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To expect the cable guy to NOT stink my bathroom out after I have just bloody cleaned it.

37 replies

tiredemma · 24/04/2007 14:27

just had two cable guys here changing over my broadband socket, they were downstairs, i was upstairs making my bathroom pristine.

before they go, cable guy one asks to use the lav, is AGES up there- I go up to continue cleaning and it bloody STINKS!

Its bad enough having to put up with dp's toilet smells, without having to smell the guts of a stranger.

vomit.

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Bettikitten · 24/04/2007 16:32

Good idea to invent a "pop up portaloo" specially for workmen to bring with them in their little white vans.

WendyWeber · 24/04/2007 16:30

ROFL at bettikins' post and esp Caligula's response

gscrym · 24/04/2007 16:29

When my neighbour was selling her house, one of the viewers asked to usse the toilet. She said no problem and pointed him in the right direction. He came out ten minutes later and said 'You might want to give it half an hour' then proceded to tell her her house wasn't worth as much as she wanted. She went up to clean the loo and it had been rough-casted.

chocolattegirl · 24/04/2007 16:28

Empie - well you don't have to sit down to use a toilet you know. Did your mother never teach you how to crouch in public loos?

Caligula · 24/04/2007 16:27

Oh I am weak with laughter. Do Japanese people's poo all smell of roses then? And will they all get cancer at the age of 30 due to side effects of fragrant poo medicine? I can spot a celebrity brand endorsement opportunity for Gillian McKeith

Caligula · 24/04/2007 16:25

LOL, I had so many visions around that post Bettikins

"Hallo love, sorry I'm a bit late, come to poo? Bathroom upstairs is it?"

(That was the cleanest)

empie · 24/04/2007 16:25

Eurgghhhh. Did you know you can get medicine in Japan that stops your poo smelling? Maybe you should keep a big bottle of that on the windowsill in your hall and only let workmen upstairs if they take some first!

Seriously, I've got a complex about it too....I can't do a 2 in any other loo but my own! And definitely not in a public loo that's had other people's backsides on it!

chocolattegirl · 24/04/2007 16:25

Tell them to go to the pub first or bring a porta-loo.

Bettikitten · 24/04/2007 16:23

maybe I should rephrase that?

Bettikitten · 24/04/2007 16:23

Ewwww I hate it when workmen come purely for that reason.

Caligula · 24/04/2007 16:21

Oh ROFL with all these poo threads

You are mad.

Open the window, light a scented candle, and resolve never to let anyone use your loo again

chocolattegirl · 24/04/2007 16:19

My DP wouldn't use someone else's loo for a #2 - he was horrified when I was a long time in the ladies at the pub the other week. He told me next time he'd drive me back to his flat to use that loo instead if I'm caught short when we're out .

Dabbles · 24/04/2007 16:18

had th eplumber round yesterday and he left dog shit off his shoes all over my cream carpet.. at least he admitted to it, but he didnt offer to clean it up (could have been mud, but looked suspiciously 'light brown!)

expatinscotland · 24/04/2007 16:06

I vomit so easily, I'd have come downstairs and puked on him.

I really would have.

And then said, 'Thanks for stinging out my restroom, you rank punk ass.'

expatinscotland · 24/04/2007 15:47

I tell them, 'Sorry, no customer toilets'.

LIZS · 24/04/2007 15:39

Have you checked for pubic hairs, that would be nasty

LittleEgg · 24/04/2007 15:36

LOL Hunker. Had forgotten all about those penisy hands..................

Spidermama · 24/04/2007 15:33

You'll be thinking for weeks now of his hairy buttocks on your loo seat won't you?

Mind you I suppose we all find ourselves in this situation whilst at work from time to time don't we?

Perhaps you ought to feel honoured that he wanted to spend some time in your lovely sparkling lav.

Spidermama · 24/04/2007 15:31

Yup. My dh also thinks it's not only acceptable, but amusing for a workman to lay some cable in someone else's bathroom.

oliveoil · 24/04/2007 15:30

what? you can't be serious, what are toilets for fgs?

you should have given him a nappy

Pixiefish · 24/04/2007 15:27

I think it's gross as well. Unless I was staying the night in someone's house I wouldn't dream of using the loo for a poo.

DH can't use anyone else's loo and this causes serious problems if we go away

LIZS · 24/04/2007 15:24

Just say you're not insured in future !

Blandmum · 24/04/2007 15:14

From now on, offer each workman a champagne cork on entry to the house!

lisa111 · 24/04/2007 15:11

Have you gone to clean it yet with a peg on your nose, rubber gloves and bleach?

just the thought of a stranger sitting on my loo would have me scrubbing the toilet, and all the surrounding area. That is men for you.

I am lucky, after a fall down stairs i can no longer smell or taste anything i live with my dp and 3 sons age 18, 15, and 9months so you can imagine all those horrible smells.

TinyGang · 24/04/2007 15:07

Just wondering how you would actually word that complaint

But yuk yes!!