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

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summerfinn · 07/06/2023 07:55

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

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Frances0911 · 08/06/2023 19:17

Yes,. Or if it's numbr two, I put toilet roll or paper towels on the seat.

NowItsLikeSnowAtTheBeach · 08/06/2023 19:17

Hoverers ARE the problem. The skin on your bottom is on different than the skin on your arms and legs that are touching surfaces everywhere you go.

Leftbutcameback · 08/06/2023 19:23

Sometimes have to hover if there is no seat, but had an unfortunate incident with an automated flushing mechanism recently.

pollymere · 08/06/2023 19:31

It depends. Anywhere where there is a large Chinese population, definitely not, as culturally they tend to put their feet on toilet seats and squat so the seats are usually very dirty.

Anywhere else, I just sit.

Kanaloa · 08/06/2023 19:32

Blankscreen · 08/06/2023 19:10

Rest assured I don't pick up cake that has been breathed all over by other people. 😂. Especially using filthy tongs

I also antibac hands literally just before eating.

The thought of the kids touching the chairs and underneath the table etc and then eating sends a shiver down my spine.

I am now thinking that I maybe I do have a problem with germs 😂. I've always been a bit careful but I definitely got more careful after COVID.

Yeah it sounds like you really do have a problem. You can usually tell it’s a problem when people have illogical ‘rules’ that they must follow but that actually don’t make any sense.

So for example, you being incapable of sitting normally on a toilet and terrified of touching a handrail but then being presumably happy to buy things that will be touched by the same people who touched the handrail. Or referring to tongs in a cafe as ‘filthy’ and the cake being ‘breathed all over’ but then eating food prepared by and breathed all over by the same people who put the tongs out.

It’s not normal or healthy to be terrified of contact with other people and their normal germs. If you wash correctly at appropriate times it is not dangerous to touch handrails or use a public toilet correctly.

PepperRed · 08/06/2023 19:38

Hovering when you wee is bad for your pelvic muscles. When you wee your pelvic muscles need to relax to release the wee. If you are tensely hovering above the seat, your muscles are tense and the message is mixed and ie not good for your pelvic muscles. An incontinence specialist could describe it better than I can.

Missingpop · 08/06/2023 19:41

ShowOfHands · 07/06/2023 07:55

I used to do this until my Dyson got too unwieldy to lug round the shopping mall so now I just take a dustpan and brush instead.

I nearly choked reading this 😂😂😂😂

Twillow · 08/06/2023 19:44

Nope (except if there's no seat.) Hovering is messier and more likely to splash and dribble.

SlipSlidinAway · 08/06/2023 19:45

ShowOfHands · 07/06/2023 07:55

I used to do this until my Dyson got too unwieldy to lug round the shopping mall so now I just take a dustpan and brush instead.

Best response ever. Hadn't spotted the typo so had a real, 'What?!!!' moment 😂

Twillow · 08/06/2023 19:47

Cakeandcardio · 08/06/2023 18:43

I could never hover. But I do line the whole seat with toilet roll. I thought that was also pretty standard, no?

Umm, no.

Tessabelle74 · 08/06/2023 19:50

I do because they're usually wet 🤮

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 19:50

Tessabelle74 · 08/06/2023 19:50

I do because they're usually wet 🤮

You're making them wet by hovering!!!!

RoxyMuzak · 08/06/2023 19:51

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 18:57

My husband was allowed 3 sheets of toilet paper. One up, one down, one polish.

But not everybody's job lot emerges without touching the sides. Some come out whole after one contraction (as he puts it!) and others sort of ooze out! Sorry if this is TMI. Maybe TP was rationed or something.

Spottycarousel · 08/06/2023 19:52

I'm in my 40s, frequently use public loos, always sit on the seat, never had any issues!

Dunnoburt · 08/06/2023 19:52

Definitely don't hoover .....or hover.... but I don't normally eat with my arse and always wash my hands when I'm done.....

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 19:53

RoxyMuzak · 08/06/2023 19:51

But not everybody's job lot emerges without touching the sides. Some come out whole after one contraction (as he puts it!) and others sort of ooze out! Sorry if this is TMI. Maybe TP was rationed or something.

Husband's father was just a mean controlling bastard

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 19:56

I'm just wondering how many hoverers give their husband's a blow job or partake in anal sex. The germs you are exposing yourself to must be off the scale compared to putting the backs of your legs on a piece of porcelain. Presumably some of the hoverers are entirely okay with this.

Tessabelle74 · 08/06/2023 20:01

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 08/06/2023 19:50

You're making them wet by hovering!!!!

No I am not, because I'm polite enough to wipe if I need to, which is rarely. I have to wipe for my daughter to sit, that's disgusting because many women don't clean up after themselves.

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 20:05

summerfinn · 07/06/2023 17:08

When I hover if there are any drips on the seat I wipe them up. The first night in a hotel bed makes my skin crawl . Thinking of who slept here before me. I'm weird I know 😂 judging by reply's to my post

If the bed freaks you out don't Google anything about the runner thing that goes at the end of the bed, or the glasses in the bathroom. And for God's sake don't Google 'hotel kettles' . Oh and never,ever leave your flannel or toothbrush in the bathroom if your room is going to be serviced.

Skodacool · 08/06/2023 20:10

kethuphouse · 07/06/2023 11:44

Why would anyone plant their naked bottom onto a piece of plastic that hundreds of others bottoms have been on. Always hover.

Because you plant your naked hands on things that hundreds of other naked hands have touched.

BitchBrigade · 08/06/2023 20:13

Two Words.

She Wee.

RoxyMuzak · 08/06/2023 20:20

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 19:56

I'm just wondering how many hoverers give their husband's a blow job or partake in anal sex. The germs you are exposing yourself to must be off the scale compared to putting the backs of your legs on a piece of porcelain. Presumably some of the hoverers are entirely okay with this.

Inter faeces et urinam nascimur

Nihil aliud est homo quam sperma fetidum, saccus stercorum, cibus vermium.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

AngelinaFibres · 08/06/2023 20:21

RoxyMuzak · 08/06/2023 20:20

Inter faeces et urinam nascimur

Nihil aliud est homo quam sperma fetidum, saccus stercorum, cibus vermium.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

That's one knowledgeable dog there

celticprincess · 08/06/2023 20:23

Never hover, always sit. But the other comments now explain why I often have to clean other women’s pee off the seat which is gross. I never dribble and did wonder why it’s often there.

middlenglander · 08/06/2023 20:23

No hovering here (although a bit of hoovering from time to time). Germs are good for you!