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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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Selks · 09/04/2012 16:48

sorry, just didn't want the thread to get derailed by bins.

EverythingsNotRosie · 09/04/2012 16:56

We once accepted an invitation to stay for a week at a friend's parents' house in france. Never again! By the third day my DH (then BF) was being totally ignored by the whole family. On the fourth day the family all went off on holiday to Italy because 'it's so upsetting when you feel driven out of your own home'. To this day we have no idea what he had done, except not speak French so couldn't join in with the conversation! Maybe one of them can come on this thread and enlighten us?!

MinnieBar · 09/04/2012 18:25

Oh and sorry to lower the tone but I am guilty (in the very distant past) of being one of those people who has sex when there's someone else in the same room [bublush] [bublush]. In my defence, I was a teenager and I didn't coerce the other person into the room for the express purpose of hearing it. We didn't really care thought he was asleep.

I've also been on the other end as a student - had to hear my friend getting to, ahem, third base while I was furiously whispering to the guy I was with 'I am NOT going to sleep with you!!'
Him: Er, ok, I wasn't actually asking.
Cue embarrassed silence while we lay there trying to pretend we can't hear what we can so obviously hear?

marshmallowpies · 09/04/2012 19:02

Didn't realise mentioning the B word was going to derail the thread. Sorrrreeee.

Something else odd happened to me at the same friends house: her brother went to bed v early as he worked early shifts. I was sleeping downstairs & there was a downstairs cloakroom but the light was broken.

I crept upstairs to go to the loo, was just washing my hands when the (locked) door crashed open & friends brother burst in & turned off the light, leaving me in there in the dark, too shocked to speak.

I realised there was one of those mini glass panels above the door and me switching the light on must have woken him up. Sad

Always wonder what my friends mum thought when she discovered the bathroom lock had been broken open! I was leaving early the next morning & never mentioned the incident to my friend...

Eggrules · 09/04/2012 19:43

marshmallowpies I needed to know about upstairs bxxs Wink.

I also need to know that small guest towels could have been used on a bum. Confused

My Uncle invited us out for a meal with his family. I have never been out for a stranger and more stressful meal. When Harry Met Sally/ Nora Ephron are less fussy. When his steak arrived he was very rude to the waiting staff and returned it because he didn't believe it was the right one. Confused. It went back many, many times. The poor waiting staff were demented; I cannot understand why fussy people eat out.

Softlysoftly · 09/04/2012 20:04

Oh oh reminds me of one! Went on holiday at about 14 with friend, her little sis, parents and grandparents. It was a 2 bed apartment in a godawful all inclusive in Tenerife. Got there and sleeping was allocated, grandparents in one room, parents and little sis in the other double (she was about 10) and friend and I in the lounge double.

Comes to the first night and they ALL slept naked, including my friend and the grandparents. Spent an uncomfortable night in my prudish pjs, then they all breakfasted naked. From then on whilst in the apartment I was the only one dressed at any time. Longest week of my life [bublush]

MakesCakesWhenStressed · 09/04/2012 20:13

I have 2 I would like to add. One was as a 5 year old I was at a school friend's house and came in from the garden ro use the loo. I was really desperate abd asked his mum where it was, but she made me take my (buckled t-bar) shoes off first. Cue an accident on the door mat. I remember her shouting at my friend for playing woth the hose and getting me wet and to this day I don't know if she genuinely thought that or was trying to spare my blushes. All I know is that any small child asking to use the loo in my house is never made to remove their shoes first!

There was also the batty girl in my halls of residence at uni. She would listen for anyone ealing to the kitchen, follow then down the corridor, ait in the kitchen the whole time you were in there, but not looking at you and not saying anything, then when you left she'd get up abd go back to her room.

She also used to carry a rucksack out with her on fire drills and would always be one of the last out. We eventually found out that she would pack all of her 20 or so teddy bears into the bag each time, just in case it was a real fire...

