Do you sit on a public toilet seat or hover?

[Sprinkleofspice]

I’ve never got the hang of hovering even though I have fairly strong thighs. Increasingly I’m seeing pee on the floor or seat in public toilets (not just in outdoor buildings but train stations, shopping centres etc.) which makes me think more women are hovering nowadays - which in turn seems to actually be making toilets/seats dirtier. I would love it if they all had the spray dispenser in the cubicle to wipe the seat but I very rarely see this.

So, do you hover and if so how do you do it while not touching any part of the toilet with your clothes and relaxing enough to get all the pee out? I was also going to ask how you aim into the toilet but it seems like a lot people can’t manage that bit!

I sit. What's going to happen?

If everyone sat, I wouldn't hover. Why is there always piss and shit everywhere apart from inside of the toilet? On the lid, on the floor, even on the walls. The only place I've seen worse than the UK for this is Malta. It's disgusting. I've been tempted to wear adult diapers rather than use a public toilet even in somewhere like Next!

Agree. What would you even catch? What's supposed to be on the skin of our buttocks and the back of our thighs that is being passed around via toilet seats?

Sit. If the toilet looks visibly dirty or the seat or floor is wet, I would not use that cubicle. I always wash my hands with soap and water afterwards, and try to avoid touching the door or other touch points when leaving because, let's face it, the non hand washers or the 'flip water vaguely in the direction of their hands' are all around us, but I don't worry about sitting on the seat. Or flushing the loo with my hand. Are there seriously people putting the soles of their shoes on the flush? Disgusting buggers.

I sit. It isn't healthy to hover.

I sit unless it’s a disgusting toilet.

I sit! I find pee covered seats infuriating and unnecessary. What do people think they are going to catch?? I have also lived in countries where you have to pee in a hole in the ground and that was enough hovering!
As a side note, in the West, I think we are a bit obsessed with cleanliness, I read a thread where many were saying they wash their towels after every use because of ‘dead skin’ FFS! I think its unhealthy to covers everything in bleach/antibacterial spray, we need germs!

I sit - I don't want the poor person after me having to put their shoes or bottom in my pee. I'm absolutely horrified at the state I see people (fellow staff, in female staff only) leaving the loos in some days. Pee all over the seat, the floor, toilet tissue and sometimes even wrapped sanitary products on the floor too....it's disgusting.

Sometimes I can also tell that people have used them like a squatting toilet - you'll see a nice big pair of dusty footprints left on the loo seat that they don't even bother to wipe off afterwards. That's even more gross!

I always sit but I always squirt some hand gel on clean tissue paper first and wipe round the seat, even if the seat looks clean. I do the same when I’ve finished so it’s clean for the next person too.