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

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ToddlerSwim · 07/01/2025 11:17

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?

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Jazzjazzjazz · 08/01/2025 22:41

Twoshoesnewshoes · 07/01/2025 11:49

@PrincessAnne4Eva that’s so very weird!
our good friend sometimes gets up at 2.00am ish and goes for a walk. Rather unsettling at first but I’m used to it now 😂
we live rurally and he lives in London so he like to see the stars and hear the owls or something.

Or he’s Jack the ripper

NorthernGirlie · 08/01/2025 22:47

Friends were staying - their 12 year old son pissed all over the downstairs toilet and the floor around it.

I gave him the cleaning stuff and told him to sort it, that I'd be in to check and that I'd make him clean the toilet every single time he left it in a state.

Friend was aghast - said "he always does that, you'd have been better off cleaning it yourself, he'll not do it properly"

I went in twice and checked, pointed out what to do. He aimed properly after that. Mt pal got short thrift - I don't clean my own 12 year old son's piss up - I'm definitely not cleaning hers!

Pleasantree · 08/01/2025 22:47

We let a friends adult son stay at our holiday flat for a week.
He left hob area really really greasy and left a frying pan on cooker full of cigarette lighters (hob wasn’t lit, but just a messed up thing to do). Really alarming - was thinking was he trying for an explosion at some point, or did he think it was funny??

Generally left flat dirty, rotting trash, greasy greasy hob area. He knew we wouldn’t be visiting the flat for months … so it smelled awful we we arrived w flies and ants.

Very hard to tell his parents what a weirdo he is.

DH confronted him, he said it wasn’t him yet it was his boarding pass in the bin….

Sickdissapointed · 08/01/2025 22:48

Went away to Jersey for a wedding. Arrived home with a really bad pneumonia.
walked into a stone cold house. Thought heating must have broken as I left thermostat on low( it was November) transpired DH ( now ex) had given his mother a key- in case of an emergency and she had turned heating off. Worse was to follow. She had turned the fridge and freezer off- to save power. I felt so ill I went straight to bed to try to warm up. I insisted DH empty the rotting food out of fridge and freezer. I could hear him vomiting from the other side of the house 3 floors down. He refused to ask his mother why she had turned all the appliances off.
when I asked her she said I was wasteful and ungrateful.

PureBoggin · 08/01/2025 22:50

Eskimal · 07/01/2025 18:01

Not in my own home but in an Airbnb we rented in my husbands home county.
we had taken his parents and siblings away for 10 days already in the countryside. and we were headed to the capital city to spend some time with his friends. We hired an Airbnb just for us and our kids due to money and space restrictions. We’d already spent a lot on them in the previous 10 days. There were no really big airbnbs available.

they said they were going to stay with cousins / friends in the capital city. There were 5 of them.

they turned up at our Airbnb anyway, but only after they’d completed knackered the expensive automatic door of the underground parking. They thought nobody saw but it was all on camera. The concierge made me pay repairs to avoid being thrown out.

whilst I was sorted that out, and waited for the repair man…..my Inlaws settled into the sofa bed in the living room meaning we had no space to socialise. His siblings took my kids room so we had 4 of us in a tiny tiny double bed in an already cramped room. My eldest had definitely outgrown the sleeping in our bed stage.

they also ate all the food I’d put in the fridge. (Thought I was being clever doing a big shop before we took the hire car back - we didn’t need it in the city).

we went out to meet friends and I needed a drink to calm down!

to make it up to me whilst we were gone my MIL unpacked all my clothes (I didn’t want to unpack -I always live out of my suitcase ) and washed things that weren’t dirty. She didn’t peg them to the line on the terrace so they flew away. Loads of Zara holiday clothes just vanished into the city skyline….

she also used loads of my make up. Expensive translucent powder everywhere….

I came home to my FIL using my towel to dry himself in the living room.

But I'd don't understand why in scenarios like this you don't just say NO!

borntoblossom · 08/01/2025 22:54

Not my home, but a small group of us rented a holiday cottage for the weekend - one friend spent the whole weekend reading an erotic novel on her laptop. No socialising, just sat in the communal areas drinking and staring at the laptop.

HeathenPlayingHouse · 08/01/2025 22:57

Possibly outing, but worth a mention- not a guest, but DSS when he briefly lived with us.

One day he had a nosebleed, and in the middle of taking care of it in the bathroom, ended up sneezing. I later went in and saw the blood droplets sprayed on the wall, which he said he had tried to clean up.

It wasn't that that bothered me, but rather that by sneezing in that direction, he had mostly likely contaminated all our toothbrushes with blood spray and yet had gone out for the afternoon without saying a bloody word!

Thank god I noticed! 🤮

Freshflower · 08/01/2025 23:01

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 07/01/2025 12:58

Friend used to lay a single piece of loo paper on the water in the toilet. So after going, flushing, waiting for water to settle.
Just left it there for the next person.
Odd.

Might have been trying to hide skid marks?

CyanMaker · 08/01/2025 23:02

One of my husband's Navy buddies from out of state came to see him..He brought his wife and kids. I had never met any of them. We had just moved into our home and we had a brand new sofa. The wife decided to stretch out on the sofa with the dirty soles of her feet on the cushions.It was a light colored sofa so it did leave marks.

ThistleTits · 08/01/2025 23:03

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.

Ffs. This wins 🏆

Dterun · 08/01/2025 23:03

SparklingPinot · 08/01/2025 20:01

We have young child, 2-ish at the time - smallish house. SIL having a late night shower before bed cos she felt crappy from travelling here (much earlier in the day) but then blow drying her hair at 23:30. I would never dream of doing that at someone’s house with a young child (or even without !).

