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Tradespeople using the loo

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JeanneDoe · 14/07/2021 09:53

Want to canvas opinions here.
We had a man over to service our burglar alarm.
It’s an annual service provided by the alarm company.
I’m WFH and my home office is above the downstairs loo.
Heard the alarm guy walking around checking out the alarm points around the house. Then heard him in the bathroom. Didn’t think there was a motion sensor in there.
He was in there for quite a while and then I heard a toilet flush.
Turns out a rather pungent bowel movement was had.
I am a bit pissed off. I know I’m unreasonable (and a bit precious) that I hate people that don’t live in my house taking a dump in my house.
But AIBU that he should have at least asked me if he could use our bathroom?

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onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:29

So many similar stories, people really are grim.

The lockdown was grim, but these were beyond grim.

But I am sure posters will find plenty of excuses for someone who chose to defecate on a beach or in somebody's front garden. Revolting.

onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:31

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

for some reason to do with associating poo with being unacceptable/disgusting, don't have the confidence to poo

you can make stuff up as you go along and try to invite me in a fight with your nonsense and personal attacks, I am not sure why it's making you happy but you are very weird.

No one has said that but you. But carry on, you are very weirdly obsessed by this thread!

HPLikecraft · 14/07/2021 23:31

Can you imagine men having this conversation/ thread?

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:32

@onlyhereforthecake nobody chose to but if it's between shitting your pants or not, what would you choose?

But yes people could have bagged it up at least (how do we know it's not dog poo anyway!)

Besides the thread is not about lockdown outdoor defecating, but using toilets outside your own home. Which for reasons I genuinely can't fathom, people go out of their way NOT to do

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/07/2021 23:32

How is a tradesperson's shit different to anyone else's?

All I know about tradesmen is that they usually need a van for the extra payload.

And no, I don't poo at work either!

Entirely your choice, but lots of people need/find it comfortable to use workplace toilets to poo in – and they aren’t wrong/weird/unreasonable/weak/disgusting in any way.

Do they think he should just hold it and/or spend the rest of his working day mincing around with tightly clenched buttocks?

Grim – like a special secret tradesmen’s version of the Lambeth Walk - with the chicken arm-movements and everything Shock

pooing not poking

I am NOT in favour of workmen poking anything

When it’s reached the poking stage, it’s usually too late to do anything but make a sprint for the nearest toilet and hope.

That would be a royal flush.

The smell is always at its very worst when it's crowning.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:32

@onlyhereforthecake

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

for some reason to do with associating poo with being unacceptable/disgusting, don't have the confidence to poo

you can make stuff up as you go along and try to invite me in a fight with your nonsense and personal attacks, I am not sure why it's making you happy but you are very weird.

No one has said that but you. But carry on, you are very weirdly obsessed by this thread!

Well what is the reason for you not having a poo at a friend's house?
onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:36

@HPLikecraft

Can you imagine men having this conversation/ thread?
if we are going towards unisex toilets everywhere, maybe they will join the next conversation they hear Grin
DaphneDeloresMoorhead · 14/07/2021 23:41

Commuter trains routinely don't have toilets, neither are the middle of a traffic jam on the motorway, ski slopes, many beach, forest, countryside...

None of which are remotely comparable to the OP's fully functioning lavatory.
Quite frankly the attitudes of certain people on this thread smack of the bourgeoisie getting ideas above their station that they are better than others, whose poo is too, too dreadful for words.

I'm not sure what these paragons of virtue are doing in their loo to make a bit of "foreign" fecal matter so heinous. Maybe they don't have a dining room and are having to resort to serving supper off the loo.

mariomushroom · 14/07/2021 23:46

Believing that a trademan pooing in your toilet is a reasonable thing to encounter does not equal applauding people who were shitting on beaches last year. The al fresco pooping that was seen in lockdown just goes to show how important good, clean public toilets are. Public toilets - as used by those people who can’t set a clock to their conveniently timed motions.

Some people on here seem believe that people should turn off the urge to defecate just to suit their sensibilities. You can’t stop the urge to poo any more than you can stop your hair growing, or your period starting, or your teeth forming plaque

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/07/2021 23:47

I get the distinct impression that some folk who call out tradespeople whose jobs routinely involve working in people's homes on short visits genuinely believe that theirs is the only house that they visit in a whole day.

