So a few years ago some bigwigs in the department of health, or one of those agencies that is there for our own good and safety, decided that toilet seat covers didn't really provide any kind of protection and were not necessary. Since then many public places have stopped providing toilet seat covers in their restrooms. I have a problem with that.
Now I'm not saying they are wrong about contracting some of the more serious diseases, I'm sure they've researched it thoroughly and found that you won't contact any STD's from a toilet seat. But I for sure do NOT want to sit on a toilet on which any number of other people have sat. People, who may be very nice people, are not necessarily clean people. Have you ever been on a long car ride on a hot day....you get all sweaty.... everywhere. You just never know who has been on that toilet seat before you, how many somebodies, or where they've been, what they've done....
I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression; I am not a germaphobe. In fact it might just disgust some people to know my hygiene habits (I RARELY use hand sanitizer). But think about this, have you ever looked at your phone after you've had it up to your face during a conversation? It has face oils on it. Now, the face is one of the more oily parts of our body, but our entire body secretes some amounts of oil....our entire body. So when you touch something, you leave behind a little bit of oil from whatever ANY of your skin contacts. If you have really dry skin, you are sloughing of flakes from all parts. I don't even want to get into the bodily fluid possibilities.
All that to say that as for me, I will not sit on a public toilet without some sort of cover over the seat. Say what you may, I don't want to be sharing that with anyone I don't know REAL well
Jeanette
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I just had a discussion about toilet seats on Facebook. I always hovered over the seats before toilet seat covers, after learning that urine isn't a big issue, I didn't worry quite so much about it, but still I don't want to sit in it. I think women's bathrooms are the worst, I think most little kids use the womens bathroom, and then there is the issue of blood, it does get on the seat, not just fall through the opening of the horse shoe shaped toilets.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed less and less bathrooms with covers available and it frustrates me. I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with being a germaphobe. And I don't use hand sanitizer either, I have a hard enough time keeping my hands from drying out.