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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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HillyWallaby · 16/04/2012 04:13

Good grief Ruby, no wonder she managed to scare off two husbands in quick succession - can you imagine being married into a family like that? Shock

DonkeyTeapot · 16/04/2012 17:14

OMG, I can't believe I've made it to the end! Thanks for the bookmark info, by the way, that's really useful! (Can't believe it's not on by default though.)

I wish I had freakishly weird friends or family so I could join in the fun.

GinPalace · 16/04/2012 20:15

Donkey do you mean to say that after all that inspiration it hasn't jogged any dodgey visits memories. Wow! Lucky you for having such a sane life!! Grin. Incidentally how long did it take you to read all... I keep dipping in as it's gone along but suspect I've lost entire days doesn't care I'm avoiding a crappy task

MNHubbie · 16/04/2012 21:24

RedRuby that is just beyond belief! Wow!

trixymalixy · 17/04/2012 08:46

At the end of their university course one of my sister's friends needed a hand getting all his stuff back to London from Glasgow as he didn't drive. My sister and her flat mate offered to share the driving of the van he'd hired.

They arrived in London at about 3am and helped him unload. He then showed them to the door , said thanks very much, have a safe drive back!!!!! I think they were too gobsmacked to protest and ended up sleeping in the van. They never spoke to him again.

DonkeyTeapot · 17/04/2012 12:35

GinPalace It took bloody ages! I've been reading it on and off for days!

My life is disappointingly sane at the moment, I am desperately trying to remember something to share. I'd make something up, but I couldn't make anything up half as weird as some of the posts on here.

GinPalace · 17/04/2012 13:27

Donkey so true life is stranger than fiction.

MakesCakesWhenStressed · 17/04/2012 15:34

This thread has been a god send during the multiple night time feeds! :-)

supadupapupascupa · 17/04/2012 17:22

i once dated a man who invited me round to his place for tea. His room was the front room lounge and it was COVERED in sci-fi. I mean the ceiling was 'wallpapered' with boxes of star wars figurines...rows upon rows of them....how he stuck them on I will never know. At least one wall was floor to ceiling comics in boxes and the rest of the walls shelved with other stuff on them. the bed took central stage right in the middle of the room. Odd is not the word......

I dumped him after we went out to play pool and he asked me if his bum looked big in his leather trousers (he was a very big bloke!) and he wore a skull and cross bone bandana on his head. I beat him needless to say and when he asked me if he could call me his girlfriend and shouted NOOOOOO! and left.

Bucharest · 17/04/2012 17:40

Now I've remembered the gawjuss man who took me home and opened his cupboard and got his scientology books out to show me. In the same cupboard were hundreds (I mean hundreds) of multi packs of paper tissues. I never did found out if there was a connection.

MNHubbie · 17/04/2012 23:35

Supadupa That is terrible...

...to say those things!

That house sounds brilliant!

StealthPolarBear · 18/04/2012 06:26

Bucharest you dated tom c. R.uise?
Shock

Bucharest · 18/04/2012 06:34

You obviously didn't read the "gawjuss" bit Stealth? Grin

MNHubbie · 18/04/2012 20:03

I guess the message would be deleted if I suggested a connection between a religion invented by a science fiction author for personal gain that practices brainwashing and the behavioural trait personified by a colloquial term for masturbation.

So to avoid being deleted I'll avoid suggesting such a connection.

AnMum · 18/04/2012 21:04

When I was about 15, we won't to my grandparents for New Year's Eve. They had invited another friend for dinner. Just after 11.30, grandparents announced they were going to bed. The other guest had to leave and given that he and a 45 min drive home, would have been sat in the car by himself at midnight.

JeelyPiece · 19/04/2012 00:09

You could be more subtle MNHubbie and wear this!

Brilliant thread, I can't believe there are so many people out there behaving so oddly.

FarelyKnuts · 19/04/2012 00:50

Jeely I am loving the fact that it is being suggested as a toddler tshirt

CharleyFarley82 · 19/04/2012 04:35

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This has kept me going through the 3 hourly night feeds of my 4mo (argh!)

Very entertaining. I'm afraid (and rather relieved) that I have nothing to add though :)

MNHubbie · 19/04/2012 21:11

Nice shirt Jeely

MNHubbie · 21/04/2012 12:46

Has this finally died?

Surely not.

I wish I had a story I could reproduce in a public forum... or any at all.

MakesCakesWhenStressed · 21/04/2012 17:49

I know, I keep checking back hoping for more (and wondering if this will make mn talk round up!)

MNHubbie · 21/04/2012 22:53

I thought I'd found a new one to replace this but I was wrong. Now both have died.

BigBirdsFriend · 22/04/2012 09:32

So sad
Sad

fluffiphlox · 22/04/2012 13:26

Dead, dead. And never called me mother :(

tutu100 · 22/04/2012 16:53

I once had a friend who went on about how OCD about cleanliness and tidiness she was (I'm not - tidy that is, my house is clean) so I was always a bit embarrassed about her coming round to mine. One day she invited me round to her's for a change. My jaw dropped when I went in. She had dogs and there was newspaper all over the floor and dog shit quite literally everywhere! The smell was awful. I couldn't believe that she'd gone on about how her house had to be immaculate all the time. This wasn't just an off day the amounts of poo must have been weeks worth.

I declined all offers of food and drink and left as soon as I could after an acceptable amount of time (I don't know why I was concerned about looking rude).

She didn't mention the state of her home at all, so made no excuses or anything. Just acted as normal whilst stepping over piles of shit.

We are still friends now, and she's not got the dogs anymore so her house isn't full of shit, but she does still comment on how she has to clean all the time and how my house is comfortable and lived in AKA a mess! I just smile whilst thinking whilst my house is messy at least my floors are clean and it smells nice.