I definitely agree with the tidiness aspect. I live in an apartment with a relatively small bathroom. The bathroom has a bathtub, but no window. When I take a shower in the bath, the bathroom gets all muggy and moist, so I tend to always leave the bathroom door open. And when I do that, I think it looks just plain gross if the toilet lid isn't down. And of course, when the lid is down, so is the seat.
And Yvonne, I would have become irritated if a man I knew who used to leave the seat down suddenly began leaving it up. I would, indeed, take it as a sort of demonstration of male arrogance!
But there are some people who simply can't change their ways, no matter how much you nag them. My best friend, a woman, simply
can't leave the lid down when she's used my toilet. Reminding her simply doesn't work. She'll leave it up again the next time.
But, Paul, I almost answered that I was a hermaphrodite, just so that I could say that I was torn on this issue!
Ann
