Peeing in hotel kettles?!

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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?!

Never heard of this but I hope not

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

I remember reading that's called a "double decker". One in the bowl and another in the tank.

But yeah, agree with a previous that kettles are easy enough to clean. On the other hand I guaran-damn-tee you the mattress has been pissed on, by either a child or a drunkard. If you're lucky the hotel might have tried to clean it afterwards.

@Insomnibrat my nana was really angry bless her , she found out years later it was my dad and his friends absolute filth they was , my dad was not the shitter though apparently "his friend" was

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."

What the actual fuck?

If we discovered a mattress had been pissed on it would be replaced ASAP and the room would not be occupied in the meantime.

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.

I'll never forget an anecdote that somebody told me years ago whilst we were discussing the etymology of the word 'Scouse' to describe a Liverpudlian (it's a kind of local stew, if you didn't know).

He'd been at a meeting in Liverpool and related overhearing a conversation where somebody nonchalantly uttered the phrase "Yeah, and somebody had crapped in the scouse...." as if this was a normal everyday occurrence.

However, the room instantly fell silent as he ended the sentence: "....and we had to throw half of it away."

I also read a long time ago about a bloke who was on a bus, on the back seat, and was suddenly desperate for a poo.

For some good reason known only to himself, he took out his pen knife, cut out a circle of the seat fabric and removed the padding underneath. He then perched himself carefully over the hole, filled it with nature's bountiful gift, wiped his behind with the padding, replaced it stained-side-down and pushed down the fabric circle on top.

He then finished his journey, disembarked and then went on his merry way, leaving some poor bus driver to later investigate and discover - and to wonder exactly why it was again that he'd chosen a job serving the general public.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
Oh my god

Great thread! Loving the stories about minging things people have found in hotels - obviously not done themselves!

I always wash the cups and glasses myself, as I remember seeing a TV programme where the cups and glasses were dried with the same towel that the cleaner had just use to wipe down the rest of the bathroom.

I'm also deeply wary of remote controls, as I know that every filthy fucker who doesn't wash their hands after taking a dump, having sex, picking their nose or having a wank will also have touched it, so I usually give that the once over with a anti-bac wipe. If it looks really, really manky I have been known to put it in the sanitary bag and press the buttons through that!

I try never to touch the weird (usually shiny) throws that hotels like to drape on beds, as like another poster said, I'm convinced these are used as mop cloths for a variety of bodily fluids, so use the bottom of my bag to flick them onto the floor.

I'd never thought about anyone taking a piss in the kettle, but will add that to my list of checks now too!

I had a friend that used her kettle to heat up canned hot dog sausages.
She would use hotel kettles to heat them up too.