Ladies, what do you do, when you do what you do?

[MicWayWal]

Ladies, I will try to be delicate.

I have been married for 27 years and you would think I would know my wife, but NO!
As we were talking about very personal things last week she told me that when she goes to the bathroom, ANY bathroom, except ours at home, she does not sit down on the toilet seat at all. She told me most women do not sit on a strange toilet. They squat just a few inches above the seat, to do what they do. This has got to be very uncomfortable. As I pressed her that surely somewhere, sometimes, there is a restroom clean enough for her to sit. She claims that she does not and I should ask any woman if I wanted to know. So we have agreed to ask a specific question for your response.

We are going to eliminate the extremes for the question. The highway gas station that hasn't been cleaned in a week, your best friends house whom you know cleans her bathroom twice a day, or your own house. Here is the scenario, you are at an upper scale new office building that is extremely clean. You can tell the restrooms are cleaned every night. You are there early in the day and it looks like no one has been in the restroom all day. In this place do you sit or do you squat?

[Jenny Z]

I sit. Mythbusters told me that the toilet seat is actually a cleaner place than most places in the kitchen.

(But I also try not to go in public when at all possible)

[HeatherLou]

I sit too. I found this online, Potty Myths I have never been a germaphobe, so it has not really bothered me.

[MicWayWal]

Jenny, I missed that mythbusters show. I will go look it up to see it online. I love that show.

Heather, that ABC article is a good read and eye opening. I would not have thought that your desk could be so bad for germs. But it makes sense.

[tresorph]

Unless its just plain nasty. I sit. Squatting can lead to other unfortunate consequences, YMMV. But I do kick the flush with my foot. Yet slide the stall handle with my hands. Go figure. Never been one to be such a germie-phobe. I think when you are, your immune system dosen't build up it's own defense as well.

[J Eddington]

I sit. We had a friend when we lived in CA who did research. He said that the air after you flush is dirtier than the seat in a clean restroom.

[allanc]

I think it is called "hovering".

[snidow]

Okay not that I normally discuss such things on open forums, but I sit and if it's nasty I don't use it at all. In fact for years I did not know that some women "squat" but once I learned that some do, it explains how the toilet seat gets all wet and unusable for everyone else. So disgusting someone where I work does this all the time.

[shamrock]

Yup, the hoverers leave drips everywhere, very nasty.

I avoid public toilets like the plague. Before i retired, i'd use the office potty if i absolutely had to, but since i usually went home for lunch, i'd usually just wait. But if i can't wait, i'll sit.

[zepp]

I stand...

Oops...wrong sex.

Nevermind.

[Howard Barlow]

Originally Posted by allanc

I think it is called "hovering".

On a trip to Russia, where toilet seats are 99.999% unknown, my wife and the other ladies were laughing about 'hovering'. After a few such comments, one of the Russian female translators asked, "What is this 'hovering' you speak of?" They laughed, as did she, once it was explained.

[MicWayWal]

Thank you all for your honesty.

If squatting or hovering can make a mess of the seat, then why don't they raise the seat? After all you make us men raise the seat.

[carrbowl]

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

Thank you all for your honesty.

If squatting or hovering can make a mess of the seat, then why don't they raise the seat? After all you make us men raise the seat.

Now...there is one smart man!!!

[Cope]

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

Thank you all for your honesty.

If squatting or hovering can make a mess of the seat, then why don't they raise the seat? After all you make us men raise the seat.

Because they would forget and leave it up.

[MicWayWal]

Originally Posted by Howard Barlow

On a trip to Russia, where toilet seats are 99.999% unknown . . .

This reminds me. Back in the 1980s I went into a restroom in Zürich Switzerland where there were no stalls, everything was out in the open. There was the old fashion 5 feet tall urinals along the wall. Instead of a toilet there was a square white porcelain bowl about 3ft x 3ft and 5 inches deep. In the middle there was a hole. To the sides of the hole were footpads slightly above the bowl. Squatting for men. Didn't use it but I did take a picture of it. I will see if I can dig it out of my archives.