What are your guests doing that is doing your head in?

[rainywinterday]

For me, my mum is sat next to me and burping around every 5 seconds or doing some sort of mouth smacking noise. Pointless calling her out on it as she'll just say it's because she's got a cold (it's not). I want to gouge my ears out.....

What is everyone else putting up with in the name of family merriment?!?

No guests thankfully. Dont do them. Been there done that.

No guests this year. Bliss!

Slurping every single hot drink. 🤦‍♀️

Not at mine but my SIl and brother rescued my Aunt who still had not done anything about a leak in her house (water everywhere). A guy came and turned off water so she is with my brother and SIl and has a fae like a slapped arse on her. She hates people enjoying themselves!

Face not fae she is not a fairy! Just a malevolent spirit!

Mine have all left, we’re pretty much back to normal. It’s lovely.

My DM. Whenever ANYTHING that isn't Supervet, Animal Hospital or The Secret Life of the Zoo is on tv, she pointedly won't look at the screen, and looks everywhere else in the room, to make her point 😡

Oh, and breaks something every time she comes. In fact, all guests seem to. This year it's the bracket that holds the shower head, last year was a door handle.......

And breathe......

She brought her dog, but refuses to walk said dog. Dog is therefore very bouncy and keeps breaking my belongings. When I bring it up, she says if it’s bothering me that much I’m more than welcome to walk the dog myself

Shoving me out of my own kitchen just to beckon me back in again to get stuff.

Interrupt me doing things for their own satisfaction.

Complain that the kids have too many books then buy a compendium of fairy tales. I have boys, many of them and non of them want to listen to sleeping bloody beauty at bedtime.

Force me to eat what they want to eat.

What's doing my head in is that they're not leaving until tomorrow

No guests here. I can’t face the rude demands for dinner, mess, watching shit TV, annoying mouth noises and my belongings being re-arranged as they “look better that way” etc etc

It's been 10 hours...still constant burping....

Thankfully she has left but my mother talks incessantly. She comments at whatever is on the TV, talks over anything she didn't pick to watch (and turns her nose up at most things anyway). Also she will be as asking ridiculous questions like 'does the fur come off the robotic dog' (daughters gift). Telling us the not so potted history of anyone she's met recently regardless of whether we (or she!) will ever meet them again. Think random person she sat next to on bus... 🙄

Sil. Thank fuck she's gone. She's never actually been invited. Pil are unable to host, have no other invitations and we love having them. Sil won't have them and has nowhere else to go. So she comes to us. Never contributes to food, drink or helps in the kitchen. She actually tutted at having to pass DD a side plate.

She got the hump when dd2s gift was better than what she got her DS. So spent all day criticising DDs present. Googled the price, reviews and kept going on about how shit she thinks it is. DD loves her present.

I would love to go away next year. But in laws would miss the DC and the DC would miss them. Any mention of taking them with us leads to what do we do with sil.

Any mention of taking them with us leads to what do we do with sil.

Leave her to stew in her own juices. (Possibly easier said than done, I know.)

No guests thankfully but I can't spend too much time with my DM - she's got this throat clearing (tic I think) that is constant and drives me insane!

SIL sounds like a right charmer.

Kids that don't go to bed!! I love these kids, they're adorable but my kids are in bed between 7 and 9.....I just want my evenings back.

Oh, thank God there's a thread, I'm sitting here with my blood pressure going through the roof.

I've spent four hours playing an interminable card game with DH who is tipsy and over-jolly, two sniping bickering teenage boys, my father who has dementia (can't remember the rules but insists he can) and our guest who is in his 60s and has many of the personal habits typically associated with men who have been single for a very long time. The fucking football has been on for four hours and the whole house stinks of male farts.

So I decided after the last football match finished that I would suggest we watch the new Susan Hill adaptation which I have been looking forward to. One teenager has stomped off to his room because "there's nothing Christmassy about a stupid ghost story" and the other one is clicking away on his laptop. Our male guest is one of those people who abhors even a momentary silence and is keeping up a running commentary on everything from the cars the characters in the drama are driving, the weather outside and the chocolates I have put out in an effort to shut him the fuck up.

I'm unreasonable. I invited the fucker. Right now I want to pitch him feet first out of a second-floor window, the fart-arsed gobshite

So glad all ours have now gone! Tomorrow is going to be a PJ day for recovery.

We've just been discussing how quickly we can get rid of everyone after breakfast and how little people have helped...want to get the house back to normal and remove all trace of everyone else's weirdness...(and burpage)

I have more arriving tomorrow

Not my guests but my SIL at my parents house sits on her dainty arse and never bloody helps. Watches everyone clear the table, accepts offers of drinks and disappears at the mention of washing up.

I've actually really enjoyed having all the guests we've had.

Maybe it's because each 'set' of guests (what would be the term, do you think.... posse/horde/murder, lol? ) hasn't stayed longer than 10 hours (one group on the 25th and the others on the 26th).

to everyone who's had enough though.

Adding milk or hot water to the tea I make. Or complaining that it's too weak or contains too much milk.