to the loo seat hoverers. why?

[mousymouse]

just why?

and why not wipe your own piss off the seat?

have my suspicion who it is in the office but am not quite sure

I'm a hoverer. I have good quads (thanks spinning!) so hover quite low and never splash.

I have an ishoo with public loos, I have to be desperate to use one, and am also one of those weirdos that uses my sleeve to open the doors and flush .

I'm not proud.

Op - I so agree with you. People who hover are a bit mad and selfish.
If a toilet looks clean, I just sit down. If it's dirty, I give it a clean. I always have a travel pack of baby wipes in my bag and if the seat is dirty because someone has peed on it, then I give it a good clean first.

I hover..but if i do dribble i ALWAYs wipe... But i would never sit on a public loo(actually i hover at mates houses too...but they dont have to know my toilet habits!!)

mrdarceych do you realise you are the only hoverer who actually cleans up after themselves? Everyone else is convinced they are the ArchDuchess of Pissing.

doesn't anyone else cover the loo seat in squares of loo paper before they sit down (if there is any that is!!). After reading this thread I'm more worried about touching snotty grotty supermarket trolly handles than using public loos - hadn't even thought about it before!

Oh and yes, I hold my bag never put it on the floor.

Most hoverers do not aim their wee down the loo accurately and either dribble on the seat or splatter the whole thing. Female weeing anatomy does not allow for precise aim.

Just sit on the bloody seat you freaks

I dont hover... I just wipe the seat before I plonk my backside on it.

Going to Rome last year with a neurotic american friend was hilarious. She almost did herself damage by refusing to use any public toilets.. because they were "old"..

My tales of her neurotic behaviour in the space of three weeks could fill a book.

I mis-read as hooverers and had another guilt pang about my appalling standard of housework. I am relieved that I don't need to hoover the toilet seat.

I hover because I don't want to sit down in someone else's pee. Even if I wipe it, it's just not clean enough- toilet paper will not get rid of all of the pee/germs. I don't care if it's just my buttocks in contact with someone else's pee/germs, I don't want them there.

Once you have wiped any wetness away, what exactly do you think you can catch winny

Buttocks are as likely to spread germs as someones knees, and you wouldnt be panicking if someone else knee brushed against you while sat on the bus or train would you?

In fact, there is much more chance of germs being on a part of the body that is exposed.

older - can you imagine if you were germ phobic enough to take a little dust buster out and about with you to hoover the public lav before you had a wee?

I don't use public loo's unless it's an emergency. In an emergency I arrange LOADS of toilet tissue all around the seat so I don't have to have any contact with it. I can't hover. Last time I did, I got jelly legs for days and days. Tissue on the seat is the best way forward.

I always hover...bad experience at school in year 7. Some b*tch thought it would be amusing to put superglue on the toliet seats. Luckily I didn't actually get stuck to the seat, but the glue felt like it burnt the skin on the back of my legs.

Got sent home from school as I was so upset and uncomfortable. I can still remember it as if it were yesterday, and not 21 years ago!

Hence my justification for always hovering.

Lesson to everyone who doesn't hover - always check the seat before you sit down!

I'm a hoverer. I don't splash and if I ever do I wipe. But never disinfect and for that reason assume others don't either and so, I'm a hoverer.

Ooh jennys79 that sounds nasty!

Actually that reminds me of a story I read in a women's magazine many years ago at my mum's house where a woman had sat on a toilet seat in a pub that had had toilet cleaner spilt on it. The acid in the cleaner burned her skin and flesh. It was very unsightly.

thanks to all the hoverers who wipe the seat clean afterwards.

the bitch in my office doesn't do that

I have never ever ever hoovered my loo and have no intention of ever doing so :o

btw toilet cleaner is the opposite of acid - alkaline. but pretty bad and corrosive when undiluted.

mousymouse - tbh that's exactly what I'd have expected for obvious reasons, but our toilet cleaner contains hydrochloric acid. Harpic 100% limescale remover. (I just checked!)

And it was a story in a magazine - so it must be true!

Another hoverer here. Am accurate 98% of the time and do wipe splashes. It's embarrassing if you get it down the back of your trouser legs though!

The absolute worst loo's I've seen were the ones in oxygen bar at Leicester Sq in London. 3 ladies loo's, you had the choice of the crack toilet bowl overflowing with tissue and leaking pissy water on the floor, the one with the huge turd left in, or the one with the dead cockroach on the floor.

The cockroach one waas the cleanest.

I am a hoverer because despite arguments to the contrary, women are actually foul creatures in the toilet habit department. I've seen some horrific sights in ladies loo's (used sanitary towel stuck to the cubile wall anyone?) and try my very best to not touch any surface if it can be helped.

I put this sign up in our office loo:

"If you are fussy enough not to seat on the seat, then please be fussy enough not to pee on it. Thank you."

One of the girls never spoke to me again

*sit on the seat

I have only ever hovered once or twice when using some really disgustingly dirty public toilets. I avoid toilets on planes and trains like the plague. I always pre wipe the toilet seat regardless of whether there is wee on it or not. And obviously if I accidentially wee on the seat I clean up after myself.

Oh and we had a "piss on seat" man at shared halls of residence at uni and we also put a note up about pissing on loo seats. Caused the most almighty row!