LeQueen · 09/04/2012 20:50

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AKMD · 09/04/2012 20:53

I hate it when people complain at restaurants. I find it toe-curlingly embarrassing. If there's something really wrong then fine, otherwise I wish people would just get on with it and show their dissatisfaction by not leaving a tip.

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cookielove · 09/04/2012 20:56

WOW, its taken me ages i mean days to read through that!! But what a good read, mine is as exciting but i do have one to add.

I regularly babysit for a family from my nursery, they are some what eccentric but a very lovely family, i have been greeted at the door by the mother in a top and tights (opaque) i did not know where to look, she then asked me to follow her upstairs (what a view that was) as she wanted to talk to me while she got dressed. Dad was fully dressed in the front room, why didn't he let me in??

Another time i changed the little ones nappy, and went to put the nappy in the bin which happened to be upstairs, as i went up i looked up to find the dad getting dressed just in a pair of Y fronts [bushock] (seriously why- he was not a buff dad)

I often hear them on the toilet why? because they don't ever close the door.

And they also often argue in front of me and bring me in on the argument, talk about awkward!! [bushock]

IllegitimateGruffaloChild · 09/04/2012 20:59

Yy. My granddad complained about everything. I never wanted to eat out with him. Nothing was right. Oh no - once he had a good meal, wrote to thank the restaraunt then complained when they didn't acknowledge his compliment. Hmm

LeQueen · 09/04/2012 21:04

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confusedpixie · 09/04/2012 22:06

themagic: My older sister did the same to me but with the wrapper from a pad! Made a massive deal out of the awful mess in the bathroom and demanded to kno who did it (when she knew full well who) and then made a huge deal of sending me back in there when she turned on me. I had no clue what this mess was and had to ask as I genuinely hadn't realised! (I was distracted, they were rushing me in the bathroom to wash my face, clean my teeth, etc etc)

Being a little fair on her, it was her wedding day and we were in the bridal suite getting ready after spending the night there but she was calm as anything all morning and was completely calm after that!

I really had to hold my temper after that though as it followed an evening of being told how ugly I was along with what I was wearing by her and the younger sister. Then being relegated the pull out sofa bed that was super thin and creaked constantly in a freezing cold room with the air conditioning rattling away above me as my sister's were too hot in the gigantic larger-than-King-sized bed they were sharing because they sleep better than I do Hmm

Rhiana1979 · 09/04/2012 22:48

Genius thread. Shamelessly marking my place

sasslejaney84 · 09/04/2012 22:59

2 instances, one wedding one!!

The wedding one - the couple invited me and my exP, they made it perfectly clear they only really wanted him there and I didn't get a meal! I think the worst thing about the day was that not one nice thing was said about the bride all dat long!! Her brother spoke during the service and called her gollum!! Then during the father of the bride speech he spent the whole speech saying how well her sister was now doing and how proud he was of her, he barely mentioned the bride or the groom!!

The other one was when the same couple came over to our house, the female of the couple spent the whole 3 hours she was therre complaining that she "had to live in a much smaller house" and how we should swap (they lived in a 2bed house with no DC's and I had my DD and my exP had his DS who he had 50% custody of so we had a 3bed house!) As we "could always get (my DD) to live somewhere else" not a very nice womaan and when we broke up I told my ex he could keep his friends as part of our "divorce"!!!

warmandwooly · 09/04/2012 22:59

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PickleLittle · 10/04/2012 08:07

When I was 13 me and a DF once puppy sat for some friends of my sister whilst they were all out clubbing together. At about midnight the couple and my DSis came back and we all went to sleep - them in their room me on one sofa, my DF on the other and DSis on the floor.

A while later thinking the puppy was climbing on me to sleep on my tummy I tried to turn over to realise I couldn't!! I reached forward and woke my DSis who jumped up like she had seen a ghost! she ran into her friends room and screamed at her "get your naked boyfriend off my little sister!!" I think she thought I was being attacked but actually the couple had had a fight and in his drunken state he had forgotten I was there!

