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The Toilet Seat Issue
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004 11:24 amWhen you're randomly perusing the great big beast that is the internet, you will eventually come across a reference, if not a rant, about the toilet seat issue.
Now, if you're sane like me ;) you will think this is a stupid thing to get in a huff about and will realise it's not really an issue at all. If you are insane like the people "out there" seem to be, you will have a huge hissy fit everytime "that male" doesn't put the toilet seat back down.
*break to allow everyone's brains to click in*
What's the big deal? I have never understood why this is such a problem. Don't tell me it's a common courtesy thing either, because it's not. He has to lift the seat up after I've been, so why shouldn't I have to put the seat down after he's been? That's the logical thing to think. It breaks the whole problem right down into non-existence.
"But!" the people will scream, "But there's three females in this house compared to his one male!" So what? You have a greater chance that you will not have to put the seat down when you go. Why should he have double the work of up and down when you won't even have to put it down most of the tims due to the other females doing it for you. Duh! Oh, you don't want to touch the seat with your hands? Yeah, and males are so filthy by nature that they _enjoy_ touching the seat twice when they use the toilet.
What it all boils down to is....get a life. If you have to have something to latch onto, latch onto toilet paper. No, not the over or under issue. If you want it one way and the other people don't care, make sure you're the one who changes the paper, or just reverse it after they've changed it. You're the one who cares so much over something that doesn't matter, so the onus of the pitiful amount of work invoved in it falls to you. I mean the issue where they don't replace the empty roll they've just finished with a full one. Yes, that's a worthwhile issue. There's real dire happenings if the roll is left empty. Complain about that...leave the toilet seat issue alone now.
(This rant was brought to you by a random reading of stuff. Plus the fact that Z did in fact leave the roll empty the other day [thanks goodness I happened to notice it before usage of the toilet]. Usually, I have the next full roll there ready to be put on, but this one time I didn't. That is no excuse though, since the full rolls of toilet paper are under two metres away, and not even behind cupboard doors. His excuse was that it was better to use the roll completely than to leave two sheets left. My answer was that although that may be the case, it is even better to use the whole lot and then replace it. Oh well, it's been a few years of living together and it hasn't happened before in my memory....maybe I should get the afore said life. Mind if I take yours? *grin*)
Now, if you're sane like me ;) you will think this is a stupid thing to get in a huff about and will realise it's not really an issue at all. If you are insane like the people "out there" seem to be, you will have a huge hissy fit everytime "that male" doesn't put the toilet seat back down.
*break to allow everyone's brains to click in*
What's the big deal? I have never understood why this is such a problem. Don't tell me it's a common courtesy thing either, because it's not. He has to lift the seat up after I've been, so why shouldn't I have to put the seat down after he's been? That's the logical thing to think. It breaks the whole problem right down into non-existence.
"But!" the people will scream, "But there's three females in this house compared to his one male!" So what? You have a greater chance that you will not have to put the seat down when you go. Why should he have double the work of up and down when you won't even have to put it down most of the tims due to the other females doing it for you. Duh! Oh, you don't want to touch the seat with your hands? Yeah, and males are so filthy by nature that they _enjoy_ touching the seat twice when they use the toilet.
What it all boils down to is....get a life. If you have to have something to latch onto, latch onto toilet paper. No, not the over or under issue. If you want it one way and the other people don't care, make sure you're the one who changes the paper, or just reverse it after they've changed it. You're the one who cares so much over something that doesn't matter, so the onus of the pitiful amount of work invoved in it falls to you. I mean the issue where they don't replace the empty roll they've just finished with a full one. Yes, that's a worthwhile issue. There's real dire happenings if the roll is left empty. Complain about that...leave the toilet seat issue alone now.
(This rant was brought to you by a random reading of stuff. Plus the fact that Z did in fact leave the roll empty the other day [thanks goodness I happened to notice it before usage of the toilet]. Usually, I have the next full roll there ready to be put on, but this one time I didn't. That is no excuse though, since the full rolls of toilet paper are under two metres away, and not even behind cupboard doors. His excuse was that it was better to use the roll completely than to leave two sheets left. My answer was that although that may be the case, it is even better to use the whole lot and then replace it. Oh well, it's been a few years of living together and it hasn't happened before in my memory....maybe I should get the afore said life. Mind if I take yours? *grin*)
