# The toilet seat poll! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706 "2002-12-05T15:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706/41 "2002-12-06T22:32:36Z")
1. Male 2. Seat and lid down. I have to get after TheLadyLion because she leaves the lid open 3. Flush always 4. Live with TheLadyLion \*I like to read in the crapper, particularly the sunday paper, and I find it hard to hold the paper and a cup of coffee standing up. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706/42 "2002-12-06T23:44:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Debaser \* > > 1. Your sex. > 2. Do you leave the seat up or down after use. > 3. Don’t forget to flush, Opal. > 4. Do you live with others of the opposite sex. 1. Female 2. Seat & Lid down after use. I have cats. I don’t want them to fall in because then I’d have to give them a bath. 3. I mostly follow the “If it’s yellow, yet it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down.” line of thought. Except I’ll flush after two or three … um, yellows instead of waiting. Mainly because I’m afraid if I don’t the accumulation of toilet paper will cause it to clog :eek: However, if I have company, I flush after every use. I don’t want to see anyone else’s pee, and they shouldn’t have to see mine. 4. I live alone. When I did live with my SO, I would only not flush during the middle of the night and only because I was afraid of waking him up. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706/43 "2002-12-07T21:47:20Z")
1. Female 2. Seat down–but only because my mother insists that everyone closes the toilet lid to prevent nearly invisible bodily waste from splattering out of the toilet during the flushing process and spreading throughout the bathroom. I humor her, both in pretending this happens and in closing the lid. Since the lid’s down, the seat’s down as well. 3. A flush after every use, unless it’s three a.m or I don’t want people to know I’m up and about and able to make a bowel movement. I have my reasons. 4. I live with two guys…my nine-year-old brother and my dad, and my mother…Queen of Invisible Waste Splattering Prevention. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706/44 "2002-12-07T22:32:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\*2. Seat down–but only because my mother insists that everyone closes the toilet lid to prevent nearly invisible bodily waste from splattering out of the toilet during the flushing process and spreading throughout the bathroom. I humor her, both in pretending this happens and in closing the lid. Since the lid’s down, the seat’s down as well. > \*\* Hey, Orange, check out [this column by the Master](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990416.html) and apologize to your mom for thinking she was crazy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-toilet-seat-poll/140706.md?page=2)