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Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas

When you enter someone else's home, it's their turf. Their rules. Sadly, not everyone understands that. Some guests act like they own your place. In fact, they might act like they own every place. In a survey about houseguests by Joybird, 37% of respondents said they've had a bad guest at least once.

After reading some of the entries on this list, you might be put off inviting people over for a long time. These stories come from a thread where one person asked, "What's the rudest thing a guest in your home has done?" So scroll away and find the weirdest and most disturbing cases where people of all ages seemed to forget what good manners were.

#1

Three people sitting at a table holding mugs, sharing stories about rude guests and bad guest behavior. Male friend asked that my partner and I take ourselves and our <12 month old daughter to a motel for a night whilst he uses our house to try his luck with one of our female friends we invited over for a game night.

InSight89 , RDNE Stock project / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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    #2

    Brown envelope with white label partially covering a white envelope, placed on a wooden surface representing rude guest behavior. Stole money from our engagement cards, at our house, during our engagement party.

    f1owers , Mediamodifier / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

    #3

    Woman in a teal sweater laughing while holding a colorful mug, illustrating rude things guests have done at homes. Let their child punch our brand new TV and laughed as he did it as if it was cute.

    anon , Renan Braz / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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    #4

    Woman wearing a sleep mask lying in bed at night, illustrating rude guest behavior shared by people online. Tried to crawl into bed with me while I was asleep with my husband next to me in bed.
    Creepy and rude.

    KikiParker88 , Polina Kovaleva / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

    #5

    Small brown dog on a leash standing next to a person's legs on a wooden floor, illustrating rude guest behavior. Let her dog, who was on a leash, pee on me and continue talking to finish her thought before taking him outside. She also didn’t help clean it up.

    faerie03 , Eray Karataş / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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    #6

    Person wearing dark clothing and rings, holding a shot glass at a bar illustrating rude guest behavior stories. Drank half of the $200 bottle of tequila I got my wife for her birthday. She filled it up with water so we wouldn’t notice though...

    naigung , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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    #7

    Curly brown dog sitting on a soft blanket, illustrating guests and rude behavior in home settings. Picked up my very small poodle, held her on her back with two hands over a 10 ft balcony. If my dog would’ve even wiggled, she would’ve fallen to her death.

    kweenbreen , insung yoon / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

    #8

    Young woman in red beret and sweater sitting at table, looking bored, illustrating rude guest behavior shared by people. She acted like an entitled restaurant patron, in my home.

    She spent the night because her divorce was uncomfortable and contentious. She didn’t want to go home to her husband’s house, and didn’t have any family in this country. So she was couch surfing.

    My selection of tea wasn’t big enough, and the grape jelly I had wasn’t as nice as an assortment of jams. She ate the pancakes despite them not being her favorite, and was really surprised I didn’t have a waffle iron. She didn’t complain about the breakfast sausage, and I did the eggs for her, my husband and me as we each wanted them anyway. Then she raided our pantry for snacks to take with her before she left.

    She wasn’t couch surfing... she was wearing out her welcome very quickly at every friend’s house she went to. She was a nightmare when we helped her move to a sketchy apartment, and then again to a less sketchy place . She was just all take and no give in general, and stopped reaching out when my husband and I stopped giving.

    ohitsberry , Duygu Güngör / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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    #9

    Young man gesturing and talking on a couch, illustrating guests sharing the rudest things done by others. I had a friend who used to jump onto furniture like lawn chairs and stuff. He claimed it wouldn't break it, but sometimes he did break stuff and he just complained it's not his fault but that the furniture was too fragile.

    darth_hotdog , Kindel Media / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

    #10

    Hand holding rolled twenty dollar bill outdoors, illustrating rude behavior by guests in shared experiences. Stole $70, shot [illegal substances] in my bathroom, dropped lit cigarettes on my carpet; tried to justify it by saying they cleaned my sink.

    xandriaaa , Vitaly Taranov / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

    #11

    Person holding a remote control while seated with another person’s legs resting on their lap, illustrating rude guest behavior. Not in my house but my uncles. My brother and his (now ex) girlfriend were over at my uncles house watching a movie. From what I was told, my brother had his girlfriend laying down on his lap and he was plucking her armpit hair and putting it on the couch.

    _hybridthe0ry , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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