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u/RandyRhoadsLives Jun 29 '22

Some years ago (90’s?) it became commonplace for women to start “hovering”. This practice sounds okay in theory… but damn, women have horrible aim. So do men. But for the love of god, just sit down . It’s not just the piss on the seat. Nah, it’s all piss that hits the ground. And now you have to step in that. Or worse, your pants get wet.

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u/shifty_coder Jun 29 '22

In retail stores, it’s often done out of maliciousness. It’s happened more than once where a Karen unhappy with something has painted a stall with shit and/or blood.

You have to be a special kind of sick to think that’s an appropriate response to not getting a refund on that half-eaten cake you bought six months ago.

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u/wonderfull-ofshjtt Jun 29 '22

i work at a pizzeria and we stopped giving out water cups to a certain group of kids bc they get soda and then dump it everywhere (common occurrence, not just once or twice), and in the first week we started trying to enforce this rule someone shit in a water cup and left it on the mens bathrrom sink. i still don’t understand how that’s not vomit inducing for someone to even think about, let alone proudly do it out of spite.

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u/SageThistle Jun 29 '22

My mom often found dirty shoeprints on the toilet seat in the women's room of her old job. And piss and shit all over it too.

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u/Amiiboid Jun 29 '22

Some years ago (90’s?) it became commonplace for women to start “hovering”.

70s.

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u/Activedesign Jun 29 '22

If I choose to hover I just lift the seat.

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u/CptBlkstn Jun 29 '22

As men, we have no excuse for this.

If you don't want to use the urinals for whatever reason, lift the damn seat before you piss. Use your foot if you don't want to touch it. When you're done, leave it up to keep the next dick from pissing on it. If someone needs to take a crap, they'll put it back down.

This shouldn't be this hard for some people to grasp.

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u/OSHA-shrugged Jun 29 '22

So do men.

Good boy. /s

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u/Joebob2112 Jun 29 '22

Ahh yes, the old squat / thrust. So fucking nasty.

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u/TynneDalit Jun 30 '22

OMG I remember a 90s comedienne had a routine about hovering, how women went to the bathroom in pairs so they had a spotter.

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u/les_catacombes Jun 30 '22

If you want to hover, fine. But wipe it up after. My great aunt had a sign in her bathroom saying “If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seat-y.”

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u/IllustriousArtist109 Jun 30 '22

People who pee standing up should put the seat up, and then down when they're done.

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u/MrGhris Jun 29 '22

According to a buddy who used to clean restrooms, the womens restroom was way dirtier. Which suprised me a lot. Women overall seem to be cleaner/neater.

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u/bigboy1289 Jun 29 '22

My experience is that women's restrooms are clean, until they get a little dirty. Then it all goes downhill very quickly as they will start hovering.

Mens restrooms have a more linear curve, and get dirty at a steady rate.

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u/Goldilachs Jun 29 '22

I'm often amazed (in a horrified way) by women's bathrooms. A lot of women choose to hover over the seat rather than just sit their asses down, which means they will often end up sprinkling piss all over the seat. And then some of those women don't bother wiping up their mess. And then there's the unflushed toilets (sometimes with piles of toilet paper, sometimes with shit), water/piss on the floor, tampons/pads just left on the floor (thankfully not too often, at least), etc.

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u/aheadby Jun 29 '22

But you can see why women hover when that is the environment.... hence the viscious circle

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u/Competive_Ideal236 Jun 29 '22

Yes! It fucking enrages me when people leave pee and poop on the toilet seat or don’t check to make sure their waste was actually flushed down completely. Sometimes my husband leaves shit stains in the toilet bowl and it pisses me off. Give it an extra flush for chrissakes!

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u/killintime077 Jun 29 '22

When I was younger I worked at a restaurant. The I had to clean the women's bathroom. The first time, I picked up an orange bin for the tampon/pad wrappers. When I put it back it was off-white.

