Being a guest of an occasion or any type of event is one of the most stressful and tiring responsibilities. And there is no guarantee that every celebration ends with a rainbow because some are not.
Cleaning up after the party is probably the tiring part of it all. Sometimes, you’ll uncover the nastiest and most horrifying consequences of yesterday’s fun. These people from the Reddit community shared their same horrors for having the worst house guest ever.
1. Burden And Thief
My roommate started seeing a guy who didn't have a car and lived in the town over (about a twenty-minute drive). She would pick him up from his house and bring him to ours, but she didn't always want to drive him home the next morning because she would have to work early.
This quickly turned into him staying at our apartment full-time despite protests from my second roommate and me. After about two weeks, I noticed over $100 was missing from my wallet.
He and I were the only two in our apartment all day. My wallet had been in my bedroom while I was watching TV in the living room.
He'd been locked away in her room all day, but I also couldn't see down the hall leading to our bedrooms from their living room.
So, it was easy to figure out that he had snuck down the hall and gotten into my wallet. But she refused to believe me. I kept my bedroom door locked for a while and kept my valuables inside until I was able to get a camera set up.
Then, I left my door unlocked one day with a small amount of cash in my wallet in front of the camera to lure him. It worked like a charm, and I got him on camera stealing from me again.
Showing them the video got my roommate to believe me, but he still tried to deny it. He got dumped and kicked out, but I lost about $150, which I never saw again.
jazzylovely714
2. Not A Fool
Had a roommate ask if the rest of us were okay with their high school friend crashing for a few days on their way through town to a festival.
Gave us the dates, and it was less than a handful of nights, so we were all fine with it under the condition they didn’t get a key for the place, they left when we all went to work, and they organized with the roommate when they were off work to come back.
Great way to visit a city that you don’t live in for a few days, right? It turns out it wasn’t just the friend but the friend, her boyfriend, and their other friend.
The roommate gave them a key and told them to make it look like they were following the arrangement we’d all agreed on. That’s what we thought.
They sold their festival tickets and didn’t tell us they were no longer going to the festival until the night after they were supposed to have been gone.
Then we were told that our roommate said they could stay for as long as they wanted without pitching in because they were both actually homeless and jobless and trying to move to Vancouver.
Everyone who actually lived there left for work, still unaware that our roommate had given them a key, and then came home to them having a party with a bunch of people over, none of whom lived there.
They got the boot, and thankfully, we had to renew our lease right away, so we renewed it with one fewer name attached. He deserved that.
TylerInHiFi
3. Human Leech
One of my best buddies from high school called me up and begged for me to come get him from a town about three hours away. I agreed.
The idea was he would stay with us for a couple of weeks while he looked for work and then get his own place. Well, that’s what I expected.
Well, six months later, I ended up renting him a room for one month, dropping him off with his junk, and wishing him well. He was a lazy bug.
His father had warned me he would "drain me dry," and he wasn't kidding. During all those months, he was supposedly using my vehicle to look for work, but instead, he went out to a local bar. Every bottle in our liquor cabinet was drained down to the last finger.
squidazz
4. High Maintenance Guest
A couple came for a weekend to my small apartment, and I was surprised that they brought three dogs and an extra friend. I was not informed.
The puppy took a dump on my floor in the night, which nobody got up to clean. Another dog had a crate but managed to get a hold of a carpet outside the crate, drag it in, and shred it.
They also chewed up cardboard and wooden furniture. When they left, all the shredded stuff was just where it fell. They didn’t even clean up after their dogs.
They didn’t even apologize, let alone pay me! The rug wasn’t expensive, but it did tie the room together. The coffee table and computer desk still have the chew marks to this day (maybe 9 years later).
neon_dave
5. Know Your Limits
They were relatives from the province who wanted to move to the city. Because they both have no jobs, unbeknownst to my mom, they planned to stay at our place until they could find jobs and a permanent place to stay.
As a pretext, they told Mom that they wanted to visit and get to know their nieces and nephews (my siblings and me). Nice, right?
After a week of staying at our place, they gave a sob story of how they needed help and how they had no other relatives in the city except for us...so could they stay until they found their own place?
We, unfortunately, live in a country where nuclear family is the norm and hospitality is highly prized. To turn a pregnant woman plus a jobless man in the streets would cause intense backlash from our relatives in the province.
So my mom caved and accepted them as house pests until they got on their feet. It caused enormous resentment from my siblings and me.
It also led to bitterness on my father's side to feed two more people when he could barely feed his own family. Having a newborn baby in the mix drove us off the wall.
