to ask you to tell all about your bad guest staying at your house stories ?

[thisfoofooisallmine]

It has been ages we didn't have one and I'm sorry I can't wait for after Christmas ! I'm sure you had guest who stayed with you recently who were big piss takers, they ate all your food and didn't even bring a bottle of wine with them or they brought pizzas but wanted to charge you for it....

Please make me happy, I never ask anything ! This topic always put a smile on my face

[Crowler]

I was originally responding to flyingspag but I open this to thehippy
Blimey.

[TodaysAGoodDay]

My 'friend' came to stay for a week in July when my DS was with his dad. Said 'friend' isn't short of money but only brought £30 for the whole week, £12 of which she decided to spend on lager. Oh, and she didn't bring her bank card because 'it's not safe to take it when you travel is it?'. When I challenged her on this she said 'well I'm staying with you, so you pay for everything don't you?'

The earliest she bothered getting up was 10.30, and she complained even then because she usually slept till 12. I'm used to getting up at 7am with DS, but I was willing to compromise and make it 9.30, but oh no.

Oh, and I haven't mentioned yet she didn't bring her toothbrush, toothpaste, shower gel, face cloth or even deodorant because 'I thought I could just use yours'.

Never again. NEVER!

And breathe.

[LetZygonsbeZygons]

yep. invited themselves for a 'couple of days/nights' and ended up the week.

her DC broke my microwave and blamed it on my DC (My DCs never broken a thing in her life)

'friend' didn't even ask if she could smoke and procedded to light up IN house and burn sofa. not an apology or anything, then went outside in garden to smoke and left butts in prize plant.

her DC went through all my kitchen cupboards and helped herself to everything yet when I made lunch/dinner turned her nose up at it and threw it on floor.

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!

[flyingspaghettimonster]

Yes totally serious. My electricity bill and water bill were much higher that month! You can't hang laundry where we live so the drier was on for two full days and a night. It makes an awful buzzing every hour too and woke me all night long.

The next time she realised my husband was away she came back, after I had mentioned I was going to pay someone to help me clean/sort the place out. She begged me to hire her as she needed the money.

I paid her the $200 I had promised, but she was no help at all; every single toy or piece of clothing I put in the eBay pile she begged me to give to her. Real guilt trips about how few nice th

[flyingspaghettimonster]

Things her kids had and how much they would love everything my kids have. I gave her a lot, but she was even trying to take things they still played with/wore. Next morning my husband got home and she had her manky old bra slung over the sofa and was making all kinds of innuendos about him getting a thrill seeing her bra... He was utterly repulsed by her and begged me never to talk to her again. I am not good at being rude to people though.

[TheHippywhowearsLippy]

Yep afraid so, the guy still works with me. I thought maybe it was a one off & stupidly gave them another chance.... I know I know!! Not thread related but I have to tell it, We invited them to our wedding (invited most of my co workers) they turned up with his mother & his mothers best friend. The hotel had to set extra places & we had to pay for the extra dinners. As soon as dinner was over, up they get and say "thanks that was lovely see you at work next week then". WTF??

[ShirakawaKaede]

Other way round for us, but just had to share - we were staying overnight at my bro's house in order to help him move furniture the next day as he was having carpets laid. We were supposed to be sleeping on the sofa. He stayed up til 4am on said sofa watching tv when we had to be up at 7.30am. We were too polite to say "bugger off, we have to sleep". I crashed out after all the moving was done, and he wondered why.

