Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for January 20, 2022

If my wife checked if I leave the lid up or down every time I go to the bathroom, we would not be married for much longer.

I grew up with three sisters. I learned my lesson at a very young age.

After a certain point, that is everyman’s future.

Just hiding the fact it’s now stopped up

I don’t understand. If it is “common courtesy” for me to put the lid down for her, why isn’t it courteous for her to leave the seat up for me?

Everyone, has to put the toilet lid down, prevents the chance of anything falling in. Plus it, eh, keeps the splashing down to a minimum, when flushing happens.

I never saw the problem with this. If a guy is smart enough to check the lid to see if it is in the proper position for what he has to do and move it if it isn’t why can’t women be just as smart.

There was a time when both of my sisters-in-law visited for a week with their children. One had 4 girls ages 8 to 16 and the other had a boy 6 and a girl 3.

The girls outnumbered the boys 8 to 2.

I took my nephew aside and told him that the only way we could battle back against the tsunami of estrogen was if we left the seat up. Passive resistance was all we could muster.

After Hubby saw the Myth Busters episode on toilet-splashing, HE is the one who insists that the lid is DOWN before the toilet is flushed. Most modern bathrooms are small, and you really don’t want that stuff flying all over your toothbrush and face cloth. Besides you often have to lean over the bowl to reach the handle, so you risk a face full.

A stranger in the John?

To be fair: https://www.instagram.com/moistbuddha/p/CYhRFGqvsIG/

It took the lid to tip you off.. not his.. um, size? Just how long have you been married.

He’s seeing another woman.

My mother never taught me that I had a right to expect the seat to be down. I have had a much happier life because of that.

I grew up with six brothers. My sainted mother taught us to put the seat and the lid down by making us clean the toilet, most times right after we used it.

danged if you do; danged if you don’t…

That’s when it’s best to have his and her bathrooms.

Men have smaller bladders than women, which means they go to the bathroom more often. No reason men should have to manipulate the toilet lid more than women. Find something else to gripe about.

I always leave the seat up. It’s my way of saying to anyone who comes in after me “If someone peed all over the seat, it wasn’t me”

The “crisis” that will set this debate off seems to be when the woman “falls” in. In a mixed household this is indeed a too common occurrence. In that same household the males will “fall” in perhaps once in seven years. The difference is who always checks before they sit down. The common thread here seems to be the cover! If EVERYONE puts the cover down then EVERYONE raises either the cover and/or seat before proceeding.

The antidote that always amuses me is when a woman will stress that the very first thing that they teach the son is to put the seat down. (this seems to overwhelming from one raised in an all female household, sometimes multi-generational). I always reply that NO. the first thing you will teach them is to put the seat up!! Think about it.

Lids work both ways you know.

And the paper rolls off from the top!

In the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I recall an early scene where the town doctor is discussing several calls from people claiming that some family member isn’t really their wife, husband, brother, etc. Seems to me that behavior like this would be a tip-off.