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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    You make me VERY thankful to have my DH in more ways than one.

    LOL, well in this case it hasn't been a problem for the past 24 or so years. Rather than get caught up in the Democratic Socialist way of dealing with things like this which would include assigning oppressor/victim status to each party and using all media available to complain and sow dissent, we went the Libertarian Capitalist route when we built this house and gifted ourselves with separate bathrooms. No drama, no fuss and everyone involved remains wrapped in an envelope of love, acceptance and positive esteem.
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    We have 2 �� but we each use both. I taught my boys as kids not to do that. Living with 4 men I trained them all.

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    What about the recent advice that toilet lids should be closed before flushing to keep bacteria from dispersing around the room? Between that and the knowledge that rats can pop out of the toilet*, I think the closed seat/lid approach is the way to go, backed up by science!
    And while we are at it, where do you all stand on those hand dryer/blower thingies that apparently spread poop bacteria all over your hands? At the risk of sounding OCD, I now keep a couple of paper towels tucked in my handbag and in my jacket pockets.

    * I saw this on a documentary, and it definitely fell into the category of things I wished I could unsee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rosarugosa View Post
    What about the recent advice that toilet lids should be closed before flushing to keep bacteria from dispersing around the room? Between that and the knowledge that rats can pop out of the toilet*, I think the closed seat/lid approach is the way to go, backed up by science!And while we are at it, where do you all stand on those hand dryer/blower thingies that apparently spread poop bacteria all over your hands? At the risk of sounding OCD, I now keep a couple of paper towels tucked in my handbag and in my jacket pockets.* I saw this on a documentary, and it definitely fell into the category of things I wished I could unsee.
    It is real. Happened to our friend.He had DH cop off the toilet in his basement sue to this horrifying event.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugalone View Post
    I'm not handicapped, but I do use the handicapped restroom at work, which also doubles as an all-gender restroom. My peeve is: guys who leave the seat up. I feel like putting up a sign above the toilet that says: Picture this--you're in a wheelchair, and you can barely get the door to this room open because the administration is too lazy to put an automatic door on it. You wheel yourself over to the toilet, and before you can sit on it, you have to touch the dirty seat that some inconsiderate person left up for you.

    On another level, I think it's insulting to anyone to leave a seat up.
    I am sorry your blind.
    However, you have to think since your dealing with a public restroom, your dealing with the general public. The toilet handle is filthy, so is the faucet handles and the door handles, as some don't wash their hands (no matter what we choose to believe).

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    It is real. Happened to our friend.He had DH cop off the toilet in his basement sue to this horrifying event.
    What exactly happened?

    I consider myself clean enough, but I'm definitely not a germaphobe. I don't open public bathroom doors with paper towels, and I don't believe in anti-bacterial this and that unless I'm in a hospital. I do believe in the hygiene hypothesis that we are too clean for the most part and our immune systems have suffered.
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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
    What exactly happened?

    I consider myself clean enough, but I'm definitely not a germaphobe. I don't open public bathroom doors with paper towels, and I don't believe in anti-bacterial this and that unless I'm in a hospital. I do believe in the hygiene hypothesis that we are too clean for the most part and our immune systems have suffered.
    We cannot say exactly what happened because it was rats doing rat things in the darkness of the basement. But there is evidence that a Rat came up through the toilet in his basement —twice.

    We do have rats in our neighborhood. I believe I saw one in my friend’s House two years ago when she had a mice infestation. yeah she had mice, but this thing was a rat.

    When the Victorian warehouse down the street caught on fire, rats came running out of it.

    Before that it was decades ago but I saw a rat sunning himself on our patio in the middle of summer. DH says I didn’t see that but I know what I saw. Perhaps it was a Sick rat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    We cannot say exactly what happened because it was rats doing rat things in the darkness of the basement. But there is evidence that a Rat came up through the toilet in his basement —twice.

    We do have rats in our neighborhood. I believe I saw one in my friend’s House two years ago when she had a mice infestation. yeah she had mice, but this thing was a rat.

    When the Victorian warehouse down the street caught on fire, rats came running out of it.

    Before that it was decades ago but I saw a rat sunning himself on our patio in the middle of summer. DH says I didn’t see that but I know what I saw. Perhaps it was a Sick rat.
    Eewww.. When my DD lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, she and her roommates had a tiny back yard so they thought chickens would be a good idea. Not. I, too, saw rats in and around their yard. They got rid of the chickens. I guess some people in urban areas keep chickens, but I do believe vermin is a risk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    We cannot say exactly what happened because it was rats doing rat things in the darkness of the basement.
    Nearly 40 years ago a co-worker and I were searching a burned out office building which had been sitting empty for some time. It was dark in the basement and the only light source was an emergency light hooked up outside an old freight elevator. As we walked through the darkness making our way back to the light, a rat ran across our feet and then began to scream just a few feet away from us. We both ran for the elevator so that we could see. There was a step ladder leaning against the wall inside the elevator and my co-worker was one step ahead of me so he beat me to the ladder and jumped up on the bottom rung (it turns out we both had the immediate fear that the rat would run up our pants leg) while I stood in the middle of the lighted area hopping up and down one foot after another while looking all around me trying to see where the screaming rat could be yelling at co-worker to move up another rung so that I could get on the ladder too.

    It turns out that exterminators had recently serviced the building and the rat perp had ran onto and become stuck to a glue pad as it was scaring the bejeezus out of us, just outside our small circle of illumination.

    I had been shot at and missed by a bad guy the year before, I've thought ever since that the screaming invisible rat was scarier.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    I had been shot at and missed by a bad guy the year before, I've thought ever since that the screaming invisible rat was scarier.
    That sounds like something out of a movie, Alan. I feel bad for you, but I feel bad for the rat, too. I've heard those glue pads are very inhumane. We had a mouse problem when we got back to NJ, so we called an exterminator and I told him I refused to do glue pads.
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