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what is the oddest thing someone has done when you have visited their house?

790 replies

2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny · 06/04/2012 23:25

mine was my DB, he did warn me but tbh I was so...... [bushock]
I was kind of 'oh ok"
he put old sheets on the floor to protect his carpet from...

dd's wheelchair wheels

guess where we won't be going again(this was after he insisted she was shoved in the corner of the table at a pub...just in case she got in the staff's way....WTF)

??? YOUR please

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GinPalace · 08/04/2012 10:54

Leftwingharpie - true!! [bugrin]

I think we are all having our shock thresholds adjusted here getting educated by this thread

I was starting to collect ideas for how to get rid of unwanted guests in an imaginative way.... but have realised it could take an awful lot to shift someone - even propositioning sex doesn't work! So may have to stick to being honest instead. [buwink]

springydaffs · 08/04/2012 10:55

Grin Grin Humancatapult

IllegitimateGruffaloChild · 08/04/2012 11:04

Jesus is busy Grin Grin Grin

Sorry but that is f*cking funny.

acsec · 08/04/2012 11:23

When I was 13/14 I went on a school trip to France and my friend and I stayed with a host family. The family collected us from the pick up point and took us back to their massive house. They only spoke French to us (which was fine as between us we understood most of what was being said) However, after they'd shown us around and left us in our room to get sorted we compared notes on what we'd managed to translate. We both agreed the family had told us they had 7 children, and the bedrooms had suggested they were aged from baby to maybe our age, but there were no children in the house. We thought maybe they were at school/ daycare but we spent a whole week with the family and there were no children.

But the grandparents did turn up and were given our little lounge to sleep in, on the floor (strange as there were so many empty bedrooms.) We had to be up early every day to get driven to the French school for morning lessons, and had to go through the living room with the sleeping grandparents, skirting round the edge of the air mattress trying not to wake them.

Every morning the husband of the family would drive us to the school, not speak a word to either of us, drive SUPER scarily fast overtaking everything on the road and spend most of the time looking at my friend in the rearview mirror.

It was all a bit odd.

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2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny · 08/04/2012 11:29

HillyWallaby oh he is fussy. no kids so he and his DW have a very tidy clean house.
but he didn't ask us to remove our feet.....

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leftwingharpie · 08/04/2012 11:31

acsec that is really weird did you never get to the bottom of it?

acsec · 08/04/2012 11:53

Being 13yr olds with overactive imaginations and having watched too many scary films we thought it best not to ask in case they didn't really have any children but hosted foreign students and kept them.

They were nice people, well the mum was, even though we probably only understood 1/2 to 3/4 of what they said to us. It was a fab school trip all in all!

ipswichwitch · 08/04/2012 11:56

when me and DP were house hunting, we arranged a viewing for a sunday (being the only day the owner said they could do), which gave them 4 days notice. we arrived bang on time, and were told by the woman that we'd have to be quiet as her husband had got home half an hour earlier from a weekends fishing trip and had gone to bed, apparently refusing to stay up for another hour until we'd been and gone (this was at 2pm).
she said he'd been considerate by sleeping in their daughters room, as he assumed we wouldnt want to actually look in there (no, why would we want to look in every room of the house we may have been interested in buying?), but seemingly not considerate enough to wash first as he reeked of fish. and yes i did look in the room, to satisfy my morbid curiosity as to how someone could just sleep through a viewing - he did and snored very loudly too

crypes · 08/04/2012 12:02

I love this thread, its hilarious following it and how everyone has been really polite in the most awful situations, even the most creepy and scary ones. Its that blighty spirit 'We can take it' lol

HillyWallaby · 08/04/2012 12:19

But he asked you to remove your shoes, yes? Wheelchair wheels are more like outdoor shoes than like feet! Wink I don't think it was a particularly offensive thing to do, if he is the sort who doesn't let people in in their shoes - it's no different really.
although people who do that get on my nerves

leftmysociallifeatthedoor · 08/04/2012 12:23

One of dh's friends had no food at the evening reception of his wedding and at his baby's christening he invited people to the church and then afterwards said they all had to go hom apart from a chosen few because their house wasn't big enough (it was huge). Even the Godfather got sent home from the steps of the church!

Someone came to stay with us when I was a student, rent free, she invited me to a party IN MY OWN FLAT and had a pet rat and parrot who roamed free and shat everywhere.

Dh's friends also asked us to come stay for the weekend - they had bought a fancy new apartment and were both consultant docs so not skint afaik. We showed up, went for dinner, came home, they went to bed and pointed us to the spare room - literally a room, no heating, no bed, no covers given, nothing.

maybeIwillmaybeIwont · 08/04/2012 12:26

leftmysociallife at the door No bed!!! No covers, good grief, what were they thinking!

cocolepew · 08/04/2012 12:31

Not me but DH before I met him.

He had been going out with a girl and one night she asked him back to her flat. He went oi go to the loo and was astounded by the smell. The bath was full of shit in plastic bags.

He asked what was going on and she said "My toilets been broke for ages and won't flush properly."

Obviously pooing in bags is the first thing you'd think to do Hmm.

ABitSnowyOutside · 08/04/2012 12:56

Many years ago, my then partner and I were invited to stay for the weekend by a very eccentric but lovely friend of mine who lived in the Aberdeenshire countryside. It was December.

We had an interesting evening, chatting and drinking wine until late. My friend made us some 'Essential soup' - he never washed the pot but added ingredients to the original stock which I suspect was antique. He said we had to appreciate the 'Essence' of the vegetables, their soul which was perpetual hence the soup.

We eventually asked where we should sleep and my friend told us to wait a little while - he vanished outside.

We heard dragging sounds and thumps so called to him to ask him if he needed help. He said no but our bed was ready and we went up.

