I agree. If the seat is really disgusting, I'll pick another stall. If it's just a few droplets, I'll wipe it off with TP before I sit down.

I am Jessica. (Heh. Not really.) In general, I figure (a) how nasty can the back of people's thighs be, and (b) am I going to touch the backs of my thighs? Probably not.

You know what? I am not getting in a semantics pissing contest. 3 things occurred on two different dates. I do not care which occurred on what dates. Point is, it happened, it doesn't matter any more. Let.it.go.

am I going to touch the backs of my thighs?

You are the backs of your thighs.

I dunno. I just figure there's potential ick but I really want to sit down. So I shield.

A funny variation on those Christian fish thingies that people put on their cars: [link]

I dunno. I just figure there's potential ick but I really want to sit down. So I shield.

Yeah, I don't worry so much about ick in general. I also open doors with my bare hands!

With swine flu, I've gotten paranoid about banisters, but I figure falling down the stairs will probably hurt me more than swine flu.

Oh, I've seen a new anti-Obama (I guess) sticker. It's a christian fish eating an Obama 'O' symbol.

Is pecan allergy as common as peanut allergy?

Tree nut allergies are pretty common in kids, yeah.

I also open doors with my bare hands!

I notice that just about every woman I've seen in the washroom here opens the washroom door with a paper towel instead of her bare hands, which makes me feel okay with using my bare hands--it's when I notice a persistent non-washer that I start to get creeped out. I used to work at a healthcare-tangential place where the orientation included hand-washing instructions, and there was this one woman that never washed her hands. I don't work there anymore, but I see her around town, and it's all I think, there she goes with the ick on her hands.

With swine flu, I've gotten paranoid about banisters

The other ick I think about is shopping cart handles, for some reason. My hands just feel filthy after I've done grocery shopping. I must wash. But I don't think that's a swine flu thing.

I've seen sanitizers at supermarkets for those handles.