I've just been sprayed with perfume!

[NeverUseThisName]

I was in the loos at Costco when the person in the next cubicle started spraying perfume. Next thing I know, a mist of perfume lands on me from above. She had sprayed over the cubicle wall!

And because she didn't like the smell of the cubicle next to her, I'm now itching and scratching, because I'm having an allergic reaction to her perfume.

AIBU to think people poo in loos and you just have to accept that there may be some transient pong until they've flushed? And that you certainly don't spray other people with your own pong?!

Never heard of the 'courtesy flush' in my lifetime.

I don't 'get' how all the perfume came over the top of the cubicle.

YANBU to be annoyed obvs!

I spray ut on myself so when i exit the loo the only smell is a faint wiff of my petfume. Once i have exited the cubicle its someone elses problem😀

First post was light hearted not written in stone😉

Ugh! This is just so anti social. There's another thread about spraying a little Impulse on a bus because someone has BO. I personally loathe this perfume vandalism.

How hard is it to move cubicles (or seats) if you don't like the smell?

FFS do you really think men are bothering with this courtesy flush nonsense?

Get a grip. It's a public loo and sometimes it's going to smell of poo for a bit. Unless you are in there doing a shit yourself, then how long do you expect to be hanging out in the place anyway?

"Courtesy" involves leaving the loo in a clean enough state for others to use it - it does not involve fannying around with multiple flushes of the loo and spraying of perfume on yourself, let alone anyone else.

Get in, get the job done, clean up, leave and stop hogging the cubicle - women have to spend enough time dealing with changing tampons/pads etc., do we really need to add to it all by having to pretend our poo smells like flowers?

Courtesy flush? I've heard it all now. What a ridiculous waste of water.

It's a toilet. People shit into them. Sometimes it might smell a bit whiffy. Get over it - nobody's asking you to eat a 5 course meal in there.

Should've slung one of your turds back over at her.

Why didn't you?

Perfume is disgusting. They all smell like vodka to me. Shit smells far better.

@mirialis

'I don't 'get' how all the perfume came over the top of the cubicle'
Yes, did she stand on the loo or did she have extremely long arms? I'm thinking if i was in a cubicle and sprayed upwards it would just come back down on me not miraculously go over the cubicle to next door?

Omg I can’t believe I’ve just read a whole load of comments about poo! 😂😂😂

'I don't 'get' how all the perfume came over the top of the cubicle'

If the woman is batshit enough to spend time spraying perfume when someone does a poo in the adjacent cubicle of a public loo, I suspect they stood on on the lid of the loo and "passively aggressively" sprayed the perfume over the adjoining wall.

She needs to see a therapist.

One should always courtesy flush. For especially stinky logs, lighting a match and letting it burn down will get rid of the smell.

I really cannot see how it's reasonable that someone should carry around a box of matches to burn in a public bloody loo just because someone is being precious about the fact that someone else has had a shit! It's a loo - it's what it is designed for! Do your business, wash your hands and get out. If you want to light matches whilst you 'courtesy flush' away litres of water unnecessarily, then do so in your own bathroom.

I expect they just sprayed it generally up and it happened to land on you. You can't blame them for not wanting to smell your horrible poo smell!

Courtesy flush is a load of shit.
Just how does it work?
If I have left some "residue" which will require wiping, it will get spread or smeared if I stand up and turn round to flush.
Or do you remain crouched and turn round?
Or remain seated and contort yourself to reach flush behind you? (and get your arse sprayed with contaminated water)

I'm wondering where all these public toilets are that can be flushed multiple times in quick succession or how it can be considered courtesy to hog the cubicle long enough to wait for the cistern to refill in order to flush again.

"Horrible poo smell"? How very dare you?! Ail hev yew know thet Ai am a laydee!

Bet my horrible poo smell hasn't had her itching and burning, and doubling up on antihistamines, and slathering hydrocortisone on her face.

Just the smell of her perfume wouldn't have made me break out, but the stuff landed directly on my skin. I expect she pointed the bottle over the cubicle wall. (Easy enough to reach if you're standing up.) That's what outraged me, not the fact that she was precious enough to use it in the first pace.

I really hope that most of these "courtesy flush" and perfume-spraying posters are taking the piss (pun intended), otherwise it's saying something a bit tragic about the mentality of these particular women in 21st century UK.

Mirialis one can only speculate about how they cope with nappy changes and poonamis. I have visions of kids being doused with scented sprays and being abandoned mid-change whilst they search for boxes of matches

What are these stages? Am I doing it wrong?
For information my stages are as follows -

1. pants down, sit down
2. poo
3. wipe
4. examine flush
5. exit cubicle with an expression that conveys that it definitely wasn’t me that just pooed
6. wash hands

Very easy to point and spray over a cubicle wall its not exactly high!

You can get drops you put down to pre-de-stink.

Those things are a menace. I'd heard great reports so I bought a small bottle to keep in my handbag 'just in case'. I'd never used it but a couple of weeks later I started noticing every once in a while a strong whiff of something Pledge-like. Then I finally realised the bloody bottle wasn't leak-proof and had been slowly dripping into my bag. Cue one ruined leather bag!

Couresty flush? How long are you guys spending on the loo?

@Ffsdh if you could add one more, you could have the 7 Stages of Pooing, like the 7 stages of grief

Never heard of courtesy flush.

Saw and ad where a woman was using a spray to disguise the fact she’d just had a normal bodily function. Thought it was an actual joke but VIPoo is a real thing and the ads I’ve seen seem to market it at women.

breakfast I missed out pulling my pants back up. So seven stages of poo it is!