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?

My dear Fil did similar. Just after we had married. We’d bought a house and we’re doing up our first garden. ILs came to stay for a week (lived 600 miles away) . Both of us out at work all day, and FIL decided to help us with gardening. He did a magnificent job probably all day, just a bit sad that he’d carefully hooed all the “little weeds that were sprouting” form my newly seeded wild flower meadow. 😥. Did not have heart to tell him as he’d done such a lovely job elsewhere.
I don’t think wild flower meadows was a concept he knew of in gardens - he was born in 1920!

Mil was a bit over familiar. Whilst just starting courting with dh, she marched into bedroom without knocking the first visit we’d ever had and in meeting her for first time, and plonked herself on the end of the bed. Or tried to. I’d just come out of the shower wrapped in towel, looked at her and (not knowing her) got embarrassed and asked what she wanted ….she said she “wanted to watch me dress”. I mumbled incoherently that I didn’t allow my own mum to do that and sorry, but could she leave, she didn’t seem to understand, so I grabbed my clothes and went back to bathroom to get dressed. When I came out i went to get my then BF immedately and said he had to speak to his mum and tell her never to do that agian. Or relationship would be off.

in fairness she didn’t try that again, but did still make the occasional habit of coming into our bedroom (either at ours or theirs) without knocking. Thankfully my dh would yell at her in no uncertain terms to get out.

Maybe she was drinking it?? It was a thing for a while to drink your own urine for health reasons, I think it was the actress Sally Fielding that was into it.

one friend of mine, known each other for YEEAAAARS now.

we are not habitually bathroom door lockers, as it's just the two of us.

I love her to bits and find it funny rather than embarrassing, but when we're mid conversation, she'll follow me to the toilet and sit on the edge of the bath and carry on chatting 😂

My pisshead sister would just help herself to two or three bottles of wine from our fridge on her out after family gatherings. She always turned up empty handed and got totally lashed on our generous hosting before stealing our wine.

We are now estranged as the above was one of her most tolerable antics.

did she, maybe, have a tendency to leave skids on the bottom of the toilet?
that could result in a habit like that.

I was trying to work out how anaemia would make you photograph other people's possessions but then i remembered the first part of the post ! 🤦‍♀️

I imagine the paper left in the loo bowl was to prevent splashback for the next person.😜

WHAT

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

Why not, don't you want other people to feel welcome? They're hardly expensive and will prevent the blood you're so revolted by, touching your precious bin.

I just have a little (handmade myself 😉) bag on back of my bathroom door. It is labelled feminine hygiene. It has small selection of pads, towels and disposal bags. And instructions to guest to place items in bag and seal and pop in pedal bin. And not flush anything down loo.

im post menopausal now, but have younger women visiting often. Its courtesy to leave them sanitary items if caught short (been there in other peoples houses with unpredictable periods or flooding in past ) . I have the sanitary disposal bags, doesn’t cost a lot as in practice rarely used. Then I’m not handling anything directly , women using them know what I want them to do as there’s a little note on outside of bag to tell them.

discreet. Effective. And not a big deal. I don’t get what fuss is about to ensure you set your home up to be obvious and easy to visiting women what to do with used menstrual products. It’s bloody embarrassing visiting somewhere where it is not clear and it’s not acceptable to have to walk past strange men holding a bag of sanitary items to put in outside bin, we don’t ask people to do that with used loo roll, or used tissues, why make some poor women do a walk of shame,

Just remembered one which did happen to me. An aunt had come over to visit for a number of weeks from NZ and was happy to cook a few meals, do her own washing etc etc. No problems there (though I wasn't overly keen on some of her food but appreciated she felt at home enough to take over the kitchen and do her share).

One time she had done a pile of washing which had included her bedding. Despite my perfectly functioning washing line and a bag of clothes pegs, she draped everything around the garden - on bushes and in the apple tree. When asked, she said out in NZ they would all dry very quickly so there was no need to peg everything out. Fortunately after that we had an extended period of wind and rain so she had no chance to repeat this!

