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?

@Moonshine5

lol why is it derogatory to say "shat himself" rather than "soiled himself"? I'm from a rough part of Kent and that's how we talk. They both mean the same thing. Obviously I wouldn't say shat or shit in front of a child but I would say it to an adult especially if they were being a CF. My irritation was with the CF mother proposing to dump her non toilet trained toddler on me for a whole day whilst I tried to prepare for and host my own child's birthday party. Hope that helps.

My Nan had some new neighbours and told them to pop over for a coffee sometime. My Grandfather had only recently passed away and on the day of his funeral we had the wake/funeral tea at my Nan’s house. The CF new neighbour chose that afternoon to pop over and spent the whole time sitting on the sofa and eating the funeral tea. All our relatives were stunned as this woman never said a word to anyone, just sat there all afternoon!

Why would anyone want a tour of someone’s house? Unless it’s a stately gaff, wouldn’t it be boring and average AF?!

I remember your thread, mumsnet is often wrong!

My adult daughter.
When she was single we booked a holiday to Spain with her son and mine ( 5&10 at the time). Got in the car to drive to the airport and she casually announced that her friend and her friends son were coming too. I said wtf?? This friend of hers was quite a difficult person but was absolutely lovely on the holiday, but my daughter was an absolute pain the whole time.
This was about 10 years ago and I'm still annoyed about it. I told my daughter that I would never ever go on holiday with her again and I never have.
I've never let her forget it either and she gets embarrassed now 🙄

I don’t know what to say about some of these and so much CFery in the face of people’s hospitality. Mine are lame by comparison.

We were relatively young and just moved into a newly built house after relocating for a job move. DH’s big boss, his actual boss of the company’s group head, who’d had to approve DH’s appointment, lived in the same village. He stopped by uninvited and without warning proceeded to wander around our home like it was a show house, even opening cupboards. Apparently he had a vague idea about buying one of the houses for an investment 🙄
That took me aback. I can’t recall if he even acknowledged me at all.

A good while later some guy from another company in the group, who was on speaking terms with DH, invited himself for an overnight stay rather than booking a hotel. That shouldn’t have been too bad, except he was extremely rude about our free hospitality even to criticising the blend of tea I provide.
That stung as I’m fussy about my tea.

I found him so unpleasant I told DH never again.

Turns out we got off lightly. A colleague who he later foisted himself upon reported ‘he went upstairs after breakfast and when he came down announced that he didn’t know who the blue toothbrush belonged to, but that’s the one he’d used’

The lengths some posters can reach is impressive, isn’t it? 😆 you’d clearly starved the poor woman, and probably knocked her about a bit first, hadn’t you? Evil.

I don't agree

It was greedy and selfish of the family to take all the lamb and not leave any for the poor host

Plus it's good manners to ask if you can take or eat leftovers even if they are family

What flavour is your dog, to have elicited such insane obsessive dog-stalking behaviour?

A friend with children the same age as mine suggested we have a play date every Tuesday as we both had that day off work.

She always wanted to come to mine. The children would pull out every toy, Lego and play dough everywhere, spread crumbs, eat our fruit and snacks etc. she would swan out at the end leaving chaos in her wake, never tried to help clean up or instruct her children to put things back. I would suggest meeting at hers and she would make noises about hosting the next week but she always steered back to meeting at mine.

Eventually I said I couldn't host anymore, it was exhausting spending every nap time cleaning up. I said the next one was at hers. She said she couldn't have anyone at hers on a Tuesday as her cleaners came in the morning and she wanted the children out of the house all day so it would stay nice and clean.

So basically she was letting them trash my house every week so hers would stay nice.

Wider family peace? Why allow yourself to be taken for a complete mug for the sake of family peace 🙄
Who would give you grief for avoiding these idiots, anyway?

