What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

OurDreamLife · 07/01/2025 11:30

I once had someone who was barely a friend come over unannounced and switch the oven on, look through my fridge freezer and cooked themselves something to eat. At 11pm.

I was early 20s and too taken
aback to stop them but these days I wouldn’t answer the door at that time or I would tell them they couldn’t come in and then close the door on them.

Over the past few months I’ve lost count of people who have left skid marks all over my toilet.

I’m currently being very picky over who comes over now because over the past year I’ve realised how little some respect others houses. I would be here all day if I wrote down the things people have done.

Theflopside · 07/01/2025 11:42

My husband's brother has lived overseas for over 40 years, but came to visit after their mother died. We had lots of issues with him while he was staying with us, but the most unsettling was when he'd left a knife lying on it's 'back' (so the sharp length of the blade was uppermost, iyswim) on the kitchen worktop.
My husband politely asked his brother if he could ensure that it didn't happen again as we had children and didn't want any accidents.
I came home the next day to find every sharp knife we owned lying blade up on the worktop! He'd even found some Blu tack to keep them in place.
He was sent packing!

PrincessAnne4Eva · 07/01/2025 11:47

MIL refuses to flush the toilet. Instead, she seeks out the most expensive shampoo in the bathroom and pours it down the toilet "to hide the smell". The first time she did it, I had very high maintenance blonde hair and she poured my £20 shampoo down the loo! I have to hide everything from the bathroom before she visits.
Or... you could just press that big silver button at the top of the loo, MIL! 🙄

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 07/01/2025 11:49

PrincessAnne4Eva · 07/01/2025 11:47

MIL refuses to flush the toilet. Instead, she seeks out the most expensive shampoo in the bathroom and pours it down the toilet "to hide the smell". The first time she did it, I had very high maintenance blonde hair and she poured my £20 shampoo down the loo! I have to hide everything from the bathroom before she visits.
Or... you could just press that big silver button at the top of the loo, MIL! 🙄

What the fuck? That would give me the rage

Twoshoesnewshoes · 07/01/2025 11:49

@PrincessAnne4Eva that’s so very weird!
our good friend sometimes gets up at 2.00am ish and goes for a walk. Rather unsettling at first but I’m used to it now 😂
we live rurally and he lives in London so he like to see the stars and hear the owls or something.

Jaq27 · 07/01/2025 11:51

Not so much weird as confusing ... in-laws used to arrive for week long stay and bring all the oddments from their fridge with them. Half a pepper. Shrivelled onions. Wrinkled apple. An opened snack size box of fruit salad. That kind of thing.
They are very well off BTW and definitely don't have a scrimp a save mentality -- I noticed a lot of food waste when we stayed with them.
MIL would get very annoyed if I didn't put the mouldy old stuff in my fridge immediately (which was already bulging with fresh foods I'd bought for their stay).
One time MIL had a huge meltdown as she'd seen her old fruit&veg 'dumped' on the kitchen side. She had a massive row with DH about it and started packing to leave about an hour after arriving from their 400 mile journey ... just strange.

Michellesbackbrace · 07/01/2025 11:53

Theflopside · 07/01/2025 11:42

My husband's brother has lived overseas for over 40 years, but came to visit after their mother died. We had lots of issues with him while he was staying with us, but the most unsettling was when he'd left a knife lying on it's 'back' (so the sharp length of the blade was uppermost, iyswim) on the kitchen worktop.
My husband politely asked his brother if he could ensure that it didn't happen again as we had children and didn't want any accidents.
I came home the next day to find every sharp knife we owned lying blade up on the worktop! He'd even found some Blu tack to keep them in place.
He was sent packing!

That is properly disturbing.

Flutterbees · 07/01/2025 11:57

My SIL likes to pack up leftover dessert and take it home with her after DH and I have hosted a party because 'no one ever takes dessert to her house' (she never hosts, that's why!).

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ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 11:58

Theflopside · 07/01/2025 11:42

My husband's brother has lived overseas for over 40 years, but came to visit after their mother died. We had lots of issues with him while he was staying with us, but the most unsettling was when he'd left a knife lying on it's 'back' (so the sharp length of the blade was uppermost, iyswim) on the kitchen worktop.
My husband politely asked his brother if he could ensure that it didn't happen again as we had children and didn't want any accidents.
I came home the next day to find every sharp knife we owned lying blade up on the worktop! He'd even found some Blu tack to keep them in place.
He was sent packing!

This is scary and I cannot imagine what was going through his mind when he did that. Did he say anything when he was confronted and asked to leave? Like did he insist it was supposed to be funny or anything? I can't imagine what that conversation looked like

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Pumpkinseason3 · 07/01/2025 11:59

SIL and BIL staying with us a few days and BIL would frequently take himself off for 20-30 min sits in the upstairs loo a few times a day (very normal for him apparently).
I went in there to use the loo a couple of days after they’d arrived and found a stash of chocolate bars and empty rappers next to the loo 🫠🫠🫠 🤢🤮

Rocknrollstar · 07/01/2025 12:00

I had an adult penfriend to stay and she opened every cupboard in the kitchen, left them all open and went out for the day. That was the least creepy thing she did and my teenage son refused to come home while she was with us and moved in with a friend’s family.

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ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 12:00

PrincessAnne4Eva · 07/01/2025 11:47

MIL refuses to flush the toilet. Instead, she seeks out the most expensive shampoo in the bathroom and pours it down the toilet "to hide the smell". The first time she did it, I had very high maintenance blonde hair and she poured my £20 shampoo down the loo! I have to hide everything from the bathroom before she visits.
Or... you could just press that big silver button at the top of the loo, MIL! 🙄

This is so weird. With stories like this I always wonder how they've got through life for all these years doing this and think it's normal. Is she doing this at everyone else's house? In her own house? How very odd and yes I'd be raging too.

