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

You're making them wet by hovering!!!!

I do because they're usually wet 🤮

Umm, no.

Best response ever. Hadn't spotted the typo so had a real, 'What?!!!' moment 😂

Nope (except if there's no seat.) Hovering is messier and more likely to splash and dribble.

I nearly choked reading this 😂😂😂😂

Hovering when you wee is bad for your pelvic muscles. When you wee your pelvic muscles need to relax to release the wee. If you are tensely hovering above the seat, your muscles are tense and the message is mixed and ie not good for your pelvic muscles. An incontinence specialist could describe it better than I can.

Yeah it sounds like you really do have a problem. You can usually tell it’s a problem when people have illogical ‘rules’ that they must follow but that actually don’t make any sense.

So for example, you being incapable of sitting normally on a toilet and terrified of touching a handrail but then being presumably happy to buy things that will be touched by the same people who touched the handrail. Or referring to tongs in a cafe as ‘filthy’ and the cake being ‘breathed all over’ but then eating food prepared by and breathed all over by the same people who put the tongs out.

It’s not normal or healthy to be terrified of contact with other people and their normal germs. If you wash correctly at appropriate times it is not dangerous to touch handrails or use a public toilet correctly.

It depends. Anywhere where there is a large Chinese population, definitely not, as culturally they tend to put their feet on toilet seats and squat so the seats are usually very dirty.

Anywhere else, I just sit.

Sometimes have to hover if there is no seat, but had an unfortunate incident with an automated flushing mechanism recently.

Hoverers ARE the problem. The skin on your bottom is on different than the skin on your arms and legs that are touching surfaces everywhere you go.

Yes,. Or if it's numbr two, I put toilet roll or paper towels on the seat.

Rest assured I don't pick up cake that has been breathed all over by other people. 😂. Especially using filthy tongs

I also antibac hands literally just before eating.

The thought of the kids touching the chairs and underneath the table etc and then eating sends a shiver down my spine.

I am now thinking that I maybe I do have a problem with germs 😂. I've always been a bit careful but I definitely got more careful after COVID.

Might not matter so much with men, but I hope women know to wipe front to back.

When you are next in M and S and have successfully gone up the escalator ( no hands) and used the loo ( hovering method and no hands) just have a think about how many people haven't washed their hands after using the toilet and have touched the tray you are about to pick up in the cafe, the tongs you pick up that cake with and the back of the chair you have to pull out to sit down. Every bit as many faecal germs on those surfaces as there are anywhere else.

I like to sit. I give the seat a quick wipe with loo paper first. One thing that really annoys me, is when mother's take their little boys into the ladies and the child wees all over seat 🤮 and mummy dearest does sod all about the mess!! Make them sat down for goodness sakes, if they cant aim in a hole that big!!!

I always shower before bed if I've used public loos

You’re more likely to catch bacteria from the toilet paper or door handles than the seat. Hovering is bad as it makes it difficult to empty your bladder.

My husband was allowed 3 sheets of toilet paper. One up, one down, one polish.

I'm severely immunocompromised and have never caught anything despite sitting on toilet seats every time
Just wash your hands well after using the toilet, then I use hand gel after opening the doors

No. It causes blockages and increases the chances of cubicles running out of paper.

I was actually moaning about this the other day work. I’m a nurse, a pregnant nurse, on a very busy ward where we have only two cubicals between 4 wards. We are so busy you hardly have time to pee in the first place, then you are constantly queuing for the toilet, coz like I said for some ridiculous reason they thought 2 cubicals in enough for a full floor!

For these reasons combined the other day I was DESPRATE for a wee. With this being the second baby the pelvic floor isn’t what is used to be and I was dangerously close to pissing myself 😂😂. Ran into the damn cubical and forgot to check the seat and wouldn’t know fucking know it… Piss all over the fucking bastard seat and now all over the backs of my bloody legs.

Hovering is just vile especially when you just pull your pants up and off you go without a second thought for the next user! Pisses me off to no fucking end I tell you! Hoverers I have no idea what you are actually trying to achieve except to make as much mess as possible and to have the most uncomfortable wee you can manage. STOP IT! X

I can't believe I didn't say "princess and the pee". Dammit!!!

I could never hover. But I do line the whole seat with toilet roll. I thought that was also pretty standard, no?

If you absolutely must hover, then lift the seat like men do, for the same reason.

Used to hover until a few years ago. Guess it’s an age thing, just plonk down now.