Women Travelers - Hovercraft Ladies Circle

Ladies, my pet pee-ves are the members of the Hovercraft Ladies Circle. The ladies who don't sit down. It is not ladylike to lift the seat or even touch it, eeew. So the ladies hover over the seat and sprinkle us some special champagne bubbles. Such a lovely surprise for us regular old gals who do sit down.

Ladies, my pet pee-ves are the members of the Hovercraft Ladies Circle. The ladies who don't sit down. It is not ladylike to lift the seat or even touch it, eeew. So the ladies hover over the seat and sprinkle us some special champagne bubbles. Such a lovely surprise for us regular old gals who do sit down.

^ Maybe not quite a capital offense, but close.
Presuming you're on it alone, the worst thing you can get from a toilet seat is wet, so for Pete's sake, sit down! I find it strange that women who won't sit on a public toilet will hold a public phone up to their faces.

I wipe the seat when using a public toilet, ESPECIALLY airplane toilets.

Oh and along the same line, my pet PEEve is anyone who talks on a cell phone while using the facilities. Have you no shame??

Thank you for your replies. I have been trying to figure out how to get this more widely discussed in public so the Hovercraft Ladies know how disgusting this practice is to the rest of us. I look closely, bypass a lot of stalls, often line the seat with tissue, but still there it is sometimes, the Hovercraft Champagne Surprise. Can you do Facebook about it?

I'm with you sister. For god's sake just sit down. I hate the wet seat surprise cuz that is just nasty! There is nothing on the seat that is going to hurt. Please have a seat!

In some countries, sitting on the seat isn't the norm - usually because there aren't seats and one simply squats to do one's business. In some parts of the U.S. where there are many immigrants from certain southeast Asian countries, you will sometimes see signs on the back of the stall door showing a person squatting with their feet on the seat and a big X over the graphic - trying to indicate "no squatting here please".

I'm with you sister. For god's sake just sit down. I hate the wet seat surprise cuz that is just nasty! There is nothing on the seat that is going to hurt. Please have a seat!


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Exactly what horrible affliction is it that you think your butt cheeks are going to contract by actually sitting?

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Exactly what horrible affliction is it that you think your butt cheeks are going to contract by actually sitting?Terminal dampness. ;)

In some countries, sitting on the seat isn't the norm - usually because there aren't seats and one simply squats to do one's business. In some parts of the U.S. where there are many immigrants from certain southeast Asian countries, you will sometimes see signs on the back of the stall door showing a person squatting with their feet on the seat and a big X over the graphic - trying to indicate "no squatting here please".

The ladies who don't sit down should simply raise the seat like a man does.

And, by all means, if you still can't bring yourself to sit after reading this thread, then just go ahead and invest in something such as the Go Girl. (http://www.go-girl.com/)

Thank you for your replies. I have been trying to figure out how to get this more widely discussed in public so the Hovercraft Ladies know how disgusting this practice is to the rest of us. I look closely, bypass a lot of stalls, often line the seat with tissue, but still there it is sometimes, the Hovercraft Champagne Surprise. Can you do Facebook about it?

Maybe we should script some kind of status alert and start a sit down cause.

Maybe we should script some kind of status alert and start a sit down cause.

Don't know if you are serious, but I am serious.

Another +1

Although I do remember being inordinately pleased with myself for managing to use a squat toilet successfull in Japan while drunk :o

Have used the squats in India and Turkey and the cup of water, but never drunk! We are preaching to ourselves here in this forum, Moderator. Is there any way to get it moved to OMNI or Travel Health and Safety to reach people?