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

[ToddlerSwim]

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?

@ToddlerSwim You could wrap them well,put them in a wash bag inside your bag. I would do this with my reusable pads.

Re cleaning the cat flap - I clean mine! I don't even have a cat...

But the terrier regards it as her 'window on the garden', it's at just the right height for her to peer through at next door's cats as they stroll down my path. So I like to keep it clean so she gets a good view...

My husband insists on taking his dirty laundry to his DB and SIL house, I can’t stop him. (He does the laundry when he gets there himself, says he doesn’t like leaving laundry that needs doing at home) He also takes all the food that might go off while we’re away.

lucky his SIL and DB seem to accept him and keep inviting us back.

That was quite nasty of your MIL

I had a flat mate years ago who used to put her used pantry liners on top of the bin if it was full instead of emptying the bin, some times there would be a few of them and they would fall on the floor around the bin, I was definitely not going to tidy them up and no one would empty the bin with this stuff on top of them, her boyfriend was also living in the house and you would think she would be embarrassed for him to see this mess but no, apparently not!…..

It’s true- there’s nowt so queer as folk!

my 'BIL' came to stay as he was watching football with DP. When he was leaving he says to DP 'I have taken a couple of your hair waxes, you had loads so you wont miss them'

I had bought my DP basically a year supply of all his favourite shampoo's, shaving stuff etc including hair wax. And he just 'helped' himself. I was shocked. DP had no idea what to say. I havent offered to let him stay since lol

Yes, my dad had a thing about cleaning shoes and I just let him get on with it. Being in the countryside and having a dog we have a set of muddy boots that stay muddy at this time of year. I think the volume and frequency of mud defeated him after a while.

That's really bizarre behaviour. Did you ever find out why he did that or was it simply to prove a point?

Why did they do that?

DH and I met at university and the first few times I stayed at his parents I slept in the guest room and DH slept in his bedroom. Fair enough. But then years and years and.......years passed, and I was still expected to sleep in the guest room (alone) whilst DH slept in his old bedroom.

By this time we were both 30 and had been living together, in our own house, for over nine years! In-laws had stayed with us, at our house, and observed DH and I sharing the same bedroom, with no problems.

It was only when we were officially engaged (and aged 31) that the in-laws finally, finally allowed us to share a bedroom at their house.

Never did get to the bottom of why this was? Though, looking back so, so much of MIL's idiosyncrasies could now easily be explained by her being autistic.

@Tracystubbs

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I just don't understand this. Are they just abusive people? I'm glad you're non-contact with them.

Threads like this infuriate me because I just want to understand why people do these things. They threw all your furniture down the stairs so it smashed and broke, even taking your curtains down and throwing them down the stairs.
You must have had a lifetime of this sort of thing. It's so beyond normal I just can't understand. Is it just that they are abusive? Why did you have them look after your children, did they not have form for this sort of insanity before? What are they trying to achieve?

But why? I don’t understand…!!? 😳

I invited a guy over. I had previously been friends/casually dated him about 15 yrs before. He was quite cool then. Funny and in a band but I opened the door to what looked like an old shuffling man in slippers weird as we had said we were going for lunch.
saw him go over to the mantelpiece didn’t think much of it.
went for lunch and realised it was a big mistake and eventually got rid of him. When I went into my living room I noticed he had parked a big piece of chewing gum on the mantle…
I asked why he felt that was ok and apparently thought we were going to go upstairs for sex and he was saving it for later!!

I was in a choir that included people from all over Ireland. When we had performances in my city I used to host other choir members so they didn't have to stay in a hotel.
I once had a girl stay who was performing with us by playing the uillean pipes. She asked if she could have a quick practice in the morning and I said she could. She had quite a lengthy practice session and my goodness it was so loud and she was not very good.

She was a very sweet girl though and she did ask first plus her performance was beautiful that evening so the practice obviously helped.

My ex-BIL once had a shower after he and SIL stayed over. Not only did he use all the hot water, he used every last bit of DH's shower gel, which had a good few 'servings' left in it. I could forgive that if he were a decent person, but he also left puddles of water on the floor, along with his damp towel.
This was a man who INSISTED on being served a roast dinner every Sunday, despite being too much of a lazy bastard to ever cook it himself. Fuck, I was glad when SIL dumped him and we never had to see his stupid face again.

Telling a guest that you are doing the cooking not him (in your own kitchen) really should not create a bad atmosphere!

I've heard of 'shits and giggles' but shite and bubbles is a new one on me! 😆

Good point! I’ve a loo seat that needs fitting if he wants to pop round!

This happened to me before, was working away in Ireland living in a static with another Spanish worker, the family bred dogs so one puppy had decided to make its home with me, subsequently came in one day to the Spanish guy dangling my dirty knickers around that the puppy had retrieved stating he thought they were mine 🤣🤣🤣🥴 most embarrassing…….

I kind of love that @Myfairyhanny !

He is ex-services and wants to be in control. Thinks he's a top chef LOL.
Anything for a quiet life ... :)
Besides, it's only for a few days, and my DH does stand up to him on occasion and say 'We're cooking tonight'.

I'd guess they did it because the previous time they'd 'helped', OP had had the gall to criticise their 'helping' (because they basically re-arranged all her stuff). So when they had the run of her house again, they thought 'we'll show her' and deliberately sabotaged all her stuff with a 'well, if you don't want us to help you, this is what we'll do' mindset.

Wankers.

So I’ve just realised you’ve posted two separate stories on this thread about your nasty MIL and BIL.

You actually APOLOGISED to your MIL to get her to stay after her awful manipulative behaviour? And just stand by and let your BIL cook and make a mess in your kitchen after you’ve asked him not to?

I honestly don’t understand how anyone could be such a walkover - I think you’d benefit from some assertiveness lessons or something!

It sounds like your dh’s family enjoy deliberately upsetting and taking the piss out of you bc they know you and your dh will just take it.

That's insanely weird. Are you sure he's not out committing crimes?

My housemates Mum came to stay (in a hotel nearby), we were in our mid twenties, and this was my first proper house rather than living in bedsits.

I had met her before and she'd seemed nice, a bit bonkers but generally friendly, so I was rather taken aback by what happened.

She took us both to a supermarket, one neither of us used as we were both pretty broke. I kept telling her I couldn't afford this supermarket, I was fine with us going to budget supermarket and she kept insisting it was all fine, she was paying etc etc.

So in the end I gave up and she filled a trolley full of all the expensive fancy things Waitrose has to offer (most of which I didn't like and did not eat!)

She also insisted on buying things for the house and again I declined, I can't afford these things, we get by without them (kitchen equipment, fancy mop and bucket etc) but she had to get them, it was all fine, don't worry.

Then later on I overheard her on the phone to her husband, complaining that I had made her buy all sorts of things I now could not pay for! Housemate of course had kept quiet the whole time letting Mummy buy whatever and why she thought any of it had anything to do with me, I really don't know (I do now suspect he let her think I was his girlfriend...).

Later, the pair of them had a stand up screaming row at the dinner table (when she discovered he'd spent the money she sent him for driving lessons on going to some LARP weekend), ruining a meal I had made, and I had an epiphany. I did not need to tolerate screaming verbal abuse and aggro in my home! I was an adult! I could stop this!

So I threw her out back to the hotel she was staying in and told her never darken my door again! I probably should have thrown him out with her but thats another story entirely!