Neighbour rings me after visiting - carpet dirty?!?!?

awec

M5 wrote: »

Dont travel to eastern Europe or Asia and expect to enter anyones house then!

Anyway, you should respect the households rules

Lucky for us this is Ireland, which is in neither eastern Europe or Asia.

Ash.J.Williams

M5 wrote: »

Its really baffling that a majority or the planet population wise does this, but it seems so odd too Irish people

you should respect our customs

Meangadh

M5 wrote: »

Dogs and cats mark their territory (you are being argumentative so i will be too!)

And I wear slippers myself, guests are not the target. Please dont try to twist what I'm saying

I'm not being argumentative, I'm genuinely baffled by the notion that people do this slipper thing to their guests. I just think it's totally unnecessary.

I assumed also that you did wear the slippers too, so I don't think I twisted anything.

Ihatecuddles

awec wrote: »

Lucky for us this is Ireland, which is in neither eastern Europe or Asia.

That does my head in. People trying to justify something by saying somewhere else does it. Oh you don't like eating dog? they eat it all the time in Asia....well this isn't Asia? And we think it's weird!!!

M5

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

you should respect our customs

I'm irish, I do, but I think trodding through the house, dragging dirt and dust with you and having to clean the resultant dirt is a little stupid.

I repeat, our hallway (where shoes are allowed) is always much much dirtier than the rest of the house. Laziness drives me to do it

Ihatecuddles

M5 wrote: »

I'm irish, I do, but I think trodding through the house, dragging dirt and dust with you and having to clean the resultant dirt is a little stupid.

I repeat, our hallway (where shoes are allowed) is always much much dirtier than the rest of the house. Laziness drives me to do it

Id rather clean the floor than wash a bunch of slippers!

awec

It sounds like the easiest thing for people like this to do would be to just never allow anyone to enter their house.

They will then never have to clean, won't have to spend money on slippers for guests and can sleep comfortably knowing that there is absolutely no specks of dust or dirt on their floor.

It will also save people having to jump through these silly hoops just to visit someone.

Win win.

M5

awec wrote: »

It sounds like the easiest thing for people like this to do would be to just never allow anyone to enter their house.

They will then never have to clean, won't have to spend money on slippers for guests and can sleep comfortably knowing that there is absolutely no specks of dust or dirt on their floor.

It will also save people having to jump through these silly hoops just to visit someone.

Win win.

I REPEAT

I WEAR SLIPPERS MYSELF! IM NOT SAYING GUESTS ARE THE ISSUE!

If someone mandates that guests must wear slippers while they wear shoes that is a completely different matter

tin79

M5 wrote: »

I REPEAT

I WEAR SLIPPERS MYSELF! IM NOT SAYING GUESTS ARE THE ISSUE!

If someone mandates that guests must wear slippers while they wear shoes that is a completely different matter

Guests are not the issues. Just their feet are.


We don't have many mandates in our house. Are you sure you don't live in an Intel clean room or something?

tin79

Do you have different sizes for kids, men, women, bigfoots etc?


Are they arranged by sex? "Fully grown large footed man? That will be the large blue pile then, your daughter can choose from the small pink selection"

M5

tin79 wrote: »

Guests are not the issues. Just their feet are.


We don't have many mandates in our house. Are you sure you don't live in an Intel clean room or something?

Again, clearly not what I said

tin79

M5 wrote: »

Again, clearly not what I said

Honestly can I ask. How many do you have? What if you have a few people over for a dinner party? Semi formal frocks and slippers for all?


What about kids birthday parties do they all have to wear some? Do you wash them all every time they are worn? is that not more effort than running a vacuum every now and then? Do you have any pets, do cat slippers even exist? What about guests with smelly feet, do they not stink out the hall?


So many questions.

Pinch Flat

Ok lads chill, don't want to create an international incident here.....people are different, lets move on

DoozerT6

Is there anything to be said for killing this thread with fire??

Pinch Flat

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Is there anything to be said for killing this thread with fire??

Smother it in oil.

M5

tin79 wrote: »

Honestly can I ask. How many do you have? What if you have a few people over for a dinner party? Semi formal frocks and slippers for all?


What about kids birthday parties do they all have to wear some? Do you wash them all every time they are worn? is that not more effort than running a vacuum every now and then? Do you have any pets, do cat slippers even exist? What about guests with smelly feet, do they not stink out the hall?


So many questions.

Obviously that makes no sense... Slippers at a party!

Dont have pets

Stop trying to make this sound more difficult that it is. The slippers get thrown in with a wash if used, yes! And we have a washing machine, so no its not difficult!

Its a very simple way to save time cleaning floors/dusting etc...

