Page 15 | What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

ToddlerSwim · 2025-01-07T11:17:11+00:00

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?

StitchVic · 07/01/2025 19:34

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!!

This is actually very sweet 😊

JesusBlessYou · 07/01/2025 19:35

Gabitule · 07/01/2025 19:25

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)

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I agree. If the whole thing doesn't need quoting, then copy and paste and bold/italics works well.

Yabadabadu · 07/01/2025 19:35

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.

Probably a serial killer

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 07/01/2025 19:37

Years ago one of my teenage DCs had a friend over to stay for a weeks holiday. She seemed to have fun and we were sorry to see her leave.

After friend left I was tidying the bedroom and found a bundle of blood soaked knickers under the mattress. Why she didn't rinse them out or throw them out or tell us her period had started and ask for some san pro I'll never know. Poor girl. I binned the dirty pants, ordered a new mattress and never mentioned it to DD.

Yabadabadu · 07/01/2025 19:37

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!

And another serious killer

2025HereICome · 07/01/2025 19:38

folkmore · 07/01/2025 19:33

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.

Stole your Tiffany??? 😳 Please tell me you got this back?

Gabitule · 07/01/2025 19:38

FasilBalti · 07/01/2025 18:27

If this wasn't my story I wouldn't believe it.

One New Year's Day I had two friends over for drinks. Nothing rowdy we were merry and had a great night. After they left I went to the bathroom and down by the side of the toilet was a shit.

I have no idea which of them it was. I have never shit to the side of the toilet. I make a direct (s)hit 100%of the time. Who knows what position you need to be in for that to happen, but somehow it did.

It was exactly like that scene in the movie Ted.

I never said anything. I mean, how do you bring that up in conversation.
Grim 🙁

do you think this was done on purpose? If so, you should have said something! You could have sent both of them a photo of the poo with a very jokey message, enough so the friend who didn’t poo would know that her friend committed the offence, and the poo-er would also realise that the other friend knows.

Or perhaps you think this was a mistake? They lifted their bum in the air so they wouldn’t have to sit on your toilet seat and aimed next to the bowl? But when they did finished, didn’t they wonder where the poo had gone when they saw nothing inside the toilet bowl?

Arran2024 · 07/01/2025 19:38

We lived outside Glasgow, my uncle lived in Canada and he gave our address to his neighbour's daughter when she said she was coming to the UK for a holiday. This was back in the 70s. We didn't know anything about her until she called us one afternoon from Glasgow Central Station to say she had travelled up by train from London and hoped to see us before she went back a few hours later. My mum felt obliged to have her to stay and we had to scurry around getting a room ready for her. She did nothing but complain about how small everything was compared with back home, our lack of tv channels. She moaned about the bedroom - mine (I slept downstairs on the sofa) and she laid in bed til well gone mid day every day. She didn't seem to want to do any sight seeing and we were stuck there, waiting for her to get up and start moaning again. For years she was a running joke about how not to behave in someone's house!

Lochroy · 07/01/2025 19:39

A lovely one rather than the point of the thread, but the bike storage post has reminded me of the lady in the flat downstairs when I first moved to London. I complimented her on her gorgeous big wooden trunk which she used as a coffee table. Turned out her oldest friend was an expedition tour guide abroad. She didn't have a UK home any more, and the lady downstairs stored all her friend's prized possessions in the trunk for when she was in the UK (and let her kip on the sofa). Such a kind thing.

TheFluffyTwo · 07/01/2025 19:39

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!!

This is quite adorable, though!

Bologneselove · 07/01/2025 19:42

WoolySnail · 07/01/2025 18:40

Poor girl, I bet she was/is mortified. I have always made sure to have bathroom bins with lids and would simply empty them without saying a thing, that is what they are there for after all. However I guess everyone is different. My mil has always made our Dds so uncomfortable about such things, then wonders why they are awkward around her 🤷‍♀️

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it wasn’t exactly nice for me to mention it to my son but I don’t want to clean up after another capable and unrelated adult who had the option to put it in her belongings. 😏

Newsenmum · 07/01/2025 19:42

These are just… so so brilliant. Classics.

ManchesterLu · 07/01/2025 19:43

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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Have you ever watched Motherland? Sounds like her inlaws.

ManchesterLu · 07/01/2025 19:43

My dad once rearranged my cutlery drawer because things were in the wrong places. I.e. just different compartments to where HIS things are. My way makes more sense to me!

Sevenwondersofthewoo · 07/01/2025 19:45

Bologneselove · 07/01/2025 19:42

it wasn’t exactly nice for me to mention it to my son but I don’t want to clean up after another capable and unrelated adult who had the option to put it in her belongings. 😏

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In her belongings her bag you mean that’s worse than the bin ffs

she wrapped them as well so what’s the problem it’s a bin.

housethatbuiltme · 07/01/2025 19:46

ilovesushi · 07/01/2025 18:29

Had the same thing with MIL. DS was in hospital and I was staying with him. DH invited his in laws over which annoyed me in itself like he couldn't take charge of our other DC and the house without help. I had a separate small laundry bag of cashmere, woollens, delicates etc. She chucked everything in the wash all together I can only guess at boiling point. Wool items came out like felted dolly clothes. I don't think delicates survived in any form at all.

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Another one from MIL but I was a guest at her house.

