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

Gin I simply can't get my head round it at all.

sarah I would love to know what meds beat is on to find that funny agree

She deliberately crumbed your carpet? I'd have fucking killed her. [bushock]

I am totally astonished at these stories! to the power of 10

My only weird thing, dredged up from memory, is when someone invited me to lunch, put the roast chicken on the table and proceeded to wrestle with it with her hands with enormous gusto, grabbing at it and tearing it apart, separating out the portions and plonking it all on our plates.

totally mild in comparison to these stories though

Beat your adult friend scattered scone crumbs over the floor for the children to eat up??? Have I read that right?

Mine not that outrageous but it makes me laugh. My very nice friend brought her 2 year old to play with mine. They brought scones. While I was in the kitchen spreading butter and jam on some of them, she was in the living room crumbling the rest of them all over the carpet for the girls 'to snack on'. I am still giggling thinking of my surprised face when I returned to Crumb Land :)

DS had a playdate at our house with another little boy fron school. They were both around 6 at the time. I didn't know the mum very well at all and she had never been to my house before but when she arrived to pick him up I invited her in to wait while her DS got ready to go. When he came downstairs she asked him to hold her phone for her while she found something in her handbag so while she did that he started fiddling with the phone. He must have found an erm revealing video of her and her DH because ooohing and ahhing noises started coming from the phone and her bemused DS said "look what I've found mummy" and ran back upstairs to show DS. I remember standing there at the bottom of the stairs while this usually very calm serene mum ran upstairs chasing her DS into every room shrieking "Giiiiiiiivvvvveeeee ittttttttt baaaaaaaccccckkkkkkk. Oooohhhhh nnooooooooooo. Plleaaaaaassseee giivvve meeee my phhoooonnnnee!!!!!!" it seemed to go on for ages after which she retrieved her phone and her DS, walked back downstairs calmly, thanked me for the playdate and left to bang her head repeatedly against the steering wheel to drive home .
Funny enough DS was never invited to theirs for a playdate and she always looked highly embarrassed whenever we bumped into each other at the school gates

ex MIL seemed to be obsessed with gettin me to drink at xmas. She knew i used to drink vodka so always bought lots and told me i had to drink it. I didn't drink alcohol at this time, spesh as her darling son was a raging alcoholic so someone had to be sober, and used to have to pretend to put vodka in my drink to get some peace and quiet. At our wedding she tried to get my dad to drink saying you can't have fun without it, and also her grandson's girlf even though she underage and on antibiotics she wasn't allowed to drink with. So glad She my ex MIL as was a freak.

Loving this thread - apart from the horrible bully mum story that Ilove told

I want a poodle in a bib!

I probably should have spoken to her about it at the time but she was extremely intimidating. I took the easy way out and just avoided her.
My DS is 15 now and her DD is still a friend of his. She's a lovely girl. Have never uttered a word to her mother since

Just remembered another one. My Mum was staying with us one weekend we'd been invited round to some friends for a Sunday afternoon barbecue. The friends, very kindly, invited my Mum too. So, there was the host couple, one other couple, DP, Mum and me - 7 of us in total. The hostess decided that, rather than letting people do their own thing with the French bread, it would be cut into slices and buttered. My Mum offered to help her. Between the two of them, they managed to slice and butter enough bread to feed an army - needless to say, the 7 of us didn't manage to make much of a dent in the pile of bread. I wonder what they did with the rest of it?

Oh my god, to that last one. "I will not be beaten" by a baked potato?

Really, though, you should have spoken to her about that - I know it would be a nightmare conversation, but she sounds deranged.

Invited us for dinner (7.30pm). When we arrived both host and her hubby were in their PJ's. And remained so throughout the night.

Ilove, that is appalling! Poor, poor little girl :(

DS and I were invited to the home of one of his school friends for lunch. I had only met the woman once before, but knew she was dieting (as was I) so was hopeful for a healthy, low-cal lunch.

When we arrived, we chatted while she made a big pile of sandwiches, got out crisps etc. Never mind, I thought, as I'd skipped breakfast in case this happened. She then proceded to give all the food to the DCs (in another room) and chopped up HALF A PINEAPPLE for me and her to share. I was absolutely starving, but there was nothing else forthcoming. I know I was trying to lose weight, but that was really something.

Ilove poor girl will have food issues for the rest of her life :(

Been pressganged into finding and hiding all the drugs paraphanalia so the police can come around to investigate a burglary without arresting the occupants of the house.

They also used to pour their bong water into next doors garden so if the sniffer dogs ever came round, they would be more interested in next door.

Ilovedaintynuts

OMG that is terrible. Just terrible. Poor, poor child.

A had a friend (notice the past tense) who had a DD the same age as my DS.
I didn't know her very well so when she invited us around for dinner I didn't know what to expect.
Our DC's were about 4.
She served the food (jacket potato cheese and beans) and we were all sat at the table. Fortunately my DS was a fairly good eater and managed to eat most of his meal. When he said 'I've finished' to me she screamed at him 'FINISH YOUR FOOD!' she then completely flipped at both children, was practically foaming at the mouth, banging on the table and shrieking 'YOU ARE TRYING TO TAKE ME FOR AN IDIOT - CHILDREN MUST EAT ALL THEIR FOOD!!!!' and then 'YOU WILL NEVER BEAT ME I WILL MAKE YOU FINISH YOUR FOOD EVEN IF WE SIT HERE ALL NIGHT!'
Her DD at this stage started sobbing and gagging on her food. My DS was just looking back and forth from me and her. I then made an excuse and left quickly. I would have loved to have taken her DD with me
We never spoke again.
The sad part - she's a primary school teacher

Mine is quite minor really - went to visit some friends when back in the UK, took a DVD for DS to watch so that we could chat in peace after dinner, but they both said "oo! we haven't seen that!" so we all had to sit and watch it. [buhmm]

Complete waste of a visit - by the time the film was over, we had to go - so barely chatted to them at all!

my socks were perfectly clean. The woman was a freak

I'd have gone for option 3. Not gone in.

[bushock]

Just how filthy were your socks?