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?

A friend and her DD (then about 7) stayed the night after a family party. A couple of weeks later I went into the spare room and there were about 30 flies on the window. Further investigation revealed a plate of abandoned party food in the storage space under the bed, now festooned with opened fly cocoons - and a Fruit Shoot type drink with her DD's full name written on the label in permanent marker (she played with my permanent marker too?!) Friend had just moved a long way away so I didn't pursue it - I didn't have to let her kid stay over again!

Super Mousse . The peach ripple was the best, almost never defrosted by brother and I. Along with a chocolate frozen pudding called a Lovely. Like a firm custard with with cream flower in the centre. I used to eat them frozen solid.

This is such a bizarre/funny thread!
Shamelessly placemarking!

I'm so glad she's my ex MIL! She also told me I was weird and cruel because I wouldn't let her youngest DC (there's a huge age gap between her DC1, my ex, and DC7) have my childhood bear or jewellery groom my jewellery box. Apparently I was ridiculous for telling the child off for being in my bedroom and going through my things luckily she found the jewellery not the sex toys , and that I'd 'learn' as my own DC got older. They are adults now, and I can say with 99.99% accuracy that they have never gone into someones bedroom uninvited and wouldn't dream of looking through closed boxes!

The fact she came up with this spurious "explanation" the first time she did it suggests that she does actually know it's completely batshit bizarre behaviour.

@NovemberMorn were they discussing the story of the woman who threw an unflushable poo out the window on a Tinder date, the poo got stuck on the windowsill, she got trapped upside down in the window trying to retrieve it and had to rescued by the fire brigade?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=N9g_POqu6vc

My nephew’s inlaws were visiting from abroad. Bil asked if they could stay 2 nights at ours as we live near a city they wanted to visit.

Nephew’s fil insisted that his dw gave him food from her plate. She wasn’t allowed to eat one meal to herself. And if there was a choice then she had to pick the opposite to him and share with him.
Extremely bizarre.
He also told us when he considered it was time for us all to go to bed.
It was about 10pm.

My friend decided she needed my clothes pegs any on the floor meant I did not need them so she took them

Oh god, I'm sorry. I feel your pain.

My mum did a random washload for me and put my expensive shirt (that contained wool and the care label was clear) in the dryer. I don't put any shirts in there, let alone that one. I complained to her, but ultimately I had to grin and bear it so as not to hurt her feelings. A genuine mistake. Grr.

She said 'a friend'...so either people repeat this story and make it more personal to them, or a lot of people fling their poo out of windows if it doesn't flush.😆

Wowzers that's terrible!

@JesusBlessYou OMG - did you ever manage to explain go her it was her son who was the one bad with money? Ugh.

@Gabitule re ", or is worried about the bacteria which fly through the air whenever the toilet is flushes?"

Surely everyone knows by now you should put the lid down before you flush??

Very Motherland Christmas special with the half an onion. Always makes me laugh.

Nope. He'd have denied it/ blamed me anyway. So there was no point.

I had a flat mate who threw her used tampons in the bin, she didn’t even consider wrapping them 🤮

When I was a child we had family friends to stay who brought nothing with them and didn't pay for anything or lift a finger the whole time, then at the end of the visit they gifted my mother an almost empty bottle of squash and an open pack of biscuits as a thank you gift 😂

Not me, but my friend's brother stayed with her. He was very ditzy and thought the electric kettle was a traditional one that needed to be put on the gas hob, and that the home phone was a mobile (back when they did look sort of similar, granted) and brought it out with him.

For me, my BiL came with a female friend, not his girlfriend (who was elsewhere). I made the kids share rooms to make room. Turned out his friend had close relatives in same city (but chose not to stay with them), walked into our bedroom in middle of night as couldn't find the toilet, didn't say a single thank you for staying, left her stinky running socks in our hallway, and left her sweaty running leggings in the bedroom after she went.

My mum came to stay with us while we lived abroad. She has twisted her ankle. Came home from work to find she'd cleaned our kitchen floor mainly with a toothbrush. It was a very small kitchen!

Had a friend stop with me got on well only had one bed flat so i slept on sofa. next morning at 4 i was awoken by her pacing about the flat in and out the lounge where i was back in the bedroom then kitchen back and forth but all the time chuntering away to herself not in a very low voice. gritted my teeth tried to sleep but could not so had to ask her why she was doing what she was doing. said she could not sleep so was just passing time until i got up! end of friendship
weird was my oh twin brother. late mil had not heard from him for 10 years since he had split from his wife and left the area they were in, she often said she did not know if he was dead or alive. then suddenly he turned up with this woman in tow, he said he met her on dating site this was the first date and save the cost of a hotel could they stay the night at theirs? yes he is weird only man i know sat in the registry office while being married playing games on his phone because he was bored! then ended up in casualty on his wedding night as he had got too drunk

But I actually prefer to see the quote, otherwise someone’s reply makes no sense. So what if people quote full posts, it’s easy to scroll past them

(now imagine someone reading my message if it wasn’t linked to your message. It would make no sense in isolation)

When I was a newly wed, my MIL used to come when we were out so that she could rearrange all the washing on the whirly clothesline in the garden. She wanted to ensure that all underwear was safely hidden under towels and shirts. She said that otherwise, it would be embarrassing for the neighbours.

why on earth did you allow your son to move out and your own friend to stay?!

It’s not embarrassing at all, more embarrassing leaving it for someone else to clean up.

I usually put my own pads in the outside bin at my in-laws. Our more recent stay I’d used a few bladder weakness pads, they were wrapped in the bin in our en-suite ( we don’t always get the room with an en-suite), before leaving I asked my DH to take the bin and empty it outside as I had my pads in it. I’d never think about leaving them in a shared bathroom bin or expect MIL or FIL to clean them up after me.

Hosting a Halloween party in my early 20s. A friend who couldn’t make it because of a work night out asked if he could swing by and bring a colleague and I said yes.
They arrived, his colleague helped himself to plenty of absinthe, put on Panjabi MC, performed some traditional Indian dance for us, went to throw up in the bathroom and promptly left after he’d stolen (only discovered after he left) my Tiffany jewellery collection that was on the side in the bathroom.

Left with so many questions, was the dance a distraction? Was it just the absinthe? baffling.

Yuk!