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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

OP posts:
JarethTheGoblinKing · 08/04/2012 15:36

you need a bum towel, everlong Grin Wink

JarethTheGoblinKing · 08/04/2012 15:36

argh - there was meant to be a question mark somewhere in there! Blush

Cremeeggsandkitkatsoldiers · 08/04/2012 15:40

"Poor Joey, does nasty Pandemoniaa not want to share her dinner nicely with you?" [bushock]

Maeb · 08/04/2012 15:45

GinPalace - don't I just! Sometimes I think that it can't always be other people that I'm probably more to blame, or the wierdo...and then I remember the bum towel and I know that it's not me :o

fuzzpig · 08/04/2012 15:46

Bum towel?!?

Snowsister · 08/04/2012 15:47

I was living abroad and my mum came to visit for a week. A friend of mine who was a native of that country invited us over for lunch.

The previous year she had visited my family for a fortnight and mum had cooked her lots of great meals using local produce and was looking forward to trying her country's dishes.

We arrived at her apartment in good time and she greeted us enthusiastically, but then grabbed her bag and ushered us out the door. She then led us down a dirt track near a beach for about a mile until we reached a cafe where she told us we would have lunch.

At the end the bill was handed to us.Shock

Cremeeggsandkitkatsoldiers · 08/04/2012 15:48

I think my neighbour has a bum towel - she came out of my bathroom with dripping hands moaning about how it wasn't clear which towel was our hand towel so she couldn't dry her hands (err, the smallest one at the top of the towel rail obviously!!) so she couldn't dry her hands

maybe she thought it could have been a bum towel?

she is strange anyway

Snowsister · 08/04/2012 15:48

And she worked in hospitality!

Maeb · 08/04/2012 15:54

Cremeeggsandkitkatsoldiers - maybe she'd had a waterfight at Tim's as well. After that experience I don't trust the smallest towel is the hand towel either...

Greythorne · 08/04/2012 16:01

I went to a wedding which started at 1pm. The service was very long, including long readings in another language (ie not English, wedding was in London). Afterwards, the couple had laid on coaches to transport everyone to the venue. The coaches got stuck in Saturday afternoon traffic in central London. Took 2 hours+ to get to the venue.

Venue was......an empty marquee. In their garden, a huge, beautiful marquee hut no chairs, no tables. Just a big empty marquee. Loads of Champagne but no food for hours. Lots of speeches in various languages.

Finally about 9pm, waiters emerged with some trays of cheese cubes. That was the food. There was nearly a riot.

It had been a hot, stuffy city wedding with no food, loads of alcohol that had started 10 hours before. Elderly relatives were reduced to sitting on the floor of the marquee out of exhaustion and hunger. Burly blokes started grabbing the trays of cheese and hogging them for their wives and children.

It was like a microcosm of life after the nuclear holocaust, every man for himself.

We eventually repaired to the local Starbucks and bought up all their muffins for sustenance.

Funny thing is, the bride and groom had a fab time and thought (think to this day) that it was an amazing, chic wedding and they brag to everyone about the vast quantities of Bollinger that were drunk.

They obviously had spent a lot of money on it but just got it very wrong.

I am sure I speak for most guests when I say we would have preferred non vintage cava and hearty p,atefuls of sandwiches and sausage rolls, the most basic party food ever, versus their Bollinger and cheese cubes.

5inthebed · 08/04/2012 16:27

I went to visit my (childless) aunt and uncle once. They had a Yorkshire Terrier who was completely spoilt, was cooked chicken, liver and steak for meals as she wouldn't eat dog food.

Aunt had a habit of sitting the dog on visitors knees because "Penny likes a cuddle". The dog was a nervous wreck, sat shacking on my knee the whole time and unsurprisingly vomitted on my leg. My aunt ran over, piced the dog up and proceeded to clean the dogs face with a wet wipe, cooing over it the whole time. Not even a "here 5inthebed, have a wipe for the dog vomit on your leg". Had to go sort myself out in the bathroom.

AKMD · 08/04/2012 16:30

Shock How rude can some people be?! It makes me never want to go to a wedding again...

This wasn't at my house but I used to be invited to lunch at my then-boyfriend's house every Sunday. He lived with his parents, who were lovely. His brother and SIL used to come round ever Sunday lunch as well and after lunch the SIL would immac her DH's back in full view of everyone else. I got used to it after a while but :o

Maeb · 08/04/2012 16:31

Worst wedding I ever attended was the evening do for a man who I'd only met once before and briefly at that. He was an acquaintance of a friend of ours, and he'd invited us all to the evening do. Why I don't know but we felt obliged to go.
When we arrived the bride was sitting on a chair outside the hall which I took to be a lovely gesture of greeting all the guests. Apparently though she'd taken an ecstasy tablet during the wedding and was having a bad turn! How romantic! How to make your special day really special - take an E in front of all your family! Surprisingly enough it was quite a skeezy do, we left after an hour and we never saw him again.

