IMHO, a girls bathroom should never be gross. If everyone sits on the seat there would never be liquid on the seat and hence there would never be a reason to squat causing more liquid to hit the seat. The first person to squat ruins it for everyone!
That’s not all. Sometimes there will be water everywhere (at least I hope it’s water) on the floor, and bits, or large sheets, of toilet paper strewn around. It’s disgusting.
Well, remember, you asked…
There’s always the dreaded tampon ricochet. There you are, gently easing the fuse out, and suddenly resistance is eased before you ease up on the pulling and THWACK! the tampon smacks against side of bowl as string comes into contact with the inner edge of the seat. Maybe it’s a heavy flow day. Maybe you’re cheap and waited too long to change it. At any rate, the string itself is a little discolored and now that’s smeared a little on the seat.
Or, mayhap you’re wiping after evacuating your bowels. Like a good girl, you’re wiping front to back, and you accidentally drop the toilet paper wad–smear side down–onto the seat when you’re at the end of the stroke. Ooops.
Why oh wy do you people make me explain this stuff. Now I have to go wash; I feel disgusting.
Thank god cranky said it. I didn’t want to have to talk about…you know…those things. Gross.
my husband is continually grossed out by our bathroom, not only the toilet itself, but my general Oscar-ness in leaving makeup smeared in the sink, blotted lipstick on toilet paper all over the place, water sloshing out of the shower, and various hairs all over the place.
He’s such a neat nik, but really, chicks are pigs.
jarbaby
Jarbabyj, you’re right. Granted, the whole “aim” thing shouldn’t be a factor, but it can be. Some women hate sitting on the seat so they DO squat, with the usual results. Some women, when washing their hands, manage to get water everywhere (I confess to this, myself). And some women are just plain pigs.
Of course, a lot ALSO has to do with how often the bathroom is cleaned. Some I’ve seen don’t look like they’ve been touched by a cleaning person since the Nixon administration. (And why is it that you only run across these when the need is greatest and you have no choice but to use them?)
I will preface this comment by saying I am totally anal renentive, however…
NONE of those things have EVER happened to me. EW, EW, EW!!
Poo paper on the seat? Good God woman hold on to that TP tighter! 
Yech!
Al.
I will confess that my car is messy, but not with poo, or nasty tampon type issues.
Are you male or female?
Another beautiful myth shot dead by the Straight Dope firing squad!
Ok so I have worked a few jobs wherein I had to clean restrooms.
In my expierence the Ladies room was ALWAYS messier than the Mens room.
Trash everywhere and more graffiti as well.
Zebra
Don’t forget about diarrhea. Women and girls get the Hershey Squirts, too.
Every now and a gain I’ll clean the womens’ bathroom at work and there will be little splatters of poop all over the edge of the toilet.
:eek:
That’ll teach me for eating while I check the board.
I am male. I also think that a male bathroom should be able to stay clean, but it is a bit harder because guys that have to pee really bad will use a stall instead of a urinal, and that leads to pee on the seat. If all number ones were done at a urinal, and all number 2s were done in a stall, i think that a guys bathroom could stay clean too. I guess I am living in a dream world.
As one female friend explained to me, the messiness of the ladies room is usually the result of a regular sequence of events. The following considers the act of “number one” only.
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Woman #1 goes to pee. The thought of sitting on a bare toilet seat makes her think “ewwwww!”, so she sets out a toilet paper buffer to separate skin from seat.
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Woman #2 goes to pee. Seeing all the toilet that another butt touched at one time makes her think “ewwwww!”, so she hovers over the seat instead. Because women don’t have the equipment that enables them to aim with the precision of men, some pee will dribble on the paper.
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Woman #3 goes to pee. The thought of hovering over pee-spaked TP disgists her. She thinks “ewwwww!,” and grabs a big wad of paper to protect her hand while she picks up the paper on the seat. She then quickly tosses the paper on the floor, puts out fresh paper, and hovers over that – no way is her butt going to touch paper that was on a toilet seat that may have pee resudue from Woman #2.
Three women, a floor of pee-soaked TP, and a seat covered with pee-soaked TP. Ewwwwww …
OH MY GOD! THATS IT!!
Well, even if this were the general rule, we’d still have the “blushing bladders” who would simply have to go to a stall and all your hard work would be for naught!
So is woman #1 lazy or just rude? She should have flushed the tp she put on the seat before she left the stall. * I* would never leave anything, be it tp or one of those paper things that serve the same purpose, on the seat because it’s inconsiderate.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned that in public it’s the women who take the children to the bathroom! Children who are just becoming acquainted with the very idea of using a toilet at all. They smear feces everywhere, they unroll about 75 feet of toilet paper, they track the toilet paper all over, they leave the faucets running, can’t reach the paper towels, don’t know how to use the hot-air blower, etc. Still, given all that, it’s amazing how dirty a women’s bathroom can get. I also blame the 15-pound gargantuan rolls of toilet paper–when you try to pull off some sheets, the heavy roll won’t move, and you end up pulling little scraps off the roll about five times before you get a handful of anything useful, and the scraps all fall on the floor.