Public Bathroom Question

When you go to a Public Bathroom for #1... How do you go?

Me, I squat. Refuse to touch anything. I even flush with my foot (if it's not an automatic flusher).

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I use the toilet seat cover, then proceed to add another layer of TP for extra precaution.

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Use the liner. Your keyboard is dirtier then most any public rest room.

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I squat.

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I hold my pocketbook in my teeth, because there is no hook to put it on, hold the door closed with some toilet paper and my hand bc the latch doesn't work...

Then I squat, hoping not to get any on me, then reach for the toilet paper, which I now see has just fell off the toilet paper holder and is now unraveling itself on the floor.

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Posted by anonttcer


Crabs on the other hand...
Yeah I can see those suckers living on a seat for a while.
Never thought of that before- thanks for bringing it up!

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I voted squat.

The only public toilet seat I SOMETIMES will sit on is the one here at work because only me and 1 other girl use it and I know her well. I figure that if I went to her house I'd sit on her seat- and if she came to mine I wouldn't mind her sitting on mine...
So it's pretty much the same thing if you think about it...

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Posted by anonttcer

Posted by My3girlsMylife

Posted by BunnyWife

Use the liner. Your keyboard is dirtier then most any public rest room.

Can you get crabs from sitting on the toilet ,herpes ,or any other infections? This is a question ,I am not being sarcastic.

I read up on this once and I don't think you can get most disease like that from a toilet seat. Most of these things can't live outside the human body for very long, if at all.

Crabs on the other hand...
Yeah I can see those suckers living on a seat for a while.
Never thought of that before- thanks for bringing it up!

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I use the cover and flush with my foot.

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Posted by melbalalala



I think your fatal mistake is putting your pocketbook in your mouth.. I'm guessing the straps are pretty germy!

Message edited 4/3/2009 4:41:04 PM.

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I rarely squat. I actually read this causes you to not fully release urine from your bladder, which can cause urinary health problems.

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I use the cover. If there is nothing left then I put the toilet paper all over the seat.

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Posted by neener1211

Posted by melbalalala



I think your fatal mistake is putting your pocketbook in your mouth.. I'm guessing the straps are pretty germy!

you gotta do what you gotta do (I do wash the straps on my pocketbook btw)....it's better than letting the straps fall on the floor, then holding on to it for the rest of the day.

eta: I only do all of the above if using a public bathroom is absolutely necessary, otherwise I prefer to hold it till I get home.

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I squat, IF i even go in them.

I got impataco (sp?) when I was a child and it was from sitting on the seat in a public bathroom at the beach.

It was simmilar to chicken poxs, but it starts with one huge mother of a bump and then you get a ton of smaller bumps. I don't remember if I took meds or it went away on its own, but since a very yound age, I have learned to squat!!

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Posted by melbalalala

I was my straps too!!! My husband thinks Im a freak.

Normally, I'll shove my purse in my armpit if there is no hook. Or put the straps on my shoulder.

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I use the urinal....

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Posted by GoldenRod

I use the urinal....

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I normally squat. I've become quite good at it.

But, the best part of having young children is that my bag carries around many things, one of which are these potty seat covers! I've been known to use one and I have to say, they were quite nice!

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I sit right on the bowl. Unless there is visible wetness on it. Then I either wipe it with tp, or find another stall.

I've had to go in Penn Sta, dive bars, anywhere really, and I've suffered no ill effects.

FTR - I clean my own bowl daily so anyone who comes over (Kim-Coopersmom) - you don't have to worry about public germies being transferred onto my bowl.

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if we could catch all sorts of diseases, as some think, from sitting on a toilet bowl....we ALL would be sick constantly!

Besides, urine is sterile....you could drink it if need be (not that I would!! )