Seat up! Seat down! Seat around around and around!

Ok. I am a girl. For clarification. No no.. Not invoking Britney Spears. Lets dive in!


As far back as i can remember, i have always left my seat up. What seat? Toilet seat of course. I, as a rule sit on the ceramic part of the potty and not on the plastic. Is that too much information? Well this article is about toilet etiquette.

My backside will weep blood if sit on the plastic for long, and as all my friends/family will vouch, i do take my time in the potty. Not because i have irregular bowels, that too, but often because i read in the potty. :) So if i sit on the plastic for as long as i do, the elliptical shape of the seat will forever be etched on my backside. Now that is not a good prospect. I don't really remember when is started doing that, and i never really paid attention to it, until one Friends episode made me think. Sometime in the later part of the series, don't really remember which season accurately, Rachel asks Joey to put the seat down after finishing his business.   When i saw that episode i thought "Hy, Whats that about toilet seat?" and i figured she (Rachel) was talking about the exterior rim.

Flash forward to 2009.

My roommate during my master's in the US, one day randomly pointed out
"Mri, you do it like a man"
"Excuse me"
"You leave the seat up, like a man"
(See, we have separate toilets, 2 people, 2 bedrooms, 2 toilets. Her's attached, mine not. I was brushing my teeth when she walked by and decided to make this super astonishing statement.After that day, i never leave my toilet door open. Ever. )
"What man?"
"Mri, usually when men use the toilet, they sit on the ceramic, and leave the toilet seat up after"
"Oh?... Oh!" Now i get what rachel meant.
"So, you don't sit on the ceramic?"
"Nope" and she walked off, leaving me in a very pensive mood.

Since then, i have made it  a point to ask my friends/family at random times if they sit on the ceramic, and at all times the reply was "nope". So does that mean i am the only one  that "Does it like a man". Who decided what etiquette men and women must follow when they poo?No one ever told me that I as a girl should sit on the plastic. Do parents teach their children that? I obviously cannot be alone on this issue right?

After all the huffing and puffing and little cursing, i am  just glad that i was able to get it out of my system. Here is where one use the phrase, "The end justifies the means" and it would be just so perfect.


P.s: These days though i am very glad i sit on the ceramic. Imagine while using a public toilet, I will sit on the cleaner part after wiping it with tissue of course and the rest? Yada yada. Even thinking about it makes me go eewwww...Ahahaha.