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Post by High Priestess on Jul 12, 2016 2:32:40 GMT
That gets us onto another fun topic, which is -- what has been your favorite/most unusual guest, or guest name, or guest stated purpose for visiting?
Rhonda maybe you have already answered....but maybe not and maybe you have experienced something more unusual still. Anyone else?
Rhonda I have a feeling you might say, as far as stated purpose for visiting, that yours was the guest who came to pick up their marbles and go home. Or who came to check up on their old marbles. Or possibly to buy new ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 2:38:28 GMT
Who needs marbles when your host is as Macadamia Nutty as I am?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 2:51:29 GMT
I've had a lot of strange guests along with my 98% of total pleasure that gets lost in the duties of the game.
Actually, the one that has never left my memory was a 'local/white middle aged gal', and her 'friend' hadn't arrived before I had to leave for work. The persons name was "Loyal". Whatevers.
I was new, still really don't care about much, but assumed 'her and her friend traveling the island' were two females.
I was still working night shift at the time, so the Universe spared me the details of what went on during their evening, but in the morning, it was obvious to me that he was probably a married man she had met on chat for a hook-up. He wouldn't stick around for coffee with her, wouldn't look her in the face, and no term of endearment upon his departure. She made the comment to me that since she had the day off she'd have to find a nice beach to go to and just chill out rather than go home and do housework.
That always bummed me out, and not an experience I ever suspected, or felt comfortable within my home.
Just saying.....
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Post by CC on Jul 12, 2016 3:29:42 GMT
Y'all, I swear, as much as I complain I've met the nicest people I've ever met through Airbnb!! My favorites were 2 guys who started off my other house. Off the charts awesome guys!! One ended up staying almost a whole year, which meant I had a trusted anchor at that house. The other one was a son-of-a-gun, good old fashioned kind of redneck. He was a supervisor for Comcast & was waiting for his half-million dollar house to close, rented to keep from commuting. I had a horrible review during that time & he came back with a fabulous review & actually addressed that bad review in his!!! Unforgettable!! I have this guy who has stayed here many times, for months at a time. He apparently doesn't want to stay anywhere else, even though Airbnbs abound here. He is a research doctor with St. Jude & he has not one single whit of arrogance about him! I had this one guest offer to "step in" to help with a problem guest.... I've had some amazingly sweet women too--of course, any woman exceeds expectations here.... Isn't it amazing too, y'all, how any configuration of letters at all could be someone's name?? Anka, Kanu, Unka, Mare, Rema, Arem.... These are actual guests from the last 2 weeks alone: Parth, Yash, Wei, Anil, Tanmoy, & Con. I love Airbnb!!
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Post by High Priestess on Jul 12, 2016 3:44:11 GMT
Really Rhonda -- "Loyal" for a man who was disloyal? Did he have an ironic sensa huma? How awkward, that ending! Yes, weird energy in our homes...
CC-- you roll the alphabet dice and then the result actually shows up at your house! Bravo! As long as you can still tell the difference between the guest and the armchair in the living room, the anchor in the yard, or the ukelele in the corner, you're doing okay. I have a guest here now whose name sounds exactly like one of the materials that hosts come on here and complain about, having caused a stain in their linens. Fortunately in her native tongue there is not that correlation to the stain.
My oddest purpose for guest visiting was the woman who came to see her boyfriend -- actually he was her fiance. So far, so ordinary -- right? So I was inclined to accept her.... Except --- when you think to yourself -- wait. Why wouldn't she stay with him? Particularly if they are about to get married, how odd that she wouldn't stay with him, but instead wants to stay at my house, where I forbid guests to bring visitors over...even for 5 minutes, and certainly not overnight.
So I asked her why she didn't stay with him. And that little question opened up some interesting additional aspects. She couldn't stay with her fiance -- because he was in prison. And not just any prison -- in San Quentin. And not just anywhere in prison, but on death row.
That changed my mind on this. I realized I wanted no connection at all between my house and death row in San Quentin.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 4:33:24 GMT
Aloha Deborah, That received an immediate "Ewwww" from me; but there ya go, discrimination against a guest because her beloved is in prison.
I'm glad I live on an island where I couldn't even buy a bag of marbles if I had the desire to replace any I may have claimed to had have.
That's similar to my feeling of the 'unempowered woman/one night whatever guest' (my bad, personal judgement).
Every woman's or man's dream, to fall in love with somebody on death row...; or meet at a property surrounded by trees. This is an island, staying at a hotel is not an option, everybody is related or knows the other...oh wait!!! they're both locked up, either in a cell or marriage (I made that up), no biatching what time dinner will be ready.....let me think outside the box here.
The box replies.....you've got the reservation confirmed, done deal. And please, don't tell me about what you're packin, nobody reads the listing anyway, would hate to make mine any longer to have to inform guests to leave them at home.
I love a parade!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 4:38:34 GMT
C C ...I thought I had taken the claim to fame for grumbling 'a lot'.
You might have a higher turn over than me, I rarely hear you ROAR.
Returns to corner with macadamia nuts to paint in purty colors like marbles.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 4:41:46 GMT
Yes Deborah..
"Loyal"......I was befuddled of who her guest was, but then came up with my theory after the fact that it must have been his on line chat name.
The whole thing was creepy.
I made sure and smudge the bejesus out of this house.
