"What in the hell was she doing actually sitting down on a public toilet seat?"
It sure beats the hell out of standing on the seat and practicing high altitude bombing techniques!
You can put either the seat covers or toilet paper down first. Yuck.
I ALWAYS put TP down before sitting on a public toilet seat. I guess I heard too many stories at work like the one where a guy walked into the locker room to see another guy washing his behind in the birdbath, someone had put anti-seize or prussian blue on the toilet seat, he didn't notice and got it all over his tooter.
THat story isn't as good as the one where a guy was putting Herculiner on the rocker panels on his Explorer and got some on his hootus and asked on the Ford Explorer forum how to get it off.