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?

Yes I remember that and it must have been mid 80s for me!

A friend of mine was well into his karate and when he came to stay with me for 4 days he brought his life size grappling dummy with him. I thought that was weird but he was training for an exhibition so fair enough. It scared me (they're black pleather like this https://www.century-europe.eu/Century-Black-Grappling-Dummy-54kg) so I asked him to just keep it in the spare room.

Come the last night, he forgot and left it in the living room. I walked past the open door on my way to the loo and saw what in the dark looked like a life size male intruder hunched over. I screamed the place down!

Oh god I've got another one! My brother's ex was a horrible abusive CF. We were doing everything we could to get my brother away from him, but DB wasn't quite strong enough to leave and so we had to endure this CF when he came to visit with my brother.

In addition to CF's abusive gaslighting ways he was also a glutton and would literally gobble every morsel of food I offered him and ask for more. One time I offered him a tin of Quality Streets, the greedy fucker took SIX, shoved them in his gob and....PUSHED THE WRAPPERS DOWN THE SIDE OF THE SOFA. I didn't notice this until they'd gone and my elderly dog had one in his mouth, DDog had swallowing issues and could have choked to death.

Greedy slobby abusive fuck. How hard can it be to place the wrappers on the coffee table for me to dispose of safely. Thank goodness, DB is now well rid and very happy.

This reminds me of the Italians we had come to stay when I was in school.

Nothing in the dietary information about being veggie. Turns out they weren't, their mothers had told them they weren't to eat meat in the uk because we all had mad cow disease!

They were otherwise lovely and polite though

Hesitated if I should post, but I allowed my dc to have overnight guests when dh and I went abroad for 2 weeks. When I got back, 2 rings (gold and diamond and gold and diamond and small rubies) and my coat (!!!!) missing. Ransacked the house many times (thought I must have left it all, 'at your arse' as they say), no luck. OK, rings are easy to hide, but a coat? Left it at that, did not want to ruin the relationship between my dc and visitor friends, but I can't get over it - keep thinking there must be somebody not very honest in my dc immediate environment.

All this period pad bin drama could be avoided if you use a mooncup!

Well not if the host then insist that it is rude to wash it in bathroom sink and you should carry it through the house to the garden hose..

But that shouldn't matter if you want to turn it into an art piece. Depending on the art piece I suppose.

Not quite a house guest, but I had a housemate once who nailed a piece of meat to the wall in July to draw it at various stages of decomposition. Two veggies in the house, including me.

Please tell me you said something to her!

And what happens when someone flushes? Does the loo foam up?

Well-done to them. No point in wasting food.
Wetherspoons do takeaway boxes for any leftovers & when they used to do their chicken skewers I'd take 1 home as 2 was too much for me. I was gutted when they took them off the menu!

Period pants are an amazing alternative to pads if you need that extra security alongside your cup :)

I once lodged in a house with a couple. They were OK to start but then the guy's behaviour became a bit strange. One time I walked into the shared living room to see him bent over with his bare arse on show. He also left the bathroom unlocked & I walked in to him in the bath. He gave me a lift to work one morning & had complete road rage at another driver who didnt say thank you when he let them pass. The worst time though was when I woke up in the middle of the night & I was absolutely sure i could hear someone in my room. I put my head under the covers & eventually went back to sleep. I moved out soon after!

My in laws (ex) were the same,my partner and I were living together but stayed at separate houses (he in his parents me at mine) until I was pregnant with my first child then we were allowed to share his childhood bedroom🙄

My MIL did this. It always baffles me. I just quietly put it in the food bin. This was when we lived a four hour drive away from them, why she thought her old veg would be good after that drive I have no idea.

How do you manage without toilet brushes? I am genuinely curious as I really hate them and would love to know what to do without them.

How do you manage without toilet brushes? I am genuinely curious as I really hate them and would love to know what to do without them.

I just clean by hand, quick wipe with loo roll and wash hands. Once a week, proper scrub and I wear a nitrile glove for that.

All the toilet comments are getting really boring, someone had a shit and didn’t flush and poured shampoo on it, it’s really not that interesting

This sounds much more likely to be a seizure.

All the toilet comments are getting really boring, someone had a shit and didn’t flush and poured shampoo on it, it’s really not that interesting

Hard disagree, I'm fascinated at why anyone would behave like that.

If so boring and not interesting why post you can scroll on

I've just remembered another one!
At our housewarming, a 'friend' brought a big bottle of whiskey as a gift for us and then took it home with her and told me another friend of mine at the party (who she didn't know) had stolen it.
She was utterly bizarre

Back in the 80’s when I was a young adult, I had a friend over for dinner one night. I served up a corn on the cob with butter as a 1st course as I loved them and they were inexpensive. I finished mine and went back to the kitchen to sort the main meal out whilst my friend was finishing up hers. I got back to the table and on her plate sat the 2 little prongs, nothing else.
She’d eaten the hard core, the whole thing! 😳

Oooh I played a super long term prank like this.
DP set up the cutlery drawer when we moved in. It irked me because it was the wrong way round to my mind. I waited and waited and waited in the end 4 years, and then swapped them round to the correct places.
He spent months going for a fork and picking up a knife instead.

Made my year.

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Yes?

He had put them the opposite way round. Monster

Funnily enough you’ve just reminded me of a time the same friend invited me round at lunch time (I worked close by and was on my break so assumed she was inviting me for lunch) when I got there she was halfway through eating her own lunch. Didn’t offer me anything and seemed surprised when I said I had to leave after half an hour so I could get myself some food before I start work again. Very odd but obviously runs in the family!