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

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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?

That's weird af 😯

Sounds like he tried to move in with you by stealth😂

👋 Another one here with DPs and ILs who bring the contents of their fridge when they visit. It drives me mad and mostly it gets chucked or goes back again.

MIL has always been manipulative. Anyway, FIL was crying in the garden. Toddlers were upset. DH was saying if she left now she'd never see him or her GCs again.
I just wanted everyone to stop fighting and be happy. It is a fault I have.
So I held out an olive branch ... didn't cost me much pride as she is a silly, shallow, emotionally damaged woman.
Anyway, she has advanced dementia now, so no more visits.
As for BIL he can be quite hard to stand up to (ex-services) but we have got control back of the kitchen every now and then during his stay. And he can be great fun too.

Great thread! I once woke up on a Sunday morning to my MIL and FIL in the back garden defrosting the fridge/freezer (which they'd dragged into the middle of the lawn). Admittedly it did need doing but it caused chaos as it was my toddler's breakfast time and they'd just hauled it away with all it's contents still in there.

An American friend came to stay for a week. After she left, I discovered that she'd put copious amounts of her hair (she had a LOT of quite frizzy hair) in my travelling washbag, which was hanging on a hook in the bathroom.

That's not that unusual for the older generation. Living together before marriage was just not done years ago - at least, it wasn't done by "respectable" people. My parents would have been the same if we'd lived with partners before marriage. They made it very clear that living together was a disgrace and not what people like us did. Different times when they were young.

I wish I knew why they do. Tbh I don't very often have "dump" problems but the wet floor and/or wet loo seat seems to be the norm.

I mean, I can't aim but I NEVER pee where I shouldn't, but they CAN aim and always miss!

My friend told me that when she still lived at home, her brother's friend had come round to see her brother.
They had all had chips for tea - made in the chip pan as this was a few years ago - and the fat had been left to cool or harden or whatever it was meant to do before you got rid of it.
Just before he left for the evening, her brother's friend drew a face in the chip fat with a spoon - the way you do!

This thread is hilarious.

For me, the guest who steamed her knitted clothes using her hosts’ kettle is the winner, especially as she wasn’t actually friends with the hosts.

Re people who either bring their own food when they visit or gift their guests food from their cupboards when the guests leave - I can understand this to some level. I grew up in a poor country and having enough food was a bit of an obsession. I HATE food waste, every time I throw away something I think about how much I would have wanted that half of apple/ biscuit when I was a little girl.
Giving a leaving guest something from my fridge or cupboard is the ultimate gesture of love, I am telling them ‘’here’s something I love, which is why I bought it for myself, but I love you more so I am happy to go without it so you can have it’’. Luckily my friends from the same background feel the same. I obviously don’t give them opened jars/ cans.

Re the MIL who doesn’t flush the toilet but pours shampoo instead, I’m on page 7 so don’t know if the op came back to tell us the reason for this. It’s possible that the MIL has an obsession with saving water, or is worried about the bacteria which fly through the air whenever the toilet is flushes?

Yes I mean the only excuse is that they’re deliberately vindictive - I just wondered if they gave the poster a reason…some families are just unbelievably evil it’s hard to comprehend.

My friends mother had the same rule. Her son and his partner were not allowed to sleep in the same room at her house until they got married . He was in his 50s and it was his third marriage.
I don't know why he put up with it

Not many crimes to commit round here tbh
harrasing badgers maybe?

Ask for a lockable trunk/bedside cabinet/fire safe. Then put your things in that, lock it and take the key home.with you.

You don't know where he goes though.

When I was young and my friends and I would go out, there were always weird lone men around muttering gross things and taunting us. Just saying.

Once a friend of mine came to visit from the US (she wasn't someone I knew very well). Her main purpose was to visit the UK rather than to hang out with me, but I liked her well enough and didn't mind. She was staying with me for only a few nights, but she went out and bought a secondhand bike to use during her visit. Apparently the bike shop told her that she could return it whenever she wanted to and get most of her money back, so she said she would return it to the shop at the end of her stay.

This seemed a little odd (wouldn't it have been better to rent a cycle?), but never mind. She had the bike and she was happy. Then at the end of her stay she announced that she wasn't going to return it to the bike shop after all; she was going to leave the bike with us and keep it to use on her NEXT visit to us. Note that we had not in fact invited her to come back and visit again!

