Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no lock on the only bathroom door and the door doesn’t stay shut. I have to hold it shut with my foot while pooping. Sometimes the dog runs upstairs and barrels it open. Awkward!

Get thee a nice, sturdy door stop.

[Anonymous]

I know I'm late, but I'm still aching...

Rock hard guest bed and all of the heat funnels straight into guest room. Parents are older now so of course they're always turning up the heat. We finally told them about the heat. They act like we're crazy because of course they are freezing. They also buy the XXL tp rolls and put them on a standard hanger so the first 1/4 of the roll it's like a rationing gas station bathroom pulling off one sheet fragment at a time before it can spin.

Weird feeling after Thanksgiving dinner being roasted on a rock hard slab.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

No one said the child was wrong for being hungry, or the parent was wrong for meeting that need. BUT ASK FIRST, duh. Common courtesy. Literally Being a Good Guest 101.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

No one said the child was wrong for being hungry, or the parent was wrong for meeting that need. BUT ASK FIRST, duh. Common courtesy. Literally Being a Good Guest 101.

What part of the above post did you not comprehend? The PP said the child should ask, and you’ve added nothing to the conversation except snark. Read and try to understand before you post.

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

No one said the child was wrong for being hungry, or the parent was wrong for meeting that need. BUT ASK FIRST, duh. Common courtesy. Literally Being a Good Guest 101.

What part of the above post did you not comprehend? The PP said the child should ask, and you’ve added nothing to the conversation except snark. Read and try to understand before you post.

You clarified a point no one muddied. NO ONE said hosts shouldn't provide food.

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

No one said the child was wrong for being hungry, or the parent was wrong for meeting that need. BUT ASK FIRST, duh. Common courtesy. Literally Being a Good Guest 101.

What part of the above post did you not comprehend? The PP said the child should ask, and you’ve added nothing to the conversation except snark. Read and try to understand before you post.

You clarified a point no one muddied. NO ONE said hosts shouldn't provide food.

LOL. Given that the child was scrounging for food and hungry, it was a valid point. And it was also valid for a poster to share an experience of stingy in laws who weren’t offering enough food. Sharing such things is the point of the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Not allowed to go in the kitchen between meals. My 10 year old went in and was rummaging around looking for a snack and the host threw a fit.

Wow. You allowed your child to rummage through your host's kitchen w/o express permission from the host to do so? That's pretty bad .

+1. That is a HUGE no-no. Even if it is your own parents or siblings (or DH equivalent), but especially if it is anyone more removed than that.

NP. The child should ask for more if he’s hungry, but please don’t host if you don’t intend to feed your guests enough. My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal.

No one said the child was wrong for being hungry, or the parent was wrong for meeting that need. BUT ASK FIRST, duh. Common courtesy. Literally Being a Good Guest 101.

What part of the above post did you not comprehend? The PP said the child should ask, and you’ve added nothing to the conversation except snark. Read and try to understand before you post.

You clarified a point no one muddied. NO ONE said hosts shouldn't provide food.

LOL. Given that the child was scrounging for food and hungry, it was a valid point. And it was also valid for a poster to share an experience of stingy in laws who weren’t offering enough food. Sharing such things is the point of the thread.

Yeah, so anyway, all guests should ASK before rummaging around in anyone's kitchen. Point blank period. If you don't think your hosts provide enough food:

1) ASK for some
2) If it's repeated, STAY IN A HOTEL (fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice...)
3) Or if you don't want resulting hotel drama, bring some of your own food

[Anonymous]

4) stop visiting those stingy no food bastards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4) stop visiting those stingy no food bastards

Also an option. It's not an option to keep choosing to stay with people who don't provide the type of hospitality you expect, but then to keep complaining about them. Because what you're actually complaining about is your own choice. Don't like it? Make a different choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Staying with my elderly aunt and uncle. Sleeping on a twin bed from the 90s.

My uncle turns the WiFi router off every night when he goes to bed and is done using it, around 11 pm.

The kitchen circuit breaker keeps going off; I got a talking to that it was my fault because I push the microwave buttons too fast which overloaded the circuit - never mind the extension cord piggy backing on extension cords with everything plugged in. I also didn’t clear the remaining time off the microwave.

Nobody ever has a snack here. Ever. If you’re hungry outside of strict mealtimes, you’re out of luck.

I asked my aunt if I could do a load of laundry. You have to turn on the water supply to the washer before you start - turn the handle all the way on before you start and then off after you’re done.

Has not been well maintained but not redone since the 1980s when they bought it. Burnt orange carpet downstairs. Golden carpet in the bedrooms. It’s not that weird, just hideous.

Hotel. I never have understood why people are willing to stay in conditions like this for more than one night. Fool me once with offers of false hospitality, shame on you...

Get an electrician. Now. That house sounds like an electrical fire waiting to happen. That isn’t something to mess around with.

Signed,
Firefighter

+1 I wouldn't stay there. If they want to die in a house fire fine, but they aren't killing me or my family.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4) stop visiting those stingy no food bastards

Also an option. It's not an option to keep choosing to stay with people who don't provide the type of hospitality you expect, but then to keep complaining about them. Because what you're actually complaining about is your own choice. Don't like it? Make a different choice.

And that's why it says stop visiting. What part of stop visiting means keep visiting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4) stop visiting those stingy no food bastards

Also an option. It's not an option to keep choosing to stay with people who don't provide the type of hospitality you expect, but then to keep complaining about them. Because what you're actually complaining about is your own choice. Don't like it? Make a different choice.

And that's why it says stop visiting. What part of stop visiting means keep visiting?

Oh, so you didn't write this? This is the poster I thought I was responding to:

..."My ILs don’t fix nearly enough food, and we’re all left starving after each meal."