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 MIL and FIL came for a weekend visit. Our 3 yr old had cbeebies on in the background while playing happily. They arrived and I took them into the kitchen where i had laid out a light lunch for them and I returned to the room to check dd was ok. All great until the next day,they were still in bed,dd playing,me cleaning kitchen and FIL got up. I made coffee and offered breakfast for him and enquired if MIL was awake and did she need anything? He said she was, he made her a tea and took it in for her. All excellent then he went into the other room to play with dd whilst i got on with chores. After 10 mins or so dd wandered into kitchen a bit grizzly. I comforted her and she wandered off again. I popped my head round the door to see FIL changed the channel on tv and he stuffed the remote in his back pocket.DD was Mr tumble Mr tumble ..Fil not watching that crap I am here now and the horse racing is on soon. I was stunned. I went into the room sat down and said" oh mr tumble is on where did I put the remote?" His face was like thunder but the remote was located as he was keeping it safe from dd. Everytime I turned my back he did the same. Two days of snide ,unnecessary tormenting of dd. We had a better tv in another room but he was intent on having his way. I have been married 14 yrs and they have visited us twice along time ago. I never invited him again. I asked MIL about his behaviour at the time and she said "we were guests we shouldnt have to bow down to a child." When I explained that was the way we managed to get jobs done if dd was occupied and they had full access to the lounge or conservatory both with tvs they could have used they said dd would be better knowing adults come first a good life lesson. Not in my house they don't you witch. DD doesn't remember them much but I will never forget the meanness.

Wtf. He has some serious issues. What did you say to him?! What did he respond?!

No, but that's exactly what she reminded me of when I surveyed the back garden!

An (ex) friend and 4 family members came to stay (live in a holiday resort overseas) they took over my house for a week...by the weekend me and DH had had enough, so took ourselves off to the city for the night for peace and quiet. Told her the night before when we would be leaving - 10.30am, so around 10am I go to the kitchen for coffee and toast, all 5 of them are making pancakes, kids on stools...a proper cooking lesson, flour/pans everywhere - I was fuming. I finished that friendship pretty damn quick as there was 20 years of mild CF behavior that I suddenly realised was not on.

I’d stop inviting her. Why do you tolerate her?

PLEASE tell us you told him where to go. Jeez the sheer brass neck of it.

Not my home but - my friend and I went back to an after
party at a beautiful house in Dulwich. Woke up to the smell of her frying steaks from the fridge at 7am 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

First time I went to my cousins house with my parents to see her newborn. Oh it was a lovely happy few hours sat round chatting. In walks her fella who i hadnt met before ,who proceeds to move our cups off the coffee table we were sat round and rolls up his jeans legs and begins to cut his toenails on the coffee table. Time we went I guess. WHy just why? ugh

PLEASE tell us you told him where to go. Jeez the sheer brass neck of it.

I explained mine was a self service household as far as adults were concerned and got DH at the time to show him where the washing machine was and how to use it. Oddly enough he decided he could take his washing home with him.

I agree! I am a private tutor and parents turn up to pick up their child, bring the sibling in to my tutor room and don’t flinch when the sibling starts messing about with all my (expensive) equipment, jumping on cushions etc. one sibling drew on my wall but I didn’t notice until they left as I was talking to the parent.

the amount of parents who hang and around and that for 15 mins after the session because they want to…even though I have my own kids to get back to look after.

parents who ask for regular meetings with me 30-45 mins of extra time to discuss their child. My kids have tutors and it would never occur to me to regularly expect someone to give me this much unpaid time!

We have a visitor who turns the toilet roll round, so I do it to them now when I go to theirs. All very silly as we get on well, we talk about all sorts, but this topic is never mentioned! I will say she started it!!

I do that. There's a right way.

Agreed. I would like to say we all agree she has nothing to be embarrassed about...but based on some of the comments on this thread, I'm not sure that's the case!!

