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?

Haven’t rtft but I’m wondering if we’ve heard from that poster whose ‘friend’ vomited all over her bed and didn’t tell her and she found it a while later. Remember that thread? 🤮

My youngest (adult) DD always turns my loo roll around whenever she visits. I say nothing and turn it back. She turns it back again. Neither of us mention it, it's become kind of a 'silent in joke' in that I now turn HER loo roll around to my preferred position when I visit her house. It makes me laugh whenever I find my roll facing the 'wrong' way, reminds me of when she and her brothers and sisters were young and all living at home and the toilet rolls used to be EVERYWHERE.

Incidentally, started periods in 1974 and accepted wisdom them was that everything was flushable. Tear towels in half and flush, tampons went straight down. Nothing ever blocked and there was no advice from sewage workers to not do it. I first remember the issue coming up in the late 80's of not flushing san pro. They used to make plastic tampon applicators (I didn't use those, I had the cardboard ones) and I think you were also meant to flush those away!

Ex H’s female cousin came to stay mon - fri. I was quite looking forward to some company as I was on maternity leave with my first baby who was about 5 months old. I was fairly young (22) and the cousin was about five years older with no kids, I had only met her previously a few times but was looking forward to getting to know her better. On arrival it became clear though that her only intention was to lie on the sofa watching tv all day while H was at work, whilst requesting that I bring her food and snacks at various intervals, she made it clear she had no intention of chatting, and answered questions with one word answers. Requests were bordering on rude- “I’ll have a cup of tea with milk. Skimmed.” “Get me some more rice” and so on, which I kind of gave her a bit of leeway for as she isn’t from the UK and her culture do tend to be a bit more direct, although I was inwardly seething.
After a day or two of this crap I started telling her to make her own drinks and help herself to lunch as I was busy with the baby, when H got home she went crying to him that she had come to visit for a rest and that I was not waiting on her hand and foot as she expected. H then had a go at me about it, as if I was the one being unreasonable. The next 3 days of her stay I am went out first thing every day and left her to it, calling in at friends and relatives or going shopping, anything to avoid being stuck at home with her- and when I got back at tea time there were cups, dishes and wrappers all over the living room floor. Both she and H thought I was most unreasonable for not clearing up after her, as she was a guest and it resulted in an argument every evening until she left as planned on the friday. I told H to never invite her again or any other lazy arsed relatives (nice ones always welcome) but just one of the many many reasons he ended up an Ex H a few years later.

I would’ve been furious too! What a waste!

I have 2 family members. One of whom thinks toilet brushes are disgusting and thinks it's ok to make guests wipe poo off the inside of the toilet with some loo roll, and another who thinks that you can just pour bleach on skid marks and make them magically disappear.

I like to take a middle ground and use the toilet duck flushable brush sticks with a bit of toilet roll on.

I fucking refuse to deal with someone else's skid marks. I make guest 1 deal with guest 2 as he's her responsibility 😂 Somehow she's ok with what he does???

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I mentioned to my mum when we moved into our house that I didn't like the wallpaper but we'd be leaving it up for the time being as there were several other more pressing things to sort out such as the bathroom and kitchen, and we had to do things as we could afford it. We went out for the day while she was visiting - she'd declined to come with us -- and when we got back she'd stripped the living room walls

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I've always done this too. Teaspoons lived in the small section underneath, but since moving to a house with a fitted cutlery drawer have to live in the slot before the big spoons!

My inlaws always bring bits of food. We usually eat it - it's not wrinkled apples or mouldy, but BiL shops by picking up the yellow tickets in supermarkets, so usually near its use by date (which is fine by me). One Christmas BiL did his usual trick of last minute food shopping to get bargains that are always left on Christmas Eve. They ate very nice Cumberland sausages for Christmas dinner! This is a well-told family story.
btw Any advice on Christmas pudding out of date Aug 23 - would anyone eat it in Dec 25?

Some people sleep with their eyes half open - my DC does it.

Friends who we knew well, and had stayed before, asked what was for dinner on their first night, said they would prefer something lighter, and went off to Asda to buy it.
IIRC it was a not over spicy chilli, rice and salad.
Ironically , the bloke was very overweight (huge gut) and a massive eater! So TBH ‘lighter’ was a bit of a joke! It wasn’t that they didn’t like spicy, either.

One lesser thing I did once object to (dd thought I was U) was finding DD’s teen friend sitting cross-legged on our bed, gaily chatting on the bedside table phone. (Well before mobiles, obv.). To me, not going into friends’ parents’ bedrooms had always been a Thing, for both me and what I’d told dds.

what do you use for the once a week proper scrub? I too don’t like loo brushes but can’t see an alternative.

Friend stayed with us after her relationship failed and she helped herself to food, prepared it and then offered it back to us. One of which consisted of her cutting up a new loaf of bread and buttering it. None of which was bought by her.Despite us being skint and saying we'd eaten. She refused to smoke outside as my partner who was recovering from chemo was smoking indoors. He didn't mind but I did as it was one of my dealbreakers. People smoke more when they do it together. The friendship died after that.

Jesus I’d have been livid. Who are all these fucking awful people who think they know best? Usually men.

When I first met DH his Grandmother would often stay at his parent's house for several months at a time. She would bring with her a vile Airdale terrier that she doted on.

In the space of several weeks then bastard dog bit me twice! And also bit DH's 7 year old sister twice, drawing blood each time.

And nothing was said, literally nothing. It was just tacitly accepted that the bloody dog would bite whenever it felt like it.

I ate my way through a Christmas pudding last Christmas that was nearly a year past it's bb date. It was totally delicious. It was a 12 month matured one (with lots of alcohol) so I saw it as even better as it was now 24 month matured!

what do you use for the once a week proper scrub? I too don’t like loo brushes but can’t see an alternative.

Okay so I'm a bit hippy in terms of cleaning products but I first make up a runny paste of bicarbinate of soda and pour that from the rim down so it goes into the bowl. Leave it for a couple of hours. Then I use my washup sponge, which gets binned after - that's its final job.
Glove on, good scrub, then I flip the glove over the sponge so it doesn't drip on its way to the bin.

My loos tend to be clean anyway as I won't leave mess to sit, so I'm mostly cleaning off the slight staining from the iron in the water, nothing gross.

She refused to smoke outside as my partner who was recovering from chemo was smoking indoors.

I'd probably be a bit put out if I was told to go outside to smoke when the home owner was happily puffing away indoors.

I literally just use bleach. Cleans all marks. Have done for years.

Do you have a new washing up sponge every week?

This Christmas I ate an Aldi individual pudding (nobody else likes it in my family) which was a year and a few months old, expiry date March 2025. It was lovely - the alcohol wasn’t as sharp as if I had eaten it last year, which was a good thing and the pudding was soft and squidgy. I would definitely leave a pudding again for an extra year after that experience 😊

Oh I really want to this time my PIL house! Kettle one end of the kitchen, mugs in another cupboard and tea bags in another. Plates and bowls in a really low down cupboard right at the back! Baffles me! Lol

Something with a lock that they don't have the key to? :)

Do you have a new washing up sponge every week?

Yes that seems to be about their life span for the cheapy ones.