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AIBU workman and poo!

131 replies

JustDontGetIt · 16/12/2016 23:29

I had a job done to my roof. it was literally a mornings work. The work was done last Tues so it's been over a week. One of the lads on the job asked to use the loo. The others never did. But he did a poo. I could smell it so badly when he left. He did open the window. We live 2 mins walk from a good sized Tesco with 4 loos. Why couldn't he go there? It's been ten days now and the smell keeps flooding back and he left the loo clean but I've been traumatised. I had a year of builders using my loo but I wasn't living in the house so I wasn't to know. I feel like I can't shift the smell out of my memory. AIBU?!

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periwinklepickspoppies · 17/12/2016 03:50

No, but it's lovely that you care.

periwinklepickspoppies · 17/12/2016 03:50

Wrong thread...dunno how that happened!

Thisjustinno · 17/12/2016 05:20

Oh Dear God.

FizzBombBathTime · 17/12/2016 05:53

Log it with 101

Jugglingallthebollocks · 17/12/2016 05:59

Lolling at this thread

ItsLikeRainOnYourWeddingDay · 17/12/2016 06:18

You seem strangely obsessed with this.

Maybe it was an emergency. Maybe he had something bad to eat or a bug and would have shit himself if he tried to get to the Tesco to use the loos there.

I'm pretty sure he didn't enjoy having a stinking great turd in your house.

BathshebaSnowflakeStone · 17/12/2016 06:26

There are people watching their loved ones suffer in the hope that it will cure them, I'm not taking this personally at all, oh no and you're traumatised by a poo. I have no words. Xmas Hmm

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/12/2016 09:11

No you don't have OCD, but you do sound like you have serious mental problems

What do you think ocd is?Confused

OP, I think k I know what you mean,I was once so sick when I was pregnant after putting an air freshener in the bathroom even now thinking about it too much makes me feel really queasy!

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JustDontGetIt · 17/12/2016 12:33

Maybe I do need counselling. I've certienly had many more traumatic things happen to me but this has affected me in what it seems a highly unreasonable way? This morning I was thinking of moulds and how they grow in dampness (can often be more damp indoors in winter months as you open less doors) and it's totally freaked me out so I've been on hands and knees scrubbing the bathroom again! Isn't OCD a mental health problem *rumpel? Maybe that's why it is affecting me this way?

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liz70 · 17/12/2016 12:37

"I've been traumatised. I had a year of builders using my loo but I wasn't living in the house so I wasn't to know. I feel like I can't shift the smell out of my memory. AIBU?!"

This is a pisstake, surely?

Whatthefreakinwhatnow · 17/12/2016 12:55

Jesus. I can't even be arsed to say how unreasonably fucking precious you are being!

YelloDraw · 17/12/2016 14:17

I've got builders in. I am very keen to know where they are shitting and pissing because they didn't come down to the one working loo at all yesterday!!!!!

YelloDraw · 17/12/2016 14:18

Or maybe they nipped down quickly for a wee and a smell-less poo when I nipper to the corner shop.

If they did they left it clean and the toilet seat down.

Maybe the builders I've got are not real builders?? What with their non existent toilet habits.

SecretSeven · 17/12/2016 14:21

Next time, you should say yes, but only on the condition they don't pass solids.

thefrizzyhairedcommunity · 17/12/2016 14:29

The memory of it lingers after ten days? Confused

KingJoffreysRestingCuntface · 17/12/2016 14:39

Some poos never really go.

They do kind of linger. Like poo ghosts.

Science, innit?

chloesmumtoo · 17/12/2016 14:40

I had a neighbour with the same atitude as yourself. I was totally gobsmacked when she told me in horror/discust that a workman had used her loo for a number 2. I remember being very Shock at her attitude not the workman doing the number 2 Grin

Boomerwang · 17/12/2016 15:17

The only people acting precious and strange and needing to get a grip are the people who have twisted everything the OP has said.

OP has expressed that she's grossed out by this occurrence and used the word 'traumatized' which was probably an exaggeration. She probably (feel free to correct me, OP) meant that it was playing on her mind.

When I lived with my parents we had an extremely large BT repairman in the house who wanted to use the loo. We let him go ahead, but he was in there for a very long time and left the nastiest stench when he came out again. I agree there's a difference between 'family' poo and 'stranger' poo. We made a complaint to BT and actually got a letter some time later with an apology and to tell us he no longer works for BT (I'm assuming he wasn't fired for pooping in our toilet, just for something else).

Regardless, remembering the smell of the poo is your own problem, OP. It'll fade, particularly if you clean your toilet and bathroom often. I would deal with it and I wouldn't send anyone away to use a different toilet, but I do understand the unease over it.

alltouchedout · 17/12/2016 15:25

It's a toilet. This is ridiculous.

harshbuttrue1980 · 17/12/2016 15:26

This is ridiculous, its like something out of "the help". Workmen are people too, and the poo coming out of their bums is no different in composition to that coming out of the bum of a doctor or a lawyer. You sound like such a snob OP.

Thisjustinno · 17/12/2016 15:26

You made a complaint to BT that one of their workers asked to use your toilet, you said yes and he did?

I bet they pissed themselves in the office when that came in.

baconandeggies · 17/12/2016 15:31

I sympathise OP. You need to find a way of deciding to forget about this now though. Cognitive behavioural therapy is so easy and effective for a lot of people with anxieties. Maybe a chat with your GP or a private consult will help?

Softkitty2 · 17/12/2016 15:50

Its weird that you have memories of this persons poo. Let it go or sell your house. If there was shit everywhere fair enough but its all in your head.

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JustDontGetIt · 17/12/2016 15:50

I think it is possibly attached to anxiety. I do feel anxious over cleanliness.

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JustDontGetIt · 17/12/2016 15:51

Thanks to who supported me. To help me understand my feelings are unreasonable. Some of you just posted to be cruel. I'm certainly not a snob

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