Page 23 | What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

ToddlerSwim · 2025-01-07T11:17:11+00:00

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?

SparrowhawkSky · 08/01/2025 05:37

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 08/01/2025 04:45

Me either

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@EasterRose24 @TruthThatsHardAsSteel I think the poster probably meant to reply to a nearby post about a visitor sleeping at every opportunity - during films, playing cards etc. The thought occurred to me too!!

Lochroy · 08/01/2025 06:19

itsjustbiology · 07/01/2025 23:15

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

This one feels like you stayed far too long and were being told in no uncertain terms to leave 😀

ChampagneLassie · 08/01/2025 06:29

Bologneselove · 07/01/2025 15:10

My son’s girlfriend puts used sanitary pads wrapped in toilet roll in an open empty bin in bathroom which becomes unravelled. I find this gross because it stays there until I notice and empty the bin. Not great when I’ve three dogs too who go upstairs .After it happened several times I eventually got my son to ask her to use a sanitary bag which are clearly accessible in bathroom and put it in the outside bin.

i think expecting guests to put used sanitary products in outside bin rather than in bathroom is werid. What is bathroom bin for? Get one with a lid so people can put them in if you’re worried the dogs will go in there. I’d feel very uncomfortable carrying my used pad around in a little bag in someone else’s house.

MagdaLenor · 08/01/2025 06:34

ChampagneLassie · 08/01/2025 06:29

i think expecting guests to put used sanitary products in outside bin rather than in bathroom is werid. What is bathroom bin for? Get one with a lid so people can put them in if you’re worried the dogs will go in there. I’d feel very uncomfortable carrying my used pad around in a little bag in someone else’s house.

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Yes, I think she did nothing wrong with putting them in the bin, she did try to wrap them.

Jezzballs2000 · 08/01/2025 06:57

VoltaireMittyDream · 07/01/2025 21:16

When my DM was heavily pregnant with me, my DF’s eccentric, soap-dodging PhD supervisor came to stay ‘for a few days’ while he sorted accommodation for a period of research leave. Needless to say, he didn’t sort accommodation, and stayed for his entire sabbatical, including the first few months after my birth. My DM brought me home from the maternity ward to find him boiling his underwear in an enamel lobster pot, with the whole house smelling of sweaty professorial ballsack.

Another of my DF’s friends came to stay with his wife and they brought with them a cuddly toy Wylie Coyote doll (from the coyote and roadrunner cartoons). The coyote had to have his own place setting at the table, and actual food on a plate in front of him, and we all had to speak to as though he were a human being. My DF’s friend would respond as the coyote in a sort of muffled ventriloquist dummy voice.

I was about 8 at the time, and used to think I’d dreamed this until I found pictures of them in a family photo album, out at a park with the coyote in a Baby Bjorn strapped to the man’s chest.

My favourite so far!

FruminariaBandersnatchiosum · 08/01/2025 07:29

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!

Hells teeth!

MellowCritic · 08/01/2025 07:47

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!).

You got ppl here saying their relatives blu tac knives to the work top.. I'm sure you'll cope with your sil taking some dessert home 🤦‍♀️

sashh · 08/01/2025 07:49

Not a visitor but a potential one.

I went to uni as a mature student in my 30s.I rented a one bedroom flat. A friend I made was living in a shared house.

Friend's brother and girlfriend wanted to visit him and take him out, they knew he didn't have room so decided they would stay at mine!

Apparently I was very unreasonable for saying 'no'.

Flutterbees · 08/01/2025 07:50

@MellowCritic she randomly packs it up and loudly says that she's having it because no one brings dessert to her and it's not fair that I should have it. I find it odd even if you don't. Which bit about 'lighthearted thread' did you miss?

squishee · 08/01/2025 07:55

It happened while out with him - he was adamant that I was going the wrong way home from the supermarket (a 10-minute walk). Just because it wasn't the same way I'd taken him before. It sounds like nothing typed out, but proper boiled my piss, and that's the tip of the iceberg. Ugh.

CouldItBeAnyMoreObvious · 08/01/2025 07:56

NigelAdjacent · 07/01/2025 12:05

Reading these I’m feeling quite relieved that my only contribution is my MIL coming to my house, folding my knickers and asking when we’ll be having another baby. Both rage inducing but at least not downright crazy….

Eerrrm, folding your own knickers is crazy. Folding someone else's is sectionable!

Manchesterbythesea · 08/01/2025 08:02

I had a male friend in my very late teens who occasionally stayed over on the couch. One night he went upstairs and got into bed beside my mother! She was not impressed!

NonPlayerCharacter · 08/01/2025 08:21

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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The only thing I can think of is that if someone comes from a culture with squat toilets, it can be very very hard to use a sit down one (and vice versa; it's VERY hard to poo in an unfamiliar position). So sometimes they might squat on the toilet seat. Even then, though, I can't see how it would go to the SIDE!

sashh · 08/01/2025 08:27

Baaaddaaaaaad · 08/01/2025 00:13

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

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Me too.

In fact I have done it at a friend's house. I mentioned it next time I saw her because I thought she would have said something.

Nope she thought it was someone else and had a go at him.

The only time a loo roll facing preference is acceptable is in an outside toilet. Unless you like wiping your bum with paper and spiders.

