To not have allowed a workman to use my loo?

[Poppyhat]

Sorry ,I know this has been asked before but I've forgotten what the answers were .
A rep for a company was here measuring up in the living room , took about 10 mns .
He then asked if it would be ok if he used the loo.
I said sorry but there was a load of kids upstairs playing so I would have to say no .
I am not normally so rude ,but I just wasn't comfortable with him going upstairs when all the kids were there .wibu?

No, why did he rant, rave, sulk?

Yes, a bit.

What on earth did you think he was going to do?

Are the children allergic to workmen?

yabu
id ask the kids to come down for a moment.
everyone needs a pee.

You could have waited around upstairs if that was concerning you?
Bit weird. Sorry.

I can't understand why you thought he was a risk to your children-however even if you did, you could have shown him upstairs and waited there till he'd finished.

YABU.

Ywbu very

I think that was a bit unreasonable. I'd be wary about someone knocking on the door and asking to use the loo, but since he was already in the house I can't see the problem. The "children are upstairs" excuse is like you were worried he'd molest one of them!

What an awful thing to say to a stranger.

I am staggered at how rude people can be

wow
what a strange reason

Yes.

I don't see why children upstairs stop him having a pee. No doubt he has some of his own.

Don't get this 'workmen using toilet' snobbery. It's designed for people to piss in.

I'd have said no, too, but plenty of people here think all the loos in private homes should be public.

He can go piss/shit somewhere else.

Not again!
Ok so you let him into your home I assume you are home alone with the kids......but you wouldn't let him go upstairs to use the bathroom?

If you are worried he was that "type" of person as you are suggesting why did you let him in at all?

God he must have been both offended and embaressed.

Poor bloke.

He did look a bit petulant ,and no the kids aren't allergic to workmen ,
I just wasn't comfortable with him going upstairs where the kids were playing ( there were 3 all aged under 4) and I could hardly follow him upstairs to supervise .
I was just uneasy about it .
If the kids had been downstairs ,I would t have had any problem with it .

Why didnt you escort him upstairs, i once had a workman take a shit (he was gone for ages) not wash his hands, then go from room to room touching door handles the lot but still I wouldn't refuse someone using the loo.

What was your concern re children and this man using the loo? I can't quite work it out.

It's your house. If you felt uneasy, enough said.

i always let workmen use the loo.
Yesterday I had a bloke come round to clean a carpet - he put on sky news, put on the kettle, took off the baby gate (for no reason) and asked me what my wifi code was. Found that exceedingly rude - but use the loo!? Go ahead.

I also used the loo in a house I was viewing to rent. When you gotta go you gotta go. (just a pee!)

I think yabu, I don't get this attitude to workmen at all! Only on mumsnet have I heard this. Its your house though, your rules.

I would have let him use it.

Petulant, no wonder.
You just more or less accused a man of being some kind of deviant!

YABU. He wasn't some random off the streets, he was someone you had already allowed into your home. He's probably going from client to client all day long and where else is he supposed to go?

Why on earth were you feeling "uneasy" about him being upstairs at the same time as the children???

YWBVU.

You couldn't have brought the children downstairs? How very odd of you to say no for that reason. Or any reason really.

stilton are you joking? Cheeky sod!