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'Messy' guest room sheets

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WorkingOnItWhateverItIs · 05/05/2022 14:22

I'm pretty sure I'm not being U but also want to check I'm not being a fusty old cow.

Had some friends round, three couples, one who isn't local asked if they could crash at ours rather than not drink or get a taxi. We said, sure! We have a guest room, all good.
They're mid 20s, my DH and I are early 40s. We have an 11y DS.
We'd told them that evening that we're early risers, just as a heads up. All good.
Next morning, they're up, showers, come down around 9.30, we all have breakfast together. They head off around 11am.
I go up to change the bedding as we have other guests due. Pull back the duvet and see a wet patch on the sheet. Pull off the sheet, the wet patch is through to the mattress. It's jizz. No doubt.
So, AIBU to think that's a bit rank? Or am I being fusty and should be a bit more chill? I don't care about the sexy time, do what you like, but clear it up. 'Finish' so it's tidy iyswim. We're likely to have them round again at some point but there's no way I'm letting them stay, is that mean? Obviously, if they asked, I'd have to say 'you know, my cleaning up jizz days are behind me and probably in front of me with a boy in the house so no thanks. Go do that in the taxi home and receive the bill instead.'

OP posts:
LoveSpringDaffs · 05/05/2022 16:35

WorkingOnItWhateverItIs · 05/05/2022 16:11

I shall invest in a mattress protector for future guests, noted!
I get it's 'just' bodily fluids, but they're not mine or my immediate family's and I'm not a hotel (not that I'd leave a generous dollop of fresh jizz for someone to find on a hotel sheet).
For the PP who asked, we've only recently become friends through a mutual hobby type thing, all get on etc. Wonder if they see us as their parents sort of age and we'll just tidy up after them.

No, I expect they just had sex, as couple do, and weren't expecting you to race up to inspect the bed before their wheels had left your driveway.

easy enough to remove a sheet & shove it in the washing machine without touching the wet spot. Entirely your own fault for not having a mattress protector.

Confrontayshunme · 05/05/2022 16:36

The first time I stayed with my now ILs, I had an insane period and leaked all over the sheets. I immediately stripped the bed and put them in a wash when I got up. I thought stripping a bed is just the least you can possibly do when staying at anyone's home. My MIL was amazing and when I said I wanted to pay for new sheets, she was hilarious and said better blood than sick or piss! She wasn't fazed at all which I was grateful for.

That said, YANBU. Jizz. Ew.

Choopi · 05/05/2022 16:38

It wouldn't bother me tbh. I certainly wouldn't expect people to cart sex towels around with them or abstain from sex when staying over. I used to clean hotel rooms as a teen so have seen far worse than a bit of jizz on the sheets. It's just sex, stick the sheets in the washing machine and buy a mattress protector.

DilemmaBlah · 05/05/2022 16:38

Wouldn’t it have dried by the time she changed the sheets? Presumably they did the deed that morning prior to their showers, which were before 09:30? ……..sheets were taken off after 11:00. How was it still wet more than an hour and a half later?

balalake · 05/05/2022 16:39

I agree with you OP, awful and inconsiderate. Probably rubbish sex as well.

berryfull · 05/05/2022 16:43

This reminds me of the time a friend couple stayed over and they had a really early plane the next morning and obviously got up in the dark and didn’t realise the mess they’d left on the sheets…… And maybe also they didn’t realise when they were having pretty vigorous all over the bed sex that she was on her period, because it was dark …,,,,.Because when I went in the room and drew the curtains after they’d left it looked like a massacre had occurred on the bed! I still see them both regularly, although they aren’t a couple anymore. I have never mentioned it, and neither have they. I just prefer to presume that they didn’t realise!

speakout · 05/05/2022 16:47

TheSpottedZebra · 05/05/2022 15:27

Were they VERY drunk?

Not entirely relevant, but am intrigued why your friends are half your age!

I wondered that too.

