Have you ever experienced the awful 'guests from hell'?

I was visiting some friends on Wednesday and when I arrived I saw that they were looking a little stressed. They have a pretty big house with five bedrooms so they often have friends staying over, and after being there for 10 minutes, I realised why they were so stressed.

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While Cindy was frantically trying to scrub a red wine stain out of their couch, Tom was cursing a lamp that had all of a sudden stopped working? 'How do kids pull a wire out a lamp?', he moaned.

The guy that attends to their garden was inside painting a wall that had a hundred grubby hand prints on and their domestic worker was spraying copious amounts of air freshener in the rooms to try and get the smell of stale cigarette smoke out the house.

Apparently, as much as my friend had asked her guests to smoke outside, they had somehow 'forgotten' and smoked inside. How do you forget rules? Eventually, she just 'let it go' (just like that song from 'Frozen'), as she felt bad sounding like a 'nag' telling her friends to stop smoking inside the house.

It amazes me that in this day and age, people don't respect each other's houses and possessions or discipline their kids when they get out of hand.

It got me thinking, when you have had guests over, what have been some of the worst moments where you’ve looked at your place after they’ve left and thought "never again"?