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

[2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny]

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

[Petlover9]

Some years ago I met a lady who was the wife of a work colleague. Sadly he became ill and died, which was how I got to meet his wife through visits to see him in hospital, at home and later in the hospice. After the funeral which was attended by most colleagues I stayed in contact with her and she was always asking me to “come over and have your dinner”. Being widowed myself (no family to help) with a DD at boarding school and trying to keep on top of a job, housework, garden and fortnightly visits to DD at school, I was genuinely too tired for any social life but she continued to ask and when I had a day off work due she insisted I go to her house and she would cook dinner. She wanted me to go in the early afternoon so I didn’t have much for lunch because I thought she might eat early in the evening and I am not a big eater, by that I mean, sandwich or soup at lunch and evening meal about 8pm. She also said she wanted my help with something. When I arrived at 2.30 she wanted a lift to the bakers (not driving because could not get back in the car they had shared) so we went there and she bought 2 buns to have with a cup of tea. It was about 3.30 by then. We sat and chatted and obviously I knew something of how she was feeling and we talked about this and that. The evening came and by 8.30 I was hungry, and she was making no move to do any cooking so I said that it was very nice of her to invite me but I could I help her with getting it ready. She looked at me and said “Oh I went out today with a neighbour and had a huge lunch so I’m not having a dinner.” I was surprised to say the least but by that time all I wanted was to get home and cook something. I said that I would have to go and do that when she said that she wanted me to go upstairs and take the bedroom curtains down to alter for her! She knew I could sew and wondered if I could shorten them and make a pelmet from the spare material! I barely had time to sew my own buttons on and she knew I had to do everything myself. She just didn’t get it, up until then we had chatted on the phone for 10 minutes here and there and she was always wanting me to go and have a meal with her. I said I would look at the curtains another time but didn’t think I could take on the task, pointing out I was working full time etc. and had a pile of things of my own to do. When I started to put my coat on she wanted me stay for another cup of tea and seemed oblivious to my hunger. A week later she was asking when I had another day’s holiday due and could I go over and have my dinner with her. I made excuses after that, not difficult, as looking back I don’t know how I coped. I had been a widow for just over 2 years and everything that needed doing was down to me. She had twin boys in their twenties and a brother whereas I had nobody, yet because I could sew she expected things done (she had dresses she wanted altering too). I am not that quick at sewing, I am not a professional I learnt from my mother and at school and had made things in the past for me, DD and my home, but by then I was either working, cleaning, gardening, washing/ironing or driving to school every other weekend, sometimes I fell asleep watching the news at ten. Reading some of the stories on here about close relatives being mean over food I am glad I didn’t have any. I felt a bit awkward after that, every time she asked I wondered what she would ask me to do. Even now if anyone invites me to their home for a meal I double check that they actually mean it. Now I work part-time I have more time for my own jobs but I would not want to take on something for someone else that would use all my ‘spare’ time. I will never forget that afternoon, I remember driving home wondering if I had any eggs indoors so I could make a quick snack.

[Petlover9]

@Polyethyl - selfish moron - sounds like some folks I have met. Was going to an animal sanctuary in Norfolk back in 2009, “friend” said she wanted to come. We live 30 miles south of London, so the journey was 155-160 miles. I drove her there and when we arrived she skipped off to the Entry Kiosk (Usain Bolt wouldn’t have caught her) and I thought she wanted the loo. But no, she had bought HER ticket. After I had unloaded the car of donations for their shop, I said that we had better get entry tickets and she looked very uncomfortable when I said I would get the tickets. Incredulous, I asked if she had bought just HER ticket and she had the grace to look uncomfortable.. so many people are just users.

[LittleMissUnreasonable]

House party I attended at dear friends university city in her student house. Her DP had come up to attend the party and it was in full swing. Eventually in the small hours the party wrapped up and DF and her DP announced they were tired. Everyone took this as a sign to start getting ready for bed with the premise that DF and her DP would share her bedroom and everyone else would grab a floor space in the living room. Naturally a queue for the (one) bathroom started emerging and it became blatantly obvious that friend and partner were in there having sex. The queue for the bathroom quickly dispursed and everyone waited downstairs until the couple came down, announced that the bathroom was free, and shut themselves in the bedroom everyone found it bizarre they had their own bedroom to spend "time" together yet chose to occupy the one bedroom...DF and her DP are known for being the selfish smug married type though so this behaviour didn't suprise many people

[Itsrebekahvardysaccount]

This thread can’t be finished

[ChooChooItsAllAboutYou]

When I was 16 (15 years ago ) I had a friend whose parents were well off and lived in a beautiful house. My friend had invited me around for the day and while I was there, asked if I wanted to stay for tea as her parents were having friends around who were staying for the night, I said yes.

