Do visitors look in your fridge?

Ted222

A friend of my son (early 20s) has a habit of looking in our fridge whenever he visits. He only does it when my wife and I are out somewhere.

He’s not looking for anything to eat or drink. He’s just having a nose.

I find it a bit intrusive but mostly I find it weird and bizarre.

He also walks straight into the house if the front door is unlocked (it’s closed but unlocked) without ringing the bell.

Should I be worried? Is he potentially unhinged?

Pauliedragon

I hope you have a lock on the knickers drawer.

Brussels Sprout

He should definitely be ringing the bell or knocking at the front door and only entering when someone has granted him entry. That's just basic manners.

Allinall

How do you know he looks in the fridge?

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597451#Comment_122597451

My son observes him and has told him to stop, but to no avail.

Atlantic Dawn

Could you set the fridge up so that the milk is set to fall straight to the ground and make a mess when he opens it? Might make him realise what a nosey idiot he is being.

Fallout2022

I'd put the friendship on ice.

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597496#Comment_122597496

People might have but it was a silly decision and didn't end well

jacool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597673#Comment_122597673

Why? Just to get him opening the freezer as well?

DopeTech

Start locking the front door. And Child proof lock on fridge!

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597615#Comment_122597615

Your 20 year old son reported this to you?

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597860#Comment_122597860

It annoys him too

Mickeroo

Elaine, George and Kramer were always doing that in Jerry's apartment in Seinfeld so I assume it's perfectly normal behaviour.

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597429#Comment_122597429

okay. Now I’m worried

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597897#Comment_122597897

Touch of Kramer about him now that you mention it……

event

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597615#Comment_122597615

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597893#Comment_122597893

Well then your son doesn't invite him around. Or grows a pair of balls and tells him to f@ck off.

kazamo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597899#Comment_122597899

maybe lock the basement too……your dungeon of pleasure and pain might be too much for his young but very nosy mind 😆 😆

Any thoughts on realistic looking fake mouse or rat to leave in the fridge ?

Candlel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597615#Comment_122597615

it wouldn’t bother me, but it’s just someone who seems to think it’s ok, why not ask him to stop.

AnnieinDundrum

sounds like a teenage thing and he is only just out of it

my brother always looks in my fridge, he’s 54… but he’s always hungry and also on the lookout for anything new or interesting

i wonder if he does it elsewhere, he does in our sisters’ houses.

odyssey06

Is he a Guard? Tell him he needs a warrant for that sort of thing.

Cluedo Monopoly

The young lad is comfortable in your home. Well done. Nothing to worry about.

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597929#Comment_122597929

Brilliant! A fake severed head might be even better!

Ted222

He constantly tells him to f*** off but he’s shameless. He’s “one of the lads” so he doesn’t want to exclude him completely.

Ted222

I wouldn’t mind if he was taking my beer but just observing what we have is a bit creepy.

If we were there ourselves, we wouldn’t be slow to put him straight but it’s only ever when we’re out.

tamara25

coming into a house & not knocking beforehand is way out of order. Would not tolerate that

AllForIt

A census taker tried to look in my fridge once.

He ended up in it beside the fava beans.

celt262

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597429#Comment_122597429

No doubt he has had a poke in it.

chrissb8

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122597615#Comment_122597615

Why do you talk so wooden…like you're really bad at being undercover as a Dad

Mild sprectrom issue or a tic, combined with looking for novelty and something interesting which is a bit immature for a 20 year old.

Its a bad habit he needs to control

Its very hard to get out of habits like that.

Look at it this way he feels comfortable enough in your house to do it which might be a compliment to your son.

Deebles McBeebles

Time to invest in a sword of Damocles type trap methinks.

JupiterKid

No they don't, and nor would I when visiting a friend, relation or family member.

It is extremely overfamiliar - and downright rude!