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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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Byeckerslike · 08/04/2012 22:57

[bugrin]

darksideofthemooncup · 08/04/2012 23:07

Milngavie my dm does that too, it's either that or her bowels. In fact she did it today after I cooked her a lovely roast. 'Darkside do you have any wipes? I think something may not have agreed with me'
Oh and then she came down stairs and informed me that she wasn't able to wear her knickers now, because of 'that
Oddly enough she never seems to have any trouble in her own house. she is odd my dm.

BoffinMum · 08/04/2012 23:14

I had a cleaning firm in last week to help with some stuff. I made them both a cup of tea about 5 minutes after their arrival. The guy was already at work, sleeves rolled up, doing the downstairs. The girl was supposed to be doing the upstairs. I went to take her tea to her, only to find her in the en suite to DS2's bedroom, door wide open, having a massive dump.

I was very British about it, and just said, "I'll leave your tea out here then, shall I?"

Grin
ScorpionQueen · 08/04/2012 23:15

The first time I met MIL she called me by the wrong name the whole weekend (ex-gf)! Other than that she was lovely.

At the end she seemed to twig, called me by the correct name and then said "Oh silly me, it's not ScorpionQueen at all is it? It's ex-gf!"

15 years later we can laugh about it.

springydaffs · 08/04/2012 23:28

aw that's OCD LeQueen. They know they're being weird but they can't help it. Meds!

FairyArmadillo · 08/04/2012 23:38

I'm only at page 3, this is brilliant!

Went to visit my friend at her new house. She has 3. Baby is younger than DS who was 2 at the time. Hands out packets of crisps to all the kids. When DS spilled his crisps all over the floor I apologized and did the logical, reasonable thing which was to start picking them up. She told me to stop and leave them there, strewn all over her living room, as her kids would just pick them up when they were hungry...

captainbarnacle · 08/04/2012 23:40

My sister and I live in the same county and had an aunt and uncle visiting - with a reputation for eccentricity but neither of us had seen it before.

They came to my house first, had a great time walking on the beach. I was 4m PG and they took my other two out for an hour to the local park so I could have a rest. Gems! I reported as such back to my sister.

A couple of days later I asked her how her visit had gone. The aunt and uncle discussed with Dsis about plans for the rest of the time - Sis said she was busy that evening with a recital by her Alevel Drama students. "Oh that sounds interesting!" they exclaimed and invited themselves and actually went along to the unintelligible performances in the school hall. When Sis was discussing food in the evening, Aunt and Uncle said she was welcome to the caravan if she brought her own mug. BIL suggested fish and chips, and aunt and uncle agreed that it was probably best that he ordered himself fish and chips for himself as he wasnt invited to the caravan. Dsis and BIL had been married 6m and together for almost a decade!

DestinationUnknown · 08/04/2012 23:48

Great thread! DH & I were invited to stay with friends at her dad's house. Whilst there the dad told us how he had hidden cameras installed in the downstairs rooms because of all the valuable stuff in the house - cue "amusing" anecdote about him having inadvertently filmed friends of his daughter shagging on the living room sofa.

Months later friend let slip that the cameras were installed in ALL rooms including guest bedrooms ... Fortunately we'd had our suspicions & had got changed for bed under the duvet with the lights out & didnt lay a finger on each other all night!

warmandwooly · 08/04/2012 23:57

marks place(first time on mumsnet)

zebedeeboing · 09/04/2012 00:03

Finally at the end done nothing tonight thanks to this thread but haven't laughed s much in a long time just what the doctor ordered! GrinGrin

trixymalixy · 09/04/2012 00:03

Wow, some of these stories are totally shocking and MIL not making us lunch whenever we stay there seems practically normal now.

My only other story is when we went to visit a couple of DH's friends from Uni who shared a flat. We'd been promised that the bloke would stay with his girlfriend so we could stay in his double bed. When we arrived he did go to stat with his girlfriend, but refused to let us sleep in the bed, or even on the floor in his room. DH and I had to sleep down the side of his other friend'sbed. There was literally only enough room for us to lie on our sides crammed up against each other.

