MIL and the toilet seat

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your excuses ring hollow. If your boys are old enough to stand and pee, they can learn to lift and lower a toilet seat. It's not hard. Even my boys with SN, including fine/gross motor challenges and hypotonia do it. There are also a ton of devices that can assist - just go to Amazon.

Lifting/lowering a toilet seat is good manners. It's also a lot easier to learn than cleaning urine splatters and drips. I shudder to think how disgusting your bathroom is.

Team MIL

This is not about the toilet seat, it’s the lid. I never open or close it. Why?

I don't even know what this means. There's a lid. If you never open it, it's either open all the time, or you're peeing all over it. It's meant to be used. It keeps particles from flying into the air and provides a seat when needed (like if kids in tub, or waiting turn at the sink). Do your guests a favor, put it down when you're done and train your family members to do the same.

How am I peeing on the lid if it's open and I am sitting on the seat? And more importantly, how can you pee in a toilet if the lid is closed while you use it> LOL

[Anonymous]

Team MIL. Toilets should be completely closed.

Lift lid, use toilet, close lid, flush.

It's especially gross if you keep your toothbrushes out on the counter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.
Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.

No.

[Anonymous]

Lids down because otherwise things are more likely to fall into the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is petty but I find myself triggered and wonder if this is as egregious as MIL makes it out to be.

We have kids. I don’t leave the toilet seat lid down. We’ve had it come crashing down on fingers, pinching and troubles lifting it, etc. It’s just easier for the kids to leave it up at all times. MIL is completely put off by the toilet seat being left up. I’d say 75% of the time I go in and put it down when I know she’s coming over. I remind the kids to remember to put it down if we have company, but they often forget. Whenever she comes over and uses the bathroom and finds the lid up, she has to make a dramatic scene about it upon reentering the room. I’m so tired of it and want to put a stop to it, but I don’t know what to say.

Just remove the lids if you aren’t going to use them anyway.

[Anonymous]

OMG. Teach your children to put down the lid. It is a good life lesson that will help them as teens and adults.

I mean, I agree with previous posters that hygienically, it's documented how fecal matter is expelled with every flush.

Beyond that, it is so important to teach your kids that there are cultural niceties we engage in as respectable people. I'd add - replace the toilet paper roll when you use it up, putting your dishes in the dishwasher, etc. Nobody wants to do these things, but we do them because it's the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.
Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.

No.

This may be the laziest thing I have ever written. Holy crap. I shudder to think about things that actually take effort that you aren't doing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.
Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.

No.

This may be the laziest thing I have ever written. Holy crap. I shudder to think about things that actually take effort that you aren't doing.

Whoops! Edit! Laziest thing I have ever seen written!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is petty but I find myself triggered and wonder if this is as egregious as MIL makes it out to be.

We have kids. I don’t leave the toilet seat lid down. We’ve had it come crashing down on fingers, pinching and troubles lifting it, etc. It’s just easier for the kids to leave it up at all times. MIL is completely put off by the toilet seat being left up. I’d say 75% of the time I go in and put it down when I know she’s coming over. I remind the kids to remember to put it down if we have company, but they often forget. Whenever she comes over and uses the bathroom and finds the lid up, she has to make a dramatic scene about it upon reentering the room. I’m so tired of it and want to put a stop to it, but I don’t know what to say.

1. She's right. It's disgusting to flush with the toilet seat up
2. They make soft close toilet seats, your excuses are stupid.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of how some people at my work were freaking out about return to office, and tried to insist that lids be installed on the toilets in the stalls to prevent COVID from flying around when people flushed.

[Anonymous]

I haven’t read all the comments but bottom line (no pun intended), whether it’s gross or not, it’s your house and she’s a guest. If she wasn’t a relative but a neighbor or friend, she wouldn’t come in having heebie jeebies about it in front of everyone.

When she brings it up, say things like, oh here we go again. Yes, MIL, we know - you only bring it up every time you pee. You do your house, we do ours. Or whatever. Just because she’s your MIL doesn’t mean she has the right to comment on how you live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team MIL. Toilets should be completely closed.

Lift lid, use toilet, close lid, flush.

It's especially gross if you keep your toothbrushes out on the counter.

+100

As a parent of 3 boys I will also say, teaching them to close then flush also solves the problem of them leaving the toilet seat up after peeing - at a certain point it becomes 2nd nature for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.
Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.

No.

This may be the laziest thing I have ever written. Holy crap. I shudder to think about things that actually take effort that you aren't doing.

Whoops! Edit! Laziest thing I have ever seen written!

I understood you, but did not care and still do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I couldn’t help myself and just did the “test” and sadly my American Standard toilet did not spray ANY of the green dyed water onto the printer paper I placed around the floor of my bathroom. Y’all lied.

That’s because the spray went on your walls and countertops. Leave the paper there through several flushes - you’ll see.

The problem is that the lid doesn’t actually solve this problem. Aerosolized fecal matter stays in the air over the water in the bowl; it’s released when the lid is open again. It has been studied—not just by Mythbusters.

I'll take decreased aerosolized fecal matter over full spray every day of the week.

At the price of messing around with a toilet lid, I’ll pass.

Just how do you think a toilet lid works? No tools are required. Lower lid gently. Done.

Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.
Then raise it again.
Then lower it again.

No.

This may be the laziest thing I have ever written. Holy crap. I shudder to think about things that actually take effort that you aren't doing.

Whoops! Edit! Laziest thing I have ever seen written!

I understood you, but did not care and still do not.

Ok, but you're still extremely lazy. Do you also just leave your microwave door open? I know - you're one of those people that doesn't bother shutting their drawers or cabinet doors?