The houseguest that FINALLY FREAKIN' LEFT! WOOOT!- Page 19

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:29pm

Thanks, SM2. Jersey Girl, I think you're going to have to do a daily recap, as this story is forever changing.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:29pm

Do you do windows?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:30pm

Well, not windows...

Are we talking about the same thing?

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 03:30 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:31pm

I was trying to keep it clean!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:32pm

Sorry, I don't clean.

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 03:32 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:35pm

(But yes, we were on the same page. I was just playing innocent.)

Recap: She has been here for 15 days, now. She has told us that she got a job. This new employer never called for references. She told us she was supposed to start this morning at 8. When the mom came home last night, the girl was crying and said that the job didn't start until Monday and that the family was away for the remainder of the week. A sucker for tears, the mom told her she coculd stay until Monday. It keeps getting fishier and fishier. I am not sure what happened to the friend that she was going to be able to stay with.

[Mamie]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:37pm

This has been a fascinating and highly entertaining thread. Only thing I'm absolutely certain of is that the parents need to get this lady away from their children as soon as possible. She has already shown a complete inability to judge the worth of others (ref the thieving boyfriend) so even if she isn't personally dangerous, her friends could be. They owe their first allegance to their kids.

I've known others who were basically very good people and who wanted to do what they could for others in need, thus leaving themselves vulnerable to exploitation. A cousin and his wife were in a similar bind a few years ago. They finally were able to cut the cords by providing their houseguest with room at a motel near the airport through the last date of 'unemployment'. They let their guest know that once they deposited her in the hotel, they would never have contact with her again. This allowed them the peace of mind of knowing they hadn't put her out on the street and IF she was telling the truth, she would have a home the following day. (Actually, in this case she was supposedly leaving the country the following week. They got her the hotel room through the last night before her departure.) Your people should - at the very least - do this with their 'guest' in order to get her out of the house as soon as possible. Otherwise she's just going to come up with one excuse after another to keep stretching it out.

(They also need to collect her house key - right now. Today. No advance warning to give her the chance to copy it.)

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:39pm

PT Barnum would have LOVED your employers, honey.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:40pm

Mamie, I suggested the motel idea several pages back, but no dice.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:54pm

Thanks, JG2, I feel so much better now that I'm up to date.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:54pm

Glad to be of service.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:56pm

What a coincidence! That was my parting line when I used to be in... the profession.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:57pm

Oh really? Very interesting.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 3:57pm

Dang, Stagey...you beat me to it!

(that was my line when I was in "the profession"...budumbump.)

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:00pm

Be back in a few hours, hookers!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:01pm

doodle, I also gave out breath mints on their way out.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:02pm

I was the one who gave breath mints on their way in!

I thought I recognized you!

[Incognito]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:03pm

Duw, duw duw, Nineteen pages and she's still there?

Who woulda thunk it...

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:05pm

Bad boys!
Get that crazy outta the house, STAT!

[YessicaB]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:07pm

Haha... you remind me of my friend. We were both Au-Pairs in the States and one of the previous nannies her family had employed called.... EVERYDAY! And wouldn't get of the phone for hours, the mom would tell my friend to lie and say that she wasn't there, etc. Problem is then the girl would chat friend up (even though at that stage she had never even met her), during the year that my friend worked for them this girl came to visit from Germany 4 times, each time staying several weeks.

The first time she announced that she would just share the bed with my friend, who quickly told her that that won't be happening and that she can stay on the couch on the living room.
I went to pick up my friend the next day and this girl had left her stuff all over the house... her dirty underwear was hanging over the coach, etc, I kid you not.

She then tried to tag along wherever we went and whenever my friend was working and told the kids that they will not be having candy for dinner (or whatever) she would then turn around and hand out cupcakes to the kids. It was just ridiculous.

You have no idea how many close to tears, ranting phonecalls I got from my friend when this chick was around. She was also leeching of the parents, making a mess of their house, using their car (without ever paying for gas), eating everything in sight and not helping out one bit...

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:07pm

doodle, I dress more conservatively now. I'm not surprised I wasn't initially familiar to you.

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 04:07 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:10pm

"Nineteen pages and she's still there?

Who woulda thunk it..."

*raises hand*

[Incognito]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:17pm

There ought to be a competition. How many pages until she leaves.

"This is the thread that never ends". A nod to the genius that was, Shari Lewis...

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/20/06 at 4:32pm

(sung to the tune of "The Song That Never Ends")

She is the guest that doesn't leave
She cries and gets one more reprieve
She'll stay in-definit'ly doing shrewdly what she does
And she'll continue leeching just forever and because
She is the guest that doesn't leave... (ad infinitum)

Updated On: 9/20/06 at 04:32 PM

Posted: 9/20/06 at 6:25pm

i loved Lambchop's friend Lolly Pinkus.