Still, one crack or tear in the vinyl and who knows what starts growing inside one of those padded seats? Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but even as a child of the 80s those seats always gave me the ick. (Of course, that's not how I would have said it then.)

The master bath in my childhood home is carpeted, and when I was a child we also had those carpet-like removable lid covers with the elastic underneath.