What’s the Most Bizarre Request from a Check-In?

For hosts, what’s the strangest thing a guest has asked for at check-in? Here’s one that stuck with me: a family of three arrived, and the husband walked inside asking where the rental car desk was. In my home. He seemed to expect there to be a desk somewhere in the house with rental car information and a phone to arrange a pickup.

I explained that we didn’t have anything like that, but I could provide the contact numbers for local rental car companies they could call from their own cell phones. He frowned, said never mind, and they canceled a day later. A four-star review, too. It almost seemed like he believed there was a Hertz or Avis customer service counter in my kitchen.