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Women, if you piddle on the sodding seat will you please wipe it up?!

96 replies

sayyouwill · 03/11/2017 13:23

Second time this week!
I have a weak bladder and the toilets at work are down 2 floors. By the time I get there I am bursting for a wee. I’m fed up of leaking in my knickers wiping up the toilet seat before I get to use it.
Is it really such an ask?!
Have accidentally sat on a damp toilet seat today in my haste and I feel physically sick now.

OP posts:
derxa · 03/11/2017 14:33

DrDre the same person whose skin touched the door handle you just closed and are about to open...? Yes

glitterlips1 · 03/11/2017 14:34

DrDre the same person whose skin touched the door handle you just closed and are about to open...?

I always use tissue to close and open the loo cubical door.

Wellthatwasembarassing · 03/11/2017 14:34

I don't think my balance would be good enough to actually stand on the toilet seat. Knowing me I'd break the toilet seat/just fall off mid wee

MargotLovedTom1 · 03/11/2017 14:35

Besides hoovering isn’t good for you. Friend of mine has a lot of bladder issues. One of the first questions her consultant asking her was if she hoovered when she peed. She did and was told to stop immediately (your bladder doesn’t empty properly).

Well I can safely say I've never done the housework whilst having a wee Grin.

Lethaldrizzle · 03/11/2017 14:36

Hovering is a bit peculiar. I'm not sure you can catch anything from a loo seat!

gillybeanz · 03/11/2017 14:36

Ben

You clearly don't wash your hand when you've been, yuk! Grin
Otherwise you'd realise that your point about touching the handle was irrelevant.

glitterlips1 · 03/11/2017 14:37

Besides hoovering isn’t good for you. Friend of mine has a lot of bladder issues. One of the first questions her consultant asking her was if she hoovered when she peed. She did and was told to stop immediately (your bladder doesn’t empty properly).

Well I can safely say I've never done the housework whilst having a wee grin.

Grin Grin Grin

HouseworkIsAPain · 03/11/2017 14:37

Like PP, it could be splashing from the flush.

We had a most irate woman at work leaving increasingly angry notes on cubicle doors about women not clearing up their splashes. Until someone gently pointed out that it was very unlikely that every single other woman was splashing the seat except her. Apparently she tested this out by actually looking at the seat after she flushed and found that she indeed was also leaving splashes on the seat (or rather the flushing was) Grin

gillybeanz · 03/11/2017 14:38

Sorry not Ben.

WyfOfBathe · 03/11/2017 14:39

You clearly don't wash your hand when you've been, yuk! grin
Otherwise you'd realise that your point about touching the handle was irrelevant.

The door handle is after you wash your hands.

deckoff · 03/11/2017 14:39

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glitterlips1 · 03/11/2017 14:44

It isn't flush back / splash back when it is clearly dark yellow.

Havingahorridtime · 03/11/2017 14:46

It's not just those who hover who leave pee in the seat it's also the sitters who don't wipe properly ;or wipe at all) and dribble as they stand up.

SomeDyke · 03/11/2017 14:49

"I always use tissue to close and open the loo cubical door."

Someone going all Professor T here! Smile

I find all this hovering (nope, would bugger my already buggered knees, no good if you're pooing anyway, or san pro and bloody clots time......) VERY odd.........

I'm convinced it must be due to whatever public loo etiquette we absorbed as kids. I just sit and go, and so far I haven't caught anything nasty off a public loo seat. As regards touching, hands on door handles etc is far worse as regards transmission of nasties, if you really are worrying about that (I was just thinking advice given nowadays on cruise ships re appropriate hygiene, although could be hype. Do germs really persist for very long on hard metal or plastic surfaces? I seem to recall your chopping board has far more nasties than a toilet seat???).

So, since I'm not one, I'll blame the hoverers! Apart from one loo at my uni where the flush doesn't just sprinkle the seat, it spits about six inches, so you have to remember to skip away from the front before flushing............Oh, and only heard once in the UK (and it was americans) from women complaining how dirty toilets were in the UK since they didn't have disposable paper seat covers (The Turf Tavern in Oxford BTW)! A mad toilet in a Chicago airport I used after a long flight had an endless plastic strip that rolled out of one wall, around a U-shaped toilet seat, and back into the wall the other side. It was activated as you stood up or something, and watching it cheered me up no end! Actually, given the great advances we made when we first had public toilets for women, and given the unequal numbers in many uni buildings, and given the deplorable access for women in developing countries and the way they are used to keep women out of education -- we should feel bloody grateful, sit down properly, relax and enjoy the fact we don't have to crap in a field before sunrise miles away from home. Oh, and please try not to do this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296..............

Pickleypickles · 03/11/2017 14:49

I have honestly never weed on a toilet seat Confused what are all you women do when you wee?! 😂

Pickleypickles · 03/11/2017 14:50

I have honestly never weed on a toilet seat Confused what are all you women do when you wee?! 😂

Ttbb · 03/11/2017 14:50

Hovering is really gross. The seat would be clean if people didn't hover. For all those telling OP to hover...maybe she can't? You didn't think of that did you? Of course not because your only think of yourself you selfish hovering gits!

user1500124076 · 03/11/2017 14:56

God, yesterday in a toilet in Primark the woman before me* not only left splashes all over the seat, she also didn’t bother to flush! Stinking wee and wads of toilet roll and a manky seat. Probably didn’t wash her hands either. Some people! You wonder what their homes are like.

*Before me as in she came out and I went in. She even bloody smiled at me.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 03/11/2017 14:58

Hovering and wiping while still squatting is no dirtier than sitting and wiping before moving.

I check the seat anyway.

I'm trying my best to train sons, but they have too much.resilience for their own good Confused

TroysMammy · 03/11/2017 14:58

I wipe the seat before and after but I think it's because there is no lid on our work toilet and when flushing the pissy water lands on the seat.

ThePinkOcelot · 03/11/2017 15:03

The women’s toilets at work are absolutely disgusting! Skids left and everything! Gross! My colleague has even put a note on every cubicle door about cleaning up after yourself.

gillybeanz · 03/11/2017 15:13

How is the door handle after you've washed your hands?

If you mean if there's a closed door into the toilets then I use a tissue.
Otherwise, a lot of toilets don't have a closed door to enter.

It doesn't matter touching the cubicle door because you wash hands afterwards.

gillybeanz · 03/11/2017 15:17

Ttbb

Calm down love, I can assure you that hoverers are just as hygienic if not more so than sitters.
The fact they don't want to sit on germ ridden seats probably means they have good standards.

Yes, some people may piss on the floor, they may be taken short, some people piss on the seat, I'm sure that most seat sitters don't.

WiseUpJanetWeiss · 03/11/2017 15:26

How is sitting on a dry toilet seat any kind of health hazard?

Lethaldrizzle · 03/11/2017 15:29

Wise up - it isn't.

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