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aibu..in not wanting deliverymen asking to use my toilet..

150 replies

daftpunk · 13/11/2008 11:48

i had a new washing machine deliverd...he asked if he could use my toilet...he was only in my house 10 minutes...can't he wait?

i would never ask if i was a delivery type person..i would go to macdonalds.

i don't like strangers using my bathroom...aibu?

OP posts:
ilovetochat · 13/11/2008 15:18

pre baby i worked on the road all day and its difficult finding toilets to use without having to buy something.

ilovetochat · 13/11/2008 15:19

mind you, bloke building the conservatory asked if he could use our loo and i nearly had to evacuate the house, he is no longer welcome.

sha11 · 13/11/2008 15:22

i was 6 months pregnant with twins and a delivery man asked to go to the loo i could hardly say no, but after him being in there 20 minutes and leaving I seriously was vomitting all over the place and couldn't get the smell out for 2 days. so my husband had 2 things to clean. Even now i feel like saying no but cant.

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:23

i'm going to have to use the immortal words of FioFio here:

they can go and shit somewhere else.

sorry, but no joy in my bathroom.

FWIW, i'm currently waiting for a damn plumber to come and deal with the cracked pipe on the cold water tap in the bathroom. have only hot water in there now.

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 15:29

YABU

It's only wee. And at the v worst, poo.

We all have to evacuate somewhere, innit?

You wee on public bogs, non? Do you never wee anywhere else other than home or work? Is it better for him to piss himself in his van?

I have had the bloke who did the gas main outside our house pee in my loo and my local MP and the Lord Mayor of Bath (not all at once, you understand)

shitehawk · 13/11/2008 15:35

When you've got to go, you've got to go. You say "can't he wait?" but maybe he's been delivering for four hours already and can't wait any longer.

He will be in his van all day - where else is he meant to go? Saying he should use public toilets is all very well, but public toilets are few and far between in the kind of residential areas where washing machines are delivered.

It's wee (OK, so maybe poo too) - not Agent Orange.

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:37

give him a shovel

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 15:40

Our local council has sold all our public shitters off. Something I pointed out to the Lord Mayor after he'd pointed Percy at the porcelain

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:41

well, not my lookout if they sold them off.

sorry, but they can go and shit somewhere else.

i'm not running a pub.

katiek123 · 13/11/2008 15:42

what happened to kindness and compassion?! YABU - if people stop extending the most basic of courtesies to each other then we truly are f**ked as a society. my toilet is your toilet, deliverymen everywhere! (well within reason. form an ordely queue, please)

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:43

well, it's not very kind to stink out a stranger's bathroom to the point where they vomit or you block tehir pipes.

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 15:47

It's only poo.

The smell goes. (eventually)

No-one ever dies from breathing in poo fumes (awaits deluge of links to studies proving otherwise)

Id rather then smell of poo than overpowering perfume

mrsleroyjethrogibbs · 13/11/2008 15:48

Well i guess its a personal thing but it doesnt bother me.
After all the plumber comes in and makes a mess and a half around the house and helps himself to the loo whenever he wants. I dont say anything..
Mind you thats probably because I keep making him cups of tea and after all he is my FIL...

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 15:48

I'd rather not smell of poo, persoinally (although my friends might say otherwise)

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:48

no, it's not ONLY poo.

and i'd rather smell perfume than shit.

my bathroom, my rules.

'can i use your loo?'

um, no.

job done.

zippitippitoes · 13/11/2008 15:49

box of matches apparently

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:50

sometimes you need lots of matches, zippi.

ever since having kids, too, my stomach is weak.

i vomitted through all my pregnancies.

i'd either give them a shovel or point them in the direction of the nearest clump of bushes or trees.

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 15:53

If I lit a match after DP had dumped his load, the whole place'd go up.

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:54

there's a single track road a few meters away.

a nice, thick glen for them to hide adn do their business.

it's full of midgies in summer, but like, that's naene of my affair .

katiek123 · 13/11/2008 15:55

look, i'm not pretending i love the thought of a pan full of someone else's crap either - but what can you do? we have to be kind to each other or it's all over!!

expatinscotland · 13/11/2008 15:56

it was all over ages ago, katie.

and if they're capable of making deliveries, they're capable of using a shovel to dig a hole.

SheikYerbouti · 13/11/2008 16:00

The only place to crap round here is the road or the kids playground.

katiek123 · 13/11/2008 16:02

LOL expat. i give in. i hereby hangup my hippy braids (they were only a primark wig anyway) and desist from my buddhist chanting. am off to buy a shovel and an explanatory laminated wall poster

katiek123 · 13/11/2008 16:05

no, but seriously expat (have tried to imagine saying, as per your suggestion, 'um, no' and failed) you don't REALLY say no, do you??!

katiek123 · 13/11/2008 16:05

no, but seriously expat (have tried to imagine saying, as per your suggestion, 'um, no' and failed) you don't REALLY say no, do you??!