TTBG #2: Put The Toilet Seat Down When Finished

I am the youngest of four children in my family. I have two older sisters and an older brother with my oldest sister being six years older than I am. The four of us had to share one bathroom growing up, which, as you can imagine, was a nightmare at times. My sisters had more random trinkets for getting ready in the morning that I never really considered the bathroom to be mine. It had always been their domain.

Now, one of the things that came from this situation is I learned at a very young age what a guy must to do survive in a girl's bathroom.

Touch nothing that isn't yours. Showers should be short and should not use very much of the hot water. My shampoo went on the lower levels of the rack in the shower. They got first dibs on warm showers after a cold soccer game.

Sure, sharing a bathroom with a girl sucks. And I think that many guys understand that the bathroom, by and large, is not a place where we spend as much time. So I don't have any qualms following the unspoken agreement between the sexes to model the bathroom off of what the woman wants, not what is most practical for men.

This means putting the toilet seat down every time you pee. I know what you're thinking and, yes, it is far easier for us to just leave the seat up at all times. Then we can stroll right into the bathroom, go about our business and continue on with our day.

But getting into the habit of lowering the toilet seat every time you are finished (only after you have flushed!) is a small gesture that makes life a little bit easier for the woman in the household, be it your mother, sister, girlfriend or wife. That way when it is four in the morning and they get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, they don't just fall right into the toilet bowl when they groggily stroll in.

The thing that baffles me the most about this particular tip is that it is so unbelievably easy and I see guys so frequently fail to actually perform the task. The two additional seconds it takes to grab the seat shouldn't even be something that is seen as "gentlemanly". It should be seen as mandatory. It is is an easy habit to develop.

If you're anything like me, you've already accepted that the bathroom should be for the lady's convenience and not your own. So next time you're zipping up your fly and going to wash your hands, stop, turn around and lower the seat for the females in your life.