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“The Carpet Was Just Like Squish Squish Squish”: 30 Wild Things Workers Saw In Clients’ Homes
Most of us feel like our homes are sanctuaries, a castle or fort where we can be comfortable and do things our way. Naturally, one’s home is the perfect place to reveal all of your intricacies and idiosyncrasies. So exploring someone else’s home is a unique and interesting way to see who they truly are.
Someone asked “People who go to others' homes for work, what is the weirdest thing you have seen?” and netizens shared their most bizarre discoveries. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your own thoughts and experiences below.
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#1
Electrician here. Was wiring a new room when I stumbled upon a secret door. Behind it? A small, fully decked-out disco room—mirror ball, neon lights, the works, all crammed into a space no bigger than a closet. The homeowner just winked and said, 'Every house needs a little secret party spot.' I've seen a lot of odd things, but that secret disco takes the cake. Made me wish I brought my dancing shoes to work.
ALittleKnownGoddess 1 year ago
I was looking at houses and found one that had a secret party room, of sorts. There were manacles. Didn't buy the house. (oh and BTW, I was house-hunting with my son for extra fun)
Tammy Kirks 1 year ago
I hung my disco ball in the living room. A party can happen at any time!
Squiffle Noses 1 year ago
VR Helmet everyone - secret world in a tiny box - i check out of real life and go to the cinema all the time! And yes there are dance rooms - just clear a couple of meters of floor and create a border to ... - well try it or don't.
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#2
I was the house that was weird. We had a small kitten that was full of energy. He would jump on our wooden rocker and by the time you noticed movement the cat would be long gone. It legit looked like a ghost so we nicknamed him "floor demon."
We had a termite inspector come by and he commented that the rocker was rocking by itself. I said, "Oh, it's just the floor demon."
For some unknown reason I never thought to explain what the floor demon actually was.
Yeah, he never came back to our house again.
Me Oh My 1 year ago
Arguably, termites are much closer to actual floor demons than a cat.
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Laura Gillette 1 year ago
Went over to my sister's house and her cat started growling at something he was looking at through the glass doors to the deck. I asked my sister what he was growling at, and she said, "oh, it's probably just Godzilla." I stared at her until she realized I didn't know her neighbors had an outdoor cat named Godzilla.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
I read termite as terrible, we should make a club, we can call it the terrible kitchen club. :p
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#3
Large bee hive in a bedroom. It was inside the home and on the outside. Bedroom door was closed and owner said it’s the bee’s room now.
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
All due respect to the bees, but either they would have to go or I would. I would pay to have them safely transported, but go they must.
Bianca Küper 1 year ago
yep. I would close this door and accept that I would now live forever in symbiosis with the bees.
Whitefox 1 year ago
We were looking for a room to rent wayyy back in the day. One house we looked at was very "Special" It was "clean" in that there was no dishes or clutter, but a half inch of dust on everything. In the room we would have, there was a used tampon floating in the toilet in the ensuite and a weird buzzing noise that permeated the room. When we went out back we were told there was a HUGE beehive under what would be our deck and in the floor of our bathroom. We politely but quickly noped out.
#4
I used to do on-site tech support for an internet service provider. Both of my instances involved animals. One was a goat that was a “house pet” and chewed up the hem of my pants as I worked. The other was 2 pet chinchillas, which I was encouraged to interact with (they were so soft!). On the drive home, my eyes started pouring water and eventually swelled shut. I had to pull over, flush them with water, and wait it out. Turns out I’m extremely allergic to chinchillas.
Mark 1 year ago
Especially to chinchillas! My heart cries out for this guy
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Sonia Bailey 1 year ago
I have a friend who has a pet goat! They have quite a few animals as they have a small farm, and recently a kid was born that was rejected by its mother, so they brought it into the house to hand rear it. He loves cuddling up to their dogs!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I grew up in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne and my friend got a lamb for 16th birthday, but had to take it back, because her dog terrorised it!
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Charlie the Cat 1 year ago
I worked in a pet shop in the 90's. We had chinchillas. One of them sprayed me in the face. Not pleasant...
sbj 1 year ago
Chinchillas are the softest pet I've ever encountered but they were also vicious probably because they were kept in a cage
My O My 1 year ago
They need a loooooot of exercise and handling to be tame
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Ropre 1 year ago
It's so weird because I thought I was not allergic to animals and then my daughters got guinea pigs and I'm allergic to them but only if I touch them. My eyes will itch and because they love climbing up to my neck they make my neck and chest get red, itchy and I even get welts. Maybe if I ever touched a chinchilla it would also happen.
#5
A ladder outside leading up to a small window in the attic. That’s where his family of pet raccoons lived. The raccoons were using the ladder.
Lyop 1 year ago
See! We can live in some sort of harmony with them critters if we only cared enough to.
Donald 1 year ago
Not wise to have a family of wild animals pooping and peeing in your attic.
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marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
Just like in the book Rascal. Except the ladder led to the boy's bedroom.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
As long as they get their rabies shots and pilot spaceships, I'm fine with raccoons.
#6
I work for a company that renovates apartments in between tenants. We often find a lot of gross stuff (the photos sent in the group chat with my field guys when they’re one-upping each other give me nightmares sometimes lol) but the worst I’ve seen in person was when I went to walk a unit with the construction manager after the previous tenant moved out and it just…stank. Like **STANK** stank, like absolute f*****g s**t. It was like walking into a brick wall of stink.
