Where have all the toilet seats gone?

So apparently, toilet seats are not as important to the rest of the world as they are to Americans. I have come to find that nearly all the public bathrooms I have visited (restaurants, train stations, ice arenas, etc.) are lacking in the toilet seat department. What is up with that? It's not as if it is a huge commodity but I am at a loss. There are holes on the toilet where a seat would be screwed it but alas, no toilet seat. Come on people, let's make an effort.
Besides an obvious lack of seats, Paris was great. Ben, Jordan and I had a great time getting all the touristy stuff out of the way so that during our "Paris week" in March we will be able to move onto bigger and better things. We went to the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Champs Elysees, and, in general, walked around. I would say one of the highlights for me was stumbling upon the "Bird and Flower market" that I had learned about last summer. We climbed out of a metro station and encountered a street full of birds and flowers. I can only imagine that the market is better in the summer which will be fun to return to.
After our first dabbling in travel, we are all really excited to get back out there. We have a weekend excursion to the Normandy coast. There we will go to Mont St. Michel, the invasion beaches, a WWII cemetery, and a famous tapestry in Bayeux. It is supposed to be a great trip. The schedule is looking like this:
Next weekend: Normandy Coast
Weekend after (Feb. 20th): Visit to Pauline
Weekend after (Feb. 27th): Spring Break, either Italy or the South of France
So the next few weeks will be a lot of fun.