We have all been there… middle of the day, sitting at your work or school desk and you think to yourself, “this is boring and I kinda have to go to the bathroom.” Next thing you know you are on your way down the hall headed for the restroom to get some peace and quiet. You enter the bathroom as usual looking forward to your escape from reality only to sit down on the toilet and be slightly disturbed by what you are feeling.

“Ewww, this toilet seat is WARM!!!” you scream inside your head.

We all know the feeling, but for whatever reason we are never prepared for how, subtlety, the warm toilet seat bothers us. I mean it isn’t like getting burned by a hot iron where you know to break contact immediately, instead you sit down, (business as usual) and suddenly… something is… off.

The worst part about this recurring oddity is the fact that there are no safety precautions you can take to avoid it, unlike other common bathroom blunders. For example, no TP, go to a new stall. You see leftover liquid from the person before you on the seat, you wipe it off with some TP, make sure it’s clean and you’re good to go. Or if you see some dribble on the floor and don’t want it to get on your pants when you sit… you wipe it up with some TP, make sure it’s clean and you’re good to go.

One thing I have found… you can’t wipe off warm. And unless you physically touch the seat with your hand (gross), you can’t foresee that the seat you are about to occupy still contains body heat from the last person who “throned” it.  The only way a warm toilet seat can get any worse is if it is a warm cushioned toilet seat, like at my aunt’s house.

If anyone has any pointers on how to or has created a device to detect warm toilet seats before sitting, please let us at LWU3 know… soon.

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