The stand-squatting requires incredible funambulist balancing skills that can be mastered only by a few great acrobats – one must be able to pee without dribbling on one’s clothing, avoiding the sea,t and not losing one’s balance. A nimble task requiring a lifetime of practice.
Long pee? Why you’re thigh muscles become strained – you shake, you wobble and eventually you come crashing down in the most unseemingly and inelligant way! If you keep the seat down, at least when you’re legs give out you drop onto the somewhat icky toilet seat. If you’d raised the seat first, why then your tusch would drop onto the cold procelain of the Dreaded Underseat which is frequently the site of bright yellow, dried pee, stray pubic hairs and other nasties!
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<Sandra Shamas>
In the public restroom stall "you hear the voice of every older female relative you hve ever known saying ‘Don’t sit! If you sit you get bum cancer!’ "
So…do you clean up after yourself if you sprinkle the seat? The question really isn’t “do you sit/squat,” it’s “do you have the decency to clean up after yourself if you get your pee on a common toilet seat.”
I’m thinkin’ that if she flushes with her foot, then cleaning up after herself is a rarity (unless she can get toilet paper on the seat and push it around with her toes.)
You know, Isabelle, most bathrooms have a sink with soap and running water. That usually deals with those “other people germs.” (BTW lotsa people don’t wash their hands so forget about the toilet flush-handle – just you imagine what on the doorknob!)
Amen! That’s precisely why I can’t be bothered with all of this contortionist stuff in public bathrooms - because whatever other people’s germs I get on my hands will be washed off right away! It’s really quite simple, and presumably most people can refrain from touching their face/sticking their hands in their mouth or whatever in the couple of seconds it takes to walk from the stall to the sink.
I will clean the seat if I miss a bit…UNLESS someone was there before me and neglected to do it. Then…ugh…I’m sorry. I wouldn’t clean a public bathroom for goo gobs of money. On the plus side for me, I’m good at holding it, and rarely go in public anyway. I will walk out of a bathroom that is NASTY without going, no matter what.
And, if Isabelle does that, she probably does what I do to avoid touching anything else. Open lock using as little as possible, walk quickly to the sink, get paper towels first…scrub hands with soap and warm water, use paper towels to dry hands, open door with paper towels. Throw towels away as you walk out the door.
Voila
~J
I will not use the hand dryers (as a side note). I use my shirt to open the door if there are no paper towels.
This is true. I’m what you’d probably call grossly obese and it can be difficult. But that in no way mitigates the responsibility of a person to clean up after themselves–finding someone else’s pee on the seat is just plain disgusting, and fat or not, if you get yours on there, you should wipe it up!
And please remember–the same holds true for pubic hairs. If you’ve deposited one on the seat, brush it and flush it!
I absolutely hate a splattered seat. I am a squatter but I always “clean up” afterward.
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I also hate port-o-lets. Beyond hate. I have actually been completely, slurring drunk ready-to-pee-my-pants drunk and have walked out them because of the disgust factor.
So, imagine the ick factor when my husband and I were in the Carribean at some beach bar and we realized that all they had was a port-o-let. Hubby went first. He came back and gave it rave reviews. Encouraged me to go. I swear to God, it was the CLEANEST bathroom - forget POL - I’ve ever seen. You could’ve eaten off the floors.
People who get towels before washing their hands piss me off - you’re getting germs on the towel handle! You’re creating the very situation you’re trying to avoid. If you’d all just get your towels after washing, nobody would have to get them before! Besides, it’s not like the door handle, which is touched by people who haven’t washed their hands. I mean, you’re only getting paper towels if you need them because you just washed your hands!
I had to use the restroom at a restaurant. It had only four stalls in the women’s restroom. All the toilet seats were spattered with drops of yellow urine. I walked out and had to hold it in until I got home.
