# Ok, here's something strange... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-heres-something-strange/109220 "2002-05-15T17:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-heres-something-strange/109220/1 "2002-05-15T17:42:38Z")
I was changing into some running clothes in the men’s room at work. Not being a regular locker room, I decide to change in one of the stalls. I do this standing up, until it comes time to put on my shoes and socks, and I suddenly feel like there’s nowhere to sit. So this is a strange thing. Of course there’s a perfectly servicable place to sit right there; in fact I HAVE sat there many times for an entirely different purpose, but I am oddly averse to doing so now. Why is that? Why would I be relcutant, even squeamish, to sit on something (that’s perfectly clean) while wearing running shorts that I have no qualms about sitting on with my bare ass? Being an institutional washroom, there was no “cover lid” to put down, so I just sat on that U-shaped lid, and it felt really _wierd_. Has anyone else experienced this? What other strangely mundane things have you discovered? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-heres-something-strange/109220/2 "2002-05-15T18:31:13Z")
I have to say I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s the same sort of feeling I imagine I’d have if the ghost of Vincent Price started breathing down my neck. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-heres-something-strange/109220/3 "2002-05-16T10:04:41Z")
It does feel weird. The toilet has a specific use and most people only use it for its intended purpose. To do so otherwise is just _weird_… it doesn’t feel right… It confuses your brain. One half thinks ‘Okay, I’m on the toilet I must do something’ but then the other half of your brain reminds the first half that you still have your pants on… ‘WHOA dem horses!’ ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-heres-something-strange/109220/4 "2002-05-16T15:36:42Z")
I totally agree. I get the same feeling. It just seems very wrong and…unsanitary somehow, which is odd considering that apparently we’re more concerned with toilet germs touching our pants than our bare asses.