[theoldtrout01876]

Many years ago an old school friend asked to visit visit over Christmas with her 2 Dcs for 3 weeks, No problem says I. WRONG

Her oldest was a SULLEN teenager ( my oldest and her youngest were the same age and a lot younger than teenager probably 6 )

She fought with my then H the whole time she was here ( he promptly took it out on me,even telling her this made no difference )

Her Dc2 could do no wrong and my kids were making him miserable

They didnt like what I cooked ( Microwaved my crown roast of beef on Christmas day cos it wasnt cooked enough ) But never offered to help with the cooking or clearing up or anything else for that matter

Demanded I took her to return something shed bought ( after Id driven her there) on Christmas eve OMFG she was in store for HOURS and as I couldnt find a parking spot I drove around the fckin parking lot for hours

Her Dc1 had my Tv and lights on 24/7,ate all my kids snack food

She came to supermarket with me and I honestly thought she was gonna offer something towards their keep but NO she literally filled a trolley with junk and when we got home took it all into her room and told my kids they couldnt have any it was for her kids( ex kept me short of cash and i couldnt buy junk for my kids )

Never offered a dime or to help in any way ( she did tell me that shed put in for an emergency grant from the college she was going to and had no intentions of returning to and had gotten 1000 pounds and thats how she financed her trip here)

Twas not a good trip and Ive barely kept in touch since and we had been friends since childhood. She did mention a return trip a couple of times ( years ago now ) and I put her off. NEVER AGAIN

[Thistledew]

My DSis decided to visit my parents (same father, different mothers) for the first time in about 5 years.

She phoned me up to say that she and her husband were on their way. I hadn't lived under the same roof as my parents for over 10 years by this point. She hadn't told my parents she was coming. I told her to give my parents a call to tell them when they would be arriving and I then called them myself to let them know I spoke to DSis. Just as well, as she never phoned them as apparently she can't call landlines from her mobile.

DDad had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's and needed to eat regular meals so he could take his meds and also to have lots of rest. Because of this he gets quite anxious with changes of routine and feels he can't cope.

My parents live in a very rural area and the nearest shop is about 25 mins drive away. Not knowing what DSis plans were DMum had to guess at the time she could go out to buy extra food. She went out whilst DDad was having his afternoon sleep.

DDad woke up to find DSis and her DH in his bedroom sitting on his bed. When mum returned, she found that Sis had made three different pots of tea as she decided she didn't like the different sorts they have.

They stayed all afternoon, and any attempt at conversation was met by sis and her DH finding apposite quotes from the bible at every turn. As it was getting on for dinner time, mum asked sis if they were planning to stay for a meal. They were. They then stayed for a couple more hours until they eventually asked if there was a b&b near. See above for my comments about it being a very rural location, where finding a bed at 9pm is not easy to do. Mum had to rush around changing beds and bedding - the spare room is used as her sewing room, which wasn't great for her as she was at the time suffering from mobility and back problems.

When mum eventually confronted sis as to why she had turned up with no notice, sis said it was because she feared she would be told not to come. Funnily enough, completely ignoring the very good reasons why my parents weren't up to having house guests at the time!

[FruOla]

"..... suggested that we dig out the floor of our front room to put in a swimming pool. (wtaf)"

WTAF indeed

I wish I had something to add, but the worst I can think of is an overnight guest who burnt a hole, with her cigarette, in our new carpet in the sitting room.

[bdbfan]

When my dd1 was born my mil came to meet her with her dp. They also brought some random bloke with them (I still have no idea who he was)

Then they all went outside for a cigarette, and disappeared to the pub without mentioning it. When they returned 5 hrs later, they ATE MY DINNER! Dh hadn't cooked for them as we figured they'd gone back to their b&b.

[Kerosene]

DH's friend came to stay with us for a while. My alarm goes off at 6am. DH's friend is already in the shower. I get dressed, sort out breakfast and lunch. He's still in the shower. I clean my face with a wipe and put my makeup on, sort my hair. Shower is still going. I grab my travel toothbrush and toothpaste, resolving to brush my teeth at work. I leave at 6:30, the shower is still going. DH reports later that friend was in the shower for 45 minutes. Friend is completely bald, there's no interesting smellies in the shower, and no razor. I don't want to know what he was doing in my shower for 45 minutes.
DH suggests to friend that it'd be nice if I could use my own bathroom before work. Friend huffs and puffs and delays getting into the shower until 6:05, routine repeats for the remaining three days friend is with us.
DH is now aware that friend is no longer welcome unless he contributes to the water bill in advance...