One big argument between my parents finally compelled my mom to drive them off our place. All in all, it shaped my and my siblings' attitude towards houseguests. I actually have a hard rule against having overnight visitors in my own house.
MinutesTaker
6. Smeared Towel
When I was maybe nine, my brother, a year younger than me, had a friend come over to play. I went into the bathroom after this friend and immediately noticed there wasn’t any toilet paper, so I got some from the cabinet.
I was preparing to put it on the roll when I noticed one of our nice decorative hand towels (you know, the ones, doilies, and ribbon accouterments) was placed precariously on the edge of the counter closest to the toilet.
I picked it up to put it back, and as it unfolded, I saw it was covered in poop smears. I was horrified that a kid his age wouldn’t think first to check the cabinet for an extra roll but would instead go straight to a last-resort scenario or wipe his arse with my grandmother's decorative hand towel.
LavernicasTorch
7. Free Flusher
My in-laws descended on us for our first Christmas as a married couple. We live in an older apartment building, and you have to jiggle the handles of both toilets.
My mother-in-law cornered me the night they got in, around 9 pm, and hissed, "Your toilets are both broken. You have to call a plumber."
I explained that you have to jiggle the handles and that I would not be called a plumber on my own dime at 9 pm the weekend before Xmas because you can't jiggle a handle.
She stopped flushing the toilet. At all. I flushed her poop for a whole week. She must have had an uncanny sense of timing and would only poop when I was going to be the next one in the washroom because my husband didn't even notice.
The rest of her behavior was not exemplary either. She's now known as The Mad Pooper to all my friends, and my in-laws are no longer welcome in my home.
rainyreminder
8. Call Home
My brother had some friends over when we were younger to play out in the yard. One of the kids went inside and then, about 20 minutes later, asked my parents if they could call his parents to pick him up.
They didn’t think anything of it. They called the parents and said he wanted to go home. It wasn’t until after we left that someone went to use the bathroom and found the disaster.
We have no idea what that kid did in there, but there was poop EVERYWHERE. I mean all over the walls, counter, sink, floor, etc.
My parents told the kid's parents what happened, and he apparently denied it, but the kid left his dirty underwear in the trash bin, lol.
I don’t think that kid ever tried to hang with my brother after that, probably out of embarrassment. I actually feel bad for him because he probably just panicked, but still. Don’t know how he managed to get so much poop everywhere.
LamarBearPig
9. Need Help
A former friend of ours called us and said that her house caught on fire, so naturally, we offered a soft place to land while she was dealing with the fallout. So we went and picked her up, brought her home, and got her set up for the night.
The next day, she grabbed what she could from her apartment and brought it over to our house. My wife washed all her clothes, which smelled like you’d expect from being in a house fire.
Unfortunately, that scent is REALLY hard to get out of, so our house smelled of fire for a long time as my wife washed the clothes multiple times.
Eventually, we realized she was not trying at all to get her life back in order. She also wasn’t helping at all at our house with getting her things together.
She just decided that she was going to just stay with us and coast, I guess? Ultimately, she then started being really critical of anything we did, tried to start drama, and was generally unpleasant to be around.
What finally broke the camel's back was that I returned one day to find her and someone we had never met before smoking on our front porch.
Not really a big deal, but it was odd that she didn’t let us know that she was inviting anyone into our house. The next day, I went to take my Adderall that I had just filled and noticed that there were like five left from the prescription. She and her friend helped themselves to my meds!
After that, she announced that she would stay somewhere where she was “welcome” and that we could throw away the clothes and items we had at our house because she didn’t want them anymore because they smelled too much like smoke.
The best thing came after she moved out. We read a story about the fire in the newspaper about the cause of the fire. We carefully look at it.
She had caused it by smoking on the back deck of her apartment by carelessly not putting the cigarette out. We never really saw her again. She tried to make contact, but we just noped out.
W0rk3rB
10. Too Much Demands
My husband and I helped out a mutual friend. She had frozen pipes and a flood situation. No fun. So, my husband and I brought her in and gave her eight weeks (yes, we were generous) to sort out her issues.
Well, four weeks in, we both realize she has no intention of fixing anything. She'd been at the bar every day since we took her in. She'd stay until late call and then come back to our place, which was difficult since we both worked.
Then came the requests for money. She needed the first and last month's rent for a new apartment. She needed money to replace her stuff (we never found out about the house, by the way).
