hello? oh, mother duhnym, how are you? mmmm… a nice long visit you say… yes, yes, i have your reservation right here… ah yes, i have you down for four nights… the four season’s package… that will be 260 a day and a 75 dollar a day towel charge.
goodness, you must have put in 24 hour days between the sightseeing and the laundry. you are incredible!!!
Yeah, I used one of Sue’s towels at the last Dopefest, and it was like a little slice of heaven! I still have fond memories of that towel, and sometimes think about dropping it a line to see if it wants to get together again some time. But maybe my memory is colored by the fact that I was drunk as a Tibetan monk at the party. In any event, Sue, give that towel a big sloppy kiss for me (it was one of the navy-hued ones, IIRC). After you wash the nasty mother-in-law cooties off of it, that is.
Good lord.
When I am a guest in my inlaws’ house, I always remake the bed. I know that she (or her cleaning lady) will strip the sheets later to wash them. In the interim, I make up the bed so that if that happens a few days from now, they don’t have to look at a rumpled bed.
My mom is coming to visit tomorrow. I hope she can FIND a clean towel. This place is a wreck but that’s okay–she’s coming because she knows the Cranky family goes to hell when I’m dissertating. She is here to do a week’s worth of housewife stuff. Last time she left, she washed the sheets and remade the bed with clean sheets before she caught her plane. God love her.
One summer I was working at a college as an office assistant to the summer programs coordinator. The college had a few nice guest rooms on campus for special visitors, and we had a speaker stay overnight. She paged me her first night (she had my number for emergencies) to tell me that she only liked light colored towels. The dark burgundy ones in her bathroom would not do, and could I find her some light ones immediately.
I’m sorry, if towels were THAT important to me, I’d travel with my own special set. Criminy.
I feel so scummy now… I use a towel until it starts to smell…usually a month or so. :x
What’s more, usually my husband and I share the same towel.
And I don’t get the whole “make the bed without the sheets” thing… it makes it that much more work to make it when you get the sheets washed. Either strip the bed all the way or leave it alone, I say.
But then I don’t make the bed at all, unless I’m changing the sheets. I don’t really see the point. Oh, and even when I make the bed I don’t tuck anything in. I can’t stand to have them tucked in and it just means I have to thrash around until I get them free again once I get into bed. (I like my feet to stick out the bottom, for example)
FWIW I’ll use a towel for 2 or 3 days, but change the washcloths daily. My MIL used to issue one towel, washcloth, and hand towel each per week to all in the household, color coded mind you and woe to the person whe would ask for a new one before the week was up. It was all about the routine, I guess.
Still I think it’s rude to demand new towels, linens, etc, when you are the guest. I would suggest offering to provide what you are comfortable with and telling them to bring whatever else they feel is necessary.
Sue, glad to know you are once again nekkid in the world again. My dreams can continue!
My in-laws are exhausting even after a couple of days. First we have to clean endlessly, (no small feat in this house) or deal with the endless and snide comments.
They must be waited on hand and foot. “I need a glass of water”… “It’s hot in here”… “Do you have any FRESH ice”… “I don’t like your toilet paper” (The usage record of TP btw, with MIL, FIL and Sister IL, was a family pack of 12 rolls in 4 days). “Don’t you think you have had too much to drink tonight”?
FIL is a hypochondriac from hell. His masterpiece was when he once complained that he needed “extra tender care” on his visit because he was getting ill because the desert ions that he felt coming through his skin were different than those of San Diego and were shorting out his synapses… No, I’m not exagerrating. He once mentioned that he was allergic to cayenne pepper while I was making some cajun chicken. So I coated/crusted the chicken with it and told him it was paprika… amazingly, no allergic reaction.
MIL once rearranged my entire kitchen for optimum use, even though she wasn’t doing the cooking… took me a week to find everything.
Oh, I could write a novel. I know what you mean. Enjoy being able to wander nekkid, have a drink, and enjoy the silence. To me, the IL’s leaving is, in itself, a mini-vacation. Makes you appreciate the fact that you don’t live with them!
…and TurboDog is the only one to mention the thrill in knowing Sue Duhnym is NEKKID? Come ON! Where are the PERVS? I am sorely disappointed.
[sub]hey Sue Duhnym, gotta a webcam?[/sub]
BAAHAHAHA!!!
See, they don’t realize that we’re drinking to forget…that they’re there!
Cheers!
SueDear,
Don’t tell us you still have some guests at home! You have had more than enough of your yearly share!!
:)))))
Try doing some traveling now, and let the others do the worrying…
relative like this are justification for large nasty dogs. I have no relatives beyond a 10 mile radius that aren’t spooked by mine, and would NOT stay overnight. 
However, you do have me staying for a week, and I’m still wondering the sanity in this plan.
Only because of the dog. I swear it! 
You need to clean towels? But after a couple months, they get all nice and stiff. And that nice shade of grey is so much nicer looking than the white they started as.
I’d imagine that if someone says that they need a clean towel every day, it must be an indication that they never went to college. I can’t imagine there’s a college student in the world who would do that much laundry.