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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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zingally · 07/06/2023 11:35

I've never hovered. 38 years old and yet to catch anything unsavoury.

Lourdes12 · 07/06/2023 11:32

Just wipe the seat and cover the seat with lost of toilet paper and them sit down

RoxyMuzak · 07/06/2023 11:30

I saw a local news story about a nudist couple who went to a pub where some people were 'shocked' to see them. They were soon 'seated by staff' and enjoyed a meal. I wouldn't have been shocked to see them, but I wonder if they sat with their bare arses on the chairs. I wouldn't want to sit on their skids later.

MintGreenLife · 07/06/2023 11:29

CountTo10 · 07/06/2023 11:21

Not sure if this has been mentioned but there are physiological reasons for not hovering.

www.healthywomen.org/content/article/sit-dont-hover-when-using-toilet

This is very interesting and eye-opening! Since having recurrent UTIs and lots of tests as a teenager, and one test showing I wasn't emptying my bladder properly when sitting down, ever since then I have hovered as I found when did this after sitting down to pee, I could pass a little more urine. Over time this has turned into hovering every time I pee, regardless of being at home or away from home (I have become a master at this and never pee on the seat). But this might explain why I'm left with two prolapses at 34 following the birth of my son. I will now never hover again! Will just have to hope my UTIs don't return.

Choconutty · 07/06/2023 11:29

Life is too short for me to worry about what invisible things my arse touches.

I'm not eating dinner with my thighs, I'll shower at some point. I'm fucking sitting down to wee.

Conkersinautumn · 07/06/2023 11:28

I really don't like washing my hands then exiting via a door with a handle. I also don't use hand dryers (warm moist conditiions) so I usually rinse my hands and dry if towel is available, waiting for the door to be open and then hold it with my foot. If its not I'll sometimes have to rely on hand sanitiser after touching the door handle, it's not ideal but as I'm a bit grossed out by handrails I often have to wash as soon as I get home. There's very little point in washing your hands then grasping that door to exit as at least half don't wash their hands.

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summerfinn · 07/06/2023 11:26

I shower in the morning so thoughts that I'd sat on a public toilet seat and then get into bed mostly naked at night makes me feel sick. Maybe I'm just a bit ocd. Sounds like it. 😂😂 I thought everyone did this🙈

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Florissante · 07/06/2023 11:25

LardyDee · 07/06/2023 11:24

I really don't like the thought of importing the germs off the toilet seat into my clothes and then my house.

I don't know how to break this to you, but there may already be germs living in your house Grin

Or that simply by going outside, one is exposed to "germs".

HidingInAForest · 07/06/2023 11:24

I'm not sure what they think a lining of loo roll will actually DO other than make a mess.

It is bizarre.

LardyDee · 07/06/2023 11:24

I really don't like the thought of importing the germs off the toilet seat into my clothes and then my house.

I don't know how to break this to you, but there may already be germs living in your house Grin

Crumpleton · 07/06/2023 11:23

Needing a pee while out shopping, walked to a public loo only to see the seat lined with loo roll that someone had placed, sat on and not bothered to remove.

Recently been away and while out and about used public/restaurant loo's and am surprised at the amount of people that walk out and don't bother to wash their hands.

CountTo10 · 07/06/2023 11:21

Not sure if this has been mentioned but there are physiological reasons for not hovering.

www.healthywomen.org/content/article/sit-dont-hover-when-using-toilet

Insertdeadcatsnamehere · 07/06/2023 11:19

If nobody hovered nobody would need to hover. Previous hoverers are the only reason for needing to hover.

katepilar · 07/06/2023 11:18

HidingInAForest · 07/06/2023 09:47

Just what I was thinking - re chairs, restaurants etc.

It's a strange hang up people have and the few on here that have it seem proud of it!

I wonder if it harks back to generations ago when there was less understanding of germs? I know the whole Jim Crow laws made White people scared to sit on a loo a black person had used ( :( ) as if it was "dirty."

Also in the 80s with the fear of HIV and not knowing how it spread might be where some people's parents go the idea from.

But it really is a small minority that now have this hang up I would imagine.

I think it more of a fear/OCD type of thing. Or the ick factor.

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summerfinn · 07/06/2023 11:18

😂😂🙄 early morning post airy hover . Sorry for spelling mistake everyone 🙈

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pimplebum · 07/06/2023 11:18

No one nibbles or eats their lunch off the back of my thighs so I don't worry

Tissue down is more relaxing

JaninaDuszejko · 07/06/2023 11:18

I always sit, there needs to be a public health campaign up in public loos telling people not to hover doesn't there. And to pick up any toilet roll they drop on the floor. And to check everything is flushed away.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 07/06/2023 11:16

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.

Dettol wipes in your handbag and all is solved...

panromanticist · 07/06/2023 11:16

Someone said upthread that hoverers are responsible for the long queues in ladies' loos. I had never thought of that, but it makes good sense. I have often wondered why women take so long to have a wee.

Yet another reason to stop sodding hovering!

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 07/06/2023 11:14

lieselotte · 07/06/2023 10:17

I've always sat down and have reached 50 without catching anything horrible. I bet hovering makes you slower as well and makes the queues to use ladies loos even longer. Just sit down!

I always laugh when a loo hasn't flushed properly and woman walks out again instead of using it. Do you think someone else's poo is going to jump out and infect you? But then, when I need to go, I need to go, and I don't worry about the condition of the loo (I might care if there were cockroaches in it, but thankfully it's never been quite that bad!) - I suppose you can wait for a cleaner cubicle if you are not desperate.

If you need to poo, do you really want someone else's poo in the splashback? Also, you don't know if the flush is broken and you will be adding to the shitberg that some poor plumber will have to deal with later.

I press the flush and then walk back out to find another. If the flush works, the loo is clean for someone else.

inappropriateraspberry · 07/06/2023 11:13

Unless it's looking a bit rough and there are no other loos free, I sit down! Wash your hands well, and at some point when you're home I'm sure you'll shower or bathe the parts that touched the seat!

BridportSpectacular · 07/06/2023 11:12

I used to - never bother anymore - unless it's very grim.

I quite like a Asian style squat toilet - supposed to be very good for your pelvic floor.

FarmGirl78 · 07/06/2023 11:09

BananaPalm · 07/06/2023 10:21

Since I got several infections from sitting on public loos, I always always hover. Or, as my friend used to say, I "do the eagle" 😂

Unless I have one of those toilet seat covers with me. They're great for travelling.

How the hell do you know the infections were due to sitting on public loos? 😂

DeanElderberry · 07/06/2023 11:08

Female hoverers are as unacceptable as penis-havers in women's public loos. A nasty, dirty, inconsiderate habit. Also an unhealthy habit. Sit down.

Florissante · 07/06/2023 11:08

Oops. That was in response to ArmwrestlingwithChasandDave's post.