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Strangest thing someone has ever done In your home?

166 replies

Ilikechips · 16/08/2021 19:22

Seen lots of these type of threads lately and I love them! So go ahead, what’s the strangest thing anyone has ever done in your home?

OP posts:
Durbeyfield · 16/08/2021 23:08

A guy stayed over once and I left to go to to work before he was up. I accidentally locked him in the house, and so to get out, he climbed out of the kitchen window. A neighbour saw him stepping down into the courtyard from the window, in his work suit with a briefcase in hand, and he just said “ Morning!” And carried on to his car. Must have looked odd..

ChocolateCakeYum · 16/08/2021 23:08

A good friend left her used tampon on my windowsill. To be fair it was wrapped up in toilet paper and she’d forgotten to put it in the bin but yuk.

I once woke up after a university house party to find a friend of my (now ex) boyfriend emptying all of the ashtrays into his coat pockets. I assume he was going to make cigarettes out of all the tobacco left in the stubs but why empty the whole ashtray? Urgh. Still makes me cringe.

Purplealienpuke · 16/08/2021 23:10

I asked a neighbour to feed small animals while I was away, they readily agreed.
Came home to find they'd rearranged my living room, including storing all my dvds 😱
They'd also snopped in my bedroom, including my bedside drawer....

Private stuff etc.
I was very fucking angry..... weirdos 😡

AlexCabot · 16/08/2021 23:17

So many poo stories, some of you have very strange friends Confused

ChocolateCakeYum · 16/08/2021 23:21

I’m going to admit to one now.

Many moons ago my parents owned a house they rented out. Occasionally I would stop by on my way to college to pick up the mail or collect rent or meet workmen for jobs that needed doing. Anyway one day I stopped by the house. Usually when I stopped by I’d wait to be let in by the tenant (you know because I thought it was rude to just let myself in).

However one day I went round my IBS was playing up. Now I’m sure that anyone who has IBS will tell you that when you have to go you have to go, there is no waiting around or holding it in. It’s going to come out. Anyway, I knocked on the door. No answer. Starting to panic I feel the only option is to let myself in, go to the loo and if anyone catches me I’ll apologise profusely and buy them some more lol roll.

So I go in, rush to the loo and do my business. Unfortunately very messy and I use lots of loo roll but all contained within the bowl etc.

That’s when I discover there’s no water in the tank, I can’t flush the damn toilet. I think about filling a bucket up with water and washing it that way. However no bucket and much to my horror no water either. That’s when I remember the water was shut off for the workmen because they were going to be doing some work that day.

I didn’t know how the hell to turn the water back on so I did the next best thing and slink out of the house in an embarrassed state, to hide around the corner to wait for the workmen, leaving my business for someone else to discover. Which they did. My mum got a phone call several hours later about a phantom pooper.

Yes I blamed it on the workmen!

Mreggsworth · 16/08/2021 23:24

Guy I was seeing first time staying over, was drunk. Got up in the night and peed in cupboard under the stairs over a box of DVDs and an old Henry Hoover. I never heard from him after.

We didn't even drink much, I suspect he must have been going to the loo and sneaking drinks or drugs.

Postitmug · 16/08/2021 23:25

@ExhaustedGrinch

Well this is outing but fuck it. I don't care. I'll never not be mad about it.

A family member (through marriage) was watching my DS while I went shopping. I made a mental note to get toilet paper as we were out. Get back and DS proudly declares FM had done a smelly poo. I was slightly puzzled because I knew we didn't have toilet paper but figured they'd sacrificed a sock. When they left I discovered a missing hand towel!

Okay, so in desperation I can see why someone would use a hand towel, whatever. I figured must be in the bin or washing machine, or they'd smuggled it out in their bag. Nope. They'd flung it in my cupboard under the stairs! WTF!

I put gloves on and placed said towel in a plastic bag. Next time FM was over to watch my son so I could shop I placed the bag with the shitty towel in ON TOP of my bin with the bag open so they would know I know. Very passive aggressive I know. Anyway I get back and FM loudly announces "Oh there was a shitty towel on the bin, DS had left it there so I've flung it in the wash" ... !!! DS says "NO I DIDN'T" to which FM again says it was DS. I was, possibly for the first time in my life, fucking speechless.

I told FM's partner about it and how hurt I was and that I didn't want them in my home alone ever again. FMs partner was mortified obviously. I've never raised it with FM (now divorced from family anyway) but it's something that really hurt me, possibly more than it made me mad, to disrespect my home in the most disgusting way and then to top it off blame my DS was just something else completely.

That's a really weird story.

