Absolutely!

there seems to be a common theme here..parties..alcohol..faecal incontinence? might need to dish out some Depend pads before dishing out drinks ?:)

Wincy, I think standards appear to have slipped since. Plus we don't know anyone who'd poop in the wrong place.

Yep, booze will do it every time. My friend warned us that his new girlfriend did not handle her alcohol very well. Late into the evening she wandered off to the loo. This bathroom has ceiling to floor tiling, no shower screen and one wall is ceiling to bench-top mirror. We all sat in deathly silence after an almighty crash came from said bathroom. Without looking at anyone I said, "Really there's not a lot, a person can break in there." My husband mumbled, "Nope". Silence for a little while longer when my friend said, "Whatever it was, I guess I'll be paying for it." Silence... I said, "She's your girlfriend, you better go see to that." He said, "Nope, you're a woman, its your job." So with absolute dread I made my way into the bathroom. There she was, pants around her knees, with her derriere sticking up at me, head in the bowl and completely unconscious. How she had head butted and totally smashed my ceramic toilet-seat lid, I have no idea. At $250, my friend never did get around to replacing that but he never brought her back either.

Easy one - the guest that drank a bottle of Baileys liquer and vomited it over the new carpet and duvets. They left the following morning without any attempt to clean up, with her husband saying "sorry about the mess".

What about Harry in Mary's bathroom in Dumb and Dumber

Don't cha hate that !!! how2girl

Needless to say, that was the last time they had uninvited guests for dinner.

hehe.

I recently had the worst guest ever. I have posted the same incident in another post in houzz. This guest called in last minute to announce that he was coming in an hour's time. Below was the excerpt of my post

" I didnt mind being confirmed that he was coming in an hour's time. Neither do I care that he came empty handed as we had known each other family from homeland. What really annoyed me the most and still do was he was the rudest guest I had ever have!!! Despite I answered his question why we went for a double storey house. Twice did I answered to that question. The privacy...the separation of family space and social space. As we chatted, he went to scrutinise my fridge content, pantry, every single room at downstairs. Even my "cloak space" was not being spared!

After dinner, which we had graciously had an Indian takeaway due to his last minute notice, he asked twice to see upstairs despite my silence hint. He went up and asked to see my other rooms, bathroom and my bedroom!!! My room light was off. And he asked specifically to turn the light twice!!! To add to my increasing horror, he actually scanned what I had in my bedroom! I told my partner that this was my first & last time that I would have him over!!! "

I have since been ignoring his phone calls. As I think I will just "explode" if I have to talk to him. That day, I was caught off guard, had been tired from the day's activities, curious to see the extent of his intrusion as well as maybe as my partner has mentioned, " just too polite to say NO" SIGH!!!!! URGHHHH!!!!

Brilliant ! evanandleane.

I have an on going problem, my neighbour, her husband lives down south and only comes home on weekends,so about four nights a week she comes over to mine with a bottle of wine in hand, right a meal time, she is very loud, so my husband finds it really hard to watch the nightly news, when dinner is ready she says oh don't mind me go ahead and eat!!!! As I don't drink it is quite annoying when she has had to many, then to make matters worse when her husband does come home we are blessed with his presents too, he is always under the influence to. She is very nice to us and there isn't anything she wouldn't do for us if I asked her. I have explained to her that I like my own space when my husband isn't home because we work from home she knows we are always here. Oh and to make matters worse she comes around the back if I don't answer the door!!! And comes over if I have visitors. I have made a big mistake for allowing this behaviour, my daughter says it is my fault and I suppose it is, she is very lonely and doesn't like her own company .

Double D you have an energy vampire or parasite problem. You will need to cut the supply she is seeking for her own good. Keep your boundaries firm - and don't let her over your threshold!

