What is the worst thing a guest has done in your home?

[Mariearistocat]

Reading some of these stories, wow! I really don't have anything that compares! Thievery and destruction...the stolen wedding ring story made me sad. The cracked cooktop..mad!

I lived alone for over a decade before I was married and always struggled with long in law visits (they live far) each year, no matter how hard I have tried. I feel smothered when people stay with us. When I had new babies, I really liked the house to be as clean as possible. However, I feel it's rude to just whip out the vacuum or start cleaning with guests around. Day 4 of one SIL visit, I seized upon the opportunity of her going up to shower (and the babies napping-yay!) to finally wash the filthy kitchen/family room floor. I had the furniture pulled out and was vacuuming underneath. I swear she must have taken a 5 minute shower because she quickly reappeared with a book. She plopped herself onto the couch I had moved out from the wall and started reading as I vacuumed under it and around the room. I had to push her around on the couch like a Maharani while she read to finish my cleaning. She never batted an eye!
I guess the worst thing I have had happen is to be treated like a servant in my own home, this was when it finally dawned on me.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

ooh, I remembered another one, same BIL. He managed to explode an ENTIRE 2 liter of coke all over our entire kitchen. It was literally everywhere. He gave the cabinets a quick wipe down and called it good. I came home to a sticky mess. I was still finding soda residue 3 years later.

I think it was the same visit, but I'd come down with bronchitis the day they were supposed to come. I begged DH to call them and tell them not to, I was so sick. He (and they) promised I could just stay in bed, they'd do everything, watch the kids, etc. They'd been in my house literally minutes when younger SIL woke me up to tell me there weren't any clean towels and I needed to wash some.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

I have a million stories.

Some of the highlights:

1. BIL's hopped on our little moped and drove around like idiots up and down the street (I was 3 hours away at my sisters) until our neighbor called me - whose husband happened to be a State Trooper. She said she liked me, so she decided to call me instead of the cops, but if whoever was staying at my house that night better be in the house and quiet within the next 15 min, she was calling the cops next. Nice. Oh...and she and I were BOTH 14 weeks pregnant with our #3's and sick as heck all the time. So imagine her and my thrill at being woken up at 2am because my grown-adult BIL's can't behave themselves.

2. Same BIL and a HS friend of DH's did us a "favor" and drove our car home after our wedding, and stayed the week at our house while we were on our honeymoon. And decided to have an after-party, which they didn't clean up so it all sat there for a WEEK. And forgot to bring everything in from the reception from the trunk of the car. And some well-meaning person put the entire tray of cake slices (meant for guests to take home) into the trunk, so not only did we waste money on an entire cake that nobody got to enjoy, but it all sat in the trunk of our black car for an entire week. At the end of July. In 90 degree sun and heat. We never did succeed in getting the smell completely out of that trunk.

3. My SIL and her DH, and my niece visited once when she was about 3 and was in the stage where throwing things in the toilet was the highlight of her trip, and her parents were in the "we don't have to watch our own kids" stage. We managed to get a few small toys, a trial size bottle of lotion, and a couple other things out, but the toilet was pretty much out of service every time someone did more than just #1 - we would have to plunge it to get everything to flush. Finally DH had time to take the entire thing apart and fished out a bunch of "bathroom trash" if you know what I mean. We have not invited them back since. During this visit, the little one also climbed up and knocked pictures and shelves off the wall, dumped out every toy bin that DS had in his room, and damaged our dining room table with marker.

4. Anther BIL was staying with us for a few months and brought Chinese Food home for everyone. He put the super hot food directly onto my formal dining room table and burned a huge white heat mark into the table.

5. My MIL steals from us every time she is alone in the house. Zip lock baggies, laundry soap, toilet paper, paper towel...anything she sees that she feel we have "extra" of, she snags and throws in her purse. Sometimes she will tell me that she is "borrowing" the stuff and sometimes she just steals it and we pretend we don't notice. She has also damaged painted and varnished surfaces on various furniture because she is an avid user of Clorox wipes.

 

[Birdie dog]

My sister spent the night at her friend's house. She was probably 10. The parents ran to the store and the girls stayed at the house. While the parents were gone, the girls decided to roast marshmallows on their gas grill. Not a great idea *without* the lighter fluid they threw on it. The grill was blown into the back wall of their house and it burned their house down. The girls weren't injured.

 

[ronandannette]

I have a million stories.

Some of the highlights:

...My MIL steals from us every time she is alone in the house. Zip lock baggies, laundry soap, toilet paper, paper towel...anything she sees that she feel we have "extra" of, she snags and throws in her purse. Sometimes she will tell me that she is "borrowing" the stuff and sometimes she just steals it and we pretend we don't notice. She has also damaged painted and varnished surfaces on various furniture because she is an avid user of Clorox wipes.