Benjispruce4 · 05/05/2022 16:51

Yeah not nice op. Definitely avoidable but if alcohol involved I guess they weren’t careful. Definitely get a mattress protector but not sure how to clean your mattress.

User48751490 · 05/05/2022 16:51

Waterproof mattress protector. Let them have fun. Next time you won't notice that much. DH is the jizz overflower so you wouldn't like him!!🤣🤣🤣

sassyduck · 05/05/2022 16:52

YANBU. Yuk

Benjispruce4 · 05/05/2022 16:52

People are ignoring the fact op says it’s on the mattress not just the sheet!

Sleepyquest · 05/05/2022 16:54

I am in the camp of not having sexy time when I'm a guest in somebody else's house. Surely you can go without for a night!

speakout · 05/05/2022 16:57

Benjispruce4 · 05/05/2022 16:52

People are ignoring the fact op says it’s on the mattress not just the sheet!

OP said it is a guest bedroom- all the more reason to use a mattress protector.
I can't get worked up at semen on the sheets, but I would be kicking myself for not using a matress cover.

BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 05/05/2022 16:58

On one hand, YANBU. It was one night, surely the couple could’ve hung on or been more discreet?
On the other, YABU. Couples have sex, you were changing the sheets anyway and there are ways to change without touching the semen.

As others have said, get a mattress protector to avoid further soak through issues and just bundle the sheets up without directly touching the fluids.

HellyR · 05/05/2022 16:59

LoveSpringDaffs · 05/05/2022 16:32

@HellyR

Presume all the 'NBD' people would be ok sleeping on a mattress with dried up strangers' spunk in it? Not sure I would... at least not knowingly

presumably you stay at hotels/b&b/etc...

you don't think others have had sex on the bed??

why should house guests expect no one to have had sex in/on the bed previously??

weird.

I would assume hotels use some kind of mattress protection?

I'm confused as to why you think 'having sex in the bed' automatically means that semen has gone into the mattress? I'd expect people to have had sex in a bed, yes. I would not expect them to have gotten spunk soaked through to the mattress which cannot be 'chucked in the machine'. It's not like it's difficult to NOT do that.

ArtVandalay · 05/05/2022 17:02

Yuck. I’d have stripped the bed under he guise of being a helpful guest.

Our friends usually do this (strip the beds, not leave semen for us to find)- just bring the bedding downstairs and put it in the utility.

And guests, if you’re having sex in a friend’s spare bed - put a towel under you.

CrotchetyQuaver · 05/05/2022 17:03

I thought everyone had mattress protectors under the sheet to stop things going through and staining the actual mattress 🤷🏼‍♀️

Clymene · 05/05/2022 17:04

That's fucking grim. Dirty skanks

Lulu49 · 05/05/2022 17:05

Get a grip 🤪. Just wash the sheets, give the mattress a quick wipe down and put a mattress protector on so you can just wash that as well. You sound much older than 40 ish

pinklavenders · 05/05/2022 17:06

Finding jizz on the sheets when you'd had the grace to put them up for the night at their request as as bad as finding shit stains on the bed

Yes, I also find it incredibly disrespectful and disgusting 🤮

CherryRipe1 · 05/05/2022 17:06

The lady could be a squirter, I think forensics should be called for dna analysis.

Lynnthesearesexnotgenderpeople · 05/05/2022 17:07

Urgh, I would never have sex when I was a guest in someone else's house! That's quite rude I think. And then to leave spunk on the sheets as well? Gross.

pinklavenders · 05/05/2022 17:08

And guests, if you’re having sex in a friend’s spare bed - put a towel under you.

Or any piece of clothing!

TeaBug · 05/05/2022 17:09

Bit of a suspect thread innit. Really does nothing for me tbh

Iwantmyoldnameback · 05/05/2022 17:14

If only they had left the bed open to air while they had breakfast it at least would have dried up and not soaked into the quilt. Heathens!

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