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AIBU?

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He's wipped his shit on my towels!!!

333 replies

WalfordEast · 14/08/2015 20:51

Friend has decided to come to stay with her boyfriend this weekend.

Said boyfriend had a shower this morning, and obviously decided to wipe his arse on my towels. There is shit on one of them- sorry if TMI, but it's like skids, not chunks so I think it's just arse-drying-and-realising-your-arse-is-still-shitty iykwim.

Regardless, it's fucking disgusting and they were a birthday present- cost a small fortune from the white company.

AIBU to go out tomorrow and buy another and give him the bill???

I haven't confronted- but I made a point of putting the towels in the wash as we sat down for dinner earlier and he didn't even look embarrassed.

OP posts:

NoArmaniNoPunani · 15/08/2015 06:23

This thread is a real eye opener. I thought a shit free arse after a shower was just a given. I feel like I really need to show DH some appreciation for his anal efforts.

Sansarya · 15/08/2015 06:50

Am I the only one who read the thread title as "whipped his shit" and wondered wtf that involved?

winewolfhowls · 15/08/2015 07:26

Lol at shite company.

Seriously do people wash towels after each bath? I have a bath every day. Surely one is clean after a bath so towel is damp but relatively clean? (unless you didn't wash properly)

Agree with others it was just an accident no biggie and no need to mention.

Weebirdie · 15/08/2015 07:46

My 25 year old son is severely autistic and never leaves stains on his towels or underwear so if he can manage it and mange to keep his loo bowl clean then surely to god an adult with no health problems can do the same.

Im hoping that the poster who's being so blaze about the men in her family who're unable to practice good hygiene is actually exaggerating because if not its nothing to advertise.

Benllech · 15/08/2015 08:03

Give him a pack of moist toilet wipes or leave them in the bathroom. Even after dry wiping, you are not really clean so a quick wet wipe is a must.

LilacWine7 · 15/08/2015 08:04

How do you know it was him and not your friend?

I strongly suspect it was an accident and he didn't notice. If he did realise he's probably mortified. I can't believe you're thinking of mentioning it and billing him for the towel!! IMO that's cruel, nasty and very rude. How would you feel if you stayed in a stranger's house and they accused you of staining their best bath-towel? If your friend had got menstrual blood on the towel would you have charged her for replacing it??

We have guests regularly and have separate guest-towels (green ones so they don't get muddled up). I would never give a guest my personal towels or an expensive one. Each guest gets a bath-towel and hand-towel. After their visit all towels go in a hot wash with anti-bacterial detergent, then I tumble-dry them on high-heat, so they're hygienic and fresh for the next guests. Remember people use towels for all sorts of things, you can't guarantee guests won't get invisible bodily fluids on them! I've had guests leave blood on towels (either menstrual or from shaving) and one drunk guest used his bath-towel to clean his vomit off the bathroom floor (that one went straight in the bin but no I didn't mention it!) Anything that's stained after a hot wash gets binned and I replace all towels every couple of years anyway as they lose their fluffiness. BHS sale is a good place to get cheap soft towels.

Towels are supposed to be used to dry yourself, and sometimes accidents happen. Don't embarrass your poor guest, just discreetly replace the towel and get a set of guest towels for the next visitors.

Phoenix0x0 · 15/08/2015 08:06

@ anal flossing!

LuluJakey1 · 15/08/2015 08:22

I am prepared to admit to having a set of towels from France that we never use. They are still untainted after 6 years.

They were not a fortune, are not by The White Company or Missoni, but a lady was making them and selling them in a market in the south-west when we were on honeymoon. They are white but trimmed with a band of lovely blue and green Provencal print fabrics and broderie anglaise at one end.

We have been married 6 years and they have never been used. DH thinks I am bonkers. I sometimes put them on display on the old wooden towel rail (which we bought at the same market) in our bedroom next to our ensuite just so I can see them and love them.

We have lots of other towels and I am not precious about their use- except in that hand towels are for hands, we do not share towels (DH and DS have their own), and they are hot washed at least once a week (I know some of you will think that is filthy).

beachdays · 15/08/2015 08:25

PMSL at wipped his shit Sorry OP but I'm going to use it from now on. Well wipp my shit, I can't believe this thread's still going!"

