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AIBU to not wee in the hotel kettle?

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greatauntfanny · 30/05/2021 19:21

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?

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Aprilwasverywet · 30/05/2021 19:35

I turned down a job in a posh town hotel.
I had a trial with 2 long standing staff
..
Who dried shower doors and the cups etc with the guests used towels...
Envy
Not envy..

SimonJT · 30/05/2021 19:36

I have heard of this, but I still use hotel kettles, I do boil before use and thoroughly wash the cups.

I did however find an entire shit (on a plate) in a chalet fridge in Austria.

scully29 · 30/05/2021 19:36

That is horrendous. Ive never heard of it and Ive worked in hotels in housekeeping. Why would anyone do that? He has completely ruined hotels for me now. And glamping.

ApolloandDaphne · 30/05/2021 19:37

Why would you wee in the hotel room kettle when there is a bathroom right there?

DeRigueurMortis · 30/05/2021 19:37

So I travel with work and use hotel kettles.

I do admit to "pre-boiling" them first.

That said, having seen a video of a blacklight being passed over a "high end" hotel suite I think the kettle is the least of most people's worries.

Crispychillibeef · 30/05/2021 19:38

I've heard this. I've read your OP as lighthearted though before you get the LTB brigade in full force.

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greatauntfanny · 30/05/2021 19:38

@Nyfluff

I've seen this exact post before. It's the only place I've heard of it and I used to work in hotels.
Good luck linking us all to the source of this 'exact post' that I've just spent ten minutes typing up 👀
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Justcallmebebes · 30/05/2021 19:39

Never heard it but hope not. I've just spent weekend in a Premier Inn and if it's going to happen it'll be in one of them! Off to bleach my mouth 😣

He does sound a bit of a twat and immature and i don't get the dog poo analogy

HideousKinky · 30/05/2021 19:40

I had never heard of this until it was mentioned in last Monday's episode of "Inside No.9"

I really really really hope it isn't a thing

Comtesse · 30/05/2021 19:40

He does not sound very nice plus a bit unhinged about germs. Yanbu.

Horehound · 30/05/2021 19:40

I've heard of it but it doesn't mean it's true. It's for stupid people to believe.
People really do not go around pissing in kettles ffs.

I'd dump him for being such a fool tbh!

AngusThermopyle · 30/05/2021 19:40

I've heard this, but only on Mumsnet. Never heard anyone else mentioning it ever.

TheMotherlode · 30/05/2021 19:41

I was a housekeeper in a hotel for a little while. The kettle is the least of your worries.

SoMuchForSummerLove · 30/05/2021 19:41

I worked in a gym and someone regularly put a shit into the shower gel containers... so I agree about not taking my chances with a kettle.

ClairKingston · 30/05/2021 19:41

I dithered about replying here but obvs I decided to. Once on television I saw a documentary along the lines of "secrets of hotel rooms/guests" or something.

A housekeeper explained that on cleaning a room after guests left it was discovered that a vaseline/sticky lube type of substance had been smeared all the way along the teapot spout and it was obvious what she was implying the use of the teapot by the guest(s). I don't think a cup of tea had anything to do with it.

Horrible!!!!! People do disgusting things. My sister was a room maid for a couple of years and she told me some of the things the staff had to clear up, specially after stag or hen parties had been there.

DumplingsAndStew · 30/05/2021 19:41

@oystercatcher44

Never heard of weeing in the kettle.

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

Seriously? What's wrong with the bath or the sink?
RomComPhooey · 30/05/2021 19:44

We stayed in a hotel room once where someone had clearly boiled supernoodles with the seasoning sachet in the kettle. There were still herbs and manky bits in the kettle. I took it down to reception and swapped it for a standard pissy one. Wink

Ju11tne · 30/05/2021 19:44

I had to laugh at the last part OP. Cup of wee before bed Grin I have never heard anything like it!!

3CCC · 30/05/2021 19:44

I've only heard of the weeing in the kettle thing on mn & this weeks episode of Inside Number 9

Make of that what you will Hmm

Siepie · 30/05/2021 19:44

I've heard of this online, as well as washing underwear like pp said, and boiling eggs or super noodles.

No idea how true any of this things are and I still make tea in hotels.

Nesbo · 30/05/2021 19:46

I’ve heard the rumour of people using them to boil wash underwear. You’ve got to have a cup of tea though, so...

maddiemookins16mum · 30/05/2021 19:47

He’s bloody annoying regardless of the kettle thing.

Sobloodyexhausted · 30/05/2021 19:48

This must be a thing as it’s in the latest ‘inside Number 9’ episode about a lip reader. I’d never heard of it till watching though!

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greatauntfanny · 30/05/2021 19:48

@Crispychillibeef

I've heard this. I've read your OP as lighthearted though before you get the LTB brigade in full force.
It was a light-hearted-vaguely-amusing-but-with-the-potential-to-indicate-a-fundamental-limited-compatability-in-lifestyle-or-sense-of-humour ...type ...thing.

Not LTB in itself but it's going in the LTB pot for later (later being if he continues to being it up/makes another eating poo/drinking wee joke) Brew

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DeathStare · 30/05/2021 19:48

I'd never heard about it, but even if it is a thing the way he treated you about it was pretty nasty. That would be a big red flag to me.

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