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Why are they in and out of the loo?? 🧐

129 replies

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 11:22

I’m having some work done in the house at the moment. Just some new storage units fitted so we are still in the house ourselves. We’ve had 2 different fitters coming and going in the past few days.
the first guy was only there for maybe 1hr or so taking out the existing units. He used the toilet on at least 3 occasions. He looked about mid 40s to fifty so unlikely to have prostate problems.
Second guy came this morning. Younger, maybe early 30s. Was only there about 25 minutes before I left for work and had already used the loo twice.
I don’t have any issue with workmen using the loo I know it’s non of my business but I’m intrigued.
Why are they in and out of the loo so often??

OP posts:
User7989776 · 18/08/2026 12:36

Monty36 · 18/08/2026 11:57

They are using the loo as a break. From doing anything.

Oldest trick in every man's book! They assume nobody will be tracking them or noticing them so loo is a magic closet where they can stay for as long as they want doing whatever they want, which is looking at their phone and writing messages.

Whosthetabbynow · 18/08/2026 12:36

Lomonald · 18/08/2026 11:40

I was just asking if the op could smell vape, i was trying to be funny and it fell flat

❤️

User7989776 · 18/08/2026 12:37

I feel another workman life hack is to "forget" a tool in their van so they have to go back looking for it and thus get another break.

wandererofthekingdom · 18/08/2026 12:52

Maybe they have IBD, my husband went about 5 times this morning!

Monty36 · 18/08/2026 13:03

At least they are in your home. And not popping out for something or other which means really they are going to another house to do some work all at the same time. Like all too many do. And hope you don’t realise. Drives me mad that.

user1471538275 · 18/08/2026 13:05

Hand washing?

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 13:06

wandererofthekingdom · 18/08/2026 12:52

Maybe they have IBD, my husband went about 5 times this morning!

What are the chances that they both have IBD?

OP posts:
Noironing · 18/08/2026 13:10

Do you have there mobile numbers? Maybe send an NHS link for prostrate problems. Or leave a leaflets in there on top of the loo seat each time

NoLifeguardOnDuty · 18/08/2026 13:11

...cocaine?

MsIceSandwich · 18/08/2026 13:14

Obviously they're doing a penis check, who knows if it might have fallen off in the interim.

hotblacktea · 18/08/2026 13:23

masturbating ?

Spidey66 · 18/08/2026 13:32

If they're on the road from one job to the next, there maybe an element of 'just in case'?

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 18/08/2026 13:50

hotblacktea · 18/08/2026 13:23

masturbating ?

Manual workers definitely have the energy to wank several times an hour. And putting up cupboards must really get the imagination going. It's the obvious explanation.

Kimmers4334 · 18/08/2026 13:56

Where are the units being fitted in relation to the toilet?

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 13:59

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 18/08/2026 13:50

Manual workers definitely have the energy to wank several times an hour. And putting up cupboards must really get the imagination going. It's the obvious explanation.

now that it’s pointed out not sure why I didn’t think of it 😳😂

OP posts:
Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 14:00

Kimmers4334 · 18/08/2026 13:56

Where are the units being fitted in relation to the toilet?

Toilet is off the hall. Units being fitted in a room at the end of a corridor off the hall.

Why?

OP posts:
NoCommentingFromNowOn · 18/08/2026 14:06

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 14:00

Toilet is off the hall. Units being fitted in a room at the end of a corridor off the hall.

Why?

My first thought when @Kimmers4334 said that was they are accessing the back of the cupboards on the back wall. Like when I had a shower fitted the pipes were in the cupboard in the wall behind it, in a different room.

Kimmers4334 · 18/08/2026 14:22

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 14:00

Toilet is off the hall. Units being fitted in a room at the end of a corridor off the hall.

Why?

If it was next to, above or behind the toilet they might have been checking where pipes and wires run if they were popping in and out. But doesn’t sound like it if it’s quite far away

Twodogsonthecouch · 18/08/2026 14:26

Ah, I see what you mean.

No, no shared wall between the two rooms

OP posts:
mindutopia · 18/08/2026 14:27

Coke.

oberuber · 18/08/2026 14:28

To go on their phone.

oldmanandtheangel · 18/08/2026 15:36

Builders are often known for taking coke especially in the scaffolding industry.
My car was totally written off by a coked up scaffolder who fled from the scene
so I had to go to the police

oldmanandtheangel · 18/08/2026 15:37

Age didn't come into it..he was in his 60s!

NattyRedFinch · 18/08/2026 15:42

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · 18/08/2026 12:05

On a night out yes, but not at work. The idea that they’re both coke heads who get on it at work is inane. One, maybe, but both cokeheads? Probably not.

OP the most likely answer is they’re having a skive and watching a few tick toks. Maybe a puff on the vape.

Drug abuse is absolutely rife in the construction industry.

Flannelfeet · 18/08/2026 15:54

DeanGaffneysCumFace · 18/08/2026 11:25

Maybe they both had the shits? Or they're taking cocaine? Or most likely they are sniffing your dirty washing in the basket.

Love, love, love your username 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Folded laughing 😃 😀 😄

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