My friend’s husband died in a road traffic accident and we (with her permission) visited her a couple of days later to give our support. Her house was full of people, mainly young men, who I assumed were her son’s friends. They were standing in the kitchen, laughing and joking which seemed highly inappropriate, given the tragic circumstances. Some weeks later, l asked my friend who these people were and she told me she didn’t know them! She had a rather dominant friend (l could write a book!) who had invited her son’s friends round to support her family and ‘cheer everyone up’. These strangers cleared out the freezer, cooking all the food for themselves, damaging the hob in the process and drinking pretty much all of the alcohol in the house (which was a lot). What they couldn’t drink that day, they took home with them, i.e. stole. The funeral was probably the weirdest l have ever attended with the aforementioned friend acting as though she were the grieving widow, falling sobbing on people’s shoulders as we filed out of the church. It was well known that she and the deceased loathed each other, so the whole thing was completely bizarre. If I hadn’t seen it all for myself, I don’t think I would have believed it.

Haha! Not a good host 😂. Don't confuse good hosting with being a complete doormat, they're two very different things.

We were friends with a family who lived about 50 miles way and they would sometimes drop in on Saturday afternoon and stay until eventually at about 7pm when we were ravenously hungry I threw together a spag bol for us all. It got to the stage where I kept a large box of spag bol, not my best though, in the freezer. mentally with their name on it.

Exactly! This thread reminds me of the stories about the late Queen Mary, wife of George V. When they were honouring people by visiting them, obviously not your regular house, she would admire something and sit there until the host asked of she would like to have it. This included a dining table and twelve chairs in one case!

Are you thinking all religions or one in particular?

Meh, I wouldn’t be outraged at this personally. It’s family, staying at your house.

Not as cheeky as some others, but very strange,
I had invited some friends from the choir I used to sing with round to see my (fairly) new house. Of course "other halves" were welcome, but - one fellow singer brought her musician boyfriend, a complete stranger to the group, but we were all more than willing to meet and greet.
He drifted over to my sound system, produced a CD which he apparently wished to play, donned his earphones so that we would not be disturbed, or get the benefit of hearing it, whichever way you look at it, then stretched his six-foot plus lanky frame over a large part of my little living room floor, closed his eyes and began to conduct the music only he could hear, occasionally humming or chuckling.
It rather hampered the attempts at small talk the rest of us were making.....
He was not a member of our social circle for very long.

I flippin' would!

What right has anyone got to open a Christmas gift, a hamper, and eat stuff in it?

My adult kids wouldn't even do that. They might ask, but they wouldn't help themselves to something that was gifted to me

@ReadersD1gest

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Why didn't you call social services?!

I'm still wondering why they're being allowed back, family or no family!

Well that's your prerogative. My view was that it was cheeky and presumptuous to open and rifle through an unopened Christmas gift. I wouldn't do it at her house. The thread was about people being cheeky. Not horrific, just cheeky. Would you really open, say, a cheese hamper being saved for your son's birthday if you were baby sitting at his house, because you fancied some cheese? Or a wine hamper your daughter had been gifted by work for Christmas and saving til then, so not opened yet, because you fancied a bottle of wine? If so, maybe you are a cheeky fucker too?

Bottleofbeer said it was reported (in a later post).

Ye olde ‘house tour’ what the fuckery.
So weird! Go ahead, check out my damp, my black mold, 90s carpet upstairs. Go nuts! Call it a ‘grand tour’ if you want to.

The friend who lives 5 hours away by train and shows up, totally unannounced- not even a text or missed call to justify the out of the blue appearance-along with territorial ancient, unwalked dog that proceeds to piss everywhere for the next 3 days.

The vegans who suddenly show up for Easter dinner (they’re not even celebrants of Easter!) and won’t eat if meat is also being served. Never saw them again (my doing, with pleasure). And we’re a mixed vegetarian and meat eating household so, I’m extremely good at whipping up vegan and veggie cooking. I do it every day. But meat eaters are also welcome at my table!