She needed money for food, blah blah blah. My husband and I agreed to loan her $1000 for rent (this was ten years ago). The next day, she found a place for $1400. And expected us to pay up the difference. It went to zero really quickly.
After that, she tried to make a play for my husband by making it look like "something" had happened. Luckily, I knew my husband, so this didn't work. She then decided to move back to her parent's place. She'd called them, and they were coming down to pick her up.
Her parents arrived, they were lovely people. Her father and mother took some of her bags, and I saw the parents in the elevator of our apartment building.
A few moments later, she hurried down the hallway and passed me without a glance or a goodbye. I thought, wow, that was strange.
When I got back to the apartment, I found out she forced her tongue in his mouth and tried to grab his, you know what. Holy crap, and I let this woman in my house. She won't ever be welcome back!!
Calait564764
11. Marking Territory
My dad’s cousin was supposed to be a couple of weeks or so, but it went on for a year. She decided to hang her family pics in the hallway.
And not even with a nail, but HUGE SCREWS. My dad was too nice to ask her to leave, so it was up to my grandfather and me. She passive-aggressively hung them up.
I took them down and put them in her bed in the same passive-aggressive fashion. She got so pissed that she finally moved out but wrote my dad hate-filled threatening letters for a couple of years.
She thought they were going to get married (literally said so in the letters). They were FIRST COUSINS! She was so nuts. So glad she moved out.
Liznobbie
12. New Sibling
One of my toxic narcissistic sisters came to stay with us for a week and ended up staying for almost a year. She’d come grocery shopping with me and put lots of her own stuff in the trolley, then disappear when it came time to pay.
She also drank all our wine. She never gave us anything during her stay.
We couldn’t get her to move out until I managed to find a small flat for her in a nearby town.
She later claimed that my memory was wrong and that she’d only stayed with us for four days even though my husband and children all quite clearly remembered she’d stayed with us for a year.
SensitiveObject2
13. Couple Of Nightmares
My uncle and his wife came to stay for a while. They got my room, and I slept on the couch for a few months (NBD when you're a kid, I guess).
What ticked me off was that when they finally left, we discovered they'd seriously messed up my room. Everything reeked of cigarettes.
There were ground-up peanut shells on the carpet, cigarette burns on my mattress, etc. And we couldn't figure out why the room smelled like death.
Well, not until we lifted up the bed and found mummified cat poop stuck up in the shag carpeting. They either had such bad hygiene that they didn't notice the smell, or they knew and didn't care.
SquilliamFancySon95
14. The Prankster
If I were asked who the worst house guest we had was, that would be the girl visiting my sister-in-law, who decided it would be funny to repeatedly prank and call 911.
I got a very angry call from the local police station saying we either stop or they'd be sending a squad car over. I was so embarrassed and shocked.
I apologized profusely to the officer and thanked him for calling us first. She was not invited back to her house; she was 17 and definitely old enough to know better.
zerbey
15. Creepy Clown
The clown that wouldn’t leave. It’s become a family legend. My mother hired a clown for my brother's second or third birthday party.
My mother made the mistake of offering her a cup of coffee after she was done performing, and she seemed to take that as a cue to stay for a while.
Hours pass. The party guests are long gone, and the clown is still there drinking coffee and chatting with my mother, still in full makeup and outfit.
She ended up staying the entire day until my mom got fed up and told her she had to go because she had to prepare dinner. Luckily, she left.
asbestosSNDWICH
16. Worst Manners
Housemate had people come over, order a pizza, decide they didn't want it, and refuse to answer the door so they didn't have to pay - at 4 am.
The pizza guy could hear them through the door, so he kept knocking louder and louder. I eventually went to the door and opened it, then explained to the pizza guy what was going on (so that they didn't blacklist the property) and forced them to pay.
As they were packing to leave the next day, I noticed them trying to take some of my extra PS4 controllers by sneaking them into their bags.
I'm normally an introvert, but already being cranky from no sleep, I lost my patience at that point. I called them a disgusting thief and told them to get the heck out.
graeuk
17. Real Identity
Roommate had an out-of-state "friend" randomly traveling through town and asked if they could stop by and crash for a day or two.
He seemed okay at first. We even went out to hang out one night with my roomie and my girlfriend. A day turned into nearly two weeks.
He was unemployed and never wanted to pay for anything, didn't clean up after himself, ate our food, and his license was suspended, so he only left the house if someone else drove.
After the roommate finally got tired of it and told him he was wearing out his welcome, he proceeded to steal some of our stuff while we were at work and then bail.
