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

me neither, I hovered to the right of the message but found no bookmark

How do you bookmark on the PC? I'm a hovering but I see no button.

fuzzpig ah that's very nice to hear you succumbed to the bathroom bin for DSD's sake.

When I was growing up my bedroom was next door to the bathroom so I could dispose of stuff easily in my own room without attracting too much notice. Now my parents live in another house and when I stay it's in the 'guest room' so the dynamics are all different...

ihatethecold are you using mumsnet classic or the new version? My knowledge ends there, I'm afraid!

ihate - me too.
(but I do use watching).

On mobile version it has 'bookmark' after every post - is that not the same on the standard site?

Anyway, if I may mention the B word (well, I am anyway!) - Egg, we didn't have one upstairs either - it never bothered me - until DSD started her period and MNers suggested it - she's mortified enough without having to bring the 'evidence' down to the kitchen! :)

Blimey, Oeisha, I thought you were going to say some really weirdy type of cult, not something from a 'mainstream' type of religion.

ok. i have hovered like an idiot at the right hand side at the end of a msg but it really does not come up with "bookmark this page"

what am i doing wrong?

Desperately hoping this thread will never end. It's been blowing my mind all weekend.

I just thought of another one.

Years ago I went to visit a friend for a long weekend, on second day he had to 'pop' in to work in the morning and suggested I go with him and wander around the city for a little while. We had to get up at 5am as he lived a good two hour drive away from the city.

We got there and he dropped me off a just outside of the city centre.
I didnt think he would be long so I didnt take much money, only a little bit of cash to get a coffee. I figured I would wandered around for a little while and then when I got bored I would go and sit in a cafe and have a coffee.
I did this in about an hour and a half.

After 4 hours and 43 minutes I had wandered around pretty much the entire city and spent all of the money I had on me.
It was the middle of winter and I was frozen.
I ended up sitting in a park and playing with my phone for two hours.

When he eventually called me to say he was done at work I was so cold and bored I just wanted to go home. Instead he wanted to 'show me around'.

zen and ola: apparently a "christian" one, or well, a "jesus" one. One that believes all women are sinners from the get-go because Eve was a woman...one that believes all non-believers (as in not in their specific, twisted version of "christianity") will BURN IN HELL even infants that die before "indoctrination", one that belives homosexuality is on a par with paedophilia and one that's encouraged said cuz to put some mentalist "doctor" (no qualifications - think Gillian McKeith but even more unstable), that has no children, no expereince with children etc, as the Godparent to her children (on suggestion of mentalist leader) instead of either set of faimilie's brothers and sisters...friggin mental.
Yes, we do want to rescue her, but, well, I fear there is no rescuing...she's actually in touch with us, just mental. Utterly lovely woman though, so caring.

A colleague of mine used to watch the electric metre in his caravan tick and record the numbers if any guest was there using the shower, cooking facilities etc. He then would tell them how much their usage had cost him. He said he did it so they'd be aware to not be wasteful and also so he could work out when was the most economical time to wash, cook, use lights

I can sort of see his point, but is not the way to be a good host!

stelth we shared the meal!! Was very bizarre but they are an odd couple! Last time I saw them was in a local shopping centre and she was having a screaming hissy fit at him because he had spent £20 more on himself than on her... I tend to avoid them now tbh!!

Agree with ZZZen. What sort of cult religion did your cousin belong to, that that sort of comment was acceptable to a bride on her wedding day?

lecturing about how the bride was a whore and at her own wedding? Wow. That's really really bad.

The rice procedure is totally bizarre, isn't it? There are some right loons out there.

"as i went up i looked up to find the dad getting dressed just in a pair of Y fronts"
cookielove, sorry, I don't understand that? If you're getting dressed, then by definition at some point you'll just be in underwear!

sassle, you were invited to a wedding, but didn't get a meal, even though your OH did>?? What did you do, just sit there and look morose as he ate?

This thread really does make me glad my families are so relatively normal.

Remembered another one. PIL have complicated bathroom/ hot water rules that only their immediate family understand and after 20 odd years still baffle me. There is only one bathroom. Two instances give examples:

Mid shower suds everywhere, Fil asked me to come out of the bathroom straight away. Thought he had been caught short and so I turned off shower and came out wrapped in a towel, dripping wet, bubbly shampoo still in my hair. He went in locked the door and then started to deep clean the bathroom.

We live in a different city to our hometown. We travelled down and DH arranged in advance that we would need hot water and to use the bathroom/ shower at a specific time (as per their requirement). That night, we turned up and asked to get ready. FIL left the room and next minute the power shower is running - he used all of the hot water. There is a hot water pecking order that I just don't understand. I have never had a hot shower there. Bathroom is spotless - I think it is just for show.

I grew up in a house with loads of sibling and one bathroom. Standard procedure is to announce that the bathroom will be in use. Every man/woman/child for themselves at in-laws for hot water and bathroom usage. Most annoying in the morning when everyone wants to use the bathroom.

AKMD - more likely they thought your SIL was a touch strange, honestly... :)

Not read through all the rest, so I'm sure mine is tame in comparison, but it IS odd.
SGM/evil bitch...once went there for dinner...was served salmon, rice and broad beans (that in itself is punishment enough for an 8y/o). This "woman" is doily mad, one under EVERYTHING that doesn't move voluntarily, and has always looked about 99 despite obvioulsy not being at some point. Anyway, her anal level of attention was aimed at the RICE.
Boiled for 10 mins, taken out the oven and spread on to a baking tray and PUT IN THE OVEN for 15mins, then re-boiled for 10, then back in the oven for 10, then steamed for 10, then "dried" in the oven for 5 mins, then served...mentalist.

Also reminds me of cuz's wedding (they practically live there) where the charasmatic brainwashing bastard of a man "leader" gave a half an hour lecture on how the bride was a whore...as all women were, but, you know, specifically the bride...whilst said bride looked at the utter cn with utter devotion.

Oh and there was the vicar, who not only got the person he was eulogising WRONG at a funeral (the person he was talking about was SAT IN FRONT OF HIM), but then proceeded to tell said grieving family (who are acknowledged cat lovers - and had JUST stated so) that he hated cats and if he had a gun would shoot them all...

OK, I'll shut up now.

There's also a bookmarking button. Hover at the right hand side of the screen at the end of the message. A blue bar will appear. Click it and wait until it says saved. Then when you click on the thread title it will zoom down to your bookmarked spot.

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This isn't when I was visiting someone else but on DS's first birthday we threw a party, which was basically an open house for family and friends. In the middle of the afternoon SIL asked me where I kept the cleaning things and then proceeded to dust and polish my sitting room. I was mortified! There were at least 40 people in the house at that point, all of whom must have been thinking I was a complete slattern

When I was 13 me and a DF once puppy sat for some friends of my sister whilst they were all out clubbing together. At about midnight the couple and my DSis came back and we all went to sleep - them in their room me on one sofa, my DF on the other and DSis on the floor.

A while later thinking the puppy was climbing on me to sleep on my tummy I tried to turn over to realise I couldn't!! I reached forward and woke my DSis who jumped up like she had seen a ghost! she ran into her friends room and screamed at her "get your naked boyfriend off my little sister!!" I think she thought I was being attacked but actually the couple had had a fight and in his drunken state he had forgotten I was there!

I wasn't impressed the next morning to find he had left his scuzzy pants on me over night!

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