Guests are a good thing, of course, yet they sometimes can behave in a quite arrogant way. While you are making your signature tea and treats for them, they can rummage through your underwear, break the door, or eat all the food in your fridge. So, next time you would prefer meeting them in a cafe or even not meet at all.

15 real stories we collected below will prove that

Story 1

My daughter’s classmates came to visit, and I left to a parents’ meeting. When I returned, my jaw dropped: the curtains in the bathroom and in 2 rooms were torn, and my husband was crouching in the corner. I asked, “What happened?” His answer was unexpected, “We were playing hide and seek.” © Yana Panova / Dzen

Story 2

Our friends paid us a visit. They came with a toddler who loved pulling doorknobs to open and close the door. He liked it because now he was tall enough to reach them.
Long story short, he broke one of our doors. But by some lucky coincidence, a new door was supposed to be delivered and installed the following day. © Katie / ADME

Story 3

When I was about 9 years old, a friend came to my place. And there was a big box of chocolates on the table that my aunt had given to me. So, this friend took out all marzipan candy (which I didn’t like either, by the way), grabbed the rest and went home. I was shocked, I complained to my parents, and they said I needed to share. © Fire Cat / ADME

Story 4

Some friends came over to our house. And one of the guys was with a girl we didn’t know. So, we’re all sitting at the dining table, eating and talking. And the girl keeps going somewhere throughout the evening. It was weird, but okay.

So I went to the kitchen, opened the bottom drawer in the cupboard, and my jaw dropped! She had stuffed her used sanitary pads in there. Just piled them on top of my household chemicals and brushes. I almost threw up.

I dragged her in the kitchen and asked, “What’s this? There’s a garbage bin, roll it up and throw it away. Why throwing it in the drawer with household chemicals?” She looked at me weirdly and said, “What’s the big deal? I didn’t want the men to see it.”

I made her clean it up, throw it away and leave. That was her last visit, of course. © kryzjovnik / Dzen

Story 5

I invited guests to the anniversary party, including a cousin with his family. And we had bruschettas with red fish and cream cheese for a snack. So the cousin sat down next to the plate and pulled out all the fish with his hands! All that was left was bread with cream cheese and lemon.

Our friend asked, “Ian, where’s the fish?” Without blinking an eye, the cousin said, “It’s gone.” I don’t invite him anymore. © Ekaterina Ionina / Dzen

Story 6

A few years ago, a friend of mine was visiting me for 2–3 days. I warned him in advance that I was working in shifts and that I needed a rest after the night shifts. Instead of 3 days, he stayed for 10. And while I was at work, he finished all my drinks and food supplies.

The only thing he was doing was playing computer games 24/7. Even when I was sleeping after my shifts. I tried to turn a blind eye to it because I thought he was my friend. But eventually my patience ran out, and I asked him politely to leave because I had other plans. And he told me to postpone them.

So, I just told him directly to get out. We had a fight and never saw each other again. None of our mutual friends are in touch with him now either, because, according to him, we are all jerks, and he “didn’t do anything bad.” © Almaz Perfecto diez / Dzen

Story 7

My uncle, who was visiting, spilled a pop on the coffee table and used a throw pillow to mop it up. © RatTeeth / Reddit

Story 8

“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 me.” I knew my mother-in-law 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? © oGsBathSalts / Reddit

Story 9

I had 2 stories like this. The first one: a classmate at my birthday party found my personal diary on the shelf and started reading passages from it out loud. And they were my personal thoughts. He excused himself by saying that it was my own fault because I was supposed to hide things like this.

But it never occurred to me that I should hide it, because even my parents didn’t take things from the shelves in my room without asking me first. But taking my personal diary and reading it out loud was beyond my comprehension. My requests to stop didn’t work on him, and it wasn’t easy to take the diary away either. So, some of my very private thoughts were made public. Antony, if you’re reading this, you’re a jerk!

And the other time, the guest opened all the cabinets and drawers in my apartment and was indignant about the mess he found there. © Maria Dobrynina / ADME

Story 10

I remember I ordered a cake for my mum’s anniversary, and my cousin and her 3-year-old son were among guests. So, the kid grabbed the cake and was eating it with his hands while sitting on my sister’s lap. This means, she saw everything, but didn’t even try to stop the child. She just said, “It’s okay, he’s still a baby.”

But I almost cried. That year, my mum was left without a traditional birthday cake with candles. We cut off the piece that was ruined by the nephew, and brought the cake that had been already cut into pieces on plates. © Christine Angel / ADME

Story 11

I had a fight with my cousin after I asked him to hold back his little son so that he wouldn’t touch the poster on the wall and accidentally tear it. My brother said, “It’s just a piece of paper, why are you so nervous?” I didn’t tell him the price of this “piece of paper,” but I was pissed by the fact that a person comes to your house and tells you what should be valuable to you and what shouldn’t. © Nas / ADME

Story 12

Our daughter invited her friend to our house once. Not only did the girl run all over the place with wild screams (my child is calm and never lets herself do that), but she went to the bathroom and poured out the whole bottle of my shampoo and brand-new conditioner into the bathtub. After she was escorted out, I warned my daughter that this was the first and last time this friend was in our house. © Naila Alieva / ADME

Story 13

This story happened a long time ago. It was summer, and my parents were at the summer cottage. My sister warned me that she would come home with her friend at night. They came and went to bed in the next room.

In the morning, after I woke up, I saw her friend lying on the sofa and watching some movie on our TV. She also pulled out a drawer with our mum’s cosmetics and went through it. And all this in silence, as if it was a normal thing to do. After she left, I asked my sister why her friend behaved like it’s her own house.

And I was astonished with my sister’s answer, “There’s nothing wrong about that.” We even had a fight at the time. I’m writing about this now, and I still don’t know what shocked me more — the guest’s behavior or the fact that my sister defended her. © Vares / ADME

Story 14

I never believed in scary stories about mean mothers-in-law because my parents’ family was completely idyllic in this respect. I got married. The other day, my mother-in-law came to visit, examined my kitchen and poured a full pot of just cooked soup down the toilet, saying that she was allergic to carrots. © Overheard / Ideer

Story 15

My mother-in-law paid us a visit. I went to the kitchen to make tea. And when I came back, she and my 2-year-old son were going through my underwear after taking it out of the drawer and throwing it on the floor. It was as if she deliberately encouraged my child to do that.

I was so confused, I couldn’t even utter a word. 10 years have passed since then, but I still hide my underwear whenever she comes. © Overheard / Ideer