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Post by CC on Jul 12, 2016 6:55:49 GMT
Ok, see, here's a complaint now. I was writing on the CC about Instant Book. It was a few hours ago. While I was writing about Instant Book, a guy Instant Booked & came on over. I didn't explain about the bathroom, but jeez--it has 2 doors. Obviously, shut the 2 doors while you're in there & open the 2 doors when you come out. How hard is it? 🚪🚽🚪
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Post by lambada on Jul 12, 2016 16:18:36 GMT
Y'all, I swear, as much as I complain I've met the nicest people I've ever met through Airbnb!! My favorites were 2 guys who started off my other house. Off the charts awesome guys!! One ended up staying almost a whole year, which meant I had a trusted anchor at that house. The other one was a son-of-a-gun, good old fashioned kind of redneck. He was a supervisor for Comcast & was waiting for his half-million dollar house to close, rented to keep from commuting. I had a horrible review during that time & he came back with a fabulous review & actually addressed that bad review in his!!! Unforgettable!! I have this guy who has stayed here many times, for months at a time. He apparently doesn't want to stay anywhere else, even though Airbnbs abound here. He is a research doctor with St. Jude & he has not one single whit of arrogance about him! I had this one guest offer to "step in" to help with a problem guest.... I've had some amazingly sweet women too--of course, any woman exceeds expectations here.... Isn't it amazing too, y'all, how any configuration of letters at all could be someone's name?? Anka, Kanu, Unka, Mare, Rema, Arem.... These are actual guests from the last 2 weeks alone: Parth, Yash, Wei, Anil, Tanmoy, & Con. I love Airbnb!! That is true, CC. It is easy to be dwelling in those 2-3 bad apples but it's always good to remind ourselves of the best apple pies of guests! I had these 3 painters staying in the in-law apartment below our main house. My spouse had a chat with them and told them about the leakage we had at the back door. They said it must be the caulking. On their last day, that morning, we 'caught' them fixing the caulking for us! They said that was the least they could do for us since they had such a nice stay.
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Post by Inanna (Shaun) on Jul 13, 2016 20:48:05 GMT
I agree with you Deborah. And now realize that I am probably in all sorts of violations, but as you mentioned, I state the ethnicity of the neighborhood because too many guests were being racist against me and my neighbors.
and...we really don't want children here. We have accepted a few, and I don't hate children, per se, but an infant screaming all night affects the other guests and my roommates are exhausted grad students. I guess that is where the decision making comes in. We do state not child friendly, as that is a choice Airbnb does give in one of the sections, but people have shown up with kids anyway. The way I see it, this house has a certain personality that must match my profile description.
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Post by Inanna (Shaun) on Jul 13, 2016 21:14:42 GMT
I agree, most of my guests have been wonderful and I have made so many lovely friends through Airbnb!
My favorite name was a Japanese girl named Meow Miyamoto. Her given name was Mao.
My most memorable guest was named, Caroline? I think. Maybe I blocked it out because it was too traumatic. Caroline was an Uber driver from Boston. She was only about my third guest. Her room was right next to mine and she booked for two days, and mentioned she might like to extend it to four.
So, she shows up, and newbie me, sitting on the front porch eagerly smiling, expecting her to bring in a suitcase. She's stressed. I take her around back (she had her own private door) and she grumbles the whole time. I'm polite but wondering what the heck? As soon as she puts down her suitcase, she barrels back outside and makes another trip to bring in a cooler, which she puts in her room. I am getting increasingly uncomfortable. She continues going in and out and finally brings in two dilapidated boxes of files and folders, stating she will be working on her research.
She stayed in her room all evening. The next day, as I was speaking online with a client in Tokyo, I heard her try to leave through her door, which was locked at the door knob and the deadbolt. She unlocked the knob and tried to open it. It would not open. She then turned it back to locked, and unlocked the deadbolt. Well, she never did unlock both at the same time, but she did keep twisting and shouting for quite some time.
My my client heard as her shouting got closer and she burst into my room where I was sitting at my desk. She crossed the room screaming and went straight for my locked door. This time, she turned both the knob and the deadbolt and angrily yanked the door open hard. As the force of her yanking caught on the chain lock, the door bounced back, slamming hard. Instead of unlocking the door chain, she merely yanked on the door again, slamming it in her face a second time.
I got up and opened the door for her and she tore out without a thank you. My client feared that I had been assaulted.
The next day, she was running late for a job interview and packing her things back in the car, steaming in and ur with her dusty boxes and her cooler and her bags. She told me that she was sorry, that she was just very stressed because she had rented an apartment, where she had lived for three months, until she realized that there were BEDBUGS there and so had been staying with her sister who had kicked her out. She apologized for not extending her stay for two more days and hoped I found a guest to rent my room, as she took off, weaving, down the rode, blowing through the stop sign by the elementary school.
I. RIPPED. THAT. WHOLE. FLAT. APART.
didnt find any bugs, but now I look askance at boxes.
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Post by CC on Jul 13, 2016 21:36:46 GMT
Oh good lord, Shaun!!!!
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Post by High Priestess on Jul 13, 2016 23:13:59 GMT
Yikes! I think the word "bedbugs" is probably the word Airbnb hosts fear the most....If I were a tenant who'd had bedbugs, I wouldn't go to someone's home! After doing heat sterilizing of all my items, I would go to a hotel, where they couldn't refuse me, or camp out in a park ....until I was sure I had no more bugs....
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Post by Inanna (Shaun) on Jul 14, 2016 2:22:28 GMT
I know, Deborah!! Right?!? To both be that inconsiderate and then, to tell me? I was stunned.
I found a company that that produces a non-toxic bedbug killer and used it preventively. It was A+ Natural Enzymes. I've never had a problem, either with bugs or any negative health response to the solution.
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