You never really know what you’ll be greeted with when you visit other people’s homes. Will it be sparkling clean, not one ordinary thing out of place? Or will the house be cluttered with the strangest things imaginable, like shrines for the US presidents and collections of creepy Santas?
These workers, whose job requires them to go into strangers’ homes, have been sharing their experiences with the latter, and boy oh boy, does it get bizarre. To find out just how odd these people’s experiences were, all you have to do is scroll down!
#1
As a Domino’s delivery guy, you’re not supposed to go inside people’s houses, but often times feel pressured to by people, especially elderly or handicapped people who have difficulty going to the door. This one man was in a house the size of my bedroom, and unable to get out of his chair. So I helped myself in when I saw this man with one leg struggling to even leave his chair. After setting his pizza down, he reached for his wallet and I noticed how severe his hands were trembling. He asked me to pull out enough money for the food. I’ll never forget the shame on his face, he was not old but clearly struggling, and very uncomfortable with his disability. I tried to act like it wasn’t a big deal, and he mentioned that he’d had an accident on the job that cost him his leg and some motor functions. My heart was on the floor when I left. I usually spent all my tips on beer back then, but I put half of what I had made that day in his mailbox. I doubt it was that much of a blessing, but he blessed mine by leaving an impression on me. Whenever I feel sorry for myself I think of that lonely man, and how good I really have it.
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#2
When I was delivering Pizzas in High School I delivered to a house and knocked on the door. When the door opened I was staring at my estranged father whom I haven’t seen in like 10 years. He was drunk, didn’t recognize me, shortchanged me, and didn’t tip.
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#3
I deliver pizza and one time I was delivering to this house, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a ring tailed lemur. Just sitting on the floor. And it really caught me off guard and I stopped what I was saying and said “is that a lemur?” And the guy was super casual about it and let me pet it, snap some pictures, and gave me an extra tip because I knew it was a lemur. I got back to the store and told everyone and they were like “Oh that guy? He has a kangaroo too.”
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#4
I was an aide for a state politician. She was doing a constituent visit pertaining to an upcoming bill, and liked to have someone with her just in case. The guy ran a reptile rescue operation (mostly concerned with exotic pets that escaped/were abandoned), and his entire basement was outfitted with small reptile habitats for temporary storage. He had pools with small crocodiles, a few of those massive pythons that are so often used in conservation public outreach stuff, and even a little workbench where he repaired the shells of turtles that had been hit by cars.
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#5
I had a very brief stint as a salesperson with a company that sells & installs solar panels. House calls were a fairly common part of it. Usually they were as dull as dishwater, but this one time…
So I’m sent on a call to this old guy’s home. I get there and it’s fine (other than him greeting me with “isn’t this more of a man’s job?”). We go in to discuss plans etc. His house is freezing. He goes and hops into his bed. Which is in the living room. In fact other than a radio (which doesn’t look like it works) it’s the only furniture in the room. He invites me to sit down (literally pats the bed next to him), but I elect to stay standing. So I’m doing my spiel standing up, he asks me if I’d get him a glass of water. I go to the kitchen, and find out why it’s so cold – neither his fridge, nor this massive freezer, have doors. Also they’re filled with chickens, and little else. The bin is filled – filled – with chicken bones. Plus when he said “glass of water” he actually meant “old empty milk bottle of water”, as there were no glasses, or cups.
I take him his water, and feeling uncomfortable awkwardly joke about him really liking chicken. He starts telling me the best way to boil them. Best I can gather his diet consists exclusively of breakfast cereal and boiled chicken.
Anyway, he buys solar panels. I’ve decided to sign him up for a special plan I could offer to seniors who were struggling financially. Before I go though he insists on checking my bag as I leave, to make sure I haven’t stolen anything (?!).
Few weeks later I’m chatting with a friend who works in a bank in the area, and I mention my interesting customer. They reveal he’s actually rich as sin, a fortune amassed over a life time of living a profoundly miserly existence, and being a thoroughly brutal businessman.
tl;dr I sold solar panels to a guy who Ebenezer Scrooge would tell to tone it down.
