Anonymous
Post 01/01/2017 10:20     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Constantly yapping about the weather. Weather Channel on at full volume ALL day.


I have found this to be a general old people thing. Obsessed with the weather.


This is funny because while I was in college, my friends used to joke about how I always had weather channel on my tv in my dorm room.

Unfortunately, fios broke up with weather channel and we don't get it anymore. My child used to be the weather savant when she was younger

My bestie and I have had crushes on Jim Cantore for as long as we've known each other
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 21:38     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
We're staying in a hotel but spending most of our waking hours at my mom's house. It smells like an ashtray thanks to 30 years of chain smoking. She's a borderline horder and her basement is full of antique furniture that needs repairs and some of it was in mice infested barns before she bought it. When we went down there with her, DS said ew, Grandma, it smells like a zoo with animal poop down here!
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 21:15     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Constantly yapping about the weather. Weather Channel on at full volume ALL day.


I have found this to be a general old people thing. Obsessed with the weather.


My mother announces the weather forecast several times a day, for our town, hers, as well as my grandmother's.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 17:43     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Constantly yapping about the weather. Weather Channel on at full volume ALL day.


I have found this to be a general old people thing. Obsessed with the weather.


Sooooo annoying!
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 17:05     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:Constantly yapping about the weather. Weather Channel on at full volume ALL day.


I have found this to be a general old people thing. Obsessed with the weather.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 15:50     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Constantly yapping about the weather. Weather Channel on at full volume ALL day.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 15:35     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FIL clipping nails in kitchen


Mine uses a disgusting back scratcher with old skin on it. In public areas.


I read this as "in pubic areas".
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 12:32     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:FIL clipping nails in kitchen


Mine uses a disgusting back scratcher with old skin on it. In public areas.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 12:22     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
FIL clipping nails in kitchen
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 12:22     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are staying at home. nothing strange about it at all


Thanks for this dull and worthless post.

Any more funny stories to share?


Sorry that you equate "dull and worthless" to "funny." Perhaps you should be using the internet to find a thesaurus, or at least a dictionary for the words I quoted.


NP. "Any more funny stories to share?" was sarcasm. Because what you wrote was so profoundly unfunny.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 11:35     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Squeegee your own damn shower. I'm a guest, not your maid.


NP but I wouldn't squeegee it either. They should use RainX. I also don't scrub their grout for them during my trips either.


My own mother used to ask me to do this too when I visited. So weird.

Also we used to stay at a beach house once in a while but stopped going because the owner had a serious list of rules. You can't touch this, you cant turn that on. You have to strip your bed linens and wash, dry and fold them before you leave. You had to fully wipe down all counters, vacuum the floor and dust. Like I'm sorry, but I'm on vacation. Don't rent out your space and ask me to do all the work when I'm done so you don't have too.



I'm confused by this. If it's an air bnb or vroom I always clean up before we go and ask that others do the same for my properties. Is this so much to ask? I thought it was normal protocol.


Not air bnb or vroom, just a typical rental beach house through a rental website. And yes dusting and vacuuming is too much to ask if I am paying you to stay there. Do you dust and vacuum in hotel rooms?


No because there aren't any cleaning products or vacuum in the room. If they as re there I use them.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 11:31     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Banging around quietly. Slamming doors and cabinets all the time. I associate my ILs with CRASH!
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 10:00     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are staying at home. nothing strange about it at all


Thanks for this dull and worthless post.

Any more funny stories to share?


Sorry that you equate "dull and worthless" to "funny." Perhaps you should be using the internet to find a thesaurus, or at least a dictionary for the words I quoted.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 09:53     Subject: tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:I'm staying with my sister who has 3 kids under 5, and she and her husband keep disappearing, leaving us with all the kids. I don't mind every so often, but I came up here to visit her, and it would be nice to actually see her at some point. She doesn't come downstairs until after 10am (her baby sleeps in, but the older 2 are up by 7) then disappears for a 2 hour nap with her husband in the middle of the day without telling us. Yesterday both she and her husband left us with everyone for an hour so they could 'go pick up some dry cleaning.' No idea why that is a two-person job.

I'd be more sympathetic if the baby wasn't sleeping through the night, or she didn't have a full time nanny and get regular date nights and weekends away. Meanwhile, DH and I haven't had a date night in 6 months and are spending our limited vacation as the fill in nanny. I like my nieces and nephew, but If I clean her kitchen one more time I'm going to loose it.


Then YOU and your husband disappear. Lock your bedroom door and don't come down until she gets up.
Anonymous
Post 12/31/2016 09:52     Subject: Re:tell me what's odd about where you're staying
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ILs have rule about no food upstairs. After our last visit they called us to say that they were disappointed to find an empty chip bag in the bathroom garbage. That we should know the rules. SIL said it wasn't her family's so it must be ours. (It wasn't)

FIL can't have a discussion with me, whatever I say he says the opposite and digs in. I end up walking away a lot.



Eating potato chips in a bedroom IS kind of gross. I understand where they are coming from.


NP. It was the BATHROOM garbage. Maybe someone emptied out their diaper bag or something. It doesn't necessarily equal that is where the chips were consumed.