There’s no ‘must’ about it. I don’t have to pee on the seat; I do it because I want to.
Perhaps they piss on the seat to provide lubrication for their ass chancres?
I don’t recall if I ranted it here before or not, but at my last job I worked third shift and was literally the only woman in my entire section of the hospital at night. I never passed another woman, I never saw another woman; there weren’t even female security people strolling around. EVERY NIGHT without fail some asshole came into MY bathroom (near the pharmacy) and left a bowl full of piss PLUS pissed all over the seat. It infuriated me- someone had to actually either use the wrong gender restroom (which would really be wrong, as you had to walk into a locker room to access those toilets) or they were coming from an entirely different part of the hospital to befoul my bathroom.
Fiinally I printed up a sign that advised the pisser to STOP pissing on the seat, START flushing the goddamned toilet, and seriously increase their water intake, as they had the darkest yellow urine ever. It worked for about 6 weeks, then it started again. I gave up and had to go to a bathroom on another floor.
I hate the hoverers/pigs. HATE THEM.
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The worst restroom experience I ever had involved a tampon having been used as a crayon.
Seriously chicks, Crayola does not have a string! Crayola is solid, not squishy. Crayola does not go in your vagina. What in the bloody blue fuck is wrong with people? Someone actually wrote graffiti on the wall with a used tampon, which she then left floating in the bowl.
I will assume that it was a female human, because I don’t know too many men who use tampons.
Don’t leave us hanging by a thread here! What did it say?
I have a confession to make: what I’ve read on the Dope has greatly changed my opinion of toilet seats.
I never was a "hover-round’-- I laid toilet paper on the seat or used one of the provided tissue liners. I even used to carry a small spray can of Lysol in my purse that I would spray on the seat if the cleanliness of the bathroom seemed to be in doubt.
It was something taught to me by my mother who really is a germaphobe. My ignorance on the issue was duly fought by some of the earlier thread on this subject and I’m no longer as squicked by touching a toilet seat. (Though I still lay down toilet paper because I don’t necessarily like the idea of touching someone else’s butt-skin oils and it prevents surprise contact with wet spots.)
I have a couple of theories as to why people mistreat public bathrooms. The first is that it’s a form of passive-aggressive lashing out at the world. They have had to clean up messes in the past, or feel otherwise “shit-upon” and so they are going to take their “revenge” on some anonymous person who will have to clean up their mess.
The second is part of what I call “Lissa’s Grand Unified Theory of the Decoy Duck.” (I came up with this theory after running years of experiments in my jobs working with the public.) In short, people leave more messes when a mess already exists. If they see a brimming toilet or trash on the floor, they feel comfortable in leaving behind their own contribution, whereas if the bathroom was spotless, they’d be more heistant to behave in such a fashion. (Of course, it only takes one person to break this pattern.)
Are the women who go through such rituals the same ones who can’t even look to see if the seat is up or down when they’re at home? 
I’m guessing that both theories work in combination, as there’s some random asshole that encourages the bad behavior in the others by showing that it is actually done. However, whether or not the bathroom is spotless, there are the ladies out there that somehow got taught by their mothers that any public place is dirty and took it to a weird extreme. I remember being told to wash up thoroughly because bathrooms weren’t sanitary, but I took it to the point of making sure I washed my hands properly, not hovering or avoiding contact with anything in a bathroom.
What really irks me is the same people who pee all over the toilets are the women who’ll pretend to wash their hands by splashing them with a tiny bit of water before they leave. Disgusting.
Why bother to check? I have my husband well-trained.
It said ‘Hi’ and there was a smiley face under it.
It’s probably a high percentage of the same. Hoverers or toilet paper nesters are probably the ones who make such a huge, huge deal over a man who leaves the seat up.
I’m totally with you on the hoverers. I agree - if you’re not going to sit on the seat, lift it! Stupid selfish people.
However, as to directing your kid not to touch anything in a public restroom, I definitely do that. I will happily put my childs thighs/butt cheeks on a dry public toilet. However, I emphatically don’t want her touching the door catch, the pad disposal bin, the floor, etc. with her hands. Little hands have a way of meandering to little mouths, noses, and eyes when you least expect it. Plus I’ve got a thumbsucker, so it’s pretty much guaranteed.
I think it’s over the edge to avoid your pristine thighs touching the seat, but I’d bet when people wipe after pooping or deal with menstrual stuff, they’re likely to get germs on their hands, which then touch stuff in the stall before they exit and wash (hopefully).
I also make her wash her hands after pushing the kid carts at the grocery store, and stuff like that. I hope that doesn’t make me a ridiculous germophobe.
Pretty obvious that the seat-piddlers suffer from diminished excretory brain function. Can’t be helped.
Best if we all just learn to sublimate our anger and plop down onto their golden offering. Might even learn to enjoy it.
It’s really not the “don’t touch anything” that bothered me, but that the stupid cunt decided a freshly cleaned public bathroom was a million times more filthy and disgusting than her own, which may or may not have just been cleaned. But yeah, little kids, especially those young enough to want to touch everything, seem to do better if one has some sort of baby wipes or something to wipe off their hands with. They sure do seem to get messy faster.
It was a nicer restaurant I used to work at. I am not making it up. It’s like they were hoverers (is that even a word?) with diarrhea.
Except they wouldn’t - they could grab a big wad of TP, use it as an oven mitt to lift the seat up with, and then discard it.
You people’s problem is that you’re putting *thought *into this. Most people with toilet phobia don’t. They just know they don’t want to touch anything but don’t give it enough thought to invent solutions. Thus, they hover.
If you want to understand stupid human behavior, think inside the box, people.
We were thinking inside the stall. Isn’t that close enough? 
If the toilet offends you, what are you doing in there that would make it cleaner.? I am afraid your function will make it dirtier if anything. When you leave the next person has more to bitch about. It is a toilet for crying out loud.
TRY? The times you forget are the times I’m calling you a selfish, skanky, filthy pig under my breath when I see the piss you left on the seat. I hate cleaning up after selfish skanky filthy pigs before I can sit down. You’re teaching your daughter to grow up to be a selfish skanky filthy pig because she sees it’s ok to piss on the seat and “forget” every now and then to wipe it off. Teaching your daughter that cleanliness is a good thing includes not pissing on the seat. EVER. You don’t want to sit in someone else’s piss? I don’t want to sit in YOUR fucking selfish skanky filthy piggish piss. Wipe the fucking seat with toilet paper and sit your asses down and there’ll be two less selfish skanky filthy pigs in the world.
However, I never touch any public bathroom surface without toilet paper or a paper towel between me and what I’m touching. I wash my hands thoroughly and use a paper towel or the edge of my skirt to open the door to leave. That’s just common sense. Pissing on the seat and not cleaning up after yourself is just willful hostility or stupidity.
When I worked in a bar, I saw that all the time. I’d go in there during the evening and find entire rolls of toilet paper stuffed into the commode, beer bottles in the toilet, toilets overflowing and people continuing to use them so the piss just flowed out onto the floor–and then there were the people who crapped NEXT to the seat. I was so glad I didn’t have any janitorial duties at that place. The women’s bathrooms were wretched!
Some women are absolute filthy pigs in public restrooms! This was a rather upscale place and the women who came could be rather prissy types. How is it that some of the prissiest people turn into such filthy pigs when someone else has to clean it up?