Hotel/period mishap - warning: gross.

[ProcrastIWillFinishThisLater]

I'm pretty sure I did something unreasonable - but I don't know what I should have done!

I was at a hotel, I woke up and my period had arrived, all over the bed! I stripped the bed, folded up all the sheets etc and put them on the towel on the bathroom floor (so you couldn't see the bloody bits, and would be able to pick up the stuff without touching any blood). I left a note on the bed saying 'Sorry about the bedsheets and towel, I wasn't expecting my period, sorry' and I left a tenner on it. Obviously nobody should have to deal with that at work, on the other hand, what else could I have done? Maybe should have washed them in the shower, thinking about it. Shit. What would you have done, and WIBU?

oh this is such a relief. I stubbed my toe so hard in a hotel room at xmas that lost half a toenail and bled on the sheets and all over the bathroom floor

We cleared up the floor but there wasn't much I could do with the sheet. I left an apologetic note and $20 too . Was still feeling bad though. Feel better now.

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he'll be 5 in May so if it was after that I wouldn't put it past him.

kids are just fascinated with poo.
When I was 2.5 I smeared the contents of my nappy all over the playpen, walls, toys, my clothes and my sister.

oh bless you yadnbu

I used to be a chambermaid when I was a student, you would have made my day stripping the sheets and leaving a tenner! The note and leaving the sheets out were the right thing to do, I remember a lady coming to me to tell me she had blood on her sheets and these had to be handled separate to all other laundry so I appreciated her letting me know. Like pp said, I seen far worse as a chambermaid and actually opened my eyes to what goes on in the world, strangely loved my days as a chambermaid.

You left a tenner! Someone's smiling about that. Not 'gross' at all. Just one of those things.

Don't worry, I think vomit is worse personally, and plenty of drunks have thrown up over bed sheets.

Does anyone know if you can be charged for bleeding/vomiting on sheets the same way you could be if you vandalized the room?

Cold salt water gets blood out. Hot water just 'cooks' it and the stain becomes permanent.

We have some unspeakable things to deal with when we clean the holiday barn, much worse than your little mishap.
We have rubber gloves and just get on with it.
Please don't feel bad about this, hotel workers/cleaners are used to coping, it happens more often than you think.

I was on holiday with an ex, he had an upset stomach. Went to flush the toilet it blocked and all the shit bubbled up over the floor.

Bit of blood is nothing

I've once been the guest who left questionable stains. I had been out walking around in shoes that had been rubbing really badly, to the extent that my feet were bleeding. I woke up the next morning to find that they had bled even more over night, must have been the sheets rubbing on them. I thought that was bad enough but then later on my OH went to the vending machine down the corridor to get us ice cream before we left massively hungover, it was needed! . I had chocolate ice cream. I dropped it on the bed.

I can imagine what the chamber maids thought it was when we left that day!

Something about staying in an hotel turns some people into thieving animals. When I was a chambermaid at a supermarket graduate training centre I could hardly keep the rooms stocked with tea and biscuits, it all disappeared as fast as we put it out. Same with the shampoo and soap. And who was the pig who decided to get rid of their ginger pubes and leave them ALL OVER the shower for me to clear up.

OP, I personally think you missed out on a great opportunity. You should have made an outline of a body on the floor with selotape
[clearly lighthearted!!!]

But seriously, you did nothing wrong. I know a few people who work in hotels and it will not have been the worst thing found!

I am laughing at the guest who wiped their bum on the curtains, just what is wrong with people, surely after they left the hotel would know it was them????

Oh BouleSheet, how utterly despairing that must have been for you. Doubt you could have done anymore than you did

Something about staying in an hotel turns some people into thieving animals. When I was a chambermaid at a supermarket graduate training centre I could hardly keep the rooms stocked with tea and biscuits, it all disappeared as fast as we put it out.

Aren't they there for guests to use?

A Tenner! That's a good tip

Yanbu

Cold salt water gets blood out. Hot water just 'cooks' it and the stain becomes permanent.

Not true !!!! I say this as a woman with very very heavy periods.

I left this in the last hotel room i stayed in

Poor you -how embarrassing! But you did the right thing.

Not quite the same but I was staying in a self catering holiday flat for a couple of months as a student teacher with all sheets towels etc provided. I accidentally washed some white towels with something else and it turned the towels (and some of my own stuff) bluey grey! Could not get it out so bought the same towels from M&S (looked on the label) to replace it with a note.

Really not gross! Don't worry- can't be helped!

Leaving a larger than normal tip was the right thing to do. It won't be the first or last time that they experience this - don't worry!

Boule you poor thing that is awful. Bugger the sheets, they were the least of your worries.

QOD

Yon could not have done any more, I bet the chambermaid was over the moon, most people just leave the room like a bomb site, don't torture yourself, they will have seen far worse!

When this happened to me (many years ago now) I ran cold water very hard through the stains for ages then virtually all of it came straight out. I then put shampoo on the sheets, rubbed and rinsed with hot water and they were spotless. The staff won't bat an eyelid at yours though, it will be all part of a day's work to them.