Page 3 | 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?

CornishPorsche · 07/01/2025 13:38

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!!

See, that's just quite endearing. And the kind of nice thing my DF would do even though it's pointless.

NetballHoop · 07/01/2025 13:39

DH's aunt stayed with us for a weekend. In the morning, I'd hung out some washing in the garden before popping out to the shops for a few bit. When I got back she was in the garden re-hanging the washing. Then when she came in she told me that I'd done quite a good job.

changedusernameforthis1 · 07/01/2025 13:40

Came to stay for a week and slept at every available opportunity. We watched a film - asleep. Playing cards - asleep. Went up for a shower, didn't come back down after - had gone to bed without a word said. It was really bizarre how much she slept and now, around 18 years into the friendship, we're just used to it.

Another one started taking photos of things in my house. I asked what she was doing and she replied "Oh, I like these so I'm going to Google them later."

keeppushingthrough · 07/01/2025 13:40

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!

What. The. Fuck. I need to know more about this.

Is he a bloody psychopath? It would give me great pleasure to hear in more detail about how he was sent packing, the absolute bastard.

SirChenjins · 07/01/2025 13:44

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! 🙄

I’m a bit obsessed with this one - does she just leave her poos and wees in the toilet and pour shampoo over them??

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.

keeppushingthrough · 07/01/2025 13:45

@PrincessAnne4Eva

Does she take a shit and then just pour head and shoulders on top of it?

I am just absolutely gobsmacked at this thread and agree with PP- how have these people navigated life so far?!

FeralWoman · 07/01/2025 13:47

Rocknrollstar · 07/01/2025 12:00

I had an adult penfriend to stay and she opened every cupboard in the kitchen, left them all open and went out for the day. That was the least creepy thing she did and my teenage son refused to come home while she was with us and moved in with a friend’s family.

What other creepy things did she do?

menopausalfart · 07/01/2025 13:47

Damn, her toilet must be overflowing with layers of shite and bubbles.

SatinHeart · 07/01/2025 13:48

Jaq27 · 07/01/2025 11:51

Not so much weird as confusing ... in-laws used to arrive for week long stay and bring all the oddments from their fridge with them. Half a pepper. Shrivelled onions. Wrinkled apple. An opened snack size box of fruit salad. That kind of thing.
They are very well off BTW and definitely don't have a scrimp a save mentality -- I noticed a lot of food waste when we stayed with them.
MIL would get very annoyed if I didn't put the mouldy old stuff in my fridge immediately (which was already bulging with fresh foods I'd bought for their stay).
One time MIL had a huge meltdown as she'd seen her old fruit&veg 'dumped' on the kitchen side. She had a massive row with DH about it and started packing to leave about an hour after arriving from their 400 mile journey ... just strange.

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My PILs do that too! Notable contributions in the past have included half a bag of browning lettuce and a mouldy tomato...

motelhotel · 07/01/2025 13:49

@Myfairyhanny he sounds lovely that's so considerate he was probably worried about waking people 🥰

Clingfilmdefeatsme · 07/01/2025 13:50

This thread has made me laugh!

girlwhowearsglasses · 07/01/2025 13:50

Nearly missed their train because they were having loud sex upstairs and then left a semen-stained towel in the bed!!!!

now BIL and SIL when they’d just met and came to stay!

I was 🙀🤮

IsawwhatIsaw · 07/01/2025 13:51

Friend and husband visited, we did a BBQ, sat out in garden.
After about an hour, he didn’t say anything but left the table. I found him in our front room with door closed watching football on our tv.
it was his big birthday the following year, we turned down an invite to go

ThePerkyDuck · 07/01/2025 13:51

Loubilou23 · 07/01/2025 12:56

Left a tupperware pot of urine in my bathroom cabinet.

Stayed to look after my dogs whilst I was on holiday. A few days after we got home they popped in to find their "shampoo" that they had left in my bathroom cabinet, however I had already found the tupperware pot of urine and removed it so they must have had a complete cringe fest when they went to look for their "shampoo" and couldn't find it.

I am so confused, why they just didn’t use the toilet?

JesusBlessYou · 07/01/2025 13:52

I also had a friend rearrange my kitchen cupboards because they "weren't logical". They were to me, and it was my house!

amoreoamicizia · 07/01/2025 13:52

changedusernameforthis1 · 07/01/2025 13:40

Came to stay for a week and slept at every available opportunity. We watched a film - asleep. Playing cards - asleep. Went up for a shower, didn't come back down after - had gone to bed without a word said. It was really bizarre how much she slept and now, around 18 years into the friendship, we're just used to it.

Another one started taking photos of things in my house. I asked what she was doing and she replied "Oh, I like these so I'm going to Google them later."

I used to do this, it turned out I was pre-diabetic and had severe anaemia, both thankfully resolved now.

Workhardcryharder · 07/01/2025 13:53

Michellesbackbrace · 07/01/2025 11:53

That is properly disturbing.

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Why? I imagine it was a joke 😂

CotswoldIdyll · 07/01/2025 13:53

My PIL arrived for a visit when the children were small and the first thing they did was change the lightbulb on the landing to a tiny nightlight one. MIL had been going on about this for months and I had repeatedly explained why I wasn’t going to do it. We had a massive row that time and they stormed out. She also reorganised my bedroom storage, including drawers when I was in hospital having DD and expected fulsome thanks when I arrived home with the baby.

Cheeseandcrackers40 · 07/01/2025 13:55

Let their kids climb on my kid's bed with outdoor shoes on then look at me like I was totally unreasonable for asking if she could remove their shoes. Tbf their house was always a mess when we had play dates but I had never considered that our outlooks were so different!

Emeraldiisland · 07/01/2025 13:56

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!

Have gone NC with him? He sounds a bit (very) unhinged.

Scirocco · 07/01/2025 13:56

Tried to feed a (used) tampon to a dog. (Neither were mine, but it still seemed weird).

Cheeseandcrackers40 · 07/01/2025 13:57

Not me but my Mum visited my brother and his wife and cleaned their bathroom... she told me afterwards and I said omg mum you can't do that, your the passive aggressive MIL from hell! And she couldn't get what I was saying at all, said that she was doing something nice for them as it was filthy 🙈😂

Shelby1981 · 07/01/2025 13:58

Jaq27 · 07/01/2025 11:51

Not so much weird as confusing ... in-laws used to arrive for week long stay and bring all the oddments from their fridge with them. Half a pepper. Shrivelled onions. Wrinkled apple. An opened snack size box of fruit salad. That kind of thing.
They are very well off BTW and definitely don't have a scrimp a save mentality -- I noticed a lot of food waste when we stayed with them.
MIL would get very annoyed if I didn't put the mouldy old stuff in my fridge immediately (which was already bulging with fresh foods I'd bought for their stay).
One time MIL had a huge meltdown as she'd seen her old fruit&veg 'dumped' on the kitchen side. She had a massive row with DH about it and started packing to leave about an hour after arriving from their 400 mile journey ... just strange.

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My inlaws do this too!!

Bread that was out of date already......bananas (which they do eat while here, to be fair)......random sandwich meat that I have to make excuses not to use as it's been in a warm car all day.....

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 07/01/2025 13:59

Workhardcryharder · 07/01/2025 13:53

Why? I imagine it was a joke 😂

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Hardly a joke when they had already explained that it was a risk to their children