Hi Jim,
Thanks for the invitation to a humorous thread. As to my opinion..I do not get all in a lather if the seat is left up or down, both have caught me unawares.
I have sat down when the lid was left down and did not notice because of the lighting, I have almost fallen when I have gone to sit down on one much lower than I anticipated. I have sat down in the bowl and got my butt all wet in the States because the water level is higher in the bowls that back in NZ and because the seat was not down.
The first time I used and flushed the toilet in the hotel in LA after I arrived I thought it was going to overflow because the water flushed away the same but then started to rise up to half way in the bowl which does not happen in NZ it stays in the base. More noise is made when you use the toilets here because of the water level, no getting away from it! *lol*
I have sat on a wooden seat and a plastic seat that had a crack in and caught my skin. The wood one hurts more.
I have used just about every outhouse style there was back in NZ from double seats (two inside at once beside each other!) and some outhouses here in the States. Porta pottys of difference sizes and shapes and smells!! from 4 different countries.
All this aside what I do get in a lather about is 'sprinkle or tinkle inside the bowl not on it'! I hate some of the public toilets that are very dirty and someone before me have wet on the seat, on the floor and there is no toilet paper to wipe off.
Amanda
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