That’s right! Who out there likes to wake up and sit down on a cold toilet seat first thing in the morning? Come on, be honest. I thought so. Now you’re wondering ‘why is she telling us this?’ Ah, young grasshopper, patience.
When I was younger I would have to walk 20 miles to school, uphill, in the snow, both ways
Let’s see, I was 15 years old, yeah, I am going waaaaayyyyyy back. Some 23 years to be exact. Holy Crap! That is a long time ago! But, I digress. I am not a morning person. My mom would come in and very nicely try to wake me up for school. I would begrudgingly get out of bed and shuffle into the bathroom. Not too far of a walk for me as it was just across the hall from my bedroom. Every morning I would brace my behind for the shocking reality that awaited it. {brr}
Somehow I would manage to get ready for school and rush out the door to the bus stop. There I would grouse about my morning and how I wished I had a cushioned toilet seat so my butt would not be so cold in the morning.
Cold Butt, Warm Heart
As is wont to happen, the holidays came around. My friend Laura came over to give me a Christmas present. And I must say I do not recall what I gave her, ever. I am horrible, I know. But I will never forget what she gave me. She was almost giddy with excitement as I picked up the somewhat square package. It felt heavy and she told me it was something I really wanted. I did not have a clue. Seriously, I forget almost everything soon after thinking or saying it. That can’t be a good thing.
Someone was at the ready with a camera, because I know there is a picture around somewhere. I will have to look around, but I feel it may be packed away. I carefully unwrapped the package. I must stop here and explain something. I am a horrible gift receiver. I love to give, but always feel awkward when I receive a gift. I never know how to react and show proper appreciation. I always smile and say thank you, but I am not one of those overly emotional gift receivers. Well, except for this one time.
I opened the package and laughed so hard. I did not know I could smile so big! To this day I think back on this and smile. It was the best gift I ever received ~ my very own cushioned toilet seat! I took it out of its packaging and made quick work of getting it in place. Boy, I sure wish I had one of those now. I still don’t like a cold butt first thing in the morning.
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Butts image courtesy of Cody Pomeroy
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I didn’t know they made those? One thing for sure, you would want to make sure the blokes in the house would lift the toilet see when that thing was on.
I was just wondering, perhaps you should fit a wooden toilet seat. My brother in-law has one of those and they never seem that cold when I sit on it.
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Anne
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December 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
@Sire, The lifting of the seat isn’t the problem. It’s the keeping up of the seat while you guys do your business. Those seats tend to want to fall which would explain why we don’t have one.
I’ll have to look into a wooden one.
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Sire
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December 24th, 2009 at 2:41 am
@Anne, OK, I get the picture now. In that case your best bet would definitely be a nice wooden seat. Just make sure you check for splinters.
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You’d hate camping at some of the parks around here. Imagine this: You’ve pulled yourself, reluctantly, from your tent to answer Nature’s call. It’s about 40 degrees outside, if that. Being a woman, you can’t just offend the nearest tree – you need a touch of civilization. You find it, open the stall door, and – oh, God in Heaven – the entire toilet, seat and all, is made of stainless steel.
Do they make a HEATED toilet seat?? That could be fun.
I always wanted one of those clear Lucite seats with the barbed wire embedded in them (it just SOUNDS painful – but it is an ordinary seat). Or goldfish, like those shoes Heather and I covet.
I followed the hand-crafted links from Sire’s delightful Journey to Bloggersville post.
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Anne
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@Holly Jahangiri, Oh, my! Not sure I would like a stainless steel toilet seat, but since I’m so anal [no pun intended] about not sitting on public toilet seats this would not be too much of an issue.
When I was much younger we would go camping/canoeing and us girls [all two of us] would have to find a concealing bush or just use the river. Good thing these were just weekend excursions.
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What a unique, yet delightful gift. Did you get any picture of you opening your seat? lol
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Anne
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December 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
@Rose, I do have a picture, but have been unable to locate it just yet. As soon as I do I will update and let you know.
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Anne,
I can’t complain… the coldest temp I have experienced so far was 14C up at Baguio City where early in the morning I had to do my thing and sat on a cold seat. I know, 14C isn’t that cold, well for a tropical behind such as mine, it was more than I am used to. So, anyway, I managed to answer nature’s call and did my other business.
The other call of nature isn’t that difficult, although I agree that keeping the seat up takes a lot of hard work because of some stubborn seats.
Z
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Anne
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December 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
@Zorlone, I had to do a conversion since I am used to Fahrenheit [sad I know].
I hate a cold toilet seat and they really should manufacture them in a manner as to stay temperate so we don’t experience a shock causing us to jump up and, well, you get the picture. 
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