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?

Seemed?

Are you just making shit up? Why would you watch this happen and say it "seemed" weird?

This is madness. Some posters have to be on the wind up.

With the shampoo in the toilet MIL, even if it were my own sweet MIL, I'd have marched her straight back to the bathroom and told her to "flush the fucking loo!" (Or made my DH do it).

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 quite mild compared to some of these, but I remember having a new mum friend from school round to my house for a playdate. She disappeared and I found her in my kitchen opening my fridge and all my cupboards and inspecting their contents. When I caught her she just looked and me and said 'well your family won't starve will they!'

I just think it's weird when men use my toilet.

NO problem with other women - even if they feel the necessity to do more than pee (we all do sometimes!). But if a boy/man asks to use my loo, alarm bells ring. Either I'll find a wet floor and/or seat afterwards OR I'll find that they've decided to sit and "dump" goodness knows what in it!

Sorry but the question did say "weird"!

If you find that funny there’s something wrong with you too..

Or maybe you’re the BIL?

@ElaborateCushion that's like the opposite of the thing that keeps coming up on my social media about the individual raspberry ripple pots (popular in the 90s) which were supposed to be defrosted to eat and were mousse rather than ice cream (which I suspect is how most people are them)..

PIL. The only time they stayed at our flat they left the following morning before we got up, without leaving as much as a note. I thought that was so odd and rude.
My friend, who said she'd come and visit me after I'd had my first baby. It quickly became clear she was expecting to stay overnight when it got later and later and she showed no sign of leaving. I had to quickly cobble together a couple of blankets for the sofa (it was a one bed flat.)

I can assure you there is nothing wrong with me but thank you for your concern

I'd arranged to pick up a friend and one of her friends who I vaguely knew. Before we left her house I went to use the toilet and my friend whispered 'count the tampons'. So I did.
Turns out she'd had a tampon thief and had narrowed down the suspects to one of two people and it was this other friend who had helped herself to not just one or two but lots. She never asked, never said anything, just took loads on numerous occasions. My friend is a kind and generous person who would have given her the whole box if she'd asked. Tampon thief wasn't poor either.

Oh, this one is rather sweet!

We are a non smoking household and have been for the 35 years DH and I have been together.
Fil & Smil visited when DD was 2 weeks old. DD is a winter baby - so we had the heating on plus a fire in the lounge. I take DD upstairs to feed , Smil takes our dog for a walk. DH starts to get DD's bath ready to bath her in the lounge ( as its the warmest room). I take DD back down to the lounge and FIL is sat there smoking a huge cigar, the room STINKS. Before I can say anything SMIL arrives back and immediately has a go at him, then DH joins in ( while opening all of the windows to get rid of the smoke and smell) . I take DD back upstairs and the two of them have an almighty argument with DH trying to referee. Apparently he had taken umbrage at Smil reminding him not to smoke in the house so lit up " to teach her a lesson"
It ended up with FIL being asked to leave and Smil consoling herself with very large G&T's 🙃

Not a guest per se but when we moved into our home one of the big jobs we wanted to tackle was the windows, getting them replaced. We had a number of different window companies out to give quotes and obviously they need to measure all the windows for sizes. We were in our bedroom with one of the suppliers where we had a very nice super king bed. He made a comment along the lines of what a gorgeous bed then hopped up and lay down. Panned out in our bed talking about how nice it is and jaysus isn’t it comfy. DH who’s not backward in coming forward after he got over his initial shock asked him to get off it now. Utterly bizarre how he thought it was ok

This is weird but really nice, sounds like my sort of person

@Theflopside WTF?

I also hide toiletries when I have company. Why do people ignore the easily accessible hand wash and choose to use my expensive face wash to wash their hands? It drives me crazy.

I once had a new mum friend and her son over for a play date thing, (I’d never had anyone over before) this was a few years ago, they came straight after school and I made dinner etc. they didn’t leave until just after 1am! It was a Tuesday on a school night! I had no idea what was goi my on, there was no wine involved, there was no sleepover on the menu - at one point I thought I was going to cry because I don’t know what to do! I thought ok they just live here now then I guess. Was too scared to invite anyone over again for ages! 😂

Nope, not making it up. They seemed to think this was a normal, somewhat amusing thing to do as they were "edgy". I thought it was deeply disturbed.

Why didn't you tell them to leave?

MIl can't come over or let us leave her house without giving us something. Sometimes it's nice thoughtful gifts bought with us in mind, but sometimes it's just something random from the cupboard or fridge. My favourite was half a block of mild cheddar and a watermelon. I'm used to it now and just raise my eyebrow at DP, but it was so odd to start with!

Its the fact that you’ve already bought the ingredients for what’s needed isn’t is?!

I think it’s not uncommon though as there’s a bit in Motherland where Julia’s got a bursting fridge for Christmas and he MIL wants her to store half an onion wrapped in foil. It makes me chuckle every time.

To the poster whose guests left a Tupperware pot of urine in the bedroom cupboard, did you ask them why?

The worst guest I had, threw up in the night (in the bin in the spare bedroom) but didn't tell me, or dispose of the contents of the bin. She wasn't ill, she was drunk. It wasn't until a few days later, when I went in to strip the bed, that I discovered a bin full of vomit. When I asked her why, she said she was too embarrased to tell me, so just left it for me to find. She's never been invited to stay again.

My MIL is schizophrenic. She means well but is a bit odd socially and does odd things. But stuff like this I just don't get, and it drives me mad not knowing the reasons why people do bonkers stuff.

Schizophrenia? Fine, you've got a pass

Everyone else? wtf. Why are you doing this?! I need to know why!!

Exdh used to work nights.
I would put a note on the front door saying 'Quiet Please Night Worker Sleeping '
A friend decided to pop round with her noisy toddler. I said dh is on nights .he's asleep. She said that yes she'd seen the note on the door.
Then her kid took a bite out if one of the apples from a bowl on the coffee table.
She took off him and put it back saying. ' it's only a small bite '

Haven’t you told her in no uncertain terms NOT to do it and to stop throwing your shampoo down the toilet? I would!
“MIL, you need to flush the toilet - yes it does work - and please do NOT put my shampoo down it again”. Firmly. And I’d hide everything from the bathroom except the toilet cleaner and loo roll - I’d take it in a box to another room.

If she persists in this nasty (not just odd) behaviour, you or DH need to sit her down quietly, and explain that you won’t stand for her throwing your shampoo down the toilet.

If she knows the toilet flush does work, and that toilet cleaner is available, there is no reason for her doing this that isn’t very unpleasant and disrespectful to you, or some weird kind of game playing or attention seeking.