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“We Did Not Invite Them Again”: 33 People Online Bewildered By Their Ill-Mannered Guests
In ancient times, when traveling was incredibly difficult and dangerous, and few people dared to travel even between neighboring towns, the person of a guest was considered sacred and inviolable. Guests were even allowed to do things in the host's house that many family members were strictly forbidden to do. Well, those days are long gone, but some guests continue to behave quite the same way...
For example, this thread in the AskReddit community gathered netizens recalling the strangest, craziest and sometimes damn ridiculous situations that arose when someone came to visit them. So stock up on popcorn, go ahead and scroll this selection of stories made for you by Bored Panda!
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#1
"I was emptying your dishwasher and I didn't really know where anything was supposed to go, so I went ahead and rearranged all your cabinets in a way that makes sense to meeee..."
I knew my MIL staying with us was going to be a problem, but this was a level I was not prepared for. Like really, you couldn't just open cabinets until you found the cups and put them in there, and so on?
Hphizzle 1 year ago
MIL doing this is more common than I would have thought. But itās not your kitchen, donāt reorganize something thatās not yours.
TheElderNom 1 year ago
Look in cabinets, if you can't find the right spot leave it on the table. That way the bulk of the items get put away.
V 1 year ago
Yup, when I have stayed somewhere if it wasn't obvious where something was stored I would just leave it dried on the bench.
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
MIL would be at a hotel next time she came to visit. She's not taking over my house and rearranging it to her liking because it's not her house.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
While I was away on business, I was talking on the phone to my wife who told me "Oh, and I put your collection in order for you." It was already in order by historical period. She rearranged everything by size.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
š¤Æ How hard did you slap your forehead? š¤¦š»āāļø I'm curious what she said. Or did you not tell her that she'd messed up?
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Lara Verne 1 year ago
My friend shortly lived with her grandmother. Grandma had big house, and friend needed a place to live, so she renovated two rooms at first floor. When she was at work, grandmother went to her rooms and reorganized everything to her liking, even added decor she liked. My friend moved after two months.
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#2
We had a couple over for dinner. Had a good time but they stayed and stayed. Around midnight they asked where they should sleep. We lived in a small one bedroom apartment and were puzzled so delicately asked them if they wouldnāt be going home? They said since weād given them alcohol they wouldnāt be able to drive. Four adults, one bottle of wine, six hours. We were nonplussed. Gave them a couple blankets and pillows and said they could sleep on the couch or floor. We did not invite them again.
Trillian 1 year ago
Not even that. They are adults, it is their decision not to have a designated driver. Who assumes they are invited to stay the night without this being explicitly mentioned?
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ohjojo (you/your's) 1 year ago
What country? Why not Uber or Lyft them right out the door? You know what they were hoping for.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I can't believe people aren't mortified when they know they've overstayed their welcome.
Geir Waldeland 1 year ago
I shared a bottle of wine with a friend of mine a while ago and five hours later she drove me home, and none of us thought anything about that.
Carlye Piparato 1 year ago
I see them now on a plane demanding first class - or the next best thing. And being shocked that they are ignored.
#3
Guy from high school stayed at my house a few years back. It was someone that I wasn't close with, but someone I knew, and he gave me a sob story about how the pipes in his house burst and got everything wet, so he needed a place to crash for the night.
When he got to my place, I showed him how to use my Firestick so he could watch TV, and then I went to bed.
I woke up in the morning to a bunch of emails from Amazon.
"Thanks for Signing up for HBO Go"
"Thanks for signing up for the Showtime App"
etc.
A*****e signed me up for a bunch of premium movie channel apps.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
He would be kicked to the curb. Id then cancel the membership to all the services,send him the bill and once he pays, ghost him
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
Depending on the amount, small claims court might be in prder
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Nikki Angulo 1 year ago
Nowadays you need to check your email and sign in to verify those apps, so as long as you donāt give him that info, he canāt do it.
In fact, it is no wonder why guests were treated with such reverence in the old days. After all, when you live in the same place all your life, and the available entertainment can be counted on the fingers of one hand, a person who has come from far away is an inexhaustible source of exciting stories. Especially if they really know how to tell them. And our ancestors loved stories. However, we love them too, don't we?
#4
Relative of my husband stayed with us for a month while trying to get back on her feet, looking for a job and whatnot. She's a strange person and did a few strange thing, but the thing that was the strangest (and rudest) was redecorate the guest room. Put up shelves, badly, by drilling huge screws into the wall. Took a painting off the wall and shoved it into the back of the closet and then took a metal art off the wall in the foyer and hung it in the guest room, crooked, with the same shoddy screws in the wall method. The wallpaper where she drilled got all torn and ruined. This was that nice fabric type wallpaper that looks like it has embroidered patterns. And thenĀ *she*Ā had the nerve to be livid when she was told how not cool that was. I don't get the logic in her thinking what she did was okay. After she (predictably) lost her (well paying) job after two days we kicked her out and I turned the guest room into an office. The walls looked like s**t. I've never been in someone's house and ever thought to mess with their stuff.
