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AIBU?

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To be annoyed with cleaner in John Lewis?

195 replies

Tralalalaha · 03/01/2013 21:42

Went out with 21 month old DS in a back carrier to buy some new shoes in the sales. Got to JL and realised as I took him out to get his feet measured that he'd done a mahousive wee and was sopping from waist to knee (as indeed was my back). So nipped over to kids wear, bought some lovely trousers in the sale and sprinted into the changing room bit to sort him out. Both changing mats were in use by little teeny babies, the BF and bottle feeding rooms were in use and I didn't think anyone wanted to see a nappy change while feeding, but there's a big lobby bit so I thought for a quick whip and wipe, I'd just kneel on the floor and rest him on my bag.

I'll say now that DS never ever wees on me during nappy changes, so I was a bit surprised and horrified when he started peeing like a horse and grabbed a cloth out of my bag to put over his winky while jokingly saying 'naughty boy DS'. All of a sudden someone starts shouting at me, and I look over my shoulder (while mopping up DS and the floor) to see a cleaner looking pretty angry. She was shouting and saying why didn't I use one of the mats, so I said they were busy, then she said why didn't I use the table in the disabled loos. I hadn't spotted it to be honest, but wouldn't have taken up a disabled loo just to change a nappy anyway, then she told me I should have waited for a mat to be free. Leaving aside the fact that the little babies on those mats were still being changed when this was all over and I was leaving, poor DS was sopping wet and I didn't want to hang around with him in soggy clothing. I said as much, and then got a bit peppy and asked her if there were any of my other parenting choices she'd like to question and she stalked off muttering about mopping the floor and I finished up DS, wiped the floor with antibacterial wipes and left in a bit of a fricking snit actually.

So, AIBU to be peed off if you'll forgive the pun, or was she perfectly within her rights to be annoyed at the pee on the floor?

OP posts:
crunchbag · 03/01/2013 22:25

So you had time to nip over to the kids wear and buy a pair of trousers but couldn't wait for a changing mat to be free, YABU

Sirzy · 03/01/2013 22:25

itsmine I thought the same. Why do people think its ok to just change a nappy anywhere?

JamieandtheMagiTorch · 03/01/2013 22:26

Tralallalha

Sounds like this thread won't do much for your blood pressure.

Without knowing exactly what decibelage she shouted at, and exactly how pissy (pardon the pun) you sounded at the cleaner, it's hard for us to judge.

Praps best to go and have a nice cuppa

threesocksmorgan · 03/01/2013 22:26

yabu

chickensarmpit · 03/01/2013 22:26

Can't stop laughing at Itsmineitsmine's post! Grin

Floggingmolly · 03/01/2013 22:27

Thanks to the wonder that is the penis Hmm.
I've got two boys, and I've never left rivers of piss in a public changing room for someone else to walk in, slip in, or clean up. Your arrogance appears to know no bounds.

Tralalalaha · 03/01/2013 22:27

The changing rooms/toilet suite sure as hell has a lobby in Westfield Stratford. You go in from the shop floor, turn right, there a feeding rooms to the left, changing mats to the right and a couple of chairs. I changed him in the corner, by the unoccupied chairs. And obviously I didn't expect him to wee on the floor. And I would have waited if he'd done a poo. I'd probably have gone home if he'd done a poo. Yikes.

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 03/01/2013 22:28

Westfield Staatford - Oh thank God!!

Rests easy

JamieandtheMagiTorch · 03/01/2013 22:28

It's interesting how one can become immune to disgust at one's own child's excreta, but not other people's babies'

Phew, what a lot of apostrophes

ThePigOfHappiness · 03/01/2013 22:29

Oh ok then, that's perfectly fine. Or not, like everyone here has said. Why bother asking?

Tralalalaha · 03/01/2013 22:29

Yo Flogging - I didn't leave it. I cleaned it up. Extensively. Leaving it wouldn't have been arrogant, it would have been gross. Obviously I let my daughter piss where she likes though.

OP posts:
Sirzy · 03/01/2013 22:29

That still isn't the toilets though!

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 03/01/2013 22:29

Trying to salvage a pricking conscience is my best guess, Pig

JamieandtheMagiTorch · 03/01/2013 22:29

Westfield toilets are lovely. I love the lovely shiny mosaic tiles.

apostropheuse · 03/01/2013 22:30

I'm suitably impressed Jamie!

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 03/01/2013 22:30

salve

TandB · 03/01/2013 22:30

I still want to know why it is worse to be shouted at in John Lewis.

Fakebook · 03/01/2013 22:30

Who goes around squatting and pissing on the floor in toilet lobbies? Most normal people do it in a thing called a loo. So I don't think the lobby floor was "prone to spillages of an intimate nature". Ywbu and good job you got shouted at too. Shame on you.

TuftyFinch · 03/01/2013 22:31

You'd have been ok doing that in Primark. Not JL.
I once went in a Primark that had notices on the changing room doors asking customers not to use them as toilets.
True fact.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 03/01/2013 22:31

Because in JL you obviously expect a better class of cleaner - you know - more toadying and the like. Grin

Tralalalaha · 03/01/2013 22:31

Cos JL is the mother ship? obvo.

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JamieandtheMagiTorch · 03/01/2013 22:31

apostropheuse

I thank you.

Do you hang about looking for apostrophe-related posts? Do you have some kind of Bat-Phone that alerts you to apostrophe-laden posts?

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 03/01/2013 22:32

arf @ Jamie

apostropheuse · 03/01/2013 22:32

and I'm still wondering how the OP managed to clean herself up!

Hopefully the sale in John Lewis was good.

TandB · 03/01/2013 22:32

But you cleaned the wee up after the argument with the cleaner. How was she to know you weren't going to leave it there? And she would still have had to clean that bit of floor and then put a "wet floor" sign out. Just unnecessary hassle. She might well have just cleaned that entire floor five minutes previously.