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?

You've got me wondering whether I should pour her Pantene down the loo next time I visit. When in Rome and all that. The first time she did it, she said the flusher wasn't working and that she couldn't find any toilet cleaner (on top of the loo, next to the working flusher). We checked the toilet thoroughly at the time, there was nothing wrong with it, now she does it every time she comes and we've had a new toilet since this nonsense started.
And yes, it ABSOLUTELY boils my piss that she does this. There are a lot of other odd behaviours but this is definitely the oddest one she does.

We had friends to stay over a bank holiday - one night too long really - and they didn't use the shower or bath

Left a tupperware pot of urine in my bathroom cabinet.

Stayed to look after my dogs whilst I was on holiday. A few days after we got home they popped in to find their "shampoo" that they had left in my bathroom cabinet, however I had already found the tupperware pot of urine and removed it so they must have had a complete cringe fest when they went to look for their "shampoo" and couldn't find it.

Friend used to lay a single piece of loo paper on the water in the toilet. So after going, flushing, waiting for water to settle.
Just left it there for the next person.
Odd.

Friend was staying for the night, and there was a knock on the door and they’d invited some friends I’d never met over for a drink.

Hadn’t mentioned it to me, they just turned up.

Aww that’s actually really quite sweet!

An elderly grandparent type person stayed over when I was very young. When he left my mum showed me the vomit that was left on the actual toilet seat just underneath the lid it was thick and there was lots of it. My mum being the people pleaser she is, didn't want to say anything.

Not a guest doing something weird, but a host. DH went to a friend's house for dinner when he was a teenager. Friend's mum asked if he'd like ice cream for dessert and he said "yes, please".

The mum then presented him with a bowl of entirely melted ice cream! My DH waited until the mum was out of earshot and said to his friend "what's this?" and his friend just said "ice cream - what does it look like?". DH said "well, it's not frozen" and his friend replied "of course it's not - why would it be?"

😂He never accepted ice cream again!

I often wonder how old his friend was when he realised that ice cream was, in fact, supposed to be frozen! 😂

We went to my sisters wedding in Australia.
My inlaws did a 6 hour drive, stayed the night, tidied my Tupperware cupboard and drove the 6 hours back all so they could turn the heating on for us when we returned. (We had a new heating system in a small well insulated house which heated up really quickly)
Apparently they'd mentioned it to DH who thought they would never make the trip (as it was such a bizarre thing to do) so didn't bother mentioning it to me.

I felt they'd completely overstepped and felt a bit violated but was in trouble for not saying thank you to them for making (the completely unnecessary) trip

My nan used to put her knives in the drawer blade up to stop them going blunt

One from my mum. My cousins wife was over on a visit and was travelling around with her mum. Went to see my mum (knew her really well and knew her mum). So mum makes an afternoon tea up and put sandwiches out on a plate she kept for such an occasion. When they’d gone home mum couldn’t find plate anywhere. We both Searched high and low, then assumed she’d misplaced it.
Except, a few years later cousin visits with wife, stays with my mum and when they left the missing plate was in the cupboard.
Wasn’t even a special plate, just useful.

When first engaged we had a very young lodger, when we got back from a weekend away her and her mum can completely rearranged our living room furniture. It was very bizarre.

No, it wasn’t meant to be funny. He’s always been a nasty piece of work. I can only conclude he didn’t like to be told what to do and thought he could continue bullying my husband as he had done when they were children. He also tried to bully me, which was a huge mistake, but the knife incident really was the last straw. Fortunately, my husband had no problem telling him to leave and we haven’t seen or heard from him since, thank goodness.

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 can't compete with some on here, but my ex's mum was once at our house when I was out, and sneaked into our bedroom/my wardrobe and buttoned up all my jackets on their hangers. I'm sure she thought she was 'helping' as my ex claimed 🙄 but I never did manage to find out why she was looking through my wardrobe in the first place!

And my ILs once came to stay for a weekend when I was away, and chopped down our Virginia creeper without asking. Right at the time of year when it was looking its loveliest. And DH tried to defend them by saying I hadn't said I didn't want the Virginia creeper chopped down. Funnily enough, it hadn't occurred to me that I needed to!

How strange. Is she embarrassed about people hearing the toilet flushing? Does she flush the toilet at home?