"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
Well then she's paying for the walls to get fixed. I don't care if she doesn't have a job.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Make sure they pay for the damages they caused. I hate entitled ppl. If I were you, never let them back in the house again
ohjojo (you/your's) 1 year ago
This is a simple choice. Too get them out of your life make it an either/or. Pay for damage and cost of repairs or cut each other loose.
Rabbit Of ill Portent(she/her) 1 year ago
How in seven hells do people think these ideas are okay?! I just.... holy hell...
Paul Donahue 1 year ago (edited)
I think you referring to them eventually as *she* and seeming to revel in losing their job, despite sounding like they might be having mental health issues, while bragging about your house makes you sound like a s****y person. If you don't like my comment, please re-read OG's. Yes, you should respect other people's things, but most *things* can be replaced.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
i see where you're coming from but i also think you're completely off-track with this take. the house guest is referred to as she/her in the first sentence, and losing her job is presented more as "we knew this would happen" rather than "haha finally".
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Had some college friends from out of town over for a weekend camping trip. They had never been camping. I got called into work for an emergency and told them I would be back in 2 hours. During the 2 hours I was out, they moved a bunch of stuff from my bedroom to the living room and from the living room to the shelves in my bedroom. I thought it was odd but didn't worry about it. Once we get back from the trip I notice they all quickly came up with reasons to leave. After they left I realized I was missing several cd's and dvd's, a digital camera, several books, a portable speaker, and other random stuff they apparently didn't think I'd miss. They couldn't figure out why I never talked to them again.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
I would have filled out a police report. I can't believe that these ppl don't realize why you don't talk to them. They know right from wrong.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Should have told them I will talk to you again once you return all my stolen stuff. If they return it, don't talk to them ever again.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
Would you at least say people you welcome into your home unsupervised robbing you would be at the far extreme end of the spectrum as far as rude behavior goes? Would armed robbery have made it just past the rude level? Not even being sarcastic here, I just need to know! Lol
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Michelle Rutherford 1 year ago
Did you ask for it back?! Surely you just didn't resign yourself that they'd nicked stuff and it wasn't coming back?!
#6
Had a neighbor stop by. We gave him a beer and he popped the top off and casually tossed it (ETA: the cap!) on the floor like it was completely normal.
driedgrapes 1 year ago
I had a friend ash on the floor once because they couldn't find an ashtray...
featherytoad 1 year ago
Me too, but the ashtray was right in front of him.
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somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
just speak to him like he's a misbehaving child. "hey, no, we don't throw our trash on the floor, pick that up please"
However, a conflict of interests is inevitable when someone comes to visit you at home. After all, each of us has our own ideas about how a house should look, how to run a household, and what can be done at home in general, and what not. But sometimes it happens that a person involuntarily transfers their own life attitudes to someone else's dwelling - and then it's good if everything ends with just a huge burst of laughter.
#7
My sister's mother in law visited them a year or so after they got married. They both had to work, and that meant leaving her at home all day.Ā
When they got back, the mother in law had decided to be helpful and clean the house. Vacuumed the living room, did dishes, sanitized and reboxed all of their [intimate] toys...Ā
I thought it was weird then, and it was, but these days it'd be worth it to get the dishes done.Ā .
WindySwede 1 year ago
you mean, like burning the in. toys? š„š„š„ š
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Caroline Sinclair 1 year ago
My MIL did the same thing on our honeymoon without our knowledge or consent (she had emergency keys) but our "intimate toys" simply disappeared from the bedside cabinet and were never mentioned by anyone. I hope that she enjoyed them rather than binning them, but I rather doubt it...
Michael Largey 1 year ago
There's a difference between "a keeper" and "your keeper".
Load More Replies... Farnzy 1 year ago
What is happening in that Pic? Is it...is it a body with clothes piled on it?
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
i believe it's a heap of clothes arranged to look like someone who deflated while wearing them
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 year ago
At least again you know the intimate toys were nice and sanitized and ready to be used again.
ohjojo (you/your's) 1 year ago
Worth it. Also opens up a more intimate relationship with her, conversationally, should you ever need an ear.
#8
I was visiting my parents a few months ago, and was outside helping out with some wood cutting for my mom; cutting down dead trees, splitting the logs, the whole nine yards. I was hot, sweaty, tired, and ready for a cold shower (more on that in a sec). At the time, a college student that my parents go to church with needed a place to house her family for graduation weekend. My folks have plenty of space, and let the woman's parents, sister+BIL+newborn, and cousin stay with them. Well, I got back into the house right around the same time as the guests did. Introduced myself, chatted a bit, they got shown to their rooms, and I excused myself to go shower. I went up to my old room, closed the door, turned the shower on, and started undressing (business as usual). Then I heard my door open.
I honestly wasn't sure if I had imagined the noise or not. Anytime I'm visiting, Mom or Dad will knock, crack the door open, and call my name (almost as if they didn't want to walk in on me after I had dropped trou, imagine that). Well, I turn around, drawers halfway down my legs, to see the college student, her sister, her cousin, and her Dad standing in the doorway. I blurted out "yo do you mind? I'm finna shower here" and they responded "oh, I'm sorry, we were just exploring the rest of the house". Maybe I'm thinking about it too hard, but I'm not one to start opening *closed doors* when I'm a guest at someone's house if I haven't been explicitly told that I can go in there. I'm naked in here dude!
