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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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bellac11 · 07/06/2023 08:38

No my knees wont allow me to do that.

Also, you'll probably be exposed to more germs and bacteria turning the tap off once you've finished washing your hands and then touching the door handle on the way out.

Shodan · 07/06/2023 08:37

I would only routinely hover if I felt the need to incorporate thigh strengthening exercise into my loo-visiting regime. As it is, I look on going to the lav as a chance for a Nice Sit Down that no-one can accuse me of being lazy for.

Some public loos used to (may still do )provide lovely paper covers for the loo seat too. Which tells you that women expect to be sitting, not hovering.

Luddite26 · 07/06/2023 08:37

I'm more bothered about touching the door handle on the way out of public loos because of all the manky people who don't wash their hands.

RoxyMuzak · 07/06/2023 08:37

When my aunt went on a trip to France, her mother told her to make a kind of sitting mat out of newspaper so she wouldn't 'catch something' from those foreign toilets.

butterpuffed · 07/06/2023 08:36

Whenever you decide to hoover
You'll have to be a quick moover
Cos when you have a slash
On the seat it'll splash
You'll have to go undercoover

LightlySearedontheRealityGrill · 07/06/2023 08:36

I wipe the seat and sit, hovering is unhygienic and uncomfortable.

MereDintofPandiculation · 07/06/2023 08:36

I’ve never felt the need to shower when I get home simply because I have sat on the seat of a public loo.

In general, germs that live in wet places (eg urine splashes) don’t cope well with dry places (like the backs of your thighs as you go about the rest of your day).

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 07/06/2023 08:36

Just sit down. You won't catch anything through the skin of your thighs. The rest of us don't want to have your piss splashed all over everything

RoxyMuzak · 07/06/2023 08:35

MadamWhiteleigh · 07/06/2023 07:56

I do. Hover, not hoover that is.

Spoilsport! 🙄

MenoRageisReal · 07/06/2023 08:34

ShimmeringShirts · 07/06/2023 08:28

“Come tell me how you pee, teehee” Hmm

I did wonder ...

Daisyinthegrass · 07/06/2023 08:34

My mum used to make me hover when I was a kid. I felt rebellious when I decided I wasn't going to hover anymore. I was surprised to discover recently my sister still hovers.

Sissynova · 07/06/2023 08:30

I don’t.

Hoverers are the ones pissing on the seat, and possibly the floor, therefore ruining things for everyone else.

Bobshhh · 07/06/2023 08:30

People who hover, what are you genuinely expecting to happen if you sit on the seat?

Sirzy · 07/06/2023 08:29

MogsEgg · 07/06/2023 08:23

Well you wash your hands in the sink after touching the handle. I doubt people washing their arses in the sink too 😂

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I don’t use my arse when I’m eating either! A fee possible germs on your arse aren’t going to pose a massive risk in life.

mondaytosunday · 07/06/2023 08:29

You could line it with the toilet paper?

pinkn · 07/06/2023 08:29

I very rarely hover.

ShimmeringShirts · 07/06/2023 08:28

“Come tell me how you pee, teehee” Hmm

Fizbosshoes · 07/06/2023 08:28

Depends on the toilets. I do hover sometimes.
Never hoovered and never peed on the seat either

moonlitwalks · 07/06/2023 08:27

GoneAwayWorld · 07/06/2023 08:00

This.
I don't hover, I sit. I find it very upsetting when women who hover wee on the toilet seat and then don't clean it.
If everyone just sat it would be much more hygienic.

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I agree. Its people hovering that cause urine splash everywhere. I always sit, and am extremely healthy. People get so obsessed with toilets but think of all the doorknobs you touch that others have also touched and havent washed their hands etc.

MenoRageisReal · 07/06/2023 08:25

ShowOfHands · 07/06/2023 07:55

I used to do this until my Dyson got too unwieldy to lug round the shopping mall so now I just take a dustpan and brush instead.

GrinGrinGrin

Morestrangerthings · 07/06/2023 08:25

I have a thing about people not putting the lid down when they flush. Seriously, why do people flush with the lid up? It splashes tiny droplets about 6 feet. If you don’t close the lid and flush, chances are you are then wearing some of what is already in the toilet. You can’t see it, but it’s there.

TheChosenTwo · 07/06/2023 08:24

I used to hover because my mum told me to when using public loos, now I just wipe before I use. Nothing bad has happened.

ditalini · 07/06/2023 08:24

I wasn't aware of the many rituals around toilets until I came on Mumsnet.

No, I don't hover. If you do them please clean up after yourself.

If you have to drape the seat in paper, please pick up the bits that inevitably fall on the floor.

Did your mum make you hover when you were a child? Is that where it comes from?

Dacadactyl · 07/06/2023 08:23

Depend entirely on the state of the loo as to whether i hover or not. I generally draw the line at cleaning a previous users wee up.

Conkersinautumn · 07/06/2023 08:23

I find it easier to carry antibacterial wipes than my gtech but each to their own

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