The Ladies Room

Have you ever gone into a public restroom and used one of those paper toilet seat covers that you pull out of a dispenser in the stall? The kind where you have to pull up and then down to get it out in one piece? I seriously question the motives of the person who designed this product. What kind of person must this be, and why couldn't they design the dispenser so that you only have to pull one way? Anyone with any knowledge knows that you are already in a vulnerable state while you are there. Why make things difficult? Think about it...you're standing there in the stall with either your pants still on or down around your knees depending upon the urgency of the situation, and you're dancing around trying not to pee on yourself while you extract the toilet cover from the dispenser twice, because you didn't do it right the first time. You try to carefully rip the center portion apart from the part you want to use, which by the way is the flimsiest paper product known to man...only to find you pulled too hard and ripped the whole thing apart. Third times a charm, right? So you go through the process all over again, all the while still dancing around with your pants around your knees, trying not to have an accident. What's worse is that the mere fact the seat covers are there MAKES you feel obligated to use them., as if they are there because the toilets are dirtier then anywhere else when in actuality the door knob you touch after washing your hands is dirtier. Who would believe that a piece of paper as flimsy as this one would protect you from anything anyway? You really don't have to use them, but it's the principal of the thing. So...note to self: "Stop using flimsy toilet seat cover papers in public restrooms...especially when you really gotta go!"