FIL toilet iabu

[flamegrilledbytheend]

Sooo first off I'm not the poo troll and I'm aware I'm probably being U but this annoys me more than it should I think! 😂

Just had my downstairs bathroom done, really love it! Means that guests can now have their own bathroom when they stay (Guest bedroom is downstairs). Not sure if this is relevant but may have tipped me over the edge of eye rolling.

ILs visiting today, they live about four hours away and have got the train to see us but are only staying the day (a long story that I won't go into). FIL uses the bathroom 3 or 4 times during the first hour of their visit. Our house is not the largest and at one point things could be heard from the bathroom. I discreetly ask mil if he is okay as I assumed he had caught a bug. Mil informs me that FIL decided to eat cheese on the train journey here and it always gives him 'the shits' in her words. She then laughed and said how he always does this when he visits our house? Then made a comment when he came back about how he had broken in our new toilet 🤢

We usually visit them but now I think about it FIL does always go to the bathroom a lot when he's here.

Anyway in the kitchen I mention this quietly to dh and he says yes cheese has always made his dad have horrendous diarrhoea. We then all go out for lunch. FIL orders a ploughman's sandwich. I shot a look at my dh but said nothing 😂 I haven't counted but I'd say fil has been to the bathroom (in our house and out and about) at least 10 times today.

AIBU to think why would you eat something that you know gives you this shits at someone else's house?! Also they are now on the train home...what kind of gamble is this man taking getting a 2 hour train journey when he is clearly going to need the loo every 5 minutes ?!

I'm aware this is a ridiculous post and I'm not entirely serious in my annoyance but I'm more incredulous at the whole thing!

YANBU - This is madness! Why does he do it?! I agree with you completely that if you know this is going to happen why would someone put themselves through it?! Yuck!

@Sunnytimesahead exactly! Surely you'd avoid food that had that effect at all costs never mind in someone else's home and with travel time 😂😂 I cant decide if it's disrespectful or if he's just completely oblivious! Either way I've told dh he is cleaning the bathroom 🤢

Put some VIPoo, made by airwick in the loo and get HB to tell FIL to spray before he poos. Does work, I like the lemon. Use it at work where about 15 share x 1 loo.

Eating cheese when you are dairy intolerant and about to get on a train is living very, very dangerously.

It does seem odd that he'd choose to eat something he knows upsets his stomach but it's his choice.

As for pooing in your loo....its what it's for, does it make any difference if it's once or 10 times?

So long as he left it clean I can't really see the issue. Odd from a social point of view maybe but then so is being precious about a new loo.

Ha definitely ordering that @gelert5619 thanks !

@AllYouGoodGoodPeople that's what I thought! I always took him for a fairly risk averse man, little did I know he was such a dare devil!!

@Surplus2requirements haha I'm not really bothered about the loo being new! I just think I'd be fairly mortified to have to use someone's toilet so many times during a visit (and with some of the accompanying noises) so I certainly wouldn't eat something that caused it ! No idea about the toilet state I am leaving that to dh 😁

@flamegrilledbytheend - Good for you re: DH having to deal with the clean up. He might need one of those all in one plastic suits though!
I also think you need an industrial size bottle of that VI Poo stuff or Poo Pourri ready for when FIL returns! Maybe also a radio playing in the loo to block out the sound effects!

@Sunnytimesahead I might crack open a cheese platter! 😛

@flamegrilledbytheend - Ha! You go girl!
Stinking bishop!

It does seem ridiculous to eat foods he is intolerant to. Does he eat dairy at home, or does he save the 'shits' just when he visits you? Has he ever been tested for a dairy intolerance?

Another thought is that he might actually have prostate problems, but feels the 'I ate cheese' is an easier cover than discussing his prostate issues? Many older men with prostate problems need the loo multiple times to urinate. How often does he go to the loo normally?

@Elouera he doesn't visit us very often, maybe thrice in the last year. We see them quite a bit at their house or a half way point though and he definitely doesn't usually go to the toilet this much so I think the cheese thing is true. Mil kind of laughed it off like a joke and said he always eats cheese before coming here? I've no idea what that was meant to mean? And dh confirmed for years his dad would usually avoid cheese because of the effect. I've no idea tbh 🤷🏻‍♀️ just thought the whole thing was a bit 😳 and I wanted to share with people so I knew I wasn't being completely crazy but can't in real life obviously 😊

@Sunnytimesahead oh no he was a police man not a bishop 😛😛😛😛 sorry terrible joke 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

@flamegrilledbytheend - Ha Boom Boom!
I like your sense of humour! This thread has cheered me up. I know I'm essentially laughing at poo but a laughs a laugh!

It is a bit weird but it’s not like he’s a proper guest it’s just his kids house. It’s nice that he feels comfortable. Whenever I have diarrhoea in someone else’s house I make sure that I obviously leave it nice and clean though. Other than that I don’t know why you’d be bothered.

@Sunnytimesahead thanks :-D yes the whole experience has me and dh chuckling this evening 😂 we have been making cheesy jokes to each other all day 😆

It's true what they say, there's nowt as queer as folks.

The man’s a maverick, a loose cannon if you will. He pushes the onvelope, he doesn’t live by our rules.

@fairynick hmmm but to actively encourage it? Fair play if you get caught unlucky that's human biology 🤷🏻‍♀️

@1forsorrow me or him ? 😂 Probably both.

@APatchyTomCat I am seeing him in a whole new light!!!

Just remembered. Burning a candle is advised to reduce smells in the loo. Get a big one and light it before FIL arrives. You can get some with initial on the glass, perhaps one with FIL's initial, a special one, just for him...………...

I don't think he should moderate his toilet habits because you have a new bathroom I do think it's crazy to eat something you know will give you the shits - especially if they've got along drive back what the hell is he going to do if they're on the motorway?

To be honest, so long as he knows what's caused it (i.e. it's not as if he's come to your house with a contagious bug), and I knew it wasn't going to spread, I'd leave him to it. It is weird to like a food so much that you'd still eat even though it does that to you. Most people don't like using the toilet in other people's houses, so to knowingly eat something that will make you need to use it many, many times seems like a seriously odd choice.

But, I think YABU for having an issue with him using the toilet as it was designed to be used, when it won't have any kind of impact on your, really. Just throw a load of bleach down.

Makes me wonder if he wants to mark his territory... there are some quite creepy men like that.

Hopefully he's just a slave to the Cheddar though!

YANBU.
As reading this thread an advert for laughing cow cheese triangles came up. Could it be any more appropriate?!

Bloody hell he is living life a bod dangerously ! On a train journey too why would you ?! YANBU , I have a friend who has some mild allergies and she’ll eat white bread when we are out (out of choice when she could have anything), and she’ll be like ‘that’ll come back to get me soon’ and I’m like ???? You’re not even human seriously 😂😂

Perhaps he does it to avoid small talk?
He mustn't see much of you on his visit if he's in the loo that often.