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NigelAdjacent · 07/01/2025 12:05

Reading these I’m feeling quite relieved that my only contribution is my MIL coming to my house, folding my knickers and asking when we’ll be having another baby. Both rage inducing but at least not downright crazy….

AndAgain2025 · 07/01/2025 12:06

We invited friends over for dinner. They showed up with their elderly dog ‘who couldn’t be left alone for a couple hours” Once they got in their car to leave they texted that the dog had done a wee in a corner. They were too embarrassed to tell us right away.

So they thought it was better after the fact and made us clean it up 😡

The friendship faded after that.

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 07/01/2025 12:08

ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 11:17

DH had a close childhood friend. They were in their early 20s and friend had come over to hang out (just for the evening not to stay over).

DH was still living with his parents at the time and they were all in the living room chatting when friend randomly gets up and announces "right I'm going for a bath" and just goes off and has a bath in their house.

It's such a small thing but so bizarre. What odd habits have you seen from house guests?

Sorry, I know I'm committing the cardial sin of quoting the OP - but in this case I do think I need to make it clear what I'm replying to!

Did they have a set of clean clothes to change into, or go back into their dirty stuff? Had they brought anything like a towel or bubble bath or just used what was there?!

Nollybolly6 · 07/01/2025 12:11

Couldn’t work out how to turn our lamps off in the guest room so draped towels over the lamps to go to sleep at night

RaraRachael · 07/01/2025 12:13

Firstly invited herself, husband and 3 kids to stay with us. It was still English school holidays but we'd gone back in Scotland. So I'm trying to get myself and 2 kids ready for school and she decides to have a bath - in the only bloody bathroom in the house - at 8.15 - WTAF.

Needless to say the friendship fizzled out pretty soon after that

EasterRose24 · 07/01/2025 12:14

I had a guest stay for a few days. As she left she informed me happily that she'd only slept on one side of the bed, so I wouldn't need to change the sheets!
I was so taken aback that I forgot to ask which side 😅.

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ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 12:15

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 07/01/2025 12:08

Sorry, I know I'm committing the cardial sin of quoting the OP - but in this case I do think I need to make it clear what I'm replying to!

Did they have a set of clean clothes to change into, or go back into their dirty stuff? Had they brought anything like a towel or bubble bath or just used what was there?!

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Apparently he just changed back into his dirty clothes. He hadn't brought anything with him. He used a clean towel from the cupboard and I guess must have used whatever bubble bath / soap etc. was in the bathroom already.

I'm now wondering if it would have been more or less weird if he'd have brought his own supplies indicating he planned the bath in advance 😄I'm honestly not sure!

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IAmNeverThePerson · 07/01/2025 12:17

Jaq27 · 07/01/2025 11:51

Not so much weird as confusing ... in-laws used to arrive for week long stay and bring all the oddments from their fridge with them. Half a pepper. Shrivelled onions. Wrinkled apple. An opened snack size box of fruit salad. That kind of thing.
They are very well off BTW and definitely don't have a scrimp a save mentality -- I noticed a lot of food waste when we stayed with them.
MIL would get very annoyed if I didn't put the mouldy old stuff in my fridge immediately (which was already bulging with fresh foods I'd bought for their stay).
One time MIL had a huge meltdown as she'd seen her old fruit&veg 'dumped' on the kitchen side. She had a massive row with DH about it and started packing to leave about an hour after arriving from their 400 mile journey ... just strange.

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My mil does this too, I’ve learnt to roll with it. (And compost as i see fit)

ARichtGoodDram · 07/01/2025 12:24

Went to sleep in my DDs room as it was"looked nicer".

DH's best friend lives abroad. They've been friends since playgroup. Generally they meet up once a year on a group trip somewhere in Europe.

Last year he and his wife, who he's been married to for 20 years but she's never travelled with him once so DH and their friends only met her at their wedding, came to visit. We have the most space so they came to stay with us for a week.

On the first night they went to bed early-ish due to time difference and jet lag. Didn't think anything of it until DH came in front rh kitchen looking rather awkward and said he'd had a text from his friend letting him know that they'd switched rooms.

Basically she'd had a nosy around and decided that my DD2's room looked nicer than the guest room and she went to bed in there.

She was very put out the next day when I said DD was coming home from uni so they couldn't stay in there. She said I should ask DD to have the guest room as the bed looked nicer (it's one of those velvet framed beds) and was miffed that I said no on the basis DD bought that bed herself so I wasn't kicking her out of it!

Qwerty111 · 07/01/2025 12:27

@Jaq27 and @IAmNeverThePerson OMG mine too - the wrinkly apple caused me to cry out in recognition. Ours always featured a single fruit yogurt typically two days beyond its use by date. Oh and the tantrum if we dared to eat a fresh yogurt rather than the e-coli special after its 3 hour trip in the boot of their car.

delphinedupont · 07/01/2025 12:33

We once had ex brother in law stay after he broke up with dsil. Wasn’t ideal but he had no other family, had to be out of the family home for various reasons so we took him in. Odd things included shaving his beard directly onto the carpet - I’m talking full growth just shaved straight onto the floor. Then he took a packed lunch I’d made for DH and kind of expected me to make 2 up in future. I shot him down on this one so he made himself a sandwich using a full pack of ham! Was glad when he left, he wasn’t a pleasant man to have around the house.

ThejoyofNC · 07/01/2025 12:41

I love these threads. Can't think of anything to add but shocked at the cheek of some people!

Myfairyhanny · 07/01/2025 12:49

FIL came to stay one year for Christmas and brought a can of WD40 with him. He intended to spray all the door hinges so we would not hear them open if he needed to go to the loo in the middle of the night. He was in the annexe - we'd have not heard anything!!