to not want to use downstairs loo

[Silvercatowner]

OH thinks I am. He runs a counselling business from our house. Clients occasionally use our downstairs loo. We have loos upstairs. I cannot use the loo if a client has used it (unless it has been cleaned). On a scale of 1 to 10 how weird is that?

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

My sil had a toilet removed because the builders used it.

[notoneforselfies]

I can no longer use our downstairs loo. BiL is staying and has managed to get shit smears above the rim! And piss all over the floor. He must have a sphincter perpendicular to regular folk's and a sprinkler system for a pee hole. I'm refusing to clean it and am reminding DH daily that it's his brother, his problem. Rank rank rank.

[Sneezecakesmum]

YANBU at all. I couldnt even clean it!

[thenightsky]

I never use our downstairs loo if I can help it, and it makes me cross when DH or DS use it. I like to keep it pristine and sweet smelling for visitors.

[specialsubject]

another memo I didn't get...

many in the world would be grateful for any toilet at all. Yes, of course we should all leave it as we would wish to find it but as far as I know NO-ONE ever caught anything from a toilet seat!

would you prefer that visitors excreted in the garden?

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

10/10 weird. What do you do in other people's houses?

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

Looks like I'm in the minority but I think you are on about an 8 on the crackers scale.

What's the problem with downstairs loos?

If you have people round they can go for a pee without heading upstairs and seeing the mess

Of course they will be off the hallway, in most houses virtually room is off the hallway - that's kind of the point i can see why off the kitchen isn't ideal though

[luridshorts]

10/10 completely fucked beyond the point of absurdity. Toilets are for shit and piss. Your bodily waste is - tragically - no cleaner than anyone else's.

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

whoknows good point, what do you do in other peoples houses?

[luridshorts]

My sil had a toilet removed because the builders used it

She sounds like she needs to be sectioned IMO. Seriously, for her own sake.

[SolomanDaisy]

Umm, 9/10. I'm surprised how many people feel the same, it is seriously odd.

[CarmineRose1978]

I don't understand this at all. Do you never go to the toilet when you're out of the house? What about when you're at work? It's just a toilet, you're not going to catch anything!

I'm pregnant and have to wee constantly, it feels like. We went out shopping today, for about 5 hours, and I had to use a restaurant toilet, where we had lunch, and then slip into a pub before we set off on the hour drive home, and then I was dying to go when I got home. So I guess I've had to get used to using toilets that other people have used first.

[luridshorts]

I do wonder how this bizarre poo/wee phobia manifests in the huge part of the world population that has no access to two toilets per household. Not at all, would be my guess.

[BreconBeBuggered]

Deeply, deeply strange; 10/10 strange. But even if I'm happy for any toilet in my house to be used for its intended purpose, I get hacked off if visitors put the lid down afterwards. So I'll forgive your weirdness, as long as you'd let me have a wee somewhere in your house. I promise not to do a poo.

[Trills]

I agree with waffly.

You must KNOW that most people are able to use toilets that have been used by other people, even by strangers. So you already know that you are unusual in this worry.

[Notfastjustfurious]

I'm with you on this my parents have moved in for a month so they now have the ds loo and the ds bedroom so I'm having nothing to do with either til they're mine again. Usually I will avoid public toilets as much as possible but being pregnant has made that impossible for now and quite frankly some women are disgusting - toilets left with shit in them, blocked up with toilet roll and piss on the seat and floor!

[luridshorts]

Can any of the shitphobes explain to me what their own faeces is made of and what makes it so much better than other peoples'?

[RhondaJean]

My mother has a downstairs loo fitted into any house she moves into which doesn't have one purely for visitors. My dad is not allowed to use it.

Me and the kids have now been demoted to downstairs loo use as well.

[RhondaJean]

But she does put a special hand towel put for us which no other visitors are allowed to use.

[Armi]

I love a downstairs loo. My mother grew up with no bathroom and an outside toilet at the end of her garden, consequently she is obsessed with bathroom facilities. I have noticed she never uses the downstairs loo and reckon it's because it's still a novelty for her to have a wee upstairs without having to sit on a chamber pot.

[LuluJakey1]

I hate other people's loos as well as public ones.

When we go to stay with PIL, we ha our own en suite shower and loo and I can relax with that.

If we go on holiday I am always constipated because I hate changing loos.

[PhallicGiraffe]

Toilet threads are always funny on this forum. /grabs popcorn.

[thenightsky]

Oh my days! THAT is why I love my many toilets... I was brought up in a house with an outside bog that I was scared to use due to the many spiders out there. After dark you had to take a torch or candle with you. And, put your wellies on if it was raining or snowing.

And no, I'm not in my 80s. This is late 60s/early 70s Yorkshire Dales.

[HappyAgainOneDay]

I don't think it's about using toilets that strangers have used. It's about cleaning up after strangers have been, isn't it, OP?

I wouldn't really like workmen to use our downstairs loo but, if they do use the toilet rather than the garden-, I suppose I'll have to clean it. However, if they are the OP's 'clients', perhaps he should clean it.

[givehimaninch]

op I would feel the same, its because I have ocd. do you? I 'hover' so haven't actually sat on a public loo seat in years, and put paper down at friends' houses to sit on. I am slowly beating the ocd, but am clearly not there yet!