He had hauled an old mattress from outside - it had a film of frost on it, no sheets or blankets.
Partner and I lay on this freezing, bogging mattress with all our clothes on and pulled a curtain on to use as a blanket.
We both started to cry laughing but had to do it silently so as my friend was not offended seeing as he had gone to bother and everything. [bugrin]

The upshot was that I woke in the morning unable to move and my friend and partner carried me to the car then visited a woo back mender friend of my eccentric friend.

DinahMoHum · 08/04/2012 13:02

best.thread.ever.

Garliccheesechips · 08/04/2012 13:07

Meeting old friend's fiance for the first time (they had been living overseas) at their new house.

Conversation was all normal, the usual, polite, friendly etc.

When my friend was out of the room I asked her if she'd made the cakes herself (just making conversation really) and her face darkened to a hard snarl.

She then (and I still struggle to believe this actually happened) shoved her face up close to mine and said 'Of course I didn't fucking make them myself, what a stupid fucking question to ask you stupid fucking cunt'.

I was Shock

Then she called me a stupid slag.

When friend came back into the room it was as if nothing had happened.

Still in shock, I made my excuses and left.

The next time I met her, in the pub with a group of friends, she was all sweetness and light to me, until several drinks in she started with the stupid fucking cunt routine again.

I now avoid her (and sadly, him) like the plague. Though there's a mutual friend's wedding next year that should be interesting... Hmm

GinPalace · 08/04/2012 13:08

Garlic double- [bushock]

GinPalace · 08/04/2012 13:09

Did you ever tell him??

Garliccheesechips · 08/04/2012 13:12

No, I've never told him. I told his brother who said she's a 'bit unstable alright'.
Ya think??

The only thing I can think to explain it is that she has a problem with her man's female friends, but really?

GinPalace · 08/04/2012 13:20

Sad - still on an optimistic note if an un-hinged foul mouthed woman like that can bag a man there is hope for any half-decent singletons out there!! [bugrin]

I had a great bloke-mate once who wasn't allowed to speak to his female friends! I called him once and we were chatting away when he said 'gotta go she's back' [buhmm] - very sad, he went abroad sometime later and I missed him for ages. Don't know if he stayed with her.

Thread hijack over. [busmile]

Threerogues · 08/04/2012 13:28

My MIL complained that we weren't planning to travel to visit them over Christmas. Much as I wanted not to travel with the three rogues I relented (Christmas spirit and all that) and we travelled the 250 miles to stay on the days stipulated as suitable. On the third day of a four day visit she informed us that she was having a dinner party that evening but we weren't invited. It turned out though that three of DH's siblings and their partners and one of their daughters (4) were invited. We were told we would have to vacate the house with the kids until midnight. We left.

whackamole · 08/04/2012 13:29

I'm utterly loving this thread! Trying to think of some myself

acsec · 08/04/2012 13:41

When I was 11 I had a friend whose family were very strange. I went round for dinner and a sleepover one night and the older sister, who was a vegan, was in charge of making dinner. She took an opened tin of beans out of the fridge and scraped the mould off the top, and served them with some lentil-y stuff, I ate it even though it was pretty rank. After dinner the mum ran a bath and tried to make me have a bath with my friend so we could all see "the blossoming of our bodies". I said I was ok and had had a bath that morning. While friend had the bath lentil-weaver older sis and geeky little bro had an almighty row about older sis having moved the bro's toy cat. We then had to have a family meeting with me as the intermediary (sp?) finished off by group hug. When it was finally bed time, I was given a grotty sleeping bag and had to sleep on the floor of friend's room with no mattress.

The next time I was invited for sleepover I got my mum to tell them I was busy.

garlicbunny · 08/04/2012 13:43

In my chaotic younger days I got the sack from a live-in job. I had nowhere to stay until one of the women from work offered to have me at hers. Really kind of her - she was a heroine, bringing up two very difficult boys (the younger was severely autistic) on her own with little money. I was to share a room with the elder son, who was about 15.

After we went to bed, the boy sat up and said he wanted me to tell him stories. Okay, I said. He then pulled a rifle from under his mattress, showed me it was loaded and pointed it at me! I spent the night telling stories at gunpoint. (I did include Scheherezade, but he didn't get the connection.)

Told his mum about it, she simply confiscated the rifle.

That night he had a knife.

I ran away the next day - am ashamed I left without telling her, and still sometimes wonder how things turned out for them all!

Lovecat · 08/04/2012 13:48

Not on the scale of most of these (my eyes are popping!), but I was going out with a group of friends and we were meeting at one girl's flat - I knew her, but only as part of the group of people I hung around with.

She had white leather sofas with pink velvet cushions on them. While we were waiting for some others to turn up, she said to sit down. I was just about to lower my bum onto the seat when she shrieked (literally, like a banshee) and threw herself across the room to grab the pink cushion from behind me. "Noooo!" she glared at me. "They're not for sitting on! You'll spoil them!"

I was Confused ".... ok....." and several people laughed and went 'oh, xxx and her cushions" - apparently she was notorious for this. Another (male) friend asked if he could use the loo while waiting. She said yes, but wait a minute, and went in first, returning with a fluffy bath mat and loo mat. "Men" she smiled at us "can't have them messing up my mats!" As soon as he returned she went back in, we heard hot water running and the smell of pine... apparently she disinfected around the loo after every visitor and no-one (including herself) was allowed to use the loo with the mats in situ in case of dribblage... which I can sort of see, those mats are a bit minging imho, but then why have them in the first place?

No-one's ever had sex in the same room as me, but a guy I met in Key West tried to persuade me that it would be a good idea if we got it on in my youth hostel room (that had bunk beds and I was sharing with 5 other girls!)... needless to say, he did not persuade me!