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<p>The rules of being a house guest are relatively simple: clean up after yourself, say please and thank you, and don&#39;t touch anyone&#39;s things without explicit permission. Of course, there are a myriad of more nuanced social mores to take into consideration when you&#39;re a guest, most of which require emotional intelligence. But when it comes to the basics, it&#39;s not that hard to be considerate in someone else&#39;s home.</p><p>Sadly, however, there are plenty of people roaming the world acting deeply inconsiderate in other people&#39;s homes. Some people are so rude they manage to tear apart relationships with their antics, and while it&#39;s sad for the people they alienate, it can make for a juicy story.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dvjfae/what_was_the_rudest_thing_a_visitor_did_in_your/" target="_blank">a recent Reddit thread</a>, people shared the rudest behavior they&#39;ve encountered from house guests, and it&#39;ll make you want to lock up your home and heart forever.</h2><h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wefedfd/">wefedfd</a> hosted a real piece of work.</h2><blockquote> <p>A guy we didn&#39;t know very well, a friend of a friend, came over to our house for dinner one night. He got quite drunk, despite not knowing him very well we offered that he stay the night at our place instead of driving home drunk. He refused, drove drunk and crashed his car. Then he tried to sue us for letting him drive home drunk. The guy was an a*shole.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ductoid/">ductoid</a> had their food ruined by placenta.</h2><blockquote> <p>Came to visit for a few days with her infant and placenta. The placenta was wrapped in butcher paper, but nothing waterproof and was half thawed from a long car drive. She put it in my freezer where it oozed all over my food.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Eyeletblack/">Eyeletblack</a> had to draw a line eventually.</h2><blockquote> <p>My son&rsquo;s girlfriend was having family problems and temporality lived with us. Son/GF were 17 at the time. She had no house manners whatsoever.. she&rsquo;d cook herself meals and leave food and dishes everywhere, expecting us to clean after her. Leave her dirty clothes and stuff all over the house. She once borrowed my car without asking. Got so tired of it we asked her to leave.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dummyplant/">dummyplant</a> almost got arsoned.</h2><blockquote> <p>My 3rd grade &quot;friend&quot; tried to set my shower curtains on fire for no reason.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/KatrinaGazette/">KatrinaGazette</a> will never forget strawberry boy.</h2><blockquote> <p>This kids who was a friend at the time came over for a birthday party. We were around 13 and he ate a strawberry, except the top of it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Then he SMUSHED it into our white carpet and left it there. We were watching, like he just did it like it was a normal act.</p> <p>My parents still call him strawberry boy.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/UhhYawn/">UhhYawn</a> had a guest who used their floor as a cutting board.</h2><blockquote> <p>I don&#39;t remember who the guy was because it happened when I was a kid but there was this guy who was in his early 20s, he was in the kitchen with one of the kitchen knifes and just throwing it into the floor so it would get stuck and pulling it out and doing it again.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hellbillysweetness/">hellbillysweetness</a>&#39;s guest smeared poop all over.</h2><blockquote> <p>Got so drunk they shit themself on my couch and kept rootching around and smearing it we never noticed till he got up to leave.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Aceofkings9/">Aceofkings9</a> had their Pokemon life destroyed.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was 12, a family friend grabbed my DS and deleted the save of one of my Pokemon games.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Thedaythemusicdied37/">Thedaythemusicdied37</a>&#39;s mom communicates through action.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom used to reorganize my kitchen cabinets whenever she would visit because she disagreed with my organizational system.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PianoManGidley/">PianoManGidley</a> was not pleased with the disappearing booze.</h2><blockquote> <p>Drank all of my booze without asking my permission. These were guests of my roommates, and I was already asleep at the time because I basically had 14-hour days for a job I hated at the time (10 hour shift + 2 hour commute each way), and was still broke as shit. That booze was MINE, and those f*ckers drank it all like they owned the goddamn place. Never even offered to replace it, either.