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?

Wash your mouth out, Marmite is awesome stuff

I've been offered a tour of someone's house before. And when I was little I went with my parents to two separate homes for a tour. I do think people want/ expect it sometimes and I wouldn't mind but I do feel a bit awkward offering. 😅

You are a 'christian minister'?

Were they just bog standard houses?

OK this is a bit of a bizarre one.

Landowner's DCs shares 21st birthday party with my DCs. I take round some naice wine and naice home made things with smoked salmon etc, working full time so a bit of stretch.

One of my DCs finds all this in the larder being saved for the next day celebrations with landowner's family. Hauls them out, serves them round.

Then told off for investigating larder.

This is horrendous on so many levels!

Remembered another one...this time a house viewing. Our buyer came back for a second viewing and afterwards we received a couple of slightly random queries about how the electrics to the garage were fitted and what fuse it was on etc. We answered that the garage electrics could be isolated by flipping a switch in the living room. Oddly, after the viewing we had noticed that our TV unit was slightly misplaced, as if the viewer had shifted it to look at the plugs behind. We thought the queries slightly odd, but assumed the buyer was just keen on figuring out the ins and outs of the electrics.

About a week later we were out doing some gardening and went into the garage and noticed dampness round the floor of our garage freezer. It was off and had fully defrosted and all food ruined (about £100 worth, plus batch cooking). We then realised all the power in the garage was off. Went back to the house and found the isolation switch to the garage had been switched off. The switch was hidden quite inaccessibly behind the sofa and would have required someone to full on move the sofa to access it. Was so angry and it was obviously the CF buyer who had been snooping around and flipping switches.

Estate agent had hosted the viewing and point blank denied the buyer had done anything of the sort (accompanied at all times apparently.) We were so keen for the sale to go through that we dropped the issue. However, we came up with excuses to refuse his request for another viewing between exchange and completion.

factual not derogatory, I'd say.

Clearly I was not clear. It was a derogatory context "shat" and "lol".

Not to my knowledge in South Wales it isn't (part of the UK)

Some of these are beyond cf

I am.

i can say "Jesus wept".

A friend with two children had to go to A and E with one child. She asked me to look after her other child as her husband was at work. It was a significant anniversary but I wanted to help, she knew it was snd we were waiting for child to go so we could order a takeaway and watch a film. After 4 hours I hadn’t heard anything, texted her and she said her husband had been home, had his tea and joined her at A and E before they all went to Tesco! I’ve never helped since!

1. DH and I both work in the NHS. During the Scottish independence campaign we were at the in laws and were talking politics. Nothing bonkers but certainly nothing that I would ever commit to social media. FIL then said that I'd posted X on Facebook. MIL corrected him saying it was an in person conversation and he must be getting confused. He doubled down, I eventually had to show him my FB feed and then I ended up blocking him on social media. My SM is very bland and not exciting at all.
2. The wedding. I'm from a family of about 300 and OH is related to about 10 people. We decide to have only 100 guests - all of his relatives, some friends of both sets of parents, 1 table of our friends and my aunts, uncles and first cousins. Everyone else got an evening invite. My family are big into parties (it's a cultural thing) and food. They stayed at the venue until the very last gasp, OHs family had a long trip and are much older so left after a socially acceptable amount of time. MIL threw a full on hystronic the morning after our wedding meaning I was alone in the hotel room with the dog while OH was buzzing about trying to get her to calm the fuck down. I was not happy.
3. Before the wedding OH and I decided that a wedding was enough for a year and there would be no homes bought or babies made for at least a year. Literally the minute we got back from honeymoon MIL was harping on about how small our flat was, how awful the area, basically how poor we looked compared to her posh friend's children. OH decided to go along to a few viewings she'd arranged and she convinced him that he'd fallen in love with a house. I said no fucking way am I getting involved. Well they put huge pressure on OH to sell the flat as "we need that gifted deposit back", bought awful house (I'm not on the mortgage lol) and then we ended up in a chain moving Christmas fucking week. Of course I couldn't get time off because Christmas week so MIL went through all my things as she was "helping". I'm still fucking fuming that my wedding dress is inaccessible up the loft because SHE didn't think it was a big deal.
4. They're both miserable as sin, millionaires in their own right and I don't mean "on paper" but their house is always freezing and they talk about any spending as being awfully frivolous. It's so bad they have damp and won't heat their house enough to stop it. When I was pregnant I put baby down for a nursery space, it's £1400/month but that's just the rates around here and OH and I just need to suck it up. Well, you'd think I was expecting her to pay the bill, she went apeshit! Told OH that she'd watch the baby "a couple of days a week" so that we didn't have to pay the nursery. I said no fucking chance as I don't want the baby catching some mad form of mould induced asthma because granny won't heat her house and granda will probably steal its lunch (he's an awful glutton). She still harps on about the cost of it and how she's dying to have the baby but when I take him round she literally can't even hold him without looking uncomfortable and it's so cold (I'm taking 10 degrees) I need to keep his pram suit on.

No, I was offended at having money left at the side of the bed.

Seemed odd to me that they thought it was appropriate to go through my wardrobe or not bring a bottle of wine when they arrived.

Different strokes for different folks I guess but in my home I expect to feed people I invite, similarly I would never turn up to someone’s home for a weekend empty handed.

I'm still confused. You're annoyed about the money, yet still going on about the fact that they came empty handed
Why not use the money to buy whatever you think they should have brought.
That should sort thing out nicely. Maybe.

Let me break it down.

I don’t run a brothel so don’t appreciate money left on a bedside cabinet.

I wasn’t offended by them not bringing anything it was just an example of how different people are.

It’s really not that deep, just a contribution to a thread on MN.

Well here goes and odd one. My Sil was staying with us from overseas and despite having full access and instructions on how to run the washing machine decided to hand wash all her clothes and hang them to dry in my fitted wardrobe. DRIPPING… I still have emotional scars from her visit

We had a friend staying at our house for about 3 weeks once while she was between accommodation and one night her boyfriend (who we knew well) came over. We cooked for evergone and then called them down from upstairs when it was ready. She came down and took the plates upstairs to eat in the bedroom together rather than eating with us at the table. She had just finished being a student so maybe that excuses it but we were only a couple of years older and we sat there at the table eating our dinner feeling like parents of teenage children

I remember your post! People on it were so weird

Dsis visiting. She's vegetarian so I planned a curry for first night (us meat eaters would add chicken on our plate) and a roast for the second.

I brought squash and sweet potato to go in the curry and swede, carrot for with the roast. Sis helps with cooking curry as I run around after 3yo.
She gets the biggest saucepan, adds in all sweet potato, squash, most of the swede, a load of carrot. Takes ages to cook on the gas hob. She had onion and peppers to to fry for the base of the curry, I duly put the peppers away. There's no need to put every piece of veg from the fridge into this meal!
We didn't use most of it. Her and her DH batch cook and would use it in meals for the next few days. We don't eat like that.

She does it at mums house too. Drives DM insane that the food brought for several meals gets used in the first night.

I used to breastfeed my babies anywhere (except the toilet offered to me as an option at a branch of ToysRUs), but I don't think any man should have to be alone in the presence of a breastfeeding mum if it makes him uncomfortable, especially when he is working. He should be given an option to sit somewhere else (paid of course).

I grew up in the 70s, house tours were a thing. Remember my parents visiting friends and they be shown round. Thinking back its quite a strange thing to do.

except the toilet offered to me as an option at a branch of ToysRUs
To be fair, it is a toy shop. Did you expect to be offered a sofa from one of the doll's houses?