To want a towel to dry my hands?

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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

Me too @morekidsthanhands the only thing our tea towel gets used for is drying hands!

Your sister is being ridiculous for not having a towel in the bathroom. But you’re also ridiculous for not just drying with toilet roll or on your pants if no toilet roll is available.

@saltinesandcoffeecups I have a separate towel for hands and dishes chiefly because I wash my hands in the kitchen so often. If I were to use the same towel for both things it would end up too damp before I've even started to dry the dishes thereby limiting its effectiveness :)

Eurgh. Nasty. Hope I've never been to your house for a cuppa or anything to eat.

Why on Earth wouldn't you wash your hands after pooing or weeing?

Fair enough, but I’m not going to get bent out of shape if a towel isn’t available. Especially if it’s my sister. I’m just going to wipe my wet hands on my pants and call it done.

@saltinesandcoffeecups I'm not going to get bent out of shape either. But seriously it's not that hard to put a towel in there or even a roll of kitchen roll

I agree with PPs suggestions of curtains or sofa. Don't say anything at all next time, she'll be waiting for your comment, just sit back down on the sofa chatting while rubbing your hands dry on the cushions.

Princessy for wanting a towel FFS 😂

@RockingMyFiftiesNot clearly it is for the sister. But I suspect at this point she’s doing it just to wind up the OP

Baffled as to why @kanyoukan would wash hands in a public loo but not the one at home or after handling pigshit?

@saltinesandcoffeecups its like rubbing your fingers over the lip of all the glasses

I'm a bit disorganised as it sounds like your sister also is (I do have clean kitchen towels though!). If people come over and I've forgotten to put a hand towel out, I say "Oh sorry - let me go and get one" as I don't expect guests to live by my low standards. We then move on with the evening and have a nice time.

Does she maybe have issues about "people accepting her being herself" or something to make such a big deal about it?

YANBU and your sister is being weird and rude. Dry your hands in your hair? That's just strange, in my world anyway.

Well YOU haven't washed all the pee and poo off your pee and poo covered hands because apparently you don't even wash your hands...

That said, drying clean hands on a tea towel doesn't massively bother me. But not washing your hands after going to the toilet or delivering lambs really really does. Why do you think it's ok to ingest particles of other people's poo or pee?

Me! I wouldn't of thought that was weird? I won't dry my hands on a tea towel so I always have a hand towel in the kitchen to dry my hands after doing dishes.

Your sister sounds quite nasty OP, she obviously knew you were going to need a towel as she was talking about it before you came out of the toilet. So why couldn't she just get you one before you asked, obviously she just wanted to show off and try and make you look stupid in front of everyone, she sounds awful.

Thank god I'm not the only one who keeps a hand towel in the kitchen! Was beginning to think that was really weird!

She sounds really nasty, rude and a terrible host. It's not too much to expect a hand towel. It wouldn't bother me if someone forgot to pop one in there of course, but I'd be annoyed to have to keep asking.

Realistically shaking your hands dry must be more hygienic than wiping them on a cloth that other people have wiped their hands on!

I'd still want a towel though!

Sounds like they're a family who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet. Yuk.
I'd probably take a small guest towel or face cloth in my handbag, and use it without saying anything. That way she doesn't get the opportunity to mock you and say stupid things about drying your hands on your hair.

Well your options so far are -

On your pants
Your hair
Go to a farm and stick them up the back end of a sheep
Loo roll (whoever suggested this has clearly never tried it)
Using a tea towel (apparently the grossest way)
Or the flannel you carry around for this exact emergency

My downstairs toilet doesn't have a proper towel rail but we just fold a hand towel over the radiator and have a hand towel in the kitchen. I thought that was what most people do

I’d go up to her and wipe my hands dry on her clothes. Don’t say a word just do it.

You're disgusting!!

You seen loads of people sanitising their hands after they left your house?! Did that not make you a bit paranoid? 🤔

People do need to be exposed to a certain amount of germs in order to build immunity

Yes, and to make choices. Any visitor to your house who isn't told straight up what you've said on MN, and bet you don't, is not getting a choice, and putting themselves in your hands, as guests do.

Christ. Terrible omissions.