To be shocked that some people stand up to wipe their bum after going to the loo?

[apenny4]

So I perhaps naively assumed that like me the world and his uncle wipe their bum while sitting down after going to the loo. I can't remember how long ago it was that I discovered a good friend stands up to wipe and has done ever since she was a child. I still find it hard to get my head round - obviously I'm not talking about a wee here.

She was equally that I wipe sitting down.

It occasionally pops into my head and I wonder all over again, is it her or is it me, is standing or sitting more usual, or are there just a whole lot of standers and sitters out there, all oblivious to each others habits?

surely that's why loo roll holders are always at sitting height rather than further up the wall?

Excellent point. Sit, of course. I am amazed that all adults don't sit. As for 'How do you reach?', your arse is the same distance away whether you're standing or sitting.

If I didn't change tampons sitting down then it would look like a horror movie in the bathroom.

I know how my dp does it because he leaves the door open, dirty git that he is. As do dc, well 6yo, i'm still changing ds2 nappies.

Ha ha, yep I'm often in the bathroom having a shower in the mornings while DH is doing his business on the loo! That's not normal married couple behaviour then?! Well, he takes ages on the loo...if I wasn't getting ready at the same time I'd never get out of the house on time in the morning! Doesn't bother either of us...and I'm smelling nice shower gel smells rather than his not-so-nice smells!

Ah! See, now I understand how 'poo crumbs' come about!

If I didn't change tampons sitting down then it would look like a horror movie in the bathroom.

Hovering is your answer.

I've just asked my DH and he sits to wipe too. He's baffled and slightly disgusted by standers.

I made an effort to remember/record/analyse my wiping style today. I've had 2 poos, get me!
My findings were thus:
I mainly sit, lift my right but tock and wipe front to back using my right hand, BUT, I encountered a forever wipe ( you know what I mean ) on my second poo and found I needed to stand, facing the loo, squat slightly and have a right good wiping session.
I am a sitter and stander.

Hester thanks for the advice, I think I've mastered it now.

I'm more surprised at how many people I know who wipe back to front and always have done.
I wipe sitting.
Just seems a bit wrong to wipe standing. That's what children do isn't it?

Wiping wee and changing tampons are both done semi sitting IYSWIM.

I'm amazed at the number of sitters but then all of us are s*itters. For the first time ever I think I have sprayed wine over the computer screen . Hilarious thread.

Was going to conduct scientific study and stand today but just felt so very very wrong. Doesn't seem as hygienic. Apologies for failing science.

another stander here !
Now I know why there are so many broken toilet seats around though - if all these people are sitting down lifting one arse cheek to try and wipe

That's the whole point, or 'hole' point should I say, when you're sitting down your bum cheeks are parted, ready and inviting you to wipe.

Standing up to wipe seems infinitely muckier.

I sit! I'm taken aback at how many standers there. And have also found out to my astonishment that DH is a stander. Goodness me!

I also fold. I stand with my leg up on the seat to insert a tampon.

Will try the moist toilet tissue thing though.

Do standers often dribble wee on the seat then? That grosses me out.

I would be a dead woman if he ever knew I had shared this on a forum, but when my DP was working in the desert, because he couldn't bear the thought of crapping in a self dug hole in the sand, he trained himself to poo into a small cardboard box used in the work they were doing, he said approx the size of a child's shoebox, then hid it by his caravan so he could bury it when it was dark! How is that for self control!

I tried standing today. Heavily pregnant. Fell over.

Standing to wipe, not just standing in general.

Stunned by how many people k ow what family members do. Do you all watch each other I'm the bog? Also genuinely want to throw up that people allow other family'members to use the loo while someone is in the bath. (Small child emergencies excepted). So gross and disrespectful to bathee

I thought I was a stander.......but I'm not.... I sit....lean slightly forward to wipe and.......job done!

I was tempted to conduct a survey at work, as our department is split over a number of countries, and I wonder if there are cultural/national differences. I chickened out though. And I suspect if might also put off the newbies I have been training if I added a question or two about toilet habits to the bottom of the feedback forms. Although it would make it one of the more memorable feedback forms they've ever answered...

Suffering a bit of insomnia last night, this thread made me laugh so much. I had to think about it, defo a sitter!

Just to add, I cannot imagine having this conversation with anyone!

Just been for a trial run. I sit to wipe. Lean only very slightly forward, hand is not in toilet bowl but just above.

Sit to wipe wee also, i had got into the habit of starting to stand then wiping but this resulted in drops of wee on front of seat.

As for tampons - remove sitting, have a good squeeze (to try to expel anything loitering there) good wipe thenI semi stand to inset new tampon. Jesus. Way TMI...