Public toilets - sit or hover?

[moutonfou]

Do you sit, hover or play it by ear?

I didn't even know hovering was a thing - what on earth is the point?

I always sit because that is what the seat is for

Depends how clean and I think I'm a good judge... until I get it wrong, and I didn't spot the drop and get....

OPPOB - other people's piss on bum - ARGH!

Ed I sit on public toilet seats with gay abandon. I press pedestrian crossing buttons with my knuckle.
I bet there is far far worse on those (pressed by a multitude of fingers that have been touching everything imaginable, never cleaned, your finger is then used to scratch your nose, eye or open your handbag etc).
A toilet seat however is cleaned often and touched by someone's thighs.

I stand

I cant believe people are getting so worked up over whether or not people sit on a toilet seat !
The sitters will be demanding a bill through parliament next!
Surely it is a simple matter of choice and no big deal either way

Hover every time

Hover

Wipe then sit of course.

I take mansized tissues out with me. I tuck them around seat and sit down. I then gather them up and put them in the sanitary bin. I have been told by a bladder clinic that you should always sit. I used to always hover until I was about 50 and then my muscles became shot. I was told it was because I always hovered! To hover or not to hover, that is the qyestion.

I hover. If I do make any drips then I always wipe them but I've perfected it so I usually don't. I also use toilet roll to pull open the door handle when I'm leaving but I'm a freak

You people who are carrying wipes around - you're not flushing them I hope?

Lol. Because of course every single person that uses wipes must be an ignorant flusher

I'm the exact same as Screwinthetuna,and for those of you asking about if we worry about other dirty public things-yes I do and avoid touching/using them as much as I can I've been doing things like this for years and have never had any bladder problems and am overall very healthy and rarely get sick,so i must be doing something right!

Sit. I think I've only hovered once and that was a disgusting toilet with no alternatives!

There are still people on Mn who are proud tampon flushers so I don't think they would worry about a wipe.

Always, always hover. BUT no way would I leave it horrible. I've learnt to hover and aim really well over the last 27 years. If it was a mess of course I would clean, that's just grim leaving it messy!

Bit of a leap Migraleve?

I'm used to seeing a bit of wee on a seat and wiping it away. Sometimes I'll then sit, sometimes I'll hover, depends how clean the overall facilities seem. But what mystifies me is as others have mentioned seeing poo smears on the seat. Surely nobody is trying to poo hovering? How would that even work?

For a poo if I don't like the look of the facility I have to make a toilet seat cover from toilet paper, but would still always sit...

Oh and yes I'm a hoverer. I also carry anti bac with me. I don't touch any handles directly, loo, shop - doesn't matter. I always use a tissue. I also never touch pedestrian buttons directly.

@PurplePinkStone thanks for putting it so well, you GET it lol Put paper down and sit is fine, but wipe and sit bare buttocked *shiver home is different

LoniceraJaponica

This thread has shocked me too. I am astounded that people sit on public toilets.

I do have super high standards of cleanliness yes, but that's my choice. I don't wish to sit on a public toilet and never will.

I am not 'germ phobic' at all. Just very very clean.

Just as you wish to sit on the toilet seat in public loos. I don't.

End of.

Remember there was a test of peanuts in a bowl on a bar - they found 30 different pees on them - imagine what they would find lurking on a bog seat [shocked]

I sit, I won't go on certain loos like bus stations, I favour places who have less bum traffic and are cleaned regularly lol I must also say as a runner I have peed al fresco more times than I care to mention

But pee doesn't have germs in it...

Some people on here have way too much time on their hands. Maybe get a job? Or a hobby at the very least.

Imagine having time to wrap sterile and impervious man sized tissues around a loo seat before using it.

No wonder the rest of us have to wait so fucking long for you to indulge your overactive and highly juvenile imaginations.

Hovering fucks your pelvic floor. And what the heck do you think is jumping up your doodah from the seat?

And the handle of the door going out of the lav will be full of the shite from those who haven't washed their hands.