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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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ImperialBlether · 07/04/2012 18:30

Hormones, didn't anyone ask where he'd gone to at the time, or asked him where he'd been when he returned?

MNHubbie · 07/04/2012 18:32

Envy not at all wondering what it takes to get Lifeisfuckinggreat to come round and visit Hmm Wink

Threerogues · 07/04/2012 18:33

It's obviously very sheltered where I live! I once went to visit good friend from school and her new DH, whom I had not met before as I hadn't been able to make the wedding abroad. As she showed me the wedding album and I commented on how well she and bridesmaids looked, he kept going on about how English women are so much better looking than women from N Ireland (she and I both). Then he insisted on talking me through their seven volumes of honeymoon photos. 'that's us beside a lake'. 'that's us on a bus'. I was by this stage just about ready to shoot myself when he started to shout at me for getting some of the photos out of order. I made my excuses and left before dinner.

annalovesmrbates · 07/04/2012 18:50

I was bridesmaid for a friend. She arranged pre-wedding treatments a few days before the big day. Drove for over 2 hours to get there. She was out. I was offered no refreshments and her parents spoke ti each other in a language that I don't speak. Friend turned up - still no refreshments offered and I felt too awkward to ask. Treatments done and off I was sent for the 2 hour drive back. Thank goodness for the nearby garage!

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sinisterduck · 07/04/2012 19:09

Not a visit, but a male visitor (in fact my good friends boyfriend) came round to give me a lift to the pub to meet my friend and lots of other people who we were out that evening with. Very kind of him.

I was not quite ready and was grouting my face in the bathroom, so asked him to wait.

At the time I had one of those things with lots of blunt metal pins that you can press your hand/face into. Cant think what its called now.

When I came out he had kindly pressed his erect penis into it and showed me the result Grin Shock.

Was this the most inept come-on ever?!

AnxiousPanxious · 07/04/2012 19:15

Once went round to someone's house for dinner, with the friends I was staying with. The man took an instant dislike to me and spent the entire evening making really personal comments every time I spoke. Comparing my breasts to fried eggs, that sort of thing (they're not, they're quite nice!). I have NO idea why he took against me or felt the need to let me know so vehemently, I'd only met him that evening and had barely said a word before he began. He went out of the room at one point and his wife said 'Don't mind him, it's just his way' WTAF????

Rdoo · 07/04/2012 19:17

My DD (about 18 at the time) was staying at a friends house and in the morning my DD asked her friend could she have a shower, her friend responded with "of course, as long as you have your own soap and towel".
Hmm

lifeisfuckinggreat · 07/04/2012 19:20

sinister duck ha ha what an idiot, that is the most inept come on ever.
MNHubbie bad boy
I went over to a new patients house one day, towards the end of the visit I glanced under the chair to see a handgun.
It was the illegal kind, he seemed a nice enough man but who knows? After some thought I rang the police and they sent the fire arms police in to raid the house. I felt guilty for ages afterwards, silly I know. Once again, I never went back.

sinisterduck · 07/04/2012 19:38

My friend still does not know he did it- some things are better left unsaid!

HillyWallaby · 07/04/2012 19:41

Ok, reverse this - it happened at MY house. My neighbour (who was a close friend) went on holiday and her friend (a single mum) was dog sitting for her. I had met this woman a few times, got on great with her, and our sons knew one another so they had been playing a lot in the garden as it was the school holidays. I felt a bit sorry for her as she didn't drive and we were stuck out in the countryside, she seemed bored stiff and keen to chat, so I invited her in for a coffee one afternoon, and she stayed so long I ended up giving her son dinner.

After she has outstayed her welcome a bit too long, I needed to go out to collect my other child from somewhere about ten miles away, so I told her I needed to go out, hoping she'd leave. She just shrugged and said 'No problem, the boys are happy playing - I'll look after them both and wait for you to get back. We can crack open some wine.Confused

So, not wanting to appear rude, and being a very non-confrontational person, I left her there in my house, and drove off, feeling a bit uneasy and annoyed.

I was gone a fair while and my DH came home from work. He went into the bedroom to take his suit off, had no idea she was in the house, and she just appeared, as if by stealth, in the bedroom and started chatting to him while he was half dressed. Shock

She'd been upstairs for some reason. Hmm

He made polite, stilted conversation with her until I got home, she was a cool as a cucumber apparently, not a trace of embarrassment or awkwardness, and then he pulled me aside and said 'WTF?' AngryShock Mad stalker woman in my room!!!

She didn't leave as I cooked our supper, so we dutifully poured her some wine, and she stayed...gave her some supper (it was difficult not to) and she stayed....by the time she went home we were both in agreement that we thought she was a crazy woman. By the end of the fortnight we KNEW she was.

MNHubbie · 07/04/2012 20:05

isgreattell me again...

BreastmilkCrucifiedALatte · 07/04/2012 20:05

I'm reading this thread worrying that my DD may soon appear on this thread, so I'll get in there first.

At the moment, she is utterly insistent that she and only she may open the front door. There have been a few incidents in which DH or I have instead answered the door and she DD pushed the poor visitors back into the rain and slammed the door, before re-opening the door and shouting 'you can come in now I opened it' to them.