We were walking around trying to find the source of the smell and noticed that it was particularly bad around this one closet in the hall. I tried to open the closet, door was stuck. The construction manager tries and gets it open with considerable effort, at which point we are confronted with a roughly shoulder-height wall of dog and/or cat s**t in various stages of rot. If you’ve seen photos of people’s cubicles filled with balloons by their coworkers, imagine that, but the balloons are animal s**t. It was so clumped up that nothing fell out when we opened the door. Just one solid piece.
The rest of the apartment was pristine. Almost surgically clean. But that one closet was horrifying.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Want a wild explanation? If the owner had toxoplasmosis, she/he probably either didn't know it stank, or liked it. Probably experienced it as a mild, "homey" smell.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Is it just me hoping desperately that it was just cat and dog poo?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Yeah, I was thinking there was going to be a body.
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Poster 1 year ago
What on EARTH. Why would they keep it in a closet?? Can't that give you diseases
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
Cleaning fees undoubtedly exceeded the security deposit.
#7
Went to an apartment building to do a structural assessment of the property. When it was completed we were asked to go to an apartment where a tenant was complaining of extreme humidity in every type of weather, even though nobody else on the floor, or the ones above or below complained of anything.
So we get in there and are instantly punched in the face with humidity. We're talking rainy season in the Amazon levels of humidity. I have never experienced anything like it before. There was water droplets on every surface of the apartment. She has been pretty diligent at trying to keep the walls and stuff dry, but she was like 80 years old and you'd walk through and the carpet was just like squish squish squish with water pooling around your shoes.
She had this sliding door that opened up to her balcony and from all the water dripping down it onto that section of the carpet there was a mushroom forest. We're talking like dozens and dozens of mushrooms ranging from 2" tall to 2' tall. Just insane to see.
So we start looking around and pretty quickly see the problem. The lady was too elderly to go down to the bottom floor to do her laundry every time she needed to wash something, which apparently was multiple times a day. So she asked her son to install a washer and dryer in her apartment. First it was against the rules of the tenancy agreement, but he also did a horrible s**t job. There was no place for the dryer to vent out anywhere, so in his infinite wisdom he took a big bucket, filled it with water, and then put the hose for the dryer vent into the bucket for some reason. She would fill up this bucket with the drain water from the washer as the hot air bubbled through it throughout the day just unleashing buckets of humid water into the air. So you have this massive bucket, that was pretty much a trough, taking up 3/4 of her closet with this washer dryer setup taking up the remaining space.
She created thousands and thousands of dollars in damage to the apartment. The whole flooring system had to be ripped out and removed. A lot of other things had to be ripped out too. I think all of her furniture was water damaged and swollen and started to get moldy after the washer and dryer were removed, same with a lot of her clothing and bedding/mattress as well. So she was out like $20,000 because her renters insurance does not cover willful ignorance that causes destruction of property and belongings.
Lexekon 1 year ago
I suspect the son MAY have set up the bucket as a temporary solution to the washer needing something to drain into? (Just empty when full, cannot install proper drain due to tenancy agreement, and washer probably being filled by garden hose from a sink tap) Mother dumped the end of the dryer vent into bucket, because that cooled the exhaust into the apartment. This setup was NEVER intended to be more than a short term item, till mother got permission to have it fixed correctly.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I could see something like that happening to the little old lady next door. She's rather off, and quite unique in her way to problem solve. She was coming over one day last week to borrow my phone. Her back was hurting, so she crawled through her yard to mine. Since she was hurting, she was also yelling. A passerby saw her, and came banging on my door, asked me to call 911. Based on the description this woman gave, I called, and told the dispatcher what the passerby said. The dispatcher sent an ambulance. My neighbor was quite offended I'd called 911. Apparently it's a perfectly normal thing for old ladies to crawl across lawns while yelling at the top of their lungs.
Moosy Girl 1 year ago
Normal ignorance is telling your friend you think most cancer patients are faking it for attention and then finding out they have cancer, willful ignorance is installing a washer dryer setup in a small appartment without knowing or looking up proper procedures and regulations. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge about a specific item or topic. Willful Ignorance is the intentional refusal to have knowledge about a specific item or topic.
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Donteatme666 1 year ago
Stupid son should have just hired someone who knows what there doing. I mean it might be expensive at the moment but apparently it was worth it then again the son just sounds like a massive a*****e who didn't care about wether his grandma tripped or something on some water 💦 so there's that too
Lexekon 1 year ago
Tenancy agreement would not allow the installation, and any permits to install drains would need to go through the owner of the property, who would say WTF are you violating the agreement?!
