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?

Have just realised my post is very specific. Oh well. Bloody good thing if they read it.

I thought this was standard too! 😂 I’ll give you a tour / or give me a tour. Maybe it depends on the context! 😬 I’m worried now! I usually only ask when someone is obviously house proud tho

I was going to say, why do ppl let them get away with it, but sometimes it is so batshit you're lost for words. Like the time when I was a teenager still living at home. Home was a terraced house, with another terraced street behind. Watching TV one day there was a knock at the back door. Next door neighbour walked in, which surprised my mum who was in the kitchen next to the door at the time. Batshit neighbour announced that she'd been visiting a friend in the street behind and was just popping through our house to save walking around the outside! And off she went through the living room and out of the front door. We just watched her go with our mouths open. (She was nuts though).

@Emotionalsupportviper he shouldn't have been drinking alcohol, particularly given his holier than thou attitude and rudeness about my immorality and lack of religion. His so called religion does forbid alcohol but I guess he was willing to overlook that part.

Sigh....not everyone holds the same view as you. No one said she shouldn't breastfeed. Why do it in front of a tradesman who is uncomfortable with it?. I would only breastfeed in front of people if I had no choice about it.

Gosh. If he's uncomfortable with it that's very much HIS problem.

You do you, nobody's telling you how to breast feed.

You could consider extending the same courtesy to PP, instead of issuing an uncalled for lecture attempting to shame a woman for how she fed her own baby in her own home.

When food is being passed round for you to take some, you look at how many people are left to be served before you take your own. It is called manners.
Guests to not help themselves to food from the fridge. Even my adult children, would look in the fridge but not take without asking.

If you don't feel comfortable breastfeeding in front of a tradesman, no worries, it's your choice. If another woman does choose to, then it's not up to anyone else to ask her to stop!

Mine was also a school mum years ago, who asked me to have her bratty child for a couple of hours. I was knackered with a newborn and said I’d just give the kids an after school snack, but was informed that that wouldn’t do as her daughter would be “too hungry after all her sports”. She then specifically told me to give her chicken and broccoli for dinner and “it must be organic”. God knows why I even went along with that BS, but the child predictably refused to eat even one bite & it all went in the bin completely untouched.

Mum arrives to collect her, so I tell her I’ll go and call the children down as they’re playing in the bedroom. Before I can say anything else she’s motored past me, gone straight up the stairs like a rat up a drainpipe, and is having a good look round every single room. She comes back down and declares the house is actually much smaller than it looks.

Kid then comes in and starts whining about how hungry she is because she hasn’t eaten, so I get a slice of shit eye from mum who says “don’t worry darling, I’m sure we can find you a biscuit or something” and starts going through the cupboards and fridge!

Couldn’t hustle that rude cheeky fucker out the door quick enough.

My FIL turned up to stay with my parents for a fortnight. It included a time when my Mum was quite ill and in and out of hospital.

Tbh I would prefer not to breastfeed in front of a stranger in my own home but the tradesman was an arse for saying what he said

"Pick 'n' mix" holiness, eh?

No surprises there.

It was years ago, before I had kids. I was ironing when a friend turned up with her toddler. I stopped to make them drinks. My friend then shrieked at me that leaving an iron out was really dangerous as her child could have pulled it down!

When I had my daughter 11 years ago the neighbour a few doors down came to my house (only knew her to say hello too) walked into my hallway looked at DD and said “Oh she’s quite small for how big you were!”

She was massive herself! 🙄

Looking forward to updates - will be like watching one of those helicopter police chases in action on US TV -live action CF'ery!

Bleach would be a dreadful death, poor thing.

As for your "guest" . . . it's terrible the way some councils don't maintain the pavements properly, isn't it?

No!! That's so awful as he was working and not a social occasion!

Of course there was food! There was a bloody household full of food! MIL was staying at our house for several days and offered to babysit for one evening. We ordered them a Chinese takeaway at their request. There is also a corner shop 2 min walk away that her partner could have popped to if they wanted chocolate. What I wasn't expecting was that they would open one of our Christmas gifts and dig through it.

