A woman who makes tradesmen wee in the bushes has admitted she’d let women workers use her loo – but she cannot bear the thought of someone messing up her £10k toilet
Offering tradespeople a brew when they’re doing work for you is pretty common practice – but one woman believes that letting them use your loo is one step too far, in case they ruin her throne.
Emma Parsons, 63, had hired a tradesman to put up a fence in her back garden, but when he asked whether he could use her loo, she told him that he couldn’t. While a stranger in your bathroom may set you on edge for a couple of minutes, most people would just cringe their way through it – but Emma didn’t feel that she could, and she didn’t want him messing up her lovely loo.
Instead, she instructed him to “wee in the garden”, showing him a hydrangea bush he could water, reports The Sun. She even encouraged him to use the garden next door because it’s currently empty and “up for sale”. Emma, who is married to retired chemical engineer Kevin, 62, claimed that the workman looked “shocked” – but she shared that she never wants strangers in her toilet as she’s too precious about it.
Instead, she has a “male litter tray” in the back of the garden, which is a section of bushes with a bit of “privacy” so they can do their thing and get on with the work she’s paying them for.
Emma believes it’s “important to set boundaries”, saying: “I have enough trouble getting tradespeople to clean up outside, let alone having to wipe up their wee, disinfect the toilet and spray air freshener after they have used my loo.” Her reluctance is reserved only for men, however, as she shared that she would let women workers into her loo.
She spends a whopping 20 hours per week making her home gleam from top to bottom, hence why she doesn’t want the tradespeople barging into her home and potentially making things mucky. She’s also concerned that they will “pee on the floor”. But what if they need more than a wee? Well, according to her, “they can go home”.
Kevin, her husband of 18 years, thinks that her behaviour is a bit “extreme”, and “controlling”, but Emma retaliated: “I paid £10,000 for my bathroom, I don’t want skid marks in my loo.” Even her grandkids aren’t allowed to use the upstairs bathroom and are made to use the one downstairs.
“I know I’ll be criticised by people who think I am acting posh, but I consider myself the Hyacinth Bucket of my neighbourhood”, she admitted. Emma also wanted to point out that she will make a cuppa for tradespeople, or offer them a cold drink, but that’s as far as her hospitality goes.
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