# Why is it a "Man's Job" to put down the Toilet Seat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 22, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154 "2000-09-22T16:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/21 "2000-09-22T17:33:44Z")
> [@](#): > > So we forget to check sometimes. Wait a second. You sit every time, so shouldn’t it be more of an automatic thing to check? I’ve done the “Aborted Landing” on a few rare occasions, but I always figured it was my fault for not checking. Seems to me that it’s poor form to blame someone else for your own forgetfulness. Of course, I always put the seat down out in an effort to keep the ladies content and not start this type of ridiculous debate. “Ladies, in the event of a water landing, please do not use your husband’s head as a flotation device.” ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/22 "2000-09-22T17:38:57Z")
I just always pee in the sink ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/23 "2000-09-22T18:11:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ptahlis \* > \*\*Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I put the seat _and_ the lid down to keep my cat from drinking out of the toilet. Of course, if I’m not at home then all bets are off. \*\* Yeah, we do too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/24 "2000-09-22T18:14:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brandocet \* > \*\*I just always pee in the sink \*\* While that is fine at rock concerts, please will you remind me not to use your sink if I ever happen to come to your place. Thank you. BTW since you pee in the sink, do you wash your hands in the toilet? Blacknight, I gotta know do you tell your friends that sit down to pee. Also do you the “Blood Hound Gang” sang a song about you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/25 "2000-09-22T18:15:51Z")
I meant to type that “do you tell your friends you sit down to pee.” ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/26 "2000-09-22T18:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > You have to bend down to flush the toilet anyway, just continue the movement and lower both the seat AND lid. Yeah, like I _flush_ the toilet! Oops, I mean, um . . . nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/27 "2000-09-22T18:25:04Z")
I don’t think my BF puts the seat up when he takes a leak. His aim is evidently good enough that he doesn’t need to, so we’ve never had a debate about this. (& no, he does not pee on the seat, either. I guess he’s just talented.) ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/28 "2000-09-22T18:26:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\* > Thank you. BTW since you pee in the sink, do you wash your hands in the toilet? > \*\* What’s a toilet? ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/29 "2000-09-22T18:27:58Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Stella_Fantasia \* > \*\*I don’t think my BF puts the seat up when he takes a leak. His aim is evidently good enough that he doesn’t need to, so we’ve never had a debate about this. (& no, he does not pee on the seat, either. I guess he’s just talented.) \*\* He probably urinates in the bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/30 "2000-09-22T18:30:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brandocet \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > > \*\* > > Thank you. BTW since you pee in the sink, do you wash your hands in the toilet? > > \*\* > > What’s a toilet? \*\* You know it is about waist high. It has a spicket and has two knob one for hot water and one for cold. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/31 "2000-09-22T18:44:17Z")
Well, I think this is the solution to you and your wife’s problem Wildest Bill: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39338](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39338) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/32 "2000-09-22T18:47:38Z")
One of the very few reasons I don’t mind living by myself. 🙂 The men that do come to my home (my dad, brothers…yep, that’s about it) put the seat down. If they didn’t I wouldn’t say anything to them. Good Lord, women!! It’s a toilet seat. Put it down and get on with life. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/33 "2000-09-22T18:53:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brandocet \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by Stella_Fantasia \* > > \*\*His aim is evidently good enough that he doesn’t need to, so we’ve never had a debate about this…I guess he’s just talented. \*\* > > He probably urinates in the bathtub. \*\* Sometimes I try to pee in the bathtub, but I find it hard to hit the target. I usually wind up peeing on the floor or sometimes into the next room. ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/34 "2000-09-22T18:57:33Z")
Brandocet, Man that person stole my idea. I was going to invent something like that(you know great idea but never got around to it). I was even going to have along tube where you could just hang it out the window while you are driving along. I also had alot better name for than “travel mate” I was going to call my invention “The Hoser” 😃 Silverfire. Thankyou. You are a true asset to you sex. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/35 "2000-09-22T20:01:01Z")
So if you open the front door, do you wander off and leave it for someone else to close? When you get a drink of milk (probably out of the carton, you slobs), do you leave the carton out on the sink? Sheesh, it’s just courtesy. You raise it, you lower it. What’s the big deal? It’s never been an issue in my house. Besides, most guys splash a little, aside from the aiming issue. Not very many wipe the rim off afterwards. I don’t want to come in and have to look at that. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/36 "2000-09-22T20:12:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lucie \* > **So if you open the front door, do you wander off and leave it for someone else to close** Yes, I do. On the other hand, I doubt anybody’s going to break in and rob me of my toilet water. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/37 "2000-09-22T20:13:54Z")
That would have been a lot funnier if I had said “No I don’t”, that is - yes I do close the front door. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/38 "2000-09-22T20:18:08Z")
First, If you women would just let us install a urinal in the bathroom we wouldn’t have this problem no would we. Second, This was strangely enough just emailed to me while I was reading this thread. Invention Breaks Down Sex Barrier CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African invention soon to go on sale breaks down a barrier between the sexes by enabling women to urinate standing up. The ``Eezeewee,’’ a reusable device with a shaped plastic cup and a length of pipe, has taken six years to develop and is already patented in 106 countries. It will be in shops around the world by the end of the year. ``It will be invaluable for women who are traveling, hiking, camping, fishing, sailing, skiing or bed-ridden. Having a wee has never been so easy,’’ Stephan Odendaal, managing director of Mouldmed, the company that invented the device, said Friday. `It even has a handy, discreet carrying pouch so it can be taken everywhere,'' he added. `One of these can last a woman a lifetime.’’ ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/39 "2000-09-22T20:19:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*Yes, I do. On the other hand, I doubt anybody’s going to break in and rob me of my toilet water. \*\* No, I think **lucie** is saying the real reason we all close (or should close) our front doors is so that someone doesn’t accidentally fall into our living room when they go to knock on the door. Or maybe I misunderstood… ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154/40 "2000-09-22T20:28:51Z")
Jack & Giraffe - what I meant was you should close the refrigerator door so your wife/GF doesn’t fall into the living room and get wet, or, no, wait…What? We were talking about milk, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-a-mans-job-to-put-down-the-toilet-seat/34154.md?page=3)