Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

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

637 replies

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

OP posts:
Thread gallery
6
Florissante · 07/06/2023 11:08

Seconding that.

VintageThoughts · 07/06/2023 11:07

Never hoover

Rarely hover

But I do put toilet paper on the seat first - mainly to protect myself from previous hoverers' drips.

ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave · 07/06/2023 11:07

Since I got several infections from sitting on public loos,

No you didn't.

seawitchhair · 07/06/2023 11:07

MintGreenLife · 07/06/2023 10:27

@Aprilx this is the opposite for me...I must have some kind of backwards bladder or something! As someone that has suffered recurrent UTIs and has had various tests and investigations including an IPV, I found that if I hovered at the end of going for a pee, there was always a little left and hovering allowed me to pass it, as one of the tests showed that I wasn't fully emptying my bladder when sitting. Curious.

The advice from urologists for a degree of bladder retention is to pee, wipe after you feel you have finished peeing, stand up fully for a moment, then sit down and pee again. Hovering places the wrong pressure on the bladder.

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.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 07/06/2023 11:05

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 07/06/2023 08:01

Hoverers are the reason the seats get covered in pee in the first place 🤢

I'm sure I read somewhere that it means you don't empty your bladder properly which leaves you more susceptible to infections.

I always sit 🤷‍♀️

This.

If you are bothered by a shared seat, put Dettol wipes in your handbag. I do when travelling by train or coach because the combination of women hovering, men standing, and the vehicle moving results in the seat and floor both being awash. Envy ⬅not envy

AgnesX · 07/06/2023 11:04

There seem to be plenty that do given amount of pee that decorates seats and floors. Personally, no, I take a wipe.

seawitchhair · 07/06/2023 11:02

Women who hover tend to leave behind pee on the seat for the next woman to wipe off. It's disgusting. It is also bad for your bladder to hover.

Topseyt123 · 07/06/2023 11:02

No. I don't. Hoverers are ridiculous and do spray the seat, which they then leave for the next person!

Hoovering is a new one though! 🤣 I wouldn't put it past some on here to consider taking a vacuum cleaner to public toilets. 🤣🤣🤣

Blankscreen · 07/06/2023 10:59

In public toilets I hover. I know I can't catch anything through my skin but I really don't like the thought of importing the germs off the toilet seat into my clothes and then my house.

I manage to not piss all over the seat.

For Dd I lay tissue out and she sits on that.

I also use tissue to flush/open the door/ turn the taps off etc.

VikingLady · 07/06/2023 10:58

If anyone is going to lick the back of my thighs, I'm likely to shower before that anyway!

I'm far more bothered about touching the taps and door handle tbh. I use hand sanitiser after I leave, but that doesn't slow things down.

Stalkedbyzombies · 07/06/2023 10:52

toomuchlaundry · 07/06/2023 10:48

Why do people hover on their own loo? Surely you can ensure that is clean

99% of the time, I am more than happy to sit down on my own first floor loo. On 99% of occasions, that is the only loo I will need to use. I would hover on the downstairs guest loo even though I keep it clean. I do not use the loo in the loft conversion because DS has decided it is his.

I am generally fine with hotel loos although the first time I use the bathroom, I will do the wiping thing.

CosmosQueen · 07/06/2023 10:51

planthelpadvice · 07/06/2023 07:57

🤣 took me a moment.

OP you are being extra. You can't catch anything through the backs of your thighs and by hovering you are more likely to wee on the seat making it gross for the next person. Just sit down - you'll be fine!

Show quote history

Precisely @ShowOfHands 😵‍💫
I had to read it twice!

Tessisme · 07/06/2023 10:49

I only came on to make a joke about vacuum cleaners but I see I've been beaten to it🤣🤣

toomuchlaundry · 07/06/2023 10:48

Why do people hover on their own loo? Surely you can ensure that is clean

Namechange1345677 · 07/06/2023 10:47

Why would you??? I've never understood this. It's the back of your legs....

Just sit down!

Cherrysherbet · 07/06/2023 10:46

I do not hover.
I’m 49 and it has never caused me an issue.

Sidking · 07/06/2023 10:45

Only in portaloos 😂 but theres lots to hold on to for support in those, not so much a toilet stall.

Normal loos I sit. I do own a she-wee which I bought for hiking, I tried to use it on a hike and my body won't let me pee if I'm standing! No idea why as I really needed to go, but I couldn't!

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 10:45

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 07/06/2023 10:41

What infections did you get and can you prove how you got them?

Show quote history

Yeah if she's getting infections by germs entering her thigh/bum skin then she's got serious issues.

ClairDeLaLune · 07/06/2023 10:45

If it looks grim I hover. If I dribble, I wipe.
If it looks ok I wipe and sit.

mainsfed · 07/06/2023 10:44

I sit because I don't want to leave drops for the next person by hovering.

If there are one or two drops, I will wipe them and sit. But if a lot of the seat is drenched then I hover too.

BlackeyedSusan · 07/06/2023 10:42

pussycatinfluffyslippers · 07/06/2023 09:50

🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

Show quote history

Apparently it's a thing. People stand on one leg and flush with their foot.

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 07/06/2023 10:41

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.

What infections did you get and can you prove how you got them?

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 07/06/2023 10:36

I always wondered how a woman manages to get piss all over the seat, as I so often see in public lavatories.

Then, when I joined Mumsnet, I discovered that there's an army of women waving their bums over the seats because they're so horrified at what might happen if the backs of their thighs make contact with the same surface as another person's.

It used to annoy me, and then I realised that it's much, much worse to be so terrified of something so absolutely ridiculous, so now I just feel sorry for them.

Just please wipe the seat after you've sprayed everywhere from your hover of horror, hmm? Pretty please?

Iwasafool · 07/06/2023 10:36

ohtowinthelottery · 07/06/2023 10:24

No, I don't hover. And I'm very nearly 60 and as far as I'm aware, in all those years, I've never caught anything by sitting on a toilet seat.

I raise you ten years and at 70 I've also managed to use public loos without catching anything.

Swipe left for the next trending thread