https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:22:21 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-345374 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:20:22 +0000 pinkcupcake 345374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a huge phobia of public restrooms. I hover (I'm awesome at it from years of peeing in disgusting, puke-ridden club bathrooms), flush w/my foot, turn off the water w/a paper towel (if the paper towel dispenser has a button, I'll dispense the paper towel before I start washing my hands so I don't have to touch the button w/clean hands), and open the door w/a paper towel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-345191 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:10:47 +0000 MamaMoose 345191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use toilet seat covers or TP to line the seat. I don't hover unless it's a really nasty situation like a porta potty. I would miss. And it's hard for me to get a flow going while hovering. I actually wish people would stop hovering unless they are spectacularly skilled. I can't tell you how many times I've seen splatter on the seat from unskilled squatters. In that case I will wait for another stall to open. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-345182 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:08:39 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 345182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup I sit on the toilet. I always check it first though. I tried to hover when I was like 8 and I peed all over my pants. I was mortified. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-345126 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:46:21 +0000 wheres_c 345126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: @kiddosc: @oliviaoblivia: @MediaNaranja: @MrsBrewer: </p> <p>Add me to the gross list! I do use my foot to flush though - I thought that is what you're "supposed" to do. The handles are so far away and low to the ground in the US. In the UK i flush with my hand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-345027 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:14:22 +0000 serendipity 345027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't tried hovering yet, does it leave a wet mess? I don't know why sometimes the toilet seat cover if completely wet with urine. I always thought it was a child but could be one with poor hovering skills? That could be me if I tried. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344976 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:01:09 +0000 Mrs. Pen 344976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: very similar!!!</p> <p>I line the toilet seat with toilet paper then sit. But if it's a really nice bathroom (say at a wedding hall) I won't do that. If it's a really gross bathroom (side of a gas station) I will squat. In fact, since having DS I will often squat while holding him up... it's seriously a work out!</p> <p>Then I always flush with my foot, and use paper towels to open the door. I love the bathrooms that have the garbage next to the door! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344972 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:58:35 +0000 tororojo 344972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I squat only if the seat is gross looking. I flush all handles with my foot. I prefer to open the door with a paper towel when I leave. Not toooo crazy, I don't think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344905 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:25:52 +0000 MrsBrewer 344905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I honestly think that if I tried to hover I would fail, have pee dripping down my legs....or I would lose my balance and fall! Althought to be quite frank, I think my legs are too short to hover anyways... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344900 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:24:39 +0000 autumnlove 344900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hover! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344893 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:21:44 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 344893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hover about half the time and use my foot to flush. Then I wash my hands and go on my way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344888 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:20:09 +0000 MrsBrewer 344888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, sit, pee, wipe, flush, wash hands, and leave! I'm one of the "gross" ones I guess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344886 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:20:03 +0000 MediaNaranja 344886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: @kiddosc: @oliviaoblivia: I'll join you guys in the gross club, I guess. </p> <p>I've spent a lot of time living in third world countries, and the worst public restrooms in the US don't even compare with what I had to use every day for 3+ years. Pretty much no restroom will phase me now.</p> <p>I can't poop in public restrooms, though! That is a strictly at-home activity, ha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344868 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:10:25 +0000 Foodnerd81 344868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends. If the seat looks clean, I'll sit, but if I'm somewhere icky like the mall or an airport, or it looks not clean, I hover. I'm pretty good at hovering, but I had a lot of practice in nasty bar bathrooms in college. Always flush with my foot-- largely because I know other people do and I don't want MY hand basically touching the floor! I'm less careful about using the paper towels to turn off the faucet or open the door though, which is dumb, since it's the last thing you touch as opposed to everything I avoid touching BEFORE washing my hands.<br /> BUT, can we talk about people not washing their hands in public restrooms? Ew! Do what you want at home, but I've seen people in my work bathroom just dip their finger tips under the water and dry them. That's not washing! THEN I use the paper towel trick. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344850 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:06:00 +0000 cheert16 344850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I avoid public restrooms as much as I can- if it is an emergency I will TP the seat an flush with tp on my hand so I don't touch the lever! But I try to avoid as much as I can... I have public bathroom phobias! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344842 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:03:51 +0000 oliviaoblivia 344842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JustlikeHeaven: awesome.</p> <p>@highwire: @kiddosc: I'm with you gross girls. If I have to use a public restroom I just use it like I'd use it at home. I do carry hand sanitizer as back up though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344799 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:53:29 +0000 DpeachLu 344799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty sure we should all get this. Especially the squaters.<br /> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=rbi90y"><img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/rbi90y.jpg" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" /></a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344788 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:50:15 +0000 PurplePumps 344788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine's the same, except I flush with my foot. Even if the flusher is placed pretty high (like a button at shoulder height)... I have a high kick and will still use my foot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344786 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:49:59 +0000 DillonLion 344786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alivoo01: I have zero hovering skills. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344782 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:49:38 +0000 Rubies 344782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put toilet paper on the seat and sit - if I hover, I end up peeing all over my pants! LOL! I flush with my foot and open the door with my sleeve. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344781 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:49:04 +0000 kiddosc 344781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: I'm the same way, we can both be gross. I've never developed some sort of strange rash on my tush from sitting on the toilet seat and I feel like it's the hover-ers that are most likely to get the seat all gross. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344778 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:46:58 +0000 Alivoo01 344778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put down toilet paper on the seat before I go or use the provided wax seat covers, I only hover if I absolutely have to. I struggle to go pee if I hover or I end up making a mess by trickling pee or pee that somehow isn't "aimed" right(???). </p> <p>I always flush the toilet with my feet and I generally open the door with the paper towel also. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344772 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:44:38 +0000 DillonLion 344772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nothing special. Go in, drop trou, pee, flush, wash hands, leave. I guess I am gross. I wish people wouldn't use their foot to flush the toilet because then my hand basically touches the bathroom floor since your shoe was there before you used it to flush LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344771 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:44:38 +0000 DpeachLu 344771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Place two seat covers over toilet, or toilet paper if there are no covers. Squat over toilet.. if toilet isnt automatic I use my shoe to push/kick down or in the lever. (i do all this without ever ever touching the toilet.) I usually kick the seat covers with my foot if they dont fall in on their own (when im done)</p> <p>wash my hands, grab paper towels open door with paper towels.<br /> Then I<br /> grab hand sanitizer in purse or diaper bag and use it.. when im out of restroom.</p> <p>I never thought to prepare paper towels before hand.. but many restrooms dont have paper towels and they have those air drier things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344769 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:43:40 +0000 Mrs. Bee 344769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: oh I never touch the seat either, and must admit I use my foot to flush too! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344765 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:42:28 +0000 Arden 344765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do that too. Hover, never touch the seat, flush with my foot, wash hands, open door with the paper towel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-have-an-elaborate-ritual-for-using-public-restrooms#post-344761 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:39:58 +0000 Mrs. Bee 344761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is mine: squat over the toilet seat. If it doesn't have auto flush, get some toilet paper and flush the handle.</p> <p>Prepare the paper towels. Wash hands and wipe, then shut off water faucet with paper towel. Use that paper towel to open the bathroom door.</p> <p>I'm not the only one am I ? </p>