StealthPolarBear · 15/08/2015 08:29

Benllech he'd had a shower! The ultimate in moist wipe surely

LeftMyRidingCropInTheMortuary · 15/08/2015 08:43

If the boyfriend were genuinely a dirty fucker then he wouldn't have even HAD a shower.

The real Q, OP is did you provide guest sanpro in a lovely dish/laid out on the guest towels on the bed?

Think that was my favourite thread ever.

dementedma · 15/08/2015 09:00

Oh ffs, just wash the fucking towel and get over it!

LavenderLeigh · 15/08/2015 09:04

Of course he didn't notice brown shit on a white towel.
Or are we now suggesting that in addition to possible bowel issues he also has visual difficulties?

This infantalising of adult males who leave shit smears on towels/in toilet bowls as "poor guy, he must have been mortified and it was just an accident" is so sad. (memories of another thread where posters thought it was unreasonable for a visiting man to clean up after he'd had an explosive bowel movement and left the toilet bowl well pebbled-dashed) We all shit. However, as adults we realise you NEVER leave your shit for someone else to clean up.

Whether it was deliberate or an "accident" makes no difference to the end result or his deliberate act of not washing it off himself. If he dropped a plate by accident you would surely expect him to pick up the pieces rather than just sitting their and waiting till you came into the room to do it for him?

How sad to feel that adult men are somehow absolved of any responsibility to clean up after themselves, especially in someone else's home.

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 15/08/2015 09:33

Toughasoldboots yep I just have the bath sheet as my special towel, I would love the whole set but it would be so expensive...am hoping over time I will get more of them so eventually I'll have the set :)

bodenbiscuit · 15/08/2015 10:17

I just don't think there is any excuse to go to someone's house and behave like a toddler. I have stayed at many people's houses and have managed never to get shit on their towels or blood, if I had my period. And I've managed never to do it in an hotel either!

It makes no sense to me that people think it's ok to have appalling manners.

bodenbiscuit · 15/08/2015 10:19

LavenderLeigh - yes you've put it much better than I did.

ElderlyKoreanLady · 15/08/2015 10:23

So, did he fold the towel and put it on the rack with the shit stains displayed or did you go and inspect his towel after?

Either way, just wash it, you loon.

Am I the only one who doesn't use a towel that another person has used until it's been washed? I'll use a towel a few times myself but I don't want to be drying my face with a towel that's been rubbed over someone else's genitals, even if there are no telltale stains.

Rovinja · 15/08/2015 10:27

He wipps his shit back and forth, he wipps his shit back and forth...

BlueBananas · 15/08/2015 10:28

"well wipp my shit I can't believe this thread is still going!"

simplesusan · 15/08/2015 11:23

This thread is awesome.

I love the term whip your shit.

Op I am with you this man is a dirty shit whipping fucker.

VivaLeBeaver · 15/08/2015 11:25

I keep thinking of that song "whip your hair back and forth"

You whip your shit back and forth, whip your shit back and forth (on the towel)

mileend2bermondsey · 15/08/2015 11:26

I usually have a very quick dry then wrap the towel round me
This ^

Wouldn't dream of flossing /drying my nether regions with such vigour in someone else's house
I don't even do it in my own house. But then again I also wipe my arse after I have a shit, and clean siad arse in the shower, so maybe I'm weird? Who knows?

TenForward82 · 15/08/2015 11:27

VivaLeBeaver ME TOO! It's been driving me mad!

simplesusan · 15/08/2015 11:49

I whip my shit back and forth
I whip my shit back and forth
Pass me that clean white towel
Pass me that clean white towel

Now rub it up my crack
I say rub it up my crack
Yeah, rub, rub, rub,
Yeah rub, rub, rub,

Now make sure it smells of shit
Yeah really smells of shit
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah

bodenbiscuit · 15/08/2015 12:54

OP, get the three title changed! It is detracting from my outrage!

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