Including a PS4 controller (just one), some of her jewelry, an old guitar I had on the wall, a switchblade knife from my junk drawer, etc.
We didn't notice for a while, and I just thought I had misplaced things at first, so I'm sure there's some stuff he took that we never even realized. It was nothing super expensive or irreplaceable, fortunately.
unthused
18. No One To Rely On
I had surgery and was on bed rest for a week. I asked my cousin, who was living with me at the time, to keep an eye on me as I was on heavy painkillers.
I stayed on the couch and let her use my bedroom. When I recovered, I found used hair weave piled up on clean towels in the bathroom cabinet, a douche nozzle behind my nightstand, trash piled all the way up the wall in the kitchen.
I saw dirty dishes everywhere, a plate of rancid food in the microwave, ketchup, and mustard smeared on the floors. Oh gosh, the smell.
Had stolen a bunch of clothing and CDs, along with one of my iPhone chargers (she had a Windows phone), and she poked a hole in my $2500 sleep number bed. I kicked her out immediately.
[deleted]
19. The Destroyer
Ran into a guy I used to call a friend and let him stay with me for a while as he was down on his luck. I guess we'd run out of toilet paper, so he used a washcloth and left it at the side of the toilet.
I kicked him out and found out later that he had walked away with some of my CDs. Some mutual friends let him stay against my advice.
They came home one day to find him passed out on the couch with his pants around his ankles. After they kicked him out, they found out he'd racked up $900 in phone charges.
whos_this_chucker
20. New In Law
I was on my honeymoon with my husband, and we let his dad stay at our house, but he said he had to be out by the time we got back. Uhm, okay.
We let him know when we were on our way home and expected him to be gone. We got back. He was gone but had not gotten his stuff out of the house.
On top of that, he trashed the place like a group of teenagers, with empty pizza boxes and trash lying around. He came back and stayed around for a bit and asked me if I was mad at him. Like, of course, I’m mad!! What do you expect?
[deleted]
21. Walking Virus
So I had a really old/good friend call me and tell me they needed a place to stay for maybe a few days or a week when I lived in the Pacific Northwest.
I, of course, said yes. Then she told me her girlfriend was coming too. Ok, great. They show up, and when they get to my porch, she tells me her girlfriend has strep throat.
At first, I think, "OK, whatever." But then I stop and think, "Isn't that highly contagious?" But they are already here. So I just kind of start thinking to myself that I'll have to somehow keep them in my spare bedroom and sterilize the crap out of everything.
But then I'm just wondering why my friend didn't tell me in advance or if they don't know how contagious it is. Like if my girlfriend had strep, I'd go get a hotel and not subject my friend to that.
After about a day, my friend told me via text that she had to leave. At first, I was relieved, but then she asked if her girlfriend could just stay at my place.
I don't know her, and I've never met her. I told her I had another couple that needed to come to stay with me (which was true) and that I was not comfortable housing someone I didn't know who was sick.
She says that is fine, but then when she comes to get her stuff, she acts all pissed and says, "Well, see you sometime, maybe." And I haven't heard from her for a long, long time. Kinda messed up that she put me in that situation, tbh.
Powerful_Artist
22. Familiar Scent
Well, this one happened a few years ago. But the husband of my great aunt came to visit us. He was about 80 years old, so he went to the bathroom to do his business and came down.
Now, he smells a little bit, but we all brush it aside. Then when he sits down and, after a while, gets back up to leave, you can see poop stains on the sofa.
Not only that, but my mom then goes upstairs and finds the bathroom full of poo, not full of poop, but a bunch of it was sprayed on the walls, etc. To this day, we haven't spoken about it, and that man passed away around a year ago.
Aioli_Tough
23. Testing Patience
Our toilet has clogged up, and I have just finished mopping and cleaning up the mess. My ex-friend comes over, and I’m like, “Don’t use that toilet. It’s stuck and will overflow.”
I go out to have a cigarette, and my nephew runs to me and tells me my friend just flushed the toilet, and the water is overflowing again.
I rush in too fast, slip, and fall flat on my face. I asked him later why did he flush when I told him not to… he said, “I wanted to check if you were serious.” Didn’t talk to him for weeks after that but never let him live it down either
Youve_been_Loganated
24. The Chair Bender
My brother had a friend who was banned from our house. These were my brother's football buddies, so they were mostly big dudes.
This guy in question was one of the guys on the front line(idk football, don't judge me), so he was extra big. He had a horrible habit of leaning back in chairs, often too far back.
