Should House Guests Feel Responsible?

[Unkotare]

The OP ain't stayin' at my house.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

In my opinion, the guest should not be obligated to help out with cleanup, but out of courtesy, should at least offer to do so. If the host politely declines you're offer, don't press the matter.

 

[Road Runner]

The OP ain't stayin' at my house.

Good I don't want to either or vice versa.

In my opinion, the guest should not be obligated to help out with cleanup, but out of courtesy, should at least offer to do so. If the host politely declines you're offer, don't press the matter.

Exactly! This post wins the thread. Hence my reaction.

 

[DudleySmith]

Yeah I always take something to make and or eat as well. Again I repeat offering your help out of kindness is a whole lot different than it being expected out of you.

Well, our friends quit asking us not to help, since we ignore them and help anyway. What are they going to do, shoot you? Wag their fingers and make Scary Faces?

 

[Unkotare]

What if the OP's host doesn't have enough Orion slave girls to feed their guests grapes while fanning them with giant feathers?

 

[Road Runner]

Well, our friends quit asking us not to help, since we ignore them and help anyway. What are they going to do, shoot you? Wag their fingers and make Scary Faces?

Yeah but would you honestly clean up poop if it wasn't from your own pet? I don't mind helping out from time to time but there has to be a line drawn and that's it for me. Not my pet(s) not my problem.

 

[Unkotare]

Stay home.

 

[Road Runner]

What if the OP's host doesn't have enough Orion slave girls to feed their guests grapes while fanning them with giant feathers?

Now you're just being ridiculous... I don't even like grapes.

 

[DudleySmith]

Yeah but would you honestly clean up poop if it wasn't from your own pet? I don't mind helping out from time to time but there has to be a line drawn and that's it for me. Not my pet(s) not my problem.

Well, I said no to poop. I don't like cats, and we don't know anybody who has any except for keeping a few around their barns and outside.

 

[Road Runner]

Stay home.

Make me.

Well, I said no to poop. I don't like cats, and we don't know anybody who has any except for keeping a few around their barns and outside.

I love cats in general I just don't really like those cats. They're way too undisciplined.

 

[DudleySmith]

Make me.

Ignore Poop Face. It's a sad day for him, reminds him the Japs lost WW II.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Ignore Poop Face.

So, you know what the term unkotare stands for too, I see.

 

[Unkotare]

Make me.


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No need. You being a terrible house guest will take care of it.

 

[Road Runner]

No need. You being a terrible house guest will take care of it.

Whatever.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

So, this is a current debate over at my house. A lot of the time I go over and spend the weekend at my fiancee's. Last weekend I made Christmas cookies for him and his family. I offered to help him with the dishes, but he told me that I was the guest so he would take care of it.


Now I'm being told that I should have done it anyways as well as pick up the cat poop after some of his kittens went to the bathroom in his room and that I would expect him to help out if he spent the night over my house. I say that both of those things are completely ridiculous and a house guest shouldn't have to feel responsible at all unless they actually volunteer to help out due to the kindness of their hearts.


And truth be told his kittens are cute and soft to touch but I still don't really like them that much and that's coming from a cat person. I tolerate them, I just don't like becoming a scratching post/chew toy especially when I'm trying to cook and or eat. Why should I be responsible for animals that aren't mine and I don't really like all that much anyways?

Because you're more than a "guest"

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

I love cats in general I just don't really like those cats. They're way too undisciplined

They're KITTENS. Basically children. Treat them with respect and kindness.

 

[Road Runner]

They're KITTENS. Basically children. Treat them with respect and kindness.

I do, but I also don't have to like them personally. Being cruel to them and simply not liking them are two entirely different things

Because you're more than a "guest"

No I'm not. I don't live there.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Well, our friends quit asking us not to help, since we ignore them and help anyway. What are they going to do, shoot you? Wag their fingers and make Scary Faces?

She clearly isn't interested in "helping." She exists to be served.

 

[Road Runner]

She clearly isn't interested in "helping." She exists to be served.

I never said that. I only said that I help out because I want to, not because I feel I have to.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Thats the attitude we all see in your post.

WWJD