AIBU to not wee in the hotel kettle?

[greatauntfanny]

Summary of events:

• In hotel room with new(ish) partner.
• Go to make myself a cup of tea, ask if he wants one.
• His eyes widen and he yelps 'No! Don't use that! People wee in them!'
• I have never heard this and say something along the lines of 'What? Why would anyone wee in the kettle? There is an ensuite.'
• He says that everyone knows you should never use the kettle in your hotel room because people wee in them 'and worse'.
• I tell him I'm going to take my chances and make a cup of tea (although I boil it out once first to be on the safe side).
• He looks repulsed and says 'I can't believe you're doing that, that's disgusting, I didn't think you were like that' (basically how I'd expect him to react if I actually did a wee (or 'worse') in the hotel kettle myself.
• We go out later for an after-dinner walk and he points at a dog poo and says 'look, there's your dessert.'
• We are getting ready for bed and he picks up kettle and asks me if I want a cup of wee to take to bed.

So, question, in case you haven't guessed: is weeing into the hotel kettle 'a thing' (in which case IABU for making a cup of tea in what is essentially a toilet) or is my partner being weirdly OTT about this? Girls group chat theories have so far ranged from he's an extreme germophobe (red flag) to he's testing my reaction because he's 'into' poo and wee related 'activities' (also a red flag) to he wees in hotel kettles himself (also a red flag).

The only non-red flag is that he's right and people are weeing into their hotel kettles left right and centre which would be a a green flag for him but a red flag for the rest of society. I'm not really sure what outcome I'm hoping for here. Help me out?

I make tea using a hotel kettle... never weed in one!

I have never heard this is my entire life, he sounds unhinged

I have heard this before but I still use the kettles.

Piss kettle or not, I can’t live without a cuppa

Ive heard of this. I think it's a stupid urban myth.

I think it’s a bit of an urban myth. I have heard of it but don’t t believe it. I mean why would anyone do that?!

He sounds like a right prick who takes the joke too far

But I’d never use a hotel kettle. The stories on here from hotel cleaners of what people do in their rooms are revolting

I've heard it but thought it was an urban myth.

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If not I've drank a lot of wee.

Never heard of this in my life. I mean, why would you?

He sounds a bit odd.

Never heard of weeing in the kettle.

But I believe that washing underwear in hotel kettles is a thing.

I think this might be his way of telling you he has pissed in a kettle

I used to clean rooms years ago, never came across piss in kettles but the cups are only quickly rinsed under the tap, with no fairy liquid, so that thought makes me queasy.
I guess is, he's done it and the guilty conscience is making him paranoid.

It's a relatively well known "thing". I have no idea how true it is but I've heard about it from a few different sources. I still have tea in hotels. I just boil one round first.

I've heard it. I've also heard of people using them for cooking eggs and all sorts.

It wouldn't stop me using one BUT I would clean it out first

I have heard this from multiple sources and so I would never use a hotel kettle. The general public are disgusting.

He's either unhinged or utterly immature.

He'd not be getting sex from me tonight, and I'd end the relationship. He sounds exceedingly tiresome and not at all funny.

I think many years ago when there was not en-suites in 95% of hotel rooms it may of been a thing , if you woke up in the middle of the night in a unfamiliar place and no nearby ( or don't know where the) loo is .
But I doubt it is a thing now unless you get a group of idiots that have been out drinking doing it for a laugh

I think this myth goes back to when hotels didn't have ensuite bathrooms, so people might use the sink as a toilet. But that's pretty rare these days, and even in an emergency it's far more logical to use the sink than a travel size kettle!

Maybe there are some nutcases who wee in kettles but presumably they are few and far between, he is being a real arse about it though.

I've seen this exact post before. It's the only place I've heard of it and I used to work in hotels.

How does he feel about sleeping in a bed that hundreds of people have slept in before him?!

I've heard this from multiple sources. I always look and sniff inside, boil and chuck out the first kettleful.

However, having spoken to someone who was a chambermaid in a posh hotel who told me that were trained to wipe out the cups with the same clothes they clean the bathroom with I now always take a travel mug rather than use the ones in the room.

I've heard the rumour, but I think it's an urban myth! Enjoy your tea

Of course people have weed in hotel kettles before as there are some grim weirdos out there, but people have got up to so much worse on the mattress (not just shagging!) so if he's this much of a germaphobe he shouldn't stay in hotels.

He's a new partner and already being quite mean, the comments about the dog poo for example. There is no need for that. I'd bin him as it's likely to only go downhill from here.

It’s referenced in this week’s Inside Number 9 coincidentally.

I've heard this before so I always give it a really good rinse and a sacrificial boil.