So do you pee sitting down when away from home?

[ForPetesSakeNotAgain]

One of the mothers at DS's school has asked whether the school could provide either cling film like covers for the loo seats or antiseptic spray so that her DD (age 5) can sit on the loo to pee rather than hovering over the loo. I expressed surprise that it was necessary and innocently said that if the seat isn't wet I just sit down and pee. (If the seat is wet, I grab some loo paper, wipe the seat and then plonk myself down.) The other mothers were horrified as if I had just announced that I washed my face in the loo as well.

Am I alone in this ie am I weird to be so casual (as the other mums clearly think)? I have to say what I think is weird is to hover over the loo and so dribble pee on the seat that I then have to wipe off

I'm a sitter too - unless toilets are visibly dirty. When was the last time you heard of anyone catching anything from a loo seat??????

Mention that either sprays or clingfilm would be TERRIBLY environmentally unfriendly - if the school is indoctrinating the children the way DD's school is ('mummy, you MUST recycle that!') then the kids will be horrified by the idea even if the mums like it.

Oggsfrog's link is true - I used to live with a couple of girls who worked on Eurostar, and most of their colleagues were very precious about sitting on loo seats away from home, and obviously they were required to pee away from home a lot. They had bladder infections ALL the time, it was ridiculous.

AIDS in about 1985 nervousal. ie hysterical non-knowledge.

She's a loon.

Having said that, I had to take BabyDragon into the KS1 toilets at the end of the school day on Monday. They were utterly appalling! Even I wouldn't sit. TBH it was difficult enough standing on the floor [shudder]

Wipe if wet. Sit. Wash hands.

Seems simple enough to me

My mother told me when I started my periods, that I could no longer sit on toilets when away from home She is a mad-twat anyway!

Sit, wee, wash hands. Simple.

Hovering is bad for you.

I once sat on a loo in mc donalds that looked clean. I could feel it was damp as I sat down. That feeling that I had been sitting in someone else's dribbled wee has stayed with me.

I don't want my bum to even have the chance of coming into contact with other people's wee. You wouldn't rub your hands all over a public toilet seat so why put your legs on it?

As for school loos, no they need to sit. If in later life they decide to hover then thats up to the individual.

The wee is probably on the seat because of the previous hovering person.

Exactly. So if you can't beat em, join em

Fucking hell, I sit, why would you want to hover. I am not a dog so see no reason to be cocking my leg.

I sit. Unless really grim.

The public toilets in town are those metal things without proper seats..... always hover over those, but rarely use them as would much rather use the coffee shop ones!

I am a sitter as long as it is clean. Sometimes I will wipe and in very rare cases I will hover.

She's a mad bat! I sit, unless it's truly gross.

And then there is the Fresh Hell of the festival lav....

blimey
I sit
if necessary wipe first
like hecate I wonder what these people think they're going to catch from sitting on a toilet seat....?

Oooh this really winds me up. Don't hover unless you have the muscle control to do so without pissing everywhere. I am fed up with coming into loos which not only have dribble on the seats but an entire bladder full of pee on the seat and all the floor. It's disgusting

One can always put clean loo paper on seat and sit on that then flush it away..then you would not be coming into so much direct contact with the loo seat. Although realise this is not practical for children to do.

I have to say I worry about my DD using primary school loos - the boys and girls loos are in the same section (seperate cubicles) so I hope she will not ever sit on the boys one after someone has misaimed.

I encourage DS to poo before he leaves for school so he will not need to sit down on the boys loo seat!

You hoverers need to get a she wee.

You would still get dribbles with a she-wee wouldn't you?

only if you aim was, er, piss poor

But there would still be a couple of drips from the end wouldn't there? Don't you have to give it a little shake?

I always sit down, i don't get why people don't.

Arf @ pisspoor.