TL;DR I ended up flashing my junk and a*s to pretty much an entire family.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
I don't even understand why you had to turn around. Why didn't they shut the door and apologize the second they saw your a*s?
Nenyone_yay 1 year ago
Maybe they were mesmerized by his lumberjack's a*s
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Tonyah Mcanelly 1 year ago
That is strange because I find it uncomfortable to take my self on a tour of some one else's home. I would find it creepy for some one to take those tours on their own of mine.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Ikr? I give a quick tour to guests including locations of extra toiletries, kitchenware, remotes, etc. to offer comfortability. I can't imagine my guests tromping into my personal spaces.
Load More Replies... Patty Panda 1 year ago
I don't understand why you wouldn't lock the bathroom door when there are strangers in the house
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Because itās an en suite in his old bedroom. There might not have been a lock on the door if the only entrance is from his bedroom. Itās not like itās a family bathroom with a hallway access. And why would someone walk into his room without knocking when the door is shut?
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I like the TL;DR summary lol but seriously, why tf did they also just stand there and stare at him? That's creepy
#9
My sisters ex/baby dad would openly go through our stuff. Drawers, closets, etc. He knew it was a weird thing to do but shrugged it off bc he's "just curious".
It honestly didn't bother me too much until he told my niece and nephew it was okay to go in my basement (which is also my bedroom) after me explicitly saying no. He just kept saying "no it's fine" and then went down with them.
The fact that he knows it's wrong / weird / impolite and then turns right around and teaches his kids it's okay to completely ignore people's boundaries and snoop through their things? Whack.
Bec 1 year ago
My on the spectrum stepson did this when he was 8 and visiting our house and my families houses for the first time. A short conversation about how I know he is curious but it isn't ok to wander about in other people's houses without their permission and he got it
Rosecat 6 months ago
A child on the spectrum has more common sense than an adult with his own children...
Load More Replies... notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
He wouldn't be allowed back at my place after snooping through my stuff. No respect for others property or boundaries.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago (edited)
Should have never been allowed back after the first time, but the "no it's fine" should have been met with an apoplectic verbal storm of unrivaled proportion. How they were allowed to go down the stairs is mind boggling. It's not whack, it's something that requires direct intervention. Dude needs actual help.
Or maybe one of the heroes of the stories presented in this collection is just rude and entitled. Or simply doesn’t give a damn about the owners of the house who provided them with temporary shelter. This is, perhaps, the simplest explanation. Although some people seemed to be sincerely convinced that they were doing the hosts a real favor with their weird-looking actions...
#10
My mom told me the woman who babysat me when i was like 3 years old would change the place of our entire furniture to her liking lmao my mom would get home and our whole living room would be diferente and the woman would just say āwell i like it better like thatā and my mom would be āyeah but thatās my house, not yours????ā.
Alexandra 1 year ago
I don't understand how you can think that it's okay to rearrange the furniture in someone else's home without their prior knowledge and consent....
L.V 1 year ago
I'm also way too lazy to even think of something like that!
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Melissa Gallo 1 year ago
My neighbour (who was weird in other ways too and made me uncomfortable) once looked after my cat while I was away, and when I came back he'd inverted the fridge and the stove (neither of which he used) "because it makes more sense this way". I was very disturbed and made him put them back, but he acted all offended and apssive-aggressive as in "Oh. You don't like it. As a former interior decorator I can tell you that's the way they're supposed to be." - Oh, and I just realised that he was on disability for back problems, yet he took it upon himself to rearrange heavy applicances... so odd.
#11
I hosted a Tibetan Lama (teacher), who was also a monk, several years back, for about a week. This monk REALLY made himself "at home" in my place, and so I think the "weird" comes into two things:
1.) I came home from work one afternoon, and from my garage (and IN my car!), I could smell vaporized grease - it was like I was outside a cheap restaurant. I walked in, and there was oil.... everywhere. All over the hardwood floors, the countertops, the ceiling - even him! And he'd tracked it through the house, and even on my cloth couch. He explained he wanted to make momos (a Tibetan fried dumpling), and had invited some people from the temple over for dinner. I was too polite (read: too much of a doormat) to speak up, and spent the next month cleaning oil out of my house.
2.) I came home from work a different afternoon, and the monk had been meeting with students from the temple in my home office / library. He said "Oh, you had too many books, and you're too attached to things! You have so many, I let everyone take some." (Again, me as doormat.)
After that week with him, I never hosted monks in my home again.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I'd have had a fight with that monk. Who do you think you are giving my stuff away? Tell me where every single of your scholar came from, there's plenty of people I have to wrestle to get my stuff back!
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
and are you sure he was a real monk, because i wouldn't think a buddhist would be so presumptuous. but i'm not an expert, by any means.
