Do YOU cover it up?

Avoid public toilets whenever possible, I do. But never use the tissue covers. Unless you rub your junk on the rim purposely or have open sores on you butt, that is NOT how disease is spread.

I squat. And I don't poop in public toilets. The thought of a backsplash terrifies me.

I read somewhere there are more bacteria on your steering wheel than on a toilet seat.....GROSS!!

I wipe off the seat first then make a quadruple layer toilet paper nest. Not only is it cleaner but its warm and comfortable as heck. Sometimes I dont even want to get up.

I carry trial size disinfectant wipes and wipe the seat before I use it

Nope, but if it's wet or blatantly nasty, I'll give it a wipe-down

This. People are too worried about dumb ****. What are the people who practically decontaminate the toilet seat scared they are going to catch? Cancer of the *kitten*?

^^^^This, lol. There are no recorded cases of someone catching a disease on their rear from a toilet seat.

actually there is...especially in the western US...you can get infected with PIN WORMS off a toilet seat....happened to me when I was a kid.....

I avoid public restrooms like the plague, but if I MUST go in, I touch NOTHING I used my elbow or body to open the door. Paper towels to touch anything else. Toilet seat cover or layered toilet paper and I hover. Wash my hands, use paper towels to turn off the faucet and open the door. Then when I get home I shower. I hate public restrooms. And after I just read the pin worms thing, I may not let my kids use one ever again either.

All of you people who hover DO realize that you are creating the very thing you are trying to avoid, right? :huh:
By hovering, you piss all over the seat and then the next poor soul has to contemplate what to do: hover as well and make it worse, wipe the seat, layer in TP, cover it with a protector, don't use it at all, etc.

If we all just sat down like ladies and gentlemen none of those nasty germs you fear would end up on the seat in the first place. But, I know. I know, some of you are OCD and truly germaphobic. If that's the case, that's EXACTLY what the toilet seat protector was invented for. USE IT!!!!! :grumble:

Nothing pisses me off more than walking into a public restroom where toilet seat protectors have been provided and finding all of the toilet seats covered in your nasty piss.

I did until I realized that I would hover anyways.

I read somewhere there are more bacteria on your steering wheel than on a toilet seat.....GROSS!!

There's more bacteria on your kitchen work top... Just a different kind...