That annoying guest - what is their christmas crime?

[MrsWhites]

So everyone has a guest or someone in the family if you don’t host who will do something seemingly innocent that will piss everyone off? Who is yours and why? I’ll go first -

My sister because she uses all the gravy and doesn’t get off her arse to go and make more! No matter how much gravy we put out she will always use most of it! It’s got to the point now where we put the gravy boars furthest away from her so everyone else gets a go first!

My kids who will always ask for a cup of milk or similar just as I am sitting down after serving literally everyone else 😂

Do guests with terminal flatulence count?

Stepfather who takes 1000 hours in the bathroom and leaves the table mid-meal to go to bathroom again. There is nothing medically wrong, he is simply a self-absorbed arse and there are only mirrors in the bathroom at my house!

It is very difficult to eat whilst MIL and FIL have a snotty dew drop hanging from their nose. Even when you offer them a tissue, they'll pocket it 😯

Oh yes mine too, why do kids do this? DS could have 5 drink options in front of him but just as I sit down he will ask for something else, to be fair he usually asks DH though 😂

@Missingducks I have an image of you setting up a hanging mirror (like in a budgie’s cage) at the dinner table to keep him in his seat 😂

Yuk! This and @menopausalmare‘s relatives would put me off my Christmas dinner! 🤢

He sounds like a hoot! How annoying!

Older person (relative of BIL) who is a misogynistic fucking know all.

BIL : he shuffles from room to room over a week long visit
I want to shout ‘PICK YOUR BLOODY FEET UP’

My burping BIL who eats like a starving caveman and then starts stalking the kitchen looking for dessert before anyone has finished their turkey. 🙄

My DSis who is incapable of making herself a drink ever at Christmas time. She thinks that she should be waited on hand and feet.

The gravy thing is unforgivable. Ours is the person who starts clearing plates while others are still eating, then looks confused when people are annoyed.

The one who does not move, ask them to do something no response. Kids try to engage them in a game they fall asleep

FIL who treats a homemade buffet like an all you can eat restaurant. He loads up his plate until it’s almost overflowing before anyone else gets near it.

I made a buffet for DS’ first birthday and he got there first and ate like he’d never been fed. DS’ first Christmas was when he was 4 months old and we had them over for Christmas Eve and he tried to do the same again (after turning up an hour late when they live 2 mins away ).

The person who stands right in the middle of the kitchen "helping" me but is really just getting in the way and chatting shit while I'm trying to conentrate on getting my timings right for dishing up.

Mil who cooks up gigantic portions (refuses all offers of help) then gets arse on that she’s had to do it alone and complains if people can’t finish the massive plates ful

This is so annoying - they like to think they are helping but they just get in the way!

When I host I like to be alone in my kitchen 😂

I have an entire family of these!

Sounds like a job for Guest be Gone

It's so minor, but to me so annoying, when we're enjoying a meal, the lights are low with lovely ambiance and candles, and we're going to Segway from dinner to coffee and dessert to playing a little game or something around the table, something that everyone can participate in for a laugh, and one or two people bring out their phones, and start playing on phones. I don't like to be the phone police, and I'm sure they don't think that they're disrupting the mood but I really don't care for that.

This year why don't you take some newspaper and tape it to your mirrors in the bathroom all of them. Tell them that you're preparing to do some painting the next day, (maybe put some painters tape around the edges of the door or something so it doesn't look like only the mirrors have been covered... See if he still takes 1000 hours in the bathroom if his favorite toy is taken away

Oh isn't that annoying? I have known some that do that too. It's one thing if you're really really dragging at your meal, and absolutely everyone else has been finished for a long time but if literally you're the first one done, like you're celebrating having finished a race, then they get up and start putting away the gravy and the pickles and the salt cellar and whatever else, and you're just looking at them like, we still have half a plate here... And they're already reaching for the dessert. You just want to tie them down to the chair don't you?

But the suggestion for gravy sister, putting the gravy at the far end of the table so everybody else gets theirs first, yeah. That's a good one. Sometimes to be a good hostess, you just have to find creative ways to shut that annoying person actions down, in a way that's not disruptingly get together too much, but it still works.

The one that brings bottles of wine as their contribution, and then takes them back home at the end of their stay if they've not been consumed. Wise to this one now. I make sure I open them, and pour myself a tiny glass in front of them on their last night. Petty, yes. But I dont care.

My brother in law is guilty of the searching for desert thing too, he also, almost competitively, needs to eat the most - must pile his plate high, will have more than one desert option etc.