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jacksonliz7991/">jacksonliz7991</a> had a guest with no sense of hygiene.</h2><blockquote> <p>Lived in a house with 2 people at uni a couple of years ago (didn&#39;t know them before I moved in with them). One of them invited 2 of her friends to come and stay with us. Went to go and use our shared bathroom and there were about 3 used sanitary pads casually left open draped on our sink, despite the fact that we had a bin in the bathroom for them. Cleaned it up once and went back in the next morning and there were more. Never been so disgusted in my life.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CurtainClothes/">CurtainClothes</a>&#39;s college guest stole toiletries.</h2><blockquote> <p>Let a dude from college crash on my couch while he was in town for a dance thing. He took off with my spare toothpaste! I don&#39;t know why or how but he took the spares of toothpaste and deodorant we kept under the sink. Guess he needed them...</p> </blockquote><h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ladyughsalot1/">Ladyughsalot1</a>&#39;s mother-in-law is great at finding the dirty room.</h2><blockquote> <p>My MIL likes to volunteer to show new guests around during big events like birthdays or Christmas.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And without fail she will find the worst part of my home, usually whatever room has a closed door that&rsquo;s out of the way, and will make them stand in there and have a conversation. You know; the bedroom that&rsquo;s a mess because you threw everything in it. The <em>back room of the basement past the laundry room</em> used for disorganized storage.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It only took 8 years for my husband to catch on that yeah, it happens every time.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s not the worst she&rsquo;s done but it is the most head-scratchingly petty.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Star_glow/">Star_glow</a> has housesitters from hell.</h2><blockquote> <p>They were housesitting for my family while we were out of town. We let them stay at our house and sleep in my parents&#39; room.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When we returned home, our house was a disaster. The kitchen was filthy, and their daughter&#39;s toys were scattered all over the house. One of their few tasks was to water our plants. They were all dead when we came home.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Worst of all, they were told not to come into my room, where I have a valuable collection of old toys. Of course, they let their daughter into my room and play with them. Some stuff was damaged.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>That was the last time we let them watch the house. Next time we went out of town a good friend of mine was given the job instead. She did a much better job.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ElvenDeGeneres/">ElvenDeGeneres</a> cut off their friend&#39;s girlfriend immediately.</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend of mine brought his trashy girlfriend over and she pulls out a weed pipe and takes a hit and then turns the pipe over and smacks the ash out onto my new white carpet. I asked them both to leave and never saw her again.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fghth6/">fghth6</a> learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished.</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend of my dad lost his house, and we had a former B&amp;B so we invited them to stay with us. We housed and fed them for weeks while the found another place. For that, we got roaches, criticisms of our food (my dad was the executive chef at a freaking country club and was a damned fine cook), but that wasn&#39;t the worst for me, then in my late teens.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The day they left, I went to play my favorite game on PlayStation: Sled Storm. Couldn&#39;t find it. Over turned freaking everything, but I couldn&#39;t find it. In searching, I noticed something even worse. My SNES, all games, and half my N64 games were missing in addition to Sled Storm. They had stayed with us as a favor and stolen half my shit that I had paid for with birthday money saved up over years. Fuck those people</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/queenjany/">queenjany</a>&#39;s mom had to kick out their grandpa&#39;s cousin.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandfather&#39;s cousin was staying with us a for a week; he has a bladder problem and would refuse to wear adult diapers! What followed was him leaving a trail of pee (sometimes poo), when he walked around the house... didn&#39;t take too long for my mother to ask his son to take him back home.