Man Flares Up After Wife Offers Constructive Criticism On His Less-Than-Stellar Toilet Cleaning Skills

“I know how to clean a toilet!”

Jesse

• Published in Interesting
• January 24, 2024

In the quiet drama of everyday life, a 30-year-old soon-to-be mom found herself in quite the predicament. Our narrator (Original Poster) was struggling with a difficult pregnancy, so the call for teamwork in her home rang louder than ever. 

This meant her husband had to get extra handsy with domestic chores. First stop? A master bathroom that had seen better days. 

Everything was going well until OP, who stood just ten feet away, heard the unmistakable scrape of a pumice stone against porcelain—her husband's attempt to revert the toilet to its once spotless nature.

OP rushed to his aid and explained he had to use the toilet brush first, much like how you’d wipe crumbs off a counter before going in fully with a scouring pad.

Well, OP’s good-natured tip was thrown back in her face. Her husband stubbornly insisted he needed no help as he knew exactly how to clean a toilet.

This wasn’t true at all! They both knew he was terrible with chores. OP was the primary caretaker of the home, and even when he tried to help out, it usually ended in a disaster.

He’d sweep the kitchen before wiping off the counter, clean the microwave haphazardly, and even use the wrong setting on the dryer.

It wasn’t a crime since he wasn’t raised on them, unlike her, but that was more reason why he should take her valuable advice. He got extra defensive whenever she suggested a better way to do things.

The pumice stone wasn’t even necessary in this case. Was OP wrong for making an innocent suggestion?

The story in detail

OP asked her husband severally to clean the toilet, but he kept promising and failing

OP’s husband finally decided to do the chore, but it wasn’t long before the couple got into an argument over the method he was using

OP’s husband has a habit of getting defensive each time she tries advising him on more efficient ways to do some chores

OP has been hoping that her husband would just listen, rather than do chores wrongly and get defensive in the end

Important edit

Final bit

Here’s how the Reddit community reacted to the story:

“A pumice stone? Are there barnacles or something??? What on earth are you guys pooping?”

“In all my thirty plus years, I have never used a pumice stone on a toilet.”

“The fact that you think a toilet requires a pumice stone makes me believe you were raised in an OCD household.”

“You do 2-3 hours of cleaning… a day? It sounds like you have very different standards of cleaning.”

Redditors initially gasped at the mention of a pumice stone in the toilet-cleaning arsenal. But when OP clarified it was for battling hard water stains, they breathed a collective sigh of relief.

They quickly absolved her of any wrongdoing, recognizing cleaning mastery as her forte. The consensus? There was no harm in taking pointers from an expert. Her husband should just chill out and follow her lead.

Do you agree with this verdict? Let us know in the comments.

Jesse