# Guys who leave urine on public toilet seats **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055 "2006-01-08T22:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/1 "2006-01-08T22:18:25Z")
Why does anybody do this? How can anybody be too lazy just to lift up the seat before pissing? Some guys use these bowls for number two, you know! I don’t know if it’s a public health risk . . . urine is sterile, IIRC . . . but it’s pretty disgusting to have to choose between getting somebody else’s piss all over my ass, or wadding up some toilet paper and wiping it, in which case I almost certainly will get some on my hands **(and** on my ass – there’s only so much you can do with dry toilet paper). ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/2 "2006-01-08T23:38:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why does anybody do this? How can anybody be too lazy just to lift up the seat before pissing? Some guys use these bowls for number two, you know! > > I don’t know if it’s a public health risk . . . urine is sterile, IIRC . . . but it’s pretty disgusting to have to choose between getting somebody else’s piss all over my ass, or wadding up some toilet paper and wiping it, in which case I almost certainly will get some on my hands **(and** on my ass – there’s only so much you can do with dry toilet paper). Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. Now, I dunno about anyone else, but I’ve lived in this body for a little over two decades now, and I still haven’t figured out how the hell some women can piss on the seat. You sit on the toilet, do your business, wipe, and stand up. How the fuck do you get your urine on the seat?! Not to mention the menstrual blood on the seat/toilet paper dispenser. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/3 "2006-01-08T23:56:13Z")
It’s from he squeamish women who do “the hover and aim”. Ladies, seriously: sit the hell down, get an ass-gasket if you’re that concerned about it. You can’t catch anything from the goddamned seat. Maybe a cold, but that’s what handwashing (and not touching the seat too) is for. Pissing all over the seat just makes it gross for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/4 "2006-01-08T23:59:02Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > How the fuck do you get your urine on the seat?! By “hovering”, I wager. Some people have this weird compulsion to keep their butt from touching the seat at all costs, so they sort of squat over it and fire away in the general direction. And miss, more often than not. Undoubtedly, that same squeamishness prevents them from cleaning up after themselves. The natural privacy the stall affords lets them get away with it. No doubt, they justify it in their heads by telling themselves that someone gets paid to clean it, anyway. :rolleyes: If pee on the seat is the worst thing you’ve ever had to deal with in there, you’re doing pretty well. People are animals. Nowhere is that more evident than the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Emmett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@Robert\_Emmett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert_Emmett)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/5 "2006-01-09T00:42:00Z")
I take it none of you have been in a New Jersey highway rest stop. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/6 "2006-01-09T00:55:58Z")
I don’t make doodie in public. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/7 "2006-01-09T01:33:09Z")
> [@The Sausage Creature](#): > > It’s from he squeamish women who do “the hover and aim”. Ladies, seriously: sit the hell down, get an ass-gasket if you’re that concerned about it. Some women cover the seat in the ass-gasket, and _still_ hover, pissing all over it. What’s worse, a few drops on the seat, or urine-soaked paper? ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/8 "2006-01-09T01:36:30Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. Now, I dunno about anyone else, but I’ve lived in this body for a little over two decades now, and I still haven’t figured out how the hell some women can piss on the seat. You sit on the toilet, do your business, wipe, and stand up. How the fuck do you get your urine on the seat?! > > Not to mention the menstrual blood on the seat/toilet paper dispenser. Yuck. I only recently learned that some people invert the order of 2 of your steps: they stand up and THEN wipe. And when they stand up, drips fly. Now I don’t care if people wipe standing up, or if they hover, for that matter. Piddle however you please, it’s your business. I do care if you get piss on the seat and don’t wipe it up. Come on, if you stand or hover you must have noticed you scatter piss around. It’s your own piss and won’t hurt you. Wipe it the hell up! Or follow the sign I once saw in a flea market bathroom: “If you are not going to sit down please _lift the seat_. Don’t leave a wet seat for the next person.” ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/9 "2006-01-09T01:37:19Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Some women cover the seat in the ass-gasket, and _still_ hover, pissing all over it. What’s worse, a few drops on the seat, or urine-soaked paper? All hovering is bad. And stupid. The best I can hope for is that all that spraying willy-nilly causes a fatal slip for the twats that do this shit. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/10 "2006-01-09T01:50:08Z")
When you frequent places where a lot of the people have grown up with squat toilets and dislike western toilets (ironically because they are ‘unclean’), you don’t have to deal with the results of mere hovering, but of actual squatting. Yes folks, muddy shoe prints on the seat. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/11 "2006-01-09T02:01:48Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. Now, I dunno about anyone else, but I’ve lived in this body for a little over two decades now, and I still haven’t figured out how the hell some women can piss on the seat. You sit on the toilet, do your business, wipe, and stand up. How the fuck do you get your urine on the seat?! > > Not to mention the menstrual blood on the seat/toilet paper dispenser. Yuck. Ellen DeGeneres did a bit about this in her act once. She mimed hovering over the seat and moving her pelvis around in a circular motion. I’ve thought of it every time I’ve seen a wet seat since. I’m always amazed at the mess people will leave behind when they figure that no one will know it was them. The true test of character really \*\*is \*\* how you behave when no one’s looking. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/12 "2006-01-09T02:03:04Z")
