To sit not hover!

[Molehillmountain]

Had discussion with dsis about this and she is horrified by me! I hadn't even considered hovering!

Not just me then. Phew.

Im a hoverer - My nan <span class="line-through">brainwashed</span> introduced me to the practice at a young age. <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Blush" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/blush-Brh13p-7.png"> However the continence advisor at work told us in a teaching session that its V. Bad for you as you don`t empty your bladder properly and can lead to infections.

I still hover

My mother's a hoverer. She used to try and make me hover as a child. I am still rebelling.

Never hover , sexually transmitted diseases are contracted from sex , not toilet seats , plus i simply cant be arsed . Plus i live in a house with three children and an adult male , i always have someone else's urine on my buttocks !

My bloody Mother hovers and always pisses on my toilet seat, drives me insane

I hovered at Glastonbury...but then again they are the only toilets that have made me want to cry...

Oh FFS. Get your bum on the seat. Wipe first if you're fussy or a hovered has been in first.

Life is too bloody short to hover.

I hovered in a portaloo at Blissfields where the poo pyramid was sticking up higher than the loo seat level. I nearly went home on the first night.

Not my poo pyramid I hasten to add, just all the accumulated poos from the previous shitters.

Depends on the toilet. If it's really manky and I have no choice, then I would hover. Otherwise, I always wipe the seat first and then sit. Even at home.

Use a shewee. Takes all the contact away.

I lay myself a toilet paper buffer. I hate hovering, I don't feel 'done'.

I wipe the seat, then hover aiming IN the bowl. Quick check and wipe the seat again for the next person. Flush the toilet with my foot and I'm out of there!

I won't use a public toilet if there is a floater in it though, unless there is no other option. This is irrational if you think about it. It's not going to leap out of the bowl and get me.

Have you seen this thread WIBU to punish DS for weeing everywhere (or something similar). WIBU to think that her poor DS has been the unsuspecting victim of an unaccomplished hoverer?

It is perfectly possible to hover without getting the seat wet. Even on moving trains.

I cant understand why anyone would want to be in contact with something that probably has remnants of other peoples wee on it even if it looks dry. Even if there is next to no chance of catching anything from it.

Before MN I thought everyone hovered on public toilets, I find it surprising that so many people can't be bothered with a little bit of thigh exercise. Seems the height of laziness to me.

Hover . I hate sitting in other people's wee.

But I sit at home. Only hover in public loos.

Scarlet - why do you wipe the seat if you are not actually planning to sit on it?

I sit, unless the loo in question is absolutely minging (Glastonbury-stylee), or the seat is physically missing.

My friend is OCD, carefully lays loopaper all around the seat before delicately perching.

I read somewhere that the average desk has more bugs per square cm than the average loo seat. Think of that next time you pop your tea-break biscuit onto your desk at work.

Well, just in case the person who comes in after me thinks it was me weeing on the seat!

Another sitter here.

However the continence advisor at work told us in a teaching session that its V. Bad for you as you dont empty your bladder properly and can lead to infections.

??? Really? I've always "hovered" as I find it easier and have had a single urinary infection in my life.

I also don't understand how "hoverers" get pee all over the seat. It's a narrow stream and a wide bowl, not too difficult to aim.

Agree with the poster who said councils should introduce squat toilets though. Much more practical. Or the lower ones they have in some countries.

Life is too bloody short to hover

It actually takes less time than sitting ...

I sit. I'd probably fall over if I tried to hover. I do always make sure the toilet seat is clean though.

Agree if we all sat, there'd be no need to hover - when you sit, the wee goes into the toilet rather than all over the seat.

I saw a brilliant stand up routine by a woman whose name I've forgotten sadly, about why women go to the toilet in pairs - she did this elaborate mime of hovering followed by an elaborate piked double somersault dismount - then explained we need our mate there to spot us on the dismount!