In-Laws from Hell·
UPSTAIRS TOILET STANDOFF
Two hosts sheltering relatives in a basement confront in-laws who want a urine device to skip stairs, triggering a tense boundary clash that questions hospitality and comfort.
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The in-laws arrived with a bathroom workaround already on order: a device to pee into instead of walking upstairs to the toilet.
The poster and their wife had opened their home for a weeklong visit on short notice, and the guests were set up in the basement bedroom. It was described as "spacious, clean and dry," but it came with one catch: no bathroom attached. To get to the guest bath, anyone staying downstairs had to go up the basement stairs and then halfway across the house.
Before the in-laws even got there, they started complaining that the walk was too far.
The poster wasn't moved. They were being given free lodging, and the bathroom was upstairs. The family had also been offered the option to stay in the rooms upstairs, but those were smaller. "We also offered for them to stay upstairs but the rooms upstairs are more cramped and not as spacious," the poster later explained. "They opted to stay in the basement room."
Then an Amazon package showed up.
At first, the poster assumed it was nothing important and joked that a strange plastic container looked like "one of those medical device piss jugs." It was not a joke. That was exactly what it was.
The in-laws had ordered a urination device so they wouldn't have to keep making the trip to the bathroom.
The poster immediately shut it down with their wife: "absolutely not." The couple's position was simple, the in-laws were healthy adults, with "zero reason, other than laziness," to avoid using the toilet. The poster stressed that "they do not have health issues" and "they are very fit and healthy."
Later that night, when the in-laws arrived, the couple confronted them about the plan. The response was not embarrassment but jokes. The in-laws brushed it off and asked what they were supposed to do, "use a litter box?"
That did not land.
The poster snapped back: "GO UPSTAIRS AND USE THE GODDAMN TOILET!"
The argument didn't end there. After the confrontation, the in-laws kept grumbling about the walk upstairs, and the poster began to suspect they were secretly using the device anyway. They said they would be furious if that turned out to be true.
For now, the basement stay continues, the toilet remains upstairs, and the poster is watching the bathroom trip very closely.