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She could have had a condenser dryer or a heat pump dryer which I now have. Mine is super fast, much cheaper to run than the condenser and puts out very little heat at all and zero condensation. Her son was a huge prick as she'd likely be dependant on him for advice on modern technology 😕
#8
Went to a house to evaluate it for residential solar. Very nice lady says "want to see my grow chamber?" It was a very professional setup, small amount of Marry Jane plants. She was going to expand. It wasn't legal at the time. I pointed out that after the solar was installed a city inspector would be stopping by to inspect the connection at her electrical service panel, which was in the grow room.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
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#9
The owners of the house were big game hunters. As soon as you walked through the door you were greeted by two giraffe shoulder mounts. And all throughout the house they had taxidermy everywhere. Walking across zebra skin rugs into a room with a whole pride of lions. Going up the stairs that were lined with ducks with a bobcat posed to try and catch one. All of that and they couldn’t figure out a way to get the squirrel out of their attic.
tracy black 1 year ago
beyond horrible i hate people who kill those beautiful animals just for the hunt
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Probably (at least I'd hope so for the sake of these poor wild animals), the trophies were mostly or completely inherited so they possibly had no idea how to deal with a life animal
Brittania Kelli 1 year ago
The post says they were big game hunters, not taxidermy collectors, big difference. There are plenty of ethical taxidermists who use animals who pass naturally and there are collectors who collect vintage taxidermy, but big game hunters are disgusting pieces of human rubbish
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Went to install a new furnace in a house. Found a sprinkler head attached to a live gas line.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
WTF?!? Building a private gas chamber? Please tell me I misunderstood something here!
Mark Trombley 1 year ago
People that do installs are not always the brightest. My buddy had a "professional" installer hook his propane tank to his water line.
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#11
When I did a home visit for a lady with dementia with her husband, I noted their bedroom door was very unusual. It was split in half horizontally so that you could shut the door fully, or just the bottom half on separate hinges. He explained that she would become more confused in the evenings ('sundowning'). It was to stop her from wandering out of the house while he was making dinner, but she would still be able to see out and talk to the family, and he could keep an eye on her. It reminded me of a horse stable door, never knew what to think of it.
wordsupfool 1 year ago
It makes sense. Lots of odd-sized little doors in old structures. Wrangling a dementia patient takes creative solutions.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
People taking good care of people with dementia are heroes. Glad he found a solution.
ƒιѕн 1 year ago
Actually worked on a home that had certain doors with locks on them but installed the wrong way. Later learned the lady that lived there had dementia and the husband installed the locks after finding her several times roaming the streets in the middle of the nite.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Yeah we have a friend whose husband is at that stage now. She had to install a security system and extra locks after he left the house and got lost - which required a police search to find him. It's incredibly sad since it's early onset dementia and he's not particularly old. :(
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Learner Panda 1 year ago
It's a brilliant idea. Living with a dementia sufferer, you're inclined to do anything to make life safer and better quality.
David 1 year ago
It's called a Dutch door and there are various uses for them. They are not too common in homes these days but I have seen them before. None recently.
Sue User 1 year ago
Both my front and back door are dutch. This way in nice weather, the cat can go outside as she pleases, but other critters dont come in.
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AlyDawn 1 year ago
My dad converted my nursery door into a Dutch door at their first house for this reason. I couldn't walk, and could barely crawl, but would throw myself out of my crib to escape to go roam. The door kept me safe in my room.
Mrs.C 1 year ago
That's a brilliant solution. Recently I saw a photo of a dementia care wing in a nursing facility that had murals painted on & around doors so the patients didn't recognize them as doors. Prior to painting the patients would stand in front of the closed doors for hours wanting out.
#12
Deliverer of Pizza here, delivered probably 20 pizzas to a motel room, thing was it was just one dude there and a whole lot of sexual paraphernalia scattered around the room, he also answered the door wearing nothing but cheetah print undies, that image will forever be burnt into my retinas. 🫠.
Leslie Richardson 1 year ago
clearly he was ordering pizza for the organization in advance of guests arrival like a good kink host!
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Long, long ago, I delivered pizza. Once had a guy answer in a very small towel, might've been a washcloth. He turned bright red, yelled "You're a girl!" and then threw a $20 at me and slammed the door. On the other side of this, I delivered to a very nice house and the woman who opened the door was dressed in revealing lingerie, high heels, full make-up, and hair. She let out the deepest sigh of disappointment -"You're a girl."
pocwaddler 1 year ago
Worked as a furniture delivery man. Took a king sized bed with big four poster frame to a house in a rural area. This in a very conservative state with a strong religious tradition. As we lifted off the old box springs, under the bed was a whole stack of very hard core pron magazines. I didn’t realize someone could turn that shade of red without exploding.
#13
I work in state housing maintanence so we tend to see the worst of the worst when I comes to houses.
Off the top of my head;
- house with the whole floor covered in empty soft drink bottles piled up to knee height. (Through every single room)
- house so badly cockroach infested that every surface in the house was moving
- unit where all the floor was coated in a layer of dried cat p**s and cat s**t everywhere.
- unit where someone overdosed and wasn't found for a week or two. Needles everywhere surrounded by filth + a roughly human shaped outline of fleshy gunk on the floor in the living room.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Those soft drink bottles would be cool in a country with a refund system. In Germany, you have to pay 0.25 Euro refund for every plastic drink bottle you buy.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
In the US some states have bottle or can deposit on them. I know Michigan have a 10 cents deposit on their pop bottles and cans. I belive also their alcohol products.
