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?

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After reading some of the replies here my weird guest story is so tame not sure if it's worth adding.

A dear friend who lives about 45 min drive away (and suffers terribly from poor mental health) borrowed her mother's car and came to visit me. She arrived late afternoon and by 8 pm it was clear she wasn't going home. She'd brought an overnight bag too so clearly we'd misunderstood each other. She was aghast at the notion of driving home after 8pm.

I was happy for her to stay but not having notice the guest room wasn't ready to be slept in. The bed was covered in miscellany, room needed a good dusting etc.

I just swept everything I could into laundry hampers changed the sheets etc and set her up.The strange part was the next day she didn't get up, at 2 pm she was still sleeping. I finally tapped on the door and roused her.

Sadly it was all due to the heavy duty meds she takes. I couldn't be mad as I adore her but it was just strange. I should ask her for a do-over one day when I can treat her properly like a special guest in our home.

DH and I went to a carol concert and returned to find that My in-laws had rearranged all the furniture in our sitting room to "make it look better".
Just why??

One drunk male house guest pissed out of the front third floor window onto the often busy public pavement beneath.

Another male teenage 'guest' racked up a massive phone bill calling wank lines from my family landline (days before internet porn was widely available).

My mate managed to smash her arm through the front window pane for no apparent reason. It was a grade 2 listed building and the window pane had to be the same, blah blah...cost loads to replace.

My lodger decided to become a heroin addict at the age of 40, and stalked one of our neighbours who happened to be a minor celebrity.

I think there are more. Don't worry, all those people were barred!

But mine was the worst. I still cringe about it now 30 years later...
I suggested skinny dipping, stripped naked (pissed obvs, well, we all were) and jumped in the 'swimming pool' with some random bloke, his gf was not pleased. Then later I got into the host and hostesses bed, in between them, still naked, and refused to move all night. Saying I was 'comfy there' and 'it was too cold to move'.
This was my bf's mum's house. On her birthday. I'd never met her before.

Strangely she didn't fall out with me over it?! In fact she seemed to like me after that!! 🤣

Oh, forgive me, I am not English so my turn of phrase isn’t perfect, I am incapable of seeing how ‘’another man’s wife’’ suggests ownership 🙄

re derailing a brilliant thread, that’s exactly what you did with your previous post 😉

My stepdad used to wash up to help out when him.and my mum watched my kids, however I told him not to as I put everything in the dishwasher. He still insisted on washing up, even though his washing up is vile, a really crap job, leaving food bit on stuff and not rinsing! On the day I was in labour at home him and my mum were there to keep the kids occupied and he walked in on me looking at the disgusting attempt at washing up I thought my husband had done, moaning about how gross it was and angrily shoving it in the dishwasher, before saying g he had done it! He also has this infuriating habit of drinking his tea, rinsing the cup with just water and putting it in the drying rack!!
My father in law used to always put the cardboard from the middle of the toilet roll down the toilet. My stepson used to unplug EVERYTHING before going to bed. My other stepson used to water down the remainder of the squash if the bottle was 1/4 full so we had a delightful bottle of ready made squash that sat there for days.
The worst was my father in law went to view a house on our behalf, unasked and before we had even decided to sell our house while we were on honeymoon, and rearrange our furniture!

The outrage at pads In a bathroom bin is shocking.

My cousin came to stay. Refused to sleep in the guest room because she was menopausal and didn’t want to leave our sheets damp so insisted on sleeping in her car after a 4 hour drive.

Another friend complained that my shower wasn’t powerful enough and finished rinsing her hair outside with the garden hose!

One more...my stepson was about 7 and was living with us, hadn't been for long. I let him have a friend round for lunch. I left the kitchen briefly and came back to find ketchup on the ceiling! I fucking hate ketchup.