I wasn't impressed the next morning to find he had left his scuzzy pants on me over night! Angry

AKMD · 10/04/2012 08:46

People there is a 'watch' button. Start new thread, Watch this thread, Flip this thread...

This isn't when I was visiting someone else but on DS's first birthday we threw a party, which was basically an open house for family and friends. In the middle of the afternoon SIL asked me where I kept the cleaning things and then proceeded to dust and polish my sitting room. I was mortified! There were at least 40 people in the house at that point, all of whom must have been thinking I was a complete slattern Blush

CeliaFate · 10/04/2012 08:53

There's also a bookmarking button. Hover at the right hand side of the screen at the end of the message. A blue bar will appear. Click it and wait until it says saved. Then when you click on the thread title it will zoom down to your bookmarked spot.

Oeisha · 10/04/2012 09:46

Not read through all the rest, so I'm sure mine is tame in comparison, but it IS odd.
SGM/evil bitch...once went there for dinner...was served salmon, rice and broad beans (that in itself is punishment enough for an 8y/o). This "woman" is doily mad, one under EVERYTHING that doesn't move voluntarily, and has always looked about 99 despite obvioulsy not being at some point. Anyway, her anal level of attention was aimed at the RICE.
Boiled for 10 mins, taken out the oven and spread on to a baking tray and PUT IN THE OVEN for 15mins, then re-boiled for 10, then back in the oven for 10, then steamed for 10, then "dried" in the oven for 5 mins, then served...mentalist.

Also reminds me of cuz's wedding (they practically live there) where the charasmatic brainwashing bastard of a man "leader" gave a half an hour lecture on how the bride was a whore...as all women were, but, you know, specifically the bride...whilst said bride looked at the utter cn with utter devotion.

Oh and there was the vicar, who not only got the person he was eulogising WRONG at a funeral (the person he was talking about was SAT IN FRONT OF HIM), but then proceeded to tell said grieving family (who are acknowledged cat lovers - and had JUST stated so) that he hated cats and if he had a gun would shoot them all...

OK, I'll shut up now.

Thumbwitch · 10/04/2012 09:54

AKMD - more likely they thought your SIL was a touch strange, honestly... :)

Eggrules · 10/04/2012 09:55

Remembered another one. PIL have complicated bathroom/ hot water rules that only their immediate family understand and after 20 odd years still baffle me. There is only one bathroom. Two instances give examples:

Mid shower suds everywhere, Fil asked me to come out of the bathroom straight away. Thought he had been caught short and so I turned off shower and came out wrapped in a towel, dripping wet, bubbly shampoo still in my hair. He went in locked the door and then started to deep clean the bathroom.

We live in a different city to our hometown. We travelled down and DH arranged in advance that we would need hot water and to use the bathroom/ shower at a specific time (as per their requirement). That night, we turned up and asked to get ready. FIL left the room and next minute the power shower is running - he used all of the hot water. There is a hot water pecking order that I just don't understand. I have never had a hot shower there. Bathroom is spotless - I think it is just for show.

I grew up in a house with loads of sibling and one bathroom. Standard procedure is to announce that the bathroom will be in use. Every man/woman/child for themselves at in-laws for hot water and bathroom usage. Most annoying in the morning when everyone wants to use the bathroom.

AnxiousPanxious · 10/04/2012 10:04

This thread really does make me glad my families are so relatively normal.

StealthPolarBear · 10/04/2012 10:40

"as i went up i looked up to find the dad getting dressed just in a pair of Y fronts"
cookielove, sorry, I don't understand that? If you're getting dressed, then by definition at some point you'll just be in underwear!

sassle, you were invited to a wedding, but didn't get a meal, even though your OH did>?? What did you do, just sit there and look morose as he ate?

ZZZenAgain · 10/04/2012 10:58

lecturing about how the bride was a whore and at her own wedding? Wow. Shock That's really really bad.

The rice procedure is totally bizarre, isn't it? There are some right loons out there.