Lets talk toilet seats

My mother in law made a comment to me once about how she is surprised that I don't yell at my husband for leaving the toilet seat up. He usually puts it down. He overheard me say "I pick my battles. I'm not willing to fight over a toilet seat" The way it was received by his ears was "I like it when he leaves the seat up" For the next 4 days he left the toilet seat up every time. I calmly said "Although I'm not willing to fight about it, I would like to say that I do very much appreciate it when you put the toilet seat down when you're done"

We've had a constant battle about it since then. I know I will hear a lot of "Why should we always be the one to have to put it up and down" but come on, until you sit in piss on the toilet seat or sit in toilet water in the middle of the night you really don't have that much to complain about.

So guys, do you put the seat down when you're done or do you leave it up for your lady to sit in toilet water?

 

may i be so bold to say its a womans job to put the toilet seat down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Once you hear a splash, a screech and a few choice cuss words in the middle of the night, it goes down!

 

haha. My husband would experience more than that. We've tried to come to the conclusion that we both need to put both seats down when we are done. That way we both are responsible for putting it up and down. It's not working out so well though. When I got home from driving my friends home from Florida he said "I put both seats down the whole time you were gone" Apparently such courtesies go out the window when I'm actually home because it's been up since then.

 

I usually put it down. Occasionally I forget, but my wife doesn't mention it, because she's not the nagging type.

 

I actually replaced my nasty plastic toilet seat with a wooden one which is much better. Doesn't get so cold.

I usually put the lid down when I'm done, but sometimes I forget.

 

You could read to him what Dr Oz has to say about putting down both seat and lid.

"Mehmet Oz, MD, Cardiology
Toilets contain a bacterial line just below the water level called a bio-film. The bacterial bio-film is very difficult to remove even with household cleaners. Once airborne these micro-droplets land on everything within the flush zone: drinking cups, toys, children's toothbrushes, etc. Some of these pathogens live for a week on surfaces. Every toilet flush creates an unseen mist detected at head height and can travel up to 15 feet away from the toilet bowl—known as the "Aerosol Effect." Always put the toilet seat down before you flush the toilet because it will prevent some of the fecal particles from floating up and landing on every other bathroom surface, and keep your toothbrush covered."

 

I'm going to pass along this information and I'll let you know what he has to say about it.

 

Do women not look if the seats up or down before they sit?

 

Ladys are apparently not terribly observant when they have to go, and can't be bothered to look before they sit so I always put it down as a courtesy, if nothing else to avoid the inane argument.

 

It has a LID too! It took me a while to train my wife to use the lid.

 

It doesn't make any difference to me, really. If I need to pee and the seat is up, I just put it down. Easy peasy.

 

The real question is..

Why aren't these put in homes and apartments:


You all know men pissing in toilets is gross and messy (lid up or down).

Why are residential urinals so uncommon?

Just wondering.
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Also, I try to remember to put the seat down.

I've jumped onto the toilet before (in the middle of the night with the squirts) and landed on the rim.

I have to take a shower after that.

 

I know this sounds weird but I only pee standing up at a urinal. 20 yrs ago my fiance (before I met my wife) made a remark about having just cleaned the toilet seat and noticing that I came right in behind her and splashed everywhere and left the seat up. I started thinking about it and decided to sit down to pee. I have done it since (in my houses that is). No more mess no more seat up

 

I sent that to him right after I sent him a text that I was going to take a shower. The only response I got was he was disappointed I wasn't sending him a shower picture. No comment about poop particles.

I look but not in the middle of the night when the light is off.

We actually looked at a house that had a urinal in it. I was actually really excited about that but we didn't end up buying the house. Maybe in our next house. There is no room in our bathrooms in this house.

 

Me too. I pee sitting down. I guess it's a little cumbersome to shake yourself off when you're sitting down, but it's not too bad. I've been sitting down to pee so long and it feels so natural I'm not embarrassed at all to admit it. It doesn't make me a lady.

 

Ohhhhh, NOW he just piped up and said that he noticed that I didn't put the lid down in the downstairs bathroom today before I left for work. I pretended like I couldn't hear him talking

 

But isn't that the most important time to check? Because what if the lid is down as well? Talk about a mess to clean up.

 

Haha, very true but if you sit on the lid its not as messy as sitting in toilet water. Before I go to bed I always make sure the seat is down and he rarely wakes up in the middle of the night.

 

It is if you sit on the lid and go.

So that brings another question. Do ladies check to see if the lid actually up before sitting?