Page 38 | What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

ToddlerSwim · 2025-01-07T11:17:11+00:00

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?

WoolySnail · 09/01/2025 13:56

cleanasawhistle · 09/01/2025 13:37

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

Was he separating your sanitary towels and tampons? 🤣 sorry couldn't resist!

Jumbledig · 09/01/2025 14:13

NonPlayerCharacter · 09/01/2025 12:52

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.

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Yeah, to be fair, I hadn't read as far as the wedding dress thing when I posted. And that incident sounds much less like OCD weirdness and much more like spiteful-bitch weirdness.

But also... please don't underestimate how convoluted OCD "reasoning" can be. It's not about whether touching a toilet button is preferable to leaving your own waste sitting in the toilet (which, objectively, it clearly is). It's about what OCD tells you to do. It is literally a disease which makes people do irrational things. (And, incidentally, there's nothing to stop someone from being an OCD sufferer and being a spiteful bitch at the same time. Mental illness and plain nastiness can coexist.)

thestudio · 09/01/2025 14:16

Yourcatisnotsorry · 09/01/2025 00:25

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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I've noticed this a lot recently. When mine were smaller you could definitely tell that a few kids hadn't ever been taught to keep hands off the paintwork - but now it feels like most haven't. Or have I just been unlucky?

VoltaireMittyDream · 09/01/2025 14:26

thestudio · 09/01/2025 14:16

I've noticed this a lot recently. When mine were smaller you could definitely tell that a few kids hadn't ever been taught to keep hands off the paintwork - but now it feels like most haven't. Or have I just been unlucky?

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I grew up in the 80s and was never told to keep my hands off the paintwork. I only learned this was a thing about 5 years ago.

Arraminta · 09/01/2025 14:28

thestudio · 09/01/2025 14:16

I've noticed this a lot recently. When mine were smaller you could definitely tell that a few kids hadn't ever been taught to keep hands off the paintwork - but now it feels like most haven't. Or have I just been unlucky?

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I think most young children just run amok now while their parents look on and do nothing. My nephews are 7 & 9 and were happily drumming their feet (hard) against the arm of our new sofa. I asked them to stop (admittedly quite sharply) and I could tell my BIL was annoyed at me.

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 09/01/2025 14:38

This is why I literally wouldn't invite anyone with small children into my house.
When DH nephews were young, we'd just bought a new house and his sister wanted to pop over for a nosey. She let the two boys run amok, and one had somehow aquired a stick when he dragged against every bit of wall or cupboard he could find.

They did not set foot in the house again.

localnotail · 09/01/2025 15:19

RockingLock · 09/01/2025 12:22

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

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Hahaha my cutlery draw would really freak you guys out! I have a small kitchen so its a narrow drawer with 3 compartments (two long ones and one short one across) divided like this:
everything
everything
everything that is small

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 15:29

My mum was babysitting my son at ours, I would leave pots to air dry on the draining board (pre dishwasher) and put them away later. My mum hated this and thought it slovenly, pots should be dried immediately after washing with a tea towel .

I arrived home at 5pm to all the pots dried and laid out over my hob! She had put away cups and plates but then wasn't sure where everything else went so piled it on the hob I needed to access to cook my 2 year old his tea.

I was fuming.

Flossflower · 09/01/2025 15:53

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 15:29

My mum was babysitting my son at ours, I would leave pots to air dry on the draining board (pre dishwasher) and put them away later. My mum hated this and thought it slovenly, pots should be dried immediately after washing with a tea towel .

I arrived home at 5pm to all the pots dried and laid out over my hob! She had put away cups and plates but then wasn't sure where everything else went so piled it on the hob I needed to access to cook my 2 year old his tea.

I was fuming.