That's gotta be one huge purse.

 

[Birdie dog]

Not too major, but just not leave. I have someone I know who comes over and stays for days on end. Drives me nuts. I now set specific times when this person comes over.

My crazy aunt Heidi used to do this! She came for my HS graduation and was still at our house for the holidays. She only lived 30 minutes away.

 

[ronandannette]

My crazy aunt Heidi used to do this! She came for my HS graduation and was still at our house for the holidays. She only lived 30 minutes away.

You mean the Christmas holidays? Like she came in May and was still there in December?!? Why? And why didn't your parents take some action (presuming this is one of their siblings). I'm thinking there may have been more going on that you knew.

 

[Birdie dog]

You mean the Christmas holidays? Like she came in May and was still there in December?!? Why? And why didn't your parents take some action (presuming this is one of their siblings). I'm thinking there may have been more going on that you knew.

It drove my dad nuts. But yes, she stayed for months on end. She was a teacher, and probably in her 40s at the time. She still lived with my grandmother, so she had no house of her own or bills she was responsible for. I have no idea why she'd stay except that my mother's whole family is basically nuts and my mother would never ask her to leave. I know that my uncle (married to another of my mother's sisters) actually sets a timer when Heidi visits and when it dings he tells her to go. I'm not kidding.

 

[mom2rtk]

It drove my dad nuts. But yes, she stayed for months on end. She was a teacher, and probably in her 40s at the time. She still lived with my grandmother, so she had no house of her own or bills she was responsible for. I have no idea why she'd stay except that my mother's whole family is basically nuts and my mother would never ask her to leave. I know that my uncle (married to another of my mother's sisters) actually sets a timer when Heidi visits and when it dings he tells her to go. I'm not kidding.

Go Uncle! That's hysterical!

 

[mombrontrent]

I have a million stories.

Some of the highlights:

1. BIL's hopped on our little moped and drove around like idiots up and down the street (I was 3 hours away at my sisters) until our neighbor called me - whose husband happened to be a State Trooper. She said she liked me, so she decided to call me instead of the cops, but if whoever was staying at my house that night better be in the house and quiet within the next 15 min, she was calling the cops next. Nice. Oh...and she and I were BOTH 14 weeks pregnant with our #3's and sick as heck all the time. So imagine her and my thrill at being woken up at 2am because my grown-adult BIL's can't behave themselves.

2. Same BIL and a HS friend of DH's did us a "favor" and drove our car home after our wedding, and stayed the week at our house while we were on our honeymoon. And decided to have an after-party, which they didn't clean up so it all sat there for a WEEK. And forgot to bring everything in from the reception from the trunk of the car. And some well-meaning person put the entire tray of cake slices (meant for guests to take home) into the trunk, so not only did we waste money on an entire cake that nobody got to enjoy, but it all sat in the trunk of our black car for an entire week. At the end of July. In 90 degree sun and heat. We never did succeed in getting the smell completely out of that trunk.

3. My SIL and her DH, and my niece visited once when she was about 3 and was in the stage where throwing things in the toilet was the highlight of her trip, and her parents were in the "we don't have to watch our own kids" stage. We managed to get a few small toys, a trial size bottle of lotion, and a couple other things out, but the toilet was pretty much out of service every time someone did more than just #1 - we would have to plunge it to get everything to flush. Finally DH had time to take the entire thing apart and fished out a bunch of "bathroom trash" if you know what I mean. We have not invited them back since. During this visit, the little one also climbed up and knocked pictures and shelves off the wall, dumped out every toy bin that DS had in his room, and damaged our dining room table with marker.

4. Anther BIL was staying with us for a few months and brought Chinese Food home for everyone. He put the super hot food directly onto my formal dining room table and burned a huge white heat mark into the table.

5. My MIL steals from us every time she is alone in the house. Zip lock baggies, laundry soap, toilet paper, paper towel...anything she sees that she feel we have "extra" of, she snags and throws in her purse. Sometimes she will tell me that she is "borrowing" the stuff and sometimes she just steals it and we pretend we don't notice. She has also damaged painted and varnished surfaces on various furniture because she is an avid user of Clorox wipes.

#4 happened to me when DH put a hot pot on the table. I thought the table was ruined but I got it completely out by ironing it out, I forget how exactly but google it and it works.

