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

Imperial, it was hilarious in places, wasn't it? Until Matthew Wright's "researchers" picked it up then it all went quiet [busad]

I still can't get over the absolute gall of them, expecting everyone else to pick up the tab for their wedding!! Ugh, ugh ugh.

that was their argument for expecting everyone to pay, that they had not asked for gifts.

If it had said, ' The bride and groom request that no gifts be bought but a contributions towards the costs of the reception instead'
that would have been fine.

But the joke of it was that i had actually mentioned that they had requested no gifts to the bride before the wedding, and she had said something along the lines of we thought it was a good idea since it is all going to be so expensive for everyone due to the venue'

I thought she was just being nice. [buhmm]

Thumbbunny, that was a funny thread - gift list from Harrods and oh btw pay my mum's fare, will you?

I am genuinely aghast at the rudeness of the hosts in these tales. How can people treat others like this?

I can see that some people are rather over-fond of their pets, so the pet incidents might conceivably be put down to battiness and/or eccentricity, but some of these people seem just appallingly rude.

The latest wedding story is just jaw-dropping.

Twinkle I think I've heard it all now!

Good grief, Twinkle. That even beats the Bridezilla thread where they've asked for the "wealthier" guests to cough up £500 each to help bring the Aussie rellies over to the UK! Am just at the outright mannerlessness of some people, seriously .

Twinkle, what a bloody cheek! Mind you, you're lucky they said no presents. Imagine the wedding list.

My mum once popped into a neighbour's house to hand him some photocopies he had asked my mum to do as a favour.
She emerged about two hours later having been treated to an impromtu ( but very insistent) concert of his entire repertoire on the hammond organ. Then he asked her out.

He must've though no woman could resist the lure of his organ.

She politely declined his offer of date.

Just remembered another one! My DSIL went to visit friends for the weekend and it was decided that they would all have fish and chips from the chippy.

The friend's DH went off in the car, (chippy not in walking distance) and came back with just enough for him and his DW!

They then sat down at the table and proceeded to eat while DSIL, DBIL and DN sat in the living room with grumbling tums!

I said, 'why didn't you say something?', my DSIL said that they were too embarrassed! [buconfused]

I went to EXP's cousins wedding (when we were still together)
It was a similar situation to yours Bucharest, they are very wealthy and we had spent months listening to stories of how grand it was going to be.

We spent a fortune on outfits travel and the hotel.
The wedding was at a big Mannor house type place and we were all expected to stay there, the cheapest rooms were over £300 a night.

I should add that they had specifically requested no gifts to be bought (on the invitations).

the ceremony was very short and quite simple.
The wedding breakfast was in the restaurant, which did not seem to be set up for a wedding, it just appeared to be how it was every day as a restaurant. There was no seating plan, but enough tables so that most people just sat with their own family/friends, there were a lot of two seater tables so we sat alone (just me and EXp)
We were all brought menus (which were the standard day to day menus), and asked what we would like to drink.
It was pretty much just like being in a restaurant, not at a wedding.
It was very non weddingy atmosphere, everyone was just talking amongst themselves (at their own tables), there was no real conversations between tables.

The meal was lovely, and at the end of it there were no speeches or any toasts.
But we were brought the BILL. I was really shocked (as I could see where quite a few other people) as there had been no mention that we would be paying for our own meal and drinks (I think it was the fact that they had not mentioned it that people were annoyed about)

But then upon actually reading the bill we realised that not only did it list our food and drinks but an extra charge.
Our food/drinks came to about £100, but the bill was for over £200.

It turned out that not only did we have to pay for our own meal, but we were expected to pay for the wedding parties meals/drinks as well!
Not just the bride and groom, but all of the parents, family, and bridesmaids/groomsmen.

We paid it because we didnt want to spoil anything or cause trouble, but we were not happy about not being told.

There was then a reception in another room with a bar, the drinks were very overpriced, such as £17 for a small glass of wine.
It turned out that the drinks were not that expensive, but the prices had been inflated to cover the drinks for the wedding party for the night!

we went to bed early because we didnt like the atmosphere.

There was to be a breakfast in the morning, but I faked being extremely hungover so that we could avoid at as the same thing was suggested in regards to the bill.

