or you can squat
every time i use a public restroom i have to take some toilet paper and wipe off the seat even when there is nothing on it. i am always scared the person had crabs or that a crotch hair fell onto the seat and that it might get stuck on my butt. I also have to use my shirt like a gas mask until i can safely smell my own pee and not the other persons or else i wanna barf.
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well, i can take that to another level. i lay a TP barrier down on the seat even though i squat because if i slip and fall onto the toilet while squatting i dont want to come in contact with the gross seat. i also use my foot to flush. if it is a bathroom with several stalls i always choose the first one because i read somewhere that in a study, the least amount of people go into the first stall. i also never touch the obvious places that other people touch. meaning, i close the door near the hinge rather than using the handle and i always use toilet paper to close the latch or turn on the water etc. i also take off two full layers of toilet paper off of the roll and throw it away before i get the paper i am going to use. (what if someone had shit on their hands when they reached for it and left some on the roll?!). bathrooms are gross and people are gross. i would rather do all of this than think about what might now be on my hands or ass.
I fly twice a week, so I spend a lot of time in airport bathrooms and airplane bathrooms and I also go to school, so I spend time in school bathrooms, too. As a result of all that exposure to possible germs, I have to only enter stalls that seem very clean visually; then, I carry the travel size hand sanitizer in my purse at all times, and I have a ritual for the “clean-seeming” toilets: I take two seat liners and crumple them up and use them to wipe the seat and then I put some of them on the floor in front of the toilet just in case someone sprinkled or dripped, and then if I’m feeling really paranoid, I put some sanitizer on toilet paper and clean the seat, THEN, I pre-emptively flush and line the seat with a fresh liner.
The way this post is worded makes ME wanna barf.