Reddit user Jentenny99 asked community members to reveal the weirdest thing a guest has ever done at their house. Apparently, manners and boundaries are a thing of the past because these guests went rogue!!!! Here's what people shared:
1. "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 heard the garage door open and got up to see what was happening. It startled her, causing her to spill her cup of pee all over the floor."
2. "A guest tried to light a cigarette to remove the smell he left in the bathroom and threw the cigarette inside the trash while it was still on, and the bathroom literally caught fire."
3. "A relative of my husband stayed with us for a month while trying to get back on her feet and looking for a job. She's a strange person and did a few strange things, but the strangest (and rudest) thing was redecorating the guest room. She 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 piece of metal art off the wall in the foyer and hung it in the guest room, crooked, with the same shoddy screws. The wallpaper where she drilled got all torn and ruined. This was that nice fabric-type wallpaper that looked like it had embroidered patterns. And then she had the nerve to be livid when she was told how uncool 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 crap. I've never been in someone's house and ever thought to mess with their stuff."
4. "'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 made sense to me.' I knew my mother-in-law staying with us would be a problem, but this was a level I was not prepared for. You couldn't just open cabinets until you found the cups, put them in there, and so on?"
5. "A 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.' There were more. The a-hole signed me up for a bunch of premium movie channel apps."
6. "When my dad was getting remarried, a guest stole his wallet out of his bedroom. The guest hid all the cash in a folded towel in the guest bathroom. My dad had to get everything replaced and didn't find the wallet until almost two years later."
7. "They pooped without flushing. No toilet paper; just one long poop. It has happened three times now. It's my fiancé's best friend. My fiancé isn't like this at all. He's so clean, tidy, and hygienic. I don't know how to broach the issue. But why would you want anyone to know you don't wipe your butt, my dude?"
8. "I was visiting my parents a few months ago and was outside helping 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. At the time, a college student my parents went 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, brother-in-law, newborn, and cousin stay with them. Well, I returned to the house around the same time the guests did. I introduced myself and chatted a bit; they got shown to their rooms, and I excused myself to shower. I went 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 visit, my mom or dad will knock, crack the door open, and call my name if they need me (almost as if they don't want to walk in on me after I drop 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, 'Do you mind? I'm trying to shower here,' and they responded, 'Oh, I'm sorry. We were just exploring the rest of the house.'
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I'm not one to start opening closed doors when I'm a guest at someone else's house if I haven't been explicitly told that I can go in there. I'm naked in here, dude!"
9. "We had a couple over for dinner. We 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 we delicately asked them if they wouldn't go home. They said since we'd given them alcohol, they wouldn't be able to drive. Four adults, one bottle of wine, six hours. We were nonplussed. I gave them a couple of blankets and pillows and said they could sleep on the couch or floor. We did not invite them again."
10. "They said they had to vacate because of a hurricane and asked to stay with us for a few days. A week went by, and they were still there, eating all our food and letting their kids trash our house. I finally asked them to leave, and they got mad. Turns out the hurricane didn't hit near their town, and the husband took a two-week vacation from work. They were going to stay with us for two weeks without asking!"
11. "This happened to my partner before we were together. One of our mutual friends showed up at my partner's house in the middle of the night, absolutely hammered. He then shit his pants and put them in the trash. He proceeded to steal a pair of my boyfriend's pants, no underwear, with a poopy butt. My boyfriend was asleep through all of this. He woke up the next morning to find poopy pants in the trash and a rogue turd somehow in the sink."
12. "When I was in pharmacy school (third 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). I agreed because I had met her a few times previously, and we were on friendly terms. It was a small place with only one bathroom, which was 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 drenched. I guess she didn't want me to hear her peeing, so she tried to do it silently but ended up basically peeing on the floor. I didn't say anything then, but maybe I should have. I was just so flabbergasted at the moment."
13. "An old coworker I hadn't seen in years came over with her toddler son. She came over because her teenage daughter was looking to make some money cleaning the house and/or doing yard work and was going to give me an estimate. My husband and I are child-free; therefore, our home is not child-proofed. We collect antiques. She let her toddler run in our house. It was like she was just completely checked out, and this was her 'me' 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, and tell him not to pull our dogs' tails (we have three senior dogs, so I'm very protective of them)."