She and I start getting changed and all of a sudden she runs into the kitchen topless and does a boob shimmy in front of her dad who looks totally pan faced. No expression, acts totally normal. Weird. She continues.... again, no expression, no reaction... weirder.

I walk back into her bedroom to find her mum ironing the duvet cover while it's on the bed with the duvet in. Mum asks me to flush the loo because friend (16 year old friend!) always forgets to flush after having a poo

We sit down for tea which is a takeaway Chinese and friends dad pours ketchup over his entire meal like it was chocolate sauce over an ice cream. I know this isn't unusual but given the other events it added to an already bizarre evening. We finish tea and friend asks me for a tenner for my meal!!

Friends mum has just lost a stone in weight and the dad kept saying how it meant she could bend into loads of new sex positions now she wasnt fat.

Didn't stay over again.

[FlamingoAndJohn]

How am I only just finding this thread. It’s kept me amused for days.

My one to add is this.
When I was about 8 I had a friend who I used to see in the summer. She was at boarding school but stayed in the next village with her grandmother during the summer, which was how I knew her. She spent some of the summer with her grandmother and some with her parents. Her parents were rather odd and ran a restaurant on the sea front of a rather naice sea side town.
I had gone to visit her with her parents for a couple of days on the first day they suggested we go out on their yacht. This was a proper sailing yacht, not a fancy luxury job. We sailed out into sea, out of view of all land and had lunch. Then the mum, dad, my friend and her sister all went off to their cabins for a nap, leaving me, an eight year old, effectively alone on a boat in the middle of the sea. I didn’t know that grown ups (except my elderly aunt) had naps so I didn’t know what had happened. They all just vanished for an hour. I just sat alone on a boat.

[oldstudentmum]

Been there

[Biddie191]

I was quite close friends with a neighbour, although we'd only known them 6 months or so. She'd come round, or invite me round, most days. My 2 daughters were asked to be bridesmaids at their wedding. A month or two before the wedding she suddenly got quite distant. She was pregnant, and nothing had happened between us, so I just thought maybe she was tired, struggling with the pregnancy, whatever.
When the wedding invitations came round, we were only invited to the church wedding, and not the meal or the evening reception. However, we were asked to bring our daughters (the bridesmaids) to both for the photos, but neither us nor they were invited to be part of the proceedings once the actual service was over. I spent years wondering what on earth I'd done wrong, or to upset them.
However, it seems they have form - 3 other neighbours have also gone through the 'inseparable, best friends' with them, lasting between 4 months and a year, only to be dropped with no reason or explanation. Very bizarre

[56Beetle]

When I was at school my friend invited me to his house for tea, we had some sandwiches together with his parents and then his mum asked if we’d like some banana and tinned custard ... ‘yes please’ we said and off she trotted to prepare it ... she came back with bananas and custard for my friend and I and strawberries and cream for her and her husband - I must have looked funny because she said ‘YOU said you wanted bananas and custard’ ... odd people !

[ZombieNut]

I never want this thread to die! Here's my offering. Please be warned it's a bit long!

When I first met my DH we were pretty skint. He once borrowed His DFs car to take me and my 3yo DD to our nearest city for a day out. BFs DSis lived on outskirts of the city so we rang and said we had a rare loan of the car, and could we call in for a quick visit to say hello, before we went shopping. BF didn’t see his DSis her DP or their kids very often (3yo DD and 4mo DS). Sis replies of course we can call in and out of the blue suggests we leave my DD at theirs to play with her DD and we get ourselves off for a nice afternoon in the city. Gave my DD the choice of what to do and she wants to stay and play with her new friend, they had previously met a couple of times at Pil’s

So, we arrive at DSis house to be greeted by her DP with croaky voice and hangdog expresssion. He explains that both he and DSis have terrible tonsillitis and would we mind taking both of their children to the city with us? I knew there were issues with her being a cf from family stories, but, I felt so sorry for them both dealing with illness and children so of course I agreed, (my BF had already said yes anyway!) However I insisted I was not going to the city with 2 x 3yo and a buggy, so we fitted the two extra car seats and took her kids back to ours. DSis thought this was an ideal solution. I’d later learn that she hated her DB getting anything from their parents that she didn’t get so she felt she was justified getting her kids into the car 🤬