He broke nearly every kitchen chair and most of the plastic patio chairs. My mom took those in stride. Those were her boys. After all, everyone called her mom.
One day, he decides to sit in the recliner in the living room. He tilts a little too far back, and next thing you know, he's flipping over backward through our nearly floor-to-ceiling window.
This neighborhood was not good; I was about 6, and my baby brother was maybe 1. Obviously, we needed the window replaced ASAP.
When presented with half the bill(my mom was too kind to 'her boys' IMO), his parents scoffed and refused to pay towards it at all. I was later informed that chairs were not the only thing he had broken over the years. He was no longer invited over.
lizzyote
25. Panic Mode
Here’s my cousin, although he was only 9 at the time. He was taking a shower during our Christmas sleepover at Grandma's house.
He somehow got water all over the bathroom floor. Used half a paper towel roll to mop it up. In order to hide the evidence, he decides to flush the paper towels down the toilet.
He did not just clog the toilet but also the sewer pipe for half the house. There was only one working bathroom for the entire extended family to use for Christmas sleepover.
imbludabadi
26. Paid Disaster
We once had a house-sitter who wanted to bring their own dog for the week. They assured us the dog was well-behaved and housetrained.
This was a pretty close friend, and their house was nice and clean, so we believed them. Came home to find every rug in our house destroyed.
The house smelled funky when we walked in, and I immediately found wet spots on our living room rug. I lifted it up, and it had more stained areas than not.
Same with the kitchen, hallway, bedroom, and guestroom rugs. I'm guessing this dog didn't pee outside a single time it was there. This was someone we paid to watch our house.
SpicyWonderBread
27. Hidden Roommate
I had an experience with a paid sitter. Our dog walker - of 5 years - was squatting at our place every time we left town. These were 4-5 day trips once a month.
At some point in year 3, she excitedly declared she could do "stayovers" for an extra $25/day instead of twice-a-day visits for potty and feeding. I happily paid her that extra $$, like a fool. We never found out she'd been there all along until.
When COVID hit and we went on lockdown, we were living in a high-rise loft with increasing positive cases and shared ventilation.
My husband got spooked, so we went to an Airbnb out of town for the rest of the lockdown. Turns out, she was staying at our loft the whole time.
She had the front desk believing she was house-sitting. She had a key; they knew she was the dog walker, so it raised no eyebrows.
I dropped by to check on things unannounced, and she flat-out moved in. Clothes are in closets, toiletries are organized in drawers, the pantry is filled with her staples, and the whole shebang.
[deleted]
29. The Watcher
When our son was born, my mother-in-law came and stayed on our couch for two weeks to "help." In the two weeks she was there, she did NOTHING to help.
Dishes? Laundry? Feedings? NOTHING. And our poor son had real trouble feeding those first few months. We couldn't get him to eat well.
It didn't help that my MIL was there the whole time, staring at us while the baby didn't eat. After two weeks, my father-in-law was going to join us, so my MIL baked a pie.
SHE BAKED ONLY FOR HIM. That's why I always said that if we had another one, I'd be on the doorstep with a shotgun until the baby was 6 months old.
edgarpickle
29. Added Expense
When my youngest was born, my mum came over a couple of weeks later to help us out (I live abroad, originally from the UK, and my parents still live there).
Now, my mum has always been lazy. She’s the type to sit on the sofa, play on her tablet, and go outside for a cigarette now and then.
And she didn’t disappoint! I managed to barter her down from 4 weeks to 3 - as usually 2 days is my limit - and for those 3 weeks, she didn’t do any feeds, change a nappy, or take him whilst I slept.
I had mastitis and another pain in my butt which was my then 4-year-old son - I was screwed! It would have been easier to do it on my own!
As the boys have gotten older, nothing changed - her idea of interaction with her many grandchildren is poking them with a stick now and then to make sure they’re still responsive. My mum did, in all fairness, teach my eldest how to play Candy Crush.
melyntor83
30. Unfriendly Friends
My girlfriend was pregnant, and we were taking a little vacation. We let two friends who are brothers use our house while we were gone on the condition that they maintained the yard and garden.
First, they borrowed the truck, which wasn’t a big deal, but they immediately wrecked it, driving head-on into a garbage truck.
Then, our very best friend stopped by to borrow something, and they told her to back off. They found some hidden cash (maybe $100) and stole it.
They broke plates. We came home to find a pile of soaking wet towels and linens that had grown mold and had to be replaced. Believe it or not, they attempted to mow the lawn but somehow broke the lawnmower.
