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<h2>Hosting guests in your home can be slippery slope when you open up your doors to someone who doesn&#39;t know when it&#39;s time to go home...</h2><p>Once everyone is collecting plates, doing the dishes, cleaning up and watching the last group trickle out, it&#39;s hard to know when to tell the one person who is still sipping their beer on your couch with their feet on your coffee table that the party is over.</p><p>&quot;Sorry, but would you mind asking before you eat all the food I prepared for myself for the work week?&quot; &quot;Can you bring your own toothbrush instead of helping yourself to ours?&quot; Is it unreasonable to asks guests to take their shoes off before they let their kids in muddy boots continue to jump all over your bed?</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sbx6lz/what_was_the_worst_thing_your_guest_did_when_they/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What was the worst thing your guest did when they took &#39;Make yourself at home&#39; very literally?&quot; people were ready to share stories about guests who couldn&#39;t take a hint.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Started a kitchen fire by cooking spaghetti in cake pans without water. - tdefreest</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>My husband&rsquo;s old friend stayed with us for two weeks while we were living in Japan. He was very smug and irritating; an instant &lsquo;expert&rsquo; on Japan after a few days, when we had been living there for two years.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Finally, finally he left on a Friday. My husband and I had separate plans on Saturday. I returned in the afternoon to an unlocked door and the sound of the TV. I thought hubby had returned early.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Nope. It was Old Friend - thinking we had gone for the weekend, he had broken into our apartment for an extra two-night stay. &ldquo;You weren&rsquo;t supposed to be here!&rdquo; he protested - and he refused to leave until my husband came back home and told Old Pal personally that he had overstayed his welcome. - Charismaticjelly</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Rearranged my kitchen. That b*tch. - makin_the_frogs_gray</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>My ex-husband had a less than savory friend. He walked into my home once, helped himself to my fridge without asking and then when he got himself some silverware, had the audacity to insult it and say it looked like something a grandmother would have. Well yes, yes it does, since it&#39;s hers and she gave it to me.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Another time he went to my MIL&#39;s house when we told him we didn&#39;t want to hang out. We weren&#39;t even home yet! He came in, say down, ordered a pizza that he refused to share with my MIL or BIL, and just sat there watching TV for two hours until we got back from whatever we were doing. He was a grade A as*hole. F*cking hate you, Craig. - pinner</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>My relative stayed with my grandma and proceeded to burn the house to the ground by deciding to have a bonfire 3 feet from the side of the house. - lolppjoke</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Dinner guest asked to stay overnight because of the snow (which wasn&rsquo;t forecasted until much later that night). Spouse and I agreed as we didn&rsquo;t have work the next day. But guest did - and at 7:30 in the morning he was freaking out because we hadn&rsquo;t shoveled the driveway for him yet. &ldquo;How am I supposed to get to work on time?!&rdquo; - user256049</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>The $900 phone sex bill. It was the early 90&#39;s and the bill came on paper and was about 100 pages. - MakesCakesEatsMud</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>My wife 3 days ago.</p> <p>Tasked with feeding her friends cat while they&#39;re away for a week.</p> <p>They said help yourself to whatever you like.</p> <p>She came home with their waffle maker. - Mashy6012</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>I let a friend &amp; her dog stay @ my house over the weekend while I was away. She left my kitchen a disaster, the back door unlocked, &amp; best of all&mdash;-FLEAS. I had asked her directly if her dog was on flea prevention &amp; she assured me it was. After I was swarmed with fleas in my living room, I questioned her again &amp; she admitted that the &ldquo;flea prevention&rdquo; she was giving the dog were yeast &amp; garlic tablets. She made no offer to help me treat the house or reimburse me. She was not invited back. - Pete_Davis</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Came home, sitting in his boxers on my kitchen counter washing his feet and trimming toenails in my sink has got to take the cake. - Spamh8r</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had guests turn the pool heater on in February and not turn it off or tell me it was on. I noticed steam coming off the pool a week later and it was 90*F. The bill was just under $1000. - Fickle-Willingness80</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>He literally took his freaking socks off and put them on the dining table. Dude... what? - soleildelalune_</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Caught a friend of a friend m*sturbating into my kitchen sink at 2 am - EndlesslyUnfinished</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>An in-law took about a 28 minute shower after I explained we were in the middle of a draught and that our well was dangerously low. I&rsquo;m assuming it was going to be a 30 minute shower but we ran out of water. - bandi53</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mother&#39;s friend and her children went on a vacation with us. We were sitting in the common area of the place we were staying at and started chatting to some strangers there. The friend&#39;s kid got up, walked to the coffee table, and just opened the strangers bag of chips and started eating. Kid never asked first. Now, kids are stupid, he was 14 but still a kid. The issue was that his mother did absolutely f*cking nothing. She watched him get up. Watched him open it. And watched him start eating. One of the strangers just paused for a second, &quot;uhh. sure.. feel free to eat some.&quot; - Spencer2091</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Ate all my Ferrero Rocher chocolates that I got for Christmas. It was like 25 of them. She was staying with us over the holiday because she couldn&rsquo;t stay in the dorm and didn&rsquo;t want/ couldn&rsquo;t go home. I came home from work and the whole thing was gone. I ate 1. - austinmiles</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>My brother&#39;s best friend came to live with us for &quot;a few months&quot; because he wanted to move back to our state. My parents agreed because he was supposed to go to college and they believe college education is important. Well 8 years later and he is still there, all my parent&#39;s children have moved out but for some reason my brother&#39;s best friend is still living there. - xyz388</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share stories of entitled guests who took 'make yourself at home' literally.