"She didn't even give me a quote for her daughter. I finally, in a nice way, kicked them out. I wouldn't have had a problem if she had parented her child. I get toddlers are a handful, but I don't want to deal with an acquaintance's child who has zero direction from his parents in my own home."
14. "They pooped in the shower/bathtub. They were not taking a shower/bath."
15. "My sister's mother-in-law visited them a year or so after they got married. They both had to work, which meant leaving her home all day. When they got back, the mother-in-law had decided to be helpful and clean the house. She vacuumed the living room, did dishes, and sanitized and reboxed all of their sex toys. They were in the bedroom under the bed. MIL went searching around and found them. I thought it was weird then, and it was, but these days, it'd be worth it to get the dishes done."
16. "In my 20s, a friend of a friend came over, and when she was there, she would always pretend to be a cat. Not in a cute way, but in an 'I'm gonna pretend to slowly push stuff off of your countertops and tables with my paw' way. The first time, it was a little funny because we were high, and it was something innocuous like a pile of papers, but she kept doing it and doing it. On a couple of occasions, she actually pushed glassware off my table, shattering it, so I finally had to ban her from my apartment."
17. "I walked in on her, soaking her feet in my largest Tupperware (which I used for larger leftovers). She wasn't even embarrassed. She said hi nonchalantly and kept soaking her feet while watching TV. I threw out that Tupperware after she left."
18. "I hosted a big summer solstice party with a great food buffet. Mid-party, this guy entered my kitchen, found a few Tupperware containers, filled them with food, took them to his car, and then returned to enjoy the party. The other guests who saw what was going on were appalled. He was an attorney, not someone with food scarcity issues."
19. "I had some work people over for a dinner party at my house. We purposely shut off the lights leading upstairs to let the guests know that the party was downstairs (i.e., there is nothing for you upstairs). Throughout the night, I would see one of my coworkers taking out the dip from his lip with his index finger and scraping it into his solo cup. A bit later, I went upstairs to check on my dog and heard some noises from the primary bedroom. I walked in and saw the same dude using my toothbrush to get dip out from in between his teeth. He doesn't get invited to parties anymore."
20. "We had a neighbor stop by. We gave him a beer, and he popped the top off and casually tossed the cap on the floor like it was completely normal."
21. "It was my kid's birthday party. One kid came over, gave my kid their present, handed me a cake mix box, and said, 'My mom said you can make this for the party.' They didn't bring the actual cake, just the mix you can buy at the store where you have to add eggs or whatever, and expected me to make it that day."
22. "My mom told me the woman who babysat me when I was 3 would change the furniture placement to her liking. My mom would get home, and our whole living room would be different, and the woman would just say, 'Well, I like it better like that,' and my mom would say, 'Yeah, but it's my house, not yours?'"
23. "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 my room. I offered, and it was initially only for a month, so I still kept my things in my closet. My grandmother reorganized everything and checked my nightstand and desk. She went through everything, then had the audacity to whine to my parents. Since then, I can't have people in my room without feeling uncomfortable, and they can't be left alone. There's nothing to hide, but I can't stand it."
"It was so ridiculous. I had 'prettier clothes' than my cousins, so she gave them some. I had clothes that were 'too revealing' (I live in a tropical country; it's hot AF, and she was whining about tank tops). There was trash inside my nightstand (sue me, I had a little baggie with pencil shavings and wrappers for when I was too lazy to leave my room to use a trash can). My clothes weren't organized how she liked them. She found tampons and said I was too young etc., etc., etc. It kept on coming the longer she stayed with us."
24. "One drunk guest pooped on the bathroom floor and just walked away."
25. "My sister's ex/baby dad would go through our stuff openly — drawers, closets, etc. It didn't bother me much until he told my niece and nephew it was okay to go in my basement (also my bedroom) after I explicitly said 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, yet turns around and teaches his kids it's okay to ignore people's boundaries and snoop through their things? Whack."
26. "I 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 return in two hours. During the two hours I was out, they moved a bunch of stuff from my bedroom into the living room and from the living room to the shelves in my bedroom. I thought it was odd, but I didn't worry about it. Once we returned from the trip, I noticed they all quickly came up with reasons to leave. After they left, I realized I was missing several CDs and DVDs, 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."
27. And: "When I was about 9, my mother was frequently visited by a friend I didn't like at the time. Once, she forgot to lock the bathroom, and 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 that's why I only let a few people in."
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