What is a polite way to ask male houseguests to return the toilet seat to its intended position? I've been passively aggressively slamming it down everytime I go in there, and after several visits to our home, that isn't working.
What is a polite way to ask male houseguests to return the toilet seat to its intended position? I've been passively aggressively slamming it down everytime I go in there, and after several visits to our home, that isn't working.
^^^ Obviously, they don't understand subtlety. I'd just tape the toilet seat down and tell them it's broken so they have to use the gas station down the street!![]()
Put a note up saying "A woman lives here and pays for this toilet. Please put the seat down."
Slamming it won't accomplish anything than a broken seat.
Why can't you just ask them? They need to learn manners.
Guys don't understand subtlety. Just remind them to return the seat back to where they found it before they go to the bathroom in a light way.
Ugh. Drives my nuts. My husband always puts it down but my parents are with me and my dad never does. I touched water yesterday. Yucky.
This gave me funny mental pictures.
I would put a post-in on the toilet saying "Please put the seat down when you are finished. Thank you." A painless reminder when they're actually paying attention. That or tape a picture of Jesus to the underside of the toilet. Yep, Jesus is watching...better wash your hands too!
I'm lucky because Boyfriend doesn't stand to pee (he has to be close to the toilet because he's pierced and the pee doesn't come out in a stream), so this is only an issue when we have male houseguests.
I'm already overlooking the very serious issue that I have with male spray (they all do it, no matter how good they aim!!)...why can't they all just fucking sit!!!
And we only have one bathroom, otherwise, I wouldn't give a damn.
Don't you look before you sit down?





I have learned to pay attention and put the seat down before I sit. They have to pay attention and put it up before they pee, so simply looking before I sit and taking a whopping 1 second to put the seat down doesn't seem so unreasonable to me.
^^^ Yes, but it's really nasty to have the toilet wide open and yawning germs when no one's using it.
I'm so very happy that K doesn't have a problem remembering to put the seat down. I suppose these trashy men didn't have mothers to teach them any manners. I would put up a note or ask them to please return the seat (and lid) to the proper position.
A few times (usually when drunk) K has forgotten and left the seat up. When this happens I usually come out of the bathroom and say loudly, "Don't worry about putting the seat down, honey, I did it FOR you!" I'm a little snot.





For some reason when I was reading this I thought of a lil sign I saw above a toilet once:
If you sprinkle when you tinkle
Please be neat and wipe the seat.
LOL! I'm a dork!
I hate when I forget to look before sitting and I fall in. That's one surprise that pisses me off! But it's my own fault. Or is it his for forgetting?! IDK.
^ LOL. I saw a sign once that said
" We aim to please.
You aim too, please."
I have another problem. My boyfriend doesn't lift the seat to pee, he leaves it down and ends up peeing on the seat, and then I sit down on pee.
So I started looking before I sat down and if I saw pee drops on the seat, I would call him in and make him wipe them off. After awhile, he got into the habit of checking the seat and wiping it off.





Oh! I know! Why not buy one of those musical greeting cards, and pull the little music thingy out and attach it to the toilet seat. That way when he lifts the seat, the music starts playing and doesn't stop until he puts the seat back down again.
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Personally, I want the lid down too unless the thing's in use. And, I don't think a typical male response to things slamming is an introspective consideration of what one should be doing differently. So, that probably won't tell them much of anything.
"He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"





"He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"




*shrugs* If he has to put it up, I can put it back down. Equality and whatnot. I grew up with all guys though.




Guy #1: I'd totally hit that.
Guy #2: Dude, I'd hit that so hard whoever could pull me out would become the King of England.





I've been living with my boyfriend for two years. Since the very beginning, I never said anything about the toilet seat and he always leaves it up. Any boyfriends I had over before, I bitched and moaned about it, but for some reason I just always zipped my lips for H. Oh well, pick your battles. Maybe the secret to a happy relationship is a misplaced toilet seat. Maybe I've been drinking too much vodka?
As far as house guests, I don't really know... seems like if they don't hear the slamming of the seat, it's not something on their mind. Maybe there's a cute sign out there somewhere that says to put the seat down. Like the ones people have that say "We don't swim in your toilet, so don't pee in our pool" Or whatever.





Or you could always install chains...
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