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?

But don’t you use bin bags? You don’t need to ‘clean up’ anyone’s menstrual waste, just change the bin bag.

Out of curiosity, why have a bathroom bin at all? And what goes in it that you’re happy for your FIL to go rummaging through with his bare hands?

In laws invited themselves to stay to break the journey while on the way to an event, there were six of them which was a bit of a squeeze with just one spare room but there you go. Three couples - sister in law, brother in law, their sons and their wives.

Anyway, I took the dog for his usual walk the following morning as he was a bit unsettled by so many people milling around in his usually quiet house.

When I got back five of their friends had arrived, who I hadn’t been told about and who I’d never met, and all 11 were eating breakfast in the kitchen before leaving to continue their journey.

These are hilarious (and horrific at the same time).

My only one was a friend of a friend who came round.

She picked up all the random bits of fluff and tiny threads on the living room floor whilst we were chatting and when I opened the fridge door to get some milk for the tea, she covered her eyes saying 'The courgette! The courgette! Shut the door!'

What your doing is worse and disgusting

now for your FIL that’s disgusting and why the hell would he have pee on his hands it’ll be your blood only if he unwraps your san pro 🤮🤮🤮

Yes I often find that bins in a bathroom are for everything completely un bathroom related……..also sounds like a young girl not a DIL………probably not accustomed to emptying other people’s bins, not that that’s a general requirement when visiting others……..

To be clear the hos and hostess you got into bed with where your bfs mother and father?!?

I had a visiting academic come to stay while speaking at a local conference. He had been on a bit of a speaking circuit so had a like of laundry - I know this because he left it in a bundle outside of my bedroom door and calmly announced at breakfast that he would need it washed and ironed in time for him leaving the next morning.

Have you told that story before on here, or is there more than one household where melted ice cream is the norm?

Sorry it was my friend’s

No I get why she might not ask them.

I managed to stop an "unusual guest behaviour" situation some years ago- if I hadn't my friend would be writing about it now!
I grew up in Australia, came back to UK and I'd been back to visit my friends, taking my young children with me. Had a lovely time, I've been friends with my friend for years, she knew my children, we had a lot in common etc etc.
My sister, completely out of the blue, rang me and asked if her daughter could go out to Australia and stay with my friend, either on her own or with us when we next went. Apart from the fact my sister has only met my friend a handful of times, and her daughter had never met her apart from when she was about 2, the logistics of it just wouldn't work. My sister's daughter didn't drive, so my friend would have to drive her about as my niece had a list of things she wanted to see or do. If she came with me when we went, there wouldn't be enough room in the car, but my sister suggested either me hiring a car or my friend hiring a bigger one!
I can't for the life of me remember how old my niece was, about 19 or 20 but she also had 2 kids of her own by then so where was she getting the money from to go there and pay her way when she got there? Apparently she'd always wanted to go to Australia, fancy that!
I did run the idea past my friend for shits and giggles, funnily enough the answer was no!

Please tell us what you said!

I used to have lodgers, one of them kept leaving the lights on when I was out and I’d come home to an empty silent fully lit up flat.
When I asked her to please turn the lights off if she was going out, she responded ..
“But I think the bulbs last longer if you don’t turn the lights on and off too much”

@AliceMcK I hated having periods when visiting.

One of my relatives lived by a public bin and shoved my pads wrapped in a bag or in the wrapper which the pad comes in

That’s revolting. It’s definitely some kind of male dominance thing. Like dogs pissing to mark territory.
I now say NO to anyone wanting to use my loo. Apart from friends.

I find all the "ewww sanitary towels in the bathroom bin" so weird. Until I switched to period pants they were the only thing that went in my bathroom bin, except the very occasional plastic soap packaging!
Since the switch I actually can't remember the last time I needed to empty the bin, there's never anything in it!

I agree with you. I don’t think anyone should feel ashamed to be on their period.
Also, loving this thread 😂

Agreed. Will take my own pillows if travelling by car. If nothing else. I don’t sleep well at best of times, certainly not in strange bed, and my normal pillows help.

in fact I have identical pillows on my spare beds to my adults kids in their homes, asked them what they wanted and made sure they have.

Well he puts toilet roll middles in the cardboard waste, plastic waste in the plastic bins.. It’s his house, his rules, he’s very particular about waste going in the correct bins, if he wants to put his hand in a bin to empty it rather than pull the bin liner out, who am I to tell him not to!

i grew up in a house with no bathroom bins, rubbish was taken straight out to the outside bin, everyone responsible for cleaning up as they go along, not just left for someone else to do. I find it perfectly acceptable to do this.

My own en-suite has 2 bins, no plastic bin liners, I have one for general waste, I use pads daily so it fills quickly. My other for recycling.

There is only room for a small bin in my master bathroom for general waste only, recycling gets taken straight to the outside bin by whoever used the last of what ever was in the bottle etc.. I personally tip the general waste straight into the outside bin, no plastic bin liners. I’d have no problem if someone was to wrap their waste products well, but sadly as this thread shows people behave appallingly in other peoples homes, the last thing I want is dealing with menstrual blood off my bin.

I’m not going to start using plastic bin liners for other people.

Agree. Glad you sent him packing - guess you won't have him to stay again.

My MIL did this to us, she was doing us a favour by coming to wait in as we had a sofa delivery, she took it upon herself to clean the kitchen and bathroom, including floors, except I’d only thoroughly done both rooms the night before knowing what a clean freak she is and I didn’t want her to think I didn’t keep things clean. I don’t think I would have minded too much had I not wasted my evening the night before!

A quirky friend of mine kept forgetting to put icecream in the freezer and would occasionally seem confused about where the icecream should live, fridge or freezer. In the meantime she learned as she now has a child who appears in photos eating solid icecream

When I met my partner he moved into my house. We decorated the living room and his dad came round for a cup of tea without his partner on this occasion. Suddenly he got up and started walking round really close to the walls like kind of leaning in. I was like “ what you doing, Fred? (not real name). He replied “I’m just recording with my secret recorder pen (in his breast pocket) so Joan* can see the new wallpaper- it’s alright, it’s not like I’m being a weirdo or anything”.

Boyfriend was mortified.

Not me but something which happened to a good friend of mine. She had a friend coming to stay, not something she relished as said friend was pretty much a freeloader. My own friend and her husband were going to work and had left their guest to her own devices for the day. They lived rurally and she had no transport so would be around the house and garden for several hours before they returned home that evening. Said friend had rearranged all their living room furniture and told them it looked far better that way and she had never liked the way they had had it previously!

Omg I actually LOLed at this, even though obviously it isn't really that funny at all! 😳😂😬