Public toilets - sit or hover?

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Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

Clean seat, then sit. Exit cubicle, wash hands, Dry hands. All good ...

... except there I become a bit unstuck, unreasonable even, because I cannot bear pulling/pushing the exit door handle with my bare hand!

Just think of all the unwashed hands that have touched that handle moments before you! The handles and doors are often even slightly sticky or greasy (or I think they are) and I'd like to know what with?!?

So as you prepare to exit or enter the public toilets, that woman you see pulling the door handle with a tissue still in her hand ... that's me!

I always hover, even at home, after lifting the seat.

It's a habit from childhood, many of you will never have experienced an outside loo on a frosty morning.

It's a bit like sharing a needle with an addict but there you go

Get a fucking grip 😭😂

That's similarly the most ridiculous and utterly hilarious thing I have read on here

I hope drug addicts aren't routinely told that sharing needles is akin to sitting on a public toilet seat. ie not a health hazard whatsoever.

Always sit! Hovering is truly disgusting...and extremely bad for you!

As a middle-aged woman I don't think my pelvic floor could handle the strength needed to hover these days.

sit,
its bad for your bladder to hover

Hovering is not truly disgusting, how can it be if you lift the seat and are careful? I am not disgusting.

I sit but I'm fussy about what public loo I will use. If our shopping I will go into a department store or m&s rather than use the main public toilets.

If I toilet looks filthy I just won't go, rather than hoover.

Lexie love your typo, that's taking cleanliness to new levels.

'All this seat wiping and drying. No wonder the Ladies loos always have a queue'

It's bum cheeks that is all. What on earth do people think will happen if their bare bum cheeks touch the same place other bum cheeks have just been. How do they manage to open the sanitary waste bin, does that involve more wiping and drying?

"To me (sitting) is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard of. It's a bit like eating someone's vomit from the street but there you go."

What on earth is wrong with you? How do you manage on a train or plane? Or do you never travel?

Seriously. What do people think is going to happen if they sit on a public loo seat?

'Vlad aka Weirdo'

I wouldn't be so unkind as to call you names but likening sitting on a public loo to eating vomit or sharing needles is very bizarre, you do know that don't you?

Usually sit but I've been known to hover in some grim places (festival portaloos etc)

I lay toilet paper down where my thighs will touch and sit on that..

What a lot off faffing around laying toilet paper down, wiping seats etc when you can just hover and pee.

VladmirsPoutine Your views are certainly odd. Are you being deliberately goady or do you genuinely hold those views?

If the latter do you think perhaps you suffer from OCD?

Oh, and how do hoverers flush the toilet? Not all of them have the hands free flush.

This thread has everything. God bless you all.

I'm a sitter on the shitter.

What sort of question is that Lonicera?

Always used to hover, but sit now I'm older as the knees can't take it!

What a lot off faffing around laying toilet paper down, wiping seats etc when you can just hover and pee.

Or just get a grip and sit down.

And Loincera asks a perfectly valid question. How can people who can't cope with their bum touching where someone else's bum had touched cope with touching a flush with their hands?

It's not bad for my bladder. My bladder is perfectly fine.

I wash my hands after flushing like you do I guess. That is not the same as sitting down on the toilet.

Neither preferably. I was the undefeated champion in my family as a child for reaching the bathroom first when we arrived home after a day out, as I refused to use a public loo. Having consumed several ice creams and fizzy drinks during the day, it was sometimes a close run thing. My reluctance then as now was the thought of being locked in the loo as I'm claustrophobic. I think I still hold the record as an adult

Hoverers - you must surely pee all over the seat, beyond gross unless you clean up after yourselves.