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Walk-with-a-cane/">Walk-with-a-cane</a>&#39;s brother&#39;s girlfriend threw their wreath down the hallway.</h2><blockquote> <p>My brother&#39;s girlfriend had made a xmas wreath for my home. When she arrived she took the wreath I had on my door and threw it down the hallway and put one up that she had made (which was seriously ugly by the way) My jaw dropped I seriously could not believe she threw MY wreath down the hallway right in front of me! The following day I threw HER wreath in the garbage.</p> </blockquote><h2>19. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Boardallday/">Boardallday</a>&#39;s old friend peed in the litter box.</h2><blockquote> <p>Pissed in my cats litter box at a party we had. Turned the whole box into one solid chunk. It was a friend of mine actually. He was really drunk but I&#39;m sure he did it on purpose. Didn&#39;t notice either until our cats pooped or peed elsewhere in the house. We&#39;re not friends anymore.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sarcastic_Kitsune/">Sarcastic_Kitsune</a> was told to breastfeed in another room in their own home.</h2><blockquote> <p>Dude insisted I go into the other room to breastfeed my baby...in my own house.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the rudest things guests have done in their home.

The rules of being a house guest are relatively simple: clean up after yourself, say please and thank you, and don&#39;t touch anyone&#39;s things without explicit permission. Of course, there are a myriad of more nuanced social mores to take into consideration when you&#39;re a guest, most of which require emotional intelligence. But when it comes to the basics, it&#39;s not that hard to be considerate in someone else&#39;s home.Sadly, however, there are plenty of people roaming the world acting deeply inconsiderate in other people&#39;s homes. Some people are so rude they manage to tear apart relationships with their antics, and while it&#39;s sad for the people they alienate, it can make for a juicy story.In a recent Reddit thread, people shared the rudest behavior they&#39;ve encountered from house guests, and it&#39;ll make you want to lock up your home and heart forever.1. wefedfd hosted a real piece of work. A guy we didn&#39;t know very well, a friend of a friend, came over to our house for dinner one night. He got quite drunk, despite not knowing him very well we offered that he stay the night at our place instead of driving home drunk. He refused, drove drunk and crashed his car. Then he tried to sue us for letting him drive home drunk. The guy was an a*shole. 2. ductoid had their food ruined by placenta. Came to visit for a few days with her infant and placenta. The placenta was wrapped in butcher paper, but nothing waterproof and was half thawed from a long car drive. She put it in my freezer where it oozed all over my food. 3. Eyeletblack had to draw a line eventually. My son&rsquo;s girlfriend was having family problems and temporality lived with us. Son/GF were 17 at the time. She had no house manners whatsoever.. she&rsquo;d cook herself meals and leave food and dishes everywhere, expecting us to clean after her. Leave her dirty clothes and stuff all over the house. She once borrowed my car without asking. Got so tired of it we asked her to leave. 4. dummyplant almost got arsoned. My 3rd grade &quot;friend&quot; tried to set my shower curtains on fire for no reason. 5. KatrinaGazette will never forget strawberry boy. This kids who was a friend at the time came over for a birthday party. We were around 13 and he ate a strawberry, except the top of it.  Then he SMUSHED it into our white carpet and left it there. We were watching, like he just did it like it was a normal act. My parents still call him strawberry boy. 6. UhhYawn had a guest who used their floor as a cutting board. I don&#39;t remember who the guy was because it happened when I was a kid but there was this guy who was in his early 20s, he was in the kitchen with one of the kitchen knifes and just throwing it into the floor so it would get stuck and pulling it out and doing it again. 7. hellbillysweetness&#39;s guest smeared poop all over. Got so drunk they shit themself on my couch and kept rootching around and smearing it we never noticed till he got up to leave. 8. Aceofkings9 had their Pokemon life destroyed. When I was 12, a family friend grabbed my DS and deleted the save of one of my Pokemon games. 9. Thedaythemusicdied37&#39;s mom communicates through action. My mom used to reorganize my kitchen cabinets whenever she would visit because she disagreed with my organizational system. 10. PianoManGidley was not pleased with the disappearing booze. Drank all of my booze without asking my permission. These were guests of my roommates, and I was already asleep at the time because I basically had 14-hour days for a job I hated at the time (10 hour shift + 2 hour commute each way), and was still broke as shit. That booze was MINE, and those f*ckers drank it all like they owned the goddamn place. Never even offered to replace it, either. 