#12
An old coworker I havenāt seen in years came over with her toddler son. She came over because her teenage daughter was looking to make some money cleaning house and/or yard work, and was going to give me an estimate. My husband and I are child free, and therefore our home is not child proofedā¦at all. We collect antiques. She let her toddler run in our house. It was like she was just completely checked out and this was her āmeā time to not deal with her kid. He was an absolute terror. I had to tell him no about 50 times, guide him out of our different rooms, tell him to not pull our dogs tails (we have 3 senior dogs, so Iām very protective of them). She didnāt even give me a quote for her daughter. I finally, in a nice way, kicked them out. If she would have parented her child, I wouldnāt have a problem. I get toddlers are a handful, I just donāt want to deal with an acquaintances child who has zero direction from his parents in my own home. F**k that.
Hodge Elmwood 1 year ago
I'd have kicked them out the second time I had to stop that kid from causing chaos. You get one chance, after that it's goodbye.
Andie 1 year ago
I invited a friend of my husband's over to use the pool in our complex as she said she really wanted to go swimming. She brought her 3 kids which I was surprised at, but said it's ok. None of them could swim, so I spent the whole time making sure no one drowned and trying to teach the oldest some basic things while she relaxed. We went back to my place and she gave them a snack. They threw food on the floor and terrorized my cat, then complained he was hiding upstairs and they couldn't go see him. To distract them, we went to get some toys. I'm a teacher and have a lot of random things in my garage I don't need in the classroom anymore. They wanted to go through every box to find stuff to play with. After about an hour of playing with what they found, she said, "Time to go!" and thanked me for having them over and how we should do it again some time. She didn't help to clean up anything. Game pieces and toys everywhere, crumbs on the floor and food mashed into the carpet. Never again.
Iseabail Munro 1 year ago
Had a friend with a kid like this, if she visited and it wasn't nap time I hated it. He'd destroy the place, steal, and help himself to whatever he felt like. Let this happen once and once only. After that I'd strap him in the stroller in my hall. Not my child, not my problem. My son with ADHD autism and tourettes was better behaved than this horror.
Nikki Angulo 1 year ago
Kind of hard to get a quote if you canāt show the daughter what needs to be done since you are fending off their other child instead!
Be that as it may, all these tales really deserve a couple of minutes to read, so please feel free to scroll this list to the very end, and if you smile at least a couple of times while reading - then we have definitely achieved our goal! And maybe, who knows, you too will want to share your own story about some nightmare guests - then welcome to the comments below!
#13
My grandparents stayed with my family for a few months after my grandfather had surgery. I was a young teen then. I took the guest room because it was smaller and let them have mine. I offered, it was initially for a month only, and I still kept my things in the closet.
My grandmother reorganised everything, checked my nightstand and desk. Went to every single thing and then had the audacity to whine to my parents.
Ever since that I canāt have people in my room without feeling uncomfortable, and they canāt be left alone. Thereās nothing to hide, but I canāt stand it.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
They wouldn't be in my room. You are nicer than I am. I just don't want ppl touching my stuff or snooping. I have nothing to hide but still, I don't let ppl near my stuff without permission
Jaybird3939 1 year ago
I had wonderful grandparents. I never realized until adulthood how awful some could be.
#14
My ex mother in law. She had to pee in the middle of the night, but her son (my ex) was in the only bathroom. Instead of knocking she got a glass out of the kitchen, went into the garage and squatted to pee into the cup. I had heard the garage door open and got up to see what was going on and startled her, causing her to spill her cup of pee all over the floor.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
It was that or wet herself so I feel a small degree of pity for MIL here, she was doing her best in a bad situation. At least it wasn't the kitchen sink.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
Hopefully the cup was disposable, because if not she fully planed to just put that s*it back.
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Damned_Cat 1 year ago (edited)
My ex had his buddy "Mike" visiting for the evening. At one point, Mike gets up and goes out the back door to the garden. After a few minutes I look out and see him heading in from the far back part of the yard. I asked what was going on and he said that he just needed to pee. I told him that he was free to use the bathroom inside the house. He said that it was better to pee outside so the plants get the benefit of the water. Two days later, the flowers he peed on were dead.
Debra Robinson 1 year ago
Filthy priƧk would have to pay for those, and new soil.
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somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
soap and hot water work very well to get rid of germs, and pee doesn't have many germs in it to begin with.
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Not my house, but a friend was hosting a big annual holiday cookout thing they do every year. At some point someone goes into the garage to get beer out of the garage fridge. Immediately slips and falls. Looking at the garage floor, there is something very slippery sprayed ALLLLLLLLL over the whole floor. We pretty quickly find a big can of WD-40 sitting there, and someone apparently thought it would be a good idea to cover the entire f*****g garage floor in a skimcoat of it. The floor was epoxy-coated cement, so it was like an ice skating rink. Luckily we had a good group of friends and we all pitched in to clean it up for the homeowners, took us a few hours. It was a huge f*****g mess.
We never figured out who the f**k did that, and what their motivation was. Absolutely bonkers.
