Page 22 | What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

Shoezembagsforever · 08/01/2025 00:21

Theflopside · 07/01/2025 11:42

My husband's brother has lived overseas for over 40 years, but came to visit after their mother died. We had lots of issues with him while he was staying with us, but the most unsettling was when he'd left a knife lying on it's 'back' (so the sharp length of the blade was uppermost, iyswim) on the kitchen worktop.
My husband politely asked his brother if he could ensure that it didn't happen again as we had children and didn't want any accidents.
I came home the next day to find every sharp knife we owned lying blade up on the worktop! He'd even found some Blu tack to keep them in place.
He was sent packing!

Yikes! That sounds like a Stephen King novel!!

Bunny44 · 08/01/2025 00:24

Qwerty111 · 07/01/2025 12:27

@Jaq27 and @IAmNeverThePerson OMG mine too - the wrinkly apple caused me to cry out in recognition. Ours always featured a single fruit yogurt typically two days beyond its use by date. Oh and the tantrum if we dared to eat a fresh yogurt rather than the e-coli special after its 3 hour trip in the boot of their car.

One of you must be my sister in law as this has my mum written all over it 😂😂😂

YesThatsATurdOnTheRug · 08/01/2025 00:24

overthinkersanonnymus · 08/01/2025 00:05

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

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

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I would have thought it was maybe some kind of 'got awfully drunk, sort of fell onto the toilet and landed wedged against the wall' but @FasilBalti said they weren't even drunk!! Were yours drunk?!

NPET · 08/01/2025 00:26

changecandles · 07/01/2025 18:43

You think it's weird when men need the loo? No. You are the weird one here.

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I said I think it's weird when men use my toilet not when they NEED it. You're very full of yourself; you're lucky if you haven't had men causing problems in yours!

FizzyBisto · 08/01/2025 00:49

JudgeJ · 07/01/2025 20:44

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.

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I went on a school exchange trip to Germany back in the 1990s. One girl in our group was vegan as well - genuinely vegan as was her whole family, not just making it up - but nobody had bothered to mention this when filling in the forms including the information that would be passed to the German host family (and we went there first, before they came to the UK).

Back then, being vegan was very rare in the UK; but in Germany - the land of the sausage - it was virtually unheard of. Her poor host family must have been seriously put out to just be dropped in it like that.

I gather that her parents were the preachy kind of vegans who, rather than accepting that they had made a very much minority choice for themselves that they would obviously need to communicate to anybody new who was going to cater for them, would be faux-innocent and pretend-shocked at the very concept that anybody could possibly want to eat meat - as probably 99% or more of Germans at that time would have routinely done. Also apparently unbothered that their DD would turn up in a new country and both go hungry and offend her hosts by springing it on them.

Shoezembagsforever · 08/01/2025 00:55

JesusBlessYou · 07/01/2025 13:44

My (thankfully now ex) MIL was coming in to feed our pets whilst we were away. She opened all my post (only mine, not her sons) and then phoned him to tell him the contents of my bank statement as she was "worried about my money management". Incidentally he's the one who lied to me about paying various bills, which led to us being evicted with 2 small DC. He then applied for bankruptcy, meaning all joint debts became mine, then left me for the OW. And yes, I should have been more proactive, but I was young, stupid and trusted him.

She also binned nearly everything in the freezer on the basis it was out of date (which is why it was frozen) and told him she was considering calling SS on me as I clearly didn't know how to be a parent.

That is absolutely awful - you must be so glad he's an ex!!

FizzyBisto · 08/01/2025 00:57

Pushmepullu · 07/01/2025 23:43

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!

Is this her?

LondonFox · 08/01/2025 01:05

MIL: turning loo rolls other way around. I'd put them back only to find them turned around again within an hour.
Moving pictures and decorations around as it "looks better that way".

FIL: frying eggs and bacon at 4am before early flight and leaving kitchen in total mess.
Also, complaining we have tiles in a hallway and not laminate or wooden floor.

I am not sure how DH turned out normal.

Shoezembagsforever · 08/01/2025 01:06

Mrsdyna · 07/01/2025 14:19

Had a friend and her then boyfriend stay.

