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

[Bucharest]

[bugrin]

Katie- every lesson? [buconfused]

Blimey there are some weirdfreaks around.

[KalSkirata]

MIL allowed me and ds to stay at her house as we were catching an early Eurostar. We get there about 5pm and watch with some astonishment (ds was 11) as they made themselves a sit down dinner and eat it with none for us. When I asked if there as anything to eat MIL said 'I didnt think you'd want dinner'. DS and I had to go out and find a chp shop. we have never been back.

[KatieMiddleton]

No not every time. Just once. That was enough. She was not a small woman and the floorboards wobbled alarmingly. I was worried I, she and the piano would end up falling into the flat below!

[lop37]

My DF's cousin lived about two hours away from us. We didn't see them often,but when we did we all got on very well. One summer we'd arranged for all of us to go over for the day.
It was a lovely sunny Sunday. When we arrived we found a note on the door, saying as it was such a nice day they had decided to go to Alton Towers. They wouldn't be back til very late,so unlikely we'd see them, and they'd left a chicken in the fridge for us to help ourselves..my dad was most pissed off!

[TwinkleTwinklyStars]

I went to EXP's cousins wedding (when we were still together)
It was a similar situation to yours Bucharest, they are very wealthy and we had spent months listening to stories of how grand it was going to be.

We spent a fortune on outfits travel and the hotel.
The wedding was at a big Mannor house type place and we were all expected to stay there, the cheapest rooms were over £300 a night.

I should add that they had specifically requested no gifts to be bought (on the invitations).

the ceremony was very short and quite simple.
The wedding breakfast was in the restaurant, which did not seem to be set up for a wedding, it just appeared to be how it was every day as a restaurant. There was no seating plan, but enough tables so that most people just sat with their own family/friends, there were a lot of two seater tables so we sat alone (just me and EXp)
We were all brought menus (which were the standard day to day menus), and asked what we would like to drink.
It was pretty much just like being in a restaurant, not at a wedding.
It was very non weddingy atmosphere, everyone was just talking amongst themselves (at their own tables), there was no real conversations between tables.

The meal was lovely, and at the end of it there were no speeches or any toasts.
But we were brought the BILL. I was really shocked (as I could see where quite a few other people) as there had been no mention that we would be paying for our own meal and drinks (I think it was the fact that they had not mentioned it that people were annoyed about)

But then upon actually reading the bill we realised that not only did it list our food and drinks but an extra charge.
Our food/drinks came to about £100, but the bill was for over £200.

It turned out that not only did we have to pay for our own meal, but we were expected to pay for the wedding parties meals/drinks as well!
Not just the bride and groom, but all of the parents, family, and bridesmaids/groomsmen.

We paid it because we didnt want to spoil anything or cause trouble, but we were not happy about not being told.

There was then a reception in another room with a bar, the drinks were very overpriced, such as £17 for a small glass of wine.
It turned out that the drinks were not that expensive, but the prices had been inflated to cover the drinks for the wedding party for the night!

we went to bed early because we didnt like the atmosphere.

There was to be a breakfast in the morning, but I faked being extremely hungover so that we could avoid at as the same thing was suggested in regards to the bill.

When we went to check out we were asked for our credit card to confirm the payment (which we had already done, paid I mean).
They gave us a copy of our bill and receipt in an envelope and thanked us for our stay.
once we got out to the car I opened the envelop to find that our hotel bill of £400 had actually cost us over £600.
We went back in to ask why it was so much, expecting it was a mistake, to be told that all of the guests had paid for a portion of the wedding parties hotel rooms too!

I was livid and demanded that then refunded it immediately.
It took a complaint to the manager and over an hour of arguing to get them to refund the payment.

The next day I received a very nasty email from the bride saying that we had ruined their special day, that everyone else was happy to 'contribute' and that my 'pathetic cheapness' had ruined the entire wedding for everyone.
she also added a lovely rant about knowing exactly how much I earn and knowing that I could afford much more than I was asked to 'contribute'.

To be honest if we had been made aware of it before hand we probably would have been happy to contribute, but it was the way that they went about it that really pissed me off.

Needless to say we never spoke to them again.

But we did receive invitations to their DC's baby showers and christenings.
surprisingly we did not attend, but found out from other family members that they did the same thing RE the bills.

[maybeIwillmaybeIwont]

Just remembered another one! My DSIL went to visit friends for the weekend and it was decided that they would all have fish and chips from the chippy.

The friend's DH went off in the car, (chippy not in walking distance) and came back with just enough for him and his DW!

They then sat down at the table and proceeded to eat while DSIL, DBIL and DN sat in the living room with grumbling tums!

