You Are Using the Paper Toilet Seat Cover Incorrectly.
Some people squat over a public toilet because they have steel squares. Some people just sit with bare cushions right on the rubella-covered seat, because obviously they are not afraid of germs, as reasonable people should. For everyone else, there are toilet seat covers. Yes, you can cover the TP seat, but carefully tearing, tilting, and stacking the pieces of paper for perfect coverage can get a little tedious when you really have to go – what is that, macrame?
This leaves us with the paper toilet seat cover offered in some public toilets, which, while it feels like waiting in the doctor’s office for someone to do something unpleasant for your lower regions, is actually your best option for sanitary urine. …
And yet so many people don’t seem to know how to properly use a paper toilet seat cover!
Common mistakes
- Tearing off the middle sheet of paper and throwing it away. (Why are you doing this? This is not the top of the sherbet cup.)
- Wear it backwards so that the flap hangs from the back of the toilet, not the front.
- Do not stick out a piece of paper so that it dangles in the water. Because the whole point of the middle valve is that it sits in the water while you go about your business, and then when you flush the water, it carries the entire toilet seat lid down the drain with it. So you don’t need to touch. There is no rubella, do you understand?
Wrong Way
This video, with the confusing title, “How to Put the Toilet Seat Cover Correctly,” is actually incorrect because she makes mistake # 3: She won’t pop the lid out and let her float in the water.
Now you can say, “But the weight of the urine / other will pull the paper down on its own, so I don’t have to spend those four seconds piercing it and letting it dangle before I leave.” To which I say, “What if the perforated seams on this toilet seat cover are unusually strong ? How is the factory defect on that toilet lid? What if – bear with me – the weight of your urine / other doesn’t make the strip of paper go down? So you just created a damn hammock for your piss / other right below your bottom edges.
Pierce it right through.
The right way
Steve Harvey’s guest, professional organizer and national hero Amanda LeBlanc, gets it right.
Clear? Happy (wellness) trails everyone.