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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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marshmallowpies · 09/04/2012 15:09

Mind you I still don't understand why my parents don't have a bin in their bathroom.

Quite tempted to buy one for them so I don't keep accidentally leaving sanitary towels (wrapped in loo roll) by the side of the sink . Apparently I am supposed to dispose of such things in the bedroom bin, but at some point I always forget...

GinPalace · 09/04/2012 15:12

OOOoo I don't have a bathroom bin and out rubbish in bedroom one!!!

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:19

Feel like a bad hostess now - waiting to see myself on here.

We have a food waste bin and that's it - never had bins upstairs.

Thumbbunny · 09/04/2012 15:25

Wow, I have a bin in every room. I mean, where are you supposed to put tissues and things? I couldn't cope with just a bin in the kitchen despite DH thinking that is a brilliant idea for some reason but then he just leaves his rubbish all over the place in the hope that some other mug will clear up - I don't

Selks · 09/04/2012 15:32

Great thread! Grin

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:40

Only rubbish in the house is in the kitchen - removed daily. Used nappies etc. go straight in the main bin outside.

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:42

I am not marshmallowpies friends mum.

StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2012 15:42

Do you never just find yourself blowing your nose in another room and cba to go and throw the tissue away in the kitchen though/

MinnieBar · 09/04/2012 15:47

Oooh QueenofPlaids matchstick heads are (technically) poisonous, let alone the spiked drinks - they really didn't like you... [buwink]

Loving this thread. Makes the two [bublush] times I invited mothers' of DS's schoolfriends round for lunch, forgot about it and could only rustle up plain cheese sandwiches quite tame in comparison (yes, I apologised profusely, and I blame baby brain!).

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:49

StealthPolarBear No. If upstairs I may flush tissue. My parents are very lackadaisical about such things and I am clearly still rebelling. OH has always been very tidy.

MinnieBar - cheese sandwiches are great.

Missed apostrophe at 15:42:43. tut

StealthPolarBear · 09/04/2012 15:50

flushing tissues, you are going to hell young lady

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:54

I said may flush. Wink.

Please be nice, I only realised at 15:09pm that I have a bin deficiency.

Thumbbunny · 09/04/2012 15:54

What about if you have flu and are in bed, with streaming schnozz and a pile of drenched tissues all around you? how do you get them to the bin then? Shock

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 15:58

Actually I don't think I've ever had flu.

In the case of bad cold, I may use a nappy sack - OH would get them to the bin.

theluckiest · 09/04/2012 16:00

I used to be a jobbing actress so stayed in 'digs' while away on tours. Stayed in some very weird places.

The one that made me feel most uncomfortable was staying with an older gentleman in a perfectly normal terraced house. There was another actor also stopping there who I never saw and soon found out why.

The house was heaving with very old, dark pieces of furniture and chintz. You had to move several porcelain dolls and overstuffed cushions to just sit down. It was so oppressive....like stepping into somewhere an old lady just died in. I could live with that though...

I could even live with the explicit gay porn pictures subtly displayed between Victorian prints and horse brasses on the walls (although the gay porn fridge magnets nearly finished me off as I had gone to get some sausages out of the fridge. Seeing a picture of an enormous erection put me right off)

What really gave me the heebie jeebies was that this bloke would just appear whenever I ventured out of my room...he would then follow me round to 'clear' up after me. Going so far as to clear away a mug I had taken one sip out of. It was suffocating. He would loom behind me waiting to whisk away any used cutlery, even when I was trying to cook. So I'd put down a spoon used to stir pasta with for example. Then spend 5 mins trying to find it again only for Strange Gentleman to appear from nowhere with now cleaned spoon....stir pasta, repeat.

I also discovered he had been into my room and had remade my bed, folded my pjs and even taken out, folded and put back stuff in my suitcase!!!!!

I'm sure he was just trying to be helpful and hospitable but it was all a bit much...If you are going to have paying guests in your house, you need to give them a bit of space surely. And not rummage around in their stuff. And put your erotica in a more suitable place.

GinPalace · 09/04/2012 16:01

I feel suffocated just reading the tale!

QueenofPlaids · 09/04/2012 16:06

MinnieBar Yeah I like to think the host didn't know this but can't be certain. I don't think he disliked us so much as he was stark staring bonkers at the time (I believe he's since gotten help & is in a more stable if still highly eccentric). He did many weird things around that time though that was a highlight! (He visited another friend and tried to make off with her cutlery...from the table whilst she was in the loo. She made him empty his bag at the door. It was not expensive cutlery...)

Not sure about Creepy Friend though - am fairly certain he meant Actual Harm and would certainly cross the road if I saw him again!

Ishtar2410 · 09/04/2012 16:08

Loving this thread!

MIL once handed me gloves, cleaning products and cloths before DD used the loo. It hadn't been cleaned for a while and she was embarrassed to let DD use it. Hmm

This was before FIL went into a nursing home and he wasn't very good at using the loo, so it was pretty bad (actually, it was bloody awful - no surprise no-one wanted to clean it).