They never fixed it or mowed or watered anything, and many flowers were dead. I had been collecting exotic varieties of heliconia there on the Big Island of Hawaii, and they were all dead.
Some of those flowers were worth $80 or $100. So we came home from vacation, and the boys vanished without a trace and won’t ever answer our calls again.
We are 5 months pregnant with no vehicle and a trashed house. I think the worst part was that we really did think of them as friends, but then they ghosted us like that. Like we were disposable and our pregnancy and our lives didn’t matter.
[deleted]
Pexels, Lisa Fotios
31. Worst Acquaintance
My (now ex) best friend took over our bedroom. I came home from work and found him on our bed with his dirty socks on our pillows and on his computer.
He would constantly sit between my bf and me, eat on the couch or in our bed, and leave crumbs. If I attempted to talk to my bf, he would immediately interrupt me to say something.
If we went to go out for anything, he would invite himself along and take a shotgun (whether I was driving or my SO was driving) and would leave trash all over our car.
The kicker, though, was bringing his girlfriend around. I sometimes think the best part of the breakup was not dealing with him anymore.
Spazztastic85
32. Chef Mode
I reconnected with a friend who was moving back to town. There was a live outdoor music event going on that evening. I invited her before my friends and went to the event. She asked if I could pick her up.
Once she was at my house, we were all having a few drinks, and she disappeared. I find her in the kitchen. She literally has EVERYTHING out of my fridge and is cooking.
When I say everything, I have just gone to the store and gotten fresh veggies, chicken breasts, and ground beef. I was stocked up for a week or two.
I asked her what she was doing, and she told me that she'd been a chef at some fancy restaurant for a while and wanted to cook dinner for everyone.
But although I'm pissed, the food is already being cooked, so I might as well get a meal of it then deal with everything. Que, a few moments later when gashes her finger open with a knife. Blood everywhere, including all over the food on the stove.
Once I get her finger wrapped up, she asks me (and I quote), "Do you have a sewing kit? I'll fix this right up." No is the obvious answer to that.
I noticed that she had gotten some blood on her dress and mentioned that to her. She asks me to take her home so she can change before we leave. Immediate "yes."
As I'm driving her across town, she calls her mom and chews the poor woman out. Yelling at her to get a bucket of water and baking soda ready to soak the dress.
We finally got to her house, and she could sense what I was thinking. She asked if I'd wait for her to change, and she'd only be a moment.
The second she shuts the door to my truck, I pull off. She then jumps on my hood and starts screaming about 2 tall boy bud lights that she left at my house and that I'm a thief.
I finally got her off the hood of the truck and simply told her she was not invited. She destroyed ALL my food for over a week, and I never wanted to talk with her again.
29CFR1910
33. Garage Tenant
I lived in a two-unit house, and we were the back unit that connected to a (shared) garage. The garage was used for nothing other than laundry and storage, and a previous tenant had left a mattress in it that no one ever bothered to move.
One day, I (then 20F) went into the garage and nearly jumped out of my skin upon seeing some man sleeping on the mattress.
I freak out and flee to my unit just in time for two male housemates to come home. They went to confront the guy and came back to tell me that he was friends with our other male housemate.
He said the housemate told him he could crash in the garage as he was “in between leases for a few days” without bothering to inform the rest of us.
Despite this jerk move by my roommate, I offered to let the guy sleep on my living room couch instead of some sketchy mattress in the crummy garage.
A few days turned into a few weeks/months. I, the administrator of our utilities and rent payments, demanded that he chip in at this point.
He agreed, but I was moving out soon because I finished a term early. The couch and WiFi router were mine, and I was leaving them behind to pick them up at the end of the year as a favor for my housemates.
After I left, he shorted me a few hundred dollars (a large sum for a broke college kid). Another housemate had to pay for this guest because I was about to reclaim my couch and router if I didn’t get my money.
A year later, the guest dared to text me to ask if he could “take me out” the next time I came into town. Like, seriously? Yuck!
ElysianReverie21
34. Hack Went Wrong
A friend came over and has a known foot odor problem. I've known this friend for more than 20 years. Every time he comes over, I tell him to take his boots off outside and leave them on the porch instead of taking them off inside and leaving them by the door.
I just got a new deep freezer, the big chest kind with a flip-up lid, and he took his boots off and put them in my brand-new empty freezer.
Apparently, he did this because he saw a post about how foot odor is caused by bacteria and that if you freeze your shoes, it will kill all the bacteria, thus eliminating your foot odor problem.