At my exbf's house - a relative of his invited himself, his wife and child to stay overnight - even though we already had plans that couldn't be cancelled. There was only one spare bedroom made up and wife intimated she wouldn't share the bedroom with their child (because she 'makes breathing noises when she sleeps') and couldn't she sleep in the office? We said no as there was no bed in there, barely enough room to lie down properly and housed my large, heavy treadmill which she'd have to lie under. As the child was under 10 we felt it was unsafe and just not very pleasant for her.
The wife pushed back a couple more times - via the husband- but we still said no. Anyway we got back from our theatre visit that night and - guess what - the child had been put to bed in the office. My ex was livid. They were asked to leave as soon as they got up next day.

MIL, possibly the least competent housewife in the world, used to “help” round the house. She did a load of washing at some random setting of the washing machine and shrank my favourite jumper. This was obviously my fault because:
a) she had never heard of anybody having a jumper made of wool,
b) I had put it in the washing basket (in my own bedroom) when it needed special treatment.
I’m still waiting for the replacement, since “no one in their right mind would spend that much on a jumper that just shrinks if you wash it at 90 look at it.”

Some of these are funny and some are just bizarre. The shampoo in the toilet one is baffling. At first I thought she was embarrassed about smell/mess but if i understood it right, she wasn't flushing at all. So having a wee/poo and dumping shampoo on top. Just why? Does she never flush the bog in her own house?

I don't have anything particularly unusual or amusing. Though when we lived in a flat a friend of ours would sometimes come to stay. We had a nice spare room with a small double bed, always made up. He would say oh I'll just sleep on the sofa and I'd say no, sleep in the spare room, it's all set up and that's what it's for. He would insist, I would insist and finally he'd use the spare room. I'm still not sure what was going on in his head, possibly that he thought it was "less trouble" to sleep on the sofa but it really wasn't. I didn't want someone sweating and dribbling on it and it would have meant he would have been hogging the sitting room in the morning when I wanted to potter about in my dressing gown making and drinking tea (you had to go through the lounge to get to the kitchen). Plus he would have had to take/ use the pillows and duvet from the spare room anyway.

I did wonder if the spare bed was really uncomfortable or something so I slept in myself one night to check and it was fine!

Once came downstairs to find a friend staying over had taken the Dyson vacuum apart 'to see how it work' and was happily putting it back together.

I wonder if he was someone who liked to have the TV on to get to sleep?

Although you not finding the bed uncomfortable doesn't mean that he didn't find it uncomfortable. Different people have different requirements from a bed - I find my sister's guest bed really uncomfortable whereas my Mum really likes it

Not me but a friend had a group of our friends over for a weekend to go to a festival.
One of our friends gf brought some ingredients to bake cookies - without asking prior but anyway. She made the cookies, DIDNT WASH UP and left four all over the worktop, boxed them up and then took them home on the Sunday 🤣

Not so much bizarre as extreme CFery.

Flatsharing after arriving in London from South Africa. When I'd arrived, I'd done the obligatory few weeks on a blow up mattress in a weird corner, courtesy of friends, and so was happy to return the favour when flatmate asked if old family friend could stay with us for "2 weeks" when she first got here. 2 weeks turned into 6. In itself, not actually a big deal. But in that time she didn't cook a meal, buy a litre of milk, wash a dish. Eventually I lost it and told the flatmate she had to get this woman out of the flat by the end of the week. They were heading away for the weekend early on the Sat morning and friend was not returning to our flat when they got back. Great. I went out Friday night and they had a farewell dinner party... when I got up in the morning, the kitchen was a complete bombsite and the two of them had left on their jolly.

That was the beginning of the end of my friendship with the flatmate too!

I don't know who the guest was, but we had a house party during uni and someone left babybel cheeses everywhere.
Like 50 or 60 of them, all in different places in the house, like a few in the bath, in all the plant pots, inside pillow cases, in some of our shoes in the cupboard.
Never knew who did it and I'm guessing it was meant to be a prank or something but it was just so odd and we were finding them for weeks.

Gosh we have houseguests quite regularly and I can't think of anything particularly odd. We're lucky to have respectful family and friends, but we're also super laid back.

One friend was once, very, very drunk and we were woken in the middle of the night by him bursting into our bedroom and opening the wardrobe thinking it was the toilet!

There's a tradesman we've used a couple of times who ocassionally walks in the back door (unannounced, no longer working for us) puts the kettle on and makes himself comfortable for an hour. It doesn't bother us but we do laugh at the overfamililiarity.