How do guests drive you mad....

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Now Xmas/NY is out the way, guests are returning home. It's so difficult having others in the house and in your space .
People live so differently !!!!!!
how have your guests drove you mad or what weird things have they done?

needing a laugh to breath through multiple things broken/wrecked before I deep clean HAHA
NC just incase!

Aw. Things broken is a bit extreme. Ours just talk too much!

Yes excited for some quiet time that's for sure :D

My father will not have his phone on silent, so every 20 minutes or so there’s an annoying and v loud ringtone as yet another “hilarious” meme lands in his WhatsApp. Also: typing on said phone when you can hear every clack.

Putting cups and glasses down on wooden furniture without coasters.
Not wiping their feet when they come inside.
Wearing stilettos when they know I have wooden floors!

I always feel obliged to be up early for guests to host… it’s like running an evening cabaret but the B&B breakfast duties too. FIL is famous for asking ‘what are we eating today’ first thing every morning- never makes himself so much as a cup of tea.

Not contributing in any way. No host gift. Expecting to be waited on in every way. Not clearing even their own dishes. Leaving the bed unmade (either strip it or make it) with wet towels on.
Talking too much, every comment is questioned.
Mobile phone on high volume with the most annoying and intrusive jingles.
This is an older, but active, family member who lives alone so should be very aware of everything that is being done for them.

Being overly polite and worried about coming across cheeky/offending me or DH. (MIL is the culprit of this)
I've been in her life over 20 years, yet she still tiptoes round us. Even when we're guests in her house.
E.g. 'Noodle, sorry to ask but do you mind if I just use the toilet?'
'Noodle is it ok to just open this kitchen drawer to get a spoon out?' If making a cup of tea
Or 'MIL, would you like a drink?' 'Oh well...um, well maybe, um, only if it's not too much trouble. Oh gosh I'd hate to bother you or put you to any trouble'
'It's no bother, im getting one anyway, what would you like? Tea, coffee, juice, coke, water?'
'Oh just anything, whatever's the least hassle, whatever's already open' etc etc etc, goes on for ever

First time (and last) hosting these 2 particular guests.

Sleeping in until gone 12

45 minutes of water for each shower, yet not washing hands after the toilet

Putting rubbish into the washing basket

Insisting on staying in the kitchen to “help” which actually means talking non stop and showing you things on this phone, whilst you’re trying to get everything ready to serve food for 14 people.

Blimey broken stuff is a bit much OP!

I found the constant chatter about nothing very tiresome this year. I don’t know if he has got worse (DHs uncle), or if I’m less tolerant of it. He followed me around the house talking at me.

I locked myself in the loo with my phone and a glass of wine and he talked through the door …. it took all my willpower not to shout JUST PLEASE FUCK OFF

Well my relative has been here 14 days so far, not made himself so much as a cup of tea, refuses to eat at the table with the rest of us and leaves his upturned plates and cups on my newly cleaned sofa.
Orders Amazon deliveries and discards the packaging on the floor for me to pick up.
Also has a bladder infection and told me I was rude when I asked if he could wipe the seat after his billionth piss of the day and my billionth extensive clean up.
Has left the house twice and just sits in pyjamas staring at his laptop ignoring the kids. The kids he hasn't seen for 3 months.
I was so excited to show him our new house but it's been absolutely soul destroying and exhausting cleaning up after a fifth child. I'm embarassed for him.
Children are all on edge because they thought he wanted to see them but turns out he can't even be bothered to play a game with them if they ask.
They start telling him something and just trail off halfway through when he returns his attention back to the laptop.
When we visited him earlier in the year we had to get every meal from shops/restaurants because his house is too dirty to consider letting the kids eat at. I had to clean the bathroom before letting them use it and cleaned his whole house before we left.
No end in sight, either.
Phew, thanks for the outlet!

I don’t have them stay.

I don’t have family who come to stay even though they live far. My house is big enough but i don’t offer. My friends come over for evenings but they live close.

you can chose your friends blah blah

thankfully

Rudeness personified , that's given me second- hand rage for you 🤬

@DemBonesDemBones you need to get a grip and say something. Chuck out, no matter who your guest is.

so many walkovers on here. Why do you put up with it? Don’t use “family” as an excuse. You should not be so obligated

@CeriB82 I can't, they're not well there's no way they'd make the drive back.

This isn't your issue to fix.

If they have a bladder issue, give them a parting gift of adult nappies. They can change them at a motorway service stop.

Time to put an end to their visit, if only for your kids.

@LookItsMeAgain I couldn't do that. I know I'd tell someone else to but I couldn't.

'Nipping to the car'. Puts shoes on. 'Forgot the keys'. Treads shoes inside. Goes to car. Treads back inside with shoes.

argh!

Im really quite OCD about my house being tidy/clean. It drives me mental when people dont put empty bottles/rubbish ect in the bin when finished. I cant stand boring chat about peoples work woes either - moan moan moan 😂 or when its clear youv had enough and start tidying up around them and they continue not to go home haha

Oh, going in our bedroom - but this is specific to family/in laws. We live on one floor so apparently people are entitled to stroll in and out of our private space. Even when I shut the door.

@DemBonesDemBones why do you even have him around? He's disappointed your kids, caused you huge amounts of work and pain. Clearly MH issues but those aren't yours. Just don't do it again.

@crosstalk I feel an insane amount of responsibility for him. I know this is exactly how he behaves at home and it worries me sick.

From day 3 onwards, breathing

This I get really flustered

We don’t have a spare room so no guests. One of my best guests ever at our previous much bigger house was my niece when she was around 12. She was so helpful & polite & absolutely brilliant with DD who was then around 5. I wanted her to stay forever!