First I didn't think it was so bad really. He just told us a list of what he has for all his meals and then complained if we didn't have exactly the same. "But I have X brand item before bed. 😢"

However after they'd left (they had an ensuite) I found that someone had taken a shit, wiped there arse and then shoved all the dirty sheets into the toilet roll holder instead of the loo. No idea why. It was disgusting.

OMG. This wins for me 🤢

Incakewetrust · 08/01/2025 01:18

After a night out in my twenties, my best friend at the time stayed over (slept in my bed with me) and a guy that we both kinda knew crashed on my sofa as he claimed he couldn't afford the taxi to get home.
I was getting really weird vibes off him so locked my bedroom door.

The next morning, he claimed he'd been watching my friend and I sleep (impossible as the door was locked) and then said he tried to find my key so he could get a key to my flat cut for himself.
I told him to get the f out.

EmmaSmiff · 08/01/2025 01:39

Friend and her husband came to stay with us. On the first night, about 1am, DH went in our youngest who didn’t settle.
Woke up early next morning to findy friend fast asleep in my bed with me 😱 she had got up in the night for a wee; made her way back to bed and instead of going to the guest room; she ended up in our room. Our house upstairs has the exact same layout as their house and she was on autopilot trying to not make as much noise in the night.

Not in my house, but on a school French student exchange, same friend went to the bathroom in her exchange house, did a wee in the bidet as didn’t know what it was, and then couldn’t work out how to lift the plug so she used the cup of their mouthwash to empty her wee from the bidet into the toilet (which she found after she had used the bidet, it was the otherside of the washing machine. We still laugh about that one now.

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 08/01/2025 02:41

To be fair we'd all come back to my place to kick on after the pub closed so we were terribly drunk, but one of my friends casually got up mid conversation, turned his back on us and pissed into the corner of my living room. The longest, splashiest piss you can imagine, he was like a draught horse. We were all screaming at him but he was in a sort of trance.

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 08/01/2025 03:15

ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 11:17

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?

Oh goodness - I must be very odd indeed as a couple of my friends do this and I regard it as totally normal. We've known each other for ages, I have a bath and they don't and we often just chill out at mine (and I guess they're like family to me)

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 08/01/2025 03:17

PrincessAnne4Eva · 07/01/2025 11:47

MIL refuses to flush the toilet. Instead, she seeks out the most expensive shampoo in the bathroom and pours it down the toilet "to hide the smell". The first time she did it, I had very high maintenance blonde hair and she poured my £20 shampoo down the loo! I have to hide everything from the bathroom before she visits.
Or... you could just press that big silver button at the top of the loo, MIL! 🙄

Oh no! Did you ever call her out on it?

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 08/01/2025 03:23

IAmNeverThePerson · 07/01/2025 12:17

My mil does this too, I’ve learnt to roll with it. (And compost as i see fit)

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That post made me smile. My mother a,ways did that too, down to the last half lemon. I learned to roll with it too (and understood her a bit better as to why food waste was anathema to her)

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 08/01/2025 03:29

Myfairyhanny · 07/01/2025 12:49

FIL came to stay one year for Christmas and brought a can of WD40 with him. He intended to spray all the door hinges so we would not hear them open if he needed to go to the loo in the middle of the night. He was in the annexe - we'd have not heard anything!!

Aw, that's sweet.

i,think,I'd better leave this thread as quite a few of these seem unremarkable to me 😳🤭🤦‍♀️

CatToot · 08/01/2025 03:44

My MIL, instead of walking to the toilet, chose to walk to our kitchen sink to retch for several minutes before vomiting the contents of her lunch into it. Afterwards there were bits of vomited up tomato skin stuck in the drain cover. To this day when I see tomato skin I think of MIL puking in the kitchen sink.

Giggorata · 08/01/2025 04:05

Recently, a friend came over for the evening and when she went home, she left the back door wide open. In December.
She'd had one glass of wine. I didn't think to check after her and it was open all night. Wtf?

Another friend, years ago, went to look at our chickens and decided to let them all out of their large run into the garden. I can't remember the reason he gave for doing so but I do remember the lengthy chase to round them all up again, including the thirty or so that went into the field next door, where they were decimating the crops.