MIL always, without fail going upstairs into the house to use our bathroom when we have a (secluded in a utility room far away from where people are so it’s not a privacy issue ) large and pleasant downstairs loo. I swear it’s for snooping.

I wouldn’t mind but I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been upstairs in their house!!

We now only have a downstairs bathroom and it's killing her. There's no excuse to go upstairs 😂😂

FinneganFois · 08/01/2025 23:07

Aria999 · 08/01/2025 22:20

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.

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@Aria999

Yes, the couple are both American ! Seemed odd to me as they are so well off, it was more like what the war time generation would do !

YesYesKitten · 08/01/2025 23:10

Years ago, I woke to hear DH arrive home after a night out but he was talking to someone. He said a drinking acquaintance would be staying over as he missed the last train home or something.

In the middle of the night I heard the pal run the shower. By the morning he had gone but left sopping wet socks on the side of the bath.

It was so odd. DH threw the socks away and I've never seen or heard of him again.

JohnLapsleyParlabane · 08/01/2025 23:10

EasterRose24 · 07/01/2025 12:14

I had a guest stay for a few days. As she left she informed me happily that she'd only slept on one side of the bed, so I wouldn't need to change the sheets!
I was so taken aback that I forgot to ask which side 😅.

My dad does this! It's bizarre and frankly disgusting as he stays with us for at least two weeks at a time 😩

NPET · 08/01/2025 23:22

Cotonsugar · 08/01/2025 19:18

This happens in my house when dds visit with their partners. I’m dying to ask if this happens in their own homes and what, if anything, is done or said about it. It just doesn’t seem like the right thing to ask though ☺️

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I'd ask your daughters. That would embarrass their partners when THEY ask them in turn.

Longsight2019 · 08/01/2025 23:33

My Uncle visited and as he was in the garden decided he’d piss in the bushes. Sober. The toilet downstairs was 20 steps away.

WetBandits · 08/01/2025 23:36

We had a house party when I was at uni. Someone went upstairs to my bedroom (no bloody locks!), took my sizeable box of sex toys out from under my bed and scattered them all over the garden.

Didn’t actually steal anything, bizarrely! Just someone’s very strange idea of a joke 😂

WetBandits · 08/01/2025 23:40

Just remembered another, but it was my Mum being the strange house guest. She was staying at a friend’s and had an upset stomach, got out of the shower having felt the urge to poo but unfortunately didn’t make it to the toilet in time and sharted on their bath mat. She threw it out of the bathroom window and said nothing 😂😂😂😂

Flozle · 08/01/2025 23:42

ElaborateCushion · 07/01/2025 13:01

Not a guest doing something weird, but a host. DH went to a friend's house for dinner when he was a teenager. Friend's mum asked if he'd like ice cream for dessert and he said "yes, please".

The mum then presented him with a bowl of entirely melted ice cream! My DH waited until the mum was out of earshot and said to his friend "what's this?" and his friend just said "ice cream - what does it look like?". DH said "well, it's not frozen" and his friend replied "of course it's not - why would it be?"

😂He never accepted ice cream again!

I often wonder how old his friend was when he realised that ice cream was, in fact, supposed to be frozen! 😂

I wonder if that's my ex mother in law? I was nonplussed when she took the Vienetta out of the freezer half an hour before dinner "to defrost" 🤷🏽‍♀️

cornflakecrunchie · 08/01/2025 23:45

I don't invite people to stay, & after reading all these posts, my God, I never will again! Some of you have the patience of saints!

JustPeer · 08/01/2025 23:54

I once had a school friend who would regularly stay with us. until we found out that she was stealing stuff. Not unusual but Items not only included my engraved baby bangle and a brand new bra, she also brought her old shampoo bottle from home to fill up with our new shampoo while she was in the bathroom.

TunipTheVegimal24 · 08/01/2025 23:58

Flozle · 08/01/2025 23:42

I wonder if that's my ex mother in law? I was nonplussed when she took the Vienetta out of the freezer half an hour before dinner "to defrost" 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Even weirder with a Vienetta, because it's shaped ice-cream. Does she think the manufacturer goes to all the bother of putting all the little waves and patterns in, just so that you can enjoy it whilst putting it on the top to defrost? Like if peas were frozen in an elaborate mandala, that no-one but the chef ever saw, because the pattern melted apart whilst they were cooking in the pan...

Seasideattraction · 09/01/2025 00:07

I am wondering if she has dementia as this sounds very abnormal behaviour

FamousFriends · 09/01/2025 00:21

Flozle · 08/01/2025 23:42

I wonder if that's my ex mother in law? I was nonplussed when she took the Vienetta out of the freezer half an hour before dinner "to defrost" 🤷🏽‍♀️

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But the instructions on Vienetta tell you to take it out of the freezer for a bit to soften before serving. It's not supposed to be served rock hard. It shouldn't be completely melted but it should be soft.

Yourcatisnotsorry · 09/01/2025 00:25

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.

I have a relative who visits and does this regularly. Though I never get close to doing ‘quite a good job’.

We had a small party and someone stole a door knob. Who/why/how we never uncovered.

We had some friends over and one
brought an uninvited stranger (to us) who then proceeded to eat my treats out of the fridge.

when we have playdates I often have to stop parents ‘just nipping upstairs’ when the kids and loo are downstairs, they just want to snoop at the house.

another friend of a friend came round with friend and brought her child roughly 8 who proceeded to roam about the house touching every wall in a continuous stroke with his dirty mitts leaving a weird greasy slime trail all over the white walls in every room. This was before I had my own kids and my walls were clean.

People who turn up with their dog unannounced (we have cats) can get in the bin too.

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