Page 40 | 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?

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:36

Washingforweeks · 09/01/2025 08:45

Period pants are an amazing alternative to pads if you need that extra security alongside your cup :)

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at my age, probably not worth getting them in. might get some, or some washable cotton pads if when my next period on the new pill is a bad one.

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:39

MaryWhitehouseExperienced · 09/01/2025 09:13

How do you manage without toilet brushes? I am genuinely curious as I really hate them and would love to know what to do without them.

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I've got a silicone one for dire situations, which is much easier to clean, but mostly I just wipe with tissue and flush again. and black dettol is amazing stuff.
I can't use bleach as it gives me headaches/nausea/a tight chest, but black dettol is a miracle worker.

FizzyBisto · 10/01/2025 01:42

It almost sounds comical when people break in and steal something very cheap and trivial, but even if they don't cause any damage, it's still a violation of your property, privacy and feeling of safety.

I remember reading ages ago about a man who would break in to houses whilst the residents were out and do housework - hoovering, cleaning, washing up etc. - before letting himself out and leaving. It sounds a quirky and actually nice thing on the surface; but it's still a horrible violation and a nasty thing to do.

If anything, it's almost worse when they don't just take some valuables and get away. At least, heartbreaking as it is, that way, you know they're just thieving scum who 'just' wanted to take your TV, laptop and jewellery and get out of there.

On the other hand, if they take nothing/virtually nothing and even maybe apparently try to 'help' you in a weird way, that strays firmly into psycho or dangerous territory, as you don't know what their motives are, what game they might be playing or if they'll come back.

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:45

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 09/01/2025 10:54

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.

we've got a mini dishwasher now, but back in the day our washing up brushes and spongest would start life doing the washing up, then be used for sponges, sink and bath, brush for scrubbing rat cage trays in the shower on clean out days.
and then when the next brush and sponge were brought in, those ones would then be used to clean the toilet and then go in the bin.

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:49

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 09/01/2025 12:01

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.

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when my mum was at school, they had an incinerator for menstrual products in the girls toilets.
I've never encountered this in my life. she said they all used to use it to light cigarettes.

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:53

JesusBlessYou · 09/01/2025 13:03

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.

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I'm the same. I have the fork in my right hand as it does most of the more precise work. and I also think. knives forks spoons, so that's the order they go in. teaspoons in the short front compartment, and miscellaneous in the long ones at the sides.

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:57

Scirocco · 09/01/2025 17:31

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

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we definitely need shocked face and puke face

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 02:04

I've said black dettol a few times.just been to the toilet, and it's actually harpic.
bloody brilliant stuff, it is

FizzyBisto · 10/01/2025 02:13

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:57

we definitely need shocked face and puke face

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I agree; although a lot of people deliberately misuse the 'green with envy' face to convey that something gives them the boak!

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 02:16

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 09/01/2025 10:56

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.

yeah, I'd never let ANYONE smoke in my house. but if one person is allowed to, it seems really off telling other people to go outside

PicturePlace · 10/01/2025 05:50

Sorrynotsorry22 · 09/01/2025 21:13

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.

I think that's lovely.

AliceMcK · 10/01/2025 06:59

Sorrynotsorry22 · 09/01/2025 21:13

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.

I never had a problem with my parents cleaning my house. They were both obsessive clean freaks. My DF would head straight for the kitchen to put the kettle on and start doing any dishes. I once got off holiday to find my entire house shining and all my washing baskets emptied. First and last time my washing baskets were ever completely empty. With 2 small children I was eternally great full.

TorroFerney · 10/01/2025 07:15

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 09/01/2025 12:01

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.

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I flushed mine , it was what you did. Past is a different country and all that. My revolting father would drop his cigarette ends down the loo I assume if he needed a wee whilst finishing a cigarette.

DistressedDamson · 10/01/2025 07:50

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 08/01/2025 02:41

To be fair we'd all come back to my place to kick on after the pub closed so we were terribly drunk, but one of my friends casually got up mid conversation, turned his back on us and pissed into the corner of my living room. The longest, splashiest piss you can imagine, he was like a draught horse. We were all screaming at him but he was in a sort of trance.

I had an a hideous ‘boyfriend’ many years ago who did this (in my house so this story is in keeping with the thread) and like you, I was screaming at him to stop…however he pissed all over his PlayStation and electrocuted himself quite badly (he was thrown across the room 😂😂). The not so funny part was he then accused me of “biting him” (I suppose where the current had come out, he had a nasty wound on his leg) and beat the living crap out of me. Awful awful man who I hope is dead or if not, is suffering terribly somewhere.

WearyAuldWumman · 10/01/2025 07:57

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:49

when my mum was at school, they had an incinerator for menstrual products in the girls toilets.
I've never encountered this in my life. she said they all used to use it to light cigarettes.

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They had a couple of incinerators in the girls' toilets when I was in secondary school in the '70s. The smell...