Ace 1 year ago
Someone thought it would be funny, I guess. I hate pranks of any sort, but especially ones which could easily injure someone and/or cause lasting damage. WD40 is a strong solvent and I'd be pretty sure the perp had no way of knowing that the epoxy floor coating would not be affected by it.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Worst case scenario somebody is very badly injured and has huge medical expenses and long term pain. Less bad scenario is the homeowners have to pay to have the entire floor redone. Why would anyone do that unless the intention was to make somebody fall over and hurt themselves? And even then they could have just done it at the entrance rather than the entire floor. That seems even more malicious to me. My guess is they had families with teenagers there who think pranks are funny.
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Paul Brown 1 year ago
Wonder if one of the guests was trying to get a "slip and fall" insurancescam.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Coke cleans it off quick, yes left with a stick mess, but it's quicker overall.
#16
A friend from HS came with her boyfriend to visit me for a long weekend. They stayed with my and my husband. We only have one bathroom but they knew this before hand and she said it would be all fine. We made do.
They showered together every day. They [weren't intimate] (our place is small, we would have heard), but to me, that wad wild.
They also left water all over the floor and didn't bother to clean up or ask us for supplies to clean it up.
They lived in a country where downloading stuff on torrent is not illegal nor punishable by law, I do. This dude left his torrent open and a few months later we received a letter fining us for like ā¬1k.
Oh, and when I went to visit, the dude didn't want me to stay with them so I had to get a hotel.
Never ever hosting them again ever.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
The showering together thing with no sex being called "wild" is really bizarre though. I wonder if they listened hard enough.
#17
When I was about 9, my mother was frequently visited by a friend who I already didnāt like at the time. Once she forgot to lock the bathroom and then I caught her squeezing our shower gel into a plastic bag. When she stole my first Nokia, my mother finally ended the friendship. I guess thatās why I only let a few people in š
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XanthippeāWulfšØš¦ļøļøš¬š§ 1 year ago
So, basically came to your house to go shopping. Beauty.š
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
So she treats all her friends like they are her own personal store? That's not a friend.
#18
Someone I was seeing for a while told me, months after the fact, that she had taken a dump and was unable to flush it.
She took the s**te out of the toilet and placed it in the bin.
The kitchen bin.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Wait till you figure out what she used to move it. And how many times you've used that utensil since.
Emma Pitkin 1 year ago (edited)
My sister stayed with me ONCE, she left a log šŖµ so big Inhad to go in with gloves and a carving knife. Never again Edit to add: I threw the knife away
#19
Her son s**t in his pants, didn't even go to the bathroom, wipe his son's a*s with my favorite face towel. Then leave without a notice.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Nah. I'd have placed it into a large Ziploc and MAILED it to the mother.
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Tonyah Mcanelly 1 year ago
why a towel , They should be carrying a diaber bag with wipes in it if the child is not fully potty trained. and if they dont have baby supplies they could have asked for some paper towels and a plastic grocery bag to put the childs soiled items in to throw away.
#20
When I was in pharmacy school (3rd year) a student in the year above asked if she could spend the night at the place I was renting (close to school) so she could have a place to stay while taking a NAPLEX prep course (big exam after graduating to become a licensed pharmacist) and I agreed because I had met her a few times previously and was on friendly terms.
It was a small place with only one bathroom basically in the living room area. She went to pee but I never heard anything which is fine, except when I went to use the bathroom the rug in front of the toilet was drenchedā¦. I guess she didnāt want me to hear her peeing so she tried to do it silently but ended up basically pissing on the floor.
I didnāt say anything at the time but maybe I should have, I was just so flabbergasted at the moment.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
She didn't want OP to hear her, but it's fine to make OP have to smell it and step in it?
Rob Williams 1 year ago
Did anyone else look at the rug in the photo and try to see if it was a magic eye picture?
MeowMix 1 year ago
huh? That's a very normal thing to have, especially in a small bathroom where the toilet is right next to the shower and you need a rug outside the shower to soak up water when you step out.
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My uncle, who was visiting, spilled a pop on the coffee table and used a throw pillow to mop it up.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Apparently he does the same at his house?? š¬ What is wrong with people?
#22
Use the laundry machine more than 50 times in a single month after we told her she used it too much after one week and 20 uses.
Ripley 1 year ago
I don't know whether it's an urban legend or an actual thing - I've heard of house-sitters or people in airbnbs running a "laundry service" for some extra cash, and running up huge energy bills.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
I saw a story on here last year where somebody hired a house sitter and their washing machine notified their phone when a load was done. House sitter was doing a lot of washing loads in the first couple of days so they messaged her letting her know the pipes couldnāt take it. I think she stopped after that but they were asking for advice on whether they should mention it in a review of her services.
Load More Replies... Bec 1 year ago
In the other side of the spectrum, shout out to my friend who invited myself and another friend to stay with her for a week at her townhome near the beach and told us she likes to do her laundry pretty much everyday (beach towels, swimsuits, clothes), if we wanted to throw into the machine too. It was so nice to be on vacation but have all the clothes I packed to choose from every day.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
if you've got an incontinent older relative, easily!
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B Jones 1 year ago
In my condo, while back I had neighbor that must've used the washer almost every single day. In my bathroom I could just make out the rocking, spinning up and down if they cycles if it was otherwise quiet. Like every.singkr.day. never learned of it was some kind of laundry business or OCD or the like but it was definitely odd.
