Public Toilets: To Sit Or To Hover?
Every Little Thing
Gimlet
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever find yourself having this conversation with the people in your life? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm talking about your butt cheeks, not the obvious other part of your butt. |
| 0:11.0 | This is listener Jenny. She called us with a very complicated argument. |
| 0:14.8 | Therefore, they're probably your butt cheeks are less dirty than say... |
| 0:19.7 | Here's her thesis in a nutshell. When you're in a public bathroom, |
| 0:23.3 | being afraid of sitting on a toilet seat seems kind of ridiculous. |
| 0:27.9 | But is it? |
| 0:32.3 | On today's the L.T, a question you have almost certainly faced, a long-standing slash |
| 0:37.0 | sitting debate, should I sit or should I hover? |
| 0:41.0 | Let me know if I need to start laying down some toilet paper. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, this is Jenny. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello Jenny. Thank Jenny. Hello Jenny. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you for this question. |
| 0:55.0 | It's taken us to a ton of disgusting places and I can't wait to take you to those places too. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, I can't wait either. So where are you calling from? I'm actually |
| 1:06.2 | at work. I work in this really cool Irish bar. It gets really busy like thousands of people go in and out of here on the weekends |
| 1:14.5 | After thousands of people use the bathroom do you still sit on the toilet seat? I do |
| 1:21.0 | You do I do I'm not that scared obviously I'm a sitter how do you think you compare with other women |
| 1:30.0 | I'm hmm I think it's 60% said 40% don't. |
| 1:35.0 | What, am I dead on? |
| 1:38.0 | Let me tell you what we know about this. |
| 1:41.0 | There was a British study 30 years ago of 528 women in public restrooms 85% of women |
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