I think it's pretty obvious that this particular CF was just very clumsy and the pavements were probably uneven, so despite having a couple of big burly blokes to help him out of the house he still managed to trip and fall over. I expect that it was because he had had too much to drink.

Some people can trip over flat nothings, as me grannie used to say.

As a poor student I went food shopping with my mum one day and went back for her house for a coffee before heading home. I paid for my own shopping because I'd been living on my own from 16 years old and self sufficient. I was still skint as hell and shopped very carefully.
I put my shopping bags in the porch and the frozen foods bag in her chest freezer.

A local man who hunted on my dad's farmland popped by. As family members of the shoot, my mum and another lady farmer friend often entertained shoot members and catered for the events. At our cost. It's shite but the womenfolk stayed home and cooked

This one would turn up around lunch time and always expected to be fed. Mum being a people pleaser would either plate him up whatever she'd cooked for her family lunch or would make him a fry up or something. This day she happened to have a soup on. While waiting for it he stood up, walked into the porch and rifled through my shopping bags (he had no idea who's they were or why they were even there) and came back eating from an opened packed of biscuits under his arm and two bags of crisps from a multipack.
Mum looked horrified and asked where he got them from because those bags in the porch weren't hers. (She didn't mention they were mine and I think she was looking for a way to shame Greedy Dave into stopping being such a CFer) He just stuttered something about it only being some bits and not really a big deal and they still had a big multipack left. She signed and said she'd have to go back out to the village and try and replace the things.
He never apologised but we did notice he never went poking round our cupboards for food again.

When DH and I moved in together, we had to get all my things from my place then get all DH’s things from his place so it was quite a lot to do. DH’s cousin, who is a major selfish and cheeky cow, sent her two sons (aged 8 and 10) with Mil to ‘help’ us, saying that the kids needed to understand what moving house was like. I was furious because they just pissed about all day and got in the way.

Mil later told me that cousin had breezily informed her after the fact that she fancied a day alone shopping and getting her hair done.

A couple of our relatives have a really hard time taking the hint to leave, to the point we started straight up telling them to go. I'm refusing to have them round for the foreseeable but had a real CF moment the other day. For context we have a very young baby. They have no interest in our baby, or any babies, go out of their way to avoid anything to do with kids and babies because of some issues with other relatives. Don't want kids. Whatever. Totally fine.

However, they are OBSESSED with DDog. One to the point of insanity, has pictures of her as their phone background, buying things with DDog breed and colour on them and calling them "The DDog cup/bag etc". Always asking to come and have DDog time. This coupled with the overstaying started to really bother me. I find it exhausting having to host them for hours and hours and hours. I even started just fucking off to bed and they STILL sat there with DP not taking the massive hint. We decided enough was enough. No more meeting at our house and us hosting for a while unless it's a family event/christmas. I actually stated this extremely clearly to them when they last asked and said we weren't having people over right now. Still pushed so I just made it clearer and they seemed to get it.

The other day DP injured himself in an extremely painful matter and needed a lift to A&E. All fine, they said to let us know if he needed a lift back. I got a text shortly after from their partner asking if I needed them to come over and help with the baby . Said no, very VERY clearly, which was accepted.

When DH was done and coming home we asked if he could get a lift back. Without asking me, DH or DHs relative, and after I had already very clearly said no to coming over, the partner apparently tried to get into the car as DH relative was coming to pick him up, from A&E, so that they could come over for the evening and see us.

DH didn't tell me until a couple of days later but I was raging. I'd already made it clear we weren't having people over in general, never mind after DH had badly injured himself and was coming home to rest! Not cook dinner and host them so they could come and harass DDog for hours and hours into the night

@ThisIsNotAmerican Please, please please start a thread about it , it sounds bonkers

I'm open mouthed at some of these. If someone took my debit card to buy wine without asking, I would have called the police!