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?

My sponges must be better than I thought then 🙂 I always just clean them and then when they go tatty do the same as you and use them for a one off gross job and bin x

Based on your posts on here, I think you may need to work on your ability to stand up and assert yourself, and look at why you’re so passive ❤️

But then you don't know what/who they are replying to....

I use a scourer pad that then goes in the washing machine

I wish it was possible to quote a poster but edit the post you are quoting down to the phrase. If I copy/paste a phrase then I often lose track of the poster name to tag them.

Because I’m enjoying reading about houseguests but the thread is filling up with stupid comments about toilets, all saying the same kinds of things, and I really don’t understand the fascination, it would be good to read the stories without having to scroll though a load of shit shampoo comments. Get over it, she’s a weirdo, who knows why she does it, it’s been done to the death.

Are you new to MN, or to internet forums in general?

I started my periods in the late 70s, and I remember the advent of (supposedly) flushable pads, @CrowleyKitten - you were told to rip them in half before flushing them.

I couldn't flush mine at home - we had a septic tank and a soakaway in the garden, which got blocked up very easily, meaning dad had to get out there and rod it out himself - a nasty job. My mum made me wrap my used towels in newspaper and leave them in a cupboard in the bathroom, then she burnt them in the coke fired central heating furnace, when dad was out.

My friend rearranged mine to be more like your in-laws. So plates etc were in a bottom cupboard, food up high. Cups were no longer by the kettle. Ffs.

From left to right
Knives. Forks. Spoons
Teaspoons in the little teaspoon slot.

I started my first period in 1965 when I was 10. My mother bought me (and herself) some pads which stated on the pack that they could be flushed - so we did. One plumbers bill later and we realised that they couldn't be flushed after all. I think a lot of period products were misleadingly labelled back then and we only learned through experience. My Dad was not impressed and told us both off. I remember my brother looking superior at the time - a grown woman and a ten year old told off for something dictated by their biology - and misleading product labelling, grr.

Edited to add that people just didn't seem to be as environmentally aware then - I had never heard of sewage problems until then (I suppose I was only ten though).

Years ago (40+ ) when I lived with my parents.
The toilet was next to the airing cupboard, coming out of the toilet to get a towel to dry her hands, my mother found one of my sisters bras in there that someone had wiped there bum on.
She was sure it was a friend of hers as she was the only person in the house recently.

I knew they were coming to help DH with some gardening, which was much appreciated by us both, but what had been talked about was helping with some pruning of specific bushes and helping DH put some new plants in - there'd not been anything said about the creeper, or not in my hearing at least. I think MIL pretty much just took it into her head that the creeper was untidy and had to come down (she's not someone who likes a wild or free-growing appearance to a garden, hers is all very neat tight flowerbeds pruned to within an inch of their lives), and either she and FIL just set at it, or they asked DH and he didn't see a problem. He knew how much I loved it when the creeper was in full colour, though, which it was at the time, so although it's not a massive thing I'd have appreciated being given some say (although I do wonder if MIL would have even listened if I'd said no - she'd originally had a whole elaborate vision for our garden, with landscaping and an arch and stuff, which didn't marry up at all with what we wanted! 😆)

The next time I saw her she was all 'Next time we come we're going to rip it out by the roots'. I just said 'No, you're not,' which is a lot more abrupt/borderline rude than I normally am with people. 😄

As it happens, that house also had ivy which eventually became a problem and had to be removed, but I agree, a gardener shouldn't just take it on themselves to remove it - not least because it is sometimes helping hold things together, as you said! 😄

Noooo. Forks, knives, spoons. Fork in left hand so left side of drawer.

When we were around 15 a friend had a house party and someone took a shit in the bidet in the family bathroom. Can only assume in their inebriated state they mistook it for the loo, never did find out who it was.

Talk upthread of toilets and solid waste reminded me of the scene in The Worst Week Of My Life where Ben Miller's character gets caught taking lumps of his MIL's inedible stew out of the toilet after a failed attempt to flush it... only what's in his hand doesn't look like stew...

He then resorts to throwing it out of the bathroom window on to the conservatory roof... only to go downstairs and find the whole family are gathered in the conservatory and have been watching the lumps of stew, which looks very much like something else, landing on the roof. 😆

I haven't RTFT yet, so not sure whether this point has been made, but... this screams OCD to me.

Maybe your MIL "can't" touch your toilet flush, because toilet flushes are "dirty". Shampoo bottles are "clean," so she can touch them. So she does this weird thing instead and tries to make excuses to cover up her problem.

Maybe only the toilet flushes in her own house are "clean," or maybe she just does the same thing at home and FIL does all the flushing. Who knows?

There may well be other apparently bizarre behaviours around touching things, food, what's allowed into her home, loads of other stuff. Not always obvious what it's about, because she's trying to disguise it.

OP as soon as I saw the title the first weird story I thought of was shower related. Our friends (a couple who live together) were coming over and we were just going for a few drinks in our local pub, they didn't live that far away and one of them was driving, they weren't staying over. The female of the couple asked me is it ok to get ready at ours, I thought it was a bit strange as it wasn't a party or anything we were going to, so they could have come over a bit later but anyway I said yes and assumed she just meant put her make up on, do her hair or whatever.

Anyway they came round and we had a drink in our garden and she then said "is it ok for me to go and get showered now" it was fine of course but I just thought it was a really strange thing to do when she could have got ready at home and got to ours later rather than getting ready whilst with us. I'm sure there wasn't a problem with their shower or anything otherwise surely she would have said that was why and they would both need to use the shower if that was the case.

Not quite as weird as getting up to go for a bath without mentioning it earlier I know!

Ooooooh you'll have started something now 😂 OP had better start a new thread as it'll soon fill up 😂

I've heard of OCD conditions where someone can't bear to touch a toilet handle or button and needs to use a tissue or something, but I've never heard of anyone whose cleanliness-based OCD makes them prefer to leave their own waste sitting indefinitely in the toilet for others to find.

Besides, this MIL tore the back of the poster's wedding dress when she left it packaged up with her.

OMG, I was looking for an appropriate icon thingy to give you, but a thumbs up or a heart didn't seem appropriate.

Some people are disgusting.

I say "knives, forks, spoons" so that's the order they go in.

And in terms of how we hold them, 2/3 people in my house have the fork in their right hand, plus I don't carry them to the table using 2 hands. I pick up the amount needed in one hand, put them on the table and one of the DC then 'lays' them out properly on the very rare occasion we use the table

I wouldn't ever tell anyone their way was wrong though, much less rearrange their drawer. Might be an issue if I lived with someone who had strong feelings on it though.

Great thread.

A friend of my husband took one of our housewarming gifts home with him from our housewarming party, a bottle of expensive rum. We made him bring it back the same day we realised he'd taken it. His reasoning was that he thought it was OK to take home leftover alcohol from parties.

That is the wrong choice. You should be wanting to get your kids away from thieves.

Some of these are crazy.
My first boyfriend and I got a house together.
His dad would often come round and wonder from room to room .

He turned up one day so we ignored the door and hid in the back bedroom.
We heard noises in the back yard and he was routing through our black rubbish bin...nothing to do with recycling,this was many years ago