How to be an Unwelcome House-guest Part 2

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If you wish to be an unwelcome houseguest it is critical that you assume that house rules and customs do not apply to houseguests. If your hosts stop to take their shoes off when entering the home and neatly set them on a rack filled with other shoes, or pick them up and carry them off to a closet in another part of the house, it’s pretty clear that those hosts just might be annoyed if you stomp in with your street-dirty size twelves and proceed to walk across the carpets to a place where you can plop down and prop your feet up as you relax If your host home is occupied by people who are not on vacation (unlike you, the houseguest) make sure you tie up the bathroom and the hot water supply by taking lengthy showers during those busy early morning hours when people are scurrying to get to work and school on time or, alternatively, at bedtime when the residents are trying to get settled to rest before another busy day. Oh yes, make sure you take LONG showers to spend at least 30 minutes tying up the plumbing and the hot water supply. Over the years most of our houseguests have not be particularly skilled at making themselves unwelcome, but there have been a few...