NBR - Poll: Do you sit or hover?

Jo&Matt6609 · May 2011

When you ladies use a public restroom, what do you do?[Poll]

LaComtesse · May 2011

This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

ermaderma · May 2011

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

This x 1,000,000,000

mishele · May 2011

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

This. I've seen numerous reports on TV (which I do take with a grain of salt) that things like your phone and keyboard are dirtier than a toilet seat.

I will caveat that by saying if the bathroom is particularly dirty and I can't wait, I will wipe the seat then put down some TP first, although I don't know why I think a thin layer of paper is going to save me from some horrible bacteria.

camdenfaithful · May 2011

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

Ditto!!!!!!!

If there's something ON the seat I'll wipe it down, but if not, I just sit.

LaComtesse · May 2011

mishele:
LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

This. I've seen numerous reports on TV (which I do take with a grain of salt) that things like your phone and keyboard are dirtier than a toilet seat.

I will caveat that by saying if the bathroom is particularly dirty and I can't wait, I will wipe the seat then put down some TP first, although I don't know why I think a thin layer of paper is going to save me from some horrible bacteria.

There was an episode of Penn & Teller's Bulls#!t about this. In their experiment, people's faces and hands had way more bacteria on them than their butts, which had almost none.

Jo&Matt6609 · May 2011

ermaderma:

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

This x 1,000,000,000

This exactly!! I hope it's not just me, but whenever I used to try and hover when I was younger, pee would run down my butt cheek (gross!!), and would get on the toilet. Now I just wipe, and sit..Or wipe and line, and then sit.

jen102279 · May 2011

I will sit no problem unless the bathroom is NASTY, then I hover and I clean up after myself if it's needed (usually not as I have a good aim Wink

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marriedfilingjointly · May 2011

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

Forever and ever, amen.

I overheard someone in a public bathroom teaching her young daughter how to hover. I was fuming. Hope she also taught her how to wipe off the pee she will inevitably get all over the commode.

BabyBLove · May 2011

I ALWAYS line the seat with TP or one of those paper seat covers (I'll wipe first if it's nasty too). I just cannot stand the thought of sitting bare-butt on something that tons and tons of other people have sat bare-butt on. Grosses me out! I also cannot justify it by saying the door handle is dirtier - the seat is probably still plenty dirty too! I've also have never been able to hover and pee, I don't have enough patience or stamina to do it, lol.

gwendarling · May 2011

I think judgey, mean thoughts about ladies who walk out of the stall before me and have left behind a seat sprinkled with urine.

MrsMVM · May 2011

I voted SS because it really depends on where I am. I commute on the train, and never ever would have used a train toilet prior pregnancy. I just would hold it- I mean, there are stains all over the walls and also the jolts of the train cause spillage- not worried about mine- but others! Now I have no choice but to use them- so in there, I hover. Same with the bathrooms in the train station. But pretty much anywhere else, I just sit. If the seat is wet, I wipe it, but normally I just sit.

mishele · May 2011

LaComtesse:

There was an episode of Penn & Teller's Bulls#!t about this. In their experiment, people's faces and hands had way more bacteria on them than their butts, which had almost none.

I knew I saw that somewhere! I love that show. I wish new ones were on now!

TeamJAS · May 2011

I grew up in Cali and until last year only have traveled in Cali or NV. I just assumed every public restroom had the toilet seat covers. While driving from Cali to MI I discovered that's not always the case. One bathroom I stopped at had no covers and still had the old fashioned hand towels that look like they?re on a continuous roll and seemed like a fabric! Anyhoo, I normally always sit down, but only with a seat cover. If there's none, I brace myself on the handicap handrail and hover. I never miss that way, but boy does it take some thigh strength if I have to go real bad/long.

eortman · May 2011

It depends how clean it is. Usually I sit, but if it is particularly gross, hover.

Jo&Matt6609 · May 2011

If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat.

That's the rhyme that I grew up with since I was a little girl. Both my mom and grandma told me this

ermaderma · May 2011

eortman:
It depends how clean it is. Usually I sit, but if it is particularly gross, hover.

See, this is when I just cover the seat with a sh!t ton of toilet paper and sit on that, lol. No sense in making it dirtier than it already is.

ALthough, I have been know to hold it if the bathroom is totally disgusting.

xtinaxmariex · May 2011

I chose SS bc to me it really depends on the upkeep of the place. If it's nice and clean I have no problem sitting (if there's no pee on the seat) but if it's some crappy bar, I squat (but ALWAYS wipe it clean)

natkay02 · May 2011

I hover in a public facility, unless there are seat covers. I agree, the toilet is hardly the dirtiest/germiest thing in the bathroom, but then again my hands are about to be sanitized and my a$$ is NOT. I have pretty good aim, but if I were to lose balance or something and "sprinkle" I just wipe it off.

Oh my bathroom pet peeve is when the you can't "push" open the door from the inside. I know way too many people touch that handle without wiping and there is no way I'm about to pull it open. Ew! I've literally waited for someone else to walk in/out if there is no paper towels and I can't get it open with my foot.

candy5967 · May 2011

My mom taught me when I was little to line the seat with toilet paper in a public place and I have been doing it since then. I cannot hover- always drips on my leg...lol. So I don't try that anymore Stick out tongue

T&HLove · May 2011

LaComtesse:
This could have been my UO (that, as it turns out, isn't so unpopular)! Just sit down, people--if there's pee on the seat, just take a wad of toilet paper and wipe it off. The reason toilet seats are disgusting and urine soaked is because of the hoverers. If you just sit on the friggen seat it would be much cleaner. Having your butt touch where someone else's butt was is way clearner than touching the door to the stall, where someone else's hands have been.

THANK YOU! the hoverers wouldn't have to hover if no one ever hovered at all!

The only time I hover is at concerts, etc in the portapottys, because they are always too nasty to just wipe down.

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