What is the most CF behaviour someone has shown when visiting your home?

[Imamumgetmeoutofhere]

Just that really......

Mine was a few years ago and I'm still whenever I think about it.

My youngest had started primary school a few months prior to the event and she had got a bit friendly with one of the other children in the class and as a result I had got to know their mum quite well, in terms of chatting in the playground anyway.

We had storm one morning on the school run and as it was much closer to my house than hers I invited her back for a cuppa till the storm passed. I put the kettle on to boil and then went to the loo, then had to take an "urgent" phone call from my eldest school for some reason or other, can't remember what exactly and it certainly wasn't an emergency.

When I was upstairs I heard some clattering around in the kitchen and then heard a sizzling noise.

When I went back downstairs she was frying bacon. She hadn't asked, I hadn't offered and it meant she had gone through my fridge and cupboards the first time she had been to my house. When I asked what she was doing she said she was hungry and hadn't eaten that day

Safe to say I didn't ask her to come back after that!!

What CF behaviours have others shown in your home?

When I was a kid, a relative came to spend the day with us. We picked the couple up from the airport, he chain smoked the whole time in the car, then all day inside our house, then the whole way back in the car again. My parents must've been too polite to say anything. It stank. I still remember and it was about 35 years ago.

My cf dm who came to stay and didn’t like the photo I had framed of her holding dd at dd’s christening. Whilst I was out she went through photos, this is 30 years ago, and found a ‘better’ one of her and swapped them over. I realised when cleaning that the perspective was slightly different and went through photos and realised one was missing, never did find the original. Dm also stole a photo from my house of dd aged 15 holding my baby nephew. It was a lovely photo I had taken. Dm gave it to my db as that’s where I found it, db had no idea she’d taken it from my house just as he had no idea that the brand new bath towel she gave him was stolen from my house.

@ThisIsWednesday wow sorry, its just that you wrote it in italics with some reference to it being a gypsy thing, thought it might have a double meaning. No need for a sarcy eye roll.

It’s a toss up between two for me. There was the woman (friend of a friend) in the late 90s who asked me not to smoke in my own house. Then there was the guest who asked for the ham joint she’d brought back.

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Absolutely amazed at bacon lady OP!

My MIL came to our house once (always commented that our pictures on the wall weren't straight etc) and went to my sewing basket, took some pins out and started taking up my dining room big curtains! I was too shocked (and polite in those days) to say anything! She's not with us anymore but I kind of miss her batshittery!

@SpringBlossomJoy , tours of the house are not standard in any U.K. circles I’ve moved in. So I was a bit taken aback when a couple I didn’t really know (he was ex colleague of dh) spent 20 minutes showing us the house when we’d just arrived - after a 3 hour drive. Not even the offer of a cup of tea first!

My own ‘best’ CF was a Canadian cousin (50 ish) who I’d never met, who invited himself to stay and after 2 minutes in the house had his feet up on the sofa. I took him all over the place, sightseeing in London - he never once put his hand in his pocket. Then he wanted a ‘pub crawl’ with a late 20s dd - she paid for the first 2 rounds and then had to tell him very plainly ‘your turn now!’.

After staying for 10 nights he left, and there was never so much as an email to say thank you.
Mind you, all my Canadian relations are mad or weird, so I can’t say I was altogether surprised.

We had sold our flat to our neighbours who were renting next door. A few weeks before handover they asked if they could come in to show their MIL. She went through the flat, started to open cupboards and tut. We did not want to have a fall out and blow the sale as we had another place lined up.

This is giving me the rage!

My sister does this even though she’s a complete slattern herself!

I think I had the same "friend" as you, OP! 😩

I remember this and was def on your side. Knobhead electrician!!

Elderly woman I'd never met knocked my door and asked to have a look around my house as she'd lived in when she was a student nurse about 50yrs before.
I thought it was a bit cheeky but also quite sweet.
I did let her in and show her around... it was actually interesting as she explained to me that the house had been completely reconfigured since she lived in it as it had been a HMO for student nurses.
Cheeky? Im not sure but I wouldn't do that as I'd feel that it was.

