Women's Restroom Rant

Ladies, listen up, it's time for me to drop some science on your ears about the bathroom situation.

The fact that you can catch an STD from a toilet seat is a myth.

What part or your body touches the toilet seat? If you're anything like me, it's your ass/thighs. It's not your vajayjay. It's not your butthole. I'm pretty sure I don't hump my  toilet seat. Okay. So it's my buttcheeks and thighs. Personally, mine are pretty clean. They stay protected in my clothing all day. I don't wipe so crazily that fecal matter or urine end up on them. In fact, I'd go the extra mile and say my thighs and buttcheeks are cleaner than my hands. Seeing as they stay inside my clothes all day and aren't out touching all kinds of things.

Women are very good at urinating standing up. Typically, it gets all over the toilet seat. The toilet seat that would have stayed pristine if you had actually sat on it in the first place.

Okay, so all things considered: STOP HOVER PISSING!!!!! Seriously. It just gets things disgusting for the rest of us. I am so sick of walking into a stall only to find yellow droplets all over the toilet seat. EW!

And for the love of all things civil, if you dribble, clean it up. Gawd. We're grown ups now, it's time to respect each other's most basic right to urniate in a clean environment, okay?

Original Post by hgielrehtaeh:

Original Post by annielikesapples:

I agree that if we all actually sat down, it'd be a much cleaner situation, but I seriously doubt that all the people in the world who "hover" are going to give up doing it for the sake of cleanliness in public bathrooms, and because of this, I shall continue being a hoverer as well. (I'm a clean hoverer though, lol).

@ soliwit : Yeah, I once saw someone flush with their foot - pretty gross. And because of that, I have never again flushed with my hand.

 There is no such thing as a clean hoverer. Please plant your ass firmly.

 Well I got to disagree, I hover, have for years, started because of an open wound on my ass (operation) never stopped. I never leave a mess, and yes I also lift the seat.

Andy, that must have been a real drag, having an surgical wound on your bottom!  Kudos for lifting the seat :)

Being a person that has never hovered (always, ALWAYS use seat covers or bunches of tp as an alternate cover though) I had major issues in the Irish countryside where holes in the ground and small, low bowls without a seat on it were common in public restrooms.  That being said, the girls that had enough muscles to successfully squat and pee correctly every time while over there scared me because it made me think of back here and pee-covered restroom seats... ick ick ick!  Totally agree with all of it, just sit- hell, even bring clorox wipes with you if you must, but don't spread pee all over the seats and leave it there!

Original Post by purespark:

Andy, that must have been a real drag, having an surgical wound on your bottom!  Kudos for lifting the seat :)

 Hello ....

yeah big open abscess wound 2 inches one cheek 1 the other. Still causes me bother from time to time.

Ha!  So many posts on peeing!

I'm not afraid of germs. Growing up in third world countries, I think I got immunized to just about everything by the age of 7.  Plus, I hear that kids who grow up in dirty houses with pets are much healthier later in life than those in sterilized homes.  I haven't so much as had a cold in at least 15 years.

BUT ... I am "allergic" to grossness.  Other people's bodily fluids - whatever they may be - are just yuck.  No one wants to see, smell, or especially clean up some stranger's fluids (or worse).  So wipe the seat and flush - it doesn't take that long.  And, yeah, splashback is quite real.

I don't get seat covers. Seem useless to me - whatever wetness will still come through - I've only used them (or TP) to show me WHERE the seat was wet - but then I still wouldn't sit on it without wiping, so just wipe already and skip the cover.

The seat covers aren't nor have they ever been water proof, they are for the "hidden" germs. I get a bid wad (big enough for no wetnes to seep through to my finger tips aaargh)of TP wipe down the toilet seat then place the Seat cover on top of the DRY seat. Thats if I don't hover at that particular time I also stay hydrated and you'd be surprised at how fast urine can fly out of you lol.

 

Even I sit when i pee.

Who wants to clean that up?

Original Post by zarelha:


I don't get seat covers. Seem useless to me - whatever wetness will still come through - I've only used them (or TP) to show me WHERE the seat was wet - but then I still wouldn't sit on it without wiping, so just wipe already and skip the cover.

 Agree wholeheartedly - if there's something on the seat, the seat cover will just make it worse.

Also, what's with pre-flushing? I get that it's kinda gross to sit down when there is someone else's floater sitting there under you (and in those cases I will pre-flush), but on the other hand, flushing seems like it would yield even more airborne bacteria!  At my work, I regularly hear women come into the stall, and flush before sitting down. Having walked by that stall already, I know there isn't anything in there to get rid off. It's a waste of water and it certainly doesn't make anything cleaner. If anything, just the opposite.

I'm off to use my hand sanitizer now.

