When you go into the bathroom and there is TP floating around in the toilet, do you flush first before using it? It seems like a waste of water, but I do it anyway. The reason is that I learned the hard way that some of the time, the reason the TP didn’t go down is because the toilet is clogged and I want to make sure it’s actually going to flush properly before I add anything. I was raised in Arizona and so wasting water is something I’m sensitive to, but I just can’t take that risk that I’m gonna be ankle-deep in whatever is in there if I don’t check first. :X
What do you do?
(I also flush if there is pee in there from the last person–I don’t want someone else’s pee splashing on me.)
How right you are! As a guy this really hasn’t been an issue for me for most of my life. Now that I have daughters who are constantly needing to go while we’re out I’ve learned this the hard way. I always flush first now. The last time it happened the bowl filled as full as it could without spilling over, bleah.
This is the only reason I flush first when I see TP hanging around. I assume that the last person forgot to flush, regardless of the color of the water. I don’t want to be the subject of a warped version of Urine on my Pants.
If it’s our loo at home, I’ll happily pee away and flush after. Our toilet doesn’t have the strongest flush in the world so it’s not uncommon for a bit of TP to stay in the bowl.
At my old place in Virginia it was the opposite: the toilet had an obsession with becoming clogged. If a piece of lint fell into the bowl, it overflowed. Gah! That’s probably why I’m so gunshy now.
If there’s not another toilet available (I am assuming we’re in public here?) I will go ahead and pee. Clogged toilet in public is not my problem and I’d rather risk overflow from which I can escape than have those tiny piss and shit particles flying up at me. Everytime you flush, whatever is in the toilet can become airborne as small particles. Oh, and you girls who are afraid of the pee splashing on you? WTF are you doing? I have never had splash back – and can’t imagine having it from peeing.
It depends on which toilet. If it’s our front bathroom, it has a tendency to clog at the first sign of anything, and since Papa Tigs, like so many men, apparently, uses massive wads of TP, I either give it a precautionary flush or plunge it just to be safe. If it’s the master bath, no biggie; it’s never clogged <knock wood> in the time we’ve lived here, so no need to flush. If anyone’s pee splashes back, it’s either mine or Papa Tigs’, so there’s no nasty germies there I haven’t already been exposed to.
