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Delivery driver just had a dump at my house!

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WitsEnd2018 · 02/11/2018 13:10

AIBU? I've just had some furniture delivered and the first thing the guy said was, 'Can I use your loo?' I didn't want him to but felt that I couldn't refuse so I reluctantly said yes. He was in there for ages. He's had a smelly dump. It fucking stinks. I could have cried. He then bought the furniture in and I've just had to go and clean the toilet. I'm disgusted.

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 02/11/2018 18:51

I can't wait Diana, it will be amazing, and the comments will be fabulous. Also a great piece on Loose Women. I wonder if Janet Street Porter has toilet rules?

Rebecca36 · 02/11/2018 18:52

Well get over it OP! Poos smell. You've undone all the good about letting you lose your loo by your complaining about his smell. No poo smells particularly nice but we all get used to our own.

VisitorsEntrance · 02/11/2018 18:57

Has this made the papers yet?

WellThisIsShit · 02/11/2018 18:58

Oh dear

Feb2018mumma · 02/11/2018 19:03

I work in a delivery complaint department, a driver once pooed with no toilet roll and used a customer's towel to drive his bum! Could be worse

Feb2018mumma · 02/11/2018 19:03

Dry not drive!

WitsEnd2018 · 02/11/2018 19:04

Undone all my good work?! He's oblivious to my distress! He had his dump, then ate his sandwiches whilst blocking my driveway! I reckon he's had a rather satisfying day! His partner / Mum has lucked out, he relieved himself in my loo!

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 02/11/2018 19:06

If it's a slow news day over the weekend I reckon this might make it into the papers. The piece will end with 'Do you know this driver? If so please contact us'. Grin

Ss770640 · 02/11/2018 19:09

This is hilarious.

We are human. People need to use the bathroom.

Get over it.

MrMeSeeks · 02/11/2018 19:09

have never once needed to use a strangers toilet.
I’ve never had a problem finding a public toilet to use either so they certainly do exist.

Good for you, i have ibs and can suddenly need the loo without warning.
Not so many public loos here.
Im sure every single town has loads of public loos, oh wait...

MrMeSeeks · 02/11/2018 19:10

Hey I'm not a snob! I'm working class but I don't like randoms downloading in my lovely loo. It's not his occupation / social class, it's the random bum sitting on my loo doing a poo and resulting smell that has upset me.
Hmm

ForalltheSaints · 02/11/2018 19:11

Anyone can be caught short, but if you do, you can at least be apologetic about it, and flush the toilet twice to reduce the smell.

ChiaraRimini · 02/11/2018 19:13

"Log" it with 101 OP🤣

SputnikBear · 02/11/2018 19:19

@SputnikBear would you have had the delivery man leave all furniture on your doorstep?
There’s a difference between a pre-arranged delivery where people have been hired to go into customers’ homes in pairs (and presumably had appropriate checks) and a random door-to-door delivery guy who just decided he wants to come in. His needs aren’t my problem. And as someone who was a teacher for over a decade I can tell you that it isn’t always possible to go to the loo immediately if your job doesn’t permit it. I certainly could not just walk out leaving my class unsupervised to go to the loo.

Dorsetdays · 02/11/2018 19:19

MrMeSeeks. And if you’d read my posts properly you’d know that I also have coeliacs which has exactly the same symptoms as your worst IBS..still never needed to knock on someone’s door and ask to use their loo.

Still not had an answer to my question regarding whether you’d be happy to insist your teenage DD at home on their own should let anyone who knocks on the door in to use the house? Or your elderly parent living alone?

Would you all still tell them they should show more empathy or would your advice be slightly different?

Unfinishedkitchen · 02/11/2018 19:21

I’m with the OP. Maybe I’m not as cool as the rest of you but it would make me feel ill and invaded.

LuckyDiamond · 02/11/2018 19:21

I love a good work poo. Nothing better than being paid to shite.

Our work toilets are pristine. No poo trolls.

OP, shit happens 💩

OhEctoplasmOnIt · 02/11/2018 19:23

You can't just go when you want unfortunately. I'm a midwife and I can't just go for a poo mid delivery. I think I would have told him he can't use it as someone's in there! His needs are not your problem.

OhEctoplasmOnIt · 02/11/2018 19:24

*Greyhound22

I completely agree with you OP.

It's only on Mumsnet that this is acceptable.

It's like the washing threads. Loads of people that think having a shower once or twice a week is 'plenty'*

Exactly! When actually it's disgusting. There's a woman at work who showers twice a week and she thinks she doesn't smell but she does. Mumsnet is weird sometimes.

countrygirl99 · 02/11/2018 19:25

Reading this sort of thread reminds me of a former work colleague who would only buy a new build because she couldn't possibly use a bath that someone other than her family had used. For holidays she wwould never book a hotel with baths rather than showers and had massive problems with public toilets. Totally weird. Where I live you are at least 5 miles from a public loo and that's providing the garden centre is open.

AngeloMysterioso · 02/11/2018 19:33

I think the responses to the OP are a bit harsh here. I’d be pretty upset if my home stank of some stranger’s shit. She probably thought he just needed a quick wee!

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 02/11/2018 19:35

OP, unless he shat the entire bathroom, on purpose, YABU. People shit. No need to bleach the whole toilet and boil your towel. Bet you’d be first to complain if your delivery was late because the driver had to make a huge detour in order to find a public toilet. It probably smelt awful because he’d been holding it in for half a day.

nocoolnamesleft · 02/11/2018 19:36

I can just picture the poor bloke panicking when he realises that, bizarrely, there is no toilet brush, so sweet fuck all he can do to clean up. And no, I would not put an ungloved hand down a toilet to prevent an attack of the vapours. Why should he.

MissConductUS · 02/11/2018 19:36

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

sabrinathethirtysomethingwitch · 02/11/2018 19:39

This thread is hilarious 😂 hope the delivery man enjoyed his steamy dump 💩