On the off chance it's real, do you normally wait until you've completely run out of toilet roll before buying more? I wouldn't leave someone babysitting my child without basics in the house, except in a huge emergency

Mumteedum · 16/08/2021 23:27

Was round a friend's house for few drinks once. One of the guests was a while in the bathroom. When he came down he'd shaved his beard off (with my female friend's ladyshave) Grin

AlistairCamel · 16/08/2021 23:28

Had to change my user name for this.

Urinated in my food box! (University halls of residence)

XelaM · 16/08/2021 23:30

@Malin52 Very similar to what happened to me. My on-off boyfriend came over completely out of the blue (he lives up North, I’m in London, so was definitely not expecting him). He stayed the night and I went to work in the morning. When I returned from work, both my boyfriend and my DVD player were gone Grin I’m still baffled by it to this day

Spongeboob · 16/08/2021 23:30

Stole a limited edition wristband. I still remember 15 years later and there was no one else it could have been. Too specific. Still pissed off about it.

ParistoLondon · 16/08/2021 23:31

@Spermysextowel

Footsteps on our bedroom ceiling one Sunday. Was neighbour’s builder in our loft just seeing how best to fit in a steel to support additional bedroom next door. He’d squeezed through a hole they must’ve made when we were out that only A Borrower could have got through.
The footsteps alone. Jesus christ. I would have shat myself.
TedImgoingmad · 16/08/2021 23:33

Went into premature labour, refused to go to hospital, and ended up having their baby in my spare room, whilst I had to run around after their midwives. Then stored their placenta in my freezer, which they did not collect for some time afterwards.

Antwerpen · 16/08/2021 23:37

@TedImgoingmad

Went into premature labour, refused to go to hospital, and ended up having their baby in my spare room, whilst I had to run around after their midwives. Then stored their placenta in my freezer, which they did not collect for some time afterwards.
You win Grin
TedMullins · 16/08/2021 23:39

badly wrapped the microwave, kitchen bin, hoover and other appliances in clingfilm and piled them all on my bed as a prank (university house)

Casually done a line of coke in front of my visiting mum (shared house of professionals)

Kept their glasses on during sex (a visiting gentleman friend - I found it such a turn off I didn’t see him again)

YesIDoLoveCrisps · 16/08/2021 23:39

@ImitationofBeing

New neighbours came over for a drink one evening. He went to the loo (on the 1st floor). Must have gone snooping to the 2nd floor where our bedroom was (converted terrace - attic bedroom).

He got stuck in the eaves/storage and had to shout for help.

His wife just continued chatting like this was totally normal.

I can just imagine chatting to your new neighbours about how nice the local schools are while her husband is shouting ‘SARAH HELP ME I AM STUCK IN THE EVES STORAGE. EMERGENCY EMERGENCY!!! I NEED TO BE RESCUED’

Did he get out eventually?

NormanSicily · 16/08/2021 23:40

Quite mild really, but turned all the framed photos in the living room upside down that had me in. They were an old friend of my DH and a bit possessive of him, I think they were marking territory or something. We never mentioned it to them, think they just wanted a reaction.

ParistoLondon · 16/08/2021 23:41

@TedImgoingmad

Went into premature labour, refused to go to hospital, and ended up having their baby in my spare room, whilst I had to run around after their midwives. Then stored their placenta in my freezer, which they did not collect for some time afterwards.
Why did she refuse to go? Especially given it was a premature labour. What a wally.
Thisbastardcomputer · 16/08/2021 23:42

F

TedImgoingmad · 16/08/2021 23:50

Why did she refuse to go? Especially given it was a premature labour. What a wally.

You've answered your own question Grin

But, in a nutshell: determined to have a "natural" home birth and nothing was going to stop her.

GrowThroughWhatYouGoThrough · 16/08/2021 23:50

Mil dog sat whilst we were on holiday. Came home went into the cupboard and she had turned all my cups the other way round there's about 50 of them!!

UsernameNotAvailableApparently · 16/08/2021 23:50

Had a few people round for drinks and someone took the bin bag out of the bin to be sick in the now bagless bin. I still don’t understand the logic behind that one and was not impressed having to clean the bin out the next day Envy < not envy

UsernameNotAvailableApparently · 16/08/2021 23:53

Just remembered another one! An old friend used to come round my house just to watch the shopping channels. They’d say they were coming round to hang out/watch a film, but would just sit in front of QVC as if I wasn’t there. We don’t talk anymore.

Marmalady75 · 17/08/2021 00:00

Fil decided to check the flush function of the toilets in our new house by “christening the toilet” ( well, that’s what he called it - I called it shitting and nipping).

dizzylizzy08 · 17/08/2021 00:01

My ex had a posh wank in my bed. My sister caught him.

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