[TheMagicToyshop]

This thread has just brought back this story -

I was living in a flat share with a friend who always had her boyfriend over and she would often leave him in the flat when she went out. He had a particularly obnoxious male friend whom he used to invite round to drink our alcohol when we were out. One night after starting on our vodka the boyfriend and friend went out on a bender and came back to our flat to crash. I was in bed and had work the next day.

The obnoxious friend had had far too much to drink and started being sick at about 2am, in the bathroom next to my room, and continued to do so until about 6am. What a fucking performance. He was lying on the floor kicking and punching the wall and bath repeatedly, SCREAMING 'somebody help me', wailing and crying, in between dramatic heaving and retching. I lay in bed fuming until I had to get up for work.

The next day it transpired he had slept on the floor where he had vomited copiously and had used all our towels to mop it up. Fucking bastard, I refused to ever see him again.

I'm still fuming all these years later!

[Sister77]

This happened to a friend but has entertained us all for years, she had a school friend stay, the friend was between places and stayed 3 days till her new flat was ready.
My friend went to work on the third day before her friend left on nice terms, thanks etc. on her return she went to the spare bed room to strip the bed etc and found that everything had gone! The bed, bed side cabinets, duvet, duvet cover, pillows, lamps etc. she phoned her friend who said I didn't think you would mind! When I thanked you and offered you money you said it's ok I never use the room and I needed it so I took it!
My friend went straight round and picked it back up nd they never spoke again!

[BuntyPenfold]

Kerosene can't you turn off the power? Might get him out!

SIL came to stay during a very cold spell, where she never got dressed, smoked outside half the day in her pjs, sat up against the fire the rest of the time in pjs, complaining non stop that she was cold. She showed me her belly piercing 900 times (okay, slight exaggeration ) as it's easy to show people if you are in your pjs and never get dressed.
She wouldn't eat anything I cooked at all, only wanted haribo and coke, and a bowl of cornflakes which she ground to powder with her fist before adding milk. At nearly midnight on the third day she suddenly demanded that we drive her to the station as her train was booked, but at least she got dressed for that.

[BuntyPenfold]

Omg sister77

[SlightlyDampWellies]

FruOla.

The swimming pool idea came because I have a very bad back which was playing up so their suggestion for our mid terrace 3 bed house was that we put a lap pool in the front room. So, in context it kind of made sense. ..... oh no hang on, it did not make any sense at all.

This couple have (apparently, we were told) a beautiful enormous house with their own orchard etc in the country so probably had no concept that simply putting in a pool may be a little impractical.

(Besides, can you imagine what Planning would say??!!)

[SlightlyDampWellies]

Actually, that has brought back another memory of this couple I had forgotten. I was then doing a horror daily commute to London and back and it was wearing me down. They suggested I get a pilot's licence, buy a plane and fly to London each day. They were quite serious. (I think ... no, I know they were really exceedingly wealthy. The husband had his own helicopter when he was in the City. So why they wanted to crash with the adult children of friends instead of staying in a fucking B&B is a bit beyond me).

[FruOla]

"They suggested I get a pilot's licence, buy a plane and fly to London each day."

That's even more ridiculous - they sound bonkers

[SlightlyDampWellies]

Yes indeed! They were pretty elderly, and to be honest I think they just completely failed to realise that other people's lives were not like theirs. It was quite surreal at times.

[PosyNarker]

Not as bad as some of these, but...

When I was a student a friend from home came to stay for the weekend. I had a two bed flat and was letting out the second bedroom to another student, so I said this was fine, but she'd either need sleeping bag in the living room or to share my double bed. Fine, we're both girls so we'll share. We hadn't seen each other in about a year and so were looking forward to spending some time together catching up.

