To want people to wait for the floor to dry before walking on it when it’s been mopped?

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I mean, am I? DH seems to think so but it just renders mopping pointless. I’ve been trying to just leave it until everyone is in bed but someone dropped and spilled orange juice this morning so thought since I was mopping the hall anyway might as well do the lounge. They have a big dining room and other room to use plus the garden. But no, in and out and in and out and in and out.

AIBU?

I always end up walking on floors I've just mopped because I suddenly realise that I need something from the other side of that room.
I always walk on them in socks though, so I get wet feet, then it serves me right 😁

This is why I don’t do it anymore until I’m the only one at home. Just pointless otherwise. I wait till everyone is at work / school etc - and if that means it doesn’t get done as much then so be it.

My mum used to leave the mop leant across the threshold so I knew not to walk on it.
Have you told them not to walk on it? Seems rude to ignore you, maybe they can do the mopping.

Very simple answer. Don't do it. It's now their chore to do.

Also unless the someone who spilled orange juice is a toddler, why are you cleaning it?

Nope, I mop and people have to work around me. I’m not staying up late to do the floors when everyone is in bed. But we don’t wear shoes in the house, so clean bare feet make no difference to my mopping.

But they never would so I’d have to live in a filthy house!

Does the culprit ever mop the floors? If they do then you’ll just have to not let it annoy you. If they don’t, get them to start mopping the floors on occasion and then they might understand your issue.

So if you said, I’m doing something right now and some OJ has been spilt so can you mop it up, they would refuse?

See even clean bare feet seems to make it kind of grubby. Very hard to explain but it stops it being all shiny and new and you can see foot imprints in the wooden floor.

No. Not like that. It would be yeah yeah and then never be done. Or yes in a minute which turns to an hour. Meanwhile every wasp in the ten mile radius moves in.

When I mop the floor, I dry it straight away by shuffling around the room standing on an old towel

I don't understand this at all.

"Guys, I'm mopping the floors so you've five minutes to decide if your inside or outside as they can't be walked on until dry".

Leave mop across the door frame as a reminder.

Why are you letting everyone disrespect you so much? Refusing to clear up after themselves and destroying it when do.

No more of this "in a minute" shit either - start with a firm "I said clean it now and I meant it"

I’m sorry you didn’t understand x