guests

In our world of diversifying diets, we find ourselves in awkward situations over people's dietary restrictions, or even just points they're trying to make. Basically the exact opposite of this situation happened when an uncle at a vegan wedding couldn't handle it and demanded a meat meal. The enduring fact seems to be that if you're a guest and getting a free meal, you're going to find your options limited.

As generally decent people, we pride ourselves on displaying a dizzying amount of decorum as houseguests. We will gladly sit at a great aunt's table and swill cloyingly sweet tea just to smile and glowingly lie through our rapidly decaying teeth over how grateful we are for the privilege. We will laboriously swallow dry biscuits and tamp them down with stalks of celery like we're muskets loading themselves. Sure, we'd rather not, but that social contract is nigh unbreakable. We'd much rather spend an entire night uncomfortable than say an unkind word about a mother-in-law's dismally soggy quiche. Go us and our willingness to tolerate these cursed food abominations. The things people eat to be polite are some of the worst foods people have eaten. Pour one out for those of us who wish we could pour this lukewarm soup into the waste basket.

Family can be a pain. Houseguests can be a pain. But when that houseguest is family who can't stand your hospitality and breaks your family's things, that's a real bad time. Sometimes extended family has a hard time appreciating your effort, like this uncle who couldn't handle a vegan wedding meal. It can get way worse than a torn poster. Here are some unforgivably disrespectful things done by houseguests.

It's not that hard to be a decent houseguest. All you have to do is sit there and not punch holes in the wall. And even if you do punch a hole in the wall, there are ways to apologize and repay your host. Apparently that's too hard for some houseguests who do unforgivably disrespectful things. 

Almost everyone understands that you should be respectful in someone else's home, or at least that you shouldn't drink all their good beer and clog all of their toilets. There are however an uninvited few houseguests who do rude and annoying things. People have a hard time forgetting slights like this, which lead to some petty injustices that people stay salty about.

Anyone who's had a party or two has a story of the most monstrously rude guests they've ever let into their house. Sometimes people just don't seem to understand that you can't bully someone in their own home or use their towels as toilet paper. The thought of someone coming into your house just to ruin your stuff and produce garbage moments is enough to make your blood boil.

Unfortunately, people walking around like they own the place is the least of these peoples' worries. It's the people who walk around their homes like it's a bus station that they really had to worry about. Anyway, be wary of fiends of friends and distant cousins. You may find a pile of hair in your couch. If you wanna get mad on behalf of more homeowners, then here are some more terrible guests.

Keep your friends close, and make sure your enemies can't touch your stuff. Turns out people will break your nice things and steal your pills. Even if it's something like dog ear medicine.

When you spend a lot of time around a small group of people, you start to develop...shall we say, eccentricities?

Did it ever occur to her to just not let them come over?