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New Homeowners Advice from My Dad
At one point Saturday while bringing items into the new home, my dad stopped me and said that he had three pieces of advice for me now that I own a home. I can't remember one of them, but here are the other two so that I may enrich your lives too.
1. Always sweep, at least, six feet from the front and back door. A great deal of the mess that dirties up your carpet is tracked in from outside. Even if you wipe your feet off, that's never perfect. So take the time to sweep around all of the entrances to the house daily.
2. "I know you're a man, but sit down when you pee...I do when I'm at home." I wish I knew this when he was still commanding troops. That would have made some nice blackmail material at some point. In all honesty, when I was going thru a super-feminist sympathizer phase in college (aka. the great period of celibacy during the first 1 1/2 years) I tried the sitting down thing. I tried so hard to make life better for whatever female might come into my life. My conclusion - It sucks. Those late-night trips where the aim isn't as accurate (or post-sex when the plumbing is still a bit awkward) are the only times that make sense to me. Ladies, just don't get one of those rugs that wrap around the toilet if there's a man in the house.
1. Always sweep, at least, six feet from the front and back door. A great deal of the mess that dirties up your carpet is tracked in from outside. Even if you wipe your feet off, that's never perfect. So take the time to sweep around all of the entrances to the house daily.
2. "I know you're a man, but sit down when you pee...I do when I'm at home." I wish I knew this when he was still commanding troops. That would have made some nice blackmail material at some point. In all honesty, when I was going thru a super-feminist sympathizer phase in college (aka. the great period of celibacy during the first 1 1/2 years) I tried the sitting down thing. I tried so hard to make life better for whatever female might come into my life. My conclusion - It sucks. Those late-night trips where the aim isn't as accurate (or post-sex when the plumbing is still a bit awkward) are the only times that make sense to me. Ladies, just don't get one of those rugs that wrap around the toilet if there's a man in the house.
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my thoughts are that people should stop being so damn sissy about it, when you go to the toilet, LOOK at the seat and then move the seat according to your need. if everyone did that, everyone would have the toilet experience they deserve without placing any undue responsibility on one side or the other for the toilet seat's state.
but he is dead on about the sweeping.
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Something that I've always pondered is why there isn't a lid problem. Why don't you ever hear about women bitching that the lid is down and they sit on that in the middle of the night and pee everywhere? I'm a seat-and-lid-down guy when I'm done (paranoid about knocking stuff into the opened toilet) and would think that women would be as concerned about lids being down nearly as much as seats being up.
If they can check on the lid situation, why is the seat a big deal?