I love your sense of humour. And I can certainly appreciate your desperate situation and why you'd want the lid up! What a misery!

From an aesthetic point of view though, and a feng shui one, I'm with your beloved. Can't stand the look of an open toilet. It's a terribly unattractive piece of "furniture" even with the lid down.

Well, at least you got a great dinner out of your hubby's OOPS moment!