Among Friends

[Etoile308]

I read where a lot of posters are using the word "we" implying more than one person available at a house. To me that throws an entirely different complexion on the situation from that of one individual home alone.

My sister just had plumbing work done at her house. She was able to request this company's female plumber. To elderly living alone it can make a difference for a little more peace of mind.

[occasionalrain]

There is another consideration from the worker's side. If they use your bathroom and something goes missing/misplaced, they risk being accused. Most companies wouldn't want their employee becoming a suspect so discourage their workers from asking.

[Sooner]

When police are discussing crimes do you notice that very often comment on whether work had been done recently in or around the scene or home. Wonder why?  

[spumoni99]

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@Sooner wrote:

When police are discussing crimes do you notice that very often comment on whether work had been done recently in or around the scene or home. Wonder why?  

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@Sooner Just curious when are you hearing police discussing crimes?  I have never been privy to such a conversation?

[Sooner]

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@spumoni99 wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

When police are discussing crimes do you notice that very often comment on whether work had been done recently in or around the scene or home. Wonder why?  

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@SoonerJust curious when are you hearing police discussing crimes?  I have never been privy to such a conversation?

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@spumoni99 On the news.  In online reports.  In crime shows about crimes that happened.  I hear it all the time.  They check on the status and backgrounds of people who were working around or in the home, or workplace.  I can't understand how this fact escapes you if you listen to the news.  

And, I have had good friends who were police too over the years.  But now, in the news.  It isn't unusual to hear that these people were checkout out.  

[Patriot3]

No way would I let workers use my bathrooms.  They can go somewhere else.  They are not children.  They should be prepared and not impose on owners.

[Group 5 minus 1]

No. That situation should be planned ahead w/the crew boss or the company. In the years we have had workers here both inside and out no one has never asked to use the bathroom.

[JoyFilled Warrior]

               whoa!

My Bathroom is one of the most "intimate," & "communicable" rooms in my home!  And when allowed, is shared "intimately," with each & every attending person's own intimate, private, & otherwise body parts,  -  incl, namely mine, my loved one's,  and now?  - another persons??  nah!

My toothbrush, my TP, my towels, my room's surfaces, every one of my body-applied cosmetics, my RXs, my OTCs, my Bathroom air & surfaces, my environs, any disposible refuse, and anything else, that is then otherwise shared in that most "intimate of rooms."

  (Now, mind you, this awareness might also be driven by my prior background.)

Most immediately, this above stance saved me, & my now multi-AutoImmune compromised body from certain COVID infection in the last few yrs even! 

   Note:  I formerly disallowed a formerly "professional someone's" use of my bathroom, who moments before he left my outdoors for his car, admitted he had just been discovered, symptomatic, & tested positive for COVID at a Backyard party he'd just been attending!!    seriously???    

NO!  Esp virtual strangers, arent invited in to my home's most intimately used/shared/exposed rooms, such as my Bathroom!  No explanation necessary to be reasoned with to some other, incl strange, unfamiliar, or even professional person asking.

My Boundaries!

Having said that, @patticakes  - Do what is comfortable for yrself.  No judgement abt YOUR decision here, at all!    It's entirely up to you!

     And you dont even need to explain, or justify yrself to anyone abt your ultimate decision either!  Good luck. @patticakes !    

[threecees]

To each his or her own.

We had a guy building our deck a few summers back and each day like clockwork

he would come in and use our bathroom of course with my approval.

He had done previous work through the years and was a decent guy we trusted

and I would always be home when he would come in our house.

But it sure was annoying.

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@SloopJohnB wrote:

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@Jo1313 wrote:

Only once I had a repair person ask to use the bathroom..They were here for hours I have a half bath in my laundry room..So that was OK..never upstairs..I had one guy say he "watered" the trees in my woods..I thought that was disgusting.

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Good thing he didn't fertilize them too!  🚽

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        @SloopJohnB  Ha!  You do that to me again!