Public toilets - sit or hover?

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Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

I just choose which toilets I use carefully. Hand sanitiser on loo roll if really desperate

This reminded me of an unpleasant experience that I had a few weeks ago in a disabled public toilet (I AM disabled btw before anyone says I shouldn't have been using it!). The toilet looked pretty clean,seat didn't need wiping. It was only when I stood up that I realised that the back of my skirt was wet. On further investigation,it turned out that there was a puddle of wee on the flat expanse between the back of the toilet seat and the wall. The toilet was very dimly lit with no windows (to discourage drug users I'm told) and I hadn't noticed the puddle of piss,and had draped the back of my skirt in it . I had to get on the bus with my skirt flapping wetly against the back of my legs. Thankfully it was dark,and the skirt was a dark,patterned one so no one could see the wet patch on it.

Wipe loo seat, sit for a wee and then wash hands. If there's no loo roll then I either use some that I might have in my bag or I go to another cubicle. If I hover I find I can't finish my wee properly and need to go again 5 mins later.

I don't understand why people hover, do you also hover when visiting friends and family and wee all over their toilet seats and floor?

Asking me to sit on a public toilet is akin to asking me to wear someone else's soiled underwear. Gross. And before anyone accuses me of pissing all over the toilet seat, no, it never happens, I am not a 5 year old.

I don't understand why people hover, do you also hover when visiting friends and family and wee all over their toilet seats and floor?

And I venture that most public toilets are cleaned more frequently than some home toilets.

Asking me to sit on a public toilet is akin to asking me to wear someone else's soiled underwear.
It really isn't. How is it the same?

I carry anti bac wipes and sit. Hovering us definitely the reason why the toilets end up disgusting!

I wipe the seat and then plonk my arse. None of this namby pampy hovering nonsense.

Is that why people spend so long in the public loos. Wiping down the seat, then drying it off before they have even started.

Not sure where the loo seats and soiled underwear thing comes from. No connection there.

Depends on the loo.
Festival portaloo... definitely hovering.
Waitrose.....probably sit

Wipe and sit. MN has some unusually fastidious posters, and some with such weird hang ups about public loos. I don't have an iron bladder and refuse to only go out for a short time because of a public loo phobia. These people need help.

Sit.

Unless the loo is one of those without a seat - don't know why that is so gross, but it is - in which case I would hover or hang on.

Wipe and then sit, I would never hover!

Put tissue all over the seat and sit.

I sit. I can use a squat toilet if needs be but on a standard western toilet I'll always sit. Hovering over a western toilet isn't a comfortable or natural position to urinate in (even less to defecate in) and wee on toilet seats gets there because of hoverers.

I hover 'cause Mama taught me so.

Except in the loos at our local shopping centre which are always spotless.

I always hover even at home tbh if i am just peeing and i never ever pee all over the seat ! I have a v good aim but obviously if i did i would clean it up asap !

What do people think the tissue all over the seat is going to do?
If there is pee on the seat it will soak through the tissue.

As said above by Sparkling all this wiping of seats, making a nest, lighting and candle and saying a prayer is holding up the rest of us.

You hover at home too! In the comfort of your own bathroom?

Seriously just sit down, the comfort will be a revelation. And you'll fully empty your bladder.

I always hover even at home

Oh in the name of all that is good and holy. You hover over your own bastard toilet? It's is only the bums of your own family that have been on there. You really need a grip.
What the fuck would you do at a festival or on a camp site?

Also, hovering can cause cystitis. Not thread worms or a nasty bum hole infection that comes only from your mind but an actual condition.

Okay, hovering at home seems a tad over the top.

Have a seat.

Sit.

You do know that you don't actually catch diseases from toilet seats? Skin is impervious to bacteria.

I wonder how many of the hoverers shower before using a swimming pool and avoid dirty spa pools.

If there is pee on the seat it will soak through the tissue

You wipe the wee off with the paper, you don't drape it over it. Takes two seconds, doesn't hold anyone up to quickly wipe the seat.