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Ok, my girlfriend and I got back today from a 3 day emergency house/dog/cat sitting job the next town over. The job was done as a favor for a casual friend/business acquaintance. Somebody we deal with maybe 4-8 times a year. They pulled up in their van around 1pm, we exchanged pleasantries, they didn't offer any money (we didn't ask nor did we expect any). They asked if we could help out for next weekend, as they had another emergency. We said yes. My gal and I then went to the zoo, then downtown for some quality time. When we arrived home there were separate messages on our machine from the folks we had assisted.

Message 1 asked what we had spilled under the stove. (To my knowledge, nothing.)

Message 2 asked if we had let the dogs on the bed. (We had not.)

Message 3 told us in the future to not change the settings on their sleep number bed. (We had, but ... so what???)

Message 4 asked us if we had used the grill - apparently when putting it back we had scratched the siding on the house. She was obviously sobbing while giving this message.

So ... WTF??? Are these folks totally batshit or whats?

not totally, but a little batshit. I would have waited until tomorrow to have called, then politely mentioned all four things. If your "mistakes" had pissed me off that bad, I would have simply not asked you to help out in the future.

never do favors for people.

you should slap them next time you see them

nope. more like you should find a convienent excuse not to housesit for them next weekend, and never to do it again in the future. make up reasons, or simply come up with a diplomatic way of saying that you feel that your housesitting for them may interfere with the rest of the relationship you have with them. they sound a little...nitpicky.

I once had to watch somebody's trailer for a weekend. I had a big party there and it got a little messy. I even accidentally shot a couple holes in the trailer.

Luckily I just blamed the mess on a couple of my friends that always take the heat for me.

You sound like my kind of man lungs

Wait, you are a man right?

Dang right I'm a man.

they don't sound like people who should ever leave the house. if they are checking for spills under the stove...

no way should you do it next weekend.

no no no
you folks are all wrong
apologize profusely, agree to sit the next weekend, and then leave upper deckers of various shapes and sizes, along with DNA deposits on all of their bed clothes

Do it next weekend, but move the couch to the right 13cm.

Tell them to join www.barafranca.com and I'll take care of them for you.

Winner.

They are batshit, or at least socially incompetent, for leaving a message like that on your machine.

This is the bio I've gotten from you so far:

Convict living in his car, drinking stolen vodka every night...and playing text sims. Are you parked near a WiFi hub?

I appreciate the chuckles.

Normally I'm pretty solid about stuff like this, and know how to react appropriately - what made me mad is that my girlfriend was REALLY upset last night. Crying, talking forever on the phone with mom, etc. Fucking with my sweetheart's feelings makes me Furious.

Now I know why these people are casual aquiantances. Sounds like if you had regular dealings with them, they wouldn't be aquaintances at all.

What's funny is they had always been almost abnormally nice before now. When their son moved away to college, they called us up and offered us his (expensive) tropical tank. I've been blindsided by people's bad side before, so I'm not totally shocked by the situation, just sorry. My girlfriend, though, is one of the most trusting, generous people ever to live, and she was (is) really shook by this.

Ah, under the stove. First place I look when I get home from a trip....

if I was you, that certainly wouldn't be the first place that I would be looking when I got home from a trip.

My thought exactly when I heard that message.

I'm confused. Do you know something I don't DD?

I'm also into stealing internet signals and selling them, yes.


Oh, wait, I probably shouldn't admit those things. :)

first place you should look is under the bed, not under the stove. :D

Wish I had a guy that cared that much.

I'm with the don't-do-it-next-week crowd, st.cronin. No acquaintance is worth the headache you're bound to get from these folks. I'm not with the excuse thing, though. I'd just say flat out that since your last time housesitting for them was so terribly upsetting for them that it was probably for the best if you did not.

Er, in as polite a manner as I could. Yeah.

This will fade after 5-6 years, and you'll simply get sick of her constant whining.

Good call on the upper deckers! I'd leave a few "foul balls" as well.

Just blame it on the dogs, and if they say something, just tell them at least they weren't on the bed! And as you are laughing, say "I can't believe you haven't seen what I did under the stove yet!" and hang up the phone.

what he said.

You know, I was 100% with you up to this point and I'm still even at 80% with you. But, c'mon. Crying because some jackasses were griping at you??

SI

Tell them you must have missed the blood under the stove.

In my experience, people that are overally generous, or nice, are just as likely to be hiding mental defects as people that are overally mean.

Personally, I think it's time to take out the trash, and there's only one man to do it.

:rolleyes:

Did I mention she was a woman? As in the female gender?