To put paper on the seat when using the loo in public?

[BrownEyedGirlv2point0]

I've had people argue that it is ridiculous to do this. I, personally, feel more comfortable. I know it wastes more paper but it's better than squatting to avoid actually touching the seat. Plus, if someone has left a mess there before me, I'll know. They say you can't catch anything from touching a seat but it still creeps me out. What do most people do?

The thing that fucks me off is people who spend ages in the toilet while everyone else queues because of their insane need to carefully cover the loo seat in paper.

They are probably the same people who don't wash their hands afterwards.

I have reached the age of 35 and still haven't succumbed to Arse Disease from using loo seats in the intended manner. It's a miracle! Weeps

Why bother with the faff of covering? The paper most likely won't stay in place anyway. Just hover.

It makes it more likely that at some point some poor sod will find there is no paper in the cubicle because selfish nesters have used it all.

how do you get out then? do you have to wait for someone to come in
I just use tissue, how do you think I do?

Deffo always put paper on the seat. Habit since I was a child.

So when you’re at beach - do you put toilet roll over every inch of the sun lounger? Be careful when you are changing for swimming - I hope you never sit down and get a single piece of bum cheek where another cheek has been.

I don't urinate on the beach.
I put towels on sun loungers and on the sand.
How on earth do you change from a wet swimsuit to clean underwear if you seat down? I don't even seat down to put my jeans on at home, how would that work?

Always layer a public loo seat with tissue paper as engrained in me by my DM. Personally I don't relish the idea of sitting down where someone else's bare bum has been.

Door handles are terrible too! I usually hope the door swings out so I can kick it open and leave. If I have to pull I usually grab a napkin. The worst is when they have air dryers and no napkins available. In that case I just use as few fingers as possible with my left hand (I'm right handed), grit my teeth and open it.

Well, at least I now know what it is that causes the queue.

Butt...butt...butt if you lay paper on a seat that's been royally dripped over by the hoverers then sit on it you're sitting in someone else's pissy leavings.

I subject the seat to a steely eyed examination then wipe it over if it needs it. I've never caught an arse lurgy yet.

Surely you mean using a public toilet, not using the toilet in public? That sounds like a very different thing

I’m just trying to think of similar bum of public thing situations. So it’s the possibility of wee you’re worried about? You can see if the seat is dry before you sit down though, or just wipe it.

I don't understand what kind of disease you think you can contract through the skin of your arse cheeks/upper thighs unless you have open wounds there?

It's not as if your genitals actually touch the seat...

I’m not sure what properties everyone thinks toilet paper has that stops germs getting through. The reality is all these nesters are wasting paper and time doing something that makes bugger all difference.
I have never hovered or decorated the cubicle with streamers of paper and so far haven’t caught anything. Of all the weird things I get fixated or anxious over thank goodness this hasn’t been one of them.

It's just that it sounds disgusting. I always shower AND wash my hair if I have been in public transport that day. I don't believe I can get disease because my hair has touched a seat on the train, I just don't like the idea of putting dirty hair on my pillow.
I don't want to sit on a public toilet seat.

I am pretty much the only one using my toilets at work, being the only female, and that works really well for me

It must be exhausting being so worried about something as basic as sitting on a toilet seat.

Ain't nobody got time for that!

I don't care if you hover, or make a loo roll cover or anything else. As long as you leave it nice and clean for the next person. I want to know who the people are that really mess up public loos and don't even flush

Another toilet thread with people sharing how they pee. Jeez.

My grandmother used to make me do this, and of there was no toilet paper she made me hover. Because your didn't know what you could catch!

Assist from those times as s small child I've never done it because a.) she also believed that fleas burst out of boils on people's necks when they were ill so clearly had some odd ideas and b.) I have a very clear memory of her making me hover over a toilet in a moving train when I was about five and I ended up with wee all over my shoes.

Bloody auto correct.

Assist should be apart. S should be a.

I'm always slightly befuddled by those who say 'I hate using public toilets' as if that's somehow unusual. Doesn't everyone prefer to go home and use their own toilet if they possibly can? Somewhere that they have privacy and complete control over the cleanliness?

I will use public toilets because I have to, and I don't do any hovering or wasting all the toilet paper (unless it's truly filthy) but it's not because I really love using public toilets. And when I finish I wash my hands and leave. If there is no hot water and soap I make an effort to find some other cleaner toilets where I can wash my hands properly. Then I forget all about it.

I actually have a recurring nightmare where I am in desperately for the toilet and I walk into a huge public toilet block and each and every toilet is blocked and full of toilet roll and poo.

Not just for the difficulty in building my "nest" but it's just so time consuming as well!

Well this answers the perennial question ‘what on earth are people doing in the loo that takes so damn long while other people are —desperate— waiting’.