Maeb · 08/04/2012 16:35

AKMD - That is outrageous! I've just retched as I read that :o

welliesandpyjamas · 08/04/2012 16:37

When I was living abroad I was invited to lunch at a colleague's house, to meet her extended family, and eat lots of traditional food. Very nice, very hospitable, very welcoming. Nice.

After lunch they brought out about half a dozen traditional costumes from different parts of the country. I think she used to do folk dancing pre kids. Anyway, they then insisted that the rest of the afternoon was spent with me traying on each of the elaborate costumes, having my hair done differently for each one, and posing for lots of photos in different settings and poses. The reasoning was that my family would (obviously) love to receive 100 photos of me in various folk outfits Hmm I honestly don't think there was anything dodgy to it, just the hostess and her family maybe living her youth and enjoying dressing up the foreign girl Grin I still have some of the photos which I didn't post air mail to my parents despite the colleague's insistence and often remember that odd afternoon!

welliesandpyjamas · 08/04/2012 16:38

--traying- trying

AKMD · 08/04/2012 16:38

I was very impressed that his hair grew so quickly as to need doing every week. Amazing.

welliesandpyjamas · 08/04/2012 16:38

Oh bugger, you can see what I was trying to correct Blush

JuliaScurr · 08/04/2012 16:41

sinister 'grouting my face'
Grin ha!

SarryB · 08/04/2012 16:43

This thread is making me feel like I've lived a very sheltered life.

The only thing I can think of was when I was about 14 years old, and round at a mate's house when her sister and mum had a very loud argument about how the mum loved my mate more then her.

Does not compare to some of the stonking stories on here!

Pandemoniaa · 08/04/2012 17:09

The ecstasy at a wedding story reminds me of reading some of the posts on a well-known bridal forum. In my defence, someone had posted some terrifyingly bad photographs and a friend had asked if I could respond to a "Help, wtf can be done with these? request.

However, and to get to the point, I found the place weirdly fascinating. In particular the number of brides who did reports of their wedding day and proudly announced how incoherent or chemically challenged they'd become. Would you really want your wedding day memories to mainly revolve around passing out shortly after the first dance? Or actually consist of very few memories at all? Only there did seem to be a surprising number of brides who'd stressed for months and months over the colour of the box the favours were in yet treated the actual event like a Saturday night in Bingeville On Sea.

(I suspect this is actually worthy of a whole thread in itself, mind)

CanIhavesomeginnowplease · 08/04/2012 17:10

Hahaa oh dear lord these are too funny!

MrsSchadenfreude · 08/04/2012 17:12

I've thought of another one. We went to visit DD1' godmother and her husband who live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. They collected us from the airport and took us to their house. Lovely lunch, DD1 sitting at the table with all of us, DD2 had early lunch and nap in travel cot. Godmother's husband and DH decided to open another bottle of wine, as you do, sitting at the table. DD1 was playing nicely with a puzzle (she was three at the time). I'd just come downstairs from checking on DD2 to see DD1's godmother come in from the kitchen and scream at her husband for "being a fucking useless drunk." She picked up a dining chair and smashed it over his head, breaking the chair and cutting his head really badly. Shock

I picked up DD1 and we hid in the bedroom while WW3 raged beneath us, with DH trying to see to her DH's head, and her screaming and smashing things in the kitchen. DH finally came upstairs and we stayed in the bedroom till the next morning, when we ventured downstairs for breakfast to find DD1's godmother and her husband being all lovey dovey, and cooking us a rather fab breakfast. The incident was never referred to again, but we haven't seen them since (and this was 10 years ago!).

Byeckerslike · 08/04/2012 17:20

Mrs Shock did he have a bandage on his head or anything!??

missingmymarbles · 08/04/2012 17:26

This thread is hilarious! I'd read the lot if there weren't 33 pages [bugrin]
There are some right weirdos around!

My DCousin's DW invited us round for dinner then announced she was off to bed. No big deal really, but a why bother inviting us? A bit rude we thought, but then now we know her better - hardly a surprise.

Fairly recently, DH, DD and I were invited round to some friends' house for a pizza tea where everyone's brings something, with them and their DS and a few others. We were first to arrive and I was laden with various bits and pieces of food. I aimed for the kitchen to unburden, but was halted and asked to take my shoes off so as not to damage their wooden floor - in their hallway! Apart from that being extremely rude, I usually take my shoes off at people's doors anyway, and these people are fully aware of that.

Not a patch on the majority of what I've read, but rude nonetheless.