what is the oddest thing someone has done when you have visited their house?

Ewwww... no airing, no liners, no flipping? Ewwww...

When I was 17 I got an au-pair job in Germany. I had to do some housework as well as child care, fine. The first morning I went to make the beds, I found the parents' bed had been wet (obviously wee, I could smell it, and lots of it). I pulled the sheets off and left it, because I didn't know what else to do. The woman then queried why I hadn't made it and I explained. She said I should put clean sheets on the wet mattress, so that's what happened - every night the man wet the bed (which he shared with his wife) and every morning dry sheets were put onto the sopping wet mattress...I only lasted a week, then came home.

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leQ PLEEEEEASE write a book about your SIL, I can't WAIT for the next anecdote :)

Le Queen your SIL sounds like a loon!

& KurriKurri and Eggrules, thanks for the bookmark demos! I thought I was insane last night trying to get them to work! Turns out you need to turn them on

Bound to be something to do with your PILs, leQ.

I was sharing with my narcissistic GBF when TwatFace2 and I got engaged. I came home, sort of reeling, and told him. "Oh? That's a surprise," he said, then carried on telling one of his lengthy stories about how great he is and whether some bloke fancied him or just hadn't realised yet that he fancied him. I interrupted a few times; this was pointless as nothing could stop him talking about himself. Eventually I stood up and screamed "TF HAS JUST PROPOSED AND I'M REALLY FUCKING CONFUSED!!!" There was a short silence. After which, GBF announced he knew just how I felt because something similar had happened to him ...

Gah.

Le Queen sounds like your Sil and her bf are peas in a pod. What is Dh's DB like? You are a trooper for inviting Sil out.

Damnation that my siblings married such lovely people.

Bookmarks here too, thank you!

Wh-hoo! Bookmarks appeared now!

I cannot get over a bum towel that the whole family use. Eggrules Towers may not have a bin, but the only towels in the bathroom are for guests to dry their hands on.

I have remembered something from childhood. Our Nana didn't look after us very often. If she did she only gave the boys full meals at the table. Girls ate banana or brawn (boak) sandwiches sitting on the floor.

No worries HarrietVane. Bookmarking is the future

StealthPolarBear, i didn't know he was getting changed he ran up stairs to get his keys, i came up about 10 mins later and there he was in his y fronts, i really think as a baby sitter i really didn't need to see him dressed in so little. And he wasn't in his room with his door closed he knew i was in the house and he knew i was about to come upstairs to use the nappy bin.

Brilliant - thank you eggrules!

Great thread! Keep 'em coming!

Sorry - I am on a laptop.

HarrietVane - Under the title lines there is a mumsnet talk - select customise and scroll down . Select yes option to turn bookmarking on.

Sorry for hijack but I'm on the mobile version and I don't have bookmark after every post. How do you get that?

Isn't it working MNHubbie? - move your pointer slowly upwards from the word 'poster' (from 'message poster' on the very end of the blue bit with your nickname on it) and the bookmark button should appear. If that doesn't work, you'll have to go and shout at Tech on site stuff

(I thought everyone had hairs on the palms of their hands )

KurriKurri is this wind up like looking for hairs on the palm of your hand or hunting for a bubble for a spirit level?

Years ago at uni, about 10 of us (8 girls, 2 boys) got into the habit of having monthly 'dinner parties'. We fancied ourselves as being jolly sophisticated even though they normally consisted of eating off our laps in a skanky shared house living room, and drinking ludicrous amounts of cheap plonk.

These events were normally catered by one of the girls, until one month the 2 boys decided they would dazzle us with their culinary magic. We went round, had quite a nice spinach and ricotta cannelloni, and as usual several pints of gut rotting el cheapo vino.

Towards the end of the evening, when everyone was pissed as farts, our hosts were descending into hysterical giggles, sidelong glances at each other and whispered 'no I'm not telling them' 'YOU tell them'...

Eventually they admitted that they had had no idea how to get the filling into the cannelloni, and had eventually settled on the inspired method of taking a mouthful of filling each and spitting it back into the pasta.

Boak.

We still meet up every now and then (all in our mid/late 30s now) and they're both very high up and respected in their chosen fields, but will never, ever be allowed to forget that one.

Fuzzpig I am the only female in the house. Morto about guests though.

Le Queen about your Sil.

We used to visit sil and bil on Sunday afternoons about 3pm.

We'd get up to go and she'd say "Oh, stay for some food" so we'd stay and have a sandwich.

We went there one Sunday, just chatting as usual. Sil stands up and says "Well I suppose I'll go and do tea then, we all know that's what you're waiting for!"

Dh and I were both . I would have got up and left but dh wouldn't so we ended up staying. She's notorious for her lack of tact and manners but I felt like pushing her fucking sausage rolls up her nose.

i.e. go directly above ,'message poster' on my last post and the bookmark box for ZZZenAgain's post will apppear.

Hover to the right, but at the bottom of the written message, not over the blue bit (just above the next post) and a bookmark box will appear.