I actually can't believe a poor DIL was shamed for putting sanitary products in a bathroom bin. The very place they should be put. The poor son having to have that conversation with his mum 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️.

It has to be the height of poor hosting to expect guests to carry sanitary items to an outside bin rather than provide a lidded bin in the bathroom.

As others have said..nowt as strange as folk..

I do tutoring style job and had one student where after each one hour session the mum would come in and expect 30 mins of free discussion time. I found it so rude! In the end I hid the chairs.

Another one her younger child decided when they left to walk off with my son's toys. She didn't even say anything, was like the most natural thing to take it. I was like excuse me!!!

My friend threw a house party. I had agreed to spend the night at her house to help with the clean up the following morning. During the clean up we found that someone had been the toilet and wiped their bum on the shower curtain, despite there being an abundance of loo rolls in the bathroom which had been stocked up in anticipation of the party! Vile! We never found out who it was!

right. when I have a guest staying, I double check what they can't eat, or don't like eating, and run some choices by them. but I wouldn't expect them to tell me what we were going to have it's more like, Oh I was thinking on X day we're thinking of having this. and on y day, that. you up for that? have to double check extra with one friend now, as she's developed a lot of digestive issues aggravated by some foods, so I always make sure to run all the ideas past her and make sure I don't cause her a flare up.

my husband used to be a very picky eater, and we visit a friend over her birthday, and she makes sure that all the meals are something he likes. but he doesn't demand specific dishes. she just takes into account what he likes, and what he doesn't like, when choosing what to have, and will check with me if there's something she's not sure about.
thankfully, he's a lot less picky now, but there are very definitely some things he wouldn't eat. and, as a good host, she makes sure that even if not every meal Is one of his favourites, they're at least things he likes

Not a guest, but me! Friend has rolled up towels of various colours in her loo that she arranges in a pyramid. Thing is the colours are random and so I arrange them for her when I go to the loo, either in a pattern, or all the same colours in a row or a column. The weird thing is she always asks if it was me that did it. Maybe she thinks she did and forgot!

in my house, everyone is free to pop the kettle on whenever they wish.
BUT I tell them that.
I would be pretty taken aback if a first time visitor did so without having being told it was okay.

A friend I hadn't seen for ages came to stay.
We were chatting in the kitchen and i went out for a couple of minutes; when I came back she was over by my dishwasher, taking a photo of the inside.

Must have looked a bit surprised so she explained she wanted to show her OH that other people's dishwashers were also not efficiently stacked as he frequently criticised her stacking abilities.

My brother house sat for us once and decided to help us out while we were away by having a good 'sort out' and rearrange of basically all our belongings. I couldn't find a thing for weeks. Well meant but deeply infuriating!

In my student house a friend of a friend stayed over after a night out. In the morning we found 10 kebabs dotted around the house, mostly untouched. He didn't remember buying them.

My sister will rebag salad from a plate and offer it up again, all brown and nasty .

This has happened to my sister and to my sister in law!

Loads of people do this, why the fuck do people do this!

when we had our first ex racing greyhound, EVERYTHING was new to him.
the way he stopped and STARED at the doorstep like it was the weirdest thing he'd seen in his life.
it took a little while before he got the hang of going upstairs, and he was SO delighted. the first day he got the hang of them, he kept charging up and down, with a massive grin and waggy tail.

food was initially tricky, because as a dog whose whole life was in kennels, all food he'd ever seen was for him. the first meal, he was trying to jump into everyone's lap and help himself.

but the funniest was when someone left a bacon sandwich on the coffee table unattended. and they came back to a plate of bacon. he'd stolen JUST the bread. because they used to pretty much feed them brown bread and minced beef.

To be honest, in a strangers house ( not your own home ) it’s awkward, good on you for having sanitary bags available, but maybe a closed lined bin, in case guests might need to use it.

I end up with these things put in my handbag, if visiting family.

Luckily I carry sanitary bags with me,

I mean, I’d fuck with someone who had a loo roll-facing preference tbh