DH's normal friend was totally mortified and apologised profusely. The annoying thing was that we had offered to book into a B & B as we knew the flat was tiny, but both of them had said not to. It was very late when we arrived so couldn't have then tried to book one.

That particular friend was very selfish and ate both his own and another friend's breakfast after a wedding. The other friend had gone to get the Sunday papers for us all. Rude friend had seconds while the other friend got none!!

NorksAreMessy · 09/04/2012 00:10

Ooh, classics. Quite right too, this is a brilliant thread:)

EgguStudent · 09/04/2012 01:26

When we were looking round student houses, we went to view one and the one bedroom had the girl who lived there and her boyfriend in bed whilst we were looking. The landlady ushered us al in to see the room with them in it [buconfused]

It's now my room [bugrin] Although I did have a new bed put in!

I went round to a friends for tea, she made toad in the hole, then asked if I wanted gravy. I said yes, so she crumbled a stock cube into a pint of water and poured it over my plate until everything was floating, then asked if it was okay, as she didn't like gravy so wasn't sure how to make it. Was the soggiest, saltiest meal I've ever eaten.

Went on a sleepover where they basically wouldn't let me go home until the next evening, so was basically with them for about 36 hours, during which time I helped wash their car, change their beds, do housework, watch whilst the others did their homework and generally spent hours doing nothing. Put me off sleepovers for a long, long time.

Went on a different sleepover when I was about 16, we were all drinking and the host parents went away for the night, leaving their 6 year old daughter in the sole charge of a group of drunken 16 year olds. I ended up putting her to bed and reading her stories for hours Sad

Condensedmilk · 09/04/2012 04:21

I used to be a real estate journalist - I went out with a photographer to write about houses, so had a lot of bad, bad experiences.

People in bed was almost a weekly occurrence, as was people expecting us to clean up their homes (usually grotty, cluttered kitchens) before we took the photos.

We also had a few drug houses, where we were expected to overlook the smashed in doors, windows and wires leading into the roof.

But the WORST was when a man insisted on showing me his converted roofspace, which he had soundproofed, painted black, put bars on the tiny window and pinned a single red rose to the wall.
Scary scary scary.

A colleague swears that she once went to a house where the previous tenants had kept a horse in the house. Apparently, they had not paid their agistment and had nowhere else to put it Confused.

CarpeJugulum · 09/04/2012 06:33

Sorry! A story about our guests instead!

DH's brother (BIL) got married. He & SIL came to visit after DS was born for a few days. BIL was lovely and did the requisite cooing (he was maybe faking, but at least he sounded sincere). SIL looked at DS, said "oh yeah", put the tv on and sat on the couch.

Fair enough, babies aren't for everyone, and they had just driven 500 miles, so benefit of the doubt.

Next day, BIL up, SIL no where to be seen. Finally appears at 1pm(!) and I know she'd been up before then as their room was above huge living room. She then came down - we were all chatting quietly as I was feeding DS, again stuck the tv on quite loudly and sat there; she only said "I'm starving, get me some food" to BIL - having ignored me ask her twice before if she wanted some lunch. She then informed us she wanted to go to the pub and left, dragging a slightly embarrassed BIL with her.

She was quite ill when they returned - woke us and DS repeatedly. Angry this then ruined the next days plans as she had "eaten something that disagreed with her" and spent all of the next day in bed. And repeat.

I did ask BIL if we'd done something to offend her - but he was as baffled as we were.

They haven't been back since, and the contact between DH and BIL is dwindling. Her Facebook (I know!) is full of nights out and throwing up - and BIL is never mentioned. Feel quite sorry for her really.

Thumbbunny · 09/04/2012 06:45

Carpe, I think I feel more sorry for your BIL, tbh...

HarrietVane · 09/04/2012 07:18

DH and I went to stay with a uni friend of mine and her DP. We were all sat watching television, us on one sofa and them on the other. DH leant against me (as you do). Friend took me aside later to ask if we could not have so much physical contact as it was upsetting her DP. Confused He was very odd...!

marshmallowpies · 09/04/2012 07:19

If someone brought guinea pigs round to my house I'd be delighted. You can arrange playdates with me & guinea pigs any time you like....bless their wuffly little faces.