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#6
I work at a psychiatric hospital, and am sometimes required to join my patients to visit their home for many purposes, like retrieving documents.
This one time I joined a patient of mine and went to visit his old house with him. This guy was a professor in geography and was incredibly intelligent, but was, unfortunately for him, also prone to schizofrenia.
Severely so.
Once we arrived, he unlocked the door and we stepped in, only for me to lay my eyes on the most amazing house I have ever seen in my entire life. This man, in his psychosis, wheeled in hundreds and hundreds of wheelbarrows full of sand, thus transforming his house, living room, bedroom, bathroom and everything, into a dune landscape. For the trees he used old christmas trees (you know, the plastic fake ones), and scattered here and there between the trees stood a toaster, oven, a table and some chairs.
I looked through this house in amazement, and finally this man walks up to me and says: “You like it, don’t you? I can tell.”
PS: English is not my native language, apologies for any flaws in my use of it.
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#7
Working voluntarily as a paramedic, you see a lot of strange stuff.
But the things that stick with me the most are those little details: photographs, memorabilia and all that. It’s not so much crazy but more kind of making you think about your own life, especially when you come to a house/appartment and know that the person inside might leave it with you for the last time. You just hope that you can live such a fulfilled live as they have and that you have equally beautiful memories that last for another lifetime – just telling from some photos on their nightstand.
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#8
About 70% of my customers are elderly retired. Went into one 96yo’s house and found a shrine — a for-real shrine — to Ronald Regan. Not as an actor, but as a politician. I mean, she digs the dude.
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#9
Actually today I saw something that made me laugh. Im a postman so didnt go inside, but as I was walking up to the house, I could see through the window.
There was a guy riding a mobility scooter in the living room on his own, he was riding it in a circle waving his arm above his head as if he was waving a lasso about, it was quite awkward when he saw me and looked pretty embarrassed.
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#10
I used to work as an EMT, there’s a lot of people out there living in pretty putrid conditions. You can’t necessarily tell which house is going to be bad just based on the outside. One of the craziest (for health reasons) ones that I ever saw was a normal enough looking house that had the grandfather essentially living in the garage. He was confined to a wheelchair and needed an O2 tank, we were there were a call for difficulty breathing. The entire place was COVERED in ashtrays, ashes, and cigarette butts. It reeked of urine too, I remember taking the man’s blood pressure on the scene and trying not to gag. Very sad.
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#11
My dad is a firefighter, and the call was for someone who couldn’t get up out of his chair. It was a 400 pound guy with a huge ketchup stain on his chest with crumbs in it. Low and behold, there’s a empty bucket of KFC chicken next to the chair. The dude was so lazy he squirted ketchup on his chest and dipped the chicken in it.
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#12
I was a teenager and worked for a rent to own place. I wish I could say the number of times I did tech support on electronics that couldn’t work because too many roaches were living in them, but the best was walking in to a trailer and finding a redneck spooning a large pig on a couch. We’re talking like 200+ pound pig.
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#13
My moms a real estate agent and she told me the craziest thing shes ever seen is a toilet in the middle of a living room, connected. No sink, no shower. Just a toilet.
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#14
Cockroaches crawling all over an obese lady’s diabeetus foot; don’t think she could tell they were there.
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#15
As a carpenter I went to install a cabinet at a woman’s house. She had a glass jar of blackheads.
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#16
Not in but outside a customer’s home was a very large trash bin with the words “no raccoons” spray painted on it.
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#17
The worst I’ve come across so far is jars of urine on the guy’s desk.
I’ve been in a few hoarder homes as well.
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#18
As a medic, I responded to a call for a fall at the home a of a 70 something year old female. I opened the door to find the living room full of hooks, suspended from the ceiling, and on said hooks were hanging all of her possessions. Meanwhile, she’s been laying on the floor for 3 days, in her own urine. Poor thing.
Literally…all of her clothes and jewelry hanging from hooks on the cieling. It was super bizarre.
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