In my defense, she is barely big enough to reach the door handle...

ImperialBlether · 07/04/2012 20:09

Woah Hilly, she sounds barmy!

Just out of interest, when she said "We can crack open some wine" did she actually HAVE any wine with her?

HillyWallaby · 07/04/2012 20:14

OMG Twinkle that is beyond awful. Shock I am utterly gobsmacked at that!

whatsallthefuss · 07/04/2012 20:18

mine is the first time my now DH met my mum. My mum has problems with reality, she is also hard of hearing. i have to tell you that, and i had warned him. I had been dating him for a FORTNIGHT when i took him home to meet my parents.

He is from a very Lovely (much nicer than mine) but reserved family. Think the queen (DH) meeting Jim Royle (Mum).

He said to her 'how are you?'
she said 'well, i'm having a spot of bother with me knees' she stood up, and dropped her jogging bottoms to her knees, giving him a huge flash of her granny grabber knickers, in a fetching bubble gum white.

I was mortified. He didnt bat an eyelid, and carried on the conversation with her about her knees. he even felt them.

I was gutted. the first decent boyfriend i'd ever had and mother sees him off....
that was in 1991 and we have just celebrated our 15 wedding anniversary.

she is still as mad as a fish, but we live 300 miles away now. bless her!

HillyWallaby · 07/04/2012 20:19

No, she didn't IB!

The other thing she did was ask me if I her son could come over and play with mine for a bit, on a different day. I said yes, no problem, and she then promptly went back to bed for about four hours and locked the front door to the house so her son could not get back in, and I was stuck with him the whole day, and she wouldn't answer the phone. I ended up having to take him out with me.

Like I said - crazy woman.

greenplastictrees · 07/04/2012 20:30

Only got to the end of page 1! Am shocked that people appear to just have sex whoevers around!Shock i struggle worrying that the hard of hearing elderly man in the flat upstairs might hear or the family next door!

MNHubbie · 07/04/2012 20:46

allthefuss that's when you know you've got a keeper!

BigBirdsFriend · 07/04/2012 20:56

Hmm, we were once invited for new year in Northumberland, we live on the south coast. At the time we were renovating our house and were finding lots of very very expensive problems..
We were advised that we should stay in the village pub, she has guest rooms but we werent at that end of the pecking order, it was £125 per night plus breakfast.
We were then rung to check that we had dry cleaned all our clothes to make sure that they were clean with no pet hairs, that we would also be checked at the door and possibly we would not be able to take part in any of the planned dinners at her house but could come with everyone when they went out.

Being such filthy, dog loving pariahs we decided that we could save our £'s for our home and, with two weeks notice, say thanks but no thanks and stay at home.

We got a threat of an invoice for her wasted time planning the trip and for food that would go to waste......

outmonday · 07/04/2012 21:14

I travelled 3 1/2 hours to a college friend's wedding. Knew he was marrying a posh girl from a wealthy family and everything was beautiful. Back to hotel afterwards, where canapes were served. Just canapes. Nothing else. Then everyone went home.

IllegitimateGruffaloChild · 07/04/2012 21:19

Yep - I've been an evening guest at a wedding where no food was served. As everyone says - if you knew this in advance you could make your own arrangements.

But receiving an invite asking for dietary requirements (with a gift list Hmm) makes you think you'd be fed, no?

ManyMomentsOfMadness · 07/04/2012 21:20

Myself and a friend and our DC went to another friends house for her DS's birthday. It was a nice day so we had a small party for them in the garden.
Her DS started to get tired so she went in the house to ask DP to bath him.
She never returned!!
It took a while for it sink in that we had been abandoned in the garden. We went to go in to the house to check that DS was ok but they had locked the door Confused
We asked her later what happened and she had 'forgot' about us!! Cheers.

Mirage · 07/04/2012 21:29

We went to visit SIL and see her new house.It was a massive modern detached with a big kitchen and sitting room,but we weren't allowed to sit in those rooms.5 adults and 4 children under two had to squeeze into a tiny room about 6 x 9 ft,which was full of her dc's toys too.I could see her sitting room through the glass doors and it was decorated entirely in white with big ornate fake flower arrangements in it.She was perhaps worrried we'd mess it up.Hmm

MeanMom · 07/04/2012 21:41

Not sure if this counts but here goes:

Was living in a shared house with the girl who owned it and another girl. We had a bedroom each, as you do, but shared rest of house. Most Friday nights I would stay over at my boyfriends house.

One Saturday morning popped 'home' early ish to fetch something only to find a stranger sleeping in my bed!

Just grabbed what I needed and left. Blush Turned out to be a male friend of girl who owned the place.

Boyfriend was appalled (he was leading a very sheltered life and had only ever lived with parents in luxury) and persuaded me I should make a deduction from my rent to cover it. I found it all very awkward and embarrassing (I was young) and moved out very soon after. Gutted 'cos I liked it there but - yeeeew for my sheets if I hadn't found out and also - Yeeeew! - how many times had it hapened without me knowing?