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

Who hovers once a week?? And how do you know what the whole population of China does?

Why? The standard there, as I understand it, is squat toilets where you adopt a completely different position.

Proper squat toilets are much better for you.

It would be good if it became common practice in the UK for any set of toilets with 3 or more cubicles to have one of them being a squat toilet. Then the hoveres can use facilities designed for their preferences.

I visit a lot of universities as part of my work, and the ones which have a large population of overseas students often have complex infographics up in the lavatories explaining that you should not be attempting to stand on the toilet seat in order to squat above the bowl, but instead need to be seated. A lot of loo seats get broken and there are accidents and injuries apparently.

Squatting with the knees higher than the hips is a much healthier position for relieving oneself. Blame Thomas Crapper.

It would be good if it became common practice in the UK for any set of toilets with 3 or more cubicles to have one of them being a squat toilet. Then the hoveres can use facilities designed for their preferences.

I can't see it getting much use. I was in Turkey last year, where squat toilets are common and there is usually a choice. In some places women were queueing for the sit-down toilet rather than use the squat toilet.

I sit but often have to clean the seat first. I find it ironic that the people who hover because they think the seats are too dirty to sit on are the ones actually making the seats dirty by splashing urine over them.

For men maybe but a nightmare for many
women wearing trousers or anyone one who is not young with strong legs.

Do you only leave your home once a week? Perhaps that’s the difference. I lead a very active life and am often out at work, the gym, kids activities, shopping, the cinema. Of course it would be easier to avoid using public toilets if you left your home very rarely.

Well yes, I think this is causing the confusion. Squat toilets encourage you to squat down with your feet planted, knees high, leaning forward slightly, as you would if going outside. Not to half-hover above a high toilet seat, balancing in the cubicle. Totally different positioning.

I am out and about a lot - that doesn't mean I use public loos a lot, only when really needed, whether that is bad for my bladder, whether that makes me a neurotic germaphobe etc, etc does not matter, it's been my way of doing things for 50 years, I do not have a problem with infections or anything else and I will continue along the same vein.

Will you please, please, please just wipe up afterwards? I know every hoverer says she's a urinary Robin Hood with faultless aim and trajectory, but trust me, at least some of you are wrong.

This. They are terrible for older people with dodgy knees.

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OMG of course I always do! 😂

You think it's funny that you piss on a public toilet seat? Hoverers are truly disgusting.

Its worse for men! some buggers can't be bothered to lift the seat in the cubicle when peeing

I never hover. The seat touches the back of my thighs, so all that matters to me is that it is dry. Hoverers make the seat wet and leave me having to dry it before I can use it. To no advantage at all that I can make out.

I never hover. I do wipe the seat though.
If the washroom has the paper toilet covers I'll use one.

I hover and wipe after and even lift the lid just in case.
I know it's more work, but I'd rather that than sit.
I mostly leave the loo cleaner than l found it as I'm too embarrassed for the next person to think it was me.
No logic whatsoever but it's something I'm trying to conquer as it isn't a good thing to have.

Not sure what I'll do when my muscles aren't as strong as they are.

You'll sit, and absolutely nothing will happen except emptying your bladder better and reducing your risk of UTIs.

I sit. I tried hovering years ago but ended up with wee pouring down my leg (I was bursting and it just went everywhere and I spent the next few hours with pissy trousers 😔). Plus now I have kids I rarely wee alone and it's bad enough having to explain "why does mummy have a front bottom" without having to explain why I'm hovering, doing the superman to keep the door closed or praying one of my darling children doesn't open the door before I'm done flashing me to everyone. I don't eat off my thighs either.

What about train toilets

When I was 13 Q: What do you get with Surprise peas? A: A wet leg!

Our saying back in the day “If you don’t hover, don’t bother” - Me and my friends are all “hoverers”

You hover in your own house?? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️