Hosting guests in your home can be slippery slope when you open up your doors to someone who doesn&#39;t know when it&#39;s time to go home...Once everyone is collecting plates, doing the dishes, cleaning up and watching the last group trickle out, it&#39;s hard to know when to tell the one person who is still sipping their beer on your couch with their feet on your coffee table that the party is over.&quot;Sorry, but would you mind asking before you eat all the food I prepared for myself for the work week?&quot; &quot;Can you bring your own toothbrush instead of helping yourself to ours?&quot; Is it unreasonable to asks guests to take their shoes off before they let their kids in muddy boots continue to jump all over your bed?So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What was the worst thing your guest did when they took &#39;Make yourself at home&#39; very literally?&quot; people were ready to share stories about guests who couldn&#39;t take a hint.1. Started a kitchen fire by cooking spaghetti in cake pans without water. - tdefreest 2. My husband&rsquo;s old friend stayed with us for two weeks while we were living in Japan. He was very smug and irritating; an instant &lsquo;expert&rsquo; on Japan after a few days, when we had been living there for two years.   Finally, finally he left on a Friday. My husband and I had separate plans on Saturday. I returned in the afternoon to an unlocked door and the sound of the TV. I thought hubby had returned early.   Nope. It was Old Friend - thinking we had gone for the weekend, he had broken into our apartment for an extra two-night stay. &ldquo;You weren&rsquo;t supposed to be here!&rdquo; he protested - and he refused to leave until my husband came back home and told Old Pal personally that he had overstayed his welcome. - Charismaticjelly 3. Rearranged my kitchen. That b*tch. - makin_the_frogs_gray 4. My ex-husband had a less than savory friend. He walked into my home once, helped himself to my fridge without asking and then when he got himself some silverware, had the audacity to insult it and say it looked like something a grandmother would have. Well yes, yes it does, since it&#39;s hers and she gave it to me.  Another time he went to my MIL&#39;s house when we told him we didn&#39;t want to hang out. We weren&#39;t even home yet! He came in, say down, ordered a pizza that he refused to share with my MIL or BIL, and just sat there watching TV for two hours until we got back from whatever we were doing. He was a grade A as*hole. F*cking hate you, Craig. - pinner 5. My relative stayed with my grandma and proceeded to burn the house to the ground by deciding to have a bonfire 3 feet from the side of the house. - lolppjoke 6. Dinner guest asked to stay overnight because of the snow (which wasn&rsquo;t forecasted until much later that night). Spouse and I agreed as we didn&rsquo;t have work the next day. But guest did - and at 7:30 in the morning he was freaking out because we hadn&rsquo;t shoveled the driveway for him yet. &ldquo;How am I supposed to get to work on time?!&rdquo; - user256049 7. The $900 phone sex bill. It was the early 90&#39;s and the bill came on paper and was about 100 pages. - MakesCakesEatsMud 8. My wife 3 days ago. Tasked with feeding her friends cat while they&#39;re away for a week. They said help yourself to whatever you like. She came home with their waffle maker. - Mashy6012 9. I let a friend &amp; her dog stay @ my house over the weekend while I was away. She left my kitchen a disaster, the back door unlocked, &amp; best of all&mdash;-FLEAS. I had asked her directly if her dog was on flea prevention &amp; she assured me it was. After I was swarmed with fleas in my living room, I questioned her again &amp; she admitted that the &ldquo;flea prevention&rdquo; she was giving the dog were yeast &amp; garlic tablets. She made no offer to help me treat the house or reimburse me. She was not invited back. - Pete_Davis 10. Came home, sitting in his boxers on my kitchen counter washing his feet and trimming toenails in my sink has got to take the cake. - Spamh8r 11. I had guests turn the pool heater on in February and not turn it off or tell me it was on. I noticed steam coming off the pool a week later and it was 90*F. The bill was just under $1000. - Fickle-Willingness80 12. He literally took his freaking socks off and put them on the dining table. Dude... what? - soleildelalune_ 13. Caught a friend of a friend m*sturbating into my kitchen sink at 2 am - EndlesslyUnfinished 14. An in-law took about a 28 minute shower after I explained we were in the middle of a draught and that our well was dangerously low. I&rsquo;m assuming it was going to be a 30 minute shower but we ran out of water. - bandi53 15. My mother&#39;s friend and her children went on a vacation with us. We were sitting in the common area of the place we were staying at and started chatting to some strangers there. The friend&#39;s kid got up, walked to the coffee table, and just opened the strangers bag of chips and started eating. Kid never asked first. Now, kids are stupid, he was 14 but still a kid. The issue was that his mother did absolutely f*cking nothing. She watched him get up. Watched him open it. And watched him start eating. One of the strangers just paused for a second, &quot;uhh. sure.. feel free to eat some.&quot; - Spencer2091 16. Ate all my Ferrero Rocher chocolates that I got for Christmas. It was like 25 of them. She was staying with us over the holiday because she couldn&rsquo;t stay in the dorm and didn&rsquo;t want/ couldn&rsquo;t go home. I came home from work and the whole thing was gone. I ate 1. - austinmiles 17. My brother&#39;s best friend came to live with us for &quot;a few months&quot; because he wanted to move back to our state. My parents agreed because he was supposed to go to college and they believe college education is important. Well 8 years later and he is still there, all my parent&#39;s children have moved out but for some reason my brother&#39;s best friend is still living there. - xyz388 

Hosting guests in your home can be slippery slope when you open up your doors to someone who doesn&#39;t know when it&#39;s time to go home...  Once everyone is collecting plates, doing the dishes, cleaning up and watching the last group...