SarryB · 09/04/2012 16:18

Eggrules - no bin in the bathroom? What about "lady's things?" I am confused. Have you bought a bin yet?

Need more stories please.

Hopefullyrecovering · 09/04/2012 16:26

I was staying with my godmother for three weeks or so when I was 17. She took me away for a weekend to stay with one of her friends who had a lovely farmhouse with five bedrooms. The number of bedrooms is pertinent.

He seemed perfectly nice and normal. After dinner, everyone went to bed. Everyone being godmother & her husband in the front bedroom, Patrick (godmother's friend) in his own bedroom, and me in one of the 3 spare bedrooms.

Patrick had said I could take my pick of bedrooms (I saw them all and very nice they were too). He suggested that one in particular was nicer, so I obediently chose that room. My bedroom had three beds in it. A double and two singles. I was directed to one of the singles, hopped into bed, read for a few minutes, and then fell asleep.

I was woken up by loud snoring at approximately 3am. The odd thing was that there were three other people in the bedroom. A couple I had never seen before in the double bed, and a man I had never seen before in the other single.

I mean WTF? Who were these people and where had they come from? And why weren't they in the other spare bedrooms?

I went and bagged myself one of the other rooms. In the morning, the three mysterious occupants waved cheerily on their way out.

I still have no idea who they were.

CharmedLife · 09/04/2012 16:28

Okay, here is one that I can't decide how bad it is, it just felt a bit unreal at the time and then a few years later it felt like a mild crime on the part of my friend then passed into appalling crime and now 8 years later (she is settled with a partner and 2 children) it has passed into unreal again. Here is what happened...I went to stay with my friend and her long-term boyfriend and we went to a local gig. My friend and I danced right up at the front and my friend made lots of eye contact with the male saxophonist. At the end of the gig amid all the bustle of leaving she slipped back stage and met him. She came back giggling and we found her boyfriend and set off across town to go back to their house. We walked ahead of her boyfriend and she told me that the saxophonist had kissed her and given her his address (about 15 minutes walk from her house) and said that she should come round for the night. I laughed at the craziness of that idea. However...when we got back to her house she rushed her boyfriend up to bed, telling him that we wanted the living room to ourselves to watch a girly film. Cunning. She then asked me to sit up and watch the film before sleeping on the sofa. She said that her boyfriend would probably not get up but if he did then I was to say that she had gone for a walk because I had upset her! She then reapplied her make-up and left! I sat ignoring 'Bridget Jones' diary' and listening out for every movement her boyfriend made. Their house was tiny so I knew that if he came down there would be no way of pretending that she was somewhere in the house. There was a close call when he came down to go to the kitchen however I eventually relaxed enough to fall asleep. When I woke up the next morning I began to worry again but her boyfriend was a very late riser. Time went by and loyalty to my friend kept me there because if he did get up then there would be no one to cover for her! It got to 11 and she still hadn't come home or contacted me. Eventually she phoned me and asked me if I would like to come to her fling's house and then go for a walk with them both 'to get to know him'! I did go along, spent the day with them, went home and then from that evening for the next five months helped her through the break up with her boyfriend, leaving him, her home, her job (she worked with him) and the mess of a relationship with the saxophonist that she had entered into. He was completely unstable, refused to be in a room with more than 2 people (except when performing) and even when he began harassing me with love letters and calls she still stuck with him. He marked the beginning of a phase of craziness in her life and 5 short flings later she got together with one of our friends and happiness has bloomed.

Eggsits · 09/04/2012 16:28

Oh no - has this become the bin in the bathroom debate [bugrin]

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 16:29

'Used nappies etc. go straight in the main bin outside'. I have never heard of people having bins upstairs until this very afternoon. The only place I have noticed them is in public toilets or on holiday.

I can ponder the bin situation a bit longer. I don't need an emergency trip to find one on a Bank Holiday. [bugrin]

We have a lot of weekend guests and I am hoping they haven't been mortified. I can't think of anyone that has just been once.

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 16:45

Bathroom bin situation has made me think about things that seem obvious to you.

I have had a very odd visitor situation. New to having ds's friends over - one little boy was invited to tea after nursery. Talked a lot about likes and dislikes and agreed an end time. Opened the door and both parents came in and stayed until the visit ended at 9pm. I mentioned afterwards that I was expecting a drop off but could understand they wanted to see where pfb was. They asked if they could visit as a family again and said could we make it Friday because (1) gp's have their DC overnight every Sat and Sun and (2) we get takeaway and they wanted to join in and make a night of it. DS loves their DC and so we have them over occasionally - I agree a start and end time and enforce it, they are very thick skinned and hints don't work.

I think tea should be straight from school until about 6pmish and parents collect. I don't assume this when arranging stuff with other parents.

Selks · 09/04/2012 16:46

Eggsits, no it's still a thread about crazy experiences in other people's houses...