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

Because I'm dealing with my own pee and not countless other people's? And I've never got a drop of my own wee on myself or the seat.

I keep it in my bag at all times for going walking. (I only use a backpack) and once in ASDA, all the toilets were absolutely minging, I couldn't physically go get a cleaner to sort it as I was desperate, I didn't want to clean up other people's mess so I used the she-wee.

I also have a knee problem and sometimes when it's having a bad flare up it locks in a bent position and I just don't want to risk sitting down and getting stuck 😂😂 so that another reason I use it.

I was just offering an alternative for people who don't like touching the seat but don't want to hover.

If its not for you then that's absolutely understandable but there's no need to mock someone else for doing something that has absolutely no bearing on you.

My thoughts exactly. Sit on the darned toilet seat; you're not going to catch an STD or whatever else it is that worries you. If you must, give it a quick once-over with a bit of toilet paper but leave the hoover at home.

I always do this, everyone I knows does this!

Hovering is supposedly bad for the pelvic floor. Something to keep in mind

I read this too. I always sit, wipe the seat with a bit of paper first

Have never left any mess either! Straight in the bowl, bulls eye.

I do t worry about it unless there’s visible piss in the seat. If I get a few germs on the back of my thighs it’s not going to harm me. I will just make sure jeans/skirt goes in the washing machine that night and that I have a shower.

Why do people hover?

Surely the door handle poses more threat than your arse touching the loo seat

I thought this was another bit of cleaning I'd been lax on! Depends how gross and busy the toilet is. As in if it's a well used but clean looking toilet I'll still hover.

I’ve never hovered. Or put loo roll over the seat. Or any of that stuff.

What are you worried about? Just wash your hands thoroughly and shower later in the day.

No, I always sit unless the seat has been left in a horrific state (probably by a hoverer).

What’s going to happen to me if my thighs touch a piece of plastic that others have also sat on? Not a lot.

Apparently it’s not good for you to hover as you don’t fully empty your bladder.

Well you wash your hands in the sink after touching the handle. I doubt people washing their arses in the sink too 😂

I find it easier to carry antibacterial wipes than my gtech but each to their own

Depend entirely on the state of the loo as to whether i hover or not. I generally draw the line at cleaning a previous users wee up.

I wasn't aware of the many rituals around toilets until I came on Mumsnet.

No, I don't hover. If you do them please clean up after yourself.

If you have to drape the seat in paper, please pick up the bits that inevitably fall on the floor.

Did your mum make you hover when you were a child? Is that where it comes from?

I used to hover because my mum told me to when using public loos, now I just wipe before I use. Nothing bad has happened.

I have a thing about people not putting the lid down when they flush. Seriously, why do people flush with the lid up? It splashes tiny droplets about 6 feet. If you don’t close the lid and flush, chances are you are then wearing some of what is already in the toilet. You can’t see it, but it’s there.

I agree. Its people hovering that cause urine splash everywhere. I always sit, and am extremely healthy. People get so obsessed with toilets but think of all the doorknobs you touch that others have also touched and havent washed their hands etc.

Depends on the toilets. I do hover sometimes.
Never hoovered and never peed on the seat either

“Come tell me how you pee, teehee”

I very rarely hover.

You could line it with the toilet paper?

I don’t use my arse when I’m eating either! A fee possible germs on your arse aren’t going to pose a massive risk in life.

People who hover, what are you genuinely expecting to happen if you sit on the seat?