PETALING JAYA, June 10 — Visiting homes of relatives and friends is definitely one of the fun activities during any festive season in Malaysia, but along with it comes common grouses that be heard in polite hushed whispers by hosts.

From the first day of Aidlfitri, social media platforms have been inundated with one of the most common horrors during the open house season — children.

While the usual lot of complaints revolve around the “ungratefulness” of young recipients of “duit Raya,”, this year’s complaints have gotten louder, with escalating levels in the tales of horror.

For Twitter user @MerchantofMilan, putting in additional coins into the money packets was meant to be a bonus to the RM10 inside.

The result, however, was a child chiding him upon feeling the coins in the packet, not saying thank you and throwing the unopened money packet away as he was leaving.

 

“I went to pick it up. Saddened that my sincere gift was treated in such a manner.”

Many were miffed that some children were not taught by their parents to not open the money packets in front of the host that had just handed them out.

And worse still for @alinsonh, some of her “visitors” left a trail of money packets strewn in her garden immediately after emptying out the contents.

 

Some complained of the mess left behind by children visiting their home, including damaged items.

 

But none had it as bad as one who complained on Twitter that the children of some visitors left his car with a broken windscreen after throwing stones about.

After the tweet went viral, the person said a friend reached out and admitted their child was responsible and would bear the cost of the damage.

 

The worse tale shared, however, belonged to @Uyushh who tweeted on the second day of Aidilfitri that her cat had been warded after it was hit on the head with an object.

While she was reluctant to accuse any of her guests, she tweeted a reminder to parents visiting with children to control their kids.

 

@Uyushh updated a day later on Friday with the sad news that “King,” her cat had passed on due to the injuries.