# 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:** 2
**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, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/21 "2006-01-09T07:28:30Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > 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. That’s why God made autoflushing toilets. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/22 "2006-01-09T07:34:53Z")
> [@Corrvin](#): > > 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 OK, now explain how you fail to wipe off said piss. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/23 "2006-01-09T11:05:47Z")
Sometimes I’m reluctant to lift the seat in a public restroom just because I don’t want to touch it with my hands. So I aim as best I can, but sometimes Big Wally won’t cooperate. So I take toilet paper and wipe it up. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/24 "2006-01-09T11:32:59Z")
> [@Corrvin](#): > > 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 So all the piss on female toilet seats is from pregnant ladies with non-standard urethras, bladder incontinence, all of whom have seeing difficulties? Damn, why didn’t everyone else think of that? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/25 "2006-01-09T15:03:34Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Any thoughts on flushing with one’s foot? Tons of people do that little trick. My thought is, someone did that on the first night before class in our dorm one year. He did it too hard, broke off the flush handle, and flooded the entire floor. Water ran all the way down to the first floor (I lived on the sixth). So, I don’t approve. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/26 "2006-01-09T15:14:39Z")
Once, I went swimming in a public pool. I needed to pee, so I got out and went to the bathroom. There were only two stalls, so I waited. The faint smell of poo was in the air. Eventually, a completely naked and soaked older lady (probably in her 60’s) strode out of one of the stalls. As I walked in, I noticed these three things, in this order: - The smell… whew! Darn near knocked me over. - The seat is all wet, I guess she had just gotten out of the shower and couldn’t have been bothered to wipe the seat. - Oh, what’s that? A very squishy-looking (and squished) nugget of poo surrounded by what can only be described as poo water… on the back of the seat. Awesome. I held it until I left and used another bathroom. That old lady sucked. I hope she never uses another public toilet again, ever. I also have no idea how I managed to notice the seat was wet before I noticed the poo nugget! ---
**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, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/27 "2006-01-09T15:22:31Z")
> [@AFAIKnow](#): > > That’s a choice to you? I can wash my hand easier than wash my ass. It’s usually what I do after anyways. Of course. I expect to get some of my **own** junk on my hands. But wiping somebody else’s urine off the seat is **still** disgusting, even if you mean to wash your hands right afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/28 "2006-01-09T16:44:46Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > 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. I don’t know if this beats that, but someone was certainly beating it: I once walked into the bathroom at a Barnes & Noble in NYC and the seat was covered with semen. Well, I really had to go, and going back down 4 flights of escalators and trying to find a public toilet in an unfamiliar neighborhood didn’t seem like an option, so I steeled myself to the task at hand and cleaned it up with a sequoia’s worth of toilet paper. And – sorry – I hovered. _Neatly._ Some time later I read in a Dan Savage column that this is a fetish. He reported getting a letter from someone who liked to jerk off on a airplane and stuff the used tissues into the seat pocket so that a stranger would presumably touch them on the next flight. I’m usually tolerant, but these people need to be sent to Devil’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/29 "2006-01-09T17:29:03Z")
Dammit, I’m stuck back in a restricted area with no restrooms and the breakfast juice is just getting done being processed. Why did I open up this thread? 😕 Next someone will use :eek: the sinks! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/30 "2006-01-09T17:50:35Z")
While we’re on the topic of urine in udesired places, until you’ve done a cycle of [Uristat](http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=15942&catid=11647&trx=PLST-0-CAT&trxp1=11647&trxp2=15942&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-CAT), you have no idea how much you piss on yourself, the seat, and the floor. You may think you are a perfect pisser but Uristat will divest you of that misconception. It makes one’s urine a bright orange color and gives it the ability permanently stain some materials…like the cotton frequently used in undergarments. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/31 "2006-01-11T09:52:41Z")