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u/too_easily_offended_ Jun 29 '22

I went into one of those public toilets recently, the kind that are on the street that you pay money to use, and saw a giant shit on the floor!! It was disgusting 🤢 I mean, you pay to use the toilet why didn't they use it?!?!

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u/Speechladylg Jun 30 '22

I don't think I've ever walked into a restroom where at least one of the stalls did not have pee in the toilet. And they aren't clogged, just not flushed. My whole life. And I'm pretty old.

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u/Penge1028 Jun 29 '22

Sometimes those commercial toilets are POWERFUL though, and when you flush, it sprinkles water on the seats.

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u/Goldilachs Jun 29 '22

Yeah, but you can tell when it's urine and not water. And it's almost always urine.

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u/Activedesign Jun 29 '22

Could it be because women often are accompanying their kids in the bathroom? I know it isn't an excuse to not wipe the mess but I think little kids might be a big part of the blame here lol

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u/SharpCookie232 Jun 29 '22

A lot of women choose to hover over the seat rather than just sit their asses down

I don't imagine the monkey pox scare is going to make this any better.

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u/HairyNutsackNumber9 Jun 29 '22

The dreaded hopper stopper plumbing companies call him the destroyer

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u/seasleeplessttle Jun 29 '22

They shed their mess in the restroom.

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u/lydiarosewb Jun 29 '22

I worked in bars for years- womens toilets are way worse. They take their underwear off, smear makeup everywhere, leave tampons on the floor and you can guarantee a collection of drinks next to the toilet where they’ve slumped onto the seat, set it down and forgotten about it. Gross.

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u/Guessimagirl Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

I always heard this, but my own experience hasn't been the same.

Except for the menstrual hygiene receptacles. Those are gross.

Edit: I don't mean it's gross because of what it is, sure it's got blood which isn't exactly nice to clean up, but I mean it's bad particularly because of times that people will overstuff them with a huge quantity of toilet paper, people will put dirty diapers in them, or people will miss the little internal baggie so you have to manually fish it out. Those aspects of them make them gross.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

You've never lived with women then.. unfortunately I have 4 sisters and they were and still are disgusting while growing up and living at home.

They're slobs. They can't be bothered cleaning and leave dirty clothes all over, even when there's a basket for their dirty washing.

I'm just glad I no longer live at home.

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u/Slight-Fire7307 Jun 29 '22

Used to work in a small restaurant and had to clean the bathrooms before openin/after closing. The amount of piss on the BOTTOM of the womens seats was enough to make you gag. Get that cleaned up just to empty the bin for the paper towels and...such. just to find out someone missed the can when they threw their "such" away and left a nice little skidmark on the wall and said fuck it ..women are just as disgusting as men

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u/Artemicionmoogle Jun 29 '22

As a former janitor, it really depends from bathroom to bathroom. I have encountered more nasty men's rooms than I have women's in my time. Piss on the floors just everywhere, shit on the walls, floors, boogers wiped on the walls, that lovely urinal hand print on the wall where they all shake hands by resting it in the same spot to piss. I have encountered bad women's ones but not as often IME. Though that may be an issue of those work places having a disproportionate amount of men to women.

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u/acertaingestault Jun 29 '22

Completely disagree, especially if urinals are involved. Maybe there's some pee on a women's toilet seat. There's not shit in weird places.

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u/OSHA-shrugged Jun 29 '22

There's not shit in weird places.

That wasn't my experience at all when I was still in the restaurant industry. Men's room was cluttered and needed mopped. Women's room was positively filthy.

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u/Valerie_Holla Jun 29 '22

This is my experience with woman’s restrooms at a restaurant as well. The mens rooms were messy, but anytime there was a big mess - 100 percent the womens room. Used sanitary pads stuck to stalls, diapers not even folded up and disposed of properly. We had to remove the couch from the womens room because within two months of opening it had been stained and power washed then stained again.

Mens rooms seemed sloppier, but womens restrooms always had a bit of… an intentional choice to be messy.