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I don’t know if this is cf or not but after 20 years of marriage to my DH, we needed an emergency money for their eldest grandson who was 17 at the time as he got sick on holiday and needed emergency hospital fees (which we were only borrowing). My In-laws who are famous for being tight fisted declined ( they have many incomes and rental properties so not short on finances) refused and told me to ask the neighbours (who I’ve only known for a few weeks)!
I ended up asking my sister who was in a different country at the time, which obviously delayed my son’s treatment. 😩

WOW - more evil than cheeky fucker

My DH had a friend who when he met his wife we used to socialise sometimes. Years ago, they came round for dinner, their only child was running around outside, tripped up and fell, then started screaming it was my children's fault that he fell! "They made me fall"! We just stood there shocked, the parents were fussing over him, said nothing.
I'm still annoyed with myself that I didn't say "no it was your own fault you tripped, don't blame my children". They've never been invited round since..
Also this same 'friend' would arrange to go on a day out with DH , turn up then say 'I've only got a tenner to spend"! Expecting DH to pay for everything! One time they met up in the city supposed to be for a day out, then said he was meeting his wife and other friends for dinner in a couple of hours, abandoning DH! That was the last straw for DH, didn't arrange anything else after that.

The child then got up and went home leaving his dirty plate.

I hope you put it straight into the bin @TheFormidableMrsC

She should have bought more bacon and handed it over with apologies instead of handing over money.

Back when my daughter started school in.....must have been 2008 as she's 19 now!!, she became friends with a child in her Reception class.
I got chatting to her mum in the playground.
After a few weeks we'd got to the "coffee stage". I invited her round for coffee one morning after we'd dropped our girls at school.
I had not long had my 3rd baby, so was just getting into that newborn routine, breastfeeding and so on.

She walked back to my house with me, I made her a coffee while she cooed over the baby (so far so good).
The minutes turned to hours and I began wondering when she was going to leave. When I began spending more time with her it soon became apparent that we had nothing in common (other than our daughters being friends). She constantly put me down (I was a few years older than her in my early 30's at the time, while she was mid 20's), and she would make digs about my age, then it progressed to her making digs about my weight (I'd literally just given birth!). She would start every put down with "No offence...." as if that justified her right to come out with the most offensive comments she could think of!

Lunchtime came, and still she sat there. I started dropping hints saying, "What are your plans for today?" and "I'm hoping to have an hour's rest this afternoon while he sleeps".
I am not the most assertive of people, so didn't have the balls to tell her to bugger off directly!
I ended up making her lunch!
3pm arrived - school pick up time - and only then did we leave together to pick up the girls!

Needless to say I never invited her back for coffee after that!

I recall this thread. You were so not wrong.

Alot of people were on your side though I think. (I was one).

We moved into our house in summer, and went straight on holiday. When we returned I set up my kids in the dining room making 'we have moved cards' so I could organise the kitchen. We had two boxes next to each (empty) bookshelf and an otherwise normal dining room (table and chairs, a small box of craft stuff on the table). Some children in the street came and ended up making cards too. At some point one of their parents came to bring them home. I came into the dining room to find the mum helping herself to my books (that I'd gone to the effort of moving with) and just dumping the rest out out onto the floor as "my house was still in such a state anyway". Funnily enough I didn't invite her round for drinks when we were all set up.

This is just gobsmacking.

Years ago I was sharing a house with my then best friend. I came home from an evening in my parents to find a pair of naked strangers shagging on the couch. I asked who the hell they were, and they said “don’t worry we’re going upstairs now to the bed” - my bed! I threw them out there and then. Apparently my friend had met them in a nightclub and let them come to ours to have sex. If I’d been a few minutes later they would have been in my bed.

And this comes a close second

(BTW - all bacon sandwiches should be made with thickly buttered WHITE bread. There should be a law.)

Not to butter one would be the end of ours

Not my house, but a friend's house. She had been in the middle of renovating a house when her DH died suddenly. Many of her friends helped her during that phase and among other things helped with painting, carpet choosing etc. When the place was finished she threw a big champagne party to thank us all.

A mutual friend said her cousin was staying with her that day and could she come too? Of course was the reply. The cousin walked around the house with a total sneer on her face and then started ranting quite aggressively to the hostess about all the things she had done wrong with the house- colour of paint- why those tiles in the kitchen- it was a disgrace that she had not sorted the patio garden out yet- etc . Just went on and on and on. Then started saying things like her work was in design and she could not bear to look at things that were not beautiful. All for a mid terrace two bed house that my friend was renovating with the aim to sell on as an investment.

I was pretty gobsmacked and ended up walking away. I wish i had said something to her at the time.