When mum goes to the public loos she never touches any of the handles - always uses a bit of toilet roll or wears gloves. She never seems to get a cold. I don't really like sitting on the seat, but sometimes ones legs aren't up to it and then I have to then I put loo roll on the seat before i sit on it!! I can't stand the smell of public loos. Its always worse than at home! I could never do a 'number 2' in a public loo - be far to conscious of people waiting.
Those space age ones are terrible on trains. I remember I thought I had bolted myself in to the metal cubicle well and truly. Anyway I was daydreaming, on the loo with my jeans around my ankles, when the door slowly openend allowing the whole of that carriage to witness me mid stream!
Another time, I was perched on the loo at the back of a bus. The bus went speeding around a bend, the door flung open giving the opposite passengers a great laugh at my expense!