The Toilet Rule of 4 - Real Mum story on MoM

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I have a pet hate and its the toilet seat being left up! Hormones are not helping me but every time I see the toilet without the seat nicely in place I see red.
SO I want to start a revolution to stop this happening! I have a rule or four, between the male and females of this world there are four reasons to go to the toilet.
The female needs to pee
The male needs to pee
The female needs to go number 2
The male needs to go number 2

Out of these four instances one must be seated THREE times, is it not fair that going by the required 75% of down time that the toilet seat should be constantly down? I have tried this explanation at home and it worked for a while but it should take off.
Yes I know its trivial but going in the dark in the middle of the night and sitting on a cold hard toilet bowl is something a lot of us have to endure.

Posted by mumma-mel-c, 17th May 2014

19 Comments

- - june11 said
  - 18 Jul 2016
    9:46 pm
Even worse when you only have one toilet, you have a special toddler’s seat that fits into it, the whole thing is left up and your little one tries to use the toilet on his own. He half fell in, got scared and refused to use the toilet for about 3 months. We had to re-start toilet training all over again.

- - mom113055 said
  - 18 Apr 2015
    6:37 pm
good and nice story

- - mom113055 said
  - 04 Apr 2015
    12:35 pm
good story

- - mom56842 said
  - 30 Sep 2014
    7:28 pm
Same here, same pet hate. Must be in a male’s DNA.

- - 191joannes said
  - 30 Jun 2014
    12:40 pm
yer never thought of it the way you have my problem is different my son never lifts the seat and always sitting in wee grrrrrrr
- mom57522 replied
  
  31 Oct 2014 , 1:18 pm
  Oh that’s just too funny!
- - coppin85 said
  - 28 May 2014
    4:48 pm
I’ve almost been stuck in the toilet at night because of this

- - mrsdew17 said
  - 26 May 2014
    8:48 pm
In my house, it’s 3 women vs 2 men so we out number them and insist the seat stays down or else!

- - twinmum2 said
  - 23 May 2014
    7:47 am
I share your pet hate and frustration.

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 20 May 2014
    6:32 pm
I love this and it is the best way to explain it. I am always finding the seat up

- - amal80 said
  - 19 May 2014
    7:36 pm
ha ha I hate it too but have got used to checking b4 I sit now, seems easier than nagging them since that doesnt work anyway ha ha

- - tamandimmy said
  - 19 May 2014
    1:18 pm
I tried this with my husband after our 3 year old daughter fell in, he still hasn’t changed.. She even goes off at him too..good luck

- - scottie said
  - 19 May 2014
    8:46 am
I think this will always be bone of contention

- - pakeko said
  - 18 May 2014
    8:46 pm
I am with you 100 percent the message finally got though when the Mr off the house had to sit down in the middle off the night and the seat was up, now we don’t have the up issue anymore

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 18 May 2014
    4:32 pm
Yes totally agree. I have accidentally sat on the cold porcelain before lol- not much fun

- - arcticwynta said
  - 18 May 2014
    3:26 pm
it is not trivial and years ago I used to see red so I stuck a sign in the toilet lid…seat down which said STOP now look how you see this toilet and when you are finished make sure you can still see this sign in plain view there are some of you whom I gave you your heart beat keep breaking my rules and I will reposes that heart beat

- - tilly said
  - 18 May 2014
    10:03 am
I am lucky as I have my own toilet, if the boys want to pee they can use the toilet supplied for them. They do leave the seat up but I don’t have to use it.

- - BellaB said
  - 17 May 2014
    10:21 pm
Ha. So far this hasn’t been a problem around here, but I suspect it might be when my two little boys get a bit bigger!

- - Kelly said
  - 17 May 2014
    9:54 pm
i did have to laugh at your post.
I think i must be very lucky with my hubby as he always leaves the seat down think he knows its more than his life is worth lol
I do agree with you tho its would be very annoying to go to the loo at night and find the seat up.