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

[HelenBaaBaaBlackSheep]

After reading these the OPs don't sound odd at all!

[FannyPriceless]

Never mind that HelenBaaBaa, after reading these even my family seem like completely sane and generous hosts. And that's saying something!

[KurriKurri]

Loving these stories [bugrin]

My (grown up) DS was at someone's house, to go through some paperwork and business details with him. The chap asked DS if he wanted a coffee, DS said yes and the guy disappeared into the kitchen.

Five minutes later the guy shouts 'how much coffee powder do you like'
DS 'about a teaspoon please'

five minutes after that

guy shouts 'do you take milk'
ds 'yes please

five minutes later

guy shouts 'do you take sugar'
DS 'no thanks'

Another five minutes passes, DS wonders how a cup of coffee can take 20 minutes to make. Then the guy reappears with one cup of coffee, sits down and starts to drink it.

DS looks at him bewildered, and eventually the guy says
'Oh it's probably best if you get your own, I'm not very good at making coffee for other people'

[ZZZenAgain]

the oddest thing that has ever happened to me was when I was invited round to this woman's house at 5pm, purely for a social call. I got there about 7 minutes to 5pm and rang the bell and she told me to please wait on the bench outside her house because she had said 5pm and she wasn't quite ready to receive me yet.

I really wondered whether I should stay or go but I stayed and waited on the bench. Never have I encountered anything like that anywhere before. It was cold and drizzling. I thought that was extremely odd.

[abbierhodes]

I feel like I need to start a thread entitled 'And then what happened?' We need the rest of the story on some of these!!

Joolyjoo, please tell me you are exaggerating/embellishing that story and that you don't really believe they killed their granny??!!!
(Also find it hilarious that there is more outrage at the crumbled scone post than the potential murder post!)

I also need to know about the person who was refused a shower- what did you say when he said no?

And girltwin2pinot- did she go to bed? What did the rest of you do?

[GinPalace]

ZZZ You were left in the cold and wet?! Wow. One of those where your reaction is more of a stunned disbelief, than how you would actually react otherwise I suspect - would you stay again or next time leave?

[2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny]

sorry went to bed I meant my one and only Brother in my op.

[ZZZenAgain]

come to think of it, I have never been back. She was altogether a bit odd. When I was allowed inside, she had tea poured out into cups etc. Very strange.

[abbierhodes]

Not a hilariously funny one, but I always find it odd when people don't put guests first. So they'll say, I bought 5 cream cakes for my family but you'll have to have a digestive biscuit. Had this a lot with my ex's family. My family would do the absolute opposite.

[Eggsits]

I once went to the house of someone I was organising an event with, to discuss the details. I arrived at the appointed time but she said that she and her DH had not yet eaten so would I mind waiting.

She set up a card table in the living room, and the two of them sat and ate, chatting occasionally to each other but completely ignoring me, sat in one of the armchairs. He poured them both a glass of wine, without offering me so much as a drop of anything.

Once they had eaten, they cleared away the plates and then she turned her attention to me. Very odd. Even odder is the fact that I didn't say anything.



Also I was once sleeping in a top bunk whilst on an activity weekend for a friend's birthday. Another friend and her new husband had sex in the bottom bunk, and conceived their first child....

We have never discussed the occasion.

[MadamFolly]

I fell down the stairs at my ex's house when we were teenagers. It was quite a bad fall and I really hurt my ankle, there was some swearing involved as I was falling fuckingbuggeringcuntingOWjesus

All I got in the way of sympathy from his mum was a catsbum mouth and an extremly prissy "would you like some frozen peas for your ankle" yes I fucking would thanks

[whackamole]

I fear I might have inadvertently been the bad hostess once, we had guests and I asked if they wanted coffee or tea, they said coffee. I then went into the kitchen to find we had no coffee, milk or sugar [bublush] I was very embarrassed. I also had no change on me so although there is a shop about a minute away I couldn't even go an get any!

[myalias]

When I was a teenager I went over to a mates house for a chat. It was in the summer and it was starting to get dark. I suggested her putting the light on and she said she wasn't allowed to put them on as her dad turned them on at 9.00 in the summer months. Her mum also made a catsbum mouth and called her away for a chat. On her return she said please can I not lean against the cushions as she likes them plumped up!!!!

[ABitSnowyOutside]

I went to drop something off at someone's house.

Massive fluffy wolf dog making faces and gutteral noises.

I shouted to the owner that their dog was thinking about biting me. They replied that it would probably lick me to death. [buhmm]. My how I laughed.

The dog bit my bum and made a hole in my new cardigan.

[mrsnesbit]

I regularly babysit a friends baby girl.

When i arrive, they always have the Simpsons/war programmes on TV really loud, i mean loud enough that you cant talk or hear each other. So there is very little converstaion.

No offer of a coffee/tea/drink at all ever,
a few weeks ago i went straight from work as they were off out earlier than usual. Work was busy, i had not had time for a drink or any lunch, this was 6pm by then.
My friend Knew full well i was coming straight from work.
Knock at the door..pizza delivery...for them. wasnt offered even a crust! They stuffed the majority of a huge pizza each n their gobs, then closed the lids, put pizza boxes of the floor, said bye, then left.
All of this while a war programme blared in the background..so no conversation

I stepped over pizza boxes to take the baby to bed.