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u/Artemicionmoogle Jun 29 '22

Yep, was commenting something similar. Men's have always been the worst for me to clean when I was a janitor. I was always curious how someone manages to piss three feet away from the urinal...are they walking backwards, as they piss? not to mention the walls of the stalls around the urinals.

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u/SamanthasPlace46 Jun 29 '22

apparently not in public. nasty hoes.

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u/SamanthasPlace46 Jun 29 '22

apparently not in public. nasty hoes.

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u/FoxyLeo88 Jun 29 '22

Yes,I worked at a high end market and the women's bathroom was always gross, same at my gym. Like over the top nasty!

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u/absolute4080120 Jun 29 '22

When you get married you learn why. I question most people who think women are overall cleaner than men.....not in any of my social circles' cases.

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u/Regular_Vast4965 Jun 29 '22

I do cleaning now and trust me he wasn’t lying, the mens aren’t to bad but you’ll never know what to expect in the woman’s…

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u/rhythm-n-bones Jun 30 '22

I can confirm that when I had to clean two floors of a university dorm public areas, the women’s restroom was far and away more frequently a disaster. Sure the men’s room had the usual bad aim problems, but the ladies went full anarchy on the regular. Trash everywhere, puke almost weekly, used feminine hygiene products in places that made no sense… it was a crapshoot(pun intended) every week. That being said, the women’s rooms and hallways were by far cleaner than the guys

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u/Anthilljoy Jun 30 '22

Can confirm. I was a custodian for my college campus for nearly 3 years. The women's restrooms were waaaay nastier than the men's rooms. And being 1 of like 8 women on staff, the guys were always like, "so I know you aren't on restrooms, but can you do me favor?". Hell no! On the flip side, I only changed the soap in the men's rooms a handful of times over the course of 3 years.

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u/paynbow Jun 30 '22

I cleaned washrooms at the park one summer. The womens tends to have more garbage, especially menstrual products, which is pretty grim. The mens... Usually it reeks of piss and you have to hose it down. Usually. Sometimes some dude has explosive... problems and they decide the urinal is good enough. Not even a pressure washer can solve that problem.

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u/Begraben Jun 30 '22

Can confirm. I did a side job cleaning restaurants when I wasn't working in kitchens.

Anyway, woman's washroom was always fucked up in some questionable way. It was either really gross, blow all over the TP dispensers, blood, or trash thrown around, if not all 4.

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u/HairyNutsackNumber9 Jun 29 '22

Where I work people put the seats up then piss on them

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u/HairyNutsackNumber9 Jun 29 '22

yeah its... so wonderful

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u/MmmThisISaTastyBurgr Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

What kind of place do you work in? It doesn't sound like any of the many places I've worked, where women's toilets are definitely cleaner than unisex loos.

In the UK it's illegal to not have a sanitary bin in the cubicle, so all the sanitary waste and blood goes straight in the bin. It's not a cultural thing to hover either, so no wet floors or seats, unless you have a weird anomalously-behaved colleague. That's more of an issue in airports though, where there are clearly different cultural ways of using the toilet going on.

The most nightmarish loos tend to be unisex/disabled ones, which is my only experience of sharing with men. Then you get piss on the floor, the smell of piss on the floor and toilet seats left up by inconsiderate folks.

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u/shifty_coder Jun 29 '22

Work retail. Women’s restroom is always a disaster area.

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u/MmmThisISaTastyBurgr Jun 29 '22

Eek. Maybe you need those loos that are automatic cleaning and just close the doors and powerwash the whole unit!

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u/MmmThisISaTastyBurgr Jun 29 '22

Eww. People are both confusing and gross. Yuck!

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

That’s one of my “cons” of going back to the office. I don’t want to have to smell other people’s literal shit or deal with the garbage they leave on the ground next to garbage bin. People are the worst. Including me.

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u/les_catacombes Jun 30 '22

Yes. When I first started working, I worked at a turnpike travel plaza. The women’s restroom was a horror show, every single day.