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

Yes. Always hover.

I don't pee on the seat.
Nor do i get bladder infections 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why? Why do you hover above the toilet seat in your own home? What’s the point?

If you must hover, please please please put the seat up first.

And then put the lid down, if there is one, before you flush (faecal aerosol, anyone?)

And for goodness sake, if you get bits of paper on the floor, pick them up and dispose of them.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ALL ARE....

It's impossible to hover over the seat if you're under 5ft tall.

While we're on with peeing, how much - in general - does your bladder hold? I have a handy measuring jug at the side of the loo and am so delighted if I'm peeing half a litre!! have once got up to 700ml but I think that was a fluke (and nearly a puddle on the floor getting there!) (Sorry if you're still in old money!)

You can tell when someone's hovering in the cubicle next to you because it sounds like a horse pissing. I sit and quietly judge.

Covid united me with some really handy anti-bac wipes in mini packets, perfect for loo seats, door handles, wiping down communal high chairs etc.

I don't flush them, just pop in an mini rubbish bag which I carry fir all types of waste, and then throw when convenient.

I'm not a clean obsessive BTW, but I don't enjoy sharing other peoples germs.

And they probably don't give a rats about your judgement.

I don't have the room in my head for caring about how other people choose to use the toilet.

I can’t hover, for some reason I always pee down my left leg if I try. I have to sit down but I check the seat is dry first.
Not many things more disgusting than sitting in other people’s piss.

I'm not a clean obsessive BTW, but I don't enjoy sharing other peoples germs.

If you live a normal life it’s impossible not to share other people’s germs. It keeps our immune systems healthy.

If someone has dried the seat you can bet there are still smears of pee on it - probably from multiple people. So you're still sitting on it, even if you can't feel it.

I realise this that’s why even if it looks dry I always wipe the seat first to make sure it’s really dry.

With a wet wipe, I assume.
I really don't see why people get so worked up about how other people use the toilet (unless it's leaving a huge puddle on the floor, or something). The sitters seem to not care that there might be wiped and dried pee on the seat. The hoverers care so don't sit. To each their own. Everyone should just leave it clean and how you'd like to find it.

I really don't see why people get so worked up about how other people use the toilet

Because we are sick of wiping up the pee of grown adults.

Almost all of whom, if this thread is anything to go by, are completely delusional in insisting that they never leave a splash on the seat.

Worse is when the lighting is poor and you sit and feel that sick feeling of wetness on the backs of your thighs from unnoticed pee - again left behind by hoverers... who don't wish to wipe up or sit on pee... that is left behind by hoverers.

Who do the hoverers think is leaving the pee on the seats that they are so desperate to avoid??

Oh, is that what that is! I find it alarming. I thought they had bladder problems.

Never hovered - Mumsnet is the only place I’ve seen this behaviour. I do check the seat before I sit though

So it's a cycle - hover to avoid pee, cause pee by hovering. Unless we put guards on to make sure everyone sits, it's not going to change. Which comes under accepting the things you cannot change (even if annoys you).

What I do mind is finding a big puddle on the floor in a toilet. I usually assume someone has tried to toilet a young child who missed or didn't quite make it in time.

I think the sitters do care about wiped and dry pee. That’s why we sit and use the toilet properly rather than peeing while half standing up and just hoping it goes in the toilet.

How about hoverers embrace some other slogans, like: Be the change you want to see with the world. Or, Let it begin with me.

I don't ever hover or Hoover.

Wipe seat where needed and very occasionally do the "lay strips of paper on the seat" if it's exceptionally grim.

I wipe the seat first to get rid of all the pee the people that hover make and then sit to pee. It's too awkward to hover and it goes everywhere lol

I was reading a book about womens' health this week and it said that the average wee is about 350-400ml. And you should go five times a day.

5 times seems ridiculously few times to me. But with some bladder training I have it down to about 8.

5 x far too little I agree. Think 8 is pretty small too. All depends how much you drink, I guess. Come to the conclusion it doesn't matter! If you want to pee - go!! LOL!!

No wet wipe just toilet roll. You’ve just made an ass out of you and me. I don’t get worked up about how other people leave the condition of the toilet. It’s no bother for me to make the seat nice and dry so as I’m not sitting in WET piss.