I will never forget having this argument and her reason being, "I might accidentally sit on it with the seat up." Yeah, that's gross and disconcerting, I'm sur

I will never forget having this argument and her reason being, "I might accidentally sit on it with the seat up." Yeah, that's gross and disconcerting, I'm sure. My response was that it was her responsibility to make sure she didn't sit on anything gross, and she should be looking where she's sitting anyhow. My solution was to put the lid down with the seat. This is cleaner, looks nicer, stops the flush from spewing grossness into the room, and does not solve her problem at all. Yeah, I was a little petty about it. Of course, then I got complaints about the lid being down. I refused to budge on my position, and eventually she stopped trying to argue about it. My take on the whole situation is that as we solved some really big problems, people needed a reason to complain or feel afraid. We went from worrying about dying constantly to worrying about getting a cold or totally treatable diseases. We're unable to stop worrying about something, and so things get blown out of proportion. We're obsessed with preventing everything that's viewed as negative.