Picture this: you're in a public restroom, doing the universal potty dance of desperation, when you finally secure a stall—only to be greeted by a toilet seat that's seen more strange behinds than a celebrity plastic surgeon. Your options? The thigh-burning hover squat (aka "the invisible chair workout"), the frantic toilet paper wipe-down (which somehow always dissolves at first contact), or reaching for humanity's greatest bathroom innovation since indoor plumbing—that flimsy paper horseshoe known as the disposable toilet seat cover. It's the underwear for toilets that nobody asked for, but everybody uses.

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