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AIBU to feel I should have got a warning over a heavy trap door?

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SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 12:40

Friday lunchtime my mum and I drove to the country (a distance) to see my aunt and uncle and cousin and son who've driven over the stayed overnight.

All went fine lovely lunch, then we had to leave and they told me to use upstairs bathroom as downstairs was being used, I go in, and as soon as I go in and shut the door a huge heavy wooden trapdoor opposite falls open and falls on my right foot narrowly missing my other foot. I went to the toilet left the trapdoor and was thankful I'd been wearing heavy suede boots rather than something lighter.

I mentioned this to my aunt and she blithely commented "oh it's that trapdoor its magnetic..." They didn't really ask after my foot, we were in a hurry to leave (luckily I wasn't driving) and I went to my flat and mum to her house.

Next morning I wake up and that side of the foot is very swollen and bruised. I can still walk on it carefully but it hurts... Am sure it isn't broken (as it was over 10 years ago and I really couldn't move it at all and had plaster cast) and arnica and rest is curing it. Now it is still bruised and swollen - I have a support bandage for the foot somewhere should I need it.

My Question AIBU to be a bit pissed off that my relative didn't warn me of this lethal trapdoor which has a habit of snapping open and dropping forwards?! My mum wants to ring her sister and tell her...

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StealthPolarBear · 15/11/2015 12:42

Yanbu. Ouch!

ShatnersBassoon · 15/11/2015 12:44
  1. Is it really lethal?
  2. WTF do they have a trapdoor for?
StealthPolarBear · 15/11/2015 12:45

Could be lethal to pets or children I'd imagine

SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 12:46

Shatners it is lethal if the trapdoor injures my foot!

It's a loft space area hence trap door.

My other aunt sometimes visits with her 4 year old, heaven help her if that door gets her....

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SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 12:47

Stealth and to my foot!

The way it's positioned is opposite the toilet directly so I had to literally leap out of its way.

I think they should fix it or give a warning.

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ImperialBlether · 15/11/2015 12:48

Of course your mum should tell me! It's really dangerous. I hope your foot's better soon. I think you should have it X-rayed.

ShatnersBassoon · 15/11/2015 12:48

Fixing it is the only thing they can do. You can't just warn people that a trapdoor might kill them.

SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 12:58

Shatners but until it's fixed surely a warning would be nice?!

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FrogFairy · 15/11/2015 13:07

A simple bolt would fix this. Better they sort it now that wait for someone to be badly hurt.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 15/11/2015 13:16

OP, I think that other posters are using "lethal" for it's usual meaning of "fatal" rather than "dangerous".

SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 13:20

Ah I forgot teeny tiny drip feed, they're also in the process of marketing their house (very pretty cottage with land) for sale next spring...

I doubt the estate agents (not that I care much about them!) or potential buyers want to risk being crushed by a trapdoor.

Like I said, my foot is "ok" if I'd been wearing normal exposed shoes I think it could've been a lot worse.

imperial after I broke my foot, I fell again (jumped in the air due to bike backfiring landed on foot) (weakness on that foot due to the break) saw a doctor and hospital who said it was broken again but as it was a small internal break (which hurt a lot) a cast would be ok but treating as a very bad sprain would be just as good... So I didn't have to wear a cast that time which I found cumbersome... But I couldn't do anything like dance or exercise for about 2 months afterwards... I hated that cast first time round!

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SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 13:21

tinky I agree I should've used dangerous... Rather than lethal!

Bloody great trapdoor though....

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Enjolrass · 15/11/2015 13:22

Yanbu but they are probably that used to it and forgot to say

MyNewBearTotoro · 15/11/2015 13:37

Yes they should have warned you. I suppose though sometimes if you live with something every day and are used to it you kind of stop noticing it.

I'm sure they didn't fail to mention it on purpose, probably just didn't occur to them as they're so used to it.

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 15/11/2015 13:39

Shatners it is lethal if the trapdoor injures my foot!

No; It's lethal if it kills you Grin

I hope an ice pack works on it.

MidniteScribbler · 15/11/2015 13:47

I want a bathroom with a trapdoor. How cool would it be to let obnoxious visitors go to the loo and then you flush them through the trapdoor, never to be seen again?

TheHouseOnTheLane · 15/11/2015 13:59
TheHouseOnTheLane · 15/11/2015 14:00

Sorry. Yanbu!

IABVU · 15/11/2015 14:02

Don't you open that trapdoor
'cause there's something down there

KurriKurri · 15/11/2015 15:20

I can't imagine what a trapdoor is for in a bathroom (hasty escape ??? - what from?)

But yes 'would tell them - since they are selling it's easy for your mum to do it in the guise of 'oh by the way Superfly's foot was very badly bruised when that trapdoor fell on it - imagine if that happened when a buyer was looking round - you should definitely fix it.'

I hate it when people have mad dangerous stuff in their house and don't warn you (have in the past been victim of 'broken thermostat,water comes out boiling hot' and a narrow escape with 'broken cover on old well in garden' amongst other hidden 'quirks' Hmm )

SuperFlyHigh · 15/11/2015 16:08

It's a trapdoor but opens into/onto the side of the house so more for storage... In the loft/attic area. It does not lead below anywhere...

Whatever it is it's dangerous and it's obviously landed on other people before now.

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