That they spend the whole morning planning and preparing for this golden gift of an opportunity, ironing their best suit, pre-loading on all the food and drink they could possibly need for the day and meticulously voiding their bowels, using a bumper-sized pipe cleaner afterwards for that special proud, thorough job.

Then, they come out to your house, do their half-hour job for you, then return home to spend the whole afternoon basking in the privileged afterglow that only working in your house can bring, maybe indulging in a lovely vindaloo and a tinnie or two, followed by another weapons-grade explosive clearout, a two-hour shower, a few special tradesmen's TV programmes and then to bed, happy and contented and ready for another exhausting half-hour working day tomorrow.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/07/2021 23:51

Can you imagine men having this conversation/ thread?

It would just be 1,000 posts of both tradesmen and male householders proudly boasting of the ever increasing numbers of minutes that "you'd probably better give that, love" after their last escapade.

onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:54

it's funny how people get so offended on these threads.

Going from someone who doesn't like to have to clean their toilets after they are used - without even asking - by a complete stranger, (seriously, who does Hmm )

we are now on " paragons of virtue" and posters falling over themselves to list all the public places where they routinely enjoy having a bowel movement, as if it has anything to do with anything!

MN at its best.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:56

we are now on " paragons of virtue" and posters falling over themselves to list all the public places where they routinely enjoy having a bowel movement, as if it has anything to do with anything!

But that is only is response to the (ridiculous) claims that no one ever poos outside their own house!

You still haven't said exactly why you wouldn't poo at a friend's house? Would your friends be offended if you did?

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:57

Oh and no one is offended you won't shit anywhere but home, we are just utterly, utterly baffled

JustLoveYourselfALittle · 14/07/2021 23:58

Omg. I had workmen here for 6 weeks. They were going to quote my landlord for a portaloo too. But I was like why? There's a toilet upstairs!! Total of 4 different workmen. All used it on a daily basis. So what. It can be cleaned.

ThinWomansBrain · 14/07/2021 23:58

you'd have preferred him to defecate in his pants?

onlyhereforthecake · 15/07/2021 00:01

you'd have preferred him to defecate in his pants?

why would politely asking to use the loo would mean defecating in their pants?

mariomushroom · 15/07/2021 00:06

@onlyhereforthecake

you'd have preferred him to defecate in his pants?

why would politely asking to use the loo would mean defecating in their pants?

What if he’d been told no, I’d rather you didn’t use our toilet?
seashells11 · 15/07/2021 00:07

Stinking out someone's house who you don't even know is disgusting. I also think it's damn rude.

ACPC · 15/07/2021 00:11

He should have asked, I agree on that point. I don't get the general angst on mn about people using the toilet though! Funny these threads are always about tradespeople. I've yet to read a thread about the midwife, GP, accountant, tutor, piano teacher using the toilet Hmm

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/07/2021 00:18

Even if you don't care about the tradesperson themselves, anybody objecting to them using their toilet for a poo needs to understand that, when a tradesman is desperate for a poo, his mind will be fixed on needing that poo and NOT on doing a good/the best job for you. It's not a deliberate choice - just an involuntary anatomical reaction/distraction. Is that really what you'd prefer?

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 15/07/2021 00:44

@seashells11

Stinking out someone's house who you don't even know is disgusting. I also think it's damn rude.
Because knowing somebody makes their shit smell sweeter? 🤣
MurielSpriggs · 15/07/2021 01:54

@seashells11

Stinking out someone's house who you don't even know is disgusting. I also think it's damn rude.
These comments become more and more deranged!
MurielSpriggs · 15/07/2021 01:58

@ACPC

He should have asked, I agree on that point. I don't get the general angst on mn about people using the toilet though! Funny these threads are always about tradespeople. I've yet to read a thread about the midwife, GP, accountant, tutor, piano teacher using the toilet Hmm
Also only ever about men! Can you imagine the outrage if men ranted about how women on their periods were unhygenic, a hepatitis risk and stank out the bog with tampons!
IHateScottBrick · 15/07/2021 02:16

When we moved into our brand new home, I saw one of the movers coming out of the bathroom, having evidently just used the toilet. I felt kind of weird that a stranger ended up being the first person to use our toilet but I guess he had to go somewhere!

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