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 ex MIL banned me from having a 3rd baby as she never got to have a 3rd baby. That was one of many crap things she said to me.

So did you ignore her and have a third? Or were you already done anyway?

This is seriously bizarre behaviour 🤣🤣🤣

I think I'm the weird guest in this situation lol. Whenever I sleep over at a new partner's house for the first time, I have to inform them of the fact that I can't sleep with a pillow. Genuinely, I just can't. I've tried, but it makes my head feel too high up - I have to be lying completely flat to get to sleep. I've slept in the same bed with two partner's so far, and each time I had the experience of watching them internally try to process this behaviour in a non-judgemental and polite way. Very lovely people both of them, and honestly very funny watching them try to figure out how to cuddle me when they're sleeping with a pillow and I'm not. I am definitely talked about at parties by them lollll

This + the tampon thief + the girl who took the hair dye... how do these people not know that what they are doing is STEALING??? I cannot imagine thinking it would be fine to just take items simply because someone happens to have a supply on hand.

I had my 3rd, I was done after him, but his dad was supposed to go for the snip in the August but didn't and I told him that I wasn't going on the pill so if he didn't want another baby he had to find a way. I was pregnant by the November. I told his mother it was her son that didn't follow her ruling. She wasn't amused and offered to pay to get rid of it.

An old friend plonked herself on the sofa and curled her legs up on the sofa with her dirty shoes on (ergh). She never once brought so much as a bottle of wine on any of her visits. The last straw was when she vomited after a night out on the floor next to the bed and didn't clear it up.

This was a long time ago. Living with DH in a small flat. An acquaintance of his came to stay from another European country. He barely spoke any English, only ate nutella and didn't shower for a whole week!

DHs long time friend. Bit of an alcoholic. Came to stay for one night and got hammered. Woke up the next day to find the bookshelf in the spare room empty as he had Obviously knocked all the books on the floor in his drunken state. Didn’t pick them up. Needless to say not happy with him staying again!

I think it depends on the household make up and what they use.

I go through the bathroom bin and pull out recycling. But I’m the only woman in the household and no longer have periods. So, the only thing in the bin is toilet roll middles, empty bottles and the occasional toothbrush. No one uses cotton buds or face wipes.

after the end of the first page I started to twitch, cannot continue, so many
ghastly visitors, think I have hosting PTSD.

I did not know that…still don’t understand why child wouldn’t flush it..please explain

I used to go to my best friends house frequently when we were teens. Her parents were very wealthy. Big 6 bedroom house with a huge garden etc. They had a cleaner and a gardener….all very posh to me!
Posh till you went in to any of the toilets….where there were signs that said “If it’s brown flush it down, if it’s yellow, let it mellow” 🤢

It stank.

My ex MIL would do that but tell me id done it all wrong and that's why she had did it so it looked nice all hanging the correct way.

I agree!

I had a former colleague staying in my city and she asked to stay at mine to save on hotel costs. I said yes (I was young too) and she kept putting her hands on my walls. It’s was bizarre. Couldn’t walk past a wall without her hands on it. She then wanted to use my personal laptop and download a whole lot of her work apps onto it. I said no. I woke up in the middle of the night and she was standing at the end of my bed. I pretended to be asleep. For what seemed like an age she went away.

I’ve decided in my older years that I’m not having anyone in my home who isn’t close to me. Too many people are just weird.

My mum had a friend (mid 50s) who married a much younger man (mid 20s). They had sold their flat and had to move before their newbuild house was ready and they asked if they could stay with us for a few nights.
She asked my mum if she could do some laundry then they went out to visit someone for tea, and so mum emptied the washing machine when it was finished. The laundry consisted of what looked like little boy's underpants and old men's directoire underpants with the fly sewn up.
We deduced that the boy's pants were his (he was very slim) and the old men's were hers, because she was notoriously careful with money and was probably using up her dead dad's underwear to save wasting it.

my mother did this too..... i think it is a hangover habit from the rationing / post war era .... dont waste anything etc. That would explain it as a habit not related to money / hardship. I think its generational

I’m in my 60s. Tampax were described as flushable. I flushed tampons. As my mum taught me and assume she’d done all her time she’d used them. I grew up in an old Edwardian house and it never caused a block. Continued to flush all the way through to around 2000, in older properties, new builds, rented, my own properties and never ever had issues with blocked drains . Only stopped in 2000ish (can’t remember when) when it was explained that “flushable” tampons and towels (as they were clearly marked in those days) didn’t magically get processed at sewage works and were a massive issue. Well that was news to me and a lot of women at time. Remember discussing about it with other women, that flushable didn’t mean biodegradable…which we all assumed. Only then did I start to wrap and bin.

i remember we had a Spanish au pair briefly in 1999, horrified when I explained to just flush….clearly Spanish more progressive by then, or Madrid waste pipes a lot narrower.

so not an issue of the domestic drains blocking with tampons …it’s what happens when they get to sewage work.

@Wigglywoman Oh I was hoping you were going to say elephant. That she was literally looking for the elephant in the room!

My grandmother used to do this
Seemed normal to me 😁

Until I read about the chocolate I was thinking he had a bad diet.

Magazines etc - ok. Chocolate - not appropriate really.

DP brother in law was working 6 miles from our house, he lived over 100 miles away, so DP said he could stay at our house. He never offered any money but asked for sandwiches to take to work plus evening meal. After a a couple of weeks a strange man went out of our front door, followed by BIL, I was upstairs so was my daughter DP was at work. It turned out he had told another worker to give his digs up and he could sleep on the floor in HIS bedroom, and that he could have sandwiches and evening meal. After being told, no way was a stranger staying in our house when DP is long distance driver so just me and daughter there. I came home from work and keys on table, no note, no thank you, they had gone. (That was after he had stayed 3.1/2 weeks and his mate 7 nights. For free) no contact from him ever since. (20+ years ago)

Why are you taunting us by telling us “the least creepy thing”? Now we really really need to hear the rest!

Do you call her out on it? I would ask her if she has flushed everytime she goes like she is 3!

I had a 'friend' stay in my lovely spare room a couple of weeks that turned into months. Long story. But the strangest thing was went my DH and I went away for a week she told me she slept in our bed so that she could feel closer to me. That freaked me out good and proper. I still dont understand now. The friendship ended not long after that for various other reasons.