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

This.

You’re supposed to clean kitchen surfaces? That’s a new one on me

Yes, otherwise you get crabs.

Just to clarify - I don’t have a kitchen sponge, or a specific kitchen cloth. I clean all my cutlery and dishes etc in the dishwasher, and use a cleaner/disinfectant on my surfaces, wiped off with some kitchen roll (Blitz not the cheap shit). If I’m doing any “serious” cleaning I’ll use a disposable jay cloth.

For the bathroom I’ll clean the toilet seat with my OH’s flannel or toothbrush.*
I rarely use public toilets, but if I have to then yes I’ll line the it with toilet paper and hover, but I always wipe the seat before and after. I appreciate this is incomprehensible to some people but I have public toilet ick, which I appreciate is not rational. I also know you’re not likely to catch anything off a toilet seat, but someone asked me what I thought I’d catch by sitting on a public toilet. Crabs elicits a much better response than “nothing, I’m just irrational”.

*that’s a joke btw

You’re supposed to clean kitchen surfaces? That’s a new one on me

Yes, otherwise you get crabs.

Or lobsters, if you can afford them.

Oh yeah, it's Mumsnet, isn't it.

I think you’re wrong. Saying ‘nothing, I’m just irrational/scared of toilets so I like to put toilet paper all over the place then just half crouch and try to pee on the toilet’ would elicit a better response because it’s honest. Saying ‘I’ll catch crabs if I use the toilet properly’ makes people think you simply don’t know that you’re irrational. And then the people are more likely to explain that you won’t catch crabs. If you just explained that you won’t use the toilet properly because of an irrational fear people would probably be more understanding.

This is not a conversation I can imagine having with anyone outside here. 😁

someone asked me what I thought I’d catch by sitting on a public toilet. Crabs elicits a much better response than “nothing, I’m just irrational”.You mean you were just trolling?You're already being irrational by not using a toilet seat properly. Crabs made as much sense as anything else that other hoverers are so terrified of, especially when you start sharing dodgy links about it.

Yes and no. I genuinely hover, and I know it’s not rational, but people are just piling on me about it, so I figured I’d say crabs when someone asked me. Perhaps I should have said lobsters. You won’t catch crabs off a toilet seat but nothing is impossible. Never say never and all that.

Well be fair, we're piling on everyone who hovers. Partly because it is completely irrational but mostly because we are really tired of seeing piss sprayed everywhere from someone whose extensive hygiene and fear of germs and crabs doesn't seem to extend to not splattering urine all over the place.

I'm glad to see you're not really scared of catching crabs from a toilet seat. Please just wipe up after yourself. I know all hoverers swear they don't spray but at least some of you are wrong.

Well no 😂 normal people just use the toilet. But if you DID get asked why you don’t sit on the toilet in the normal way ‘I’m irrationally terrified of toilets’ is a much more honest responses than ‘crabs are rife.’

Unless it is a particularly insanitary looking toilet, I do not hover - far too uncomfortable and inhibits the release of urine. My Mum used to put toilet paper round the seat. That was in the days when there were notices in the public toilets about "venereal disease".

Thankfully in the post Covid era I always have hand gel I make myself a little cleaning wipe and get the loo seat germ free and pee in comfort.

I have this image of women all taking a hoover out with them so they can hoover public toilets before using them. It is a strange image but quite funny.

Sorry OP but I hate hoverers who leave the toilet seat soaking in their wee. Hovering is causing the problem.

😂😂
I never hover, OP. Too uncomfortable. My DM always did, though, or she said she did. Petrified of any stray molecule of anyone else’s pee contaminating her skin.

Zombie!

Zombie thread, I hope the toilets you all use get cleaned more often than this 2023 thread gets posted on

I just wipe any wee off and sit down like a normal person

i’ve never hovered

I do not hover. it's only the back of my legs that touch the seat, who cares!

I don't hover over public toilet seats. People who do spray piss everywhere.

I certainly don't hoover over public toilet seats either! 🤣 I know it's a zombie thread and I don't care about that.

Due to my job most of the time I’m using a toilet on a moving train… hovering would not work. I just take antibacterial wipes in my kit bag and use them first.

I can’t hover even if I wanted to.
every time I’ve tried to hover I end up peeing down my right leg.
my foof has problems with direction obviously. I’m quite happy sitting on the toilet seat though.

I was told this by nurses when I had a UTI - I was asked if I was a hoverer - which I’m not. But I got told never to hover all the same.

You need to sit down on the seat to properly empty your bladder. If small amounts of urine are retained, you are risking a UTI. To women who think they’re being healthier by hovering, I’m afraid the opposite is the case.