Toilet Seat.

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This is inspired from the following thread: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt246437.html

Do you sit on the toilet before looking at it? and why? And do you blame your spouse for not putting the seat down?

I look before I sit because I share my home with an 11 year old boy who leaves copious pools of urine all over the seat. I didn't use to look, but it seems that it is easier for me to look than it is for him to stop doing that.

I always look at the toilet before sitting down so there is no way I can fall in the toilet. I did once but only because it was the middle of the night and I didn't have the light on so I fell in when I sat because my husband didn't put it down. After that I started to feel it before I sat. In fact I am always putting the cover down because I can't stand looking in there.

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^^^Ouch.Maybe a good reason to get rid of a heavy lid.
I usually look,but I'm not tiny enough to get stuck.
I try to keep the lid down because I have shelves above the toilet and I don't want to accidentally knock something in there.
My son leaves the lid up all the time,I just put it down.No biggy.

I can't help but look, because as I walk into the bathroom, I see the toilet already. I'd rather not fall in.

One time when I was really young, my mother (who was obese at the time and lifted the toilet seat so she could use the bathroom) left the seat up and I forgot to look, and I took a dip in the toilet. I think that was the first time I ever swore.

I have to admit that I don't always look. My boys are pretty good about the seat, and I'm not always on top of my surroundings. I have taken an unexpected dip once or twice.

^^ * facepalm*

Do you Americans/Brits use invisible transparent toilet seats?? I've been laughing for two successive days on these forums.

I think it is because as children, little girls and boys usually live together as brother and sister and share a toilet. Little girls tend to toilet train earlier then boys and so to stop the little toddler girls taking a dip, the boys are taught to put the seat down.

Self intitled girls which are becoming more common place in western societies want everything "their way" as they are taught they can and deserve it. This is just one of the first things they remember as a child that they take into adulthood.

This is my theory anyway.

Yop, thats what I meant. With an grown up husband, I dont expect, to look everywhere, if he left something as its not supposed to be. And as the word toilette seat mentions, its supposed to be used while sitting. Thats what its designed for. That I need to look behind a child, if it lefts everything propperly is normal. But an adult, unable to use a toilette seat = use it and leave it as it was before, just as everything else in the house, so that noone else needs to go behind you and care that you leave everything the way it was, may it be kitchen, bath, toilette, ... is nothing that you expect from grown up people. You could as well say, that I need to expect, that you leave a mess in the kitchen, and that there could be something slippery on the floor, because of me needing to be aware, that men should be totally stupid, and so unknowing, that they would not know, that if you loose something slippery on the kitchen floor, that you clean that up, before leaving the kitchen.

But I dont think of men being that stupid. I relie on them, being totally able to use their brain as every other human being on earth and so not leaving the kitchen, when having lost something slippery on the floor, without cleaning that. You simply leave rooms, as you find them. Easy rule.