire-breather, I assume you hold half a can of lysol in your mouth and exhale it steadily on the underside of your toilet seats. Fire optional (not recommended).
It’s not unusual for me to have to go in the middle of the night, especially if I’ve had some beer in the evening. The wife does it less often but still not unusual for her.
Ditto. Miss Widget is entirely too curious about the noisy white thing and all that swirly water.
That, and I saw that episode of Mythbusters!!!:eek:
50 years old. The more I read here, the more I see how different we all our.
I sometimes get up in the middle of the night to pee, and I don’t see how it’s any harder to lift the lid than not. I’ve been closing the lid all my life, though, so it’s not as though I’m likely to “forget” just because I’m sleepy and sit on the lid. Lifting the lid is just part of my automatic process when it’s time to use the toilet.
I always did until decent times when the hinges of the lid broke so it no longer stays on. But my instinct says to do so
It’s easier to just wash my hands. I touch waaaaay grosser stuff than a toilet seat, it all washes off. My ‘ick reflex’ isn’t overly strong either.
I keep it closed. I don’t have any pets, but I do have a curious toddler.
Fine, it’s on. What, exactly, do you touch than a high-shit-density material of a rarely-if-ever scrubbed surface regularly?
Do you smell your crotch and eat the taint off your fingers? I want to know what. I know, every blade of grass in every park in the world is literally covered with a fine layer of dogshit or hoboshit, but…OK, I’m a bit bored, but I do want to know statim!
Yes, I close it.
It contains the spray from the flush (as mentioned). I have a shelf over the toilet and I’d rather not have items dropping into the toilet (flushed or otherwise). I also have cats, who although aren’t known for drinking out of the toilet, I’d rather not have to be concerned with them slurping down some Tidy Bowl.
I think you’re being a bit rude.
Hey, what’s with this? Are you saying that you think it’s normal to never clean one’s toilet, that we all have a crusty layer of fecal matter on the exterior surfaces of ours? Excuse me, sir or madam, but I clean all visible surfaces of my toilets at least weekly (more frequently for the seats and rims).
I keep mine open, seems to reduce mildew in the bowl.
I have to go in the middle of the night, pretty much every single night.