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

Buy her a towel hook, a couple of towels and a pack of loo rolls for Christmas along with some clean tea towels. Doesn’t sound as if it’s very pleasant at her house!

Really !!!!

Mumsnet is so precious 🤣

I dry my hands on my petticoat when there is no towel

wtf 😂

I'd stop visiting someone who clearly didn't wash their hands after using the toilet. Surely they're offering tea or coffee etc when you visit? I just wouldn't be able to trust their hygiene standards enough to feel even remotely comfortable to stay there for long.
Obviously, it's possible that people who do have towels in their bathrooms might not be using them, but at least it wouldn't be so apparent.

MN really is the weirdest place at times.

I would have turned it back on your sister there and then. “Dry them in my hair? What do you mean.” Then just looked at her until she explained.

your sister sounds rank and seriously weird.

@kanyoukan so you help animals to birth their young, which will include a lot of bodily fluids, and you then pop in the kitchen eat a sandwich without washing your hands? 🤮

My dh grew up on a farm, and he farmed until he was 30, the first thing he did when coming into the house was throughly wash his hands. Because he’s a normal human being!

This thread is disgusting and hilarious at the same time. Quite an achievement even for MN.

Petticoat 😂😂😂😂😂😂

To whoever asked what’s wrong with the upstairs bathroom - it’s not the bathroom as such, it’s just the upstairs of her house is spooky as fuck. It’s a huge house and the upstairs is eerie. The bathroom is full of paintbrushes and there is paint in the toilet

@Ericaequites I wear slip skirts too - I agree they're very practical for keeping warm, as well as stopping people from seeing your bum if the skirt is a bit see-through (as a lot of them seem to be). In Bristol we get treated to a lot of bums on display in the summer- often veiled by the thinnest of chiffon, to which I say everyone should wear what they like, if that's what they feel happy and comfortable in. Wouldn't be my choice though.

Almost certainly guarantee you’ve got worms.
I worked as an endoscopy nurse and saw inside a lot of colons and worms were surprisingly common! Especially from pig farmers!

🤢🤢🤢 That's gross

Omg it gets worse. You help an animal give birth and then don't wash your hands?! This has got to be a joke surely

Shes never going to put a towel in her downstairs loo. You must know that by now. Its her loo, she can do what she likes.

Why do you keep asking for a towel when you know it will piss her off? Just take one with you or use the upstairs loo (which you don't like....wtf is that all about?)

Probably because DS doesn't wash her hands after using the loo. So doesn't need to dry them.

I've just seen your response re the upstairs loo.

Take a small towel with you each time you visit her ....or don't visit any more

Your choice

Just like her choice is no towel

I’d buy her a towel hook and a few hand towel for her birthday.😂

That's odd, does she have paper towels? We started using them in our guest bathroom during Covid and got into the habit of carrying on with it but towels everywhere else.

Hmm I think I'd be tempted not to visit - the towel is only part of it!

Hope you don't eat or drink anything there, she sounds like a dirty cow. And how can anyone NOT have a hand towel in the kitchen too?

Just use toilet roll.
You sound annoying

So this is really just a thread to tell us what a filthy,disgusting and disorganised mess your sister is?

Dry your hands on your pants!! Do you mean knickers! Then you would need to wash your hands again.

OP, thanks for the thread that keeps giving! A simple solution would get one of those adhesive hooks to stick on her toilet door. Don’t ask just do it! Also get yourself a hand towel, sew a piece of hanging tape on and hang on said hook for duration of visit to sisters house. Don’t say a word just come out of toilet with a big smile on your face!