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?

DM was feeding the pets for me while we were away. I came back, she'd cleaned my kitchen for me. There was also a bunch of flowers and a card explaining she'd cleaned the kitchen to help out because she knows I was having a busy and stressful time, and she wanted me to be able to relax a little when we got back from our trip before I went back to work. I was thrilled at the clean kitchen, but bewildered as to why I had the flowers and card when she had already done my two fairly large favours. It transpires she had mentioned to my sister what she had done, who had gone through her like a dose of salts, and said it was overstepping and I would be embarrassed. She'd gone out in a panic, bought the flowers and card, and gone back to the house to leave them. I reassured her that I took the gesture as it was intended, and was extremely grateful for the help.

Hopefully the bathroom cleaning was taken in the same spirit, or I can imagine that would be uncomfortable all round!

OMG! This has reminded me, we were only away and SIL came over and took some of our Tupperware… so odd. She also starts a new toilet roll even if there’s a virtually new one on the holder and hangs the new one the wrong way around

My MIL did this… about a week after my c-section. I did not take it well.

Work crush came back to my flat after a night out. We were chilling in the living room: him sitting on the floor against the couch and me on the other couch opposite. I was having a lovely time chatting away until I realised that he had fallen asleep with his eyes open! I said his name a few times and moved around and saw that his eyes were fixed ahead and there was no response. It was really awkward and a bit unsettling (not intentional on his part obviously).

@Jaq27
They are very well off BTW and definitely do not have a scrimp and save mentality

I've known a well off couple to put leftovers from a restaurant meal, into tupperware containers, and microwave it for their evening meal the next day !

My sisters MIL always nicks all the loo roll and takes it back with her

Sister now hides it all

Nothing wrong with that, it's probably delicious and why waste it?

All this period pad bin drama could be avoided if you use a mooncup! So much nicer for the planet and for your vag!

just saying :)

I HATE moon cups. Don't ask me why. But I hate them.

When I was a student me and a couple of friends went and stayed at another friend's home town. The mum was very friendly and told us to "make ourselves at home". We planned to be out most of the time, but we bought a few food supplies for breakfast/snacks, which our friend put in the fridge and kitchen cupboard. On the second morning we all went to the kitchen to get ourselves breakfast, but most of our food had disappeared. It turned out our friend's mum had some sort of complex where she didn't like opened packets of food, so she had simply thrown out any food in opened packets - which included most of the food we had bought, with our own money, and that we were relying on being able to eat for our breakfast. The mum laughed it off with a sort of "oh, what am I like??!!" attitude, but I was actually really annoyed.

Same. I hate them because the first time I tried to use one, it somehow got dislodged as I was getting up from a table full of people. Imagine the bloody elevator scene from The Shining.

“Clean up”? It’s a bin just empty it like you normally would? Bizarre to have an issue with sanitary products in a bathroom bin. I doubt I would notice what was in there, I don’t look through bins before emptying.

In America this is completely the norm.

Restaurants serve you a meal big enough for 2 people, you either find someone to share it with or take half of it home for lunch the next day.

Restaurants generally ask if you want a box to take it in and will sometimes box it up for you.

What is the obsession with organising other people's cupboards... I just don't get it!
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I am new here, so please forgive me if I don't reply properly ...

Your username @Myfairyhanny is hysterically funny. Thank you for making me laugh uncontrollably ... 🤣🤣🤣

Yup - box up and takeaway is offered and routine

@WoolySnail I agree, bathroom bins should have a lid and a bin bag for this reason.

It's unreasonable to complain about how people dispose of sanitary towels if you don't provide anywhere obvious to put them.

Most people don't put recyclable items in the rubbish bin. They go straight into a separate recycling bin/bag. The rubbish bin is only for non-recyclable items for example sanitary towels.

This is making me want to get off my chest a visit from a friend for a major birthday a while back, which if I'm honest ruined both the long weekend and our relationship. So many things... Not only did she insult my make up just before leaving the flat for the evening do, which slightly ruined my evening, but she wore my brand new walking boots during the daytime rather than the older pair I'd set aside for her (she just put them on without asking - I ended up wearing the old ones); she slept on the sofa every night even though I had other friends staying over who just had to sleep on the floor, and never offered the sofa to them. She had a go at one of my other friends about some man issues she was having. She woke up really late the following morning and got annoyed with me despite knowing well in advance that we had a brunch reservation, and even started making herself a cup of tea when I told her we had to leave in 5 minutes. She also worked from our flat for a day and took her meetings lying down on the floor! And she was very hands on with making it feel like her own home (cooking etc.). The one time I went round to her house it was absolutely freezing and what she made for dinner meant I was starving about an hour later. We clearly had very different styles!

@Scrimblescromble your story reminds me of when we were invited round to SIL's to take her birthday present. She said Come at teatime, 4.30pm.
So, we assumed we were invited for tea. We arrived to find SIL and BIL and his brother there, SIL busy cooking. The table was set for 3 and BIL said I hope you're not hungry because there's not enough for you.
We sat and waited while they 3 ate their dinner and we didn't even get offered a cup of tea. She liked her birthday present though!

My exbf had narcissistic tendencies. Decided to move into my house without a discussion - just turned up on the doorstep with all his stuff in the car. Refused to contribute to the household bills, but paid for the odd meal out instead. But the thing that REALLY upset me was he decided he didn’t like the way my house was arranged and dragged my beloved, hand made wooden chest of drawers up a flight of stairs. Obviously, the house should be arranged to his liking and he couldn’t see why I was livid.
It took me too long to get rid of him.

MIL pitched up to stay for a few nights with less than a day's notice and with her dog. She didn't ask if she could bring it. It must have had worms as it constantly rubbed its bottom up and down our living room rugs while she looked on and did nothing!

A friend ended up having few people back to her house after a night out for more drinks. One guy kept using the toilet upstairs despite being asked to use the one downstairs because her husband was sleeping. Eventually everyone left for home and they thought he had too. Turns out he had gone to sleep in their lodger's bed upstairs (lodger was away for the night) and sheepishly left in the morning. When the lodger got back late the next day and got into bed, they were met with a bed full of vomit that the guy had kindly tucked in without a word. Even worse was he was our colleague and he just carried on as normal on Monday 😂

You are an oddball