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

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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

Agree with ZZZen. What sort of cult religion did your cousin belong to, that that sort of comment was acceptable to a bride on her wedding day?

stelth we shared the meal!! Was very bizarre but they are an odd couple! Last time I saw them was in a local shopping centre and she was having a screaming hissy fit at him because he had spent £20 more on himself than on her... I tend to avoid them now tbh!!

A colleague of mine used to watch the electric metre in his caravan tick and record the numbers if any guest was there using the shower, cooking facilities etc. He then would tell them how much their usage had cost him. He said he did it so they'd be aware to not be wasteful and also so he could work out when was the most economical time to wash, cook, use lights

I can sort of see his point, but is not the way to be a good host!

zen and ola: apparently a "christian" one, or well, a "jesus" one. One that believes all women are sinners from the get-go because Eve was a woman...one that believes all non-believers (as in not in their specific, twisted version of "christianity") will BURN IN HELL even infants that die before "indoctrination", one that belives homosexuality is on a par with paedophilia and one that's encouraged said cuz to put some mentalist "doctor" (no qualifications - think Gillian McKeith but even more unstable), that has no children, no expereince with children etc, as the Godparent to her children (on suggestion of mentalist leader) instead of either set of faimilie's brothers and sisters...friggin mental.
Yes, we do want to rescue her, but, well, I fear there is no rescuing...she's actually in touch with us, just mental. Utterly lovely woman though, so caring.

I just thought of another one.

Years ago I went to visit a friend for a long weekend, on second day he had to 'pop' in to work in the morning and suggested I go with him and wander around the city for a little while. We had to get up at 5am as he lived a good two hour drive away from the city.

We got there and he dropped me off a just outside of the city centre.
I didnt think he would be long so I didnt take much money, only a little bit of cash to get a coffee. I figured I would wandered around for a little while and then when I got bored I would go and sit in a cafe and have a coffee.
I did this in about an hour and a half.

After 4 hours and 43 minutes I had wandered around pretty much the entire city and spent all of the money I had on me.
It was the middle of winter and I was frozen.
I ended up sitting in a park and playing with my phone for two hours.

When he eventually called me to say he was done at work I was so cold and bored I just wanted to go home. Instead he wanted to 'show me around'.

Desperately hoping this thread will never end. It's been blowing my mind all weekend.

ok. i have hovered like an idiot at the right hand side at the end of a msg but it really does not come up with "bookmark this page"

what am i doing wrong?

Blimey, Oeisha, I thought you were going to say some really weirdy type of cult, not something from a 'mainstream' type of religion.

On mobile version it has 'bookmark' after every post - is that not the same on the standard site?

Anyway, if I may mention the B word (well, I am anyway!) - Egg, we didn't have one upstairs either - it never bothered me - until DSD started her period and MNers suggested it - she's mortified enough without having to bring the 'evidence' down to the kitchen! :)

ihate - me too.
(but I do use watching).

ihatethecold are you using mumsnet classic or the new version? My knowledge ends there, I'm afraid!

fuzzpig ah that's very nice to hear you succumbed to the bathroom bin for DSD's sake.

When I was growing up my bedroom was next door to the bathroom so I could dispose of stuff easily in my own room without attracting too much notice. Now my parents live in another house and when I stay it's in the 'guest room' so the dynamics are all different...

How do you bookmark on the PC? I'm a hovering but I see no button.

me neither, I hovered to the right of the message but found no bookmark

Hover to the right, but at the bottom of the written message, not over the blue bit (just above the next post) and a bookmark box will appear.

i.e. go directly above ,'message poster' on my last post and the bookmark box for ZZZenAgain's post will apppear.

We used to visit sil and bil on Sunday afternoons about 3pm.

We'd get up to go and she'd say "Oh, stay for some food" so we'd stay and have a sandwich.

We went there one Sunday, just chatting as usual. Sil stands up and says "Well I suppose I'll go and do tea then, we all know that's what you're waiting for!"

Dh and I were both . I would have got up and left but dh wouldn't so we ended up staying. She's notorious for her lack of tact and manners but I felt like pushing her fucking sausage rolls up her nose.

Fuzzpig I am the only female in the house. Morto about guests though.

Le Queen about your Sil.

Years ago at uni, about 10 of us (8 girls, 2 boys) got into the habit of having monthly 'dinner parties'. We fancied ourselves as being jolly sophisticated even though they normally consisted of eating off our laps in a skanky shared house living room, and drinking ludicrous amounts of cheap plonk.

These events were normally catered by one of the girls, until one month the 2 boys decided they would dazzle us with their culinary magic. We went round, had quite a nice spinach and ricotta cannelloni, and as usual several pints of gut rotting el cheapo vino.

Towards the end of the evening, when everyone was pissed as farts, our hosts were descending into hysterical giggles, sidelong glances at each other and whispered 'no I'm not telling them' 'YOU tell them'...

Eventually they admitted that they had had no idea how to get the filling into the cannelloni, and had eventually settled on the inspired method of taking a mouthful of filling each and spitting it back into the pasta.

Boak.

We still meet up every now and then (all in our mid/late 30s now) and they're both very high up and respected in their chosen fields, but will never, ever be allowed to forget that one.

KurriKurri is this wind up like looking for hairs on the palm of your hand or hunting for a bubble for a spirit level?

Isn't it working MNHubbie? - move your pointer slowly upwards from the word 'poster' (from 'message poster' on the very end of the blue bit with your nickname on it) and the bookmark button should appear. If that doesn't work, you'll have to go and shout at Tech on site stuff

(I thought everyone had hairs on the palms of their hands )

Sorry for hijack but I'm on the mobile version and I don't have bookmark after every post. How do you get that?

HarrietVane - Under the title lines there is a mumsnet talk - select customise and scroll down . Select yes option to turn bookmarking on.