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

I regularly babysit a friends baby girl.

When i arrive, they always have the Simpsons/war programmes on TV really loud, i mean loud enough that you cant talk or hear each other. So there is very little converstaion.

No offer of a coffee/tea/drink at all ever,
a few weeks ago i went straight from work as they were off out earlier than usual. Work was busy, i had not had time for a drink or any lunch, this was 6pm by then.
My friend Knew full well i was coming straight from work.
Knock at the door..pizza delivery...for them. wasnt offered even a crust! They stuffed the majority of a huge pizza each n their gobs, then closed the lids, put pizza boxes of the floor, said bye, then left.
All of this while a war programme blared in the background..so no conversation

I stepped over pizza boxes to take the baby to bed.

I have been too busy to babysit since. I was annoyed to say the least.

I went to drop something off at someone's house.

Massive fluffy wolf dog making faces and gutteral noises.

I shouted to the owner that their dog was thinking about biting me. They replied that it would probably lick me to death. [buhmm]. My how I laughed.

The dog bit my bum and made a hole in my new cardigan.

When I was a teenager I went over to a mates house for a chat. It was in the summer and it was starting to get dark. I suggested her putting the light on and she said she wasn't allowed to put them on as her dad turned them on at 9.00 in the summer months. Her mum also made a catsbum mouth and called her away for a chat. On her return she said please can I not lean against the cushions as she likes them plumped up!!!!

I fear I might have inadvertently been the bad hostess once, we had guests and I asked if they wanted coffee or tea, they said coffee. I then went into the kitchen to find we had no coffee, milk or sugar [bublush] I was very embarrassed. I also had no change on me so although there is a shop about a minute away I couldn't even go an get any!

I fell down the stairs at my ex's house when we were teenagers. It was quite a bad fall and I really hurt my ankle, there was some swearing involved as I was falling fuckingbuggeringcuntingOWjesus

All I got in the way of sympathy from his mum was a catsbum mouth and an extremly prissy "would you like some frozen peas for your ankle" yes I fucking would thanks

I once went to the house of someone I was organising an event with, to discuss the details. I arrived at the appointed time but she said that she and her DH had not yet eaten so would I mind waiting.

She set up a card table in the living room, and the two of them sat and ate, chatting occasionally to each other but completely ignoring me, sat in one of the armchairs. He poured them both a glass of wine, without offering me so much as a drop of anything.

Once they had eaten, they cleared away the plates and then she turned her attention to me. Very odd. Even odder is the fact that I didn't say anything.

Also I was once sleeping in a top bunk whilst on an activity weekend for a friend's birthday. Another friend and her new husband had sex in the bottom bunk, and conceived their first child....

We have never discussed the occasion.

Not a hilariously funny one, but I always find it odd when people don't put guests first. So they'll say, I bought 5 cream cakes for my family but you'll have to have a digestive biscuit. Had this a lot with my ex's family. My family would do the absolute opposite.

come to think of it, I have never been back. She was altogether a bit odd. When I was allowed inside, she had tea poured out into cups etc. Very strange.

ZZZ You were left in the cold and wet?! Wow. One of those where your reaction is more of a stunned disbelief, than how you would actually react otherwise I suspect - would you stay again or next time leave?

I feel like I need to start a thread entitled 'And then what happened?' We need the rest of the story on some of these!!

Joolyjoo, please tell me you are exaggerating/embellishing that story and that you don't really believe they killed their granny??!!!
(Also find it hilarious that there is more outrage at the crumbled scone post than the potential murder post!)

I also need to know about the person who was refused a shower- what did you say when he said no?

And girltwin2pinot- did she go to bed? What did the rest of you do?

the oddest thing that has ever happened to me was when I was invited round to this woman's house at 5pm, purely for a social call. I got there about 7 minutes to 5pm and rang the bell and she told me to please wait on the bench outside her house because she had said 5pm and she wasn't quite ready to receive me yet.

I really wondered whether I should stay or go but I stayed and waited on the bench. Never have I encountered anything like that anywhere before. It was cold and drizzling. I thought that was extremely odd.

Loving these stories [bugrin]

My (grown up) DS was at someone's house, to go through some paperwork and business details with him. The chap asked DS if he wanted a coffee, DS said yes and the guy disappeared into the kitchen.

Five minutes later the guy shouts 'how much coffee powder do you like'
DS 'about a teaspoon please'

five minutes after that

guy shouts 'do you take milk'
ds 'yes please

five minutes later

guy shouts 'do you take sugar'
DS 'no thanks'

Another five minutes passes, DS wonders how a cup of coffee can take 20 minutes to make. Then the guy reappears with one cup of coffee, sits down and starts to drink it.

DS looks at him bewildered, and eventually the guy says
'Oh it's probably best if you get your own, I'm not very good at making coffee for other people'

Never mind that HelenBaaBaa, after reading these even my family seem like completely sane and generous hosts. And that's saying something!

After reading these the OPs don't sound odd at all!

Not as shoclkng as most of these, but I clearly remember driving halfway round the country to see (lovely) friends who sat us down to watch an extremely long video of their wedding which we had been at three weeks previously
"Ooooh, look, and that's you there, arriving at Church......there's your DH eating his starter.......ahh, look at your little DS dancing.....!"

christ there are some nutters around!

weirdest is hostess at dinner party stood up literally straight after eating her dessert and said she was going to bed

we were all still eating

Not an invited visitor as such but a workman that I knew a little bit knocked at our door and asked to use the toilet.

Not only did he not flush but pebble dashed the toilet, half the wall and under the seat. [buangry]

I boaked for weeks just thinking about it.

Years ago me,dh and ds were invited round to a friends house for an evening meal. When the friends dh opened the door we were shocked to see him standing there in his dressing gown!!! I said 'sorry have we got the wrong date?' he replied no, he had been working nights and had only just got up. It was embarrassing, he sat there with his gaping dressing gown - flesh city!! He carried on eating slurping his cornflakes talking with his mouth full. The dinner was served half an hour later and he ate it all and didn't get dressed the whole time we were there. Rudeness personified.

When I visited a friend, her newborn ds was about 8 weeks ago, she left him lying on the sofa when she went to make a drink. I picked him up when he started screaming and she didn't return, she came running in then, grabbed him off me and marched into the kitchen with him. Apparently him laying on the edge of the sofa screaming was preferable to me picking him up?

In the same house, I visited and sat in the armchair to be told a couple of hours later: 'that's the changing chair, that's why we've spread that old blanket on it'. The same blanket I had been sitting on for two hours

Another friend made us soup for lunch and then put her bowl on the floor to let her Rotweiller lick it clean. I couldn't finish my soup after that!

How can you laugh beat? I'd have punched her, then rammed the hoover up her arse.

I'd have been worried what else they'd have picked up if it had been my carpet!

I'm having trouble with the scone crumbs all over the carpet as well! I'd be livid and hand her the vacuum cleaner!

This thread is wonderful