DNep screamed all day with colic, DNc was the MOST ENTITLED CHILD I had ever met and made my DD desperately unhappy with her demands! (She’s actually a lovely young woman now) As it approached the time we had agreed to return children home DSis called and asked us to keep them overnight, I explained her baby DS hadn’t stopped crying for 7 hours so no I couldn’t keep them overnight. She offered us £20 like that would’ve made a difference! As we were loading kids back into car bf’s aunt arrives and says she has agreed to take the kids overnight. With pointed looks at me for refusing. Anyway turns out that DSis and her DP were perfectly healthy and had taken themselves off for an evening out in the city, had terrible hangovers the next day and Aunt had to keep the kids for another night! I should add that bf’s parents had been asked to have kids and mum refused as she had fallen for these tricks before! She didn’t think to warn the aunt though!!

[SnootleTheSnake]

An acquaintance of our family (who luckily we rarely have to see but occasionally is forced on us) will go through kitchen cupboards, fridge and help themselves to any food you may have. And should you be eating, your plate. No asking or explanation.

[selmabear]

This one was very recent. Went to my friends birthday bash at her home. Her mother came downstairs. Friend grabbed her mother from behind and began swinging her around the room as if she was a tag doll (pretty big size difference between mother and daughter) mother clearly was uncomfortable but friend kept screaming "she loves it when I do this" most guests left after this 🤦‍♀️😂

[oldbagface]

Place marking

[iusedtoloveopalfruits1]

This didn’t happen to me but to my DH before i met him
Christmas day round at DH aunts house. Let’s call her aunt 1. Aunt 2 also there with her boyfriend and his sister and her husband.
Aunt 1 has a rather lovely large house and is a fabulous hostess. Aunt 1 serves champagne/Prosecco. As the day goes on it the sister of aunt 2’s partner is getting more and more drunk. Turns out she’s been topping up her champagne with vodka from her handbag all afternoon.
After dinner they play a game of charades. The now very very drunk sister of aunt 2 boyfriend happens to pick out something related to winnie the pooh. In her miming of the word pooh she has a little accident
Not sure what happened after that needless to say they have never been invited back for christmas dinner.

[Wormwoodgal]

Some years ago DH and I were visiting our best friends in Almaty, Kazakhstan (this was before Borat, when few people had heard of it).One evening their Kazakh nextdoor neighbours invited us round for a meal. Great! I researched the etiquette - take shoes off when entering the house, take a gift - no problem. The language barrier was there, but we managed to communicate using sign language and lots of smiles. Then (unexpectedly) the four of us visitors were invited to have a sauna before dinner ... single sex! FBF and I, having been at school together, had no problem in stripping off together and sauna-ing together. MBF and DH similarly. Then we enjoyed a gorgeous multi-course meal with our generous hosts and their extended family, accompanied by many, many (hic) toasts with vodka. After the meal it was time to sing for our supper - the rule in Kazakhstan is that everyone entertains everyone else after dinner. An electronic keyboard was produced (luckily DH could play) and we tried many and various songs to see what our host recognised. At last we discovered the universal language of The Beatles, and serenaded our hosts with the Fab Four's greates hits. A wonderful, memorable, if unexpected evening!

[Knifer]

I know I'm resurrecting a zombie here, but after the update most of the threads on talk are zombies and this will at least be a very entertaining one.

I have two.

One- I stayed over a friend's house after a night out when I was in college. I had the spare room, as we were opposite sex and both in relationships. Anyway, I got woken up at 6am by his mum flinging open the door and bashing on the light. I looked at her in sleepy confusion and she said "I'll need you to get up and keep an eye on the mushrooms. Dad's got work at 8." Walked downstairs feeling like I'd slipped into another universe and sure enough, a pan of sliced mushrooms was slowly frying on the cooker. "Just stop those from catching." Which I did, feeing completely uneasy and creeped out. As soon as the mushrooms were done, she tipped them onto a plate and threw some bacon in the pan and then asked me to go and wake Miles (my friend) for his breakfast, but do NOT wake Dad yet. I did. I gave him a brief overview of my morning and he sat bolt upright and looked at me in disbelief. He told me a few days later that his mum simply couldn't see why either of us felt it so unusual that she'd ask a woman in her house to help with breakfast, especially because I hadn't been busy! And she wasn't about to use her husband's first name with me- she didn't KNOW me!

