styxgirl
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Post by styxgirl on Jun 15, 2016 5:34:52 GMT
DD had a softball double-header tonight and we're in the middle of a warm spell. The heat is not too bad yet, but the humidity is crazy with no wind. So that = sweat! Well, I had to go to the restroom. It was more than just a hover-trip if YKWIM. Sooo ... I check the seat and the cover it with toilet paper before sitting down. I tended to my business and stood up ... The toilet paper was plastered to the back of my sweaty legs!! It was hot in there, and I was getting more sweaty by the second! Who would have thought they would have two-ply TP at the ball fields?! I went to pull it off and the first layer came apart from the second layer in shreds. I thought for sure I was gonna miss one have TP strips hanging out of my shorts! Then, the second layer was stuck to me like it has permanent scrapbook adhesive on it! It took me forever to get all of it off because it tore into little tiny pieces since it was so sweaty! YUK! LOL! What a mess! And the funny thing was, as I was standing in the bathroom peeling bits of sweaty TP off the back of my legs, I was thinking that I couldn't wait to get home and tell all of my Pea Buddies about my adventure in what NOT to do when you're sweaty and have to go! LOL! So, this PSA is to make sure you take a toilet brush and Pine-Sol to the ball fields with you when it's hot so that you can clean the toilet before you sit. That way, you don't have to use TP to cover the seat and get it GLUED to the back of your legs with sweat! LOLOL!
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Post by Yubon Peatlejuice on Jun 15, 2016 5:38:03 GMT
Or you can just hover
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styxgirl
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Post by styxgirl on Jun 15, 2016 5:40:43 GMT
My legs aren't strong enough to hover for the time I needed to be in there! LOL! KWIM?
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luvnlifelady
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Post by luvnlifelady on Jun 15, 2016 6:48:14 GMT
That is a funny story. Reminds me of the bathroom story of the woman who tried to do her own waxing and glued herself to the tub!
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blue tulip
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Post by blue tulip on Jun 15, 2016 12:06:35 GMT
next time roll/rub the tp off your legs with your fingers/palm in one direction. that should work better.
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TankTop
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Jun 28, 2014 1:52:46 GMT
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Post by TankTop on Jun 15, 2016 12:08:56 GMT
Lol!
This so would happen to me.
Last year I walked out of a ballpark restroom with my skirt in my undies. I saw several groups of women giggling and pointing, but nobody said anything. I have no doubt they would have let you walk around without saying anything to you either.
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scrappert
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Post by scrappert on Jun 15, 2016 12:36:44 GMT
Too funny!
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raindancer
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Post by raindancer on Jun 15, 2016 12:59:29 GMT
You should just sit down. The paranoia over sitting on the seat is so bizarre. I dot understand the fear. I am a germaphobe that has done research tracing ebola spread from a shared ball point pen in an ER and cholera spread following a natural disaster. Truly the amount of germs on your thighs from sitting down are the least of tour concerns in a public space.
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Post by bbkeef on Jun 15, 2016 13:02:24 GMT
This made me think of the Friend's episode when Ross wore leather pants and his date's apartment was really hot. Lol!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 15, 2016 13:02:44 GMT
Oh goodness! I can just imagine. But, no snark intended, how much protection against germs do you think 2-ply tp provides? I would just sit and wash up at home later.
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Post by cindosha on Jun 15, 2016 13:06:13 GMT
keep dude wipes in your purse...and use them to wipe the paper off of your legs...
cindy
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perumbula
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Post by perumbula on Jun 15, 2016 15:33:59 GMT
keep dude wipes in your purse...and use them to wipe the paper off of your legs... cindy or maybe the seat so you don't feel the need to line it with paper in the first place. Funny story. (I just sit. I also use my hand to flush because there is soap at the sink and I use it.)
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Post by kkooch on Jun 15, 2016 15:52:30 GMT
I can almost relate. The other week when I went to an event I used the porta potty and it was dang hot in there. Well hot outside too. So I go to get up (it was super clean so no hover) but when I got up the seat had stuck to my bottom. I get out and said to my bf did you hear that. He's like yeah what happened, I'm like the seat stuck to me! Too funny at the time though gross.
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 15, 2016 17:37:06 GMT
You could just sit on the toilet. You're not going to catch anything from a dry, poop and blood free toilet. Or you could carry wipes and wipe off the toilet seat and then sit on it.
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 15, 2016 20:11:33 GMT
keep dude wipes in your purse...and use them to wipe the paper off of your legs... cindy or maybe the seat so you don't feel the need to line it with paper in the first place. Funny story. (I just sit. I also use my hand to flush because there is soap at the sink and I use it.) I have gone to using my foot because sometimes there isn't soap. My Joann's had two dispensers and no soap yesterday. Not a germaphobe at all, but I was glad I used my foot. I personally would carry baby wipes in my purse if it bothered me that much. Or move to Colorado. Very little humidity.
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styxgirl
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Post by styxgirl on Jun 16, 2016 1:48:13 GMT
You could just sit on the toilet. You're not going to catch anything from a dry, poop and blood free toilet. Or you could carry wipes and wipe off the toilet seat and then sit on it. Yuk ... At least it was dry!
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styxgirl
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Post by styxgirl on Jun 16, 2016 1:49:18 GMT
or maybe the seat so you don't feel the need to line it with paper in the first place. Funny story. (I just sit. I also use my hand to flush because there is soap at the sink and I use it.) I have gone to using my foot because sometimes there isn't soap. My Joann's had two dispensers and no soap yesterday. Not a germaphobe at all, but I was glad I used my foot. I personally would carry baby wipes in my purse if it bothered me that much. Or move to Colorado. Very little humidity. Hahaha! I actually quit carrying a purse, darn it!
