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?

Not a guest but this reminds me of an odd thing my old boss would do. He'd go to the office kitchen, fill the kettle and boil it, then just go and sit down at his desk. I assumed he'd go back and make a drink but he never did.
When he did make a drink, he'd refill the kettle afterwards, press the button to boil it and go sit down, leaving a boiling kettle to go cold.
One time he gently chided me for not caring about other people are refilling and boiling the kettle after use, but there was only me and him in the office, so who was I supposed to be boiling water for?

I think it’s weirder to repeatedly take someone’s hospitality and instead of inviting them back, you take their dessert home whilst moaning about no one bringing you dessert.

Kids rarely go out of their way to the extremes to hide a nose bleed.

Taking hiding the evidence is literally something whistleblowers are trained to look for. SA victims are conditioned to keep secrets and feel shamed into specifically hiding it. Its been a common topic on many TV shows over the years and many public PSA about child safety so its hardly 'hidden' knowledge. Surely a young child hiding bleeding is concerning even if you don't instantly think 'sexual'.

Menstruation could be possible (but likely heavier and unlikely to go to such extremes to hide, more likely to be stuffed in the bin or hidden in a panic place like PP saying a teen girl stuffed it under the mattress) but these kids are fairly young and theres no mention of them being girls.

I think its a generational thing. We always flushed our pads away but seems this generation are encouraged not to?

Oh you've just reminded me of something that happened to us.

30yr ago on a family holiday to Florida we met a bloke who sold excursions at our hotel. My parents thought he was great, although I thought he was creepy. Anyway they exchanged addresses, wrote to each other a couple of times and that was that.

Several months later on my 18th birthday he showed up unannounced at my parents house here in the UK. I was away with friends. He asked to stay the night and not only did they let him, they gave him my room!!

I was livid. Mam didn't see the problem as he'd only wanted tea and toast for breakfast, so in her view he wasn't taking the piss. Feck the tea and toast, you housed a near stranger who timed his visit when he knew there was a spare bed. You let a grown ass middle aged man access my private space. I don't care if he'd insisted on caviar and smoked salmon for breakfast, that's not the problem here.

I think in this case it was both the guest's and the hosts' behaviour that was weird.

I would count myself as ‘older generation’ (old enough to have granddaughters this could apply to anyway) and my mother made it vv clear that under no circumstances were pads to be flushed as they would block the toilet.

Your house must have had super toilets / sewers!

We always flushed our pads away but seems this generation are encouraged not to?

Pads are mostly plastic, they won't dissolve when flushed.

We will have to agree to disagree. I think you have leapt to an absurd conclusion based on a backreading of the data.

Really? Don't you recycle? I go through our toilet bin and extract the cardboard and plastics to put them in the recycling bins.

Yes thats what I thought - my generation didnt know this.

Really? Don't you recycle?

We have IKEA recycling bins and put all recycling there right away, I don't fish soggy cardboard out from a bin full of potato peels or used pads. I find it more pleasant this way.

@2024onwardsandup mother and step dad yeah. They still send me Xmas cards! 🤣

@FasilBalti I would be very creeped out by that. Did your parents not get that it was weird and an intrusion on your space?

Oh god, my DC is only five but I am the weird guest who brings half a block of cheese round to my family when I stay! It's because I really have to budget for nice groceries, and hate the idea of waste. I wouldn't be able to enjoy my time away knowing that perfectly good cheese or milk is going to waste. I guess one day I'll get to be the nutty MIL pushing half a pint of milk into my DS and partner's fridge.....

I think its a generational thing. We always flushed our pads away but seems this generation are encouraged not to?

I've been menstruating since 1989 and I've always known not to flush pads.
Not flushing tampons was something I learned more recently.

Really? Don't you recycle? I go through our toilet bin and extract the cardboard and plastics to put them in the recycling bins.

Those go straight into the recycling, they don't need a detour in the bathroom bin.

And this is a "lighthearted" thread about the weirdest things that visitors have done in your house. PP's post definitely fit that.

Why would you have potato peelings in a toilet bin?

@NonPlayerCharacter It's impossible to pin her down when she does this stuff, she's very evasive and will just contradict you that black is white if you address any of it.
@MoonGeek Yes, it's ridiculous. The wedding dress incident didn't qualify for stories on-topic on this thread though (she does most things from the comfort of her own house because she's rarely invited here).
@keeppushingthrough yes, I did say something; when I retrieved the dress I immediately said "it's ripped, look," and showed DH and PILs. Everyone was completely silent. We're extremely LC with PILs for a number of reasons but they're not quite bad enough to go full NC with. I must add that my wedding dress was fairly cheap, and I can't envision wearing it again, so I don't think it quite landed with me at the time that I should be more upset, but it's basic respect for other people's possessions and boundaries that she lacks (especially mine).

Its boring

WTF 😂

Why would you have potato peelings in a toilet bin?

The comment I quoted said that FIL puts his hands in the bin to fish things out, it did not specify this is limited to bathroom bins, he might go through kitchen bins as well. But yes, I prefer to put toilet roll tubes straight into recycling instead of manually sorting though bathroom bins, but you do you.

We were having work done in our house, I had to use various neighbours toilets. I used a lot of one person and I thought they will be getting fed up of me, I'll go use x instead. I had the most enormous shite and it wouldnt fucking flush away. I stood there for aaaages waiting for the bastard cistern to fill and flushing and again and again and again. Eventually I thought I have got to go back downstairs and just tell them. I did, I've never been so embarrassed.
It was the only time I used their loo. Which probably makes it worse.

It was the only time I used their loo.

I wonder if you're forever more now known to them as Lorna Large Log/Jane Ginormous Jobbie (insert name as applicable).

My ExH would do this. The first time he did it I went mad. All his football mates told me to leave him be, it had taken them years to train him to vomit in a sink, apparently before that he’d just throw up where he stood. He liked to drink with the big boys but he was a complete lightweight.