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C W 1 year ago
For work I went into a client's home that was crawling with bugs. Falling off the ceiling onto you in the daylight. I watched a teenager flick a bug off her corn dog between her plate and her mouth before eating it. When I left she picked up her coat, shook the bugs out, walked outside and lit her cigarette. She said, I know, smoking is gross, and just grinned.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
Old corpses really aren't a pleasure to see... I've known a professional alcoholician who had his floor covered in bottles, standing up but most densely packed, mostly wine, very few beer, a bit of higher concentraged poison, only the areas swept by doors that still were operated were free of bottles. When he discovered that he'd have to lift out a door to rehang it elsewhere, he drew the line and spent a few days in picking up bottles, carrying them off, and cleaning, and afterwards, started to drink again just as heavily as before, but during THAT task, he remained completely sober, no substition by other psychoactive agents other than a manic drive to debottle was engaged either.
ERMAHGERD DINOSAURS 1 year ago
Dear lord. This is LITERALLY my worst nightmare. That second bullet point will haunt my dreams….wow. Just. Wow
#14
A 15 foot wide, 10 ft high nude oil painting.
Customer: “You like it?”
Me: “Uh, yeah…it’s a nice painting.”
Him: “That’s my wife. She’s on her way now, she’ll be here soon.”
I then sat with the two of them for an hour, having a coffee right beside this massive nude painting, trying not to look at it or his wife.
Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago
Not everyone wants to cross that boundary with customers?
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Parmeisan 1 year ago
Agreed. I'd bet good money that they have that up with the hope to elicit threesomes with anybody (or maybe anybody the same gender as OP) who seems to like it.
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Heir of Durin 1 year ago
Okay. I love that this guy is so enamored with his wife. I find this to be super cute!
#15
A client naked; I was a dog walker. I actually thought she was a beautiful statue until she moved and screamed. The next day she apologized, but I told her it was okay and I thought they had bought a new statue. She was disabled, and myself being a woman, we had a nice laugh and I'm sure she appreciated the compliment.
Granny's Thoughts 1 year ago
I swim a lot. I've answered the door in just a towel many times. Covered more than a bathing suit.
#16
Oddly large amount of blood, like suspiciously larger than a shaving nick or a nose bleed in and around a bathroom sink and floor, with a blood soaked swiffer pad in the trash.
Empty crib except a Chucky plushie.
Tons of empty syringes in the garbage can. Asked the client if he was sure he wanted them mixed in with the regular outside trash or if he had a container for them. I just assumed diabetic. Until he got all weird and muttered "nah, nah, just toss em, just get rid of em".
Fully carpeted home, bathrooms included, with extra mats in front of every toilet, tub, sink, fridge, microwave, stove, couch, chair, cabinet etc. Carpets on carpets on carpets.
V******r next to a jar of mayonnaise on the kitchen counter.
ETA: these are all different houses. Sorry, should've specified that lol.
Lexekon 1 year ago
Nature teaches us that we are in the MOST danger, when a velociraptor first dips it's claws into mayonnaise, before proceeding to attack.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
So I was with my son when an "apartment cleaning service" called over the car phone. "Have some fun with them!" my son pleaded, so I pulled over, said, "thank God you called at the perfect time!" and then asked if they could handle blood stains. "Absolutely!" I asked, "even if there's a LOT?" "Yes!" "Because there's so much... so much... so much blood." At this point, my son gets excited and starts going with the joke, but lacking any subtlety. He starts screaming like he's being murdered. So I go with it and scream, "Oh my God! He's still alive!!! Why... won't... you... stay.... dead???" Now, my wife usually fields the spam calls, and they usually hang up as soon as she asks if the health insurance policy covers her gonorrhea medication or if she still qualifies for life insurance even if she's been dead since 1870. Not this guy. After all the screaming settles down, he's still trying to close that deal!
Catlady6000 1 year ago
Of course he was!! Do you how much extra he could charge for biohazard cleaning? That's not even counting the blackmail
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Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
About the v-thing...is the issue the kitchen counter or it being next to a jar of mayonnaise, I wonder...
Sue User 1 year ago
First one. Had some fibroid issues. So much blood. Doc said " yeah, bathroom looks like crime scene, right ?" Yes it did.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
But I bet you cleaned it up before anyone came over right? ;)
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Used to deliver furniture in college. Someone had us deliver a bunk bed to their basement … coitus dungeon.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
I'm reading this wondering what's so wierd about wanting to establish some privacy, even somewhere where you wouldn't ordinarily want your bedroom. After all, college students often end up sharing bedrooms. Then I realized, "BUNK bed." And remembered the cringey scene from "Big" wherein Hanks' literal man-child, upon having a woman want to sleep over, declared, "I get to be on top!!!" and proceeded to stake out the top bunk.
IamMe 1 year ago
I was thinking more, top bunk=a convenient place to hang stuff from.
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Flora Porter 1 year ago
Bunk bed, though? Usually implies kids, so not the natural partner to adult playtime. That would have worried me.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
Clearly, my mind is filthy then as I can think of lots of ‘adult’ ways to use a bunk bed.
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I nannied for a family who was going through some serious s**t behind the scenes, and it got weird for me so often. They had 2 kids, a 1.5 year old girl and a 3 year old boy. The mom, a doctor, would come home from work and lock herself in her room for hours while the kids banged on the door and cried for her. The dad, also a doctor, also locked himself in his office a lot and would make me be the go-between for his wife and himself. There was one morning he asked her what was for dinner tonight, and she burst into tears, pulled him behind a door and furiously started whispering stuff, came back in the room, flung something out of the freezer, and stormed out. Nothing was normal in that house. The secret lives of rich people, eh?
