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Original poster

AIBU to not want a workman to poo in my toilet?

652 replies

CreamolaFoamless · 14/10/2011 14:00

Earlier today I was having my boiler serviced and two men came to do it.

The older man said 'can I use your toilet' , I said 'yes of course' and directed him to the bathroom. Thinking he just needed to pass water

But he had a poo in it! He was in there a good 10 minutes and has colleague was looking embarressed as we chatted.

It stank ! Really stank ...why do people think it's ok to poo in someone elses house

Would it be unreasonable to refuse workmen toilet access in future [hshock]

I'm using the term workmen because I don't know what else to call them

OP posts:
Wamster · 17/10/2011 15:20

CreamolaFoamless,
It's not funny when people suffer from a form of obsessiveness over something that most people find trivial and silly (well it is, a bit) but, really, you do need help over this issue. I'm not taking the mickey, you really do.

You do realise that your irrationality has now ceased to be a private matter and could have real consequences for you, don't you? This workman is going to tell his mates about this, his wife, too, she will tell her friends and soon everybody will know and, frankly, think that you are nuts.
Soon the Chinese whispers will mutate into the 'mad woman who won't let me pee'.

Because while nobody likes clearing up other people's shit. Can't say that I, or anybody else I know, relishes the task. The normal reaction is to whinge a bit and moan for about all of 5 minutes.

To actually be in a tizz about it several days later and ring the guy indicates some kind of mental problem. In the best possible way, you do need help. Seriously. Get it.

melika · 17/10/2011 15:21

Are you really still going on about it????

FGSShock

melika · 17/10/2011 15:23

Ha ha, love the 'tortoise was sticking his head out' phrases.

Original poster
CreamolaFoamless · 17/10/2011 15:23

so when the window cleaner man comes on Wednesday should I start by asking him if he needs a poo, because if he does and doesn't go ,he might be distracted and my windows might be streaky !!

[hgrin]

have you ever had to walk out an important meeting with the words 'I'm off to poo'

OP posts:
Wamster · 17/10/2011 15:26

I know. till going on about it a couple of days later. That ain't normal. I can understand somebody posting the opening post in a fit of pique, but admitting on the thread about an hour later that they NOW understood that they were being unreasonable and can-we-just-forget-it-now-folks. Fair enough.

But days later?! Ringing the guy?! That ain't normal.

Andrewofgg · 17/10/2011 15:27

I have certainly said "Time for a short break, I think" and gone out to answer whichever of nature's calls I needed to. And anybody whose work involves longish meetings has said something of the sort. Men, to be sure, sometimes joke about the morning's coffee making its way through the system.

Now please, OP, get a grip. Grasp the realities. You were U to be more than very briefly annoyed, increasingly U to bang on as you have done here, and bloody absurd to ring this chap.

Wamster · 17/10/2011 15:29

CreamolaFoamless
The general consensus here is that YABU. Because, frankly, you are being unreasonable. Seriously, you need help. Your behaviour is not normal.

Either not caring who shits in your loo is normal or, at worst, whingeing for about 5 minutes because you are a bit of a hygiene freak is also acceptable.
I often mutter when a stranger has made a mess of my (usually spotless) lav 'dirty bugger' and resent clearing up. BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT GOES.

Ringing the guy and fretting about it days later is not normal, can't you see that?

Original poster
CreamolaFoamless · 17/10/2011 15:39

I know ......I accept I'm being unreasonable , I accept I have a problem

OP posts:
DontGoCurly · 17/10/2011 15:57

Here you go OP:

whitewhine.com/submit

DontGoCurly · 17/10/2011 15:58

whitewhine.com/submit

VajazzleMyBroomstick · 17/10/2011 16:01

. Yep OP go and have a whine elsewhere.

HeadlessLamAAARRRGHHHH · 17/10/2011 16:05

I got to "he's hidden a poo nut in your handtowel" and that was it. Tea on monitor.

You phoned him!?! Shock

HQ, get this in classics please. :o:o:o

Original poster
CreamolaFoamless · 17/10/2011 16:19

*Here you go OP:

whitewhine.com/submit*

what's that got to do with the price of toast??

OP posts:
VajazzleMyBroomstick · 17/10/2011 16:25

OP you are a funny bugger. You have greatly amused me.

exoticfruits · 17/10/2011 16:41

You have done very well to keep it going this long OP. My first reaction was the right one..........don't respond.

DontGoCurly · 17/10/2011 16:45

It's a place you can go OP and be with your people!

OhdearNigel · 17/10/2011 16:52

"I think he was just an older guy who thought it was ok to shit in my toilet probs be ause his wife didn't let him shit in their toilet.I do think older men have no respect about they take a dump but younger men and women do"

I think this takes the absolute biscuit for the most hilarious idea I have ever read on MN - or even the world.

Original poster
CreamolaFoamless · 17/10/2011 17:04

You have done very well to keep it going this long OP. My first reaction was the right one..........don't respond exoticfruit

says the women who has posted numerous times [hshock]

anyway I'm to clean my toilet

OP posts:
Bunbaker · 17/10/2011 18:30

Actually Creamola I think you have done very well to accept that your whinge was unreasonable and that you are poking fun at yourself. I think that takes a lot of courage.

littlemisssarcastic · 17/10/2011 18:49

What I find very strange is that on Friday 14th at 15.57, you ( Creamola ) posted:

I just don't like people in my home , who I don't know, pooing in my bathroom.

The guy stank .......seriously stank , and I wouldn't be surprised if his wife told him 'you can't poo here, you're too smelly' and encouraged him to poo in other peoples houses whilst he was on the job

Coincidentally, on monday at 10.06, you posted:

Right having now spoken to the man he has said 'he pooed in my toilet because he thought it would be ok'

No bowel disease or any pyhiscal ailments.....he just thought he would shit in my loo because he thought it would be ok

He mentioned his wife didnt like him shitting in his martial home .

We had a conversation in regard to this I told him I was upset he pooed in my toiet

thanks for the replies

I find it very bizarre and almost too much of a coincidence that he apparently said exactly what you thought earlier.

I have never heard of a woman who had an issue with her husband shitting in his own toilet in his own home. Confused

littlemisssarcastic · 17/10/2011 18:50

I am also very interested to see if anyone posts claiming to be the workman or his wife. Grin

This has got to be a set up now, it really has.

exoticfruits · 17/10/2011 18:52

I kept off for at least a whole day at the start creamola.

FearfulYank · 17/10/2011 19:05

Of course it's a wind up, funny though. :)

NoOnesGoingToEatYourEyes · 17/10/2011 19:18

littlemisssarcastic - "I have never heard of a woman who had an issue with her husband shitting in his own toilet in his own home."

There's a woman on here who has started just such a thread about her husband. I bet it's the workman's wife (I can't remember her screen name so I don't know what else to call her). Aren't coincidences funny?

NoOnesGoingToEatYourEyes · 17/10/2011 19:20

Here it is!

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