Friend should have told me her toilet seat was broken?

[AnimalLover24]

A bit of an unusual one - I visited my friends house yesterday for a coffee and a catch up which we arranged a week or so ago. After an half an hour or so I said I would pop to use the loo and she casually told me ‘oh - the toilet seat broke the other day so there isn’t one on there’.

As a slightly larger lady, ‘hovering’ as she suggested isn’t exactly straight forward.

Do you think she should have told me about this ahead of time?

You beat me to it.

OP, how on earth do you use public toilets or toilets on a plane if you can’t hover?
Given that you are not disabled and not very large you need to start hovering exercises today.

Wipe it first, just as you would a seat if you're using a public toilet.

I don't hover. It's not compulsory. I wipe the seat and sit on it and in this case would have sat on the bowl.

Thank you 🙏

@Gwenhwyfar
It doesn’t matter how you go to the toilet but unless there are medical reasons, everyone should be able to hover.

I'd be more horrified if someone had these on their toilet rather than a missing seat!

🤢🤢🤢

Yep. Grim 😶

I was wondering what the difference is between sitting on a seat or the rim but hadn't factored in dripping men! In which case just wipe it surely. I'm not sure if I can hover so will test that shortly.

Eeuuw, those evil toilet seat relatives of the bog-roll doll thing.

Why has one of the seat covers got a personalised car cigarette lighter jack (personalised no less!) built in?!

It’s quite rude actually - I’d never turn up with a full bladder. What an imposition. 😂

Congrats ! I’m down to a size 16 now too (through diet and exercise) and I don’t consider myself big anymore. I understand I’m still medically overweight but having been a size 30 in the past, I honestly don’t think I stand out anymore the way I used to - tbh looking around me in public I would say I’m quite average! And because I’m fairly tall with a thinner waist, I don’t think being slightly overweight is really causing me any health issues. Yo-yo dieting would be worse than staying a bit bigger than whatever the ideal is.

Personally I think you only need to “do more” to change your weight if it’s your weight that is causing you genuine health issues - and to me, if you have no disabilities then something like not being able to hover to go for a wee if you have to, sounds more like balance issues rather than weight related as such (our balance naturally worsens as we age). Imo it might be worth focusing more on exercises that could help with improving your balance and general health , rather than on weight.

😂

Apologies I didn’t mean to shame, it was intended as a statement of fact, not meant to be emotionally loaded. I didn’t mean to make you feel bad, but it’s amazing if you’re working on strength- it’s so important as we age ❤️

Hovering isn't good for you. You don't empty your bladder properly..just sit down man.

So why can't you just sit on the porcelain rim of the lavatory bowl itself ?

YABU

Yes agree, but once in while ( while using public toilets or a wee in the country, miles from anywhere) should be fine.
It doesn’t change the fact that people should still be able to hover

This one?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5358980-to-have-insisted-on-dh-doing-his-business-at-work-when-we-were-down-to-one-bathroom

Very surprised that nobody has yet mentioned the ficticious "poo crumbs" that will inevitably be swirling around the whole house like dry ice and clinging to every surface?

At size 20 you can hover over a toilet (I know, I have been larger). At size 16 you can hover over a toilet. What a complete non-event.

That's not 'body shaming' 🙄 it's just a fact.

That's a relief!
Since your reply started "Fewer, actually!" I thought I'd gone and committed the awful sin of misusing less/fewer which would be most unlike me. Reading back, I see all is well.
I could argue that by "exactly the same germs" I was referring to the types of germs being the same rather than the amount, but I've no idea whether that's the case or not. Ceramic surfaces may harbour very different beasties* from plastic/wood.
*Technical term.

Oh God I've just remembered what a snob she was too. The whole thread was nuts. She couldn't even bring herself to use the word 'poo'. 🤣🙈

Ha ha!

I am a bit of a 'less and fewer' pendant occasionally, but I promise I wasn't being in that post! 😅

Oh good god get a grip. Just sit on the bloody rim. Slightly less comfortable but still perfectly doable. I can't pee while hovering, I have to relax and at size 20, it's certainly not comfy to sit on the rim but it takes seconds to pee. This is a non-issue.