Do you wipe sitting down or standing up?

[voltaire]

@kayaker

Do we have anything in the fossil record to suggest whether our ancestors stood or sat to wipe?

Well, if you were​ good enough to catch a small, furry animal without standing, you just stayed as you were.

[panache45]

@thelurkinghorror

I had to wipe with my dominant hand yesterday and it felt like a stranger was wiping me. Incredibly awkward.

“I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

[Spiderman]

@voltaire

Well, if you were​ good enough to catch a small, furry animal without standing, you just stayed as you were.

@old joke

A bear and a rabbit are both taking a shit in the woods. The bear asks the rabbit “Do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?” And the rabbit replies “No.” So the bear wipes his ass with the rabbit.

…

[Shodan]

Two men are sitting in adjacent stalls in a rest room.

One guy calls out, “Is there any extra toilet paper on your side?”

Other guy: “No.”

First guy: “Do you have any Kleenex?”

Other guy: “No.”

a pause

First Guy: “Do you have change for a five?”

Regards,
Shodan

[SlackerInc]

@John_Mace

I’m right handed, too. In fact I’m sort of super-right handed, as I’m just not good at much of anything with my left. But I never, ever, EVER wipe with my right hand. Always the left. In fact, it’s one thing I can imagine screwing up royally if I did it with my right hand (not enough practice, I guess). The roots of this behavior are lost beyond my memory timeframe, so I have no idea how or why it started. But there is a tendency to not want to soil one’s dominant hand, no?

That is interesting. I do see your logic, and I believe in traditional cultures where they wiped with a non-papered hand, the left hand was used for wiping and never used for eating.

I do however use my right hand for wiping, and if it were in a cast or something I imagine I would really struggle to use my left hand.