What bugs you about being a guest in someone else's house?

[Cynthia]

Bacon; the key to all happiness/

[Sally, la reina]

::::uuuuungh, uuuuurhggh::

[Emily]

I rarely guest anymore, but I have guests quite often including the in-laws who stay for a few months. I love to share my home with people but I can be bugged after a few days by little quirks ::head twitch::

I have a general courtesy rule when visiting anyone: "leave it how you found it" (I make an exception where dirtiness is involved). An example: you find the toilet seat down - when you leave, leave it down!

[Cynthia]

Sally wrote: "::::uuuuungh, uuuuurhggh::"

Sally dear, are you drowning? ::tosses life preserver::

[Félix]

[Carol]

Nothing but skimmed milk to put in my coffee. Or people who don't drink coffee and they make me the worst cup of coffee ever by pulling out an unused coffee pot and a year old can of left over coffee and THEN put skimmed milk in it!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

People who have a tip jar on their kitchen counter. What???

[Cynthia]

Really? A tip jar? We were going to have some guests over and they wanted to set up their tent and sleep in our yard during RAGBRAI (bike ride across IA.) My mother suggested that I ask them to chip in for my "extra water and electricity during their stay."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Certainly if you lived in India you would want to do that.

[Cynthia]

Right.

[Chris]

Its more of a personal quirk than anything else...but I HATE using the restroom in someone's home other than my own. My anxiety acts up and I always get nervous that someone is going to knock on the door and want in while I'm using the facilities....yeah, I'm a bit neurotic.

Also, I sometimes worry that they will be serving potatoes (which I loathe) and not wanting to be rude or a bad guest, I'll have to choke them down with a smile on my face....again, just personal quirks.

[evie]

Christopher wrote: "Its more of a personal quirk than anything else...but I HATE using the restroom in someone's home other than my own. My anxiety acts up and I always get nervous that someone is going to knock on th..."

:)

[Susan]

This thread just makes me dread going up north for holiday.

[Chris]

Barb wrote: "Well, Christopher if you ever come to my house you don't need to worry. We NEVER serve potatoes in the bathroom."

Whew! That's a load off my mind. Now, if you serve fried chicken in the attic, that would be paradise :D

nom nom nom.....:D

[Susan]

Barb wrote: "Susan wrote: "This thread just makes me dread going up north for holiday."

Why? You want potatoes in the bathroom?"

No. I just hate staying at my IL's house. It would not surprise me if there were, in fact, potatoes in their bathroom. :(

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Hey, not everyone has tons of storage space in the kitchen.

[Susan]

Barb wrote: "I see. I assumed "up north" meant an imaginary visit to Canada. I've made up the guest bed several times, but still no TC members ever show up ..."

Awwww. I would come to your place.

[Susan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Hey, not everyone has tons of storage space in the kitchen."

It is not about storage space. It is more about random acts of lunacy and mayhem. The guest room looks like a thrift store that blew up. There are toys and crafts everywhere. What's that? Oh, just a rusty exacto knife laying about. No worries. I am sure the baby won't pick it up. >:/

[evie]

We don't have a guest room.

[Félix]

Same here.

[Emily]

We have a 'guest' room, there's no bed and there's a giant spiderman mural painted on one wall ;)

[Adrianne]

I don't have a guest room anymore. Why should I? People used to visit me and stay forever. I had to cook for them, take care of them etc. with no help (cause they were guests). I was so tired after those visits... Now I don't have a spare room and I don't have problems:)

[Emily]

We have an awesome sleeping couch (sofa) - it has had more guests than the guest room.

[Félix]

Our spare room is in the Marriott Courtyard next door.

[Susan]

^I am thinking of moving mine there.

[Phil]

We have several guest rooms, which can come in handy or be a major PITA, depending on the situation.

As a guest in someone else's house, I hate when I forget to check for TP when I enter the bathroom, realizing only when I'm finished that the roll is empty.

[evie]

I don't like finishing the toilet roll when I'm the guest.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Or how about you finish the roll, and there's no storage in the bathroom so you have to search through their closets looking for more rolls, and you can't find any. But you do find their enormous stash of Fresca and you're like, "How come these fuckers never offered me a Fresca?? Fuck THIS SHIT."

[Phil]

Fuck it.

[Susan]

Yeah. Fuck all that shit.

[evie]

What's Fresca?

[Susan]

It is a diet citrus soda.

[Sally, la reina]

I love Lg's Fresca rage. Ha!

[[deleted user]]

...needing the loo and there's no air freshener.

[evie]

Going to K Mart and buying an inflatable bed.

[Phil]

I don't like when the house smells like a litter box. Yuck.










(secret new page notice)

[Susan]

::spys on Phil's secret new page::

[evie]

Drawing the short straw for the lounge.

[[deleted user]]

Kyle, I was JUST going to comment on the food! I wonder do people feel that way at my house?

*may never invite anyone over again*

[[deleted user]]

::makes a note to find out what Ipecac is before invite anyone else over for dinner::

[[deleted user]]

*throws daggers at Kyle*

[Louise]

evie wrote: "Some people only have soy milk. It tastes lousy in coffee."

Yes! it's eeew.

I agree on the part that people should at least offer their guest some kind of snack/beverage (preferably coffee!) whithin the first hour of the visit :-)

And unless you're watching something together, I think it's kind of rude to have the tv on? (unless the visit streches over several days :-)
My ex-step father in law (he was married to my mother-in-law but isn't my husband's father - so I guess that's the correct term?)
anyway, he *always* has a sports channel on really loud. Firstly I really don't care for watching any kind of sports on tv, and second after a few hours the stadium noise becomes a quite agonizing background for the general conversation.

[Phil]

We have ipecac in the house.

We frequently have TV on when people are over.

Those two facts are completely unrelated.

[Félix]

There are programs on TV that can make you puke, too.

[Phil]

Ha! I had a paragraph at the end of my post about how we never watch "Real Housewives," "Jersey Shore" or "Honey Boo Boo" but I deleted it before posting. :)

[[deleted user]]

I hate UHT milk. I learned to drink my tea black to avoid it.

[evie]

Honey Boo Boo sounds like a dessert.

[[deleted user]]

*deftly dodges machetes, throws out sneekbot armed with a whipped cream pie*

[Susan]

::dodges and weaves to avoid cream pie, machete hootenanny::

My FIL made me instant coffee. Folgers crystals. I thanked him and drank it like it was the Gods own nectar.

[Félix]

::gags::