Yeah, well, I’ve been to squat toilets where people have left SHIT LOGS where you’re supposed to put your feet. Yeah. Beat THAT. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Emmett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@Robert\_Emmett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert_Emmett)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/13 "2006-01-09T02:06:32Z")
How about a restroom where cr\*p is smeared all over the floor because there isn’t a janitor to pick it up, and people don’t see/care that they step in it? Welcome to New Jersey. (P.S. This was a MEN’S RESTROOM.) ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/14 "2006-01-09T02:30:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I don’t know if it’s a public health risk . . . urine is sterile, IIRC . . . **but it’s pretty disgusting to have to choose between getting somebody else’s piss all over my ass, or wadding up some toilet paper and wiping it,** in which case I almost certainly will get some on my hands **(and** on my ass – there’s only so much you can do with dry toilet paper). That’s a choice to you? I can wash my hand easier than wash my ass. It’s usually what I do after anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/15 "2006-01-09T02:35:54Z")
Okay, so they hover, that’s how they get piss everywhere. So with that question answered, I pose another - if you’re hovering and your pee is spraying all over the seat, how do you know it’s not getting or your pants or skirt? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/16 "2006-01-09T03:45:57Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. :eek: That is truly astonishing. I must admit, it never for a moment occurred to me that women might have a problem in this regard. I guess I really need to spend more time hanging out in ladies’ rooms, just for the sake of fighting ignorance; but there are all those troublesome restraining orders and things . . . ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/17 "2006-01-09T06:27:53Z")
I have a great aunt that used to freak me out because she would pee standing up. I know this intimately because she never closed the bathroom door unless she had company that wasn’t family. The first time I noticed it I was about 8 and she was over our house. She went into my mom’s bedroom where there was a half bath with no door on it. I went in to get her for something and I heard a heavy pouring of water like a man urinating. I poked my head in to investigate and saw her straddling the toilet holding the front of her dress up and, I hope, moving her unmentionables aside. It freaked me out so much I swore that my great aunt, who was like a grandmother to me in many ways, was actually a man. My mother had to talk me out of it once I mentioned what I saw and how I thought she may be a transgender (she had 10 children) or male or something. Mom was the one who described to me how a woman could possibly pee like a man and it fit what I saw. My only experience in female urination techniques was walking in on my mom a few times and she was always seated. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/18 "2006-01-09T06:37:44Z")
As a minor comment, I’ve seen power-flush toilets that splash with sufficient force to shoot up water droplets which land on the seat. There I was, having completed my jettison operation with a proper ass/seat seal and the toilet itself deposits a droplet that could raise the ire of the person following me, who will assume I was a lazy half-blind idjit with bad aim. I wipe the seat down with toilet paper in cases like this. The seat isn’t “clean”, per se, but I feel I should at least leave it dry. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/19 "2006-01-09T07:10:14Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. Now, I dunno about anyone else, but I’ve lived in this body for a little over two decades now, and I still haven’t figured out how the hell some women can piss on the seat. You sit on the toilet, do your business, wipe, and stand up. How the fuck do you get your urine on the seat?! By any of the following: 1. “leak incontinence” where you lose slight control of your bladder, allowing a few drops to escape-- drop your pants and hose and adjust your posture to descend on the toilet, and chances are if you’re going to “dribble” a bit, that’s when it will happen. Voila, piss on the seat. 2. Nonstandard urethra-- if your parts point forward a bit more than most gals’ or you REALLY have to go (meaning there’s more force behind the stream) then you may inadvertently get some in a more horizontal direction. Voila, piss on the seat. 1. a) If you sprinkle every time, chances are you’ll notice and start leaning forward (which fixes the problem, so that’s what I do)-- this works admirably unless you’re pregnant, or have a back injury, or some other reason you can’t lean forward. 2. Some people don’t see terribly well, so unless they KNOW that they sprinkled, they may not see it to clean it up. So, that’s how the fuck you get piss on the seat. I, too, pit the weak, pregnant, and blind. Huzzah. Corr ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/20 "2006-01-09T07:18:15Z")
The only urine that gets on the seat when I pee, is the oversplash that results from me peeing directly on the flush handle. 😉 Any thoughts on flushing with one’s foot? Tons of people do that little trick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055.md?page=2)