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?

Oh my god that’s so funny, did you find him before the wrong wife woke up?? 🤣🤣🤣

@PrincessAnne4Eva

Just to be clear, does she flush at all? Before or after the shampoo gets emptied down the loo? Or does she just leave a shampoo-coated log floating in the pan?

On the night of my wedding someone pooed in a plastic bag at my parents house and left it to be discovered in the morning. We think it was my sisters bf at the time (hes not in the picture anymore…)

I haven’t told anyone this but when I was a child I was visiting my cousin for a few days. I was unable to flush a poo so I scooped it up and hid it under the bathtub. My cousin’s parents eventually found it (my brain has erased the memory of the stench and the ‘search’ for it) and punished my older cousin 😞. Perhaps I should send her a text now to apologise and admit it was me! 😀

Husband's cousin's wife came to stay with her teenage daughter. I showed her where the tea, sugar, mugs etc. are so that she could have a cup of tea if she woke up before me. In the morning she proudly told me that she has opened all drawers and cabinets, and knows the contents of them all and it apparently feels like her own kitchen!

They were supposed to visit her daughter's friend at a seaside town. The father of the friend offered to pick them up from ours as he would be attending a work event near us. She came home with food shopping for 10 people and announced that she would cook and invite the friend's father to join us for dinner! She didn't bother to ask me whether it's okay to invite someone who is a complete stranger to us and whether it's okay for her to use my kitchen. I absolutely do not like others to use my kitchen other than helping themselves to a cup of tea.

I mentioned that we already had food shopping done and there were barely space in the fridge and freezer for so much extra food. She rates her own cooking very highly (she's an average cook) and said we would be so lucky to have all the leftovers!

I pointed out that the friend's father might not want to have dinner with us and she should have checked with him first. As expected, he politely declined the offer saying he would have early dinner at the work event. So she decided not to cook after all and left me to deal with the extra food.

A few months later she tried to invite herself to our home for two weeks. I said no.

Not in my own home but in an Airbnb we rented in my husbands home county.
we had taken his parents and siblings away for 10 days already in the countryside. and we were headed to the capital city to spend some time with his friends. We hired an Airbnb just for us and our kids due to money and space restrictions. We’d already spent a lot on them in the previous 10 days. There were no really big airbnbs available.

they said they were going to stay with cousins / friends in the capital city. There were 5 of them.

they turned up at our Airbnb anyway, but only after they’d completed knackered the expensive automatic door of the underground parking. They thought nobody saw but it was all on camera. The concierge made me pay repairs to avoid being thrown out.

whilst I was sorted that out, and waited for the repair man…..my Inlaws settled into the sofa bed in the living room meaning we had no space to socialise. His siblings took my kids room so we had 4 of us in a tiny tiny double bed in an already cramped room. My eldest had definitely outgrown the sleeping in our bed stage.

they also ate all the food I’d put in the fridge. (Thought I was being clever doing a big shop before we took the hire car back - we didn’t need it in the city).

we went out to meet friends and I needed a drink to calm down!

to make it up to me whilst we were gone my MIL unpacked all my clothes (I didn’t want to unpack -I always live out of my suitcase ) and washed things that weren’t dirty. She didn’t peg them to the line on the terrace so they flew away. Loads of Zara holiday clothes just vanished into the city skyline….

she also used loads of my make up. Expensive translucent powder everywhere….

I came home to my FIL using my towel to dry himself in the living room.

She doesn't flush. 🤢 Just pours my money shampoo down the loo on top of whatever she's done in there.

@BlueSky2023 I have an even more disgusting one re: sanitary towels.

Shared a flat with a girl in my 20s, for various reasons, including cleanliness, I had to ask her to leave. She left her room in a complete state for me to clean and the worst of it was I found used sanitary towels EVERYWHERE. They were under the bed, in the chest of drawers and copious numbers of them rolled up and stuffed into cigarette boxes.

