My husband and I love to entertain. As gregarious people, living in a open plan house on an ample lot with an expansive view, we feel compelled to share.
Our home embodies our spirits of peace and joy.
But some invitees have tresspassed on our goodwill and brought hate and spite and (gasp – ?) envy into our home.
My husband thought this sign was too direct, demanding, too on the nose, so I camouflaged it behind an entry area plant. I didn’t get rid of it, I explained, because some invited guests let politics override their polite upbringing and were disturbing the peace of our home.
Our happy home needed house rules and the rules needed to be blunt.
Too many guests of our hospitality have been losers and/or louts. Mean-talking, on-sided political crap designed to create adversity and obliterate the peace we’ve cultivated in our home.
It’s our turf.
Our hospitality has extended beyond invited guests for parties we’ve hosted throughout the forty years we’ve lived in this house. We lived in two other places prior our longtime tenure here and, because we’ve moved from the Midwest to southern CA fifty years ago, a place with many tourtist attractions as well as a slew of sunny beaches, we’ve had hundreds of overnight guests. Most were awesome, supportive, and super good fun, but some were the bad apple type, for whom I wish I’d had the sign. Here’s a blog post from a dozen years ago, when I was irritated at amalgamated inconsiderate and/or stupid remarks: https://www.pjcolando.com/house-guest-3/
Let me query you, Constant Reader, what would you do if your patience were tried, if your hospitality was flouted, and guests threw mud in your eye? How long before you’d snap? What measures would you take, what solutions would you ply?
The new year is nigh and, with it, ways to amend and new means to resolve. What do you propose?
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