We were living in a small terrace house with a small back garden, and the bike took up quite a lot of room in the garden relatively speaking. We also didn't need a spare bike as we had much better cycles of our own.

Anyway, the bike stayed there for a year or so, when she did come back on a return visit for a couple of days. She wanted us to carry on keeping the bike for her for the foreseeable future, but this time I was very firm and said we didn't have the storage space. So she ended up finally returning it to the shop. Not sure how much money she got back, if any.

Not the most dramatic story, but I found it quite weird that a guest would want their hosts to store a bike for them indefinitely, on the off chance they might want to visit the UK again in the future 😂

To be fair, their house, their rules. Often, it's for religious reasons, it's not about the couple's ages.

In a very rural location? I walk a lot late at night (I work late shifts and have to take the dog out when I get home) and looking up at the crystal-clear sky doing 'constellation spotting' is one of the best parts. We never see another soul. That's rural living for you.

Omg, I was visiting my aunt once and while I was out she sprayed the entire bottle of my Opium perfume around the house as air freshener. An entire full bottle!

A reverse situation- weird host behaviour.
My sister's friend of many years got married. My sister, niece and nephew were invited round for tea. After a couple of hours, new husband announced he'd had a recording device in a plant pot and recorded everything they had said since they arrived (including when friend and husband left the guests alone whilst they prepared the food). My sister was furious when he started to play it back and wanted them all to sit and listen to it.

Wow. 😳

That is really disturbing and glad he was sent packing! It makes you wonder what he was intending and would be capable of.

I have a deeply malicious SIL, who literally does the opposite of what we say with DC. We are now minimal contact (she lives with PIL) and she has no access to DC alone. It has been a constant pattern of undermining with the potential to cause harm - feeding a DC with a food intolerance that food after we talked about a Drs appointment, buying presents that we specifically said we did not want DC to have (think a scooter on a steep hill down to a road for a child that was at the young age to ride it), having nasty talks, etc. With young DC visiting SIL used to make a big thing of putting items that would normally be well out of reach of toddlers on show and in reach.

I really wonder what her intentions are and how far she would go. PIL indulge her and as a result have minimal contact with GC. SIL has MH issues (OCD) diagnosed, and we would do anything to work around this, but there is disturbing and borderline dangerous behaviour on top that DC will not be exposed to.

A very good friend was staying with me for a long weekend & she offered to cook the full roast dinner I'd planned for Sunday.
On Monday, as she was leaving, she said that the toilet flush was a bit sluggish.
Understatement, it was full of turds & nearly overflowed when I tried flushing again.
The Water Board came quickly, & pointed out that the cause of the blockage was potato & other veg peelings ! This was in the days when you had to pay for the service.
I told her about this, & she said that she'd always done it without any problems !
I could only guess that her flat's on the 2nd floor & the other tenants get the problem.

Well, yes but MIL was only 47 when I first knew her. And this was 1991 not 1961.

My bf and I had 2 couples visiting us for the night (let’s call them couple 1 and couple 2). After some back and forth we allocated spare bedrooms for them to sleep in (taking into account their preference re the softness of mattress, proximity of the bathroom, etc).

We had a lovely evening together, got quite drunk and after a while both females went to bed. Their husbands stayed downstairs with us for a while longer. Eventually husband 1 went upstairs to bed. Husband 2 asked if he could sleep downstairs on the sofa as he was a snoorer when drunk and didn’t want to wake up his wife. I quickly prepared the sofa for him and off we went to bed…

In the morning, wife 1 comes downstairs to ask if anyone had seen her husband as he didn’t come to bed that night. We had not since him since he went upstairs to bed the previous evening. Husband 2 was still snoring on the sofa, but husband 1 was nowhere to be seen. We called his phone. No answer. We assumed he got upset and left in the night and scratched our brains to figure out how we might have upset him…We looked at the cctv, but nobody had left the house. We then looked for him everywhere, assuming he was playing hide and seek 😀. He was not in the cupboard, under the beds…Wtf…

We eventually found him, sleeping naked, next to wife 2 (the wife of the guy sleeping downstairs on the sofa). Because of the back and forth from the previous evening regarding the rooms allocation, he got confused about which room he and his wife were meant to sleep in. So he drunkenly went into the room where he thought his wife was sleeping, took his clothes off and got into bed. He slept naked, next to another man’s woman, all night 😀😀.

Luckily my friends are very open minded so we really laughed about this.