I’m right there with you on this one. I’ve literally shared a toilet my entire life with a large family, dozens of roommates over the years, etc and I’ve literally never once had somebody get after me for how the seat was left, nor have I even thought about the position of the seat before automatically setting it how I need before I go. I mean I get moving the lid down for sanitary reasons but just the seat down or up? Why’s it my job to predict who’s using the pot next and how they’ll want the seat configured? Should I prepare and deliver them wads of toilet paper too? Roll out a red carpet? Here’s what I’ll do, Imma put the whole fucken lid down, and then they can do whatever the hell they want when they get in there.
MudMan@fedia.io 1 week ago
Yeah, with a semi-large household there's a fairly even chance of anybody needing or wanting any sort of configuration on the toilet. But mostly you just... you know, put the whole lid down. For one so you don't spray your poop all over when you flush, for another because it... you know, looks nice.
I get wiping the edge if you're a peer-stander-upper. I get making sure there's paper left. I get cleaning the bowl (which Americans don't get because they poo in swimming pools, as it turns out). I don't get the argument about the toilet seat position specfiically.
Incidentally, I used to think the argument was about dudes not putting the seat up to pee and spraying their stuff all over the seat, plus the mist then leaking under and drying at the bottom, so if you don't wipe after yourself it ends up getting all crusty under there. For the longest time I assumed the argument was that people were mad at dudes peeing witht he seat down, and only later realized that's apparently not what people are mad about?