We where broke and I was heavily pregnant (my body had changed massively and I have very little I could fit into and couldn't afford new clothes, basically had like 2 pairs of leggings and 3 tops I could physically wear). MIL took it upon herself to go through my clothes and wash them, except she ruined them all. My tops where light and she washed them with dark stuff and they where stained, shrunk and bobbled beyond saving so she 'threw them out for me'.

DH had let slip a few days earlier that she had complained that my clothes where 'too tight fitting and inappropriate to be worn around her husband' (They where leggings like anything you see out + stretchy long turtleneck jumpers so hardly scandalous) so pretty obviously deliberate.

It really hurt as it was all that fit and I physically had nothing else, no money and she took the very little basics I had away from me.

Sofasogreat · 07/01/2025 19:47

ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 16:29

It would never occur to me not to put my pads in a bathroom bin and to bring it down to the outdoor bin.

Is it not awkward that anyone using the bathroom for this has to announce their period to everyone by walking their bag through the house and out the door?

I've also never used sanitary bags and was always told growing up to use the wrapper the next one comes in and toilet roll to wrap it tight. I've never had one unravel in the bin.

I'm now absolutely mortified though after reading your post. Years ago when I first started going out DH, I had these weird feeling that MIL was annoyed when I was on my period and using the bathroom bin in this way and not long after she got rid of the bathroom bin never to be seen again. I always assumed I was being paranoid as I had never heard of this being a thing. Now looking back I realise I should have checked.

I hate being on my period at her house now because she has the tiniest little bin in the kitchen and that's it. The outdoor bins in the house she's in now are all the way down the path shared with other houses and so it's not quick to pop out and is absolutely pitch black at night time. I generally just try to avoid going during that time of the month.

Perhaps this is a situation where I deserve a place on this thread.

Luckily we've got someone who fed their dog a used tampon so that makes me feel a bit better.

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No, not your fault at all. This is terrible hosting and a weird kind of squeamishness - those hosts should just get bins with a lid, if they're worried about dogs, and not treat period products as if they're nuclear waste out to contaminate everyone with lethal toxicity. Shame on them.

KhakiOrca · 07/01/2025 19:48

I’m only on page 8 of this thread at the moment and thinking’thank fuck I don’t know any weirdos’

(This makes us laugh now but at the time we were shocked 😮)

But then I remember my DSis ex MIL who waltzed in to a room where we were sitting round my mums bed while she was dying , we were talking about old memories etc, all the siblings, then all of a sudden we see her and she started singing “always look on the bright side of life” from life of Brian!!!

Dsis ushered her away, and She’s not with us now, but she was quite a character bless her 😆

Moonshine5 · 07/01/2025 19:51

Gabitule · 07/01/2025 17:46

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.

"another man's woman" ????? Is it the 1900's lol. Did he own her?
Don't you mean he slept naked next to a woman who didn't know him.

swimsong · 07/01/2025 19:55

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!!

I think this very reasonable and thoughtful - but for long term door quietness a silicon-based lubricant spray would've been better.

Iamtired123 · 07/01/2025 19:58

IAmNeverThePerson · 07/01/2025 13:09

Friends came to stay and brought their wedding video so we could see it as we’d missed it ( it had been a child free wedding and ours were tiny). Sort of sweet, assumed we’d get the edited highlights. Nope sat there all evening watching the whole sodding thing. Whilst they held hands and gazed at each other adoringly. Good grief.

I have not been in a rush to have the back. Sufficiently so that my dc are now 17 and 15.

I don't see what's wrong with this ?

Gabitule · 07/01/2025 19:59

2025willbemytime · 07/01/2025 19:14

@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??

Yeah but her brain is obviously not functioning the same as everyone else’s. Who knows how her mind works, perhaps she imagines little bacteria being splat against the toilet seat, then crawling their way out of the toilet, going down the stairs in the living room, finding her handbag and getting into it so they could be taken to her house 😈😈 🦠

housethatbuiltme · 07/01/2025 20:01

NovemberMorn · 07/01/2025 18:53

It was definitely a female when Judy Finnigan told the story.

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Colin from accounts is a show about a man and woman who meet and start dating due to accidentally running over a dog and adopting it together.

She can't have a dog in her rental so stays at his and his toilet doesn't work, she throws it out the window and he ends up thinking the dog did it.

Spitalfieldrose · 07/01/2025 20:01

DH isn’t close with his sister at all, I’ve only met her maybe 15 times in 25 years. But he discovered from another sibling she was homeless after her marriage broke down, so invited her to stay for a few days while she sorted somewhere to live.

We have a small box room which just about fit a single bed and nothing else, and she seemed happy enough in there for the first couple of nights. Admittedly she didn’t bother to greet DH when he’d get home from work, and was generally rude to me but I don’t know her that well and her marriage was screwed so I gave her a bit of leeway.

Day 3 I get home from work and there is SIL, a man I’ve never met before and a Labrador. Turns out she’d left her DH and kids for this bloke, and decided he and his dog could all move into our house and all sleep in the box room! And they weren’t homeless he had a place but didn’t want to pay the bills on it as ours would be ‘free’. I booted them out within an hour, DH was mortified and even less close with SIL than before.

folkmore · 07/01/2025 20:02

2025HereICome · 07/01/2025 19:38

Stole your Tiffany??? 😳 Please tell me you got this back?

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Nope! Not just one piece of jewellery either. Like 3 of my Tiffany pieces 🥲