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Post by scrapmomof2 on Jun 16, 2016 2:14:09 GMT
Something from my favorite author.....
A Brief Disquisition on the Existence of Butt-cooties Posted on May 20, 2008 11:01 AM
A BRIEF DISQUISITION ON THE EXISTENCE OF BUTT-COOTIES (Gentlemen, kindly avert your eyes)
What with one thing and another, I’ve spent a lot of time in public restrooms. And, having been a scientist in my previous professional incarnation, I can’t help observing things, and drawing statistical inferences. Which is why I am in a position to inform you that roughly half the female population of the US suffer from the twin delusions that 1) butt-cooties exist, and 2) they will, given half a chance, leap several inches from a toilet seat and burrow into the skin of an unsuspecting buttock, resulting in scrofula, assorted STD’s, herpes, and probably leprosy.
I draw these conclusions from the fact that roughly half the time I enter a public restroom cubicle, I observe that the previous user has peed on the seat. Ladies…
I can only guess that at some point in an impressionable youth, these women were told by some female authority figure that One Must Never SIT On A Public Toilet, “because you might catch something.” Firmly indoctrinated with this policy, they do not sit on public toilets. They hover. Ladies, ladies…
Look. The skin of the buttocks is actually pretty germ-free, owing to the fact that we normally keep them covered and don’t (usually) touch other people, animals, etc. with them. Your butt is much cleaner—microbially-speaking—than are your hands.
Various studies of the bacterial content of public restrooms indicate that there are a LOT more germs on the door of said restroom than there are on any toilet seat therein. You acquire millions more microbes by shaking hands with someone than you would if our social system involved mutual butt-rubbing. (To say nothing of the teeming worlds of microorganisms you acquire every time you accept change from the counter-guy at Burger King. How many of you race to the bathroom and scrub your hands after ordering the meal, but before eating it?)
In order actually to catch one of the communicable diseases with which excrement or other bodily fluids are associated, two things would have to occur: 1) the bodily fluid of an infected person would have to be applied to the toilet seat (which would not happen, if said person would sit her bottom on the potty where it belongs and not spray the thing like a hippopotamus), and 2) an uninfected person’s mucous membranes must come in contact with said fluids, within the few seconds that most bacteria and virii can survive outside the human body. You don’t have mucous membranes on your buttocks.
Now, by and large, urine really doesn’t contain all that many bacteria (Male urine contains almost none, owing to the fact that its exit is, um, less impeded by surrounding tissue. A good many alchemical and medical recipes up through the early 19th century require “urine of a newborn male child” as an ingredient—this being the most sterile water available). Feces…well, yes. And I have in fact encountered the Really Nasty evidence that there are not only seat-pee-ers, but also seat-poopers (to say nothing of the occasional person who is so afraid of physically encountering a public toilet that they actually don’t hit it at all, and leave the evidence of their mental derangement on the floor of the facility), but this is fortunately rare.
All right. In periods of heavy traffic, one might possibly encounter a live bacterium or virus present in the urine that some inconsiderate idiot has left on a toilet seat. Not likely, but faintly possible. Are you going to encounter it with your mucous membranes? Not unless your excretory habits are both Highly Athletic and Dang Unusual.
OK. So if the risk of catching a bacterial or viral disease by sitting on a dry toilet seat is negligible, then plainly, the Thing to Fear must be…Butt-cooties!
Traveling as much as I do, I am in a position to collect international data, albeit in an anecdotal and unstandardized manner. On the basis of such casual observation, though, I hypothesize that while butt-cooties presently have a fairly wide global distribution, they probably originated in the United States. Speaking generally, at least fifty percent of all public toilets in US airports, convenience stores, museums, and restaurants indicate evidence of infestation (judging from the aversive techniques employed by the patrons). European toilets have a much lower incidence—perhaps 10-15%.
(Point of etiquette: ought one to meet the eyes of, and/or nod to, a person emerging from a toilet cubicle that one proposes to enter? Common politeness would argue for such cordial acknowledgement—but if the next few seconds reveal that the departing patron was possessed of butt-cooties, this might lead one to think harsh and unchristian thoughts of said person, and surely it’s worse to think unchristian thoughts (WWJD? I’m pretty sure He wouldn’t pee on a public toilet seat, and if He did, He would certainly wipe it off. Ditto the Buddha, and doubtless any other religious figure you care to name) about someone whose face is imprinted in your short-term memory, than of an unknown quantity.)
In fact, we might hypothesize the geographical origin of butt-cooties as having occurred in or near Chicago. On what basis? Well, of all the airports I’ve been in (and I’ve been in a lot of airports, from New Zealand to Saskatchewan), only O’Hare International has public toilets equipped with a sliding cylinder of plastic sheeting that encases the seats; you wave your hand in front of a magic button, and voila! The plastic slides round the seat, and you are presented with a pristine surface on which to park your booty. Such is the prevailing fear of butt-cooties, though, that people pee on these toilet seats, too.
Well, there’s no arguing with psychological aberration, and thus I make no attempt to persuade Those Who See Butt-Cooties away from their convictions. I would, though, urge them—in the most kindly manner—to address the results of their antisocial psychosis, and thus leave them with this classic advice:
“If you sprinkle when you tinkle—
Please be neat, and wipe the seat.”
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