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To want a towel to dry my hands?

224 replies

ItsAllABit · 04/11/2022 21:38

My sister never has a towel in her downstairs toilet so everytime I wash my hands I have to ask her for a towel. She used to just go and get me one but is now rolling her eyes everytime I ask. Tonight we were there and when I came out of the bathroom I asked her for a towel. Everyone in the room burst out laughing and she rolled her eyes and said “wipe them in your hair”. She basically went on to say that she’s sick of me asking for a towel, she thinks I’m attention seeking and making a massive song and dance all the time and it’s boring. I said it’s perfectly normal to want to wash and dry your hands after using the toilet!!?

anyway when we left I asked DH why he was laughing earlier and he said “because you say the same thing everytime, it’s funny because she gets so wound up by it and when you went in there she said “watch her come out banging on about a towel” so everyone was waiting for you to say it”

Isnt it normal to want to dry your hands after washing them?? Am I being the sick here? DH agrees with my sister apparently that I’m making a song and dance

OP posts:
ItsAllABit · 04/11/2022 22:15

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 04/11/2022 22:14

Who keeps a towel in the kitchen? Except a tea towel.

Glad it’s not just me getting confused by that!

OP posts:
gamerchick · 04/11/2022 22:15

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 22:02

Meh I actually don't care. If I were in the same room as someone with a cold I would and equally if I were to have one. I don't actually get poo on my hands when I go to the loo, or piss.

The bacteria in hour bowel passes through several sheets of toilet paper. You really do.

Hats off to the crown of the minging I've read on here. Never invite people over for tea.

dementedpixie · 04/11/2022 22:17

I would dry my hands on a tea towel from the kitchen and often do if I wash my hands in the kitchen

Longtimelurkerfinallyposts · 04/11/2022 22:17

ItsAllABit · 04/11/2022 22:15

Glad it’s not just me getting confused by that!

You don't even keep a towel in the kitchen to dry your hands on? That's different from the one you use on clean dishes? Really?!

dementedpixie · 04/11/2022 22:18

I dont have a separate towel in the kitchen for hands

eosmum · 04/11/2022 22:18

She’s weird. I’d buy her a towel rail for Christmas and a new hand towel for every birthday going forward. See how funny it is then.

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 22:19

Yeah a tea towel, dry your hands on that. I don't see the problem

HouseInChaos · 04/11/2022 22:20

I am far from cleanliness obsessed, but wiping your hands on a tea towel I find pretty rank for some reason. I've always had a hand towel in the kitchen. Your sister is very weird and very rude though. I think you'll have to start taking a hand towel with you when you visit!

ratsrats · 04/11/2022 22:20

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 21:55

@TimeSlipMushroom
Yep! I don't! I live on a farm and I don't wash my hands after I've lambed a sheep or cleaned out the pigs, I'm also pretty healthy. Get the odd cold the kids bring home. People are too sanitised now. It's pathetic. I can understand in a hospital but it's never done me any harm

uh assuming this is real, you’re absolutely disgusting. I hope your friends and family are aware of your laziness and lack of hygiene so they know to avoid your cooking

LolaSmiles · 04/11/2022 22:21

Who keeps a towel in the kitchen?
Except a tea towel.
I do because if DC need their hands washing and I'm in the kitchen they'll wash hands under the kitchen tap and if I've handled raw meat or fish then I wash my hands in the kitchen and dry them on a hand towel.

iamjustwinginglife · 04/11/2022 22:21

Pop a flannel in your handbag and use it as your own mini towel

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 22:21

Why?tea towels shouldn't have pee and poo on them. And you've washed all the pee and poo off your pee and poo covered hands

cariaaad · 04/11/2022 22:22

Buy her a towel rail for Christmas. As her only present!

elephantseal · 04/11/2022 22:22

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 21:47

I don't have a towel in the downstairs loo because I don't wash my hands... maybe she doesn't either. I wash my hands in public loos but not at home

🤮

Blowyourowntrumpet · 04/11/2022 22:23

I thought most people had a tea towel and a hand towel in the kitchen. I do

ItsAllABit · 04/11/2022 22:24
  1. no I don’t keen hand towels in the kitchen
  2. my sister certainly doesn’t keep hand towels in the kitchen
  3. her tea towels have bits of food stuck to them, you’d need to wash your hands AFTER touching those fuckers
  4. her hand soap comes out black and she still hasn’t sorted it out
OP posts:
kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 22:26

Comes out black? Sounds like your relationship with your sister won't work due to your differences. She can be my sister instead

HouseInChaos · 04/11/2022 22:26

OP, maybe you could wipe your hands on HER hair when you come out, as she seems to think that's a acceptable.

Longtimelurkerfinallyposts · 04/11/2022 22:26

Hand soap and towel rail and hand towels and tea towels for all Xmases and birthdays going forwards. I hope she can take a joke...

allboysherebutme · 04/11/2022 22:26

She's a bad host and as a sister, she shouldn't be treating you that way, not very nice at all. X

ShandaLear · 04/11/2022 22:27

kanyoukan · 04/11/2022 21:47

I don't have a towel in the downstairs loo because I don't wash my hands... maybe she doesn't either. I wash my hands in public loos but not at home

What? Why? Do you think you do special sterile wees and pos at home?

allboysherebutme · 04/11/2022 22:28

If she Says anything again about the towel in front of people, just say I can't help it if you don't wash and dry your hands when you go to the toilet, x

CourtneeLuv · 04/11/2022 22:29

Stop going there and send her some sticky hooks and 2 hand towels for Christmas.

TheChosenTwo · 04/11/2022 22:29

This whole thing is weird.
i have a towel in my downstairs loo and I don’t even use it! It’s more for people that come round, I prefer my upstairs bathroom but generally family and Friends just use downstairs unless someone’s in it.
I’d just wipe my hands on my clothes if there was no towel provided, you know she doesn’t have a towel in there, you’ve asked before and there isn’t one to use, just dry your hands on your clothes and move on! Why do you keep asking?!

butterfliedtwo · 04/11/2022 22:30

OP, stop going there. Meet her somewhere else if you want to despite ridiculing you for a perfectly reasonable request. It sounds pretty awful at her house.