11. jacksonliz7991 had a guest with no sense of hygiene. Lived in a house with 2 people at uni a couple of years ago (didn&#39;t know them before I moved in with them). One of them invited 2 of her friends to come and stay with us. Went to go and use our shared bathroom and there were about 3 used sanitary pads casually left open draped on our sink, despite the fact that we had a bin in the bathroom for them. Cleaned it up once and went back in the next morning and there were more. Never been so disgusted in my life. 12. CurtainClothes&#39;s college guest stole toiletries. Let a dude from college crash on my couch while he was in town for a dance thing. He took off with my spare toothpaste! I don&#39;t know why or how but he took the spares of toothpaste and deodorant we kept under the sink. Guess he needed them... 13. Ladyughsalot1&#39;s mother-in-law is great at finding the dirty room. My MIL likes to volunteer to show new guests around during big events like birthdays or Christmas.  And without fail she will find the worst part of my home, usually whatever room has a closed door that&rsquo;s out of the way, and will make them stand in there and have a conversation. You know; the bedroom that&rsquo;s a mess because you threw everything in it. The back room of the basement past the laundry room used for disorganized storage.  It only took 8 years for my husband to catch on that yeah, it happens every time. It&rsquo;s not the worst she&rsquo;s done but it is the most head-scratchingly petty. 14. Star_glow has housesitters from hell. They were housesitting for my family while we were out of town. We let them stay at our house and sleep in my parents&#39; room.  When we returned home, our house was a disaster. The kitchen was filthy, and their daughter&#39;s toys were scattered all over the house. One of their few tasks was to water our plants. They were all dead when we came home.  Worst of all, they were told not to come into my room, where I have a valuable collection of old toys. Of course, they let their daughter into my room and play with them. Some stuff was damaged.  That was the last time we let them watch the house. Next time we went out of town a good friend of mine was given the job instead. She did a much better job. 15. ElvenDeGeneres cut off their friend&#39;s girlfriend immediately. A friend of mine brought his trashy girlfriend over and she pulls out a weed pipe and takes a hit and then turns the pipe over and smacks the ash out onto my new white carpet. I asked them both to leave and never saw her again. 16. fghth6 learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. A friend of my dad lost his house, and we had a former B&amp;B so we invited them to stay with us. We housed and fed them for weeks while the found another place. For that, we got roaches, criticisms of our food (my dad was the executive chef at a freaking country club and was a damned fine cook), but that wasn&#39;t the worst for me, then in my late teens.  The day they left, I went to play my favorite game on PlayStation: Sled Storm. Couldn&#39;t find it. Over turned freaking everything, but I couldn&#39;t find it. In searching, I noticed something even worse. My SNES, all games, and half my N64 games were missing in addition to Sled Storm. They had stayed with us as a favor and stolen half my shit that I had paid for with birthday money saved up over years. Fuck those people 17. queenjany&#39;s mom had to kick out their grandpa&#39;s cousin. My grandfather&#39;s cousin was staying with us a for a week; he has a bladder problem and would refuse to wear adult diapers! What followed was him leaving a trail of pee (sometimes poo), when he walked around the house... didn&#39;t take too long for my mother to ask his son to take him back home. 18. Walk-with-a-cane&#39;s brother&#39;s girlfriend threw their wreath down the hallway. My brother&#39;s girlfriend had made a xmas wreath for my home. When she arrived she took the wreath I had on my door and threw it down the hallway and put one up that she had made (which was seriously ugly by the way) My jaw dropped I seriously could not believe she threw MY wreath down the hallway right in front of me! The following day I threw HER wreath in the garbage. 19. Boardallday&#39;s old friend peed in the litter box. Pissed in my cats litter box at a party we had. Turned the whole box into one solid chunk. It was a friend of mine actually. He was really drunk but I&#39;m sure he did it on purpose. Didn&#39;t notice either until our cats pooped or peed elsewhere in the house. We&#39;re not friends anymore. 20. Sarcastic_Kitsune was told to breastfeed in another room in their own home. Dude insisted I go into the other room to breastfeed my baby...in my own house. 