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Am I the only one that navigates the house in the dark. If I get up in the middle of the night, I try not to turn on lights unecessarily and If I have to take a quick pee, Im usually is a semi awake state.
I always put the bathroom light on if I wake up in the night and have to go there. The thermostat throws enough light to illuminate the hallway, but I don't want to step on a cat.
Nope. I pee in the dark too. I rarely get up in the middle of the night to go, but when it happens, I don't want to wake myself up completely by turning the light on. Plus, it hurts my eyes.
I have fallen in the toilet a couple times years ago. That will wake you up quickly. LOL
As for my current situation? We have dogs who see nothing wrong with eating horse poop. A little toilet water is nothing. The seat and lid need to stay down.
Mine drink out of the toliet too. Yep it never stays down. Im the only female in the house. I try to make sure it is flushed though.
OT, but dogs eating horse poo is so gross. THe closest Ive ever come to puking was seeing the dogs eat a steamy pile.
I live alone, but if I did live with a female, I'd leave the toilet seat up. Just like I have to put it up when it's down, she can put it down when it's up.
If that's too difficult for her, she can live somewhere else.
I'm not a germaphobe by a long shot. However, I am grossed out by the thought of splashback all over the bathroom.
Non-debatable in my home, anyway. When you have birds, lids are always down for safety reasons. They can, and do, land in toilets. "Ooh, look, a bird bath!"
Hahaha!
For those who worry about toilet water spraying everywhere, odor is particulate, so if you smell something, tiny bits of it are literally on your face and up your nose. Did somebody recently use the bathroom and it smells a bit like poop? You are inhaling poop, that's why. Fun fact.
This is the first time I've ever in my life heard of the concept of "splashback". I guess if you let yourself think of anything too long or look at anything too closely, it can get to you.
Don't blame you for wanting to keep the birdies out of your toilet, though. For THEM, I'd be worried about germs, because they are so little and out of their natural environment, and who knows what could happen.
I close mine because I don't want my cats to walk on the toilet seat and fall in. I've caught one sticking her head down thinking she could drink out of it and I had a scary image of her drowning. Don't know if that can happen, but I just keep it closed to forestall the possibility. The remote chance of germs doesn't frighten me that easily, though.
YouTube is rife with videos of cats falling into toilets--some after doing their business in them, to boot. [URL="http://******************"]http://******************/vomit-smiley-544.gif (broken link)[/URL]
Then there's Gizmo.
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At any rate, I'm always reminding people to put the lid down.
For those who worry about toilet water spraying everywhere, odor is particulate, so if you smell something, tiny bits of it are literally on your face and up your nose. Did somebody recently use the bathroom and it smells a bit like poop? You are inhaling poop, that's why. Fun fact.
Hahahaha, I did know that. If you smell something, it's because little molecules of what you are smelling are IN YOUR NOSE.
I also like to remind people, especially the ones who consider themselves SO germ-free, about all the microscopic parasites that live in and on their own bodies.
Like these little pets that live in our eyelash roots:
These are just their tails. You can't see the heads, because they are buried in the hair follicle, same as they are right now in YOUR EYELASHES.
In our house the seat and lid go down after every use, I lift the lid and seat to tinkle and just the lid to dump, the woman lifts just the lid, it gets to be habit after a while.
I think more people need to watch the Myth-Busters episode regarding toilets and toothbrushes, the reality may surprise a lot of people.
Also, I think more need to research all the little creatures that are crawling all over you right now, in your bed, in your carpet, there are wonderful creatures crawling around in your mouth too.
There are many "good" germs that without we would die an agonizingly slow and painful death.
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The visual far exceeds that of lighting a fart!
