Public toilets - sit or hover?

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Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

Well said Acorn! and Maxima you've made me laugh till I weed a little bit This really drives me mad, you know why hoverers don't clean the seat, because they are too precious to touch it even with paper. FFS (MIL I'm talking about YOU). Selfishness incarnate. If you have OCD take some disposable gloves in your handbag, and wipe the bloody seat! And that's another problem....the best thing is when you get that little disinfectant spray to use with some loo paper. Perfect!

I sit-but only on one side (left thigh) so I'm sort of lopsided. Half the germs, no drips .

Side saddle. How very aristocratic!

Squoosh I share a single work toilet with a bunch of dirty b*stards and (not the naicest members of) the public so I've developed an air of superiority.

I hover.... but I do also carry toilet wipes with me.
I know, I know, why don't I wipe and sit? I just can't bring myself to sit! I freak out about germs. I can't even touch hand dryer buttons or door handles after washing my hands. I have to use my elbows, tissue or just wait until someone else opens the door!

But Pop, how do you cope with change, trolley handles, cash points, key boards, hand rails, pedestrian crossing buttons, handles on shop doors, bus seats................?

I'm an expert hoverer. Years of living in France - it was hover or nothing.

OMG 😲

I can't believe what I'm reading! People actually SIT on public loo seats?!
yes, if you put paper on the seat first but seriously, to sit on a loo seat that's been used by dozens possibly more people that day, with no real thorough cleaning is disgusting. the state of public loos is generally pretty gross. There's always other people's urine on the seat (even sitters leave piss on the seats esp children) and you simply wipe the strangers piss off with paper and sit your bum on a germ ridden seat? Shame on you all sorts of people use those seats, people with stds, crabs , people have vomited on that seat, had sex in that cubicle, you name it, this has happened on that seat you rest your ass on before you sat down. At least use antibacterial wipes to wipe the seat instead of dry paper!! I hope you jump in the shower as soon as you get home or do you just spread these germs around your home? do your partners know that when they slap your ass it's been sat in someone else's piss minutes, hours before? Urrrgggh!

I can't believe how many sitters there are here. I'm seriously disturbed at reading this.

Your poor bums

I carry handgel with me and wipe down the seats with it (using toilet paper) then sit.
I also do this with some other things too like drink trays on trains and planes.
I wouldn't ever hover as the one time I did I peed on the seat (and yes I did clean it up).
I feel better about using them here than in the uk though. They tend to be far better and cleaner

Hover. Always hover. Always have done since being a child.

I aim well so it doesn't go anywhere other than where it's meant too.

Wouldn't sit on a public toilet in a million years.

Ewwwwwwww.

Purplepinkstone absolutely spot on.

I can hover without getting a drop on the seat, on the rare times i have i always wipe it off.I especially can't sit on a seat that's still warm from the previous occupant.

What's so scary about a toilet seat? I don't freak out about all the other germ ridden things I touch in a day so why would I worry about the back of my thighs touching something other thighs have touched? And what if you need a poo? You can't hover and poo (or can you? Enquiring minds want to know)

It is not physically possible to sit on a toilet seat and simultaneously get pee on it. The law of gravity doesn't allow it. It is the hoverers that pee on the seats, and if they all sat down there would be no pissy toilet seats.
Hovering is a silly form of virtue signalling for the Daily Mail reading Hyacinth Bucket type, imo.

Purplepinkstone Are you on crack!?

Surprised that so many sit. I assumed everyone hovers. I hover anywhere I go that's not my own house. I always wipe the seat after me as well in case of any splashes.

If it looks grubby then I'll cover the seat with toilet paper.

purplepinkstone

You know it's your arse/tips of your thighs that are in contact with the loo seat and not your hands and lips, don't you?

I don't know about you, but I actually don't touch my bum/back of my legs much throughout the day, and when I've been to the loo I pull my trousers up anyway so my dirty skin isn't sullying my car, my house, etc. I imagine the outside of my jeans which has sat on public benches, bus seats, grass, etc. is much more unhygienic than the skin that's touched the loo seat.

OMG are you serious Purplepinkstone and Ankleswinger?

Really?

How on earth do you manage daily life with your germ phobias?

Funnily enough most public loos I use are cleaned regularly and aren't disgusting. I bet you've never been to a festival or other similar outdoor event. How on earth would you manage?

if you put paper on the seat first

What magical properties do you think toilet paper has?

Of course you can spot us sitters a mile off. We are the ones with bum hole AIDS and thigh cankers caught from sitting on a toilet seat that someone else's thigh has touched.

How do people like PurplePink cope in the world?
What about if you go on public transport and have to touch things that other people have touched like handles and grab poles?

Neither. I use a shewee 😉

This thread has shocked me. I had no idea how many germ phobic people there are. Do the hoverers wipe the seat after they have pissed on it?

Oh they all claim that they don't piss on the seat. Which makes me wonder who does.

Wipe, then sit.

None of the hoverers have answered whether they anti bac their hands before and after handling change, pressing a pedestrian crossing button (I once mentioned how disgusting they must be to my friend and she was just like 'dont even try to think about it'), cash points, handles on public transport etc etc?

You don't catch stuff from sitting on public loo seats. How would that even work?

Obviously if it's covered in visible piss/shit that's different, but in that case I wouldn't even hover I would just go elsewhere.