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?

now that we're all so intimately acquainted with each other...

seems like there should be some sort of 'next step'

like, i dunno, going out for drinks?

::giggles::

*^5's meagan back*

Nothing worse than sitting down to have a pee and getting up with a wet leg because someone before me peed on the seat. I love your rant Heather!

The other day we were down at the beach and I went into the public restroom. No seats there, just a stainless steel rim. I just sat on it, what the hell, it was dry and looked reasonably clean :)

I have a true story to share.(  I know that I should post this somewhere else)

I know this lady that went to her female doctor for her yearly visit. She went to use the restroom and noticed that they were out of toilet paper. So, she used a clean kleenex out of her purse. 

She then goes into the examining room and gets ready for the doctor to do her pap smear. The doctor tells her to get on the table. 

As he starts to exam her she notices his face turn a bright red. He then reaches down and pulls up some postage stamps that were stuck on her privates.  LOL!!

Original Post by ildako:

I have a true story to share.(  I know that I should post this somewhere else)

I know this lady that went to her female doctor for her yearly visit. She went to use the restroom and noticed that they were out of toilet paper. So, she used a clean kleenex out of her purse. 

She then goes into the examining room and gets ready for the doctor to do her pap smear. The doctor tells her to get on the table. 

As he starts to exam her she notices his face turn a bright red. He then reaches down and pulls up some postage stamps that were stuck on her privates.  LOL!!

 LOL!!

now that's first class!

::giggles::

ildako - I heard a similar story, except this one, the woman was leaving the house, remembered that she hadn't 'cleaned up' and so just grabbed a wash cloth from the sink.  When she got to the doctor, the doctor got a funny look, and said "You probably shouldn't 'decorate' it." The wash cloth had last been used by her kids, who had been having fun with glitter. So she was all sparkly.

lmao, ahhhh gynocology stories...

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

Yes, but i haven't just pissed over my hands, a person's shoe however, may have dog poo on it, i don't usually just go right ahead stick my hand in dog crap when i see it on the floor and i'd rather not risk touching it from a HANDle, what if theres no soap left. cheers disgusting human being who used their dirty foot to flush the loo.

#87 - Here, here, I second that motion

why do you bother washing your hands after you go to the loo if you think they're so clean after you wipe?

toilet tissue isn't magic, you know - i don't know how much contamination gets on people's hands when they wipe (I personally never do #2 in a public toilet if it is at all possible to avoid it - i have, at times, held it in for over 3 days in order to wait until i got home) but health officials do say that things like hepatitis and e. coli are mainly spread from ("feces-to-mouth contact") unwashed hands after bathroom use -- so you tell me which is more likely - that someone had contaminated hands after they wiped or that someone goes around hopping into dog dookie?

no soap? that's why i carry hand sanitizer in my purse -- it pays to be prepared!

and i don't know where you live, but i don't encounter dog poo on any sort of regular basis - where i live now, there are leash laws and pet waste laws and in my neighborhood people get bent out of shape if you don't keep your lawn perfectly manicured, nevermind not cleaning up after your dog -- there would be an angry torch-carrying mob if anyone shirked that responsibility

i forgive you for calling me a 'disgusting human being' because that opinion is completely ignorant of what it purports to characterize - cheers to you too!

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

(I personally never do #2 in a public toilet if it is at all possible to avoid it - i have, at times, held it in for over 3 days in order to wait until i got home)

Amazing how much weight you drop when you finally go, eh?

nomo, I didn't call you a disgusting human, I just couldn't be bothered editing as I was still half asleep.

But I do agree that this foot flushing turns my stomach for so many reasons!

I also wash after because you can't catch germs from yourself, but someone else can catch them from you, also I've probably just touched the flush handle

annd, no worries, I was responding to #87

90: and ya, you drop a good pound or two if you wait that long -- it's not more dramatic than that because if i were in that situation, i wouldn't eat that much either - and no high fiber foods that would make it problematic to wait

Took my daughter into a single person women's bathroom at an upscale restaurant.

I rescind my previous opinion and, sadly, have replaced it with this:

Women are just as bad as men.

Girls, you think it's traumatic to walk in and find piss all over the seat?

Imagine walking into a stall only to find diarrhea all over the toilet (everywhere on the toilet), smeared on the walls, all over the floor, etc. And you happen to notice that it's mostly dry so it's obviously been there for a LONG FRIGGIN TIME!!!

I was once privy to that loveliness. I immediately went and notified the store's staff and told the two women I passed on the way out of the BR to spread the warning.

It drives me nuts when people don't flush, don't wipe the seat.

For the hover pee-ers, I've heard that that can contribute to hemorrhoids. I don't know about you, but I don't want any more risk than possible!

Aww... this post has reminded me that in a week the students will be back and my private washroom that is always clean this summer (I'm a student researcher, and the only female on my floor) will be once again pee covered and stinky.

As for my public washroom routine - if its nasty I'm a hover-and-wiper. I mean... if everything is already covered in the stuff, I'm not contributing. My hands may get gross from wiping, but I can wash them immediately. It'd be a bit awkward to try and wash my ass in the bathroom. Otherwise I wipe the seat just in case, then line the seat with TP. If its an extraordinarily clean washroom I may just sit right on that seat.

I also use hand sanitizer as soon as I reach my destination and have touched all the doors I will for that period.

Yup. I'm germ OCD.

anndjoe, we can definitely catch germs from ourselves. Different parts of our bodies have different normal flora. For example, if bacteria from the intestines gets into the blood stream, you could get a very nasty infection. This could happen if someone wipes themselves and doesn't wash, then picks a scab on their arm or scratches a mosquito bite. Or, I could lick my fingers after eating then use a finger to dig goo out of my eyes and get conjunctivitis from mouth bacteria being where it shouldn't. Good bacteria become bad bacteria when they show up in the wrong body parts.

*Edit: I'd like the join the anti-hover clan: sitting sisters united!

ser, we were talking about pee, so if it's already in your pee then you already have it so you can't catch it.

Oops, I thought it was a general comment about germs.

*slinks back into shadows*

ser, no need to slink I didn't make myself clear.

i was talking about germs/pathogens that you may come in contact with in the loo overall - not strictly from pee - because i would never make the assumption that nobody ever goes #2 (or does other stuff) in a public restroom

we know they do based on our sense of smell, hearing and unfortunately at times, sight

i don't assume that previous users of a toilet before me have only peed or have only had the opportunity to get pee on their hand

so that's what I was referring to regarding hepatitis A and e.coli -- those come from contact with fecal matter (poo) -- i have no idea whether those 'germs' are on the flush lever or not - so i assume they are