# Why on earth must you piss on the toilet seat? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925 "2007-02-12T21:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/101 "2007-02-18T02:00:37Z")
My wife bitches about this all the time. Not that occasionally the seat gets wet but I do it from the hallway. Gotta have a little challenge. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/102 "2007-02-18T04:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Say, who was that poster who was unbelievably disgusted when a houseguest had the audacity to pinch a loaf in her precious, sterile bathroom? Cause **Foxy** ’s attitude fills me with the same confusion. [/QUOTE] I don’t remember the poster, but it was a workman, the foul workingclass! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/103 "2007-02-18T16:26:27Z")
The poster was SatOnCookie, and I don’t think she ever shared what the workman did that rendered the bathroom unusable for multiple days. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/104 "2007-02-18T16:56:07Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] I don’t remember the poster, but it was a workman, the foul workingclass! 😃 [/QUOTE] This reminds me of a conversation I had with the previous owner of my house. She told me this tale when we were over to discuss a few things about the sale. It seems the last time she had employed a crew of movers, one of them had left a few droplets of urine on her toilet seat. So, she informed me, she had given a stern lecture to this crew of movers that they’d better not pee on her toilet seat and she would be _checking._ I can’t imagine how embarassing it must have been for those movers to be treated like kindergarteners, lectured for something they didn’t even do. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/105 "2007-02-18T21:34:43Z")
> [@Foxy40](#): > > I am very sorry that this offends you. It is very possible that you overhead me with my child. I would never sit on a public toilet seat and the thought of letting my little girl put her tushy on something that strangers with unknown hygiene habits have planted their’s makes me shudder. I don’t care if it has been cleaned within two hours. During that time, who knows who has sat on that seat. > That being said, I try to be aware to wipe off any urine ending up on the seat when I am balancing over the bowl. Shame on those ladies that do not have the same courtesy. > > [QUOTE=Klaatu] > You know what? YOU are one of those “strangers” that freak you out. YOU are the bitch that pisses all over the fucking place because of your misplaced paranoia. You are the idiot with the fucked up hygiene habits. :rolleyes: > > You “try” to be aware to wipe your piss off the seat. Jesus fucking christ! > > Do you do the same shit at your friends houses? I bet you do. [/quote] Word. **Foxy** , it’s people like you who make public restrooms inhospitable. I work in a small medical facility with a centrally located bathroom. We put patients into the bathroom (meaning I lead you in and escort you away to your exam room) personally and therefore keep in mind that _I will see you go in and come out_ and also see the toilet seat which you have covered in piss. This being the circumstance, it amazes me how many people will still pee all over the seat for me to clean up–even knowing that everyone will know it was you. Oddly, even though women’s restrooms are generally far nastier, it was always the guys that would do it. Maybe the identification factor just didn’t occur to them, I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/106 "2007-02-19T12:08:45Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] When I was teaching high school, we had a phenomenon we called The Phantom Shitter. Some kid would smear feces all over the walls of boys bathroom. Apparently, it was lots and lots of shit and it was everywhere. The school was concerned because this is a sign of serious mental disturbance, … [/QUOTE] Sounds like the episode “The Case of the Mad Vandal” from [The National Lampoon Radio Show.](http://www.marksverylarge.com/nlrh/nlrh740608_30.html) ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/107 "2009-10-25T00:51:23Z")
in my house, by _mutual_ agreement, the default position is both lid and seat down, thank you. Why? 1: kitties cannot drink therefrom and ingest odd toilet additives 2: I cannot fall in in the middle of the night when I am mostly asleep and gotta GO… 3: everyone does the same work to use it (also: Hi, Opal!) 4: no spray if flushing after lid is down!!! Whee! oh! I am female, my partner’s male. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-on-earth-must-you-piss-on-the-toilet-seat/391925/108 "2009-10-25T01:30:19Z")
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