My favorite was going into a bathroom at the zoo, and someone had written “Free Disposable Cowboy Hats!” on the dispenser.
We’ve got them at work (I work in a city hall), but I’m pretty sure that’s institutional inertia as much as anything else- the dispensers are there, the line is in the budget from last year, so they keep getting bought, albeit in reduced quantities I’m guessing.
Ah, Darren, your prompts delivered. Goods job, sir.
I personally prefer the haiku.
Yes, the haiku is nice, but something about calling the decision to use a public toilet a “fray” just tickles me.
Darren’s ChatGPT work was mostly grin-worthy for me. But I laughed hearty at this bit:
It was so curt and so deadpan after the flowery Pig Latin. It just hit home and hit hard.
Human wit still defeats machine-generated humor.
When I was a kid my Dad called them “Texas Tuxedos”.
So we’re just giving up on this, I take it?
People are coming to the realization that they are mostly useless, and also business see no reason to pay for them. So, yeah, getting more rare.
Paper ass gaskets are still in wide (sorry about that) use in the school district I work at, and I have to replace them on a regular basis.
I always have wet wipes (the kind with the alcohol), so whenever I have to use a public loo, I wipe the seat down before putting my delicate derrière in contact with the seat. But, then, I live in China. I refer to public restrooms here as crime scenes. On rare occasions, when there’s no “western toilet” available, I have to sue the "squatter*. It’s still a crime scene. I spread a few wet wipes around the surrounding floor because I don’t want my shoes to be in contact with, shall we say, the previous user’s evidence of the crime.
In some of the larger shopping centers, the cleaning crew keep the “western” stle stalls stocked with those paper seats. The dental clinic I go to has the get-up kenobi_65 posted.
Aside: FinsToTheLeft’s term (“plastic condom thing rolled around the seat”) cracked me up. I thought I’d coined a term years ago when I started calling the plastic sheaths department stores in Japan and South Korea have for umbrellas when the customers come in out of the rain. I call those sheaths umbrella condoms.
@Darren_Garrison What? No iambic pentameter? I got the following from GetLiner (one of ChatGPT’s competitors. It’s a fortuitous name, though; isn’t it?)
In stalls where fears of germs reside with dread,
The ass gasket stands, a papered shield so fair.
With every fold, a soft and tidy spread,
It guards our health in public’s troubled air.
A simple choice, yet mighty in its grace,
It grants us peace where caution is the rule.
So here’s to thee, unassuming embrace,
The humble cover, hero of the loo.
And another in Ubbid Dubbi:
UbIn pubublubic stuballs, yuboubu shubiubeld uboubur subight.
Wubith ubevubery cubuddlubed fubold, uboh hubow yuboubu shubinube,
Yuboubu hubush thube guberms, yuboubu mubakube ubus fubinube.
UbIn cubububiclube chubaubos, yuboubu brubing ubus pubeubacube,
UbA suboft ubembrubacube, uboubur wuborrubiubes cubeubasube.
Tubo yuboubu, dubeubar gubaskubet, wube rubaubisube uba chubeuber,
Fubor ubin uboubur tubimube ubof nubeubed, yuboubu rubeubappubeubar.
And finally, when I go on vacation, the wife and I fly. Sometimes we take a Korean flag carrier, sometimes a Chinese flag carrier. The Chinese carriers never have ass gaskets in the airplane’s toilets; the Korean carriers always do.
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The OP specifically stated right off the bat that they didn’t want this to be about individuals’ personal preferences as to whether they use these things. Accordingly, I have hidden the off-topic posts.
I’m going to decline paying the $2,300 for the full report but this site suggests that toilet seat covers is still a growth market and that covers using less paper but impregnated with disinfectant is the hot new thing
This one suggests a lower growth rate but that it’s still an expanding market (I think this one only covers paper seat covers but the above link includes the auto-feeding plastic and vinyl covers which helps explain the different growth rates as well)
Great cite. Thank you!
I wonder how much the global market expansion is due to increasing use in countries fairly new to the idea of germ-worry and/or still-growing populations.
I could certainly imagine ass gaskets just now becoming the norm in e.g. Viet Nam even as the market is slowly declining or even cratering in the USA or the EU.
Another point is that the industry seems to be selling increasingly sophisticated covers with disinfectant, the automatic rolling plastic condoms, etc. Which may well mean a market expanding as measured in money while declining in piece count.
ISTM the OP’s question was implicitly about piece count, or about number of locations where available which would probably also track with piece count.
I found a couple of similar report previews but all gave ~5% growth into 2030 and all suggested that North America would be the primary market even as they looked for new global markets. N. America growth may be slowing but it doesn’t seem to be collapsing. I’m sure you could get a lot more detail out of the 220 page PDF if you have a few thousand dollars to spare 
Edit: I see the OP already dismissed such market research previews but, when they all seem to roughly agree with one another, I think it’s the best you’ll get for evidence without access to Kimberly Clark’s internal reports. Better than anecdotal “We built a bathroom and didn’t buy a dispenser” anyway.
@kenobi_65 is a marketing pro and might have no-cost access to some such reporting.
I don’t know if the availability has changed - but I do know they have never been anything close to universal in my life. I think I’ve mostly seen them in airports and highway rest stops. Maybe some malls- but not at any of my jobs or most restaurants.
I used to annually go to Las Vegas the week after Thanksgiving, which was leading up to the National Finals Rodeo the next weekend. So there a lot of cowboys and country music shows just before I left. I saw several dispensers with “Free Cowboy Hats” written on them.