I don’t think this is so bad. You just had a few pots left out. She had saved you the hassle of putting everything else away. If you don’t want her to touch your dishes tell her!
While I am looking after my grandchildren, I frequently empty the dishwasher while my child and their spouse are at work. I have their permission. There are usually about 3 things I don’t know where they go so I leave them on the side. It usually takes about a minute for them to come in and put them away. I only do washing if they have left it in a pile and are waiting for I load to finish before putting in the one left out. If they don’t want me to do something they tell me. They appreciate it. I only do things that take a few minutes while my husband is reading a story or playing with the grandkids.

PicturePlace · 09/01/2025 16:51

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 15:29

My mum was babysitting my son at ours, I would leave pots to air dry on the draining board (pre dishwasher) and put them away later. My mum hated this and thought it slovenly, pots should be dried immediately after washing with a tea towel .

I arrived home at 5pm to all the pots dried and laid out over my hob! She had put away cups and plates but then wasn't sure where everything else went so piled it on the hob I needed to access to cook my 2 year old his tea.

I was fuming.

Why were you fuming? Surely it would take you less than 30 seconds to put away the pots? Why did it delay you making dinner? You seem really intense.

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 16:55

@Flossflower the hob and the side next to the side next to the hob was covered. There was pans, mixing bowl, spatulas, ladles, Tupperware, bowls , knives , chopping board.

At the time we had a routine of tea, bath bed for two year old so spending 15 minutes putting pots away whilst trying to entertain my two year old who is bored and hungry was not welcomed. It annoyed me more because I'd said previously we prefer to air dry pots and put them away and she couldn't understand why we didn't dry them.

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 16:58

@PicturePlace why put them on the hob? If she had put them on the side I'd have been less bothered.

Petlover9 · 09/01/2025 17:13

PrincessAnne4Eva · 07/01/2025 11:47

MIL refuses to flush the toilet. Instead, she seeks out the most expensive shampoo in the bathroom and pours it down the toilet "to hide the smell". The first time she did it, I had very high maintenance blonde hair and she poured my £20 shampoo down the loo! I have to hide everything from the bathroom before she visits.
Or... you could just press that big silver button at the top of the loo, MIL! 🙄

Stupid old bag, I would put a large notice in the bathroom - PLEASE FLUSH THE TOILET -DO NOT TOUCH ANY SHAMPOO/CONDITIONER OR ANYTHING ELSE. I am angry on your behalf. If you know she is visiting could you get a large plastic box and put ALL your things in and hide it in your wardrobe.😁

Crudd99 · 09/01/2025 17:24

Scirocco · 07/01/2025 13:56

Tried to feed a (used) tampon to a dog. (Neither were mine, but it still seemed weird).

That's gross and a health hazard. I tried to press a throwing up button reaction but there isn't one. 🤮🤢

Flossflower · 09/01/2025 17:25

@buttonousmaximous I do accept that the hob is not a great place to put things but really you could have just moved them to the side in 2 minutes.

Crudd99 · 09/01/2025 17:27

GreekSun · 07/01/2025 14:03

FIL, lovely man but always has to be the last to go to bed. No matter what time we go to bed he will always stay up.

Bit annoying but ok, but then he's clearly having a nose around as opens and slams every door it sounds like, does a poo in the downstairs loo without removing skids then leaves all the downstairs lights on and goes to bed.

We are then up with the kids while he has a huge lie in and first thing I have to do is turn all the lights off and bleach the toilet 🤷🏼‍♀️ (I always leave ample cleaning products in the downstairs loo so that's not the problem).

Seems that a lot of people do that(leave poo or skid marks) is it some kind of weird fetish that they want others to see it?

Scirocco · 09/01/2025 17:31

Crudd99 · 09/01/2025 17:24

That's gross and a health hazard. I tried to press a throwing up button reaction but there isn't one. 🤮🤢

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We really need that reaction. I think it would get a lot of use.

Itsarecipefordisaster · 09/01/2025 17:37

PrincessAnne4Eva · 08/01/2025 08:54

She's been doing it at least since I first met her in 2005. I think she just likes wasting my money and ruining my stuff, she does it in other ways too, for example when we went on our honeymoon, we set off from their house as it's closer to the airport, we left the wedding dress folded in a bag in a box in DH's room and when we got back it had a massive tear all the way up the back of the dress. Things like that make me think she's just being childish and silly.

