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?

She sounds highly strung for sure

They.just.don't.care.

Some people have no shame 😏

Don't be ridiculous. Fuming over someone drying your dishes. You would have had to put the pans away anyway

I mean all I got from it is that her mum babysat her son, I’m assuming for free, and helped out with the dishes while she was there. Lots of people would be very grateful for that help. You sound annoying

I invited A male friend to stay overnight last year. He slept on the sofa in the living room from which there is a door through to a bathroom.

In the toilet of this bathroom he left a turd that was literally the size of a baby's arm.It got jammed sideways in the pan and would not flush no matter how many times the button was pressed.

I came down the next morning and found it there and he swore that it wasn't him that left it there. He blamed it on everybody else in the house claiming that somebody must have tiptoed past him whilst he was asleep on the sofa to get to the downstairs bathroom. This is quite ridiculous because there are two other bathrooms upstairs. But he simply would not own up to it and I will never invite him stay again.

What generation are you then? I'm 60 and knew not to flush pads down the toilet. They were much bigger and bulkier then, not the nice discrete pads they have nowadays. They'd block the loo if flushed.

I'm 65 and was abused as a child; I've never heard of this as a thing. Never. I would have been equally bemused to find it

Exactly. Free childcare and housework thrown in too. Yet Little Miss Precious is fuming because her 2 year old has to eat 60 seconds later. She should be saying thank you to her mother quite frankly.

Why on earth did it take you 15 mins to put away pots?! How many pots were there?!

It cannot possibly take more than 1-2 mins to put away 10 pots, which I doubt there were. You are being really weird!

I need my frozen peas in a mandala shape now!

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! 🙄
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For once I have read through this entire thread - hilarious!

This post - when My MIL died, we took to inviting my FIL to our house to eat regularly so hadn't been to his in a while but once I called unannounced at his and his loo was dark brown and stinking. It turns out he had become obsessed with saving money and didn't flush the loo to save on his water bills. It all looked very 'old' so no idea where the rest of his waste was going. He was a bereaved old man and I wasn't about to read the riot act on him but gently told him he really had to flush the loo every time and the water saving by not doing so was negligible. I think there is always a reason folks...

@localnotail argh! I couldn't cope with a cutlery drawer like that. But I love the fact you do that. Hooray for differences.

But doesn't it take you ages to find anything.

What is this obsession that MIL,and DMs,have with our laundry?! My late DM,bless her, couldn't wait to get started on folding up my laundry the minute she arrived!

@buttonousmaximous
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.
sounds like your mum did you a favour if that amount needed washed.
Personally, I wouldn't have that mess lying if someone was babysitting.

No, downright crazy

Realised, I clean my daughter's house, without being asked, when I visit.
Is that cringe? To be fair. With a young child I think / thought I'm helping out.

Depending on your daughter’s outlook you may be viewed as meddlesome, critical of the state of her home or she may be thankful for your help even if not done exactly how she’d like things done.

This reminded me of a (thankfully) exBF of mine. The first time he stayed over at mine,he decided to use my £15 a bottle special shampoo as shower gel, despite the fact that there was a perfectly good bottle of shower gel hanging in the shower. It was only because I asked him why my shampoo had been used (he was virtually bald!) that he said he'd used it as shower gel. 🤬 I hid it the next time he came over.

And what a trooper her mother is to clean that many pots, clearly it needed doing

No it’s brilliant and I wish my mum would 🤣

What about knives? Weird thinking that they are dangerous only if blade up.he was taking the piss out of that mad idea surely ?

In the early 1990s when I learned about periods at school our booklets still included information about the big bulky pads, including the ones that you used to wear with a belt. We were specifically told that one of the benefits of the slimmer more modern pads and of tampons was that you could flush them down the toilet. We were taught in school to rip pads length ways before flushing them, and to dispose of tampons including the cardboard applicators in the same way!

But doesn't it take you ages to find anything.

Its only for tableware, so no? )) Never even thought it might be an issue until reading this thread, never realised people were so particular about storing cutlery! 😂

My car (an old Citroen Saxo at the time) was broken into one night in winter.
All my Christmas shopping was on the back seats, they didn’t touch it, simply ate the bag of crisps I’d left on the passenger seat, had a smoke and locked the doors behind them on the way out (screwdrivered so my key no longer worked and it was old enough not to have central locking. I had to climb in and out through my boot until I could afford to have them fixed!)

my mum does taxidermy, and reconstructs their skellies too. it's definitely best not to bleach them.