Libstak 1 year ago
Well, at least they had a nanny. Also, seems mum has a mental condition or is severely depressed or chronic fatigue. Mum clearly needs quiet alone time alot and Dr dad supports this. This is a good reason for a nanny but it still makes you feel bad for the kids.
Leslie Richardson 1 year ago
:( I'm so sad for them too stressed from work just trying to breathe apparently
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Why is mom not spending time with her kids when they're banging on her door crying for her
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
If this keeps up the kids throughout their lives, the kids are going to have issues later in life.
DC 1 year ago
Sounds seriously messed up. But, given how humans acted when I was to witness them, it's not a hard time to believe that this is just another level of things many people have seen live and stunning. But, people who are mature and/or smart, will at some point decide to part ways one way or another, and while in that scene, it doesn't seem like any of the partens was innocent or the only villain, and nobody will stop making mistakes, getting over that large one seems worth more than whatever stupid detail they're spending days on end into. Also, the less serious cases of such behaviur, usually, aren't permanent, but recpgnized as wrong, neither pleasant nor effective, and thereby stopped. But, there may be a special dynamic that makes them prefer retaliation over peace incountable times again and again... I wonder if that alone constitues a disorder already, or may have even manifested into one, while having, at some point, started as one stupid way to deal with conflict being chosen...
#19
I'm a window cleaner, it's a luxury service so most of our clients are fairly well off. I don't know if it is weird but people like to test us. I've seen a literal chest full of cash open on someones bed. They knew we were coming, it had to be intentional. I ignored it, but some might be tempted. I've seen some pipes and other d**g paraphernalia but nothing too crazy.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
Real cash. They do it to mechanics too. Everyone wants to be a victim
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Paul C. 1 year ago
I used to be a carpet fitter and in the late eighties I found a thousand pounds under an old carpet (probably worth double that now). Took it to the female customer downstairs who had no knowledge of its existence, the gentleman came in and looked a little flustered. There was a stony silence, I left them to it.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I wonder if they're being deliberately tested, or simply people have the attitude, "well, yeah, if anything goes missing, we know it was you, so why should we bother hiding stuff when you have the opportunity to go rifling through out closet anyway?"
#20
A pet Racoon but it wasn't exactly a pet more like a wild animal they forced to live with them. They even said as much- he showed up on their porch and they let him in and decided he was cute enough to stay... it was mean and I wouldn't go anywhere near it.
Mark Trombley 1 year ago
The poor guy's wife and children must have been devastated. He goes to the porch to get some carry-out for his family and never returns. The story will probably be on Netflix next year.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Is there such a thing as pet racoon? I thought all racoons were wild animals, even those who venture close to humans.
DC 1 year ago
I can't really believe they kept at this for very long. Frustration and anger make a truly destroyative force of the cutest racoon, mostly even regardless of size - what the larger ones have above in force, the smaller ones have by speed and fitting into even more everything. Also, it's cruel and downright life treatening, to all parties involved, the racoon, the humans, regardless of their view on imprisonment of innocent animals, other pets who might try to live there, ... and most are full of parasites and might carry seriously harnful infections of various kinds, ...
#21
A huge home with absolutely nothing in it except a small desk and computer, and a queen sized bed. Must have been a $900k-million dollar home, and it had a Jaguar in the garage. I was there to babysit their dog, a lovely Ascob Cocker Spaniel who adored tennis balls and I only roamed the house on the last day of their vacation to report that the pup was indeed a very good girl who left no messes.
On the flip side, I also babysat a Golden Retriever and Golden Doodle in a home to hoarders. It was beyond awful.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Heh, OP knows their dogs/dog breeds. ASCOB stands for "any solid color other than black" and it's a technical term for coat color XD So the Cocker was solid-colored, SOME color other than black XD
Jaynie-bear (she/her) 1 year ago
A WHAT in the garage?? I'm confused. I know the animal jagaur. Is there anything else called a jaguar that I don't know about??
#22
Used to do construction sales and would be in a handful of houses every week. Weirdest for me was the number of preppers—we’re talking basements piled with emergency food in buckets, guns everywhere, stockpiles of wood and random supplies. At least one house a week would be like that. Still makes me look at people differently.
ElvenFairy 1 year ago
I'll be honest, if I lived in the US, I'd probably do the same, we'll probably minus the guns. With the amount of extreme weather that happens I would want to know my family could still eat.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Back in 2008 we had some serious winter storms in Illinois, and I knew people who were without power for 10 days. It is definitely worth being prepared for 2 weeks without help.
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
It’s not always end-of-the-world delusion. During Loma Prieta we had little access to food & no clean water for weeks. If it wasn’t for the slightly civilized lines waiting for handouts from the Army & National Guard, we’d had nothing. Now we live in the east rift zone of Kilauea and have been through tropical storms & two rather large eruptions, one isolating us for a while. We subsist mostly on our extensive aquaponic garden & rain catchment, given we get little vog. But both of these event rendered our gardens useless for a time being. So, it’s natural disaster than now motivates us to have a well-stocked supply of food & water should Mother Nature throw us a doozy, be it earthquake, eruption or, mostly likely, hurricane. Something I think that more people should prep for.
