A 30-year-old man says his friends are overstaying their welcome after crashing at his place while on vacation.
In a post shared to Reddit, the man writes that two of his friends “needed a place to stay while in town,” so he offered them a couch and inflatable mattress in his one-bedroom apartment.
“They said they only needed to stay at my place for 2-3 nights, but now it’s 5 nights and counting,” he writes in the post. “I asked them an exact date, and somehow things just keep happening so they keep extending (car problems, they booked an excursion, etc).”
The man adds that the friends are “very dirty, and disorganized.”
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“I am usually a tidy person and my apartment looks like a total mess right now (dirty socks on the floor, dirty dishes everywhere, ashtray). They also stay up until 2 am or so despite being a weekday, and I am not on vacation (they are though),” he adds. “They are loud around my building (mostly families and elderly residents) and don’t respect the rules (playing basketball in the pool area, walking around the lobby shirtless).”
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He continues: “I am just tired of being a tour guide, plus all the stress of having them in my home. I have barely slept, feel tired all day long and have not been productive at all since they arrived. They have been paying for lunches, dinners, etc so they are being very generous, but I still don’t think that outweighs the discomfort and stress I feel.”
The man ends his post with a plea to Reddit: “What should I do?”
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Reddit users are commiserating, telling the man he should force them out.
“Don’t offer to help them. Don’t offer to figure things out. Just set the line in the sand and then take a big sigh of relief,” writes one.
Another adds, “Tell them they have to go because you have another coming to stay-…your sanity.”
But a third dishes out some real talk: “At this point you aren’t doing yourself any favors by continuing to let them stay past the agreed upon nights. I’m going to suggest you do something really difficult, and calmly but firmly tell them that while you’ve enjoyed seeing/meeting them, it’s time for them to continue on the rest of their journey. You only anticipated three days of their company, and at this point you need your home back.”
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