 

[goofyernmost]

Here is primarily the only horror story that I have. At one time I owned a residential care home. We took care of mentally challenged, physically challenged, elderly and some just not playing with a full deck. I got a call that one of our bathrooms had a problem. When I arrived it turned out that the toilet was clogged. It seems that one of our elderly clients had been using the bathroom and as he leaned over to flush the toilet his false teeth fell out, went down with the rest of the stuff in the toilet and lodged in the trap. I had to lift out the toilet and, with rubber gloves, reach in and located the teeth and dislodged them from the toilet. I got them out. They were disgusting, wrapped in TP and covered with feces, etc. I told him that as soon as I put the toilet back in place we were going to take the time to clean them and disinfect them. He walked over to the sink and rinsed them off, and before I could stop him he just put them in his mouth. That happened 25 years ago and It still jumps into my mind every time I flush a toilet. And they wonder how come nothing much bothers me anymore.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I would have wanted to leave "several big knife marks" on the guest over that one.

Oh, believe me, I was p'd! Sadly, too, we lived with it that way for the next 20 years until we got new countertops!
I think my blood pressure rose every time I looked at it!
We never allowed that person to "help" with anything again, even to this day, lol. "We're all set, thanks!"

 

[sailorstitch]

My sister spent the night at her friend's house. She was probably 10. The parents ran to the store and the girls stayed at the house. While the parents were gone, the girls decided to roast marshmallows on their gas grill. Not a great idea *without* the lighter fluid they threw on it. The grill was blown into the back wall of their house and it burned their house down. The girls weren't injured.

You win.

 

[superme80]

It drove my dad nuts. But yes, she stayed for months on end. She was a teacher, and probably in her 40s at the time. She still lived with my grandmother, so she had no house of her own or bills she was responsible for. I have no idea why she'd stay except that my mother's whole family is basically nuts and my mother would never ask her to leave. I know that my uncle (married to another of my mother's sisters) actually sets a timer when Heidi visits and when it dings he tells her to go. I'm not kidding.

Your Uncle is my hero!

 

[marthachick]

He walked over to the sink and rinsed them off, and before I could stop him he just put them in his mouth.

 

[MrsDuck]

Wow, some of these are AWFUL!!

The worst we've had is when we let a friend and his brother spend the night while they were waiting for their apartment to be ready. They ate our food, commandeered the TV, etc. I wasn't overly upset about any of that. What made me furious was that they chose to do multiple loads of laundry at 3am. Our laundry room is right near our bedroom and the machines make a lot of noise. I'm a light sleeper and teach so I get up at 5:15... needless to say, I was up pretty much all night.

 

[paisleys]

Go...

I had a contemptuous relationship with my mother probably since I was born. My father, good, he was just never home so I really wasn't close to him. They moved cross country but we were on ok terms (I thought). At the time, I had a full time job and went to college at night after work so would get home late. One night, I got home from school pretty late and found they had taken over my home. They still had the emergency spare key for MY tiny condo and let themselves in as if it were theirs. I was literally shocked as I didn't have a clue they were coming up..plus..why??. They had made up beds on my couches and their stuff was everywhere. Now, I know this is my parents but it turns out they were there for a big dinner being held for my father's retirement, which I wasn't invited to. My mother snapped at me as I walked in that they would be busy all weekend and wouldn't bother me. They were up at the crack of dawn the next morning cooking, arguing and making a ruckus and yes I told them off I was so hurt and angry. They quickly left and later I heard they told everyone at the party (cousins and relatives were invited) how awful I was to them. Before I left for work, I had gathered what I needed and didn't return the rest of the weekend so I didn't know they eventually went to a hotel. It still bothers me that hardly anyone from my father's coworkers to random family doesn't know what really happened. Yes, this was the worst thing that anyone has ever done to me in my home! No one gets a spare key from me ever. I heard from my brother that he made the same mistake when they moved near him.

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

I have 2, one from DH's family and one from mine.

The first or second time my in-laws came to visit, after they left I was on our computer and found through predictive text and then the history of the browser that my FIL (who sat on the computer ALL THE TIME) had been surfing porn in my house, on my computer, while they were there to visit my infant first born. I told DH that he needed to tell his father that this would never happen again, or he wouldn't come back to my house. Thankfully DH did, and it hasn't (he doesn't clear the history either to try and hide it).

Second, my parents borrowed our SUV to take my brother, his wife and 2nd daughter, and a bunch of her teammates to the airport after a big volleyball tournament in our city. We go to leave to go somewhere and there's a huge dent in the tailgate of the car! I ask my mom about it and turns out that they had so much luggage that the back wouldn't close, so my brother pushed on it really hard, and dented the tailgate! No one bothered to tell us about it until I asked, and my mom said that my brother mentioned we could "just bang it out so it's no big deal". That dent is still there, although my DD now drives the car.

 

[longboard55]

The latest thing is we will have a family event and some think it is ok to bring their dog. No it is not

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

3 nights turned into 11. Never. Again.