Katchen 1 year ago
Yep. After the 1994 Northridge Earthquake we didn’t have drinkable tap water for days.
Load More Replies... Hey! 1 year ago
I'm all good with preppers, I actually teach people how to prep but the basement is not the first choice to put stuff in it.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I agree - except for the guns and ammo hoarding. Imagining what kind of extremist armageddon showdown would have to happen before that arsenal is needed makes me not wish to be among the survivors.The first people to come knocking (likely asking for food) would be starving neighbours, friends, and extended family, not some alien army, mutated zombies, or "the government".
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shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
At least you know where all the food and necessities are located...just in case!!
Doug the Special one 1 year ago
I expect that number will double if that nonce frump gets back.God bless america.
#23
Summer 1997 working for a moving company for the summer. Old head mover guy says to me "the kinky s**t is always in the instrument cases." We carried a bunch of stuff up to the master BR, he pops a trombone case....no trombone but cuffs, d****s, v*******s, VHS p**n. That guy knew the way.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
"d****s, v******s" obviously means "drums, violins." Duh. ;-)
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I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
So you just pop open someone's belongings and look around? As well as making jokes of the s**t they are into.. their lives and personal belongings are none of your business.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 1 year ago
Depends of the size of the tools, doesn't it?
Load More Replies... weatherwitch 1 year ago
Ohhh they'd have been bloody disappointed if he'd looked in my instrument case as it held... An instrument. My Celtic knee Harp. Not everything is suspicious 🤣🤣
#24
Service Technician here. Been to this guy’s apartment unit where the carpet has been torn off, revealing the plywood. Windows were covered up by old cardboards that looks to be years old and breaking apart. Drywall behind the kitchen sink torn down. Sink filled with dirty moldy dishes. 5 gallon buckets filled with grease/mold. Stove pulled out and is in the middle of the kitchen. Feces on the floor. Kitty litter box…. This dude has no pet and the unit smelled like a*s. Drove by the unit a few months later to see that it’s getting remodeled. Looks like that tenant got evicted. Crazy thing is, he drove a Hell Cat when it was first introduced and also had a Harley. He seems pretty sane and dressed casually. Would never imagined someone like that living in a dump… wait… I’ve seen dumpsters cleaner than this guy’s apartment.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
Not necessarily. Some people are just lazy slobs who can't or won't clean up after them. I've had a lot of tenants like that.
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Nonnie Bear 1 year ago
All through grade school, our neighbor across the field (Mary), worked in the school cafeteria. Fast forward to my freshman yr. We bought Mary's house with the knowledge it was going to need some work. There was over 12" of putrid water in the basement. There had been a clogged pipe, so they just cut the pipe & let it drain into the basement. There was a refrigerator, unplugged, and full of spoiled food down there as well. The kitchen counters were filthy & covered in rat poop. The grates upstairs had been used to "hide" dog poop. They also removed a few floorboards from the upstairs bdrms to hide more. There was so much junk/trash Dad had a huge hole dug in our side yard. We literally buried it. We found 3 motors & hundreds of spark plugs when we went to mow the lawn. When I think about that woman cooking at school for us, I get nauseated!
Curbz81 1 year ago
Clean people assume everyone knows how to clean. Its a skill that has to be taught. This dawned on me when I was in a home of someone who is a refugee from Somalia. She was attempting to clean her floor but was mopping with old water, no soap and had not swept first. I later learned she this was her first home with an actual floor. She grew up in a hut with a dirt floor.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
It's a pity we use money and bought things as a sign of "sanity" and "normalness".
#25
Honestly during my time I don’t recall seeing anything “weird” but I saw things that appalled me. Like a sweet cat being so obese he couldn’t even stand. And just crazy levels of filth. These were very wealthy people too with extremely nice homes. One home had gross black marks ALL OVER every single wall. I asked what it was and was told it was dog slobber from their dog shaking his head and slinging it everywhere. And they didn’t even require us to clean it, they just live with dog slobber on the walls. .
digitalin 1 year ago
If the dog has thick black fur and unreasonable amounts of slobber (like a Newfie) the hair can stick to the slobber and leave dark marks on the walls. And the owner gets blind to it, because you have to if you have a Newfie.
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Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
My slobbery Great Dane died in May last year, and I'm still finding her slobber in weird places. I think I got it all and bam, I noticed one above the front door, I'm leaving it there for posterity.
#26
We are auctioneers. We went to a house once where there was no water. The back porch was filled with five gallon buckets that were what he used as a toilet. The house was going to be put on the market. I have no idea what they did with all those buckets. We did not do an auction.
#27
Locked bedroom of wall-to-wall shelves and bins full of a large collection of dolls. Mainly the kind that they make horror movies about.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Oh those doll can definitely open locks when they want to. ;)
Load More Replies... Libstak 1 year ago
Never understood people's fear of old dolls, I think they are gorgeous personally and they are literally inanimate objects like rocks, furniture, paintings...what's the fear about exactly? Baffling.
jkl 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley "The uncanny valley effect is a hypothesized psychological and aesthetic relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. Examples of the phenomenon exist among robotics, 3D computer animations and lifelike dolls." Someone once speculated that the instinctive fear of things that look almost human, but not quite, means that at some time early in the process of human evolution that fear gave an evolutionary advantage, indicating that once there were dangerous things that appeared almost human.