2-

When I went to a school friend's house for tea and was quizzed over dinner about if I'd ever had food like this before, if I knew what all the items were called, about the food my mum serves and if my dad eats with us, if we eat the same food as our parents, if we are allowed snacks before bed, what my favourite biscuits were, if I preferred to drink my milk cold or warm, if we have sheets on our beds etc. Looking back she was probably concerned as we were absolutely dirt poor and trying to ascertain if we kids needed some help, but it was the most bizarre way to do it.

[RelativePitch]

Love this thread!
3 years ago my best friend was hosting a BBQ. I'd gone round early to help her. When I arrived she was cutting an enormous, crumbly worming tablet for her dog into pieces on a chopping board, stuffing the bits into pieces of cheese for her dog to take. She then simply shook the wormer dust from chopping board over the sink and wiped the knife off with kitchen paper and proceeded to use the same side of the chopping board and the same knife to cut up fruit for the Pimms. There was still very obviously worming tablet residue on the chopping board. I did ask her if it were perhaps wiser to use the other side of the board and she said that I was being a bit precious. I love Pimms, but I couldn't quite bring myself to have a Pimms and Droncit chaser that evening.

[Kittylickingplate]

Not a nice story.
I was at a friends house (I was 11 or 12) friend's Mum was sitting at the head of the small table, Father to the left of her. Suddenly friends fathers hand shot across the table and grabbed her mothers tummy, hard. She squealed and he laughed and said I was waiting for you to relax that.
It was awful, she had a few tummy rolls and he held on hard. Horrid man, I was in a state of shock.
I remember going home and telling my mother and her saying he was a right bastard. I was shocked again as she never swore.

[StressedMumm1e]

Not when I visited their house, but for some inexplicable reason, my neighbour’s dog was wondering the street.
Our houses are in a U shape with all of the rear gardens facing a communal space, so I knew their dog as my kids had played with her in the communal space, I wouldn’t know them if I passed them in the street. All I know is that’s a professional woman and her grown up daughter, based on seeing them come and go.
Anyway, the dog, Molly, was wondering around at the front of our houses so I took her home. The door was wide open and I called in, knocked etc, as I didn’t want to just wonder into their house. It was obvious that no one was home.
The hallway was full of dog poo. Really gross!! I know the family come home every day because I see them cooking dinner in the kitchen when I walk my dog past their house every evening.
really gross, and definitely not just one days worth of dog doo!! Completely baffling!

[nometo4]

This one was very recent. Went to my friends birthday bash at her home. Her mother came downstairs. Friend grabbed her mother from behind and began swinging her around the room as if she was a tag doll (pretty big size difference between mother and daughter) mother clearly was uncomfortable but friend kept screaming "she loves it when I do this" most guests left after this

This is so incredibly weird!

[Crocsandshocks]

When my DC were young I was invited on a play date. I went to go and sit on the sofa and she told me to get off as that's where her dog sat. I spent the playdate sitting on the floor and her dog on the sofa. I didn't go back.

[nearlyspringyay]

I've just lost the best part of a day to this thread:)

Weirdest one I had was got invited with four other couples to friends house for dinner. Walked in the door and the first thing the host said was that she was off her tits on valium. Her husband appears who is even more off his tits. They ordered in curry (no issue with that, and they paid for it although we would all have been happy to chip in). The delivery was delayed, it would be fair to see we were all well oiled by the time the food turned up. Sat down at an impeccably set dining table, five minutes later both of them are asleep in their plates.

Between us we cleaned them up and got them safely into bed, and had a party in their bar at the end of the garden. Took it in turns to watch they didn't choke on their vomit.

The worst one was a wedding in Highgate School, a beautiful wooden panelled 19th century room, this was in the days when you could smoke inside, there were NO SMOKING signs everywhere, understandably. A uni friends hideous girlfriend sparked up during the starters, the staff, and the table told her to put it out, so she did, in the butter dish, and then went round the table poking her fag end in everyones starter. She then flounced out and fell down the staircase. I have never seen anything like it.

[HarrietTrotter]

this is nothing compared to some of these.

Me and my sisters went to our mothers for dinner one day.
I found what appeared to be an insect leg in my mashed potato.

My sister went on to found the body, and everyone else ended up with parts of it too in their potatoes. totally gross.

Mum was really offended when we told her we couldn't eat it.

[heartbroken22]

After enjoying our meal together...sister in laws Started doing the washing up and really scrubbing my sink, wiping it etc afterwards. Thanks love I thought my house was clean.

[PerseverancePays]

@MadamFolly

Ilove poor girl will have food issues for the rest of her life :(

That might be the least of her issues, that woman sounds insane!