# Could I crash at your place for a while? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972 "2008-04-04T19:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/21 "2008-04-04T20:10:13Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I have no couch. Are you willing to sleep on the floor. I don’t allow cooking of meat, any type of smoking, drinking or sex at my place. If you agree to all that, fine [/QUOTE] You eat RAW MEAT? Ick. I like mine at least rare. As for the OP…do you cook? Do you clean? If so, you can stay indefinitely. As long as the cats approve of you, anyway. They’re the ones who really run the household. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/22 "2008-04-04T20:19:15Z")
No way. You keep WASPS, man. . ._shudders_ ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/23 "2008-04-04T20:20:48Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Is that a recommendation? Or are you just saying that you’re safer than an axe-wielding homicidal maniac? [Obligatory link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=461749) [/QUOTE] Ur, the second one. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/24 "2008-04-04T20:30:09Z")
[QUOTE=Angel of the Lord] No way. You keep WASPS, man. . ._shudders_ [/QUOTE] Just that _one_, and that was… :: 5? 6 years ago? :: You dopers remember _everything_… ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/25 "2008-04-04T20:39:51Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Just that _one_, and that was… :: 5? 6 years ago? :: You dopers remember _everything_… [/QUOTE] What’s so wrong with keeping a White Anglo Saxon Protestant anyway? That is unless you like dancing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/26 "2008-04-04T20:40:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] You eat RAW MEAT? Ick. I like mine at least rare. As for the OP…do you cook? Do you clean? If so, you can stay indefinitely. As long as the cats approve of you, anyway. They’re the ones who really run the household. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’d cook and clean. I mean, within reason. If your house was totally filthy, I’d probably only clean a spot large enough for me to lie down (and then I’d lie real still). (I wouldn’t expect your place to be filthy, though) But otherwise, yeah, that’s reasonable. The cats, though, might cause me problems because I’m allergic. I could pop Claritin and it might be ok, I’d just have to sort of figure it out as I went along. (I like my meat rare, too!)(Except for chicken, which I like a _little_ overcooked so it’s not too greasy) ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/27 "2008-04-04T20:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] I’m safer than Craigslist. [/QUOTE] How’d you know about that? I only did it twice, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/28 "2008-04-04T20:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] What’s so wrong with keeping a White Anglo Saxon Protestant anyway? That is unless you like dancing. 😉 [/QUOTE] Oh _them_?!? Ha! Yeah. I just keep them around for the tax incentives. (I thought you were talking about _ **La Stingra** _.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/29 "2008-04-04T21:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Just a week or two, tops. I know you don’t really know me, but I’ve been posting here for a while now so I’m not _exactly_ a stranger. How 'bout it? (the couch would be fine) [/QUOTE] Only if you allow me to put a live rat in a cage around your head… ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/30 "2008-04-04T21:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] I have nothing against them, as a species, though I do prefer the kind that don’t bite me. [/QUOTE] My dogs will love you to death. If you don’t mind sharing a sofa with one or three, you’re in like Flynn. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/31 "2008-04-04T21:23:41Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Holy shit, you live in Hell? I never knew that. [/QUOTE] Pretty close. I’m in New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/32 "2008-04-04T21:25:14Z")
Are you willing to strip and refinish floors and (pay for and) install insulation? If so, you can even have your own, dogless couch. StG ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/33 "2008-04-04T21:30:48Z")
The last time I answered “yes” to that question, it worked out very, very badly. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/34 "2008-04-04T21:32:03Z")
Hell, if you cook and clean, you can totally crash here! Couple of things you should be aware of first: we have animals. Two cats, two guinea pigs, two gerbils, one tarantula and one fish. Also, our “couch” is really a loveseat, so if you’re not really short, you’ll have to sleep with your knees bent. Oh, and our teenager is a real night owl, so you’d have to get used to her music/television playing until 3AM or so. Other than that, we’re totally cool. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/35 "2008-04-04T21:34:32Z")
Lemme go an ask my wife… She kinda funny ya know ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/36 "2008-04-04T21:38:47Z")
I’d want a notarized writing stating you have a license to use the premises for no more than 7 days, any renewal or extension of time must be by notarized writing only, the license is revocable by me at will either verbally or in writing, you’re not a tenant, I reserve the right to lock you out at any time, if you are on the premises after a revocation of the license, you will be deemed a trespasser, I will make reasonable accommodation for you to retrieve your stuff within 10 days in the event of a revocation and/or lock-out, and if you fail to retrieve your stuff within 10 days, it will be deemed abandoned and I can dispose of it at will. I will attach a copy of your ID and an inventory of your stuff, with photos, as exhibits. Enjoy your stay. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/37 "2008-04-04T21:45:00Z")
Lemme go an ask my husband. He’s kinda cool, you know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/38 "2008-04-04T21:53:20Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] Lemme go an ask my wife… She kinda funny ya know [/QUOTE] I _know_. Everybody funny. Now _you_ funny _too_. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/39 "2008-04-04T21:54:26Z")
I’m not sure you’d want to. I mean, it would be a week of listening to our neighbour either, a)play the _exact same fucking song on repeat for two fucking hours_, or b) sing “I wanna rock and roll ALL NIGHT!” really, really, _really_ badly. Repeatedly. For two fucking hours. Both of which I’m having the honour to experience today. You really are better off asking someone else. **stomps on floor again** ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972/40 "2008-04-04T22:13:33Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] Only if you allow me to put a live rat in a cage around your head… [/QUOTE] In 1984 O’Brien didn’t actually release the rats, so if you were willing to extend the same courtesy, I would consider it. However, in all seriousness, it seems like a rather strange condition to put forth for what I’m asking. Do you happen to have a rat cage with two scomaprtments seperated by a door with a release mechanism, with one side shaped like an inside-out fencing mask? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-i-crash-at-your-place-for-a-while/443972.md?page=3)