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AIBU?

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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:
valleyqueen · 17/01/2011 22:21

frozen. If you have ever run down Oxford Street arse clenched and sweating like a bitch then yes we are Grin

Catsmamma · 17/01/2011 22:26

Yabu!

and btw, I'd give it five minutes.

OldMumsy · 17/01/2011 22:27

The loo is there for people to pee and shit in. That is it's purpose. FFS holding it in can cause chronic constipation and worse. why are we so hung up about these bodily functions?

Meow75 · 17/01/2011 22:36

I agree that when you gotta go, you gotta go.

It is commonly a topic of conversation around our staffroom table since loos were put within the confines of the room so that we didn't have to announce to any passing student that we were going to use the loo!

Many of my female colleagues are amazed at the number of times that I go to the loo, and I have said, when the subject of frequency is brought up, that I might have 4 visits to the loo per day to poo. This produces Shock and even [catsbummouth] from the people who say that they might poo only once a week. Consequently, as I am so frequent, using toilets other than my own home to poo is not a choice, but it also doesn't bother me. And, unlike a lot of you, I am fortunate enough that I don't suffer from IBS or similar, my food just doesn't hang around for very long is all - even if I have a big meal, I don't stay as full as most people I know for as long - oh, and for the record, yes I am overweight. I have often wondered how my food stays in my gut long enough to absorb as much energy as it clearly does!!!!

Gleekfreak · 24/01/2011 13:42

This thread has made me PMSL- good giggle for a Monday! :0

wendihouse22 · 24/01/2011 13:47

I'm not keen and would prefer they went elsewhere but, am sure that if I express this opinion I might be thought of as utterly bonkers.

By the same token, I would wait till I either got home or if I had to go, I'd make it a public toilet.

Mercedes519 · 24/01/2011 13:52

I canm't believe only one person on this thread has used the phrase 'anally retentive' Grin

My DH would be welcomed by the OP, he never goes in anyone else's and even on holiday it'll take him days to become sufficiently familiar to take such liberties. Probably because it DOES whiff something bad.

In an old job we were asked not to 'drop the kids off at the pool' in the disabled toilet in reception. The phrase had to be explained to several people...Shock

clevercloggs · 24/01/2011 13:57

it's the fact that people leave evidence.

how would they know its gonna leave evidence until they have been

ditto unflushable logs, you dont know they wont flush until the inevitable happens

HowAnnoying · 24/01/2011 14:00

YANBU

I dont like it, but I understand if they have to. I always clean the toilet before and after having people round.

I can't poo at other peoples houses. We go to Europe to stay with DPs family and I have made myself very ill with constipation, then DP tells the WHOLE family and 3 of aunties go off to the pharmacy to buy me strong laxatives. So embarrassing!

cheekyseamonkey · 24/01/2011 14:11

YABU, really funny and a bit ocd, but U! lol

Gleekfreak · 24/01/2011 14:17

Have just fallen off sofa laughing so much! DS bit worried!
Don't mind so much people poo'ing-has to come out after all, just don't want to be told about it beforehand, as don't want to be forcing myself not to be thinking about it! (blush)
And also-why can't I do a smiley on my iPad?

marriednotdead · 24/01/2011 14:18

clevercloggs they can clean up afterwards!

Foreverondiet · 24/01/2011 14:18

I find this thread very odd.

When I have to go I have to go. Whether thats at home or anywere else. I can't hold it in. I thought everyone was the same.

OP: Maybe you should ask people whether they can hold their poos in before you invite them round?

goodasgold · 24/01/2011 14:21

What about a wee and a fart?

Gleekfreak · 24/01/2011 14:24

Tee hee hee!

SenoritaViva · 24/01/2011 16:16

ROFL at you all.

Think it is bizarre, but admittedly a bit with OP but only if they leave evidence.

My father is very particular about where he chooses to go (so if he chose your toilet you could take it as a compliment). Years ago on holiday he took aversion to our accommodation's toilet and every day trotted up the hill to take a crap in the posh hotel. By the end of the holiday they were greeting him warmly and asking if there was anything else he needed (one can only assume his regularity there made them assume he was a paying, as opposed to crapping, guest). Grin

NetworkGuy · 24/01/2011 19:08

'drop the kids off at the pool' - first time I have come across the expression in 50 years (OK, was incapable of speech or reading 50 years ago, but you get my drift).

"I would wait till I either got home or if I had to go, I'd make it a public toilet."

I found that one of the least likely comments as I felt sure women in general were less likely to wish to use a public loo than one which is likely to be in a nicer state generally (though I feel sure on some TV vaguely- scientific programme they indicated public loos are generally cleaner than we think as they get care and attention every day or several times a day).

NetworkGuy · 24/01/2011 19:11

"I think that is the position that we used to poo in in the wild, squatting on the ground."

and not just in the wild, but I bet that is still the case in many of the more rural localities in some parts of the world. Admittedly 30 years ago, but when I was in some club in Bangkok there was a [small] hole in the centre of the [small] room, though fortunately I just had to stand and aim as it was not a 'squat down' task!

clevercloggs · 24/01/2011 19:13

wonder how OP would feel in countries like greece where you have to put your crappy paper ina bin next to the loo

now that is gross :(

SandStorm · 24/01/2011 19:27

You can do what you like in my toilet but I'll try and save it for home if it's all the same to you. The possibility of delivering a 'floater' in someone else's house is too traumatic for me to contemplate!

cupcakebakerer · 24/01/2011 19:38

I'm with you on this one although it is clearly unreasonable.

BoomTittyBoom · 24/01/2011 19:57

ha ha ha..... My sister has a rule of no solids in the downstairs loo and I take mick out of her for it. Just tempts me more Grin

atmywitssend · 24/01/2011 20:01

Don't mind any guests having a poo in the bathroom here - but as DS and his mates get older, here is a dilemma that I'm pondering. Visiting child does poo on own. Should mother of child then go to check the toilet afterwards for skidmarks or worse? I've found less than clean toilets often lately - what is the etiquette here?

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