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98 replies

Butternutsquash22 · 16/01/2011 22:44

Other people (I.e. Not my family) doing a poo in my toilet?

The thought of it creeps me out. Am I the only one?

OP posts:
togarama · 17/01/2011 10:24

YABU. This is another of those issues which would never have crossed my mind if I hadn't read this thread.

I'm incredulous at how many people expect their guests to just hold it in and/or go to great lengths to avoid pooing outside their own home.

There was me thinking that most people just use the loo as and when they need to...

RunawayFishWife · 17/01/2011 10:26

When you gotta go you gotta go

kelly162b · 17/01/2011 10:26

has anyone poo'ed at pauls house???!!!

YANBU, my husbands friend has a shit in our toilet each time he comes in.

we had a laugh the other day because we had run out of loo roll, i had some ready to take up,but left him in there for 20 minutes before sending hubby up with it!

ILovedYou · 17/01/2011 10:35

Is this Denise Welch?

I cannto bring myself to imagine what a visitor/guest/boyfriend whatever has just done in one of my WC's.
As long as i do not smell or see the evidence and they spray or open the window i do not miond.

YADBVU

Are you a control freak or what?

Biscuit
maighdlin · 17/01/2011 10:42

if you gotta go you gotta go.

Bellagio · 17/01/2011 10:57

My friend has a rule,
downstairs for pees, upstairs for poos.
And she will tell you straight no matter what.
I have no clue what it's about

stewmaker · 17/01/2011 10:57

haha kreecher, i casually mention it to ladies because our loo blocks easily (for the waste bags). And if i forget to leave the spray out (our windows are sealed shut in that room) i just let people know where the drawer is. TBH I'm quite an unfazed person and noone who visits me thinks anything of it.
I've been on the other side (I too have IBS) and can get into a panic if my tummy is upset and there's no airfreshner. I have also brought sanitary stuff home with me in a bag and i don't want my guests to do that - bag it and bin it. I put morning nappies in there anyway and it gets emptied daily.

I also keep immodium in the drawer for anyone who needs it.

OMG I'm a freak! I am laughing so much!

What will I do when ds gets older and I have to move the drawer?????

stewmaker · 17/01/2011 11:02

So who has a toilet brush? I hate the damned things...

I've got one of those clippy things that you attach a disposable pad to. I wouldn't expect anyone to clean my loo, i'd do it myself when guests have gone.

What is the etiquette? Bleach for guests use? What if it's sticky??

Magna · 17/01/2011 11:42

If its rude to pick a book up to go what about MNing on the loo Grin

OnEdge · 17/01/2011 11:51

We ought to provide a stool for guests poos to put their feet on, apparently if you bend your knees up to your chest when you poo it stimulates a nerve and helps. I think that is the position that we used to poo in in the wild, squatting on the ground.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 17/01/2011 11:55

Yes, you're a freak.

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marriednotdead · 17/01/2011 12:19

Butternut, YANBU!

Nor do I have OCD Grin

It's not the fact that people do it that bothers me, it's the fact that people leave evidence.

I have IBS but will only poo away from home as a last resort, and my DH & DCs are the same.

We had a new kitchen installed shortly before Christmas and one of the builders stank the bathroom out and left skidmarks in the pan.

This was despite wipes, bleach and air freshener being in a tray next to him.
DH was fuming! He doesn't even leave the seat up, never mind a mess.

It's like babies stinky nappies; it's much harder to stomach when it's not yours.

maxybrown · 17/01/2011 12:24

oh so funny!

I couldn't care less - but then I have inflammatory bowel disease so shit is just shit to me - and FWIW I very very very rarely can hold it - wish I could!

Deciduousblonde · 17/01/2011 17:42

My ex MIL wsa a slave to her bowels and insisted on taking Immodium every time she went out, so terrified that she might need to use someone elses crapper.

She became so ill she needed an operation to fit a colostomy bag.

We have to poo for a reason..it needs to damned well come out. Holding it in, or preventing it from coming out has got to be bad.

Although Next door have just had a shiny new swanky bathroom fitted. I might just save one up for morning coffee time Grin

twirlymum · 17/01/2011 18:07

Dreya I am laughing out loud at the sweetcorn Grin

Maybe the OP needs to explain the rules of the house to visitors.

Magna · 17/01/2011 18:27

pmsl @ Deciduous Grin

onceamai · 17/01/2011 19:48

I have never thought about it but what a welcome relief from all the too poor, too rich, too middle class threads on here at the moment.

lochnessmumster · 17/01/2011 20:08

How do you know what your visitors have done? Unless it's a proper stinker and then YANBU! Yuk!
onceamai- "a welcome relief...* Hee hee!

upsylazy · 17/01/2011 20:45

This is hysterical. When I went to stay with DH's parents for the first time, I managed to hold it in for 3 days but then absolutely had to go. Because I'd held it in so long, it was huge and wouldn't flush. I still remember the waves of panic rising. I remember this story on This Morning years ago about a similar thing happening to this girl who was meeting her DP's extremely posh family for the first time. In desperation, she managed to find a rubber glove and threw it out of the window. When she came downstairs, she found entire family sitting at the dining table in the conservatory with the offending article sitting on the conservatory roof

lochnessmumster · 17/01/2011 20:58

upsylazy- I really hope that happened, it puts any embarrassing moment I've ever had into perspective! It's like that scene in Trainspotting, when the girl's mother insists on yanking the sheets from him and the whole family are splattered in it. Puke!

valleyqueen · 17/01/2011 21:37

Well I have terrible IBS and can't hold it in most of the time and have had accidents, it's embarrasing and upsets me a lot.

I hope if I have to use the facilities (which after a meal I normally will) anywhere I go nobody is judging me for it. On the plus side I know where nearly every public loo in London is should the need arise :) and I research where thr loos are if I visit somewhere new.

frozenfestiveflo · 17/01/2011 22:14

must be nice to have the choice where to go or not surely? As a sufferer of an IBD there is sometimes NO choice

frozenfestiveflo · 17/01/2011 22:15

valleyqueen are we the same person?

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