Auburngal · 08/01/2025 08:29

A fellow student who was participating in the school’s French exchange. On the time when the French came to visit. I didn’t have a student staying as she broke her ankle - requiring plates a week before.

About 4am the family of my fellow student got woken up by smoke alarm. Saw the French student decided to make some breakfast. After that they made sure they had cereals, bread and toaster (told not to change the settings) on the kitchen counter.

buttonousmaximous · 08/01/2025 08:30

Great thread @ToddlerSwim and well done for starting it off with a completely batshit one!

The knives ....😧

We have three adult women in our house, we just have a bin with a lid in the bathroom that gets emptied regularly. It's not rocket science, admittedly when dd was a teen she would balance a used tampon on a full bin rather than emptying it but thankfully she's less gross as an adult!

I invited a friend for dinner when dd was about 18m, half way through dd nappy needed changing so I popped upstairs to do it (rather than do it in the next room when we were eating) when I returned friend had thoughtfully scraped both our plates in to the bin. Except mine was only half eaten and I hadn't finished! It was steak too 😞

Eating at mil and fils is always adventure, they love condiments- mustard, lazy ginger, chutneys, horseradish etc. it's like a science lab on the top shelf of their fridge. I know most people don't stick to the 'use within 3 weeks of opening' advice but there will literally be stuff that is 2/3 years out of date.

Bewareofthisonetoo · 08/01/2025 08:32

I wonder if unwittingly I have been an odd guest…
Was on a friends boat for the weekend in a lovely cabin with lovely bedding. I was embarrassed because the boyfriend and I had had lots of frolics and I thought it would be gross for her to wash semen stained sheets and duvet cover etc so I insisted on taking home the bedding to wash/dry/iron and drip back to get house. wWYD? 😀

buttonousmaximous · 08/01/2025 08:34

Bewareofthisonetoo · 08/01/2025 08:32

I wonder if unwittingly I have been an odd guest…
Was on a friends boat for the weekend in a lovely cabin with lovely bedding. I was embarrassed because the boyfriend and I had had lots of frolics and I thought it would be gross for her to wash semen stained sheets and duvet cover etc so I insisted on taking home the bedding to wash/dry/iron and drip back to get house. wWYD? 😀

Not have sex or put a towel down and have tissue on hand .

JessicafelloffTheKnappett · 08/01/2025 08:53

VoltaireMittyDream · 07/01/2025 20:54

No way!!!! There are two people in the world who do this??

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Maybe PPs are married to brothers and it's the same MiL 🤨

PrincessAnne4Eva · 08/01/2025 08:54

ChicLilacSeal · 07/01/2025 20:18

That is SUCH weird behaviour that I wonder if she's getting some kind of dementia. If she hasn't been declining to flush the loo her entire life, you might want to suggest she goes to the doc.

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She's been doing it at least since I first met her in 2005. I think she just likes wasting my money and ruining my stuff, she does it in other ways too, for example when we went on our honeymoon, we set off from their house as it's closer to the airport, we left the wedding dress folded in a bag in a box in DH's room and when we got back it had a massive tear all the way up the back of the dress. Things like that make me think she's just being childish and silly.

NonPlayerCharacter · 08/01/2025 08:56

Bewareofthisonetoo · 08/01/2025 08:32

I wonder if unwittingly I have been an odd guest…
Was on a friends boat for the weekend in a lovely cabin with lovely bedding. I was embarrassed because the boyfriend and I had had lots of frolics and I thought it would be gross for her to wash semen stained sheets and duvet cover etc so I insisted on taking home the bedding to wash/dry/iron and drip back to get house. wWYD? 😀

I'd have assumed you'd had a period leak or something and were embarrassed so even though it wouldn't bother me, I'd have let you do it so as not to make you feel awkward!

NonPlayerCharacter · 08/01/2025 08:57

PrincessAnne4Eva · 08/01/2025 08:54

She's been doing it at least since I first met her in 2005. I think she just likes wasting my money and ruining my stuff, she does it in other ways too, for example when we went on our honeymoon, we set off from their house as it's closer to the airport, we left the wedding dress folded in a bag in a box in DH's room and when we got back it had a massive tear all the way up the back of the dress. Things like that make me think she's just being childish and silly.

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She tore up your wedding dress??

TheNinny · 08/01/2025 09:11

Bewareofthisonetoo · 08/01/2025 08:32

I wonder if unwittingly I have been an odd guest…
Was on a friends boat for the weekend in a lovely cabin with lovely bedding. I was embarrassed because the boyfriend and I had had lots of frolics and I thought it would be gross for her to wash semen stained sheets and duvet cover etc so I insisted on taking home the bedding to wash/dry/iron and drip back to get house. wWYD? 😀

I would have removed bed linens before leaving and put in/run the washing machine ‘to save her doing it’. She’d never know even if you didn’t have time to dry the wash etc.

TheNinny · 08/01/2025 09:12

TheNinny · 08/01/2025 09:11

I would have removed bed linens before leaving and put in/run the washing machine ‘to save her doing it’. She’d never know even if you didn’t have time to dry the wash etc.

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Just realised you were on a boat never mind 😬

MoonGeek · 08/01/2025 09:12

@PrincessAnne4Eva That is outrageous! The shampoo down the toilet is mild in comparison to tearing up your wedding dress.