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?

Family member came to stay for christmas and gave me a lovely bottle of craft gin as my present, then proceeded to drink it all on the first night himself (I didn't touch it). I made him replace it but still....

My ex brought his kids come to stay with me over the summer holidays many years ago. I had a 2 bedroom house so his kids had to share a room with my own kids. Its was very cramped and they were extremely badly behaved. They basically trashed the room then one of them wet the bed (she was 13 at the time) and just left it, not telling anyone until it was time to go to bed, by this time the whole room was stinking and everything had to be changed. There is a massive long list of everything they did but I wont bore you all with that. I told him to not bring his kids to my house again until they were fully house trained. We broke up not long after that, thankfully.

My mum was staying with me undergoing chemo and her friend came to visit.

her friend is lactose intolerant so I brought lots of food she could also have. When she left after two days she packed up every last piece of food in the fridge she could have and took it with her as well as my salt and pepper shakers.

people are crazy.

I also has a friend’s brother who would come and visit on trips. He would always arrive with dirty laundry to be washed and then would go to sleep early to get the best sleeping spot on the sofas/ camp bed: air mattress etc.

Years ago my husband's friend asked if he could stay because he'd be in our city on a particular date (a Friday) and would prefer to stay over rather than travel home.

We assumed it was for a gig or something cos this happened fairly regularly with friends of ours and said of course - we didn't have a spare room, so it was a sleeping on a camp bed in our open plan living room situation, but they knew that and were perfectly happy. When he arrived the Friday night we thought maybe he'd been somewhere but he was vague about it and so we sat and had a glass of wine and a chat, all fine.

The Saturday morning he sat around looking at us waiting for instruction and when I said we were off out and did he need dropping near wherever, he was pleasantly baffled and expecting to spend the day with us, so DH ended up cancelling his plans. Same again the next day, sitting on the sofa looking at us asking what we were doing that day, only this time we left him in the house for our actual plans with his vague assurances he would sort out trains to get home that day (we left him a spare key). When we got home that evening and he was still there I pulled DH aside and told him to find out wtf he was playing at and when DH asked when he was planning on fucking off he said he hadn't given it much thought and it was 'nice to spend time with us'. He finally left at about 2pm on the Monday after DH and I had been working from home for several hours upstairs in our office - he'd just been watching TV downstairs all morning.

So weird.

I've done this more than once. When the menopause started I suddenly found perfumed laundry detergent/conditioner intolerable and it would keep me awake all night if I slept in the bed. I was too embarrassed to say anything so just took a sleeping bag instead and said it saved them an extra load of washing, which it did.

I dumped a friend due to her weird behaviour at my house. Taking a bath and using the whole bottle of bubble bath. Pooing in the toilet and poo in a sliced presentation at the back of the loo seat where she'd missed the hole.

The person didn’t happen to be a member of the all-female band L7? I remember that one band member once removed a tampon whilst being on stage and threw it into the audience.🤮

Exhusbands brother came to stay. He brought the world's supply of flip down suction hooks with him . Hung up his bathrobe , toothbrush and holder , hand towel, big towel all around our teeny tiny bathroom. He was only staying one night. When we went to a very naice Cotswolds pub he took his shirt off at the table( we were outside but even so) whilst we were eating a meal. Palest thinnest man that ever lived. His skin was the same colour as my scampi .
He came to stay another time with his girlfriend. They spoke Esperanto to each other throughout the meal and had a 40 minute discussion on whether to add salt or not.Left empty condom wrappers all around the spare bedroom ( thankfully not the condoms)

Bleugh. That's rank. What is wrong with people?

I have NC for this.
My bf at the time had made friends with a strange bloke whilst we were on a bike run.
Unbeknownst to me he'd given this bloke our address.
This guy shows up unannounced on a Fri, wants to stay for the weekend. BF says sure.
This bloke is giving weird vibes, very serious and ultimately very drunk and stoned with BF.
After we go to bed, strange guy is downstairs alone.
Just as BF & I are nodding off we hear howling, like a bad dog impression.
Nothing but howling.
BF goes downstairs, he's not happy.
Strange bloke is stark bollock naked , kneeling next to the high fi with headphones on, howling at/along with the Doors 🤷🏻‍♀️
He was gone the next morning.

WTF? What did she have to say for herself about that?

