This has been done to death but even so - workmen and toilets

[RebeccaWithTheGoodHair]

So two workmen arrive at 8.30am by 10.30am BOTH had been for a shit. And they'll have working here by 12pm. That's less than four hours when they could either have gone before they set off in the morning or waited until they left.

One is stinking the whole ground floor out and I just know there is going to be something left for me to clear up when the stench has died down a bit.

Why, why, why would you go to someone else's house for a crap.

And I don't believe workmen suffer unduly from loose stools compared to the rest of the population but every single bloody one that comes here feels the need to offload as soon as they walk through the door.

I wouldn't expect them to go to Tesco, that woudl take ages!

I would expect the loo to have been cleaned of poo though with my toilet brush, and some of my handy fabreeze sprayed around if a big shit had been done.

I poo at work if I need to. I don't want to hold poo in all day! But I just don't leave it mingling. Some people do tho - so there must be quite a few women at my work who don't mind shitting at work!

How can you control when you need a poo? When you need one you need one!

(Or am I weird?)

But if you need, you need. Doesn't really matter to your bowels how long you intend to be in any given location.

'this is people who just feel entitled to crap where they want.'

Not quite. But entitled to crap in a toilet. Seems a sensible place to crap really.

I'd have said when you have to wee you can't hold it in. But poo is different and unless you've got the squits or an IBS-type condition then yes, you bloody well can hold it in.

A public convenience. You invited them in remember?

taps on so no noises

What a waste of water!

ayeokthen Surely you can see that the problem is with you and not them? This is obviously a fairly serious neurosis on your part if you have actively demanded that anybody else (including members of your own family) needing to pass waste is such an unbearable prospect that they have to pump noxious carcinogenic fumes about, lug bleach down the lavatory, open the windows and run the bloody taps for noise muffling just so... what? You don't have to endure the terrible horror of being reminded that members of your family (yourself included) have anuses?

That is rank peculiar and in all likelihood you are going to pass your issues on to your children.

Squoosh

I have a condition where each time I eat I need to evacuate my bowels. What would some of you suggest ? That if I visit friends or want lunch at work that I starve myself so as not to shit in any place other than my Home ? Some are so anal about this.

Have none of you never needed a shit outside of your regimented shit timetable, what happens then?

You are not weird Bumpsadaisie. There's an awful lot of unhealthy behaviour on this thread. it's really bad for your digestive system to hold it in when you need to go.

But the weirdest thing I've now seen is that ayeokthen has a routine that involves 'taps on so no noises and a ton of air freshener and bleach down the pan straight after'.

What a ridiculously wasteful procedure. You need help. We are incredibly lucky to have clean fresh drinking water piped to our homes and you waste loads by insisting on using running water as a noise supression device, followed by a load of environment destroying unnecessary chemicals in case there is a smell.

If they don't have time to hang around for long in the morning before work then it might take a while for their morning coffee/breakfast to go through them.

Not everyone can shit to order or to a strict timetable you know.

You don't need to be suffering from loose stools to need to use someone else's loo either. Just because some people prefer to evacuate their bowels as soon as they feel the urge (assuming they have access to a loo) and choose not to be anally retentive and uncomfortable until they get home doesn't make them weird or filthy or inconsiderate.

They'd probably commit harakiri rather than shit in a strange toilet.

brambly thanks for your concern for my kids, I'm well aware I'm not normal, what with all the diagnoses ranging from severe OCD to anxiety and panic disorder. But I'm sure I'll manage to fuck up my kids in plenty of ways without it being about bleach.

A question for the "I just couldn't" people. Doesn't holding a shit in make you feel very unwell? How on earth do you control the speed (or otherwise) of your digestive tract?

Surely by the time one needs to make an appearance, you can't just will it away?

BarbaraofSeville weird? Well aren't you a charmer? Mentally ill actually, but thanks.

What's complete and utter snotty snob you are OP. Grow up.

Sukey I can only imagine that people must be built really differently because yes, I can honestly say that I've only been desperate a handful of times (generally after being on the lash the night before!).

I just don't get randomly hit by an urge to crap at a moment's notice.

If that's weird then I'm glad I am!

The rights and wrongs of this question seem quite clear to me. As follows:

(1) If you have a loo and someone is either visiting your house or working at it, then to my mind you clearly have a duty to gracefully allow them to use it to answer whatever call nature may make.

(2) That said, if you use the loo in someone's house where you are a visitor/workman you clearly have a duty to leave said loo nice and clean.

(3) If you leave the loo clean but there is a smell, then you ought to look around to see if the owner has provided any kind of air freshener. If they have, use it (in moderation).

(4) The jury is out on whether you should open a window to mitigate smell, but on balance I would recommend not doing so, because the owner will remain unaware and therefore may later leave the window open on leaving the house, thus posing a security risk (in some areas and depending on the location of the bathroom within the house).

I am a bit baffled as to how you can schedule your poo? I do mine at all sorts of different times of the day, sometimes first thing sometimes not. I never sit there for hours trying to "make it happen" - I just go when I need to go.

Genuinely puzzled that anyone does differently!

You can stop the smell of anything that goes under the waterline if you use this before they arrive and then top it up between their loo visits.

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Or if you're more forthright, just say would you mind adding x drops/sprays to the bowl before you use the loo?

I have no issue with someone using my toilet, none at all - when you Gotta go you Gotta go, but I want it left the way someone finds it.

I had a builder come in to do a quote for some work in my last home, who asked would you mind if I used the loo - so said yes of course fine, he was in the house in total five/ten minutes.

He left the seat up, didn't flush, piss all over the toilet rim, all over the floor. Water (at least he washed his hands) between the sink and towel. Bloody disgusting and disrespectful as I had to go and clean it all up and it stank, if he wants to do that in his own home fine, in a public toilet or my home no it is not ok.