I sat down on a public toilet seat today

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Uhhhhh I don't know what happened. I didn't line the seat with paper and I didn't hover. Will I be ok? I'd it likely I'll catch something terrible? I just really needed the loo and just rushed in and then my bum was on the seat 😬

@TheOldRazzleDazzle yep I thought it was just cold at first & then had the slow realisation it was actually wet. I'm going to keep a copy of The Sun with me in future so I can lay it down to create a barrier. Just in case

In fact, I’ve got to ask, has it occurred to all you hoverers that you might have a psychological illness? Given that you can’t catch anything from sitting, and no other rationale has been proposed?

Yes. I was taught to hover by my DM and then at some point in adulthood I realised nothing bad happened if I didn’t and then I realised I was neurotic and from a neurotic family. I also have health anxiety but cured with antidepressants.

Wish all I had to worry about in life was a dirty arse

What skin is made for OP. Probably more risky to touch the flush button or door handle. 🙄

Mine too! Even as a child i thought it abnormal!!

Oh nooo!!!

Your arse is going to fall off any minute now!!!!!!

Seriously - you’ll be fine. Take a deep breath.

I know it’s icky but it’s really rare that anybody picks up a disease from a public toilet seat.
it’s just the getting over the ICK factor that’s hard.

I love you both.

I used the toilet after a toilet paper liner the other day. Fucking weirdo.

I'm going to keep a copy of The Sun with me in future so I can lay it down to create a barrier. Just in case

Buying The Scum is worse than a toilet disease.

Hole in the floor loo at a bus station was by far my worst toilet experience.
Stank, had toxic feet but with hand gel survived.

I always sit on toilet seats. Never caught anything, not even so much as a slightly suspicious spot. I have refused to use a toilet that looks grotty and continued to search for another one though (bladder of steel, me)

I must admit thought that I am one of those people that can't poo anywhere but my own house. Maybe my parents' if I use the bathroom furthest away from the living room. I really wish I wasn't, it's incredibly annoying. For the purposes of overnight stays or holidays then the hotel room becomes my 'house' so that's something at least, but a public loo for pooing? Never.

I used to fear pooing in public but it’s not as bad as you think and ibs makes you care less

I know several families where children refuse to use public toilets at all due to picking up on their parents' paranoia, and it causes significant health issues and makes it very hard and stressful to have days out as a family.

Paranoid people on here with no kids--I really recommend getting your fears under control before you have children because having kids who refuse public toilets is a nightmare.

Well, when you've gone to the toilet in a hole in the ground at the Grand Canyon, you'll go anywhere!

I am 100% sure the same people who see no problems with sitting on a public toilet seat also see no problem not showering daily and think washing chicken is repugnant. I am sure about this.

I also use tissue to open the door handles and flush. I know many [redacted] are filthy. The two tap system drives me insane.

You need to go to A and E now.

I hovered until I went to university. A year in halls of residence taught me that using shared toilets with strangers didn’t cause any harm whatsoever. Nowadays, I even wipe others’ wee off the seat and sit down. Life’s too short to be lining toilet seats with paper.

I shower daily. I also sit on toilets. I reckon one takes care of the other. Same with touching the cubicle door - I’m about to go and wash & sanitize my hands properly so I see no reason to be terrified of touching a door. I don’t wash chicken because we’re vegetarian so it wouldn’t really be part of my day. Nobody in my family has ever been harmed in any way by sitting on a public toilet and using it.

If I was that terrified to use a public toilet for the purposes intended I’d get psychological help because it would impact me so much.

But then I have worked in childcare and elderly people care and have frequently had other people’s bodily fluids on me, so maybe I’m just not squeamish. As a lady I used to work with once told me after a smearing incident ‘even shit washes off. Cry about it if you like but it washes off.’

Although I will say all the public toilets I’ve visited recently have been relatively useable. I’ve never been sitting in any one else’s mess, and I wouldn’t clean up someone else’s pee. I’d simply go somewhere else/alert the staff that the toilets are dirty.

You must immediately sit in a bucket of bleach now!

FWIW, I always reflect on how many people must touch the cubicle handle having just wiped their arse. It's most grim.

Your arse will spontaneously combust sometime within the next couple of days and disappear.

🤣🤣🤣 - funniest reply in a long time - thanks for the laughs. I'm cacking myself!
(Sorry, rude uncouth Australian expression for opening the bowels!)

I am 100% sure that I both sit on toilets and shower every day.

Replying to @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll. Still imagining Toilet Cossack Dancing - 🤣.

I can't believe some of the 'problems' I am reading on here lately. Sounds like a good one for the Daily Mail though.