When we went to check out we were asked for our credit card to confirm the payment (which we had already done, paid I mean).
They gave us a copy of our bill and receipt in an envelope and thanked us for our stay.
once we got out to the car I opened the envelop to find that our hotel bill of £400 had actually cost us over £600.
We went back in to ask why it was so much, expecting it was a mistake, to be told that all of the guests had paid for a portion of the wedding parties hotel rooms too!

I was livid and demanded that then refunded it immediately.
It took a complaint to the manager and over an hour of arguing to get them to refund the payment.

The next day I received a very nasty email from the bride saying that we had ruined their special day, that everyone else was happy to 'contribute' and that my 'pathetic cheapness' had ruined the entire wedding for everyone.
she also added a lovely rant about knowing exactly how much I earn and knowing that I could afford much more than I was asked to 'contribute'.

To be honest if we had been made aware of it before hand we probably would have been happy to contribute, but it was the way that they went about it that really pissed me off.

Needless to say we never spoke to them again.

But we did receive invitations to their DC's baby showers and christenings.
surprisingly we did not attend, but found out from other family members that they did the same thing RE the bills.

My DF's cousin lived about two hours away from us. We didn't see them often,but when we did we all got on very well. One summer we'd arranged for all of us to go over for the day.
It was a lovely sunny Sunday. When we arrived we found a note on the door, saying as it was such a nice day they had decided to go to Alton Towers. They wouldn't be back til very late,so unlikely we'd see them, and they'd left a chicken in the fridge for us to help ourselves..my dad was most pissed off!

No not every time. Just once. That was enough. She was not a small woman and the floorboards wobbled alarmingly. I was worried I, she and the piano would end up falling into the flat below!

MIL allowed me and ds to stay at her house as we were catching an early Eurostar. We get there about 5pm and watch with some astonishment (ds was 11) as they made themselves a sit down dinner and eat it with none for us. When I asked if there as anything to eat MIL said 'I didnt think you'd want dinner'. DS and I had to go out and find a chp shop. we have never been back.

[bugrin]

Katie- every lesson? [buconfused]

Blimey there are some weirdfreaks around.

Maybe they were trying to imply it was pasta their bedtime.

I wish I could remember one that I could tell on here. [bugrin] at all I've seen so far though (well those that aren't [buangry]).

Thank you 2shoes

When I was a child I used to have piano lessons at the teacher's home. She was generally a bit bonkers (for example she had been separated for years yet had several photographs of her wedding to a Fred West look-a-like on display and the whole place stank of cat litter) but the oddest thing she ever did was change her tights while giving me a lesson. She used to sit behind me and I could hear her jumping up and down to get them on. I did the only sensible thing. Kept playing.

Oh,now I've remembered another!

My boss and his wife went to stay with her old friends. And slept in a bed they later discovered was full of cold, cooked spaghetti.

Many years ago, a girl I worked with asked another friend and I to go to her house for a meal before we all went on a girl's night out. We both lived a quite a long way away so we were very grateful as it saved us going home first.

However once we got to her house, where she lived with her DM and DD we were confronted with this dog from hell! I love animals and really this dog wasn't frightening it was just extremely energetic, plus it was very, very stinky and I mean it brought tears to your eyes!

So we sit down on the settee and her DM brings in our meal, it was beans on toast. Lovely, lots of buttered hot toast and lovely china plates but all the while we are eating this mad dog is trying to climb up our legs to get to our food and no one takes a blind bit of notice. We ended up with the plates in the air over our heads, nervously chuckling and splattered in nasty stinking drool.

Worse was to come, when we had finished, her DM took our plates and just put them on the floor at which point the dog was allowed to lick them clean, his mission accomplished. Her DM went to to explain that they hardly had to do any washing up in their house, the dog made such a good job........and she wasn't joking!!!! My other friend and I just sat there stunned![bushock]

Not only that but later my other friend told me that when she had eaten her last piece of toast, the bottom of the plate had the remains of an old fried egg, just the yellow scrapings, so the dog must have missed that bit from a previous meal.[busad]

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.

OK, then why did you mention her weight, please enlighten me?!

threeleftfeet I think you're projecting your own issues about your weight onto me.