Public bathroom questions ~

Since so many people want to divide us into different groups, here's a question:

Why do so many people urinate on the toilet seats in public bathrooms?

I've been told that many parents, especially single mothers, teach their children not to touch anything in a public restroom with their hands. They're afraid they might catch something contagious from the private areas of some stranger or something.

But my little bit of research shows that most sexually transmitted diseases and surface infections that plague many people's private areas are transmitted through direct contact.

I had mononucleosis when I was a teenager. My doctor told me I might have picked it up from a water fountain at school and with a weakened immune system due to lack of sleep and poor diet it flourished in my body.

Are people that urinate on public restroom toilet seats weak? Or uneducated?

It could be the hover, too. I'm told that women that don't want to touch any surfaces in a public restroom will "hover" over the toilet seat while they do their business. Sounds pretty acrobatic and gross to me.

Maybe it's a class thing. People who urinate on public restroom toilet seats may not have good health insurance or may have sky-high deductibles (thanks to that attempted takeover of the healthcare industry). I have good health insurance but only go to the doctor when I absolutely have to instead of going to the doctor for something I could have prevented by washing my hands.

I don't know. I just think that people could be a little more clean when out in public. Or when in public as the case may be.

I became a citizen ~

My father was in the military. I was born in a foreign country at a military base. But because I was born in a foreign country and the birth certificate carried the name of that country my parents were concerned that I would not be considered a citizen of the United States when I became an adult. So when I was 17 I had to drive to the nearest big city and go through the naturalization process.


I remember the federal government employee that interviewed me to become a citizen. He was kind of shocked that I was even bothering with it until I explained my father's logic. He asked me a couple questions and then signed off on the paperwork and I became a naturalized citizen.

It was not hard. It did take time. I remember the process taking about six months from start to finish.


As an American, I feel like being a naturalized citizen is a good accomplishment in my past and something that I'm happy to share with people. I think the people coming into our country illegally and then taking money paid by the government to them to hide in the shadows and stay here illegally is criminal and should be embarrassing for people. While I understand that you may not be able to make as much money in your country of origin, you should have enough self-respect to obey the laws and abide by community standards. Rather than take advantage and grab whatever is offered. But not everybody has the high standards that we have in the United States of America. Not everybody's is as giving as we are in the United States of America.

As an American both natural born and naturalized I'm proud to be a citizen. I hope you are too and if you're not an American citizen I hope that you become one through legal means.