This is me buying a toilet seat:
- Trudge to hardware store.
- Buy an elongated toilet seat.
- Trudge home and discover we have a round toilet seat.
- Try again.
This is Gary buying a toilet seat:
- Trudge to hardware store.
- Make an itemized list of the variations on toilet seats.
- Extensively research toilet seat variations in lieu of actually buying a toilet seat
- Prioritize these toilet seat features:
Bidet feature – off the table, only available with elongated seats. Well, at the hardware store anyway.
Stay Side brace – nice to have, keeps seat from shifting off the hinge-y thing that attaches it to the toilet.
Slow-close – key for some, but we generally keep the lid up anyway
Quick-release – vital. Lets you easily take the whole seat off for ease of cleaning. Gary says THAT’S the reason he never cleans the bathroom.
I had no idea ANY of these things were available. I am amazed. Have we always had these features and I ignored them, or did toilet seats get damn fancy over the last decade?
“Spare no expense!” I cried, because if you use something five times a day money is no object. My guess is he’ll go on the internet and find the elusive heated antiseptic round bidet.
3 responses to “Who knew?”
Gosh. There is so much to think about these days.
Wow, I had no idea there were so many variables! I thought it was basically either up or down!
Hattie – I know. It’s possible I could have bought a seat and never even known it had these features.
Jay (Hi Jay) – Well, turns out that the easy clean is not compatible with the wood seat, so we split the features between two seats. The hall bath, which is used less and cleaned more, got the easy clean, while the master bath got the heavy duty seat with the brushed nickel hinges. Gary now spends hours in the master bath instead of the hall, he loves that $70 seat so much.