We live hundreds of miles from where my now deceased PIL lived, so they would visit for a week at a time. They would come with a large carrier bag full of all their usual meds (three months' worth for some.reason) and try to insist it should all be put in the fridge. With food for 4 of us plus 2 of them, there just wasn't the room, especially at Christmas visits when the fridge was absolutely packed.

FIL had spoken to a neighbour who had been prescribed a medicine that had to be kept in the fridge, so he then decided that all meds, liquid and tablets, should be kept in the fridge at all times. He would sulk when we didn't allow it. We went through all of the packets for the meds, read the leaflets re advice for storage and tried to reassure him that they would be OK at room temperature. Didn't make any difference - same thing happened every visit.

This is exactly what I was about to ask!

Not so much weird but disgusting.........OH niece came with her parents for a buffet tea one Christmas. She helped herself to a large portion of cheesecake - no problem with that - but then proceeded to walk around the house with the cheesecake stuck on the end of a fork. Naturally, it eventually fell off the fork and dropped onto the carpet at which point she thought it was a good idea to stamp on it! She was 14 at the time and old enough to know better. I was effing livid and never invited them again.

That reminded me of a time when DM and MIL both had labrador puppies from the same litter. When we got them together it was always fun, if a little crazy.

Both dogs were well trained but my parents lived in a bungalow so their dog had never seen stairs in a house before. MIL's dog was trained not to go upstairs. When my parents came to visit their dog was very excited to see his sister and they romped around a bit. Then he promptly bounded upstairs and came back down proudly carrying a pair of MIL's knickers from the dirty laundry basket. 😳😂

My friend had her husband's friend come and stay .
They hadn't seen him for years and were looking forward to it.

He rang a few days before and told them that he eats sausages on a Wednesday , Cottage Pie on a Thursday , as has a takeaway Fish and Chip super on a Friday , and could they make sure they have that .

He came only with the socks and pants he was wearing and thought it would be ok to borrow her dh 's underwear .

I would have asked him to bring his complete tool kit next time, there are plenty of other jobs need doing too!

So she’d have to walk outside to the bin with a blatant sanitary bag every time in front of your whole family? Oh yes not embarrassing at all 😳 Poor girl

'An Ottoman storage chest with a lock and one key - for me'. Or would they deliver it to you after a visit by courier?!

Oof, that's really harsh. She was obviously distressed and embarrassed about wetting the bed.

It would never occur to me not to put my pads in a bathroom bin and to bring it down to the outdoor bin.

Is it not awkward that anyone using the bathroom for this has to announce their period to everyone by walking their bag through the house and out the door?

I've also never used sanitary bags and was always told growing up to use the wrapper the next one comes in and toilet roll to wrap it tight. I've never had one unravel in the bin.

I'm now absolutely mortified though after reading your post. Years ago when I first started going out DH, I had these weird feeling that MIL was annoyed when I was on my period and using the bathroom bin in this way and not long after she got rid of the bathroom bin never to be seen again. I always assumed I was being paranoid as I had never heard of this being a thing. Now looking back I realise I should have checked.

I hate being on my period at her house now because she has the tiniest little bin in the kitchen and that's it. The outdoor bins in the house she's in now are all the way down the path shared with other houses and so it's not quick to pop out and is absolutely pitch black at night time. I generally just try to avoid going during that time of the month.

Perhaps this is a situation where I deserve a place on this thread.

Luckily we've got someone who fed their dog a used tampon so that makes me feel a bit better.

Not quite so bad, but I mentioned to my last cat sitter I recycled the cat food pouches - when I got back she said she’d saved them all together in a box and put them with the recycling - except she had not rinsed them out first?

In laws- they would insist on watching a certain programme but throughout it, MIL would constantly ask if we minded. I once suggested they record it at home and they denied the existence of their video recorder.

FIL would constantly ask to go home (like a child).
FIL also would ask for different types of food when we served up the dinner.

In their own home they were perfectly normal but in ours and SIL's home they were just weird.

Less bizarre than really exasperating at the time. Once MIL and dh’s auntie came to stay at ours to house and horse sit while we were away (at the time, I had two horses that I kept at home).

We came back after 2 nights away to find MIL had used hedge trimmers to trim a hole in the hedge into the field ‘for easier access’ so we wouldn’t have to waste time opening the gate. 🤔

So yes, we had a big f-ing people and horse width hole in the hedge, which she was very right, didn’t require anyone to go through the gate. 😩 She’d done us a favour by looking after everything so I kinda had to smile and say thank you, while dh just looked nervously on. 😂