#23
When my brothers and I were in high school we would host open door hangouts pretty regularly. One night after my mom sent everyone home, she got up at like 3 AM to get a drink and noticed a glow coming from the office.
She found a girl we marginally knew on our family computer. She had come back after everyone was asleep to chat with her online boyfriend for hours using our internet. She did it because she had been grounded from her computer for being on it night and day. It was super awkward.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
i need more details, because without them this one's perfectly understandable, although it does sound like she broke into the house.
#24
My cousin and her new hippy boyfriend drove from Arizona to my place in New Orleans. It was a small apartment, when I opened the door he said, "Nice to meet you," and pushed past me to the bathroom.
Where he delivered one of **the** smelliest dumps I've ever experienced. The smell was pure rotten and quickly filled my entire apartment. Mind you, there was a window in the bathroom, as well as a vent, matches, candles, poo-pourri, and room sprays. Then he asked me to find him "an old oak tree that would hold him like a mama." It was all downhill from that *literally* s****y first impression.
Jihana 1 year ago
It's a real product, a kind of toilet spray you use before you use the toilet. You spray it right onto the water surface of the toilet before you poop. The thin layer of oils traps the smell under water. It really does work, and the commercials for it are absolutely hilarious!
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
Sorry if I double posted, everyone. My internet is bad here, so it didn't show up the first time š ...didn't show up the second time either that I can see lol
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Dread Pirate, I didn't see it more than once, but my comments sometimes show up twice. I click on the 3 dots by my name and select delete. It only deletes one of them.
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#25
She ate all my food within two days. I'm talking 24 pack of sodas, 2 bags of chips (with dip!) a loaf of bread, three sticks of butter, all my dessert cereals. I didn't have the heart to say anything about it; I think she has a very serious eating disorder.
XanthippeāWulfšØš¦ļøļøš¬š§ 1 year ago
What is dessert cereal? I'm genuinely asking because when I think if cereal, I think of Muesli or like Wheat Chex. Definitely not dessert
54 s 1 year ago
Probably something like lucky charms or cookie crisp. Very sugary. Very tasty. Just not for breakfast.
Load More Replies... Wills mom 1 year ago
I have a friend who stayed with us during an ice storm as pipes burst in her apartment. She has an eating disorder and ate me and my next door neighbor out of house and home. Including both of our freezers. She ate my filet mignon that I was planing to have for dinner one night but the kicker for me was when I came home from work and the mayo jar was empty in the fridge. I'm getting mad all over again thinking about it. Like f*****g say something. She replaced nothing. Never offered a penny to either of us. She ate hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of food over 10 days.
clairebear 1 year ago
I have a binge eating disorder and no way would I do this. I would bring my own food in and eat in secret in my room if I was triggered to binge. I am thinking she took some home.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Eating all that other stuff is bad enough, but the 3 sticks of butter is the most disgusting and nauseating part...That woman needs help. Seriously.
Spittnimage 1 year ago (edited)
My son loved Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch when he was a toddler, he'd eat them for a snack. We called them peanut butter munchies.
#26
S**t themselves, then get it on the bathroom rug, the sink, the back of the toilet and bathroom towels.
We'd had moved in about 2 weeks earlier after having the house built.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
That sounds like a medical condition or food poisoning to me. That canāt be standard behaviour from anyone.
michael reid 1 year ago (edited)
Not necessarily. I rent rooms out to lodgers and you would be surprised how supposedly normal looking people behave in private
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Nancy Roth 1 year ago
I worked in a convenience store an I lost count of how many times we had to bleach and hose down the bathrooms because grown a*s adults would c**p on the floor, seat and smear it on the sink and walls. Just why?????
#27
A guy I dated used to put on a hat to make a phone call. When I asked why, he said because he usually would go outside to smoke a cigarette while making a phone call (he tried not to smoke around me because I didn't like it). He also put on sunglasses to brush his teeth. I didn't get a good answer for that one.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
This seems like an odd thing, but not a "nightmare guest" like BP's title leads us to believe. And all addicts know "replacement/substitute" behaviors - like chewing on a toothpick to keep yourself from smoking, or putting on a hat when you make a phonecall if you usually smoke a cigarette when making a phonecall, but are trying to quit/abstaining from smoking around someone. This honestly seems courteous of him, not "100% nightmare guest".
Roni Stone 1 year ago
As an ex-smoker who has a ton of substituted behaviors since I quit, I appreciate someone recognizing it for what it could be.
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XanthippeāWulfšØš¦ļøļøš¬š§ 1 year ago (edited)
It kind of seems like he was just being courteous? Odd, but courteous none the less. Maybe his hat was like his anti-anxiety thing. Something to maybe comfort/sooth him to replace the satiated feeling so he didn't smoke around them. I wear my hoodie at unconventional times because it's my "comfort" thing. I have nothing for the teeth brushing/ sunglasses though.
