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

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Many years ago, my then partner and I were invited to stay for the weekend by a very eccentric but lovely friend of mine who lived in the Aberdeenshire countryside. It was December.

We had an interesting evening, chatting and drinking wine until late. My friend made us some 'Essential soup' - he never washed the pot but added ingredients to the original stock which I suspect was antique. He said we had to appreciate the 'Essence' of the vegetables, their soul which was perpetual hence the soup.

We eventually asked where we should sleep and my friend told us to wait a little while - he vanished outside.

We heard dragging sounds and thumps so called to him to ask him if he needed help. He said no but our bed was ready and we went up.

He had hauled an old mattress from outside - it had a film of frost on it, no sheets or blankets.
Partner and I lay on this freezing, bogging mattress with all our clothes on and pulled a curtain on to use as a blanket.
We both started to cry laughing but had to do it silently so as my friend was not offended seeing as he had gone to bother and everything. [bugrin]

The upshot was that I woke in the morning unable to move and my friend and partner carried me to the car then visited a woo back mender friend of my eccentric friend.

Not me but DH before I met him.

He had been going out with a girl and one night she asked him back to her flat. He went oi go to the loo and was astounded by the smell. The bath was full of shit in plastic bags.

He asked what was going on and she said "My toilets been broke for ages and won't flush properly."

Obviously pooing in bags is the first thing you'd think to do .

leftmysociallife at the door No bed!!! No covers, good grief, what were they thinking!

One of dh's friends had no food at the evening reception of his wedding and at his baby's christening he invited people to the church and then afterwards said they all had to go hom apart from a chosen few because their house wasn't big enough (it was huge). Even the Godfather got sent home from the steps of the church!

Someone came to stay with us when I was a student, rent free, she invited me to a party IN MY OWN FLAT and had a pet rat and parrot who roamed free and shat everywhere.

Dh's friends also asked us to come stay for the weekend - they had bought a fancy new apartment and were both consultant docs so not skint afaik. We showed up, went for dinner, came home, they went to bed and pointed us to the spare room - literally a room, no heating, no bed, no covers given, nothing.

But he asked you to remove your shoes, yes? Wheelchair wheels are more like outdoor shoes than like feet! I don't think it was a particularly offensive thing to do, if he is the sort who doesn't let people in in their shoes - it's no different really.
although people who do that get on my nerves

I love this thread, its hilarious following it and how everyone has been really polite in the most awful situations, even the most creepy and scary ones. Its that blighty spirit 'We can take it' lol

when me and DP were house hunting, we arranged a viewing for a sunday (being the only day the owner said they could do), which gave them 4 days notice. we arrived bang on time, and were told by the woman that we'd have to be quiet as her husband had got home half an hour earlier from a weekends fishing trip and had gone to bed, apparently refusing to stay up for another hour until we'd been and gone (this was at 2pm).
she said he'd been considerate by sleeping in their daughters room, as he assumed we wouldnt want to actually look in there (no, why would we want to look in every room of the house we may have been interested in buying?), but seemingly not considerate enough to wash first as he reeked of fish. and yes i did look in the room, to satisfy my morbid curiosity as to how someone could just sleep through a viewing - he did and snored very loudly too

Being 13yr olds with overactive imaginations and having watched too many scary films we thought it best not to ask in case they didn't really have any children but hosted foreign students and kept them.

They were nice people, well the mum was, even though we probably only understood 1/2 to 3/4 of what they said to us. It was a fab school trip all in all!

acsec that is really weird did you never get to the bottom of it?

When I was 13/14 I went on a school trip to France and my friend and I stayed with a host family. The family collected us from the pick up point and took us back to their massive house. They only spoke French to us (which was fine as between us we understood most of what was being said) However, after they'd shown us around and left us in our room to get sorted we compared notes on what we'd managed to translate. We both agreed the family had told us they had 7 children, and the bedrooms had suggested they were aged from baby to maybe our age, but there were no children in the house. We thought maybe they were at school/ daycare but we spent a whole week with the family and there were no children.

But the grandparents did turn up and were given our little lounge to sleep in, on the floor (strange as there were so many empty bedrooms.) We had to be up early every day to get driven to the French school for morning lessons, and had to go through the living room with the sleeping grandparents, skirting round the edge of the air mattress trying not to wake them.

Every morning the husband of the family would drive us to the school, not speak a word to either of us, drive SUPER scarily fast overtaking everything on the road and spend most of the time looking at my friend in the rearview mirror.

It was all a bit odd.

Jesus is busy

Sorry but that is f*cking funny.

Humancatapult

Leftwingharpie - true!! [bugrin]

I think we are all having our shock thresholds adjusted here getting educated by this thread

I was starting to collect ideas for how to get rid of unwanted guests in an imaginative way.... but have realised it could take an awful lot to shift someone - even propositioning sex doesn't work! So may have to stick to being honest instead. [buwink]

At least they weren't having full sex in the same bed as us, or conceiving their first child on the bunk below. By comparison with those tales it seems like quite reasonable behaviour!

Gin I really have no idea! I suppose it wasn't so bad that we'd have wanted to make a scene about it, and it was a good tale to recount to all our other friends!

I'm sure vicar at friends Dd Christer ing will pop up soon or someone from the party . Who was asked where her then dp was . Describing the nutter who apologised saying Jesus could not make the christening due to work . But hoped to make the party after .

The look on her guests faces who thought I was taking the Mick and I was told in no uncertain terms that this is not an approaite time to make jokes like that .

Tried to explain I was not being funny Jesus really was busy. Not twigging as I was wrestling with a stropy 2 year old a grump ss age 9 and being pregnant and being pretty pissed of with Jesus too

In end friend had to say something as people were telling her that her friend was a nutter She stood up and said tHC is not loosing the plot and not called Mary her dp is really called Jesus .

I Am no longer with Jesus but do have 2 sons of Jesus

Having met THC, LMAO at the idea of her being tucked aside......

Although to be fair to the bed sheet on the carpet man, he may be one of those ultra fussy types who insists that everyone takes their shoes off when they come in his house and walk on his carpets. I suppose if the wheelchair wheels were the equivalent of outdoor shoes he was just treated the disabled person with complete equality. Did you have to take your shoes off, OP?

These are so funny. I can't believe some people. I may do something bonkers to see if I will end up being discussed in a chat room. [bugrin]

Leftwingharpie why didn't you leave when they re-started the film.... think I would have 'gone to the loo' never to be seen again at that point! [bushock]

Fuzzpig

I'm fairly sure the George Orwell version doesn't have any bestiality scenes, but this was indeed some cheesy porn version from the seventies by the looks of the bushes

Hmm I'm in a wheelchair and anyone wants to tuck me out the way better get prepared for an ear bashing let alone the fact I infact need more room to move

Your Dd is not a little child in a buggy to me it seems very odd

'On visiting my in laws for the first time ever (with DD, 3 step DDs and a 6 month pg bump), we walked in to the living room where FIL was sat sitting in an armchair with a bottle of beer in hand, in a string vest'

Could have been worse!

First time I met my now FIL, he was also sat there having a drink... only when he got up it wasn't a string vest that was the issue, but that despite the jumper on his top helf, from waist down he only had string pants on!

Turned out he was known for it and even walked his dog like that; 6 years after he spilt from MIL at which time that and all similar oddities ceased immediately, I think he was trying to make uber-upright MIL chuck him out