Michellesbackbrace · 10/01/2025 08:05

I had an a hideous ‘boyfriend’ many years ago who did this (in my house so this story is in keeping with the thread) and like you, I was screaming at him to stop…however he pissed all over his PlayStation and electrocuted himself quite badly (he was thrown across the room 😂😂

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Im sorry - the second part of your story is horrific obviously but this is fucking hilarious!!

Hopefully the pissing on stuff was a habit of his and eventually he did it on something with a huge electric output and was blasted into hell 😂

DistressedDamson · 10/01/2025 09:18

Michellesbackbrace · 10/01/2025 08:05

I had an a hideous ‘boyfriend’ many years ago who did this (in my house so this story is in keeping with the thread) and like you, I was screaming at him to stop…however he pissed all over his PlayStation and electrocuted himself quite badly (he was thrown across the room 😂😂

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Im sorry - the second part of your story is horrific obviously but this is fucking hilarious!!

Hopefully the pissing on stuff was a habit of his and eventually he did it on something with a huge electric output and was blasted into hell 😂

😂😂One can only hope! Maybe he took to pissing all over electricity substations 😂😂 mind you he was so thick and stupid he probably wouldn’t even notice 😁god knows what I was thinking going out with him…my excuse was I was very young and, at the start, he was very exciting and a bit of a bad boy (usual pathetic story - I’ve done A LOT of work on myself since then…).
the assertion he made that I’d bitten him was ridiculous as the burn on his leg was about the size of a 20p and no tooth marks and also all the electrics had blown (not to mention piss everywhere 🤢🤮) so it was obvious I was telling the truth. It was just another excuse to give me a beating though I suppose.
As I said, awful awful human being 🤬

amoreoamicizia · 10/01/2025 09:22

Thanks to this thread I now have a recurring mental image of a shampoo-covered turd in someone's home.

yamafi · 10/01/2025 10:51

If people didn't have so many weird ideas about other people using their toilet, male or female, and disposing of soiled sanitary products then people wouldn't be frightened to use toilets other than their own, frightened to flush due to embarrassment or feel they have to hide blood soiled underwear. Everyone poos and the majority of women have periods, it's nothing to be ashamed of. I supply sanitary products in case someone gets caught short and have a small bin with liner for soiled products which I can just tie up and dispose as needed. Unless it's my own family and someone hasn't flushed or marks are left or there's urine on the loo then I just deal with it 🤷‍♀️ It's weird not to let someone use your toilet!

NonPlayerCharacter · 10/01/2025 11:01

amoreoamicizia · 10/01/2025 09:22

Thanks to this thread I now have a recurring mental image of a shampoo-covered turd in someone's home.

shampoo-covered turd

Band name right there. Or a new username.

MaryWhitehouseExperienced · 10/01/2025 11:04

CrowleyKitten · 10/01/2025 01:39

I've got a silicone one for dire situations, which is much easier to clean, but mostly I just wipe with tissue and flush again. and black dettol is amazing stuff.
I can't use bleach as it gives me headaches/nausea/a tight chest, but black dettol is a miracle worker.

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Thanks. I also have a silicone brush. Will try the black Dettol.

Crudd99 · 10/01/2025 11:25

Funkyslippers · 08/01/2025 20:13

My dearest friend had me look at her holiday photos that she'd downloaded onto her TV....there must have been well over 100, many of them very similar and each image was on the screen for about 10 seconds. I was running out of adjectives to use after about the first 20

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Had that ordeal once with holiday pictures. We were at a friend's house for drinks/bit of a party one evening and we were having a great time . Another guest turned up that we barely knew but was close friend's with the host. Within 20 minutes the music was off and we all had to be quiet while she showed her holiday snaps on the TV. They weren't even pictures of interesting places it was just either her or her partner in front of mildly interesting places blocking out anything that could of been interesting. This went on for hours ( or seemed like). Us guests were all too polite to leave during the 'viewing' but managed to escape shortly after. It was one of those situations where its so boring you want to cry. We were spared having to politely comment as we all had to be quiet. We were all in our 30s .

LookItsMeAgain · 10/01/2025 11:52

oldmoaner · 08/01/2025 18:59

DP brother in law was working 6 miles from our house, he lived over 100 miles away, so DP said he could stay at our house. He never offered any money but asked for sandwiches to take to work plus evening meal. After a a couple of weeks a strange man went out of our front door, followed by BIL, I was upstairs so was my daughter DP was at work. It turned out he had told another worker to give his digs up and he could sleep on the floor in HIS bedroom, and that he could have sandwiches and evening meal. After being told, no way was a stranger staying in our house when DP is long distance driver so just me and daughter there. I came home from work and keys on table, no note, no thank you, they had gone. (That was after he had stayed 3.1/2 weeks and his mate 7 nights. For free) no contact from him ever since. (20+ years ago)

Wow!!! That's some serious level of CFkery right there.

buttonousmaximous · 10/01/2025 12:31

It is weird to not allow sanitary products in your bin.

It is not weird to be irked when someone deliberately causes disruption to your day/house purely because they disagree with your way of doing things!

buttonousmaximous · 10/01/2025 12:31

Final word