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

[ToddlerSwim]

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?

God forbid you ever have to care for them as they get older……..omg there’s a bit of blood on a piece of material 😱😱😱……..guess you’re not a paramedic 🤣

Hang on...

She refuses to flush? After a poo? Why? This is far weirder than the shampoo thing frankly.

That’s actually so lovely and thoughtful!

I’d be a lot more embarrassed about the state the next user found it in and realised that I was responsible!

That’s quite cute actually 😆

She knows it's you. She wants you to stop so is trying to subtly drop hints instead of outright asking. If she preferred your way, they wouldn't be switched back the next time you came.

Stop fucking with her stuff.

You knew they were carrying out some gardening for you though, right? Please tell me they didn't just decide to do the virginia creeper alone, for absolutely no apparent reason?

I used to employ a monthly gardener and I came home one day to find he'd removed all of the ivy from a low boundary wall at the front of our house. It had completely covered the wall for years, wasn't out of control but neatly shaped attractive. The wall underneath was an ugly brick and crumbling/falling apart in places, so the ivy was improving it visually as well as holding it all in place. He used the same logic of 'well you didn't tell me not to take it all off, and I was weeding so...'

I realise it's a good idea to stop ivy encroaching in places where it's not wanted, but given that the entire wall was cloaked in it and had clearly been trimmed to neatly hug the shape of the wall, you'd have thought he'd have had a conversation about it first.

@Jaq27 both my parents and my PIL also do this. amazing when they all come at once and we end up with a sort of gothic hampers worth of out of date yoghurts, half grapefruits in cellophane and wizened up old onions.

We once had an absolutely lovely family come to stay, with two beutifully behaved children of around 9 and 10. I really thought they were the perfect guests. After they left I was cleaning the bathroom that their children had been using and when I pulled out the basin plughole to clear out any hair, I found a massive lump of toilet paper, all screwed up and rammed down, so it wasn't visible from the top. I dug it out and it had traces of blood on it. It was quite dry so it's almost as if it was the last thing the child did, just before leaving. There was a bin and also the loo they could have flushed it down, so I have absolutely no idea what would go through a child's mind to want to do ram it down the plughole. People are so strange.

@PrincessAnne4Eva

Childish and silly? wtf no!! She's insane. Why do you have any contact with her at all. I've lost track on the thread- this is the same woman who doesn't flush her shites but pours your shampoo over it instead? And she also slashed your wedding dress???

I cannot comprehend why anyone would put up with this behaviour. Surely you've said something to her.

Actually I find that pretty sinister and terrifying. Like she'd happily murder you in your sleep if she thought she could get away with it.

Despite almost everyone saying YABU on this you keep doubling down... its really weird.

It definitely more a batshit host thing (and serious internalized shame and misogyny) than a 'weird guest' thing.

It is literally the ENTIRE purpose of a bathroom bin, what else are people putting in them if they think sanitary waste is not the acceptable use? (or maybe like PP encounter thats where you keep your potato peelings lol).

Wow... common and well know trait of sexual assault in children you are shaming there.

Did you not think to report it?

Its not a competition.

Its also not the most psychotic thing its the weirdest thing... stealing food because no one ever comes to your house uninvited baring gifts is weird.

WTF? It's certainly not well known to me. I've nver heard that my life and if I had, with no other suspicion or evidence to go on, I doubt anyone would have dashed round to interview me and set up an investigation. For a few spots of blood on a wodge of tissue it's far more likely that they'd been picking their nose and made it bleed.

I think your reaction and assumptions are completely hysterical and I'm not 'shaming' anyone.

I think there is a certain type of person (probably the same person who won't have a toilet brush because they think they are unhygienic, then complains about visitors leaving skidmarks in the loo) who thinks that anything unpleasant or inconvenient to deal with should just be flushed down the loo or tipped down the sink, out of sight, out of mind.

That would include sanitary towels, tampons, wet wipes, condoms, fat from their cooking, lumps of food and anything else they can't be bothered to deal with correctly. Even nappies in some cases. They seem to think the loo or sink is some sort of magical all-purpose waste disposal system where once something has disappeared from their view it's disappeared from the planet or the ocean altogether. Or they just don't care that it's now someone else's problem.

That's not childish and silly, that's a deep level of spite.

I'd get it if sons gf made no effort and just left them open on the top of the bin, but she wrapped them in loo roll it's not her fault they unrolled and the bin has no lid- she tried! And has basically been shamed for something that's not her fault. I'd just have got a different bin rather than have her parade them through the house to the outside bin.

Another toilet horror I've just remembered. An ex of mine once left a giant shit, unflushed in my toilet. It was just before he left my flat and I discovered it after he'd gone. It was the beginning of the end I'm afraid 😝

I thought a bin with a closing lid and a plastic bag in it was standard.

I wouldn’t know to look for sanitary bags in someone’s bathroom.

I think you’re being very unfair to her.

You also risk people trying to flush their waste down your loo.

My FIL is the type to pick out rubbish from the bin and sift through it to put in the correct outside bin, he’d reuse the same plastic bin liner over and over. I’m not having him or mil sticking their hands in a bin with my pee or blood soaked pads.

surely you realise that hand-sorting through waste in bathroom bins is the weird behaviour here, not using bathroom bins for waste like sanitary pads?

Remembered one from about 25 years ago. We'd not long moved to a new house and friends came to stay, two adults and two children. The kids were aged about 7 and 9. Our bathroom was small and the loo faced the sink, which you could reach out and touch while sitting there. After they'd gone we realised that the sink had been all but pulled off the wall and that someone must have been pulling themselves upright by hanging onto it. We tried to re-fix it to the wall but it cracked so we had to put a new sink in. We asked said friends if they knew what had happened but no one admitted pulling the sink off the wall.

The one good thing was that the old sink was a nasty shade of pink but the new one was white and much nicer.

I think you’ve missed the context that SIL never hosts and doesn’t even bring the dessert.

Oh come on! A nosebleed or early menstruation is more likely.

Not missed. I just don't think taking some dessert home is anything to notice. Its food at the end of the day.