Load More Replies... Greenmantle 1 year ago
Some people collect them, I guess. Usually older women. Mind you, there was a case a couple of years back in Australia where a guy who collected dolls abducted a little girl to play with the dolls with him. Luckily she was found and nothing bad had hapoened to her. Weird though.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I was thinking about that case the other day, because the guy never said anything (or nothing that was reported) after being arrested and trying to commit suicide (iirc)
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Oh man I delivered and installed artwork and many clients were mega wealthy. One guy had a huge property that would make Alex jones drool. It had an actual alter with two stone pillars covered in plastic and a huge pyramid built out of stones from the area. Either the guy thought it was funny or he was top tier Illuminati. Not making this up.
crazydogmama 1 year ago
The insane, lying piece of sh*t that lied about all of those children and teachers being killed at Sandy Hook? and then had his followers stalk, threaten, and physically harass all of those poor parents of the dead children? And now owes them almost a Billion dollars and is still trying to declare bankruptcy to keep from paying them? That absolute waste? Good.
The Goo King 1 year ago
The actual Illuminati were intellectuals, writers and philosophers mostly interested in governance, politics and personal rights. They wrote pamphlets and books, or debated how society should be run. Nothing to do with alters.
#29
A jar full of bed bugs.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
I was living in a low income SRO and we had a bedbug invasion. The exterminator would come, spray, wait a week, then inspect. He did this three times and we still had bedbugs. Finally at his last inspection, he told us we had no more bedbugs. Seriously? I started to count the ones I killed and put the bodies in a container. Finally, I got the management to call the exterminator again and showed him the container. Yeah, dude, we have bedbugs. By that time I couldn't stand it anymore and moved (had been planning to anyway). Last I heard, they had bedbugs coming out of the electrical sockets and all up into the walls. This is what happens when the exterminator d***s around. I washed every single thing I had, dried it on high heat for an hour, and had everything in a plastic bag before I moved. What couldn't be washed went into my car and my car sat in the sun for 2 days - we were having 100 degree days at that point. I even risked my computer in the car. Four years later, no bedbugs. YAY!
AngelWingsYT 1 year ago (edited)
His first mistake was SPRAYING. If you already have them spraying wont do S**T. We had them in our home (likely from a hotel) had to heat treat the hole house n my dad had to gut his room
Load More Replies... AngelWingsYT 1 year ago
*screams at top of lungs* *runs out of house screaming* *flings self into a volcano*
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
I really wish I wasn't eating crunchy pickled veggies out of a jar when I read this
catzrule4life 1 year ago
*runs out of room screaming* *kills self* *Burns body* *Destroys the ashes*
#30
Cleaned in a house one time, couple in their 30s or 40s, lower middle class, nothing fancy. They had multiple framed, signed, gold/platinum albums by the band, Train. No other bands, just, Train. Also the garage had a bunch crop dusting signs and posters. I distinctly remember a yellow diamond crossing sign, 'Crop Duster Crossing' with a plane spraying gas.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Or they became wealthy as producers for the band...
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 year ago
Maybe they were collectors of crop dusting signs. People do collect things they like. To me those would not be that weird.
DRMAGDN 1 year ago
Train is a great band and Pat Monahan the lead singer is super talented and a great guy. Met him after a gig at Cutting Room in NYC. Props to them for their success.
Jesha 1 year ago
Huh just realized I'm a bigger Train fan than I thought. Liked a bunch of their songs and his voice is real tender and good.
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Kristin Supalo 1 year ago
One person in the couple must have did some work in regards to those Train albums. Even if they were just employeed lets say, as an editor or marking manager at the time of production, they would receive one. It is not just the artist or group that gets presented with those albums, it is anyone who had a part in it's creation, production, or release.
#31
I used to do white glove tech delivery. One guy, probably 50’s was super chill and nice. But I walk in and his living room set up was two industrial massage chairs like you used to see in malls, a massive tv, and two Santa mannequins, one white and one black. In his dinning room he had three old Fredrick’s Of Hollywood mannequins with giant fake b***s and wigs on, as well as two other random store mannequins. He told me he collects mannequins.
#32
Couple years back we found a child coffin in an attic behind a kneewall that had no door leading to it. Same year another woman had the blanks for a child coffin in her deceased husbands workshop.
DC 1 year ago
Well ... somebody has to make them. Handimen going out of business or so might keep a bit of the stuff they were making, and the weirder things are, the more likely they're to be left over. A childrens' coffin is, in itself, by no means wrong, and a miniature of a coffin may also be mistaken for one, or simply be identical - used in independent films, comes to mind. A friend's then-band planned on making a music video that was meant to have a children's coffin in it, they had bought it somewhere, and a zombie puppet who'd throw open the door and such, ... can't find any about it right now ...
#33
When I was a Poolman, I walked through a backyard to a pool once and saw the owner clapping his wife via my peripherals.
I came at the same day of the week, same time for over a year, so I don't think it was accidental.