She arrived late and wanted to go clubbing. We went out to a rock club where she proceeded to pick up some dodgy bloke and spend the night snogging him. He disappears and we're getting ready to go. Suddenly dodgy bloke appears again and will 'walk us home'. Get to the flat door, cue screaming tantrum about if I don't let them both in for a nightcap, she's going off with bloke, but she can't stay at his, so can I give them a key or she'll need to 'sleep in the park' .

Knackered and totally fucked off by this point, I say fine to the nightcap and let them in. She then asks if I can sleep on my own living room floor and give her my bed as they want to have a shag . I say no and he has to go, so she lets him out and I go to bed. She's staying up 'for a cuppa' and is 'pissed off with me' so will sleep on the couch.

Next morning flatmate stumbles over her and dodgy bloke (she'd obviously let him back in), naked on my living room floor, having pulled all the cushions off my settees. Dodgy bloke is given his marching orders and friend decides to leave a day early as we'd been unwelcoming. I thought maybe she was going off with bloke, but no, because he was 'just a random', 'not very good' and 'a bit weird wasn't he?'.

So off she fucks and I had to shampoo my carpet due to the suspicious stains jizz on my living room floor.

I haven't seen her since. I shouldn't have been surprised, she had form for shagging anything that moved and in retrospect was one of those women who only need friends when they've not got a man, any man.

[fromparistoberlin]

recent honeymoooners (DPs side of the family) stayed 10 days

sat on sofa all the fucking time
did not help once
sat at table, ate, then fucked off
monosyballic
heavy petting on sofa (yuk)
did not seem to like my city much
ungrateful
did not buy anything, not even hostess gift
did not bring any money with them
did not cook, tidy or wash up once for ten days
did not respond to basic conversational overtures

UGHHHHHHHH

[FurryGiraffe]

FIL and Step MIL arranged to come and visit a couple of weeks after DS was born (they live several hours away). We didn't really want overnight visitors so soon so arranged (and paid) for them to stay in a B and B round the corner. The day before they announced they were bringing DH's stepsister (20) and she could sleep on our sofa: as they were already away from home, staying with friends close by at this point, there wasn't really an option to say no.

So they all arrived in the morning. After lunch I raised the topic of dinner and asked if everyone was ok with jacket potatoes and chilli, with strawberries and ice cream after. No objections until we served up, at which point Step MIL asked whether there was chilli in the chilli, as it really upsets her stomach. I said yes there was chilli in it and offered alternative fillings for the jacket potatoes. She adopted a matyred air and then ate the chilli. Come dessert, I was dishing up strawberries and she said to Step sister "you don't like strawberries do you, are you on sure you want some?" I suggested she just have ice cream, but SS made revolted face and said she'd eat some strawberries.

The day they left, I had a doctors' appointment and DH had work so we said they'd need to collect SS and leave by 10 but suggested they come early and have a cup of tea first. At 9.15 SS hadn't got up so I knocked on the door. FIL and SMIL didn't turn up until 9.50, at which point SS still hadn't emerged. I was thoroughly fed up and need to leave or be late and ushered them all out of the door sharpish as SS complained about lack of breakfast and SMIL said it was a shame she couldn't spend more time with DS.

FIL hasn't visited since but says he wants to come in the new year. I'm not keen unless he leaves them at home!

[Crowler]

I'm snorting at the pool & pilot's license. Hilarious. Although your bad back explains it!

[wink1970]

Oh dear, I came on here to post about my DM's insistence on new loo roll & tissues in the bathroom when she stayed, but this pails into insignificance alongside these stories!

We were once guests at a friend's luxury villa (and I mean NICE) and for some reason DH had also invited a workmate & his wife, the latter turned out to be a raving alcoholic lunatic who puked in the swimming pool, punched a local waiter, fell asleep in her supper (face down, spaghetti, lovely) and ripped the curtains down 'to get more light'. My friendship with the original friend lasted a couple of years more until she moved away, but boy did she never live it down!