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

I had a friend over who was doing BLW with her ds who was same age as DD. I asked her, did she want to use my highchair, or the splash mat, but she said no it was fine she was only giving him pasta.

I thought he should still go in a highchair, but didn't say anything as fair enough - cooked pasta isn't likely to make a mess.

She sat him down in the middle of my carpet in the lounge, and gave him a tupperwear container of pasta and tuna mayo. tunamayo!!!! He digs in, all of about 9 months old. I came back into the room, not having seen her actually give him the food to see a food tsunami across my floor.

I just stared at her, and she said "don't worry, I'll clean it up afterwards, ds likes to explore with his food".

Not been back to my house again to eat strangely.

Oh and I went to a wedding where they got married at 1, booked a really expensive venue for the reception but didn't tell anyone that the food wasn't served until 7. We were all hammered on the very expensive bar by that time.

This thread is brilliant! I'm so shocked at twinkle's wedding story. I can't believe the cheek of some people.

I had forgotten when I stayed at a foreign friends family abroad. They were lovely and constantly made me massive meals which her mother urged me to eat. One day on the way back we stopped off at her grans who gave us a barbecue. she phoned her mum to tell her we wouldn't need dinner. I was relieved as my stomach got a bit of a break.

The next morning I got up to breakfast to be presented with the intended 3 course dinner for the night before. Of course to be polite I sat and ate all 3 courses and then a 3 course dnner that evening as well!

can't get over the cheek of that bridal pair twinkle. Imagine arranging with the hotel to bill your wedding guests extra for rooms, meals and drinks to cover the price of your own rooms, meals and drinks. That is so tacky, I am quite stunned anyone would try that one.

I once took a nice bottle of champagne to a friend's engagment party, it was a summer garden party.

They put in the old bath they had filled with ice and beer, that everyone was helping themselves to

Never saw it again - wonder if someone took it home?

So sorry to hear about your dad, fudgesmummy. I can't imagine what that's like.

Just thought of another one: when I was a teenager I was visiting my Grandparents, staying overnight with all my cousins and siblings. In the morning I was last in the queue for breakfast by which point all the bowls for cereal had gone. Grandmother picks up the bowl the cat is eating from, gives it a quick rinse, and gives it to me for my breakfast. Needless to say I made toast instead.

I went round to a friends for a coffee, he and 2 male friends were all naked.

I acted all nonchalant

Bump :o
Twinkle that's the worst I've heard

Sorry fudge :(

NCT group "friend" came to my house. I had DS1 (then 3mo) lying on a lambskin rug on the floor in front of the sofa. "friend" lifted DS1 onto a different playmat and then sat on the sofa putting her feet (with shoes on) on the lambskin. I was speechless.

Nothing like some of these [bushock].

But for my nephews 1st birthday I drove 7 hours to get there. I arrived on time and they weren't ready - fair enough - still running around getting organised. I sat there gasping for a drink for over an hour and at no point did they offer me anything, not even a glass of water, or theres the kettle Lesley.

It wasn't until the MIL turned up over an hour later that anyone was offered any drinks at all. My parents brought some champagne as well as lots of gifts. Was swiftly put in the fridge and never appeared again - they were offered tea or water instead.

We were once invited round sisters house for the afternoon/evening a few days after Christmas, along with other sis, BIL and our children. We had a quick snack at lunch, assuming she would be doing food. We were all offered one drink and told they were not doing any food as they had her husbands family round the previous day and done a full spread for them so didn't feel like cooking today. Not offered so much as a peanut, not even the dcs. We played a board game then we all went home.

my dh once went to someone's house for tea..... they served cold beans on toast!

He didn't go there for a meal again

TwinkleTwinklyStars I am [bushock] at that. Good for you for insisting on the refund!!

"Because it's completely odd to me (which was the question the OP asked) to appear half dressed in front of guests when you're so overweight you have to lose 4stones before the hospital will even think about you for surgery (which is true in her case).
I wouldn't do that, I think it's odd."

Then you do have an issue with weight. She was wearing a nightie in her own home and you are family. It was not a dinner party (if so, then yes it would be odd). But they'd asked you over to give them a hand.

I wear my nightie in front of my MIL and SIL (and they do in front of me). Two of us are overweight. Yes I'd rather be slimmer but I'll be damned if I'm covering up in my own home because it offends judgmental people!

I think it's great she feels comfortable enough to not have always need to cover up in front of her family.

Would you have a problem with her wearing a swimming costume on the beach I wonder?

Mine isn't that weird really.
Went for a weekend at SIL and BIL. Went out for a meal, went Dutch. The following morning she made waffles with strawberries and cream for her and BIL and gave us toast. I always thought that was slightly odd.
They also once had lunch in front of us without making us any, but I assumed that was the craziness of a new baby. I just went and washed up for them while they ate....
They are not ungenerous people though.
I've slept in a bed that was clearly usually for dogs as well and it felt like it took me weeks to get the hair out of my mouth.

2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny thank you,thank you,thank you for starting this thread-After a traumatic illness my dad died last week leaving behind a total family mess for me to try and sort out. Reading this thread has made me smile for the first time in what feels like forever. [busmile]

that is pretty shocking FIFI

Thanks for the link, am off to see if I can catch up on Matthew Wright!

Not as shocking as most of these but seasonal. Myself and another friend were invited to an NCT friend's home for an Easter tea party. There were about 7 little children there. The hostess, myself and the other guest prepared the tea (cocktail sausages, bits of fruit, chocolate nest cakes, little biscuits etc - all M&S) and left the plates of food in the kitchen. We all played a game before tea. Whilst the game was being played the other adult guest went to the loo, she was the only person to leave the room. When we returned to the kitchen to eat the food, hardly anything was left. As the food was from packets it was obvious how many of each item was available. Only 1 or 2 of each item was left on the plates. The other guest said nothing when the question was asked about where the food had gone. Fortunately the children were too young to notice and the hostess quickly began looking in fridge for anything to fill the plates again. As far as we knew there were no food issues and it never happened again, but she must have consumed/kept for later about 40 items of food in 10 minutes.

These are mind boggling! But the one i'm about is why does being 4 stone over weight make being half dressed more shocking? Is celia implying that it would be ok if she was skinny???

dh and I drove miles to a married couple who were friends of dh. We had only just recently started dating so I had never met them before. The man of the couple was nice, but the woman was having some sort of strop and went off to her bedroom- at 7.30pm!!
We were supposed to go out for a meal together, but ended up getting kebabs for ourselves and the other man, who was very apologetic and I felt sorry for him. It was the longest 3 hours of my life and we never saw either of them again. Thank gawd.

Oh yes! hold on, I'll link to it, read the last few comments. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1438306-would-you-pay-for-a-place-at-a-wedding?pg=16 here you are. [busmile]

Bloody easy job being one of Matthew Wright's researchers!

Did they really? Did he mention it on tv?