The Toilet Seat Dilemma

[Cinjin]

I was trained since gradeschool to put the seat down - so I always do, no matter what.


However, there is something to be said for the fact that the toilet is not a chair, it is a human waste receptacle, and thus the small 3 inch circular collar (not a seat) for which someone has the ability to perch on is not required to be in the "down" position.

Additionally, a male could VERY easily make the argument that the reason he peed all over the "seat" of the toilet is because a female left it in the down position instead of picking it back up for his midnight visits to the bathroom.

As for the "falling in the toilet" complaint: One can VERY safely assume that a man might have to sit on a toilet after another man has left the toilet seat up on a previous visit. Funny thing is: I've NEVER met a man make the claim that he's fallen into the toilet. Hmmm, maybe men are just better at taking the .25 seconds to look down to see if where they are about to sit is an acceptable place to sit.

[Raeven]

I, too, live alone with 3 bathrooms available to me at all times. My late husband trained me on toilet seat etiquette. Seat down, lid down at all times except when in use. That's still what I do, even though he's been gone for 6 years.

In the past when I argued with exes about the seat, my reasoning went like this: I need the seat down 100% of the time. You need the seat down 25% of the time. 125% v. 75% wins, so seat down, please.

I'm fucking picky about how the toilet paper goes on the roller, too.

[max-greece]

Both seats down in our house when you flush.

Basically there's a Mythbusters episode that covers what happens when you flush after a crap - a fine mist of water is given off - containing e-coli and a plethora of other gut bacteria.

Put both seats down when flushing and that mist is not dispersed around the bathroom - onto your toothbrushes and the like.

[Mystical]

is it shitty to not to want to fall in the toilet? statistically girls are more prone to do so since we sit at all times. You're asking a human being to be 100% accurate 100% of the time knowing human nature dictates the opposite. You know what overcomes human nature though? habit. If it is a habit to open and close the seat then inconsistencies can be avoided. Really I don't mind looking before sitting unless its night time. I'd be happy to put the seat down but the idea of germ esplosions make it mandatory to shut the lid.

[Owlix]

Aye.

Look before you leap,


and


before you sit.

[Whateverist]

A side benefit to having all sons is a convincing argument for seat up.(Majority rules, bitches!)

Besides, seat down we'll just piss all over it anyway...

You the man! Way to represent.

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Dare I say it. I did once sit into it with the seat up, late at night while half asleep. Gentle reader, it did not feel good.

[FlyingNarwhal]

I live alone, but rule in my apartment is seat up. Even made a sign for it for any lady friends that may wander in.

[Owlix]

I put this in the bathroom of a boyfriend at the time, and he still has it there today....

[Mystical]

right Whateverist?!?! its one of the worst feelings imagineable innit? The. Worst.

[Esquilax]

is it shitty to not to want to fall in the toilet? statistically girls are more prone to do so since we sit at all times. You're asking a human being to be 100% accurate 100% of the time knowing human nature dictates the opposite. You know what overcomes human nature though? habit. If it is a habit to open and close the seat then inconsistencies can be avoided. Really I don't mind looking before sitting unless its night time. I'd be happy to put the seat down but the idea of germ esplosions make it mandatory to shut the lid.

I put the seat down out of habit every time, but just thinking about this line of logic, it actually makes no sense: can you name a single other situation, forum goers, where if you sit down without looking and something bad happens to your butt, you would blame someone else? Assuming it's not the result of someone intentionally trying to make bad stuff happen to your butt, like a prank or something.

Because, removing the decades of media reinforcement of this toilet seat thing, this is what you're actually doing, wet-assed ladies: you're sitting down where there is no chair, falling on your ass, and then blaming the nearest available male, for not placing a chair where you tried to sit.

Put your own chair down!