Actually did think of some more with PILs in particular:
FIL was put out he couldn’t smoke in our house so used to stand outside the kitchen door and face in and smoke into the kitchen. He couldn’t see the issue.
MIL didn’t believe we could recycle things she couldn’t at home. We had plastic and cardboard recycling early on so she would go through the bin and put them in the normal waste. She was particularly upset about recycling egg boxes - no idea why.
She used to watch me cook and then moment I served up would go ‘is that it, I don’t fancy that, can’t we have something else’. Nope.

i left a sock at her house once and she kept ringing and asking when I would come and get it. It was an 8 hour round trip.
I left a jar with one single olive in when I stayed once. When we went back I got a lecture about how much room it took up in her fridge. It had obviously gone off. She also saved a corner of cheese I left too that was brick hard.

Right? This is the weirdest hill to die on.

Not sure if this counts as guests but...I told a friend /colleague I was going away with the kids for a week and she asked if her parents could come to mine as they couldn't find an Airbnb and they'd be at hers all the time and just come back to mine to sleep.

I agreed (yep, WTF) and said I'd be ok for the weekend for £50 to cover utilities etc. She offered to pick us up from the airport to say thank you. I changed all the beds, cleared out the fridge...

We were driving back home from the airport at around midnight and I said I couldn't wait get home - she said everything's ready for you and my parents have left something for you to eat when you get in, if you're hungry.

Got home and the beds had all been slept in (mine and both kids). The bedding hadn't been changed. The kitchen was filthy and there was a half eaten pizza in the fridge. So after midnight I was stripping all the beds and putting clean sheets back on.

I rang her and she said 'oh don't worry about changing the sheets, they were only here till Thursday !'´

Turned out that there were 4 of them (they'd brought her brothers) for 6 nights, not two. And they nicked my new tbr novel from the coffee table.

That's not our friend then. Wednesday is Tuna pasta, Thursday is pizza night and Friday is Chinese takeaway. 😂

My in laws do this! They hate waste to a point it's almost a disorder. They bring all manner of crap. It's a burden if nothing else. This happens in the Motherland Christmas special when Julia's in laws do the same thing! Loads of Tupperware falls out of her fridge.

@MandSCrisps Leaving one olive in the jar was a bit annoying if you. Why didn't you just eat it!

She wasn’t called Mrs Tiggy-Winkle was she? 😉🦔

My brother in law washed (fully submerged) my expensive and favourite electric pepper grinder. He said it was full of little black balls so it needed washed.
little black balls = peppercorns

Odd but very considerate

DH's friend from his home country, planned to visit for a few days just with his wife. Arrived with their 3 kids in tow and a tent to put them up in. Then announced that they would not be moving to UK time whilst here and wanted us to have meals etc. on 'their' time. Got short shrift and cut visit short!

Then another of DH's friends (visiting from same country) decided to have a bath. 30 minutes later heard a scream and she flew down the stairs into the sitting room stark bollock naked.
She put bubbles in the bath and turned on the jets. Bubbles overflowed and went up to the ceiling and she couldn't find button to turn off the jets. By this time the bubbles were merrily making their way down the stairs.

We no longer have a bath in the house; just showers!

that's so gross and tacky. both the noise and the mess.

in fact, there's very little justification for having sex in someone else's house, unless you live there too. and even then, you keep it down and don't leave a mess.

You want guests to carry their used San pro through the house and to the outside bin? Iw awkward for your guests. Just get a better bathroom bin and leave the bags by the bin for goodness sake

Actually there's three! Just remembered my MIL used to do this. Not flush the loo, just leave a wad of neatly folded loo paper placed on top of the water.

But not flushing can't be due to embarrassment e.g. advertising you've been to the loo. Surely it's far more embarrassing knowing someone is going to find your unflushed poo?

A relative of mine announced he was going upstairs for a nap in the afternoon. He laid down on our bed.