Do women not look at the toilet first...

I'm gonna take the women's side in this one for a few reasons:

1) I live with a wife and a daughter - thus I am outnumbered.

2) I tend to sit when I pee during the night so as to reduce the chances of waking my daughter at some ungodly hour - she seems to be part bat and can hear pee hitting the toilet water from 1,000 yards in high winds and once she's up she's up for the duration and no one really wants that .

3) In the dark I don't look which means

a) if I have left the sat up I will get uncomfotably close to the water, I have never fallen in...yet
b) if my daughter has left her potty seat on there i will smash my nuts on Dora
c) if my wife was feeling petty and closed the top ON my daughter's potty seat, something will get broken...probably me

4) It's not that big of a deal to put it down.

Of course they don't they back into the toilet backwards and cross they're fingers : )

I am 100% on your side here. And do they not look as they leave it??? You wouldn't believe what I have to clean after other women at work use the restroom. CHECK before and after people!!!!!!!!!!! Gross. lol

So.....why cant the guys look as they leave and make sure the dang seat is down. like really? nothing to do with male and female just respect. its like people forgot how to be polite. Sheesh

I actually have to agree with the OP on this one. It seems to be unfair to consider men rude for leaving the seat up. I don't mind if you leave the seat up, but please do not pee on it. I prefer not to have to clean up after you.

I am happy that my husband always puts it down. He says it is the polite thing to do. I appreciate that. There is nothing like walking in the bathroom with the lights off in a half sleep and splashing into cold water. :frown: When I visit my family I always have to double check the seat.

When it's dark, and we are sleepily stubbling into the bathroom, We don't look. Thus our *kitten* goes in the toilet, and the water is very cold... PLUS yall pee on the rim, and we sit in it.

Exactly what I was thinking... I don't have a problem falling in when I'm wide awake... it's when I'm still, for all intents and purposes, sleeping... only to be woken up with a wet butt.

How do you fall in b/c the seat is up? Shouldn't you look AT the toilet as you're walking to it?

I've never understood the whole "I fall in if the seat isn't left down" argument.

however, when the gf is in town, I do leave the seat down b/c it's polite. But I've never understood the arguments.

I agree. Except where the middle of the night tinkle is concerned. I never open my eyes at all when I get up in the middle of the night. If I do open my eyes, sleep is done! During the day, it would never happen.

ETA: Good thing my guys are trained well. Middle of the night wet butt would = whole house up!!!

I have kids. One that has only been potty trained for half a year. I HAVE to look at the toilet before I sit down. I do it no matter where I go. Plus, my family loves to play pranks. Gotta make sure I'm not going to end up peeing all over myself or getting powder all over my @ss lol.

My adorable dad and boy cousins decided it would be hilarious to do that while they were all at my house on Christmas Eve. He put shrink wrap on the toilet and left the lid up. I stumbled in unbelievably plastered after a night of festivities and sat down to pee. At that point I didn't care the lid was up and I wasn't going to put it down. When you open the faucet after a night of drinking, you go every 15 minutes :laugh: You can imagine what happened next! I didn't check for the lid as much as I checked for shrink wrap after that lol

Speaking of chivalry, one of my bffs once said "b*tch, you touch that door handle and I will cut your fingers off" in reference to opening the door of a cab.

... I love my friends.