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Peeing in hotel kettles?!

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mnahmnah · 01/04/2019 18:02

Me, DH and DC have just checked into an airport hotel, flying in the morning. First thing I do is put the kettle on for a cup of tea. DH pulls a face and says ‘urgh, I wouldn’t use that, people pee in the kettles!’. I told him not to be so ridiculous and proceeded to drink my cup of tea, although all the while thinking of pee. Which rather ruined it anyway.

Am I BU for using it? Or is he being ridiculous? Is peeing in kettles actually a thing?! And does it vary from say, um, a Travelodge or the Radisson Blu?!

OP posts:
FuriousCheekyFucker · 02/04/2019 11:23

The pissing in an iron thing as a form of revenge/meanness/bullying in Halls I can understand, the piss would make the victims clothes stink and ruin the iron.

Not sure what the intent is of pissing/shitting in a kettle though?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 02/04/2019 11:56

@GottaGoGottaGo

You beat me to it Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

TellItLikeItReallyIs · 02/04/2019 13:03

@ChrisPrattsFace

Yep. And vomit. In the microwaves too!
It’s a five star luxury hotel too. I changed my opinion on people after that job

Thanks for responding but OMG!!!!! Thanks for responding. A shit in a kettle. Just why? Is that vomit in microwaves or shit in microwaves or both?@@ boggling mind.

This thread has some really brilliant LOL posts. My favorites so far and thank you for cheering my Tuesday:

GottaGoGottaGo
Just a thought - There's a phrase I see a lot on MN (which I hate by the way, but that's another story)...
"That boils my piss!"
Maybe that's how they do it...

eagleray
I used to work for a solicitors who did a lot of work for a well known high st chain. One of the cases they were dealing with was an employee who allegedly pissed in the staff kettle on their last day. No idea how it ended but the case was known in the office as the 'kettle pisser'

jameswong
You haven't lived if you haven't taken a dump in the hotel kettle!

Flavabobble
I had someone pee in the iron once. I used to work in hotels
How, just how? I struggle to fill the iron with a jug and water

recrudescence · 02/04/2019 13:19

I’d always put that strange flavour down to the mini cartons of UHT milk.

redwoodmazza · 02/04/2019 13:26

I was on a training course in Bristol once and the B&B I was staying in had tea/coffee making facilities in the room. When I opened the kettle - it had pee in it!!!!
So it does happen.

ivykaty44 · 02/04/2019 13:30

Tbh when I worked in a hotel it was the bed that men peed in, I’d never realised how common it was...

paxillin · 02/04/2019 13:41
M3lon · 02/04/2019 13:41

well this thread has wiped all trace of the guilt I felt for leaking blood in a hotel room once when in the process of miscarrying.

I prob should have warned them, but honestly I didn't feel like speaking to anyone at the time.

Now I realise that having not made a mess deliberately puts me way ahead in the hotel ettiquette stakes!

motheroftinydragons · 02/04/2019 14:20

When DH and his (disgusting) friends went on a stag do somewhere in Europe years ago one of them pooed in a bin in a bedroom.

When said poo was discovered (a whole day later!) I believe revenge was sought. One pooed in the bidet, and another in the room kettle.

I am glad to report DH was not responsible for any of the poo, and it was cleaned up before they left so the staff didn't have to deal with it. How they weren't all kicked out on the streets I don't know, they deserved to be.

People are foul!

Mysterian · 02/04/2019 14:33

Bob Mortimer pees in kettles.

Halloumimuffin · 02/04/2019 14:45

I do have some old friends who did this once. They supposedly were so drunk they didn't remember doing it.

Original poster
mnahmnah · 02/04/2019 14:47

happy

DH doesn’t do hot drinks so it wouldn’t have occurred to him to mention it before!

We’re now on our holiday, germ and illness free it seems. So hopefully I avoided the urine!

Some interesting Hmm stories on here. I shall never stay in a hotel naively again!

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buzzbobbly · 02/04/2019 14:49

At least the kettle can be boiled clean.

Apparently hotel curtains are heaving pits of jizz, because men like to use them for a handy wipe.

Think on that next time you are drawing the drapes!

ittakes2 · 02/04/2019 14:58

Peeing in the ice buckets when drunk - don't use these.

Insomnibrat · 02/04/2019 15:13

I worked as a housekeeper for a few years and never came across anything untoward in a kettle but have always to this day sterilised the cups/glasses with boiling water before use.

I DID however come across a used condom hanging out of a Bible in a room used by a lone male guest. It was placed particularly to be found... Hmm
And many MANY instances of beds being peppered with skidmarks/blood/worse. To this day I don't know how commercial laundries get the bedsheets white time and again, but every credit to them.

TellItLikeItReallyIs · 02/04/2019 15:17

The Wiping glasses in bathroom and not properly Cleaning Them is a known thing. There was a documentary that covertly filmed chamber maids in hotels and it was horrible.

If I'm staying abroad in the sort of countries where you don't drink the tap water and use bottled water to clean your teeth, I also don't use the hotel cups/tooth mugs for this reason. I take disposable paper cups with me and throw them away.

TellItLikeItReallyIs · 02/04/2019 15:18

Video of Loo brush to clean glasses

www.thesun.co.uk/travel/5230158/why-you-should-never-use-the-drinking-glasses-in-a-hotel-room/

Lllot5 · 02/04/2019 19:22

I’ve heard of people shitting in the cistern too. Now that is disgusting.

ChrisPrattsFace · 02/04/2019 19:49

@TellItLikeItReallyIs

Both! Genuinely some disgusting guests about. On the flip side though I would also have guest who would practically fully clean the whole room/lodge before they left. Strip beds and everything! I preferred them ones!

anitagreen · 02/04/2019 20:06

My lovely nan used to work in a Greggs bakers back in the day and it was called coombs or something and someone broke in messing around and shat in the deep fat fryer this was around 30 years ago though.

mollpop · 02/04/2019 20:28

Heating a pizza in a trouser press is a stroke of genius

flirtygirl · 02/04/2019 20:55

I take lots of antibacterial spray and wipes when I go away. I then clean the room when I get there. We use our own pillowcases.

I never use the kettle or cups.

I also don't let the maid in my entire stay. I ask for clean sheets, towels and toilet rolls when I see them in the hall. Do not disturb on door 24/7.
The clean they do everyday, involves them using the same cloths in all the rooms. Sorry but no thanks.

I also don't unpack, never have done and never will do. This cuts down on chances of bringing bed bugs back with you.

When back suitcases get sprayed with insect stuff before unpacking and then everything gets washed. Suitcases live outside and get hoovered and wiped before being put away.

I've taught this to my kids as well. My. Mum takes her own sheets when she goes away and remakes the bed. So I don't think I'm that bad.

MrsJBaptiste · 02/04/2019 21:46

Just to let you know that we're currently in a Premier Inn and the kettle is poo and pee free. Phew! 😉

ShitArmBadTattoo · 02/04/2019 22:15

Do you remember the band Faith No More? I had SUCH a crush on the singer Mike Patton until I discovered he had a...thing....about poo. This particular story comes back to me whenever I’m in a hotel:

Mike Patton | NME 1992
The first act of shit terrorism was described by Patton in an article from August 1992
"When I was staying in a hotel room once, I took a shit, rolled it into a ball and put it in the hair dryer so that the next guest to dry their hair would get hot shit in their face."

😳🤮

Insomnibrat · 02/04/2019 23:44

I'm sorry @anitagreen but that is funny. A masked man squatting above a deep fat fryer is quite an image.

Yes, I did just assume gender.