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to think that hovering in public toilets does not necessarily mean you wee on the seat?

67 replies

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 16:55

I am being victimised, VICTIMISED I tell ya Wink

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alew · 16/07/2011 17:00

(Hovering in the toilets, as in loitering in a toilet block, coz that is weird,) or hovering over the toilet whilst using one? If it is the latter then no does not mean you wee on the seat.

AgentZigzag · 16/07/2011 17:04

Hovering doesn't mean getting it on the seat, I always thought that's what the wet on public loo seats was until I noticed a lot of them spray water around when they flush.

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:06

Thank you both. I am being picked on on another thread so I thoght I would do the mature thing and start a new thread to drum up some support :o

(In case I am about to get told off, this thread is not entirely serious)

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pointydog · 16/07/2011 17:10

Doesn't necessarily mean you wee on the seat. But it shows a certain paranoia which is not attractive.

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:12

When I am weeing, appearing attractive to you is least of my worries :o

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AgentZigzag · 16/07/2011 17:12

I've just had a look at the thread, ooo you were WRONGED Shock

Are you alright stealth?

Are you sure??

hehe Grin

I just put bog roll down before I sit (s.i.t., no h), it's the pits when you're half way through and you get jelly legs from hovering Grin

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:13

anyway, what paranoia? Seats are generally unpleasant and I don't want to come into contact with them. I don't want a damp bum, especially when that dampness is someone else's urine

And the first person to tell me it is sterile will get a cup of wee-tea

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KirstyJC · 16/07/2011 17:13

Of course it doesn't. I hover over public loos and don't wee on the seat. And even if I did, I would wipe it off again.

I think it must be the flush that gets the seat wet.

So, YANBU.

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:14

"I think it must be the flush that gets the seat wet. "
Not convinced - I don't have this problem at work (where I do sit) or at home

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pointydog · 16/07/2011 17:19

unattractive as a character trait, stealth, not as a mental image Grin

pointydog · 16/07/2011 17:20

I don't think seats are generally unpleasant. You paranoidnic.

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:21

Oh no - it was nice to have an admirer

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alewVera · 16/07/2011 17:23

Eeew I don't like public toilet seats either, and don't sit on them.

lawnimp · 16/07/2011 17:24

so some posters who hover do own up to sometimes getting it on the seat, normal sitting makes wee go straight in the loo and not anywhere near to seat, so hoverers protect them selves but expect others to sit on their wee (even if it's wiped off you can't completely get all the germs out can you)

Angry
feelforcedout · 16/07/2011 17:27

I hover - i am a precission hoverer, i dont like cold seats and even hover a lot at home in fact i can almost stand up Grin

pointydog · 16/07/2011 17:31

Wiping doesn't get rid of all wee germs? Just what sort of terrible germs should we be afraid of?

HalfTermHero · 16/07/2011 17:31

I hover and tbh, yeah we'd dies sometimes spray a bit on the seat. I always clean it up though. I am tall though and that might make hovering harder. Short legs might make aim easier Grin.

lawnimp · 16/07/2011 17:33

well nothing terrible probably, but still other people's wee or remnants of it

and if it really is nothing terrible then why hover in the first place?

thanksamillion · 16/07/2011 17:33

I would LOVE the opportunity to sit on a public loo - most of the ones round here are hole in the ground, squatty jobbies. But it gets worse because they're generally communal - ie no cubicles, if you're lucky a small partition (think chest height, extending maybe 50cms from the wall) Shock. And there's generally wee and poo all over the floor .

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 16/07/2011 17:34

Don't you wipe the seat before you sit on it anyway when you're in a public loo? You wouldn't have a wet bum then at all.... not unless you were at services and were having a little wriggle about and accidentally leaned back too far, activating the automatic flush... Blush

GwendolineMaryLacey · 16/07/2011 17:36

Oh ffs just sit on the bloody things! I do not understand this. The only bit of your bum that touches the seat is your cheeks. I wasn't aware that many germs were carried on your bumcheeks.

oldraver · 16/07/2011 17:39

Dont know about being picked on... I thought I was teasing Grin.

Besides its not good for you hovering

oldraver · 16/07/2011 17:42

I really should read ALL of thread before replying

anyway, what paranoia? Seats are generally unpleasant and I don't want to come into contact with them. I don't want a damp bum, especially when that dampness is someone else's urine

Isnt that like, you know, contradictionary

StealthPolarBear · 16/07/2011 17:44

in what way
(genuinely Confused)

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pointydog · 16/07/2011 17:45

I don't hover, imp. I really don't think I am going to catch some mysterious harmful germs as a result of my lovely thighs coming into contact with some (possibly slightly grubby) plastic.