Growltiger22 · 08/01/2025 04:24

Eskimal · 07/01/2025 18:01

Not in my own home but in an Airbnb we rented in my husbands home county.
we had taken his parents and siblings away for 10 days already in the countryside. and we were headed to the capital city to spend some time with his friends. We hired an Airbnb just for us and our kids due to money and space restrictions. We’d already spent a lot on them in the previous 10 days. There were no really big airbnbs available.

they said they were going to stay with cousins / friends in the capital city. There were 5 of them.

they turned up at our Airbnb anyway, but only after they’d completed knackered the expensive automatic door of the underground parking. They thought nobody saw but it was all on camera. The concierge made me pay repairs to avoid being thrown out.

whilst I was sorted that out, and waited for the repair man…..my Inlaws settled into the sofa bed in the living room meaning we had no space to socialise. His siblings took my kids room so we had 4 of us in a tiny tiny double bed in an already cramped room. My eldest had definitely outgrown the sleeping in our bed stage.

they also ate all the food I’d put in the fridge. (Thought I was being clever doing a big shop before we took the hire car back - we didn’t need it in the city).

we went out to meet friends and I needed a drink to calm down!

to make it up to me whilst we were gone my MIL unpacked all my clothes (I didn’t want to unpack -I always live out of my suitcase ) and washed things that weren’t dirty. She didn’t peg them to the line on the terrace so they flew away. Loads of Zara holiday clothes just vanished into the city skyline….

she also used loads of my make up. Expensive translucent powder everywhere….

I came home to my FIL using my towel to dry himself in the living room.

Are you sure that MIL washed your clothes? It sounds suspicious that the clothes ‘flew away’. What a nightmare holiday.

Codlingmoths · 08/01/2025 04:34

Flutterbees · 07/01/2025 11:57

My SIL likes to pack up leftover dessert and take it home with her after DH and I have hosted a party because 'no one ever takes dessert to her house' (she never hosts, that's why!).

I am the dessert baker in our house and I would not ever let that happen! ‘You will just have to take up either baking or hosting but I’ll be eating my delicious dessert leftovers’

DreamTheMoors · 08/01/2025 04:42

I babysat my 7-yr-old niece once and after about 2 hours (of sleep), she came out, looked me straight in the eyes and said, “the dogs are in the corral again.” Like she was telling me the weather.
Then she turned around and went back to bed.
WTF??
We lived in the middle of town.
No dogs, no corral.
When her mother came to pick her up, she told me that my niece had been “having a little sleepwalking issue lately.”
It was sooo kind of her to warn me.

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 08/01/2025 04:45

EasterRose24 · 07/01/2025 15:02

I don't understand 😕

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Me either

SparrowhawkSky · 08/01/2025 05:30

Squeezetheday · 07/01/2025 14:25

DH and I have a list of things that our parents do that are not that weird but just quite annoying and we laugh about it all the time. They eat all the butter, leave used tea bags on the counter instead of putting them in the bin and watch the tv on the highest volume, so next time you turn it on you get deafened.

My dad’s weird thing though is he always turns the toaster up to the highest setting, but then will just turn the toaster off at the plug once he decides the bread is sufficiently toasted. My mum has absolutely no idea why he does it, because he definitely doesn’t do it at home!!

This happens in our house and I still haven’t worked out who the culprit is. The number of times I’ve burnt my toast because the toaster was left on the highest setting 😬 😬

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 08/01/2025 05:31

Zone2NorthLondon · 07/01/2025 20:12

And the award for the most batshit behaviour goes to no I never poo pass me the olaplex shampoo mother in law

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I tried to poo pun, olaplops is the best I could come up with 😂

TennisToday · 08/01/2025 05:35

My DHs best friend lives in Germany and due to family events has visited a few times recently.

The first time he stayed I went to do some baking with the brand new butter that I had bought and could not find the butter anywhere. Thought I must have left it at the supermarket. Anyway the next time he stayed again I could not fathom why we had not butter. Next time he stayed I had made lunch for us all - soup and bread. That’s when it clicked. He ate nearly a whole pack of butter to himself in that one sitting. I’ve never seen someone eat so much butter on bread.

When I mentioned it to my DH he was like ‘oh yeah I meant to say something to you - he likes butter’

I mean considering the cost of butter at the moment I was a bit taken aback.

He came to stay again so I hid my nice ‘sea salt’ butter and bought the cheapest one there was. He still ate it all!