> [@Corrvin](#): > > 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 You know, you’re right, there are medical conditions that might cause someone to get some urine on the seat. But there are precious few medical conditions preventing them from cleaning it off afterwards. Also, I doubt there are enough people out there with these conditions to sufficiently explain the profusion of wet toilet seats. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/32 "2006-01-11T10:23:20Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > You know, you’re right, there are medical conditions that might cause someone to get some urine on the seat. But there are precious few medical conditions preventing them from cleaning it off afterwards. > > Also, I doubt there are enough people out there with these conditions to sufficiently explain the profusion of wet toilet seats. I know. It’s more of a “somewhere, in America, there is a legitimately sprinkled seat. (Once, in the 1960’s, for 20 minutes.)” I think some people just think only fresh-picked flowers fall from their bottoms. Who could possibly object to flowers? Why bother cleaning them up? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/33 "2006-01-11T10:36:54Z")
> [@Corrvin](#): > > I know. It’s more of a “somewhere, in America, there is a legitimately sprinkled seat. (Once, in the 1960’s, for 20 minutes.)” > > I think some people just think only fresh-picked flowers fall from their bottoms. Who could possibly object to flowers? Why bother cleaning them up? If that was the tone you intended for your post you might have omitted the > [@](#): > > So, that’s how the fuck you get piss on the seat. I, too, pit the weak, pregnant, and blind. Huzzah. which makes it sound like that’s how it almost always happens, and that pitting the fact that it does happen is attacking only the weak, pregnant and blind. ---
**Author:** ![Jotun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Jotun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jotun)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/34 "2006-01-11T10:57:58Z")
> [@Ichbin Dubist](#): > > I don’t know if this beats that, but someone was certainly beating it: I once walked into the bathroom at a Barnes & Noble in NYC and the seat was covered with semen. Well, I really had to go, and going back down 4 flights of escalators and trying to find a public toilet in an unfamiliar neighborhood didn’t seem like an option, so I steeled myself to the task at hand and cleaned it up with a sequoia’s worth of toilet paper. And – sorry – I hovered. _Neatly._ > > Some time later I read in a Dan Savage column that this is a fetish. He reported getting a letter from someone who liked to jerk off on a airplane and stuff the used tissues into the seat pocket so that a stranger would presumably touch them on the next flight. I’m usually tolerant, but these people need to be sent to Devil’s Island. I work in a large office. Once there was a “serial smearer” that attacked the washroom about once a week. Each time leaving a different, humourous message on the wall. The few that I remember are: “Oops I did it again!”, “Ha Ha Ha You’ll Never Catch Me!”, and “Poop Art”. This happened in the women’s washroom, so I never got the priviledge to see the art first hand. Needless to say it made for a good 90% of the gossip at work, and secret accusations. Management understandably made a huge deal out of it. It made for some of the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard, though. As they say, one persons coprography is another persons comedy treasure. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/35 "2006-01-11T16:16:37Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Next someone will use :eek: the sinks! . . . 😕 Doesn’t everybody? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/36 "2006-01-11T17:25:20Z")
Why is there urine on the toilet seats [in the men’s room] in the first place? Why aren’t men using the urinals? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/37 "2006-01-11T17:59:38Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Why is there urine on the toilet seats [in the men’s room] in the first place? Why aren’t men using the urinals? Don’t men who plan on doing more than just a quick whizz use the toilet for whizzing? I always assumed they did… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/38 "2006-01-11T18:14:57Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Why is there urine on the toilet seats [in the men’s room] in the first place? Why aren’t men using the urinals? Sometimes there are no urinals, only bowl-toilets (especially in one-person facilities, such as you’ll usually find in a gas station); and sometimes the urinal is occupied when you need it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/39 "2006-01-11T18:17:42Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > Ugh. The women’s toilets are not much better. > \ > Not to mention the menstrual blood on the seat/toilet paper dispenser. Yuck. Thank God that men don’t menstrate. The piss, poop, semen and boogers are bad enough but if we menstrated too some jackass would undoubtably leave the stall looking like a suicide bomber had blown himself up in there. Gah, my gender can be real freakin’ pigs. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055/40 "2006-01-11T18:20:14Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Next someone will use :eek: the sinks! Is pubic hair on the sink worse than pee on the seat? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-leave-urine-on-public-toilet-seats/339055.md?page=3)