My mother always taught me to paper the towel seat. Of course when carefully backing up to the seat, all the paper would slip into the toilet.
Nowadays they have toilets that auto flush, for no reason- ,when you aren't anywhere near them. Boy, that must save them lots of water - duh!
Or the places that have free seat covers- by the time you get it situated, the dumb toilet flushes and draws it in. Good grief. Best advice I can offer is "GO at Home!"

Funny... but also so true