Most women hoover above toilet seat in public toilets to pee?

[summerfinn]

I was out this weekend and had to use the toilet to pee. I normally hoover above toilet seat to pee in public toilets and was thinking to myself this is difficult especially if I need to do a long pee🙈😂 Is this what most women do too or am I being extra germ conscious and should just wipe the seat and sit down? Sorry if tmi but I'm just curious

No hovering here and I literally never have UTIs or anything. By hovering you're more likely to pee on seat (yuck) and not fully empty your bladder.

I remove the loo seat, hoover it, disinfect it then replace and sit down

I don’t hover because I’ve got my hands full holding up my trouser legs to protect them from the splashy mess hoverers have left on the floor.

I just sit on the toilet and pee. I do find people are ridiculously terrified of anything they perceive as ‘dirty’ when in fact humans are dirty. They kiss and have sex and pick their nose and pick up their dog’s shit and eat sausage rolls from Gregg’s that have been sat out all day under that glass and then they go into a public bathroom and sit on the toilet. The toilet’s probably the cleanest part of the day.

If there was any risk from using a toilet in the normal way then I wouldn’t use them. There is no risk. So I use them, as they are intended to be used, as in by sitting down on them and urinating.

What are you doing OP, going to public loos with open wounds on your bum and legs? That’s the only way you’ll catch anything from a toilet seat. Just sit down so you aren’t splashing urine for other women to have to encounter.

(Love all the vacuuming related replies 😆😆😆.)

Other vacuum cleaners are available

I used to clean a pub while putting myself through university. I’ve had to clean up this sort of mess and I was dry heaving and hating my life the whole time.

If anyone is interested to know, women’s toilets are cleaner than mens, in my experience.

It might have been someone who was more used to squat toilets. It's very very hard to defecate in a different position to the one you're used to.

No excuse for not cleaning it up, though!

The toilet’s probably the cleanest part of the day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20324304

From the article:

His studies have found that on the average toilet seat there are 50 bacteria per square inch.

"It's one of the cleanest things you'll run across in terms of micro-organisms," he says. "It's our gold standard - there are not many things cleaner than a toilet seat when it comes to germs."

We should be more worried about other household items, it seems.

"Usually there are about 200 times more faecal bacteria on the average cutting board than on a toilet seat," he says...

In other words, a kitchen sponge is 200,000 times dirtier than a toilet seat, and a dishcloth is 20,000 times dirtier.

This is the same the world over.

To be fair, he's not talking about public toilets, but it's still interesting. Public toilet seats would of course be cleaner without hoverers.

You can't catch anything from a loo seat OP.

I’m going to be seriously wondering the next time I’m in a long queue for a women’s toilet whether it’s because people are spending so much time doing anything other than sitting on the bloody toilet. Disinfecting, laying down toilet paper, hovering, wiping up after themselves. Madness.

You should wipe up after yourself. Especially if you're a hoverer.

Maybe we all need to carry around our own personal loo seats. All the public toilets are built without seats and we can put our own one down when we go. 🙄

I agree - but if you don’t hover there should be nothing to wipe up!

Never mind that, we should all go around in sealed pods on wheels lest we are ever exposed to a germ, another human being or anything that isn't absolutely sterilised.

I wonder how some of these people ever leave the house sometimes. Obviously we should all practise basic hygiene but this life-ruling horror of other people and any surfaces that haven't been fumigated is just completely beyond any sense of proportion or actual reality.

Was it always like this or did the pandemic cause it?

Darrell, not sure if you are joking...but I think this is actually what humans will be like in the future - living in a sealed, germ free environment and only leaving when they really have to.

Nope I sit.

Why is it bizarre? Sounds like you're projecting a lot into my post. I work full time and seeing as I don't count toilets at work as public toilets (there are only about a dozen women I share the toilet with at work) I use a public toilet maybe once a week.

I suppose it's a vicious circle. If I go in and see wee on the seat, I don't want to wipe it, especially as tissue doesn't clean it, so I hover too. But I'm expert at getting it in the toilet, not on the seat. 😊

It is less bad than using a handrail because we don't eat or touch our faces with our bum/thigh flesh.

I do wonder if some people would be happier in an android robot body - so much more hygienic and clean.

Darrell, not sure if you are joking...but I think this is actually what humans will be like in the future - living in a sealed, germ free environment and only leaving when they really have to.

I'm constantly amazed at how few people have read this...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

No, it's extremely bad for your pelvic floor to do this

You can get UTI's from not sitting down to pee. Happened to me on holidays and the pharmacist asked me straight away was I hovering.
She said you dont empty it all out properly and some can go back up and cause infection.

Nope; no hovering here!!!
unless there’s no seat.. and then I usually end up weeing on my shoes..