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

I sit, my legs are short so hovering isn't always possible!

We were taught to hover as kids in public loos, mainly due to the public info signs informing that you can catch STIs from the seats (!) I don't hover now but will give the seat a quick wipe

This thread is blowing my mind. Is this the reason female toilet queues are so long? I can’t think of a time I’ve ever hovered - maybe at a festival if the loo is really, really minging. Otherwise I plonk my arse down! It’s never occurred to me that people don’t sit on the toilet seat. I mean, the clue’s in the name!

I don't know how people hover without pee going everywhere

Hovering (or even hoovering) above a toilet seat sounds very precarious (could be good exercise though?). Why not just put some loo roll on the seat and sit on that if you’re worried.

I cannot believe how many people sit on a public toilet seat 🤮never in a million years would I do that.

I hover and always wipe the seat if needs be.

I just go for a pee. And obviously sit down. life is too short for all this fuss.

the only time I would hover would be if I was out in the middle of nowhere and had to go for a pee behind a tree

people are getting completely paranoid about fantasy risks from “germs”. We don’t live in an hermetically sealed vacuum.

the trend for continually drinking water means people have to pee a lot more often

Pointless. What exactly are you afraid of "catching" from the toilet seat?

Honestly! No, I have never hovered and I have never suffered from it - and I am a ripe old age now. You won't catch anything from a toilet seat. And people who hover, cover the seat with pee and then leave are the absolute worst - they won't "catch" anything, but it's OK to leave the next person or the cleaner to clean up their piss?

And all this cleaning everything with wet wipes isn't doing the environment any good either. Sometimes I really despair of what the human race is becoming.

Oh - and some of you really had better not go to any festivals.

Other people/the backs of people's thighs really aren't that dirty. The 'bare arse' goes over the hole, that's the point of how a toilet is designed. I've only hovered if the loo looks really grim and I can't go to a different cubicle (rare) or the seat is missing. If the seat is wet I'll wipe it down. No health issues resulting from years of sitting on public toilets.

Unless it’s already wet then no.. I’d wee all down my leg!!

This.

I just put tissue on the seat.

While you are all busy exhibiting your neuroses, you seem to have failed to notice that this is a "journalist" getting you to do their work for them. If you enjoy seeing yourself quoted in clickbait, please carry on.

Hovering is bad. It means you don't relax your bladder and pelvic muscles properly so the bladder doesn't fully empty. Stale wee can lead to an infection.

I lift up the plastic seat and sit on the porcelain after giving it a once over with loo paper, or a wipe.

You can buy paper toilet seat covers, that are very cheap. And they just go down the loo when you've finished.

No. I just plonk myself down. If there's a splash on the seat I'll wipe it first. I'm not particularly bothered about invisible germs on my bottom.

Do those that hover also hover over chairs in restaurants when wearing a short skirt?

I can’t see the logic of hovering. The higher you pee away from the toilet the greater the risk of splashback so you’re more likely to get pee on the backs of you thighs (and the seat). What can you catch from putting your thighs on a seat that has also had another person’s thighs on it?

You can put the seat up first guy-style 😆
However, if you are desperate for a wee, this can result in splashback unless you can control the flow and slow it down to a long tickle.
I always hover. My friend has a dodgy leg so she always sits and I always tell her how deeply sorry I feel for her. She teaches in a school and reports that the toilets are like something out of a horror film.

I thought that Covid and all of the epidemiology chit chat would have taught us all how germ spreading actually works :/

Clearly not!

I always hover and I've never splashed pee onto the seat.

Question for the hoverers. If you’re wearing shorts or a skirt with bare legs, would you sit on a public seat / bench / chair with your skin touching it? Surely it’s exactly the same.

Once I hovered at airport arrivals (to avoid weeing in the plane toilets) and while weeing, I caught sight of something on the corner of by sight of vision. After I had finished, I realised that someone had deposited a large shit on the edge of the seat and I had been hovering a few cm away from it. I was relieved that I never had a leg cramp while hovering as I would have ended up in it.

I am the opposite, I dont understand why some women cant aim. When thinking about it, possibly if they are shaved, then it tends to get a bit more messy.

I use loo seat covers and carry Dettol wipes but never knowingly hover….

Same... If the seat looks like a hoverer has peed on it I'll either choose another loo or wipe it, otherwise I just sit.

Never understood hovering nor do I have the muscles to do it if I tried tbh