AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

[HangryBrickShark]

Is there an expectation that people's toilets should have an air freshener in? Like a spray air freshener?

We always have air freshener in both our toilets in case friends or family get caught short when visiting us or even to freshen the bathroom after having a wee if necessary, so I hate it if I go to a friend/family members house and they have none.

I get some people may be affected by asthma but surely if you had asthma you wouldn't use it?

We have a glade air freshener at work that sprays into the space where the wash handbasins are for example.

For God's sake, NOT EVERYONE HAS A WINDOW.

Jilly Cooper would have probably joked that you're trying to be lower Middle Class because truly classy people wouldn't care or open a window.

I love the idea that in a place that reeks of horse poop you're worried about the toilet 😂

For (I think the) third time, I didn't say vegan poo (mine or otherwise) didn't/doesn't smell 'lol'.
I said it doesn't linger, as in you could walk into the bathroom after me and not know if I'd been for a number 2.

I did also mention medical conditions. I also clarified that if I do eat unhealthily this does change.

Fortunately yes, a lot of food I can eat is unhealthy (had a rare day 'off' healthy eating today and am going out for a couple of glasses of wine later, in quite a good mood about it) 🙂

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my partner gets horrific allergies to that shit that lasts for hours

open a window and squirt a few pumps of hand soap is enough

Don't actually do that - it may well blow up your toilet!!

You even make your horses use an actual human toilet?!

Another reason I won't have air freshener in the house (along with many other scent related items) is that artificial fragrances are known hormone disruptors linked heavily to early on set puberty in girls and increasingly linked to reduced fertility. Whilst I'm beyond having babies, I due have a daughter who is pre-pubescent and I want to keep her that way as long as possible.

Actually it doesn't and afaik I've only ever met one person who's did: a flatmate from hell who stank the bathroom out every morning. She'd use all the hot water in the tank then follow it up with a 20 minute shit before leaving for work. The silly cow didn't even crack the window open to let the condensation or the absolutely rotten stink of her backside out. The ming from her 'cooking' (I use the term loosely) was nausea inducing too. She'd boil cabbage in tinned tomatoes for literally hours every night so I'm not surprised her back end reeked to high heaven. Needless to say I was delighted when that one moved out.

Her personal behaviour in dealing with it was obviously selfish and unacceptable; but you make it sound like a general value judgment: that only unreasonable, bad people ever do poos that stink. It's a normal human thing to need to do; and is not in the slightest shameful in itself.

You are being completely unreasonable and insufferable.

Don't be ridiculous. Everyone's poo smells. Often if you flush it away the smell doesn't linger but the poo itself always smells.

Yes, this is precisely what the Cranberries were eager to teach us: the importance of always flushing before you depart.

Poo smell mixed with air freshener smell is vile, way worse than just poo!

Same as when smokers come in and put perfume on, nope, vile.

Air Freshners are carcinogenic

My suspicion is that most poo smells get trapped by the water and the really bad smells are gas releases at the same tIme

It doesn't reek of horse poo. Horses stables dont smell bad. Its horse poo not dog poo.

If you don't have a window all the more reason not to use air fresheners. If you look on the cans they say to only use in a ventilated area.
I wonder why ...

Your bungalow doesn't have windows? I've spent a lot of my time in bungalows, they are very common where I'm from, and never ever have the whole bungalows been stunk out after someone's defecated. The smell certainly doesn't leave our own bathroom.

Just close the bathroom door afterwards and have the bathroom window open, a couple of minutes clears it for normal poo smells, extra toxic ones like your son's may need a good 20mins of fresh air to clear!

Sprays mixed with the aroma of shit are utterly vile. I'd rather walk into a bathroom prematurely following the previous occupants shit, than walk into that synthetic fragrance mixed with the shit smell 😑

We leave our bathroom window open all day, from morning until bedtime, there's no poo smell unless you go in within 5 mins of my DH 😄

I don't like walking into a bathroom that smells of someone's shit.

However walking into a bathroom that smells of someone's shit AND air freshener spray is much, much worse.

Do all of you 'we always spray' people think it actually smells better in there after spraying that stuff? I don't get it. To me it's so obviously worse - it also tends to spread more outside the door, and telegraphs to anyone around that you've just unloaded.

It's not that anyone likes the smell of shit - their own or anyone else's. It's just that shit plus air freshener tends to be much worse, stronger and more enduring.

Normally the worst crime on here is someone having a shit anywhere (including their own home) but mention air freshener and people lose their minds 🤣

That's because some of us (and that's a growing number) cannot walk into a room filled with air freshener without feeling seriously ill until we can get home, shed our clothes, scrub our skin and wash our hair. Even then consequences can occur for days after.

Is the smell of shit okay?

As someone that gets migraines from air freshener, shit is by far preferable.

If it’s a choice between an unpleasant but harmless smell and serious health impacts, it’s a no brainer isn’t it?

My case sits quietly having a rest.