I was shopping in Target the other day and Grace and I stopped for a bathroom break. On our way in, I saw a women in one of the "handicapped" electronic carts with her 2 kids needing to use the restroom. She looked like she had broken her foot or leg or twisted her ankle b/c she had a big black cast up to her knee. My first instinct was to offer help, but I thought if someone did that to me, would I take it? Probably not. So I declined..then I saw that she did have her mother with her. As Grace and I proceeded into the restroom, locked the door to the stall behind us, I heard the mother and her daughter come in. As Grace and I finished up, they were still in their own stall using the restroom and, with much frustration in her voice, the mother says "NO! don't touch the toilet, No, please don't touch the toilet, don't touch the toilet!!!" Now, we can only imagine what a tough time this young mother is having with 2 kids and no 2 legs to walk on! I immediately knew one thing I would have logged in my gratitude journal that night! But it got me thinking. How dirty are our toilet seats to invoke such passion behind her demands?? I mean, let's be real? how dirty are our butts anyways? unless you walk around naked everyday, most butts are covered with pants and aren't being touched by many hands (insert funny joke here). Can they really be all that dirty? So I found this article:
10 Dirtiest things you touch every day!
I won't spoil the fun, but toilet seats are in there behind a few other things I bet we don't keep our kids from touching on a daily basis or even think twice about it.
So to this mother's defense, I don't tell my kid to rub her hands all over the toilet seat either and I'm pretty avid about her not touching it, but I'm also washing hands before we leave and very aware that there are many more dirty things that my kids are touching on a daily basis that could give them much more germs than a toilet seat.
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