I opened my freezer and nearly died from the smell. The best part was he took his boots out, and for about 3 minutes, they didn't smell that bad anymore, so he was ecstatic...but not for long.
As everyone knows, you pour a cold drink, and condensation runs down the side of your glass within minutes. Well, his boots were super cold, and after about 3 or 4 minutes, water vapor started condensing all over his boots.
They were SOAKING wet inside and out and stunk even worse. He ended up throwing them away that day. He faced the consequences.
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35. Indoor Boy
My parents hosted a guy from another state who played on the same sports team as my brother for a year (but the dude was the same age as me).
He basically stayed in his room the whole time he wasn't at school or practicing for the sport. And the door was always closed to the point where he wouldn't let anyone in to clean (even vacuuming) the entire year.
An important point: this dude had allergies (we didn't have pets or even use scented candles that would cause allergies) to the point where he was always sniffing and then hawking loogies.
My family thought he was using tissues for that while in his room. Nope. Giant loogy pile, among other...fluids, all over the carpet and walls. The room had to be professionally cleaned after he left because of how gross it was.
Early in the year, he was over. A picture of myself and a friend was missing from my room. I thought the friend had taken it the last time she was over because it was a cute picture of us.
It was also found in a drawer in the room. Also covered in those same other fluids. It grosses me out to even think about it.
nannerdooodle
36. Own Standards
I was living in a teeny tiny 9m squared student apartment, and my best friend was transferring to my university. Still, there was a week difference between when classes started and when his student apartment would be available.
I invited him to stay with me on a roll-out mattress on my floor for the week. Little did I know it would be the beginning of the end of our friendship. He showed his appreciation by buying me a week's worth of groceries.
Still, it was in this really condescending way, making lots of comments about how he needed better food than what I had. Hmm, ok. I know I wasn't really prioritizing health and fitness at the time, so whatever.
Then he started going around and finding things that weren't clean enough, like dust and whatnot, behind the toilet and would ask me pointedly if I was going to clean that.
He said, "If I'm going to be here for a week, it needs to be to my standards."
I didn't have a kitchen sink in my unit, so I'd use my bathroom sink to collect a few dishes.
I’m doing it before either bringing them over to the communal kitchen to wash or if it was just the odd fork or spoon, I'd leave them there and give them a wash in the bathroom sink when I needed them later that day (since I basically had only 1 or 2 of each type of dish/utensil).
He picked up a fork that I'd just put there, held it in front of my face, and asked me if I was going to wash it immediately. By that point, I was like, "Nope." He let out a big sigh and washed it. One fork.
Anyways, I was very excited for him to get out and move into his own room after a week of that crap. I was not going to ever extend that offer to him again.
go-with-the-flo
37. White Flag
I had a friend who needed help to stay with me. He was going to pay rent while he looked for a place of his own. It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement.
I had to kick him out after just over a month. I charged him less than half of the rent - and he was responsible for his own food. I would take care of utilities.
Well, in that five-week span, he had destroyed his room. Stained the carpet, had scuff marks on the walls, and had cigarette burns (when he wasn't supposed to smoke inside).
I found his crap everywhere, like a pile of coins under the couch. I didn't go into his room for the first four weeks, but then this foul smell started coming from there.
Oh my god. I wish I had a camera at the time to take a picture. I cleaned out three bags of just garbage. Coffee cups, cigarette butts, and just trash that was piled up on the floor. You couldn't even see the carpet.
The worst was the food. I had four packs of bread in the freezer, which would have lasted me about three months. He ate TWO of them in a week.
Just shoved bread into his mouth like potato chips. Just plain bread. It was gross. When I asked him to leave, I swore I would never let anyone stay with me for more than a few days.
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38. Dirty Sink
I was having a house party years ago. A pair of girls went into the bathroom together. Not uncommon. Well, one of them decided to take a piss in my sink and accidentally dropped a loaf.
They come out laughing and telling everyone someone must have pooped in my sink. I was literally the last person in that bathroom before them.
I even watched them walk in. And I don't remember dumping in my own sink. After confronting them, they got pissed off and left. Didn't even bother cleaning the turd out of my sink.
shitterplug
39. Crashing House
We(family and I) were going on a trip, and we told a family friend he could crash at our house while we were gone, but he would have to take care of things and pay for his own food and such.
Halfway through our trip, we got a call from the police.
Apparently, he threw a huge party that trashed the house, then proceeded to take one of our cars and drive it through the front of the house.
