I'd assume that a household with toddlers in it you'd definitely want the lid up :)
I'm very much a lid-up (seat-down) person. This is because the main situation is my life when it's relevant is when running to the toilet to be sick. This was a very frequent occurence when I was a kid.
I therefore assume that all children are sick a lot, and that the lid must always be left up to avoid Untold Horror.
Or, they don't fish them out but flush them. A mobile phone retrieved quickly from a toilet bowl may work again, given time and prayer. A flushed one will never be seen again. Ditto keys, money... and apparently a flushed sweater will block a loo very comprehensively and require a plumber to retrieve. *thanks all deities everywhere that none of this has ever happened to me*
Little plastic sheep, however, I seem to remember staying behind, which is not much consolation to the person whose keys have just disappeared round the U-bend.
Owing to an incident of clumsiness in the world's tiniest toilet cubicle last year, I managed to flush a pair of sunglasses down the toilet. I was very surprised that they flushed away, having had no prior experience of the flushableness of everyday objects.
I'm a lid-up seat-down person. I think it's partly just what I grew up with, but it's definitely the best position for the seat to be in in case of running to the toilet for diarrhoea too. And when you're in a rush for a wee it's less bad to accidentally sit on a loo with the seat up (a bit cold) than to sit on a loo with the lid down (!). Growing up in a house with one man and four women may have led to a different compromise than in more equally split households.
I sometimes put the lid down in public loos if they're blocked and unusable, or have no loo roll, in an attempt to warn other people.
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Date: 2010-05-04 10:16 am (UTC)I'm very much a lid-up (seat-down) person. This is because the main situation is my life when it's relevant is when running to the toilet to be sick. This was a very frequent occurence when I was a kid.
I therefore assume that all children are sick a lot, and that the lid must always be left up to avoid Untold Horror.
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Date: 2010-05-04 10:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-04 10:39 am (UTC)Or, they don't fish them out but flush them. A mobile phone retrieved quickly from a toilet bowl may work again, given time and prayer. A flushed one will never be seen again. Ditto keys, money... and apparently a flushed sweater will block a loo very comprehensively and require a plumber to retrieve. *thanks all deities everywhere that none of this has ever happened to me*
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Date: 2010-05-04 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-04 12:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-04 10:40 am (UTC)My sample-size of toddlers is basically one (me). I never did that, so am not aware of it as a problem. What a strange thing to do.
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Date: 2010-05-04 10:42 am (UTC)I sometimes put the lid down in public loos if they're blocked and unusable, or have no loo roll, in an attempt to warn other people.
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Date: 2010-05-04 12:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-04 04:10 pm (UTC)