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What’s the strangest thing a friend has ever done at your house?

139 replies

DearBangtan7 · 24/11/2022 06:09

Just that really..... expose your friends here!! anonymously of course 😉

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EarringsandLipstick · 24/11/2022 09:48

DearBangtan7 · 24/11/2022 09:39

Some of these are a laugh and really quite weird, thanks everyone who's shared so far!

What's your contribution? 🤔

MeMyBooksAndMyCats · 24/11/2022 09:50

Sat and watched their child tumble down 8 steps on my stairs, didn't get up to help them or check them on. Just sat there and expected me to deal with their child and ignored it.
ConfusedHmm I quickly made my excuses we had somewhere to be and cut it short.

MeMyBooksAndMyCats · 24/11/2022 09:51

Darcy101 · 24/11/2022 08:44

A work colleague came over for a chat and cuppa, all going well until she stood right up screamed and ran out the room 😮turns out my cat had sat up from its sleeping position and she hadn’t noticed it was there, unknown to me, she was terrified of cats 😱

😂😂😂

jonesy1999 · 24/11/2022 09:51

Notsympatheticenough · 24/11/2022 07:01

Stayed with a friend at mutual friend’s house for weekend. We left on Monday after mutual friend gone to work.I popped out to get flowers to leave. Came back to find other friend vigorously cleaning the house, full on hoovering, bleach down toilets, clearing dishes, emptying bins, stripping beds. All this wasn’t mess we’d caused, mutual friend is not house prod at all and house was v messy. She left it looking like a new pin. Mutual friend never said a word…

I'd love it if a friend did that in my house Grin

DearBangtan7 · 24/11/2022 10:01

@EarringsandLipstick I don't have any funny stories like this, I'm just following on from a light-hearted article sent from a friend and wanted to see what stories you guys had to share. I guess I should have put that in the OG post 😊

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sueelleker · 24/11/2022 10:02

BobbyBobbyBobby · 24/11/2022 08:55

My parents house when I was a child. Circa 1971.

My friend came by on her pony to see if I wanted to come for a ride with her.

We were out but she knew there was a spare key under a rock and she let herself in to wait.

Imagine our surprise when we got home and there was my friend in the parlour watching tv with her Shetland pony!

Wait... she brought the pony into the house? 😮

Peteryougit · 24/11/2022 10:08

Re arranged all my furniture while I was at work.

I’d known her for 10 years, met at school but I moved away. I had been to stay with her for weekends but this was the first time she had stayed with me.

She was getting an afternoon train home on a Monday. I went to work at 8, and she was to let herself out and leave at 3pm, no problems.

I got home and I thought I was going mad. Every bit of furniture in the living/dining room and the bedroom had been moved.

She said I had no sense of style and it had been annoying her all weekend so had made it better. It wasn’t better. I could no longer shut my bedroom door or use half the dining table.

Pyjamageddon · 24/11/2022 10:13

A vague mum friend from the kids primary school who I chatted to at the gates some mornings asked me to look after her son at my house after school one day. I'd pick him up, bring him to mine and she'd come and collect him at 6pm. She didn't need me to give him tea so I planned to make ours after they left. Only she didn't leave until 9:30pm. She just wouldn't stop talking! I could barely get a word in. We got a takeaway the moment she left, we were starving.

LindorDoubleChoc · 24/11/2022 10:22

abblie · 24/11/2022 06:45

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I laughed to much at this

Really? goodness.

Sparklingbrook · 24/11/2022 10:28

DearBangtan7 · 24/11/2022 10:01

@EarringsandLipstick I don't have any funny stories like this, I'm just following on from a light-hearted article sent from a friend and wanted to see what stories you guys had to share. I guess I should have put that in the OG post 😊

Bit strange to ask if you’ve nothing to add.
But the Daily Mail will enjoy the thread I guess.

DigitalGhost · 24/11/2022 10:32

My best mate is a community nurse so she occasionally just runs in for a poo 🤣

MintJulia · 24/11/2022 10:34

Boyfriend organised an appt with the local planning officer to build a house on my garden, without asking me.

I came home to discover them discussing road access.

I politely told the planning officer that he'd had a wasted journey, and then kicked my now ex out. Cheeky sod!

LindaEllen · 24/11/2022 10:35

Cherrycakepop87 · 24/11/2022 07:00

Took pictures of my kids and living room. Not posed pics, but secretly snapping away as we were sat talking. One of them was of the back of my daughter's head while she was sat in her highchair. I thought she had her phone angled weird but I saw she'd taken a pic as I passed her a drink and glanced at her phone.