I had a party once and a friend's boyfriend sat down and broke a chair - I wasn't thrilled as it was one of my dining set. Still, he went on to abuse me for the quality of my chairs. Clearly not designed to cater for the obese :(

@Double D your neighbour needs a serious talking to. Use the sandwiching method - good, bad, good. Tell her you enjoy her company, but everyday is too much, your family time, meal times & private time is very important to you. Perhaps you can come to a dinner once a week sort of arrangement (but not always at your house). They need to know that you don't want alcohol having such a large presence in your house, particularly as you don't drink yourself. Tell her that she can phone or text if she needs your help, in an emergency (but definitely not to just chat).

oh dear Double D ..

we used to have a neighbour who's kids are always at our place..one day I was really annoyed as we had to be somewhere and they were nowhere to be found they left their kids at our place and went out ..

couldn't contact them as back in those days there was no mobiles..

as for old lonely people..hubby gets caught at work all the time..his ladies loves to chat..they call him their boyfriend..

it got so bad that he has to give his staff the signal so they take the mobile into the back and pretend to ring the phone so he can excuse himself..

one time he got me to take over..she talked for an hour..

anyhow they get lonely and they come to get their tablets some of them every second day just for some company..

one lady confided in me why she does her hair and make up..she said I'm old..if I don't dress up and go out what's the point of getting up? so I do it just to get myself out of bed..

was thinking may be you could suggest her join an activity club? or a walking group? that way she will find people with hobbies and have some company rather than just drinking ?

I had similar issues, after a year of making meals stretch, I started dropping hints about the timing of the visits, explaining I didn't really have time to chat at that hour, it fell on deaf ears, I also tried to ignore the doorbell, didn't work either, eventually I just blurted it out, said we valued that time of day as a family & the visits were intruding on our time as a family, but so as not to appear too harsh, I told my friend that Sundays nights (and only Sundays) she was welcome to come for a baked meal with our family, it worked, but some ppl have to be told outright, hints don't work

Gosh....I wonder sometimes how those people's upbringings were!!!! Basic manners, basic common sense, basic consideration towards others,.... are they just downright selfish & self seeking? My empathy to those who had the uninvited guests almost every day or anytime that the guests felt like to.....

After reading all the comments, I recalled before there was one family who used to overstay their welcome, whenever we had a gathering or party, they would be the last one to go which could mean a whole day for a 3 hours party! I was thankful that they were generous with food & helped around, but I could never understand why did they stay on almost the whole day?! :(

There was also a young couple whom the hubby was my ex manager, who loved to call to inform that they wanted to come there and then. I gave in the first one or two times and being a good hostess, I prepared food for them. I guess, the nice gesture turned out to be my curse. After the few times, I got annoyed of having been the one who always had to serve and being hospitable. What was wrong with these people??? I miss the old ways..... taking turns to be hospitable......rather than taking advantage all the time.

I had guests come to stay from overseas who brought their 3 children. One threw up on the pool table and the rest ate all the breakfast supplies throughout the night that were meant for everyone else the following morning.

Never invited back!

Tanya Waterman, lol .... I used your same method : the ostensible way.... to that ex manager, too... this ex manager wanted to come there and then on the xmas eve day that I was actually going to host a christmas dinner party for a group of friends and relatives visiting from my home country. He didn't know that I was having a party and expected to be fed a xmas meal. My gosh, I had to tell him that we were going to a christmas party. :( :( When in reality, I was busy preparing in the kitchen.

I remember many moons ago having a neighbour with the worst behaved children I'd ever seen, she invited us over to one of their birthday parties, (I had children around the same age) without thinking I blurted out we had prior arrangements, only thing was she lived directly across the street, so when the big day came, not only did I feel compelled to drop off a birthday gift, but had to take the family out for the entire day when in fact I had nowhere to go, drove around for hours, it was the longest most boring day ever, think it may have been easier to drop in for 1/2 hour then excuse myself from the party

Verily, they walk among us, these takers, parasites, ferals and dead-beats...

oh dear ..makes my toilet walls full of red wine splatter and floor full of wees doesn't seem half bad

Oh my god some of these stories are shocking.

