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?

@Jaq27 we’re definitely related as my BIL does similar. Then we’ll get Christmas gifts of kitchen items he deems acceptable that he believes are lacking in our kitchen. To date we’ve had chopping boards, a knife set with sharpener, a slow cooker, pancake maker (?!), a set of spices with a short expiry date and, this year, a fire pit-come-bbq grill even though we have a beautiful French enamel stove as our outdoor heating source and I despise barbecues.

sorry replied to wrong person

I don't understand 😕

Have you actually told them the reason why you are leaving stuff behind? They may just think you're forgetful (or frazzled and tired mother)?

I'm afraid I'm guilty of giving my kids random foodstuffs, pineapples, jars of homemade stuff, chocolates, cans of drink, crisps etc. I also take food within use by date when I go and stay & they reciprocate. It's just the way we are, we hate waste. I also give them plants, herbs, towels. I'd never take out of date food or half eaten stuff. I think it's because my mum was mean, stingy & cold. I think it's just a different way of showing love & affection.
Weird things? My ex bil used to microwave frozen unbaked meat pies when he stayed with us. Just a normal microwave, no grill or browning function.

When I was in my mid to late twenties I found someone who had stayed over in the spare room had stuck chewing gum under the bed, like kids do (or used to do) under the desks at school. I always wondered who it was that had done it, I have my suspicions but will never know for sure. 🤢

I colour my hair at home and my DD’s (barely new) friend came over and helped herself to a couple boxes.

I was very confused and when my daughter asked her she confirmed it, she liked the colour and always wanted to try it 🤡

My grandma did this to my aunt and uncle!

You might want to check if they actually want all that stuff…

That’s quite sweet though and very thoughtful, it made me smile a bit

my SIL had been in the toilet together with my seven year old neice - and after being in there an extended time, my Sil came out and loudly advised the whole room that her and my neice had sat on the edge of the bath looking through my drawer of private stuff, mainly period products - and my dirty washing basket

Grotesque, ive not had her back round since

This is the weirdest, most entertaining thread I have read on Mumsnet....great fun. x

My son’s girlfriend puts used sanitary pads wrapped in toilet roll in an open empty bin in bathroom which becomes unravelled. I find this gross because it stays there until I notice and empty the bin. Not great when I’ve three dogs too who go upstairs .After it happened several times I eventually got my son to ask her to use a sanitary bag which are clearly accessible in bathroom and put it in the outside bin.

That's a whole new level of bat-sh*ttyness!

Not in our house, but our friends invited several people round for a birthday dinner party. One of the couples had a baby, and the hosts teen daughter had offered to babysit for them so they could attend, but they said they didn’t need her to, as they had made arrangements.

Then said couple turned up to the dinner with baby in tow, explained they didn’t agree with using babysitters, set up her cot in the living room (despite hosts urging they use the spare bedroom), insisted all lights were switched off everywhere except the dining room to create a sleep environment, forbade anyone in the party from flushing the toilet in case it woke the baby (and policed this rigidly), and kept telling everyone to be quiet every time the volume of conversation at the dinner table rose at all. One guest was berated for proposing a toast, another for laughing, eventually everyone ended up eating in muted silence and bowed heads with just the scraping of knives and forks and pulling bewildered faces at one another, until finally one of the guests took them aside after dinner and told them to leave. Which after quite a lot of (loud) protest, they eventually did.

Psycho behaviour

Being from London and now living in the country
That makes perfect sense to me

Awww, that’s actually sweet and thoughtful

That’s very sweet

@sourlitou It was horribly awkward ... I'm not used to shouting and raised voices in the house and our little ones were in bed! DH said to his mum she had to calm down and it was silly and dangerous to think she could go home again that night (400 miles away) so to at least stay the night.
I was so upset I had stomach ache ... I like a quiet life without confrontation and drama, so I went to her and asked her to forgive me!
She stopped packing, and yes, she stayed.

My MIL is another one who brings all her old food. She can’t stand anything to go to waste and I’ve had to almost wrestle mouldy food from her (because she also insists on doing the cooking). Most recently she took plain cooked rice back from holiday (on a flight from Dubai to the UK) so it didn’t get thrown out??!

Im only on page one but if you havent told us more further along in the thread please do
and if you have, i look forward to hearing more

WTAF? What is wrong with her? Does she flush her toilet at home? I wouldn't allow her in my house again.

Horrid SIL who hates us came to my son's first birthday party and refused to speak to us. Bizarre, why bother coming!?

Another time a relative of mine came over with her kids and some other children I'd never met. Kids went upstairs to my bedroom and started throwing my jewellery down the stairs, I was hoping my relative would tell them to stop but she carried on chatting away like it was a totally normal activity

I guess I'm a peace-loving walkover :/
I love SIL and don't want to create a bad atmosphere for the week.