Monday, April 14, 2008

Women and Those Complicated Toilet Seats


PUI

I believe every man who has ever been involved with a woman in any capacity has learned, often by the woman screaming at the top of her lungs, that women are incapable of working the common toilet seat*.

No one knows exactly why this is. We know only that all research results have been sealed and locked away by the Female Supremacist branch of the Department of Justice and that not even the President himself can get access to them.

Anyway, any man who has ever lived in the same house with a woman knows that women can't work toilet seats. Not only can they not work them, but they can't even look at them. As a result, women have been alleged to have drowned as they were sucked down by evil patriarchal toilets after they fell into them because they refused to look and see if the seat was up or not before sitting down.

This is old news. Nothing to report here. But I have discovered something new, something revolutionary, something that will absolutely blow your mind.

Not only can women not work toilet seats, but they can't work the lid either!

I shit you not. Just the other night, at 2 a.m., my loving wife got up and stumbled into the bathroom in a near coma. The seat was of course down, as I am a law-abiding drone and have utterly given up hope of resisting the government-funded Matriachy and its' fascist regime. But, alas, the toilet lid was down, too.

My wife, a reasonably intelligent but very sleepy woman, did not even notice the toilet lid being down as she sat her semi-concious butt onto the toilet and proceded to pee a sparkling golden river.

Once done, she wiped her cooter, and everything else back there in cooterland, apparently not thinking it odd that she was so much wetter than normal. She then threw the wet toilet paper onto the toilet lid and flushed. Satisfied, she stumbled back to bed.

The next morning I found a virtual toxic wasteland in our bathroom. The seat and lid were down, but soaking wet and decorated with clumps of pee-stained toilet paper. To complete the atmosphere, there was pee all around the toilet on the floor where it had spilled over. My wife, a morning person who sleeps like a rock until the instant the sun comes up, had no memory whatever of what had occured. It was as if a burglar had broken in, peed on our toilet, and then left, locking the door behind them.

After some hypnosis and some deep questioning, my wife developed vague memories of waking up and peeing that very night. "I thought it felt kinda funny, but I was too tired to care," she confessed.

So there you have it. Another clue to the mystery of women and how they are different from men. We pee on the floor in front of the toilet, and they pee on top of the toilet itself, decorating it with little bunches of toilet paper when they are done. Somehow it all makes perfect sense.


The scene of a horrible peeing-related accident





* DISCLAIMER: This is, of course, meant as a joke. There are, obviously, many women who are perfectly capable of working toilet seats. I'm being sarcastic, or something, like Hillary Clinton when she talks about being shot at by snipers in Bosnia, or Barack Obama when he insists that he had no idea his pastor of the past 20 years is a raging black supremacist racist, or John McCain when he claims to be a Republican. I love women. I just happened to have closed the lid to keep my cat from playing in the toilet. It was not intended as a trap for my wife.


18 comments:

Stacy The Peanut Queen said...

In my defense (and for some stupid reason), whoever built Palace Peanut installed a little shelf right above our toilet. Anything that happens to fall off that shelf falls directly into our toilet bowl.

I do not relish flossing my teeth with tooth floss fished out of the cane, you get me??? ;) Blech.

Stacy The Peanut Queen said...

Dammit. I meant "can" not "cane".

Can I go back to bed now? Please????

Patti said...

My kid has a habit of putting bath toys on the back of the toilet. Some of the results aren't pretty (or sanitary either)

Memphis Steve said...

StacyPQ, you don't need a defense. I'm just joking. Not about her peeing on the toilet lid, but about women not being able to work toilets in general. We close the lid of ours to keep Spongebob Stinkypants from playing in it. He loves the toilet more than life itself.

Patti, when I was a little kid I had a Fisher Price tugboat. One of my oldest memories is of me floating my tugboat in the toilet and my dad screaming at me to stop it.

Dixie said...

That's hilarious!!

kiki said...

i pissed in my bedroom twice last year

in my defence i was drunk as a skunk both times

Memphis Steve said...

Dixie, I tend to agree. After I got over the shock.

Kiki, that's cool. I shit myself 2 years ago. In my defense, I was sick as a dog and thought it was just going to be a fart.

Sudiegirl said...

As a woman, I am not offended. I've done this many times myself, usually with sleep as a factor (or sleep-peeing, rather).

EmmaK said...

I've never peed on a closed toilet lid. I do recall once being drunk at a friend's house when I was maybe nineteen and peeing in the little hand sink in the room because I was too fucked to go find the toilet in the hall. I hope you have lost respect for me now!

Memphis Steve said...

SudieG, sleep was the most powerful factor here, to be sure. Also involved was the fact that she doesn't turn on the light when she gets up to pee in the middle of the night.

EmmaK, I most certainly have not lost respect for you. If I listed all the places I have peed while drunk as a teenager it would shock and amaze you. That is, provided I could even remember them all.

white rabbit said...

pissing off a balcony on the upper floors of a high rise in the rain is fun...

trust me on this :D

Bonnie said...

Eeeewwwww, would NOT have liked waking up and having to clean that up first thing in the morning! Cant say I have ever peed on the toilet lid but have made the mistake of not looking and just sitting and peeing when someone (my fiance) has not put the seat back down. Thats almost as gross.

BTW tagged you for meme.

Memphis Steve said...

WhiteRab, I cannot recall if I have ever done that or not, but I think I would remember, so I guess I will have to trust you.

Bonnie, I nearly fell in myself the night I posted this. How ironic would that have been?

Ookami Snow said...

I have worked with my wife from day one on this subject. If the toilet set is up and she wants to use it she lowers it. If the seat is down and i want to use it i raise it. We both check before actually using the toilet. It has worked so far.

Memphis Steve said...

OokamiS, you would think that would work the world over, but surprisingly it doesn't. In my wife's defense, she was practically unconscious when she did it.

BetteJo said...

I'm sure she loved you telling this story!

I can't imagine having done that - if I accidentally sit down on a closed toilet it feels so bizarre I instantly jump up!

But then - I have shopped online in my sleep recently, so I guess it's possible to pee on top of the toilet. Holy hell, one more thing to worry about.

Memphis Steve said...

BetteJ, she enjoys the fame. I think she's more popular here than me. You shopped online in your sleep? What did you buy?

Jess said...

Holy shit that is so damn funny I nearly peed on myself LOL.

First, it's good to know that my DH is not the ONLY man who can't seem to get all of his urine into the bowl for which is was created!

What is so FRIGGIN wrong with getting a piece of tissue paper and wiping oneself so that there's no DRIP onto our nice maroon colored toilet rug!

Second rant is the college girls at school who because they're so afraid they'll pick up some STD from the toilet seat (yes the same girls who party with sketchy drunk guys and then sleep with them two, three at a time!) who won't sit on the toilet, they lean their ass over it and pee, getting splashes of their urine on the seat, but oh so conveniently forgetting to clean it up leaving it for the next poor schmo. I can't tell you how many times I've had to walk into a restroom at work and some college girl (it's NOT the women I work on the same floor with--it's the students) has left her piss all over the toilet.

The other night I had an exam and used one of the restrooms outside the classroom and it was disgusting. The floor was sticky, the place smelled like piss and it was a LADIES room.

Some ladies eh?

BTW we too keep the lids in our bathrooms closed too to keep Pebs and Peeps from getting in there.