M5

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Ok lads chill, don't want to create an international incident here.....people are different, lets move on

Not one of the cool crowd myself obviously!

Knex*

M5 wrote: »

Hundreds of millions of homes worldwide use slippers, there is a very large market for such things

Think you might want to research that one again...

smcgiff

I can just imagine the Lols in a house where you leave your shoes at the door and have to put on the 'house' footwear.

OP, while offering to pay for the cleaning I hope you didn't accept responsibility, unless you are 100% it was your fault. Cleaning the oiled section could still leave those sections a different colour to the rest of the carpet. As it stands you'll not get much change out of 100 if you get a carpet cleaner in.

smelly sock

Pinch Flat wrote: »

So I visit a neighbours house to pick up my little fella who's been there for the afternoon playing with his friend. His mum rings 5 minutes later to say there's oil stains on their new carpet.

So, wise folks of AH, how would you handle this situation?

HHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

What a complete twat of a person. When you have kids in or around your house you wave all rights to compensation to anything they make a b******s of.

Then again.....

How old is your kid?

If there 15 or 16 you have a problem.

topper75

This isn't going far enough for me. I'd have them wear masks so they wouldn't be breathing their germs on my stuff. And maybe spray all their hair and clothing with some kind of resin so that fibres wouldn't be falling onto the carpet either.

See, once you act the **** with the shoes off, a whole pile of ridiculous is just waiting to happen. The vacuum cleaner HAS been invented folks. Give your visitors a break.

Laughing at some of the 'germaphobe' stories - these people don't know the first thing about bugs. Everything is crawling with them no matter what you do. Your body's sterile areas are quite limited to be honest. If you don't want to learn to live with them, no matter - they have long since learned to live with you.

JupiterKid

I can understand people having a no shoes rule when it comes to their houses but phoning up and blaming a visitor for (s)oiling their carpet sure takes some neck. This woman sounds like the wife in the film American Beauty.

If I were the OP I would pay another visit to this house of the sacred carpet - just after stepping in fresh dog sh*t.

Ericaa

Birroc wrote: »

Being honest, this rings alarm bells to me.

Haha, go on, elaborate?

Meangadh wrote: »

I've travelled a fair bit and still have never been asked to take off my shoes in someone's house. As for your other reasons, life is too bloody short to be worried about a bit of dirt.

Life is too ****ing short to be up in arms about some people having a no shoe rule in their house, jeez!

awec

"Oh hi Susan, please wait at the door there until I go fetch a pair of slippers for you. Any colour preference? I'll give you a quick once over with the lint roller as well, just to be sure!"

Pinch Flat

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Yeah its a good question. They have a tiled porch and I usually stand outside while waiting. The two lads were playing a game on the ps4 and I went in to check it out - school boy error.

Anyway in the intetest of good neighbour relations, I called around and there are indeed spots on the carpet - without detailed ch3mical analysis i cant be sure if its oil. Looks to me like dirt. Cleaner organised - chalk it down to bad luck

Good call. Make it the LAST time you darken their doorstep!

Cantona's Collars

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Yeah its a good question. They have a tiled porch and I usually stand outside while waiting. The two lads were playing a game on the ps4 and I went in to check it out - school boy error.

Anyway in the intetest of good neighbour relations, I called around and there are indeed spots on the carpet - without detailed ch3mical analysis i cant be sure if its oil. Looks to me like dirt. Cleaner organised - chalk it down to bad luck

Has she never heard of babywipes? Those suckers will clean anything.

Anyhow,she sounds like a bitch for phoning you like that.

Lenin Skynard

Reminds me of those people that leave the plastic wrap on the couch. Not as common but really is the next extreme up from the shoes thing. You'd wonder why people don't just go and live in a caravan out the back yard in order to keep the inside of the house as uncontaminated as possible.

beveragelady

Making somebody wear plastic slippers to save yourself the hassle of running the hoover around is not just lazy, it's bad manners. Should we give them coffee in a disposable cup and make them eat their meal off paper plates to save washing up? Guests are supposed to be a pleasure, not an interruption to your regime of avoiding housework.
If I had bizzarro house rules like that I would worry that people were having a good old laugh at my expense behind my back. You know, I bet my name would come up when they're at each others houses relaxing and having the lols. I wonder what nickname they'd have for me?

Killmurf

While reading through this thread, I keep seeing an ad for 50% off carpet cleaning - OP should take advantage....

cerastes

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Reminds me of those people that leave the plastic wrap on the couch. Not as common but really is the next extreme up from the shoes thing. You'd wonder why people don't just go and live in a caravan out the back yard in order to keep the inside of the house as uncontaminated as possible.

I dont think thats the wrapping it comes in, I think that plastic is purchased specifically.