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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:
WitsEnd2018 · 03/11/2018 21:33

Think we should start a campaign to bring back public toilets!

OP posts:
riceuten · 03/11/2018 21:44

Nothing wrong with having a poo - although sadly there are plenty here who thing there is something wrong. Everything wrong if he didn’t clean up after himself. Although, that said, shit stinks, some people’s more than others’. Sorry about that.

Gwenhwyfar · 03/11/2018 21:50

"Think we should start a campaign to bring back public toilets!"

We should, but it wouldn't change much for situations like yours because public toilets are generally in town centres or sites of interest and not in residential/suburban areas.

whitsunfells · 03/11/2018 21:59

Get over it.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 22:19

Hiroo
You have misunderstood. I'm not trying to turn it into a class war; other people called OP a snob. I was trying to debunk that Confused

You've misunderstood most stuff tbh.

LaurieMarlow · 03/11/2018 22:31

Poo particles & poo juice on a bristly stick permanently positioned beside your loo.

They're cleaned and disinfected. Calm the fuck down.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 22:32

Do you think every delivery guy would clean a loo brush properly, or leave it there for you?

PunkrockerGirl59 · 03/11/2018 22:33

Think we should start a campaign to bring back public toilets!
In the meantime in the real world however, tradespersons must deliver your goods, assemble your furniture, sort out your utility problems, build your fucking extensions and do all this without ever needing to use your precious toilet facilities Hmm

LaurieMarlow · 03/11/2018 22:40

Do you think every delivery guy would clean a loo brush properly, or leave it there for you?

I presume some would and some wouldn't.

In the (fairly infrequent) event of a tradesman using my loo, using the loo brush and not cleaning it I'll take one for the team and clean it myself. It's not something I lose sleep over tbh.

Better that than him leaving a skid mark and me having to clean that.

Cloud9889 · 03/11/2018 22:45

I’m crying with laughter - sorry

Fucksgiven · 03/11/2018 22:50

Shockingly someone shat in your toilet Shock Grow up

PortiaCastis · 03/11/2018 22:51

Dont be so bloody ridiculous about loo brushes, sticking your hand down a germ infested bog with branders is far far worse than having a loo brush

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 22:54

@Laurie
Fair enough. Personally I'd rather pour bleach on a skid mark, safe in the knowledge it would disappear of its own accord, than clean lumps of shit out of the bristles of a manky brush... But to each their own.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 23:00

Portia
What are branders?

To clarify, if the loo is clean with the exception of your newly deposited mess, why is reaching down with a wodge of toilet paper (having first administered bleach) any worse than the original act of wiping the selfsame shit off your arse? No one is proposing putting your hand into the water Confused Any marks below the water will literally dissolve in bleach. How do people not know this?

In my experience, the only people who happily smear a toilet brush through fresh shit are people who don't think beyond that immediate act; they don't stop to think who is going to clean all their shit out of the brush.

LaurieMarlow · 03/11/2018 23:00

I'm not a fan of sloshing bleach around indiscriminately or sticking my hand down the bowl (I'm not convinced it just disappears and the OP clearly isn't either what with all the scrubbing).

So I'll stick to my method thanks.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 23:04

And yet you are a fan of having a shit-encrusted brush next to your toilet. Grin

DaphneCanDoBetterThanFred · 03/11/2018 23:04

OP I should have sent you the plumber I had the other week. He asked to use the toilet and while I was really hoping he wasn't going to poo, it became clear, after he'd been in there 20 minutes that it probably wasn't a wee.

However, when I braved the loo a couple of hours later, i found he'd opened the window, the toilet was gleaming, he'd put the empty handsoap bottle that I'd left next to the full one in the bin. Was this >< close to calling his company to tell them he was a gem of a man. Think he needs to be hired out to do Shitting Etiquette talks.

busyhonestchildcarer · 03/11/2018 23:07

Im with most of the others on this. A TOILET IS FOR GOING TO THE TOILET IN

LaurieMarlow · 03/11/2018 23:08

It's not shit encrusted because I clean it. Honestly, it's not that difficult a concept.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 23:12

Aaarghh! But you're not the only one using it Laurie !! The premise of this thread is that the toilet brush must be available for all and sundry! Hence it's inevitably going to get dirty unless you think random delivery guys are going to fastidiously clean your toilet brush. They're not. Therefore you will be cleaning up after them.

But I guess that's fine with you.

Cressida89 · 03/11/2018 23:17

It's too late for this.

I wouldn't shit in some random person's house. I just wouldn't (unless, I suppose, I was very ill - in which case I probably wouldn't be doinga delivery route).

Therefore I'd take exception if someone did it to me.

Loads of you clearly shit in strangers' houses so see it as normal. Guess we're not going to agree.

ladymariner · 03/11/2018 23:19

WitsEnd2018
I could handle kitten shit esp if it was my kitten. Hardly comparable

I prefer not to handle any kind of shit thats why I have a loo brush

BumDisease · 03/11/2018 23:19

"I think it was the unexpectedness of it all as well that added to my upset. I was just expecting my furniture to be delivered, a quick in & out. Instead I got a whole load of shite & angst."

Angst! ANGST!!! 😂 Jesus wept. I'd hate to see you in a real crisis OP.

Bloodybridget · 03/11/2018 23:24

Oh yes, the public toilets that are liberally distributed throughout the UK, and all he had to do was take some time out of his working day to find one - as long as he could park his van there too, of course!

Alaaya · 03/11/2018 23:49

I wouldn't shit in some random person's house. I just wouldn't

I'm probably going to regret asking this, but do you just not defecate during the working day? You just have bowels of steel and only poo when you're at home?