Lighthearted - Why does MIL leave my toilet seat up!

[PurpleSunday]

Lighthearted post! Just curious as to what other people might think the reason is. And no, I won't be asking MIL as it's not a big deal and I don't really care.

Everytime my MIL uses our toilet, she always leaves the toilet seat up. I have never noticed her doing this before. Probably only started a few months ago. My DH NEVER ever leaves the seat up so it's not like she's putting it back to how she found it. She definitely doesn't have a penis as she birthed DH so I am just so confused! Any ideas?

I do this - normally because I've wiped round after I've been and don't remember to put the seat back down.

It is disgusting 🤮I'm not worried I'm just disgusted. It takes just a second to put the lid down for Christ's sake.

I'd go with hovvering too. My late MIL - who I loved - believed she would catch things from sitting on any toilet that wasn't her own. She was really quite shocked that I wasn't that bothered unless they were particularly skanky.

Perhaps as a courtesy to the next 'customer'?

Do you have sons?
Is she trying to make life easier for them?
Or easier for you having to clean up after them?

Could she have a medical issue, that means things (whether No1 or No2) don't go straight down/or get slightly messy, and she's giving a wipe before she leaves?

I'm not going to be touching a germ-laden bog seat lid with my hands - not for nobody, however disgusted they may feel. I've lid-up-flushed all my life and guess what, I'm still alive.

You don't own a toilet brush????

You've flushed shit all over your bathroom

My mum was a hoverer and lifted the seat so as not to get pee on it (I assume). I suspect this is what your MIL is doing.

People who haven't seen those videos where they show it in special light spraying water all over your tooth brush.

Same as people who touch chicken and spread it round their kitchen

Maybe your loo seat is dirty?

Re OP:
She's changing gender and decided to grow a willy.
She wants to piss you off.
She's checking how clean you keep your loo.
She's attention seeking.
She's just a bit weird that way.

😂
Ah! That's why my bathroom always smells so delicious.

My MIL used to do this when she visited - she would clean the toilet wether she had used it or not - cheeky mare our toilet is always clean

Definitely checking the underside of the toilet seat for any sign of splashed diarrhoea.

My sister does this. She's the only female in a house full of makes. Four sons and get dh. So she just automatically puts it up when she's done

Lots of people don’t like touching it

My mum does this and has never given a reason as to why!

She’s slightly misogynistic and used to be a germaphobe.

So I think it either stems from when she used to be a germaphobe and it’s now habit or to make life easier for the men.

If you don't put the lid down before you flush, you spray germs around the bathroom. Much better to put the lid down then wash your hands. If you don't, you wash your hands, then touch door handles etc that are covered in germs.

Who will? Who even knows - there's nobody in there with me when I flush, how would anyone know whether I left the seat up or down when I flush? And you do realise that there are germs EVERYWHERE, all the time, don't you? The bathroom isn't an immaculate, sanitised zone if you flush with the lid down...

Could she be on medication that colours her wee? If so she may be cleaning the loo to stop staining it.