Ok, so I'm fairly new to Mumsnet, I signed up as I always seem to find exactly what I'm looking for when needing a question answered.
However, one thing I've clearly noticed whilst going through the forums, is the abuse some users get, for stating their opinions, and exercising their right to "freedom of speech." It's disgusting, it's unecessary, some ppl need to take a chill pill.
I am in the process of looking for a building company to renovate my whole house (kitchen extension, loft, sides etc), and came on here in order to see people's views about builders using their toilets, and if anyone like myself is so severely OCD that what may seem "just disgusting" to some, would actually send us OCD'ers into overdrive.
In my personal opinion, it is disgusting, disrespectful, and downright RUDE to leave your OWN HOUSE, make your way to someone else's house, and ask to use their toilet. When we wake up in the morning, everyone has a poo, no matter how long it takes to come out, if you eat well, and have a healthy/balanced diet, soon as you stand upright, gravity sends everything South!
Even more so for those who smoke/have a coffee when they get up. I strictly refuse anyone coming into my home using my toilet, I don't care who you are! In the past I've had to fight through tears lifting the seat to wipe away the fresh piss running underneath it, and down the outside of the bowl where men AND WOMEN have failed to aim properly - or stooping and it splashed everywhere. I have had to clean away shit splashed everywhere, at the top near the rim where their bum was so big the toilet couldn't accommodate them! On the actual SEAT where my children have to sit down. Like seriously don't take the piss, my children have to live here, it's their home, you came from your house and had the brass neck to come and use my nice, clean, fresh smelling, no stains or pubic haired toilet!
Only people who use my toilet are me and my kids (lone parent) - no workmen or visitors (that I don't know) are allowed. I've noticed when I tell people I'm OCD, they make a point of asking me to use it, and smirking, even though I just said I'm flipping well OCD! I point blank say NO! You are not being unreasonable mentioning this, regardless of how light hearted it is - some of you have young children, that grab onto the edge of the toilet (unfortunately), crawl around etc, then put their hands in their mouths.
These people that do this kind of nastiness in your toilet could have contagious diseases, that are picked up just through skin contact with the contaminated surface. Health & Safety is paramount, using someone else's toilet to have a shit and spray your piss everywhere is downright disrespectful, and potentially harmful - without a second thought, provide a Portaloo for them, 2 if possible, that way they have no reason to come into your home.
I read on another thread, the poster told the builder she'd be putting Portaloos outside, and he had the brass neck to point blank refuse to use them - I wonder why!?!? I'll take one guess - yet it's ok for them to come trampling through people's homes emptying their bowel contents - there's a reason why public/park toilets smell pissy! I know this thread is just over a year old, but it is an open topic, and there will always be people looking for this type of discussion, such as myself. To those getting bashed by other Mumsnetters when putting their views across, ignore them, you are who you are, no one has any right to tell you what you should or shouldn't say, or how you must or mustn't feel.