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

Oh Don't...you bring back such HIDEOUS memories of dropping a sanitary pad down someone's loo (by mistake) when I was a guest, and trying to flush it and blocking EVERYTHING and having to confess and Dynorod coming and them not even letting me pay. It was about 20 years ago and I still wake in a cold sweat sometimes.

Obviously you should have thought ahead and had a hysterectomy?

Loving this...
1 recent. A friend rang me to berate me for my terrible behaviour and lack of manners, my crime was to put a tampon wrapper ( clean) in her bathroom bin. Apparently it could have upset her husband or DD, when I asked if it did she admitted they hadn't found it ( not sure how often they route through bins) as she had checked when I'd left!
Isn't that what bathroom bins are for.

Couldn't get her to laugh about it, so feel somewhat wronged....,, so can't ever go there when menstruating again.

Is that odd ?

I used to know someone who obsessed about her older babies not sleeping.
To get her daughter to open her mouth to eat she would hold her nose and ram food in. Horrible.

My Dads house. Every time I stayed there and we were cooking tea he always assures me that the milk and butter were bought recently (but sometimes they are not and are utterly rancid). Also he used to have a kitchen with a kitchen table that was almost wider than the kitchen. So every time we stayed we would have to get up or move to get into the cutleryr drawer behind our seats. Dad would get raging angry at us for taking up space and being in the way of the cutlery drawer, he wouldn't see it as his fault for having an ill fitting table or having fifty odd pieces of junk and clutter messing up the spacious dining room next door that he could have used. All the lights didn't work one time I stayed, I had to navigate the house using my mobile phone light, and the taps have no heads, just spanners and if you got the taps on they would be scalding hot.

Heyyho RTFT!!!!

It was a guinea pig FFS

Absolutely PMSL at the hamster playdate

And all of it really - superb thread!

Thought of another.

We moved away from where we went to uni about two and a half years ago. Six months after that friends of ours got married. We asked if we could stay with another set of friends to keep costs down. I had to take the whole week off work anyway to get the wedding date so I decided to stay down and spend some time with people.

Our hostess said that was great and we'd have to make sure and spend some time together, just the two of us, as we didn't get to talk much anymore.

So in my head I allocated her three of the five nights I'd be there as she was at uni so her days were unpredictable.

The first night came and went with me sitting on her sofa while she did crosswords. So I mde a point of saying I would be free the next night to spend some time with her, did she want to go out for dinner?

No says she, but we can make dinner plans when she gets home. That night is the same. I sit on the sofa like a lemon, she does crosswords.

The third night is the same.

On the fourth night I have plans with other friends. When I mention that I'll be home late she starts complaining about how we haven't spent any time together and how disppointed she is. She then tries to get me to change my pre-booked trains for going home (at a significant cost to me) so we can have lunch together as she's free from 11 the next day.

Blimey some people from the shoes on/ shoes off thread should come and read these... I think I will look at my shoe wearing guests in a new and grateful light as they are not nearly as weird as some of you mners' friends

First time I stayed at IL's house DH (BF at the time) went out somewhere. They sat me down at the table and grilled me on my intentions to have children etc. (I was 18 at the time). The only thing that was missing was a spotlight on my face. I remember FIL also telling me I should use the towel rail for my towel as "that's what it's for" - even though I couldn't actually get my towel on it as it already had a bath mat on it and comprised of one small rail. After I'd gone, a few days later MIL rang and accused me of leaving a dirty mark on the bedding with my holdall What a nice welcome!
Instead of toilet paper, they had those Izal wipes - like paper. I joked with DH about it a few years later and he went and told them. Don't think that went down well they did replace it eventually with loo roll :)

I have posted this before but it is worth a re-hash.
My husband's cousin lives on a houseboat with her partner and were moored up near us so we invited them to come for dinner and stay over. They turned up at 6.30 absolutely steaming drunk and proceeded to get stuck into the wine. We had dinner and the boyfriend (who was by this incoherent) decided to go to bed. The cousin soon followed and I stayed up to clear up etc.
About half an hour later I smelt this unholy smell wafting down the stairs. I didn't think too much of it (I just thought it was a particularly smelly poo) but when I went up to the bathroom I discovered traces of shit all over the place, on the shower curtain, floor everywhere. I gave the bathroom a good sluice with bleach and went to bed
In the morning I heard they had gone downstairs and peeked in the spare room to see two big piles of runny poo - in the middle of the carpet. Poo that they had allowed to soak in overnight - It stank to high heaven.
The boyfriend then asked my husband if he had any spare trousers as the cousin had 'thrown up all over his' oh and a plastic bag for his shoes. Oddly this made me even more cross as the cousin was clearly mortified that he had shat himself all over my nice cream carpet and he was letting her take the rap!
Bizarrely I never even confronted them but spent all morning clearing up (and trying not to vomit)
Thankfully we have since had new carpets fitted.

people not flushing the toilet at night or letting anyone else do it too.i know a few of these. Rank!

We once stayed overnight with some friends who were a 3 hour drive away. We wanted to freshen up when we got there and asked if we could have a bath (they didn't have a shower). They kindly agreed and ran the bath but then both used it before saying it was free and we could use it next.

'It was like a microcosm of life after the nuclear holocaust, every man for himself.' - Laughing like a drain at that one.

Oh...bother...the last post! Can't believe I've read all 14 pages! Fantastic!

A couple of years ago my PIL went to stay with my BIL and wife. As they were leaving, MIL thrust a bundle of bedding into BIL's hands, saying "sorry about the stains love."

Again, PIL staying at BIL's. In the middle of the night BIL's bedroom door crashes open. BIL and wife sit up to be greeted by sight of FIL standing, naked from the waist down, backlit in full and minute detail, in the doorway. FIL eyes them up and down, grunts and backs out. Incident is dismissed the following morning by FIL saying "God I was pissed last night".

The in-laws aren't known as drinkers, but even I was amazed on xmas day when we ended up with warm vimto! FFS!

Oh and when ds was a few days old we went to mil's for dinner. Its always a very formal affair to dh asked could we just have something cold and snacky so it wouldn't matter if it got cold as I was trying to get used to breastfeeding etc etc. Oh yes that's fine.

Turn up - dh, fil and mil sit down to 3 course roast dinner. I get a saucer with some icerbeg lettuce and some tomatoes.

When DS (now 6) was born, my very weird ILs invited us for Sunday lunch. DH was a bit hesitant but I agreed enthusiastically, thinking it would allow us all time to bond. Anyway, apart from the disgusting meal, we were served in the living room on our knees while MiL and FiL sat at the dining table! I didn't know what to do, so I stuck the telly on and got on with it. That was the first and last time!

A wedding one - went to a wedding last year which took 3 hours to get to, checked in to the stupidly expensive hotel, bought overpriced drinks, then were told there was no sit down meal and not enough buffet left for our table so we would just have to have some cake! Bearing in mind we hadn't eaten for hours and were staying at the hotel, you can imagine how impressed we were. Luckily there was a garage nearby so we snuck out as 10pm and stocked up on Walkers crisps and Double Deckers - we were starving!

leftmy - blimey! Families, eh! She definitely has a jealousy bug going on somewhere.

YES ginpalace that's exactly right - tiptoeing is right - its so annoying. i will not mention that as soon as I booked my wedding she got engaged and demanded she get married first