houseguest

How to be a good houseguest:

-Give the people you are staying with at least 24 hours notice that you are/might coming. Maybe even 12 hours would suffice. Or ask if it's o.k.

-A week is generally the accepted sofa stay. 10 days is a reallllly long time unless you are super close friends or dating.

-Do not be completely dependent on your host for entertainment and do not plan on spending the entire trip on their living room sofa. Leave sometimes.

-Bring your own computer if you want to keep checking your e-mail to see if you ex-boyfriend has e-mailed you his will because he has been threatening to commit suicide unless you take him back.

-Before you plan a trip, make sure you have enough money to feed yourself, so you don't have to eat your hosts food...for ten days...

- Be over the boy you had a one night booty call with once two years ago in the destination city before you arrive. If you aren't over it, do not subject your host to 10 days of sitting on the sofa wondering why said boy isn't leaping into your arms.

-If the said boy decides he wants to have a booty call the day before you leave, do not offer your hosts sofa as an acceptable place for hook-up number 2. That is just gross. Esp. if the host is sitting at the table next to the sofa in her pajamas attempting to blog.

-Do not ask "Is it o.k. if I come home late and just call you until you wake up to let me in" multiple times. Your host wants to sleep. Come home while they are awake or at home.

-Do not, while you host is working on music for an audition with her vocal coach roommate, decide it is also time for you to work on YOUR music, stand right next to your host (who is singing) and start singing your completely different song. That's just distracting and rude.

-Do not move around electronics so your cell phone can charge, then wonder why the internet isn't working.