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to let a trademan use my loo and not give two hoots?

23 replies

K8Middleton · 15/11/2013 17:43

He didn't even ask. He may have done a shit but I didn't inspect because I'm normal. I don't have a loo brush either and it's the only loo in the house Shock

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CoffeeTea103 · 15/11/2013 17:44

Where else could he have gone?

ShatnersBassoon · 15/11/2013 17:48

He didn't ask to use it and he may have done a shit, but you don't care? I don't know what the question is Confused Blush

K8Middleton · 15/11/2013 17:58

Pffft. I was hoping there would be lots of frothing people who make the poor bugger who came to fix the boiler do a wee in the garden or Daily Mail types who think anyone who asks to use your loo is a violent rapist.

I am a little disappointed :(

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Tee2072 · 15/11/2013 18:01

I knew what you meant K8.

It was a nice try.

Justforlaughs · 15/11/2013 18:03

Not sure where my comment went Confused
I said that YABVVVVU and that obviously you and your entire family were destined to catch some unheard of disease now.

Methe · 15/11/2013 18:04

You freak! I bet you let him dry his hands on your towels too didn't you?

K8Middleton · 15/11/2013 18:10

I think he may have dried his hands on one of the DC's towels Shock

Diseases you say Justforlaughs?! Heavens. I shall clutch my pearls forthwith.

Thanks Tee Grin

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RevengeWiggle · 15/11/2013 18:13

Is there shit all over the walls and a dead rabbit in the cistern? That's what happens y'know. And lock your windows, he'll be back.

Weeditandreap · 15/11/2013 18:16

Don't forget to check for hidden cameras as well.

caramelwaffle · 15/11/2013 18:20

Heh heh Naughty.

Yabn (you are being normal)

I have posh tradesmen in: they ask to use the loo

spritesoright · 15/11/2013 18:26

A tradesman I became friendly with while he installed our kitxhen told me about being offered tea in a used tin can!? WTF is wrong with people?
He was lovely. We shared lunch regularly and basically knew each other's life stories by the end of the job.

MrsKoala · 15/11/2013 18:35

My dad has been expected to lag in the garden before. He's also had people really angry he has a nicer car than them and some 'naice middle class professionals' were furious he earned more than them. One woman called him up and asked for a quote. He gave it. She shouted 'ffs it's hardly rocket science' and slammed the phone down. 2 hours later after calling round and getting higher quotes she called back to book him Shock Grin Some people really are tremendous bellends.

K8Middleton · 15/11/2013 18:42

Ooh I think your dad is near me MrsK. If I ever book him he is very welcome to use my loo and I'll make him a cup of tea too Grin

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spritesoright · 15/11/2013 18:42

MrsKoala that's shocking. On another funny note. A mover once asked if he could use the loo to which I of course said yes.
To my surprise he didn't shut the door and continued chatting to me while he took a wee. Even DH doesn't do that.I was a bit Blush

TunipTheUnconquerable · 15/11/2013 18:45

You'll be telling me next that you gave him tea in a normal mug instead of a special cheap chipped one you keep for builders, and that it was nice tea instead of Basics.

K8Middleton · 15/11/2013 18:51

I let him make himself a filter coffee and he picked his own mug which happens to be my big pink Breast Cancer Care mug Hmm Grin

I offered to make him a tea but he was happy to do it himself.

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Mia4 · 15/11/2013 19:59

My DP is a tradesman, no one has ever said no to him using the loo=- do people really do that? I can understand if someone left a royal shitter or a massive floater the day before but in general, why wouldn't you?

When we had a plasterer over he was so surprised that I made him a coffee and invited him to sit at the table to eat his lunch, apparently most people make him eat on the front door step or in his van and some even moan when he asks to refill his water bottle! I just find that so discourteous...unless they are a 'repeat offender' of course.

Mia4 · 15/11/2013 20:00

Although asking DP now, for one customer he preferred to piss in the garden. Dirty bugger left messy sani gear lying around and had a shit stained loo seat- grim!

Batmam · 15/11/2013 20:10

Uh oh, I've just clicked that the 5 builders who we have had renovating the house adjoining ours for the last 7 months have had nowhere to piss/crap since the toilets were ripped out in July (farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, no public loos) They have no portaloo and have never knocked to ask to use ours...WHERE DO THEY GO?! ??

uhOhOhDear · 15/11/2013 20:11

My neighbour will never let a tradesman use her loo after the infamous Martin the plumber did a massive stinking number two in her loo twenty years ago Grin she's still going on about it today, and his inability to flush

littlemisssarcastic · 15/11/2013 21:33

You obviously don't know that tradesmen in your house only ever shit in your toilet, they only ever have massive shits that won't flush and their shit absolutely stinks your whole house out for months!!

The worst thing is that now you have allowed a tradesman to use your toilet, be in no doubt that he will share your generosity (and address) with every other tradesman in a 30 mile radius and they will all come to your house for a shit!!

Disclaimer: My toilet serves a purpose and is not an ornament either but apparently everything I've said is true. Hmm

jerryfudd · 15/11/2013 21:55

Oh so this not letting tradesmen use your loo is real? I thought our plasterer was shitting Me (see what I did there) when he asked and I said of course and he said he had been refused previously in other people's houses. I'm obviously a soft touch - I tell them to feel free to use bathroom and make themselves drinks if they want when I head out to pick up kids etc

MoonlightandRoses · 15/11/2013 22:11

Never mind about the tradesman - you don't have a loo brush? Shock

Grin
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