Maybe she was snapchatting showing people where she is? I do it a lot.

DearBangtan7 · 24/11/2022 10:37

@MeMyBooksAndMyCats 😵‍💫

@Peteryougit some people don't know boundaries obviously!

@BobbyBobbyBobby that is really weird, a Shetland pony!? How cute! But not so much inside a house of course, hope it didn't wreck anything!

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EarringsandLipstick · 24/11/2022 10:45

Bit strange to ask if you’ve nothing to add.
But the Daily Mail will enjoy the thread I guess.

Exactly.

Itisbetter · 24/11/2022 10:48

Friends boyfriend moved the sofas while dh and I got drinks/snacks to watch a movie together. Dh just said “no” and put them back…..we then watched in silence for aaaaages.

Onefootinthegroove · 24/11/2022 10:49

Oh, ok then.
Ex best friend of 35 ish years just decided to go into the study and take one of DH's professional certificates off the wall and took it home with her. She had just popped in for a coffee, not a drop of alcohol taken. When asked about it she freely admitted she had it, she liked the look of it so she took it . T'was the start of some batshit shenanigans , hence Ex best friend.
DFIL let himself into the house when I was asleep after a run of night shifts and came into the bedroom and woke me up deliberately because " nobody needs to be in bed at 10am on a week day !" Yes Nigel, you do if you only climbed in there at 9:30 am , you muppet. DH got his keys back off him the same day.

Thedamndoorbell · 24/11/2022 10:52

Not my house but my street that I had just moved into that year.

Invited my relatively new friend and her kids to come trick or treating with us around my street.

Friend brought her boyfriend along. He refused to sit down and hung around the doorway.

Once we went out and started chapping neighbours door, anyone who dared not to answer (even with pumpkins/lights outside) was verbally abused by the boyfriend. He started shouting .. " ah haha fucking witch not answering the door'.. "ah ha I can fucking see you hiding, ignoring the kids'.. i have never seen anything like it and have never felt more embarrassed and mortified. The friend was not at all fazed by it. They then proceeded to have a full blown screaming match in my driveway.

Turned out she was as much of a raging bull as he was. Very volatile relationship. Safe to say I never invited her again and we are no longer friends.

Whisperingangels · 24/11/2022 11:29

A work colleague asked to stay over at my apartment after the work Christmas party as she lived far from the city centre we were out in.

She lasted about 2 hours on the work night out but went back to mine early as she was too drunk.

I came back hours later and noticed a horrible smell but didn’t really think much about it. Until I woke up the next day and as I walked into the open plan living/kitchen/dining I noticed she had gone but left a lovely present.

There was poo everywhere… literally everywhere - up the walls, all over the floors and sofas (even in the sofa seams) and worst of all it had even made it into the dishwasher.

I immediately called in a cleaning team and moved to a friends as luckily I was moving out the following month.

I couldn’t ever bring myself to ask her what happened as I didn’t want to embarrass her but god I wish I could ask WTF happened.

PoshHorseyBird · 24/11/2022 11:30

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BobbyBobbyBobby · 24/11/2022 11:43

sueelleker · 24/11/2022 10:02

Wait... she brought the pony into the house? 😮

Yes. He was just stood there. It was funny and my friend’s reasoning was that we were always told not to leave the ponies tied up anywhere.

DelilahJane · 24/11/2022 11:52

Not my friends but MIL arrived late one night extremely drunk, around 10pm, with DH cousin, his new girlfriend and their two dogs. DH is not close to this cousin other than a hello at family events.

Long story short MIL spilled a bottle of red wine over my new sofa, one of the dogs pee'd on my rug and the girlfriend sat and picked her nose then tried to wipe it on my chair. We'd only been in our home a few weeks and all the stuff was brand new that we saved for ages to get. DH told them they had to leave.

She did try it again a few weeks later when she arrived after the local bars closing time with four friends, they swore they only wanted in for a quick drink while they waited for a taxi. DH didn't let them in. They all live within a ten minute walking distance from the bar... it would have taken them longer to walk to our house. I'm not longer a push over and the door is kept firmly locked - and MIL knows she doesn't get in unless she has let us know when and why she is coming.

tulips27 · 24/11/2022 12:01

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ShimmeringShirts · 24/11/2022 12:02

Daily Fail fodder is getting weak.

abblie · 24/11/2022 12:17

LindorDoubleChoc · 24/11/2022 10:22

Really? goodness.

Sorry my self of humour must not be that poor compared to yours or its lack of sleep who knows