Not got any very good stories to add but i do have a friend who (when drunk) is capable of disappearing into the loo for around 45 minutes at a time. He did it once at my flat after we'd had a couple of bottles of wine....fine....but another time in a restaurant when we'd both just ordered food. I sat there picking at my meal & wondering if he was going to come back...

ovaltine · 09/04/2012 08:07

ha ha Marshmallow blatantly doing coke in there

CarpeJugulum · 09/04/2012 08:11

Yeah I feel a bit sorry for him too.

warmandwooly · 09/04/2012 08:30

Marks place

AnxiousPanxious · 09/04/2012 08:41

DP has a cousin who is a bit like a brother (or was), married a totally different sort of person who the whole family dislike, intensely, but just get on with it.

There was a family party and they asked if they could stay over with us - no problem. We gave them a room, a meal in the evening, got up in the morning and waited for them to stir. Nothing. Eventually we had to go out, so left a note saying where we were. Came back, they'd gone.

Thought that was weirdly rude but suspected hangovers. Then they came to stay with us when we moved quite far away. Exactly the same thing: took a nice meal off us, wine, had a laugh in the evening, went to bed, waited for us to go, then left. NOTHING, not even a note to say thanks. Never spoke of it again.

We've seen them since and never had so much as a word of conversation about us putting them up, let alone thanks. Obviously it's not a big deal compared to some of the stuff on here but it bugs me that they think that's normal.

DitaVonCheese · 09/04/2012 09:27

This is a bit crap compared to some - just marking my place really ... Years ago a uni friend (A) and I went to stay with another uni friend (B) and her family overnight. B was really a friend of A's rather than mine and it was soon clear I'd been invited along mainly so I could provide transport Hmm Anyway, we turned up and had a relatively pleasant evening I think (sleep deprivation means I can't remember a huge amount about it). B's dad is a relatively famous author and had dinner with us and B and her mum - he was quite entertaining in a fairly childish way, lots of swearing and being affectionately reined in by his wife and daughter etc. After a bit we went off to bed in an ancient part of the house ... I was shown to my room, which had a wooden floor, high ceiling and was absolutely littered with insect carcasses. B explained that there were bats in the rafters who spent the entire night sucking the insides out of wasps etc and dropping the remains. Luckily the bed was a four poster with a canopy over it so I didn't get dry wings fluttering down onto my face, but I still got to lie there all night in the dark on my own listening to the crunch and drift of empty moth husks. Meanwhile, A and B went to another room and spent the night tucked up in bed together having a warm, snuggly chat and gossip.

We got up to find that B's dad had had a "bad" review of his latest book in the paper and had locked himself in his study in a rage, so A and I were swiftly ushered out of the house by whispering B and her mum. (I read the review when I got home and seemed fine to me Hmm but I googled last night to see whether I could find it and learned that he's been diagnosed as bipolar so feeling slightly guilty now.)

I'm sure I have more tales of weird hostship if only I could remember through the fug of baby brain ... Blush

OlaRapaceFru · 09/04/2012 09:51

We have some friends in our social circle who are extremely good hosts and have thrown some excellent parties over the years. However we discovered, quite early on, there is always an element of the guests having to 'sing for their supper', so to speak. They always insist on a party game. Not something silly, like Twister, or some random game of chance ... oh no, it's always some type of quiz or intellectual mind game. And there's no getting out of it, everyone has to participate whether they like it or not.

But the worst thing is, the host is extremely competitive - and not at all gracious with it. So at every correct answer by him, he crows exultantly at his cleverness. Every incorrect answer by someone else, he makes some smug remark about their stupidity. And if someone gets a question correct that he wouldn't expect them to get, he then makes some incredulous remark implying that you couldn't possibly have known that and it must have been a lucky guess.

We've stopped accepting their invitations.

LetsKateWin · 09/04/2012 10:01

Marking place. Loving this thread.