I said, 'why didn't you say something?', my DSIL said that they were too embarrassed! [buconfused]

[pictish]

My mum once popped into a neighbour's house to hand him some photocopies he had asked my mum to do as a favour.
She emerged about two hours later having been treated to an impromtu ( but very insistent) concert of his entire repertoire on the hammond organ. Then he asked her out.

He must've though no woman could resist the lure of his organ.

She politely declined his offer of date.

[ImperialBlether]

Twinkle, what a bloody cheek! Mind you, you're lucky they said no presents. Imagine the wedding list.

[Thumbbunny]

Good grief, Twinkle. That even beats the Bridezilla thread where they've asked for the "wealthier" guests to cough up £500 each to help bring the Aussie rellies over to the UK! Am just at the outright mannerlessness of some people, seriously .

[maybeIwillmaybeIwont]

Twinkle I think I've heard it all now!

[duchesse]

I am genuinely aghast at the rudeness of the hosts in these tales. How can people treat others like this?

I can see that some people are rather over-fond of their pets, so the pet incidents might conceivably be put down to battiness and/or eccentricity, but some of these people seem just appallingly rude.

The latest wedding story is just jaw-dropping.

[ImperialBlether]

Thumbbunny, that was a funny thread - gift list from Harrods and oh btw pay my mum's fare, will you?

[TwinkleTwinklyStars]

that was their argument for expecting everyone to pay, that they had not asked for gifts.

If it had said, ' The bride and groom request that no gifts be bought but a contributions towards the costs of the reception instead'
that would have been fine.

But the joke of it was that i had actually mentioned that they had requested no gifts to the bride before the wedding, and she had said something along the lines of we thought it was a good idea since it is all going to be so expensive for everyone due to the venue'

I thought she was just being nice. [buhmm]

[Thumbbunny]

I still can't get over the absolute gall of them, expecting everyone else to pick up the tab for their wedding!! Ugh, ugh ugh.

[Thumbbunny]

Imperial, it was hilarious in places, wasn't it? Until Matthew Wright's "researchers" picked it up then it all went quiet [busad]

[ImperialBlether]

Did they really? Did he mention it on tv?

[ImperialBlether]

Bloody easy job being one of Matthew Wright's researchers!

[Thumbbunny]

Oh yes! hold on, I'll link to it, read the last few comments. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1438306-would-you-pay-for-a-place-at-a-wedding?pg=16 here you are. [busmile]

[mrsmillsfanclub]

dh and I drove miles to a married couple who were friends of dh. We had only just recently started dating so I had never met them before. The man of the couple was nice, but the woman was having some sort of strop and went off to her bedroom- at 7.30pm!!
We were supposed to go out for a meal together, but ended up getting kebabs for ourselves and the other man, who was very apologetic and I felt sorry for him. It was the longest 3 hours of my life and we never saw either of them again. Thank gawd.

[xeno]

These are mind boggling! But the one i'm about is why does being 4 stone over weight make being half dressed more shocking? Is celia implying that it would be ok if she was skinny???

[FIFIBEBE]

Not as shocking as most of these but seasonal. Myself and another friend were invited to an NCT friend's home for an Easter tea party. There were about 7 little children there. The hostess, myself and the other guest prepared the tea (cocktail sausages, bits of fruit, chocolate nest cakes, little biscuits etc - all M&S) and left the plates of food in the kitchen. We all played a game before tea. Whilst the game was being played the other adult guest went to the loo, she was the only person to leave the room. When we returned to the kitchen to eat the food, hardly anything was left. As the food was from packets it was obvious how many of each item was available. Only 1 or 2 of each item was left on the plates. The other guest said nothing when the question was asked about where the food had gone. Fortunately the children were too young to notice and the hostess quickly began looking in fridge for anything to fill the plates again. As far as we knew there were no food issues and it never happened again, but she must have consumed/kept for later about 40 items of food in 10 minutes.

[ImperialBlether]

Thanks for the link, am off to see if I can catch up on Matthew Wright!

[springydaffs]

that is pretty shocking FIFI

[fudgesmummy]

2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny thank you,thank you,thank you for starting this thread-After a traumatic illness my dad died last week leaving behind a total family mess for me to try and sort out. Reading this thread has made me smile for the first time in what feels like forever. [busmile]

[elinorbellowed]

Mine isn't that weird really.
Went for a weekend at SIL and BIL. Went out for a meal, went Dutch. The following morning she made waffles with strawberries and cream for her and BIL and gave us toast. I always thought that was slightly odd.
They also once had lunch in front of us without making us any, but I assumed that was the craziness of a new baby. I just went and washed up for them while they ate....
They are not ungenerous people though.
I've slept in a bed that was clearly usually for dogs as well and it felt like it took me weeks to get the hair out of my mouth.