Got a great bonus that Christmas.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
SEX of course. Maybe they wanted an audience or another participent.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 1 year ago
Clapping her via your peripherals? What the hell does that even mean?
Donteatme666 1 year ago (edited)
No kink shaming but I really hoped they noticed it or something or otherwise the dude is just a creepy pervert
Mrs.C 1 year ago
OP thinks they were doing it on purpose because they knew he'd see them. The ick factor isn't on him but on them.
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#34
A sensory deprivation coffin-like thing. Florida is weird.
#35
Interior designer - did a consult for a fine artist - every single wall was covered (12ft ceilings) with oil paintings of barely-legal girls with their legs open. Stacked against the walls - 4-5 deep. Every.single one. Had their legs spread. He had skills but damn….
wordsupfool 1 year ago
Tell me you were commissioned byJeffery Epstein without telling me you were commissioned by Jeffrey Epstein.
What do you think ?
Riche White 1 year ago
I used to work at a 496 unit apartment complex. Two stories stick out. One was a unit with a woman who worked at a correctional facility. Had a dog and a cat. Went to her unit to check a clogged kitchen sink. The water was black and smelled so bad I couldn't stand it. Called the manager to come look so she could see why I refused to do the work order. There was cat and dog mess on the carpet as well. The plumber was call for that one and she got a letter from the manager. The second time was one where during the pre move out inspection I could smell there was a roach problem. After they left we had to remove all the appliances due to the amount of roaches and debris behind and inside them. Totally disgusting!
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
A mate of mine was working as on site IT support. Mainly estate agents, offices etc etc. He got called to a Villa by a lady, it was a cam girl site. He updated the whole set up just as ADSL was being out fazed to fiber. He eventually got a contract to support them, we called him the porn guy!!
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I did door to door sales one summer and never came across anything weird other than a few people. I'm very disappointed.
The Doom Song 1 year ago
I am the weird house! My bedroom is painted like a murder scene with REDRUM across one wall. It's super funny to see contractors reactions.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
A not insignificant portion of the population lives in filth. They think it is normal because they have always lived like that.
RedBadgerCan'tSwim 1 year ago
When I did maintenance for college dorms, I saw a lot of d***s and booze. Found a huge roll of cash in one room with several bags if weed and shrooms. We rescheduled that one. Also had a hungover girl in her underwear open the door for us to repair her window blinds and then get back in bed and fall asleep. We left, locking the door behind us. Working for an estate sale company, I've seen multiple hoarding houses. Worst one was an old couple that had literally every McDonald's collectable from the last 30 years because the wife had worked there. The floors were covered in pads for their dogs to poop and pee on because the couldn't get up to take them outside. It was depressing. We turned down that job.
Olli Hawk 1 year ago
A little off topic but I feel like this fits here. When my uncle k****d himself we kept all his stuff in his room, and he had glass sliding doors so you could see inside. I had a friend over and the conversation went like this: (her- I like that frog room! Who lives in there? Me- nobody actually, my uncle died and that was his room. Her- oh that’s creepy asf. Why don’t you just sell it?) I have never kicked someone out of my house so fast
Riche White 1 year ago
I used to work at a 496 unit apartment complex. Two stories stick out. One was a unit with a woman who worked at a correctional facility. Had a dog and a cat. Went to her unit to check a clogged kitchen sink. The water was black and smelled so bad I couldn't stand it. Called the manager to come look so she could see why I refused to do the work order. There was cat and dog mess on the carpet as well. The plumber was call for that one and she got a letter from the manager. The second time was one where during the pre move out inspection I could smell there was a roach problem. After they left we had to remove all the appliances due to the amount of roaches and debris behind and inside them. Totally disgusting!
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
A mate of mine was working as on site IT support. Mainly estate agents, offices etc etc. He got called to a Villa by a lady, it was a cam girl site. He updated the whole set up just as ADSL was being out fazed to fiber. He eventually got a contract to support them, we called him the porn guy!!
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I did door to door sales one summer and never came across anything weird other than a few people. I'm very disappointed.
The Doom Song 1 year ago
I am the weird house! My bedroom is painted like a murder scene with REDRUM across one wall. It's super funny to see contractors reactions.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
A not insignificant portion of the population lives in filth. They think it is normal because they have always lived like that.
RedBadgerCan'tSwim 1 year ago
When I did maintenance for college dorms, I saw a lot of d***s and booze. Found a huge roll of cash in one room with several bags if weed and shrooms. We rescheduled that one. Also had a hungover girl in her underwear open the door for us to repair her window blinds and then get back in bed and fall asleep. We left, locking the door behind us. Working for an estate sale company, I've seen multiple hoarding houses. Worst one was an old couple that had literally every McDonald's collectable from the last 30 years because the wife had worked there. The floors were covered in pads for their dogs to poop and pee on because the couldn't get up to take them outside. It was depressing. We turned down that job.
Olli Hawk 1 year ago
A little off topic but I feel like this fits here. When my uncle k****d himself we kept all his stuff in his room, and he had glass sliding doors so you could see inside. I had a friend over and the conversation went like this: (her- I like that frog room! Who lives in there? Me- nobody actually, my uncle died and that was his room. Her- oh that’s creepy asf. Why don’t you just sell it?) I have never kicked someone out of my house so fast
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