Sylvia Baker 1 year ago
Hmmm.... I like the lights off when I brush my teeth in case I see a hair or something and then I will gag... which is easy to do anyways when I brush my teeth
#28
We have a summer cabin in the mountains. My SO invited his grown up daughter to come visit. She wanted to bring a friend. We were like, great, the more the merrier. This friend went into our bedroom and stole some of my important prescription medications that I had stored in a box in a corner under a couple other boxes. Also a bottle of used nail polish and a handmade coffee mug that had been gifted to my SO which was decorative only.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Never again! It's sad that you will have to either refuse to have her friends over or lock up meds. If someone took mine they could be charged with murder if something happens
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Sadly, people must take extra precaution nowadays for the mildest of pain medications. Source: Me with terminal cancer. Maintenance person stole from my bedside table.
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#29
S**t in the shower/bathtub. They were not taking a shower/bath.
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, that's not so unusual. We had one who would do that when we took him (with others) to our Ski apartment in the winter, refused to use a litter tray, having lived all his life with free access to garden and fields. Better then on the floor, we always felt.
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#30
My SIL came to my house for Thanksgiving for the first time. She absolutely gorged herself saying how good all the food was. Then in a lull in conversation at the table she announced "Well, I'm gonna go throw up." and she got up to go to the bathroom. Um, what? We all thought maybe we misheard her and no one said a thing.... She came back a few moments later, and made herself another heaping plate of food and ate it all. Then they left early before dessert. I asked my MIL later if she really did excuse herself to throw up and my MIL just rolled her eyes and said "yep." Like that happens all the time. Oh, and I have emetophobia so I was a mess with someone purposely throwing up in my house. š©.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Eating disorder... My sister is bulimic too. And I also have emetophobia š I don't see my sister much... (and before anyone asks yes multiple family members have tried to help her many times with her many problems but she's not a great person and doesn't want to change)
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
My friend recently landed in hospital again because of her bulimia. She likes being skinny, she won't give it up.
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Debra Robinson 1 year ago (edited)
I've always hated to see and hear that, just didn't know til sort of recently it has a name.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Wow, definite bulimia there...I hope she gets help and her mother starts taking it seriously.
Cathy Carey 1 year ago
There are countries where they do this kind of thing. Gorge themselves, throw up, eat more. in ancient times they would dig a pit for people to throw up into. I watched through "The Hunger Games" and that one woman asked them if they wanted this drink. She said it would make them throw up so they could eat more.
#31
Not really weird but rude: my husbandās cousin and her husband visited us for a night one weekend. Sheās a doctor heās a Marine Corps major.
When they brushed their teeth before bed that night they both spit their toothpaste into the sink and didnāt rinse it out, just left it there to dry and get crusty.
Who the hell does that?
Hphizzle 1 year ago
Least offensive thing on the list so far. But why? A splash of water would take care of that.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
I dunno, the guy who put on shades to brush his teeth seemed pretty harmless.
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Ace 1 year ago
This would bother me too, but some people seem to be sink-blind. My wife will leave make-up powder in the sink and will potentially use the same sink many times without washing it off. Similarly, and this one really gets my goat, tea dregs, minus the teabag, simply splashed into the white kitchen sink and not thoroughly rinsed off. That's pretty much a daily thing. I don't even drink tea myself...
Shaunn Munn 1 year ago
My spouse. I don't think he sees it because he doesn't wear his glasses in the bathroom. Same with his shaven whiskers. š
#32
Apparently pumping up their junk since they accidentally left the device in the bathroom.
Andrew Arons 1 year ago
There's a BBC series called "Cunk on Earth" where the narrator, Philomena Cunk, would frequently discuss eras of human history by explaining how they relate to the "Belgium Super-Group" Technotronic's recording of Pump Up the Jam. I gotta admit, the song is kind of addictive.š¤Ŗ https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Pump Up Your Junk? Wasn't that a hit song from Technotronic back in the 80s?
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
I got a few of those emails back in the day before spam emails went to a folder hidden from view. I always assumed it didnāt work but maybe it does? Or they were just very insecure and hopeful.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
Umm it's a vacuum thing. Manually Sucks the air out of the chamber so things enlarge. TMI from a diabetic father with no filter. I was in my 30s learning this.
Load More Replies... somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
was it their own bathroom, though, or yours? there's no information here
Cathy Carey 1 year ago
Maybe they thought you would like to try it; how considerate. There's a funny story of a woman who had taken a shower and was walking back to her room through the living or dining room where everyone was sitting. Something happens and the stuff in her arms ends up flying through the air along with "it". Seriously, I can't think of anything more embarrassing.
#33
Invited herself to eat an entire loaf of bread in a single sitting.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
Hope she bought you another loaf. Have you seen the price some places charge for bread? Ridiculous
What do you think ?
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Why do so many of these stories involve poop where poop should not be?
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Many years ago i had my mother staying with me for 1 week while she recovered from surgery. I gave her my double bed and my bedroom and slept on the couch with my boyfriend, i served her hand and foot while she was here. The only thing i asked of her was that she smoked on the balcony cause i don't want smoke in my house or around my son. She thanked me by s**t talking me to the whole family and even making up stuff about me saying things like my boyfriend should leave me cause i'm so mean to him. Both me and my boyfriend were hurt and angry by her actions and words. This is just one of many many reasons why i have gone NC with my so called family.