FFS this is what a bathroom bin is for. I feel so sorry for any of your guests who end up either humiliated or chuntered about for using the bin for it's purpose

My MIL came over and tied up all the daffodils that had only just opened because 'they'll make more flowers next year'. OH told her that it was only done when they'd started to die off and she flounced out 'I know where I'm not wanted!'
We were due to have a French exchange student, the group were late arriving, having missed the first ferry and OH with daughter went up to school to collect her on Saturday night. He phoned from the school, having got her, 'She's vegan apparently!', sheer panic, this was early 90s and we'd never heard of veganism, call to a friend who was a militant vegetarian and she told us what it meant. We had a very miserable 2 weeks trying to please her, when our daughter went for the return exchange she discovered that she wasn't really vegan, she'd just decided to be one on the journey, hence nothing was on the school dietary information. and she ate what her mother cooked with no problems.

Completely agree. And poor girl - after doing what is completely normal - wrapping the used product in paper and putting it in the bin - her MIL is slagging her off on MN and probably to all and sundry in RL - all because of her own neurosis and batshit views on “the correct disposal of period products” ie bagging it up and carrying it through the house to the outside bin or taking it home in your handbag wtf!?

I’ve been in bed with flu reading this thread all day long and it has brought me so much joy. It’s also made me realise we urgently need a wider range of reaction emojis 😱🤯😭😬

It gets worse. Your poor son and daughter in law having you embarrass them like that. And before you say anything, your poor dil has nothing to be ashamed of.

My MIL does this. She doesn't like anyone to know she's been because they hear a flush.

She's the reason I have a lockable cabinet in the bathroom.

She chucked about £25's worth of Aromatherapy Associates Deep Relax Bath Oil down the loo the first time.

>hums "People Are Strange" <

I had recently had my first baby. A couple we knew came round to see us. After a short while the male friend proceeded to cut his toenails in front of us. He just left the nail clippings on the carpet. I was so flabbergasted I didn't say anything. Very strange.

Saw this on a TT Reddit compilation recently.

This is a deliberate act of passive aggressive misogynistic men - to humiliate and mark territory. Quite common amongst men you wont see again. They wouldnt do it if there was anothr male in the house with you at that time.

No way!!!! There are two people in the world who do this??

MIL lost her shit about me putting a pad in the bathroom bin once.

Then also lost her shit when I walked outside to put in in the outside bun like she told me to.

People are weird man.

Cut the plug off my extension lead for no reason whatsoever 🤣

A group of my DH’s closest friends visited jointly to pay their respects after DH’s brother died very tragically in a freak accident. During the afternoon one of the group announced very loudly and without shame that he had a great shag in my my daughter’s bedroom on a previous visit .

I lived in a student house with 3 other women and 1 guy. The bathroom was a constant source of ick as when one particular housemate was on her period the used sanitary towels were often overflowing out of the bin. She said she had OCD therefore she couldn't empty the bin once they were overflowing as she didn't want to make contact with germs 🤔 I did end up taking that bin out at least once because it just wasn't getting done otherwise.
The guy also never washed his hands after going to the toilet.
I only lived with them for about 3 months before I dropped out of uni for unrelated reasons but it was fucking grim.

My ex-DP and I invited my close friend and her husband to afternoon dinner one weekend. I can't remember why, but a colleague of mine also came over. My ex had never met him, nor had my friends. I have no idea what I was thinking, but I think and I must have felt sorry for him as he was lonely and I did have a right laugh with him at work. I thought he was absolutely hilarious and my friends coming to dinner also are, so I must have extended the invite when discussing weekend plans, thinking they'd all get on.

He didn't live in our town, so was planning to drive here and back again.

He turned up, got absolutely sloshed, insulted my friends with his "banter" then while we were chatting in kitchen after dinner, he disappeared and I found him passed out dribbling and snoring in my living room, taking up my entire corner sofa. We couldn't rouse him (three bottles of red put paid to that). So we had to spend the evening in the kitchen diner with my friends and we had to go to bed early after they left.

I got up early the next day to let the dogs out and colleague had already left. My friends and my ex thought he was an absolute bellend and they never let me live it down.

In hindsight, I was his only proper friend at work. Everyone thought he was weird, I personally found him an absolute hoot to work with and he was very good at his (creative) job. Great workmate, shit houseguest. 😂

He recently found me on Instagram, I'd not seen him in over 15 years. His posts are let's say... odd. I still have a fondness for him though, I like people who are quirky / bit weird by usual standards. I just won't be inviting him over again.

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