Public toilets - sit or hover?

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Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

Well, I sit on the same loo seat that's had DP, DS1 and DS2 on it and I've never caught arse plague.

FUNM
Because thinking you're going to catch cooties from where someone else's skin has been is all a bit playground 😂

Hover, then wipe.

Don't be so bumist. What harm have those hundreds of bare botties ever caused you?

My arse cheeks happily touch the seat that a thousand bum cheeks have perched on before me. It links me in a primal way to my fellow wo/man.

I used to wipe, inspect, wipe, position carefully, hover, wee and wipe before flushing now my pelvic floor is so shot I generally have time to wipe the seat and slam my arse down before I miss the bowl altogether

I can't believe that ANYONE is so OCD that they wouldn't sit on a public loo seat. What exactly is your problem FUNM?

I have managed to reach the ripe old age of 58 without catching something from a loo seat.

The ignorance on this thread is breathtaking!

Sit. Won't usually use if there's pee on the seat, but sometimes there's little choice - I'll wipe. IBS doesn't always dictate there being time though.

Hovering just passes the issue to somebody else, though. Hovering is the reason there's pee on the seat in the first place!

I think we must be a nation of hoverers. As a teacher I have seen the pandemonium of the toilets after a gaggle of teenage girls have been in. It's like something out of a war film. I don't remember being like that when I was a teenage girl!

Why would you sit on a seat that has had hundreds of different bums on it

Because I'm not going to catch arse Aids from a bit of my skin touching where someone else's skin has been.

I sit unless there is literal shit on the seat.

Lonicera

It's weird that you're talking about ignorance. Plenty of people do have OCD and not sitting on public toilet seats would represent a very mild OCD symptom.

Are you really that ignorant?

Hover. Unless pregnant (find it all doesn't come out else!) sorry tmi!

And, incidentally, OCD isn't something that you are - it's something that you have

I only hover over a bush

Yes Merchant, that is what I was implying. I thought that was obvious

Nope - no idea what you mean now Lonicera

The people who hover in order to avoid germs should focus on not handling change, not touching door handles, not using hot air hand dryers, not eating in restaurants and not having ice in drinks, as these are all way more likely to make them sick.

By all means wipe the seat tho, no one wants to sit on someone else's pee.

I never leave pee on the seat. I grimace when I see a pee drop on the seat. Can other women not see the pee there when they have wiped? I'm equally as disgusted by messy women as I am disgusted by men. Those who think they can avoid germs, if you flush a toilet with the seat up (most public toilets don't provide a cover), apparently the swirling water splashes out germs everywhere in the process so there is no such thing as avoiding germs. It is as manky as someone sneezing on you or in your face

As my mum used to say 'Its a lot less bother with a hover'.

Maybe not for the next person though

My mum never hovered so it never occurred to me to do so.

Always hover, even at home - I think it's ingrained after so many years of having a house full of boys. But I also always wipe the seat both before and after. Makes no sense.

Do people who hover also hover whilst doing a poo? What if you're there a while?

How can you empty your bladder properly if you hover? I can't imagine what it must be like to be frightened of your own loo seat at home.

Just to clarify, hovering is only for those places where you need to if it looks a bit gross, otherwise sit.

I sit at home for sure.