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?

Had a friend and her then boyfriend stay.

First I didn't think it was so bad really. He just told us a list of what he has for all his meals and then complained if we didn't have exactly the same. "But I have X brand item before bed. 😢"

However after they'd left (they had an ensuite) I found that someone had taken a shit, wiped there arse and then shoved all the dirty sheets into the toilet roll holder instead of the loo. No idea why. It was disgusting.

My in laws do this too!! Drives my husband absolutely insane, especially because non of it gets eaten and then they take it all home with them despite DH telling them to just chuck it

I think that's rather lovely. But this is coming from someone who lived in London for a few years and couldn't wait to get out. I missed the sound of nothingness so much!

Are you sure she wasn't a poltergeist?????

I wonder if this is my relative....
Something is always missing when she leaves anyway but she once took all but one tampon from a brand new box in my bathroom. She'd have had to go looking for them as well because they weren't in an obvious place

That's just deranged.

Probably already been mentioned but there’s a Motherland episode that has this. Very funny.

I find people going in my fridge so rude. I will always have people over and can’t do enough for people. Love people to feel at home and if I say they can help themselves then that’s different but going in my fridge and drinking the last of the milk (son’s friend) just grinds my shit.

I can't think of anything.
After reading this thread I feel I've been very lucky!

I've had guests in my home do things my visiting mother was outraged by though 🤣 but I explained to her to calm her tits because I'd previously told them that what she was mad about was fine with me. Examples - just walking in, kids helping themselves to drinks and ice ops, adults popping the kettle on.

I didn't say calm your tits, mum, obviously. I'd still be unconscious now if I had.

We were decorating a room. My MIL came over and "helped" by stripping off the lining paper. Of the wall that didn't need stripping as it was good enough to paint over.

Annoying but she was trying to be helpful I suppose.

Painted the living room ceiling without permission because he thought it looked stained.
With the wrong colour paint.

Yeah my MIL did this to me. Waited till I was working abroad and partner was on his own, presumably because she knew I would never have tolerated it. When I got home my kitchen had been rearranged. I calmly put it back the way it had been, right in front of her. She used to really try to get her feet under the table but I was careful to set boundaries from the early days and that's paid off because we actually get along fine now. She has her moments, but she knows I can only be ripped the piss out of so far. Also had to explain to partner why it wasn't OK, and that how the house should be arranged is a convo between him and me and not him and her, but once we'd had the conversation it was fine. It was a power play (as a lot of the examples on this thread are) but it didn't work out for her.

I'm another one who's parents always bring their old food from the fridge - although to be fair there's is usually on the cusp rather than actually being unsable and and they say something like "just chuck it if it won't be used" so not as bad as most!

DH and I have a list of things that our parents do that are not that weird but just quite annoying and we laugh about it all the time. They eat all the butter, leave used tea bags on the counter instead of putting them in the bin and watch the tv on the highest volume, so next time you turn it on you get deafened.

My dad’s weird thing though is he always turns the toaster up to the highest setting, but then will just turn the toaster off at the plug once he decides the bread is sufficiently toasted. My mum has absolutely no idea why he does it, because he definitely doesn’t do it at home!!

Last time my ILs stayed they kept changing which way the loo roll faced. I would then change it back to our preferred way only to discover it wrong again. I don’t know if it was MIL or FIL though…

This reminds me of the time my bil came over, I'd just finished masking off the coving ready to paint, first house, didn't want to try and cut in the strong colour against the white coving, came back in the room and he'd pulled it all off and decided to teach me how to cut in. Was a bit 🤦🏻‍♀️ at the time.

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DH Neices stayed with us for several months. She would run herself a full bath and let it sit for over an hour to cool down to the right temperature. She would also use hair products that would stain the bath. When raised with her she tried to blame it on our babies natural colourless baby baths.

Same niece went out one night came home threw up in the lounge and went to bed leaving it. It was right in the path we would walk through to get to the kitchen. DH got up to make the baby a bottle and stood in it. Apparently she was going to clean it in the morning.

Many years ago I had a friend stay over, he decided to use my toothbrush, while using it he walked from the bathroom through to the kitchen to spit in the kitchen sink 🤢🤬

Another friend use to regularly stay, she’d commute a lot and my place was a quick taxi ride to the airport. I lived in a nice little one bed ground flat. One night I got up, she had my heater on full blast with my front door wide open. I hadn’t realised she’d do this ever time she stayed. It finally explained the spike in my electricity bill.

If you feel a need to name change, overflowingwithshiteandbubbles would make a great one.

Guests be like

But they asked your DH. It’s a bit over the top but if they asked your DH it isn’t overstepping.

I regularly wash and fold my DIL’s knickers if I’m looking after the DGC 😂 That would be massively overstepping if I just did it but I ask if she wants me to stick a load of laundry on.

That’s disgusting. Why do some men think it’s acceptable and normal to do that? Bet they wouldn’t dare do it in their own house!

Did he think he was being funny Theflopside ??

I had a friend stay over and get up at 4.30am and grind coffee beans. We shat ourselves! He just shrugged and said he was an early riser...

My late MIL had form for inventing jobs that wouldn't occur to anyone else.

She was staying with us for a couple of days once so I took the opportunity to pop out down to the shops and leave my toddler DD with her. When I got back I found she had polished the cat flap and also the children's wellies (the most I ever did was knock mud off them outside)

The cat was most unimpressed with his gleaming cat flap but MIL considered it a job that needed to be done. I do miss her sometimes.