AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

‘Try not to poo in other people’s houses’ - yep there it is. Peak MN.

Stil unnecessary chemicals though isn’t it, which are made and packaged and shipped around just to get dropped down the toilet and then have to be filtered out to clean the water. Stuff to pretend your shit doesn’t smell seems to me the height of materialism/waste!

You don’t have to be posh! Guess it’s a kind of catch all, even if I had a horse in a field with one stable I would say “going to the stables/yard”
I much prefer poo pourri as it’s straight in the toilet and doesn’t choke people with the smell

I’m not posh enough to own a stables so I’ve no idea. But if I did, air freshener wouldn’t be by main priority. A ‘courtesy flush’ is the best way to prevent smells - ie flush as soon as the poo hits the water.

It won’t be IN the actual stable, probably a separate building
“the stables” is usually what people call the entire place (stables, fields, house, toilets…)

Are you quite OK op? "expect"? Don't "expect" things when you go to other people's homes. People aren't the same. Some prefer to open windows, some don't like artificial smells, some like reed diffusers.
More importantly, try not to poo in other people s homes.

Why do you have air freshener in there then? Poor horses having to breathe synthetic shit.

My case sits quietly having a rest.

If it’s a choice between an unpleasant but harmless smell and serious health impacts, it’s a no brainer isn’t it?

As someone that gets migraines from air freshener, shit is by far preferable.

Is the smell of shit okay?

That's because some of us (and that's a growing number) cannot walk into a room filled with air freshener without feeling seriously ill until we can get home, shed our clothes, scrub our skin and wash our hair. Even then consequences can occur for days after.

Normally the worst crime on here is someone having a shit anywhere (including their own home) but mention air freshener and people lose their minds 🤣

I don't like walking into a bathroom that smells of someone's shit.

However walking into a bathroom that smells of someone's shit AND air freshener spray is much, much worse.

Do all of you 'we always spray' people think it actually smells better in there after spraying that stuff? I don't get it. To me it's so obviously worse - it also tends to spread more outside the door, and telegraphs to anyone around that you've just unloaded.

It's not that anyone likes the smell of shit - their own or anyone else's. It's just that shit plus air freshener tends to be much worse, stronger and more enduring.

Your bungalow doesn't have windows? I've spent a lot of my time in bungalows, they are very common where I'm from, and never ever have the whole bungalows been stunk out after someone's defecated. The smell certainly doesn't leave our own bathroom.

Just close the bathroom door afterwards and have the bathroom window open, a couple of minutes clears it for normal poo smells, extra toxic ones like your son's may need a good 20mins of fresh air to clear!

Sprays mixed with the aroma of shit are utterly vile. I'd rather walk into a bathroom prematurely following the previous occupants shit, than walk into that synthetic fragrance mixed with the shit smell 😑

We leave our bathroom window open all day, from morning until bedtime, there's no poo smell unless you go in within 5 mins of my DH 😄

If you don't have a window all the more reason not to use air fresheners. If you look on the cans they say to only use in a ventilated area.
I wonder why ...

My suspicion is that most poo smells get trapped by the water and the really bad smells are gas releases at the same tIme

Air Freshners are carcinogenic

Poo smell mixed with air freshener smell is vile, way worse than just poo!

Same as when smokers come in and put perfume on, nope, vile.

Yes, this is precisely what the Cranberries were eager to teach us: the importance of always flushing before you depart.

Don't be ridiculous. Everyone's poo smells. Often if you flush it away the smell doesn't linger but the poo itself always smells.

You are being completely unreasonable and insufferable.

Her personal behaviour in dealing with it was obviously selfish and unacceptable; but you make it sound like a general value judgment: that only unreasonable, bad people ever do poos that stink. It's a normal human thing to need to do; and is not in the slightest shameful in itself.