I once had my bogan sister in law sit on my couch in wet bathers after being in our pool. It wasn't enough that she left a wet mark on my couch but she then sat there with her daughter and ate chips that spilt all over my couch. She never ever visited for an hour then leave, it was like a three hour visit every time so I felt obliged to stop doing what I wanted to do to entertain her, or watch her to see what damage she might do to my house.

She turned up another time with my brother to visit then after they left I noticed my engagement ring and another ring my husband had bought me were missing. I didn't realise till years later that she has a gambling addiction so I'd say she sold them to support her addiction.

I have very little to do with her now and feel really sorry for my brother having her as his wife!!

After reading these I've come to the conclusion I've never had a bad guest.

GTB ..I moved out after 1 week with my MIL..my dad didn't speak to me for weeks after that..loss of face..disappointed in me I guess..my tolerance level is very low ..

Ducks43, I'm so, so sorry. Did you lose precious memorabilia, photos, etc ?

Vy- I've never had a guest burn anything down or pee on my house so I guess I've been blessed. The rest of the group has had some nasty visitors. I won't complain the next time my friend leaves a towel in the sink. At least she didn't clean the baby's bum with it. I have had friends and neighbors dump their kids on me , but I never thought of them as guests. I guess when you get right down to it they are.

GTB..no patience..mum used to say my husband must be an angel to live with me lol I rarely have guests as I like my place the way it is..I'm set in my ways..nice to have friends visiting but not into people staying over much..just get bored with it all..too restricting..

My pet hate is overnight guests who spend all evening with their heads buried in their laptops. One even spent three hours one night copying my CDs onto her computer.

wuff..I think the older we are the less we are tolerable to crap..I have had my MIL over 2 days top and that's all I could manage ..the last time she stayed was 2 weeks and well after 1 week I booked myself into a self service apartment and left her with him and our kids..

mind you I didn't cook just went out every meal..and he did come over to visit me one night had champagne ? umm not sure who bought it him or me..

anyhow he asked me to come back to cook her a farewell meal..and me ..I was still upset so said no..

we fought every day whilst she was with us..it was horrible..the most horrible thing was he chose his mum over me..it hurts bad..

I knew he went against her wishes to marry me..may be he should have married a girl to her liking lol..

my MIL is one one those that won't fetch anything for herself ..she expects you to get up when she gets up 5-6am and fetch her breakfast..and it's no good offering would you like some toast as she'd be like oh no I'm fine..

you need to cook breakfast and plop it in front of her..

she wouldn't let me wash her clothes so showed her how to use the machine..she hand washes them and pop them on the line right on top of my rack of dried clothes..she took my clothes down so she had room to hang hers out..and of course her dripped on mine ..??

and if she dries the dishes she must do it intentionally to annoy me as it takes me ages to find bits and pieces to my rice cooker..??

amongst other things that happened ..

my MIL is hated by all of his family..because she's the second wife..his biological mum is the best MIL you can have she's kind and loving not like this one..calculating ..stabs you behind your back and the list goes on..

my husband must takes after his mum..he's kind and caring..

thank goodness she's overseas now..only lose him to get twice a year for 10 days each..

I bet you keep them on usb now! Still, I'm so very sorry you lost all. It's a warning to us all.

ducks43, i related your experience to my hubby. We both were very sorry, especially you entrusted your friend with your house. Hubby mentioned same thing, a big advice to all of us who are in this forum.

Vy, your MIL is truly the evil queen!

Vy, you are right, the older I get, I can't tolerate selfish or socially challenged people anymore or in my culture, no "house mannered/taught" ! That chap who scrutinised and opened every single door ( except my walking wardrobe, phew!) in my house was the last of all these losers. I guess, to be kind, is to be cruel and hope that these losers will learn.