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Most women hoover above toilet seat in public toilets to pee?

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summerfinn · 07/06/2023 07:55

I was out this weekend and had to use the toilet to pee. I normally hoover above toilet seat to pee in public toilets and was thinking to myself this is difficult especially if I need to do a long pee🙈😂 Is this what most women do too or am I being extra germ conscious and should just wipe the seat and sit down? Sorry if tmi but I'm just curious

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Nannyfannybanny · 07/06/2023 18:24

No, I haven't always done it. Just since being diagnosed with a cystocele last year, I have to hover,then arch my back,in order to void

thatsn0tmyname · 07/06/2023 17:28

I do the hover/squat but always give a courtesy wipe after. The downsides are the extra urination noise plus women don't fully empty their bladders if they're tense. Sometimes I hover/squat if the cubicle is narrow and there's a sanitary bin pressing against my thigh😡

Maligascar · 07/06/2023 17:26

I always hover over the bog - I’m not sitting in some strangers piss

Applecoresweet · 07/06/2023 17:16

And it is precisely this hovering that covers the seats in pee. Gross!

TheNinny · 07/06/2023 17:13

No one I know does this, and I don’t either. It’s only something I read about in mumsnet. I’d maybe do it if I had to use an especially scummy outside/public toilet somewhere.

RoxyMuzak · 07/06/2023 17:11

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 14:14

Crazy isn't it? Or the people who use wads and wads of loo paper just because it's free.

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My husband said when he was a kid his father told him to use a maximum of 4 sheets; any more was wasteful. He said he knew better than to say 'So it's all right to walk around with a shitty arse?'

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 07/06/2023 17:09

summerfinn · 07/06/2023 17:08

When I hover if there are any drips on the seat I wipe them up. The first night in a hotel bed makes my skin crawl . Thinking of who slept here before me. I'm weird I know 😂 judging by reply's to my post

What exactly are you worried about?

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summerfinn · 07/06/2023 17:08

When I hover if there are any drips on the seat I wipe them up. The first night in a hotel bed makes my skin crawl . Thinking of who slept here before me. I'm weird I know 😂 judging by reply's to my post

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LoopyLoo1991 · 07/06/2023 14:31

I have tendancy to fall over when squatting generally, so don't hover. Most public toilets in my area clean and in the rare incident of a wet pub toilet seat I've no problems cleaning it.

Seen other girls hovering, spraying everywhere and just walking off. Alcohol mainly involved.

BillyBraggisnotmylover · 07/06/2023 14:22

Those who hover - have you always done it, from when you were toilet trained, or is it something you started doing later in life?

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 14:14

KimberleyClark · 07/06/2023 13:58

I we to to a public loo recently and the bowl was literally half full of paper. I mean, wtf?

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Crazy isn't it? Or the people who use wads and wads of loo paper just because it's free.

Fruitjellies · 07/06/2023 14:10

MrsMitford3 · 07/06/2023 07:56

The problem with the hoverers is the splash usually left on the seat.

Please wipe it as I find it even grimmer to have to clean previous users wee

This. The irony is it's the hoverers causing the mess that results in people hovering

KimberleyClark · 07/06/2023 13:58

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 13:44

Some people wad lots of tissues in the toilet bowl, so that others don't hear plops when they have a poo.

Ridiculous, as if no one else plops.

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I we to to a public loo recently and the bowl was literally half full of paper. I mean, wtf?

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 13:44

BarbaraofSeville · 07/06/2023 11:06

And when anyone gets to a public toilet and finds there is no paper, the ones who use half a roll to avoid touching anything are partly to blame.

I was puzzled about a new colleague, who would always immediately start grabbing huge amounts of toilet paper when entering a cubicle (I could hear her doing this). She must have been one of those laying it out all over the seat.

Some people wad lots of tissues in the toilet bowl, so that others don't hear plops when they have a poo.

Ridiculous, as if no one else plops.

FatOaf · 07/06/2023 13:34

For those worried about taking germs from the loo back into their homes, I hate to break it to you but there are germs from urine and faeces everywhere.

If only we had some defence against them. Some highly developed network of biological responses that has evolved over millions of years to allow us to live with environmental and commensal microorganisms. We could call it an "immune system". Wouldn't that be great?

seawitchhair · 07/06/2023 13:31

Seeing as 90% of public toilet seats have fresh wee on them, I always hover.

It is a vicious cycle. The seats have wee on them because of hoverers, who then hover because the seats have wee on them.

Ah well, when your pelvic floor collapses in later life, remember this.

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 13:28

soberfabulous · 07/06/2023 13:26

To all the hoverers: what do you do at work?

I drink gallons of water at my desk and probably wee more at work than I do when generally out in public or at home.

I couldn't hover every time at work....is this what you do?

I only hover when the seat is irredeemably splashed but at work the toilets are cleaned every hour so I always sit. If the loo bowl has skidmarks (rare) or period blood on the seat then I'll get in the next cubicle.

dwightschrutebeets · 07/06/2023 13:26

I don't. I sit down unless it looks particularly disgusting

soberfabulous · 07/06/2023 13:26

To all the hoverers: what do you do at work?

I drink gallons of water at my desk and probably wee more at work than I do when generally out in public or at home.

I couldn't hover every time at work....is this what you do?

WiddlinDiddlin · 07/06/2023 13:25

I never used to hover or hoover, proper filthy beast I was.

Then I got galloping Back of the Thigh disease, both my legs rotted off just below my arse and thats why I use a wheelchair. I have fake legs to put inside my trousers now so no one ever asks and no one finds out how I lost my legs through being such a filth-pig. OH THE SHAME....

Oh wait...

Sit on the bloody seat, wipe it first if you want, line it if you must (but then bin/flush the liner don't leave it all over the floor), but fucking pack in the hovering bullshit!

Wednesdaysotherchild · 07/06/2023 13:15

No, I don‘t hover as my knees don’t like it. I clean if needed and sit. The hovering piss sprayers get on my nerves though!

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 07/06/2023 13:02

LardyDee · 07/06/2023 12:58

As a commited hoverer I never used to sit, but I did so about five years ago, caught bubonic arse plague, and have been dead ever since.

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🤣

HerbsandSpices · 07/06/2023 13:02

WhatALightbulbMoment · 07/06/2023 12:58

Seeing as 90% of public toilet seats have fresh wee on them, I always hover. I don't want someone else's wee on my thighs - the fact that I am not going to lick them is irrelevant.

I find that too. Most of the seats have drops on them. I wipe it away before I hover.

Florissante · 07/06/2023 13:01

LardyDee · 07/06/2023 12:58

As a commited hoverer I never used to sit, but I did so about five years ago, caught bubonic arse plague, and have been dead ever since.

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Hah! I like your style.

WhatALightbulbMoment · 07/06/2023 12:58

Seeing as 90% of public toilet seats have fresh wee on them, I always hover. I don't want someone else's wee on my thighs - the fact that I am not going to lick them is irrelevant.