It was one of the most disgusting things I've ever witnessed 🤮

I have a lovely friend who does exactly this! I have no idea why. I do it so the paper hangs over the top of the roll on the outside rather than the wall side of the bathroom.
(I read somewhere that this is the more hygienic way as your possibly dirty fingers won't touch the wall or the rest of the roll. I just think it looks better.)
And these are a sophisticated, well travelled couple who stay in the kind of hotels where the housekeeping staff fold the loose end of the TP in your bathroom into a neat point over the top of the roll. Every day. I just think of her switching it back every day, just like she does at mine.😅
(No, I'm not going to confront her about it, I feel it would make me look as batshit as her. But she is totally lovely in all other respects. Just a bit, er, anal about this.)

Wtaf. And you and your DH just let all this happen?? Was nothing at all said?

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

Did he, aye? 😉

My sister had a housemate who when she moved out, it transpired she had picked up a dead pigeon from the street, put it down the side of her bed (against the wall) and was waiting for it to turn into a skeleton so she could make an animation out of it (art student) Grim

My mother is a narc,my father enables her and I'm the scapegoat

Yes,both are very abusive people

It was one of the last straws-they've chased me with a carving knife,conned limitless money out of me,blackened my name for daring to go nc with them and laughed and took the side of my rapist

There's more, refuse to be sucked back into their pit of evil

That sounds totally normal to me. Why have a bathroom bin, if you don't want anyone to use it?

My DH hates food waste and would always start packing up 'contributions' when visiting my DM. We would bring nice stuff then I'd catch him shoving in a load of crap too so it would get used up before it went off. I was very embarrassed and got really mad about it when I caught him persisting.

So many things. I used to run a private tutoring business from home. You’d be amazed how little respect others have in spaces that aren’t their own!

One particular example was a student (accompanied by their mother) who pulled out the flowers in my driveway. The idiot mother didn’t say anything, I told her to foot the bill for replacements and she had the bloody nerve to SCREAM at me!!!

Another one was when a child had a tutoring slot during her birthday party(??) and the mother brought the birthday guests (all 10 of them) to my home. They of course made a racket, and destroyed the paint on a wall.

Another spilt coffee and left rubbish on the carpet in my tutoring room. When asked if they could please put the rubbish in the bin, they remarked “but that’s your job, it’s YOUR home. The mind boggles, I couldn’t believe someone could be so rude!

We have become a society that cares very little about people other than ourselves…

God I bloody loved those raspberry ripple pots! The perfect consistency was for the mouse to be defrosted but the ripple to still be slightly icy!

Sorry - derailing thread. Back to page 3 I go to catch up with the reading!

I don’t understand open top bins in bathrooms for this reason though. I don’t want to see people’s toe clippings, facial wipes and sanitary products. Bathroom bins should have lids at least.

@PrincessAnne4Eva one solution to try for a blocked toilet is to pour liquid soap down it. Weird to not even try flushing though so 🤷‍♀️

I’ve had the houseguest who told me the death of her husband was far worse than the death of mine as they’d been married for 30 years.
The houseguest who bought some household appliance at a car boot sale, plugged it in and it blew all the electric fuses in the house. When she left she left it behind in a wardrobe for me to find and dispose of at the tip.
And the houseguest ( male) who was walking around the house with his laptop open, apparently showing a woman in Asia he was “ engaged” to my house. His wife was out shopping.
was really glad I downsized and could no longer have houseguests.

I find it really odd when people come to stay and they lay in bed until post midday whilst the life of the house goes on around them. Or not odd actually, just plain rude.

My BIL stayed for a bit after a break up and used to go out leaving all the windows wide open but did stop once DH had a word. Nothing compared to some of these stories!

As any fule no, the best way to de-flesh something is to either bury it for several months or let meal worms sort it out.

Pissed in my bedroom while sleep-walking 🥴

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I guess it wasn’t on purpose, but still pretty weird!

Agree on the bathroom bin. I have sanitary bags in all the bathrooms. I use tampons so need something to put them in and DD only recently started her period and using pads so she uses them. Would never occur to me to traipse downstairs or to the bin outside when they’re sufficiently sealed in a bag. And wouldn’t expect a guest to either