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
Not as awful as some of these, but we had old friends visit and after dinner, the guy ate all the leftover food off everyone else's plates. Sure, it would have ended up in the trash anyway, but grossed me out so much.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
I mean, did he ask first? Assuming it was just scraps if it was destined for the trash? Asking because I'm trying to decide if he's rude and kind of gross or beyond gross.
Load More Replies... Mr. Jones 1 year ago (edited)
Here's one you'll love. In the early 90s I lived with my boyfriend in Chicago. We had two good friends we hung out with all the time. One of them took a job offer down south and moved. We went to see him that summer. He told us he was homesick and hated that he was going to miss an annual Halloween party we go to every year. The three of decide to surprise him with a plane ticket and told him he could stay with us. He was so happy he cried. He told us he would take the subway into the city because none of us had a car because we lived in the city. Three hours after his plane landed no word from him. We called our other friend and he hadn't heard from him. So we called his parents in the suburbs and he didn't even tell them he was coming. Long story short we spent the weekend trying to find him. He called us when he got home and said he decided to spend the weekend at a gay sex club because they don't have them down south. He said when we bought him the ticket we didn't say he had to come to the party.
Mr. Jones 1 year ago
So, we told him we expected him to pay us back and he refused and said we were a******s. So, I decided to prove him right. I called his parents and told them exactly what happened and where he spent his weekend. Needless to say, that didn't go over very well and we never spoke to him again. Oh, and his parents paid us for the plane ticket.
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Laserleader 1 year ago (edited)
One roommate played final fantasy on my wall projector for a month, and I kept telling him to turn it off till it was cool every three hours, he never turned it off and burned its optic out. Another roommate had police trouble and the days before he left he puked all over the bathroom and took a shower and shaved he ENTIRE body and didn't rinse the tub. I have an issue with other people's fluids and hair, and I had to clean up... he tried to visit us a decade later and we said no.
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
A party guest lit a candle, left it unattended and it eventually fell on the rug. Luckily just damaged the rug. Even though it happened years ago, I still can't believe someone would do that!
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I sold the almost new bed in the spare room after my Dad become too old and infirm to visit any more, so that I wouldn't have to put up with other people wanting to visit. I live on my own and like it just that way.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Why do so many of these stories involve poop where poop should not be?
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Many years ago i had my mother staying with me for 1 week while she recovered from surgery. I gave her my double bed and my bedroom and slept on the couch with my boyfriend, i served her hand and foot while she was here. The only thing i asked of her was that she smoked on the balcony cause i don't want smoke in my house or around my son. She thanked me by s**t talking me to the whole family and even making up stuff about me saying things like my boyfriend should leave me cause i'm so mean to him. Both me and my boyfriend were hurt and angry by her actions and words. This is just one of many many reasons why i have gone NC with my so called family.
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
Not as awful as some of these, but we had old friends visit and after dinner, the guy ate all the leftover food off everyone else's plates. Sure, it would have ended up in the trash anyway, but grossed me out so much.
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
I mean, did he ask first? Assuming it was just scraps if it was destined for the trash? Asking because I'm trying to decide if he's rude and kind of gross or beyond gross.
Load More Replies... Mr. Jones 1 year ago (edited)
Here's one you'll love. In the early 90s I lived with my boyfriend in Chicago. We had two good friends we hung out with all the time. One of them took a job offer down south and moved. We went to see him that summer. He told us he was homesick and hated that he was going to miss an annual Halloween party we go to every year. The three of decide to surprise him with a plane ticket and told him he could stay with us. He was so happy he cried. He told us he would take the subway into the city because none of us had a car because we lived in the city. Three hours after his plane landed no word from him. We called our other friend and he hadn't heard from him. So we called his parents in the suburbs and he didn't even tell them he was coming. Long story short we spent the weekend trying to find him. He called us when he got home and said he decided to spend the weekend at a gay sex club because they don't have them down south. He said when we bought him the ticket we didn't say he had to come to the party.
Mr. Jones 1 year ago
So, we told him we expected him to pay us back and he refused and said we were a******s. So, I decided to prove him right. I called his parents and told them exactly what happened and where he spent his weekend. Needless to say, that didn't go over very well and we never spoke to him again. Oh, and his parents paid us for the plane ticket.
Load More Replies... Laserleader 1 year ago (edited)
One roommate played final fantasy on my wall projector for a month, and I kept telling him to turn it off till it was cool every three hours, he never turned it off and burned its optic out. Another roommate had police trouble and the days before he left he puked all over the bathroom and took a shower and shaved he ENTIRE body and didn't rinse the tub. I have an issue with other people's fluids and hair, and I had to clean up... he tried to visit us a decade later and we said no.
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
A party guest lit a candle, left it unattended and it eventually fell on the rug. Luckily just damaged the rug. Even though it happened years ago, I still can't believe someone would do that!
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
I sold the almost new bed in the spare room after my Dad become too old and infirm to visit any more, so that I wouldn't have to put up with other people wanting to visit. I live on my own and like it just that way.
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