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An_247344 posted:
This may be the wrong section, but it's where I'm most comfortable asking. I was in a restaurant, in a less than great area, and had to use the restroom. I covered the seat with provided covers as I always do, and did my business, but when I was done I noticed The toilet paper. Inside the enclosed plastic case, the toilet paper had dark drops on it. My first thought was blood, but how would it have gotten in there?

At the time, having already done what I went in there to do, I had no choice but to use it, or pull my pants up while rather unsanitary. Now I've tried to be rational, and tell myself, it is unlikely that it was blood, and even if it was, it was not on the portion I directly used, and furthermore, Being the womens room, there have prob been multiple times ive used a seat that some fluid or other had gotten on then been wiped off with toilet paper, which wouldn't remove germs. But I can still be paranoid. Should I be worried? I mean, blood can transfer aids and such. But how would blood have gotten in the case? only if someone had cut themselves in the store room, or left it lying open in a bathroom, and if that had happened, they either could not have used it, or why would the almost full roll have been in the case
1 Replies |Watch This Discussion | Report This| Share this:A question about something that happened in the women's room?This may be the wrong section, but it's where I'm most comfortable asking. I was in a restaurant, in a less than great area, and had to use the restroom. I covered the seat with provided covers as I always do, and did my business, but when I was done I noticed The toilet paper. Inside the enclosed plastic case, the toilet paper had dark drops on it. My first thought was blood, but how would it have gotten in there?<br /><br />At the time, having already done what I went in there to do, I had no choice but to use it, or pull my pants up while rather unsanitary. Now I've tried to be rational, and tell myself, it is unlikely that it was blood, and even if it was, it was not on the portion I directly used, and furthermore, Being the womens room, there have prob been multiple times ive used a seat that some fluid or other had gotten on then been wiped off with toilet paper, which wouldn't remove germs. But I can still be paranoid. Should I be worried? I mean, blood can transfer aids and such. But how would blood have gotten in the case? only if someone had cut themselves in the store room, or left it lying open in a bathroom, and if that had happened, they either could not have used it, or why would the almost full roll have been in the case
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tlkittycat1968 responded:
I'd say not to be worried. If it was brown then it was old blood. Most viruses such as HIV do not live long when exposed to air and definitely not when dry.
Report This| Share this:A question about something that happened in the women's room?I'd say not to be worried. If it was brown then it was old blood. Most viruses such as HIV do not live long when exposed to air and definitely not when dry.
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