As a mother who has potty trained one girl and is in the process of training another I'd just like to say that the hovering stops here!  I was a hoverer as a child.  I'm not even sure how you train a kid to do that.  Did my mother dangle me over the seat until my legs grew long enough for me to hover on my own?  I don't remember.

My girls sit.  The little one actually sits and then holds onto the seat behind her (with her bare hands!) so that she doesn't fall in.

I'm a foot flusher, unless it's an automatic toilet, in which case I often push the manual button just so that I'm not caught off guard by the jet force flow of water.

I wash my hands thoroughly and so do my girls, so I don't have much comment about that.

I do agree that kids need come into contact with some germs or their immune systems get bored and act out.

Original Post by rebepi:

I definitely agree about the ridiculousness of hover-peeing. Please don't pee on the seat and leave it, especially if you're not planning on flushing either.

I don't have an issue touching almost anything in a bathroom. I'll flush with my hands, or my feet (depends on how gross the bathroom is as a whole), I don't mind touching the doors or the faucets.. etc etc.

I don't get sick almost ever. I think this is partly because I'm not afraid of germs.

I mean, don't get me wrong; I'll wash my hands after I use the bathroom, but I don't spend my whole day worrying about what I'm touching. I refuse to use any of that 99.9% germ ridder gel stuff because I'm pretty sure that it's worse for me than my germs.

That's all.

 Wooo Hooo! I found someone else who refuses to succumb to the fear factor of germs.

I worked in retailing and the girls that worked the cosmetic counter NEVER washed their hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   How do I know this? Because I would be at the sink washing my hands and look up to them march out of the stall and straight out the door! Yuck! I never got a make over from them1

I always flush with my foot especially during the flu seaon. 

Hover peeing is also really bad for your pelvic floor muscles.  The contraction of the abs works in conjunction with your pelvic floor and that confuses your bladder and in the long run interferes with your bladder control...

Just sit down...

People use their feet to flush the loo?? Sorry but that is absolutely digusting. Really. I don't want to touch something thats had someone else's feet on it, they could of trod in dog crap.

So people hover pee cause they don't like the germs, then flush with their feet leaving their own skanky germs for someone else to touch? thats not right.

Hovering hasn't done any damage to my pelvic floor, and I've been doing it for years, can stop and start mid flow as many times as I feel like....

Flushing the toilet with your feet is worse I think Yuk! who know what you have walked over before you get there.

 

edit to add: women who sit down dribble on the seat too, when they stand up, and they often don't clean it up behind them!

Sorry, but as a woman that sits, I can honestly say that I clean everything and make sure everything is nice and dry before I stand up. I have never dribbled after wiping. Sorry. I don't want urine on my clothes, so everything is tidied up before pulling up my pants.

Ew... do hoverpeers not wipe thoroughly?

Original Post by lifeizsweet:

People use their feet to flush the loo?? Sorry but that is absolutely digusting. Really. I don't want to touch something thats had someone else's feet on it, they could of trod in dog crap.

So people hover pee cause they don't like the germs, then flush with their feet leaving their own skanky germs for someone else to touch? thats not right.

 It's a vicious cycle.

Like others on the thread, I never used the foot-flush until I learned that a coworker did.  But really, when you flush you are about to go wash your hands, so now I'm thinking... what does it really matter what I or anyone used to flush the toilet?

Why wouldn't we wipe properly? Just as you make sure you don't leave a mess so do I, but there are loads of those who don't sitters and hoverer's. It's a case of just deal with it.........

no, i don't hoverpee and then footflush

i choose a toilet that has already been flushed if available
i wipe off the seat with a big wad of tp whether it looks dirty or not
i use a seat cover if available
i drop my drawers
i sit down
i make #1
i wipe
i stand up
i pull my drawers up
i wipe off the seat again just to be courteous, just in case i had a dribble as mentioned in #74
i flush with my foot, usually the left one
i exit the stall
i assess the paper towel situation, pre-pressing the lever to make one come down if necessary
i turn on the water
i wash my hands - singing one verse of happy birthday to me to gauge how long to wash
i grab the paper towel that i got ready 
i dry my hands
i use the paper towel to turn the faucet off and to get another paper towel if needed
if it's a blow dryer, i use my elbow to press the button
i use the paper towel to open the bathroom door if the trash is located so that i can easily throw towel away, otherwise i just use my sleeve or any spare material of my shirt to grasp the door handle

i think everyone should foot flush because you've just wiped yourself

yes, even you in the pantyhose and heels - i've done it before - it's good for your balance

i won't say how loooooong it's been since i've had a cold because i don't want to jinx myself 

    ::giggles::

 

*^5s Nomo*

I wash my hands before and after, as told to do so by the Dr....