Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 19:51     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
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.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 08:28     Subject: Re:Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
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.






Ha! I LOLed about the microwave and the wifi router. Do you think the water supply to the washer leaks, or is that just a weird thing she does?

TBH I had a washer problem and when I tried to turn off the water, the handle was old and stuck. I had to shut off the water to the whole house. So I mean, at least that handle definitely works?
The washer thing is normal for many people. I grew up turning it on and off when we used the washer. NBD.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 07:57     Subject: Re:Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
My sister brought four dogs. She has no pets, but decided to pet-sit for all her friends and neighbors. These dogs are used to sleeping in beds with people, but my mother (rightly) doesn't want any dogs in any of the beds in her house. If you let a dog in the bedroom, it jumps on the bed. If you don't let a dog in the bedroom, it scratches and whines at the door. I came home a day early to get away from this madness. My mother declared me overdramatic and praised my sister's generosity in making sure all those other families could travel and know their dogs were cared for.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 02:16     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Op how old is your mom? Maybe this is a sign of dementia.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 02:02     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In-laws never go upstairs so everything covered with dust, bed is hard as a board and sheets are musty, tub has not been repaired in 20 years since it leaked once. Everything is dark brown except the coverlet which has carousels.


Annnnnd, YOU get a hotel! And YOU get a hotel!


Stfu. This isn't your thread. Lots of people can't get a hotel without WW3 with their family or they can't afford $100 a night.


Sleeping in a dusty, musty, hard as a board carousel bed makes WW3 sound mighty danged tempting if you ask me!
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 01:27     Subject: Re:Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
There are toys strewn all over the house. It’s hard to walk barefoot without injuring yourself on a stray LEGO or playmobil sword. And randomly discarded used socks are everywhere. Sometimes i even find them under the sofa cushions.

Still, it’s nice to have all the comforts of home this thanksgiving! No travel and no family this year.


Classic!
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 01:12     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:There are toys strewn all over the house. It’s hard to walk barefoot without injuring yourself on a stray LEGO or playmobil sword. And randomly discarded used socks are everywhere. Sometimes i even find them under the sofa cushions.

Still, it’s nice to have all the comforts of home this thanksgiving! No travel and no family this year.


Lol.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 00:30     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
There are toys strewn all over the house. It’s hard to walk barefoot without injuring yourself on a stray LEGO or playmobil sword. And randomly discarded used socks are everywhere. Sometimes i even find them under the sofa cushions.

Still, it’s nice to have all the comforts of home this thanksgiving! No travel and no family this year.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2018 00:26     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
I had the turkey brining out in the sunroom then I got paranoid about the raccoons ( who can open most anything when they try) but it was pretty cold this year so outside was fine. Actually colder than the frig.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 22:04     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In-laws never go upstairs so everything covered with dust, bed is hard as a board and sheets are musty, tub has not been repaired in 20 years since it leaked once. Everything is dark brown except the coverlet which has carousels.


Annnnnd, YOU get a hotel! And YOU get a hotel!


Stfu. This isn't your thread. Lots of people can't get a hotel without WW3 with their family or they can't afford $100 a night.


Oooh, sorry. Didn't mean to mess with a cranky person who spent the past four nights on an air mattress in a basement.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 21:52     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In-laws never go upstairs so everything covered with dust, bed is hard as a board and sheets are musty, tub has not been repaired in 20 years since it leaked once. Everything is dark brown except the coverlet which has carousels.


Annnnnd, YOU get a hotel! And YOU get a hotel!


Stfu. This isn't your thread. Lots of people can't get a hotel without WW3 with their family or they can't afford $100 a night.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 21:13     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
TVs on. All the time. Loudly. In every room. All night in the IL bedroom.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 21:04     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
Anonymous wrote:In-laws never go upstairs so everything covered with dust, bed is hard as a board and sheets are musty, tub has not been repaired in 20 years since it leaked once. Everything is dark brown except the coverlet which has carousels.


Annnnnd, YOU get a hotel! And YOU get a hotel!
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 21:04     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
PS, so we cant shower there, have to go to IL's shower in their master bedroom suite downstairs.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2018 21:03     Subject: Tell me what's weird about where you're staying: Tgiving '18 Edition
In-laws never go upstairs so everything covered with dust, bed is hard as a board and sheets are musty, tub has not been repaired in 20 years since it leaked once. Everything is dark brown except the coverlet which has carousels.