I have been too busy to babysit since. I was annoyed to say the least.

[CroissantNeuf]

As a family we went to stay with another family that we see once or twice a year (DPs friends really).

Whilst there the other couple had a blazing row which resulted in a lot of shouting and door-slamming upstairs (whilst DP were downstairs with the children -ours and hosts).

The wife went off in a huff and we sat there not quite knowing what to do or say until DPs phone went. It was the host husband phoning from his mobile. During the door slamming the host wife had managed to break the bedroom door shutting the him in the bedroom and he couldn't get out. DP had to locate a tool kit and release him.

[springydaffs]

I was backpacking with a friend and we dropped in on one of her ex-tutors. She had a huge dog who immediately clocked that I was on my period and started dramatically rooting around in my crotch. Horrified, I tried to dodge the dog's insistent snout. The owner laughed, turned and headed for the kitchen, leaving me literally running around like an idiot trying to get away from the wretched dog who simply wouldn't leave me alone. I was young and said nothing.

[TwinkleTwinklyStars]

The scone thing is awful, it reminds me of a woman who I used to be friendly with who had a DD the same age as DS (at the time they were about 2), and two other children aged around 4 and 6.

On the few occasions that we spent a meal time at her house I was quite shocked/surprised/disgusted.
She would sit the children down at their own table, it was a small garden style plastic table with plastic chairs, which was in the kitchen (so they didnt ruin the carpets in the dining room).
She said she didnt allow them to sit at the dining room table as "it was very expensive and they would probably ruin it".
She would then serve the children their food on plastic plates, not children's ones but more like (cheap) picnic/camping ones.
She would cut their food up into tiny little pieces, no matter what it was, even pasta or chips. And even the older ones.
Now some might see all that as harmless, or normal, the thing that bothered me was that she did not allow the children to have cutlery, even the 6 year old, they were expected to (and they did) eat their entire meal with their hands. Even when the meal was something in/with sauce.
I personally witnessed them eating pasta and sauce, spaghetti bolognese, lasagna, sausage chips and beans, beans on toast, and scrambled egg, and even a sunday roast.

Her explanation for not allowing her children the 'privilege' of using cutlery..
"they are children, they are not mature enough for the responsibility of using such dangerous items"

She even did it in restaurants. she would sit there and cut up each of their meals into little pieces and then make them eat it with their hands.

It was the bizarrest thing i had ever seen.

[mrsnesbit]

Also been to a friends after being invited for breakfast and the host has just disapeared, i mean, for uncomfortable length of time, when i went looking for her, she had gone next door but one to her aunties for a coffee, left us sat there.
Back door open, when i called her, her head popped out of the aunties back door and she came back..for us to make our excuses and leave.
Odd beyond oddness.

[pictish]

My mum, my friend and I were invited to stay with my mum's friend and her family for a fortnight when they lived in France. We drove all the way from Scotland to their farmhouse in the Dordogne. When we got their my mum's friend's grown up daughter was also staying with her son, who was about 9.
This child delighted in tormenting my friend and I - we were both 14. He hid in our room to watch us get changed, poured syrup in our beds, call us names, threw things at us, stole our stuff and broke it.
Nothing was said.

On about the 4th day, my friend snapped and told him to fuck off.

We were ordered to leave within the hour. Which we did.

My mum and her friend never spoke again.

[mancbird]

When I was about 13 I stayed at a friend's house for a sleepover. We were chatting and giggling in her room once we had gone to bed when we suddenly heard these strange wailing noises. Me being quite innocent thought it might be foxes in the field out the back, but no, it was her parents having loud and enthusiastic rumpy pumpy in the next room

I couldn't look her mam in the eye the next morning at breakfast and left pretty sharpish. After talking to some of my mates it transpired that this was a regular thing and that most of us had had to listen to this at some stage I never stayed there again.

[2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny]

omg My brother is not as bad as I thought<br /> [bushock]

[Bucharest]

The wedding one has reminded me of a wedding when I was a guest (so not at a house,but still freakcity) Our uni friend invited us allto London for his big day, it was going to be really snazzy, (they were quite well off) and we all paid afecking fortune in frocks, hotels and train fares.

The reception was in the church hall....and the bride and groom's family all came trotting in carrying tupperware boxes and got their own sandwiches out. We sat with rumbling stomachs. After about 2 hrs of embarassment the groom came over and said "we'reall going home now, do you need cabs calling back to your hotels?" We went to an off license and bought wine and sandwiches and sat on the heath cursing them all. (He had also forewarned us that if his Dad was in trousers we were to address him as Paul,but if he was in a frock, he preferrd to be known as Paula) (he came as paul, but only just really, you could tell paula was in there fighting to get out.)

I spent moreon my bloody frock than they spent on the entire wedding.

[Thumbbunny]

Bucharest, sorry but PMSL (and of course)!! What utter cheapskates!

[Bucharest]

Oh, the first lot, not only wasI refused a shower (I think I sort of giggled hysterically) but when I'd arrived the day before I asked if I could ring my Mum and tell her we'd arrived. he said no to that as well.

It was nver going to end well after Iwon at Triv, because he'd been on 15 to 1...