That led to the totaling of the car and the collapse of most of the front wall. This was last week. We had to cut our trip short and come home to deal with this. We are currently pressing charges.
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40. Busted Thief
A kid from down the street was around my house when I was young. We were messing about in my room. He saw my Digimon cards and started going through them. We then went outside to play.
While kicking a ball about on my drive, a load of Digimon cards fell out of his pocket. I went over to look at them. Of course, they were mine.
I looked at him. His face was red, obviously embarrassed. I calmly picked up all the cards, without a word & took them inside my house.
I went back out to play, and it was like nothing ever happened. Thinking back on it now, WHO THE HECK STEALS DIGIMON CARDS! THEY WEREN'T EVEN POPULAR!
PIG_HEART_BOY
41. Bow For The Queen
I had a really spoiled princess-type friend who always expected me to cater to her when she would come to visit (I didn't really want her to visit, but she'd just announce she was coming, and I dealt with it).
One morning, she texted me to wake me up, saying, "Can you please get up and make me breakfast?" And I was like, Wow? What am I to her? Lol.
I wish I could say that was the last straw, but it wasn't until she pitched a fit that I didn't make her a bridesmaid and boycotted my wedding that I finally called it quits.
ColorMeStunned
42. Got You, Witch
I had a party when I was about 15. I had more jelly and ice cream than shots, and we went wild as we were fairly sheltered. Somebody brought along their friend, who looked a similar age to us (quite short), but he was actually 23 at the time.
He brought along a bottle of vodka and proceeded to drink 3/4 of it within a couple of hours. We're talking 7pm here. Nobody else at the party was drinking at all, just chilling and playing MTG.
He proceeded to ignore the two different bathrooms. He entered the kitchen, where my parents tried to avoid cramping my style. He vomited into the kitchen sink all over the plates and then left without saying anything or helping to clear up.
The following day, he went on Facebook. He made a number of very cruel personal comments about me. Then, when I rang him in tears to tell him to take it down and that he should apologize for the mess he'd made of the kitchen (which I'd had to clean up).
He recorded the conversation, uploaded it to youtube, and then made great efforts to distribute it on Reddit and across Facebook.
No idea why his embarrassment at being a drunk evolved into being a bully, but it's been 10 years, and I still avoid him if I bump into him in the street. Psycho creep.
honeydot
43. New Soup
I had a rager of a party a few years back, and some dude decided to make a "soup" in my bathtub. He was very inclusive in his approach and allowed anyone to add their own "ingredients."
Still, he was the chef and protected it all night. I didn't find out until the early morning because I was busy being off my mind and all that.
Included in the soup were vomit, blood, some protection (not used), a ton of water, spirits, and beer - some noodles, pasta, cereal, milk, and a fish. There was a ton of other stuff too, but that is what I remember.
ChiefBigwilly
44. Hidden Treasure
I once had a party at my mum's flat while she was gone (with her permission). One of my less close friends begged me to let her invite her boyfriend, and I agreed.
Well, the boyfriend puked on my mum's balcony and never told anyone. It was also January, so we discovered the puke two months later when it started to melt.
I asked around and was told it was him by two people who saw him puke. I have no idea why they didn't let me know then. It was disgusting.
ilieksnow
45. Recurring Guest
I had a houseguest every two weeks who stayed the whole weekend. He did not one but many little annoying things every time. First of all, he left a huge mess.
Since this was a recurring thing, he was supposed to make his bed on the couch (he was too lazy to set up the futon), so he was aware of the conditions of his stay.
One day, I had to clean up the bed (he used a sleeping bag, didn't pack it, and tore down the coating of the couch, which he didn't set up properly again).
I also had to throw away his garbage (soda bottles, snack wrappings, a band-aid (eww)) right after he "had to rush to the train which was about to leave" after laying there an hour awake.
He took a spectacle case of mine and an umbrella, which he never brought back nor acknowledged he had taken in the first place.
He would also always use everything up (I have long hair, and somehow he manages to empty my shampoo bottle 4 times faster than me, same with toothpaste; of course, he never brought his own), especially food/drinks.
We bought a 1-liter bottle of cola for 3 people. Everyone gets a glass for dinner, and he takes a 0.5-liter glass for his "portion."
The most annoying thing was how he would just enter my room after (sometimes) knocking and me saying, "Don't come in," to use my computer to "look at when the train leaves."
Every time I got up to see what he was doing, he really quickly closed something and sat in front of the desktop doing nothing. One time, I saw that he had gone through my private files. Unbelievable.
frerky5