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That’s not childish that’s just pure nasty 😢

Twaddlepip · 09/01/2025 17:55

Gabitule · 07/01/2025 17:46

My bf and I had 2 couples visiting us for the night (let’s call them couple 1 and couple 2). After some back and forth we allocated spare bedrooms for them to sleep in (taking into account their preference re the softness of mattress, proximity of the bathroom, etc).

We had a lovely evening together, got quite drunk and after a while both females went to bed. Their husbands stayed downstairs with us for a while longer. Eventually husband 1 went upstairs to bed. Husband 2 asked if he could sleep downstairs on the sofa as he was a snoorer when drunk and didn’t want to wake up his wife. I quickly prepared the sofa for him and off we went to bed…

In the morning, wife 1 comes downstairs to ask if anyone had seen her husband as he didn’t come to bed that night. We had not since him since he went upstairs to bed the previous evening. Husband 2 was still snoring on the sofa, but husband 1 was nowhere to be seen. We called his phone. No answer. We assumed he got upset and left in the night and scratched our brains to figure out how we might have upset him…We looked at the cctv, but nobody had left the house. We then looked for him everywhere, assuming he was playing hide and seek 😀. He was not in the cupboard, under the beds…Wtf…

We eventually found him, sleeping naked, next to wife 2 (the wife of the guy sleeping downstairs on the sofa). Because of the back and forth from the previous evening regarding the rooms allocation, he got confused about which room he and his wife were meant to sleep in. So he drunkenly went into the room where he thought his wife was sleeping, took his clothes off and got into bed. He slept naked, next to another man’s woman, all night 😀😀.

Luckily my friends are very open minded so we really laughed about this.

That’s their story and they’re sticking to it.

Catullus5 · 09/01/2025 17:57

Grammarnut · 09/01/2025 10:20

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?

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In about 1990 my DM ate one that had been sitting in the cupboard since 1967. She's still alive now.

FozzieWozzieWasABear · 09/01/2025 18:12

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.

My stepmother is known for stealing the odd bit of jewellery and valuables from our families’ houses but has never been confronted.

I am NC with her and my Dad for various reasons unsurprisingly.

Jazzjazzjazz · 09/01/2025 18:12

PicturePlace · 09/01/2025 16:51

Why were you fuming? Surely it would take you less than 30 seconds to put away the pots? Why did it delay you making dinner? You seem really intense.

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Yeah I thought the same, not sure I’d want to be her mother in law

Jazzjazzjazz · 09/01/2025 18:14

Petlover9 · 09/01/2025 17:13

Stupid old bag, I would put a large notice in the bathroom - PLEASE FLUSH THE TOILET -DO NOT TOUCH ANY SHAMPOO/CONDITIONER OR ANYTHING ELSE. I am angry on your behalf. If you know she is visiting could you get a large plastic box and put ALL your things in and hide it in your wardrobe.😁

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Remove all toiletries from the bathroom and put a big “please flush you dirty old woman” sign on the wall- sorted.

menopausalfart · 09/01/2025 18:20

@Jazzjazzjazz My sign would say, You might like to live with layers of bubbles and shite but I certainly do not.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 09/01/2025 18:22

buttonousmaximous · 09/01/2025 15:29

My mum was babysitting my son at ours, I would leave pots to air dry on the draining board (pre dishwasher) and put them away later. My mum hated this and thought it slovenly, pots should be dried immediately after washing with a tea towel .

I arrived home at 5pm to all the pots dried and laid out over my hob! She had put away cups and plates but then wasn't sure where everything else went so piled it on the hob I needed to access to cook my 2 year old his tea.

I was fuming.

You know you're the unreasonable one here? Omg what a bizarre train of thought.
"Fuming". Jeezo