@Carmie wrote:
Long story...sorry.
As I have mentioned on here many times, we have a large RV permanently on land by a Lake. We spend most of our summers there.
A few times we have invited guests to join us and my children with their family will go there with or without us. We have never allowed anyone, except our children to use the place when we weren't there.
Two weeks ago, my DH informed me that someone he is friends with ( from work.) asked to use the RV. He was put on the spot and was hoping this guy would like our place and get an RV of his own and put it at the Lake too so they could pal around together.
We were scheduled to be there the week before last, and I wasn't thrilled about it, but by that time, I had no choice. So, we stayed home and this couple went.
On Sunday night a week ago, this couple knocked on our door. I have never met them before. They had a laundry basket with dirty bed, kitchen and bath linens and beach towels. They dropped them off for me to wash and return the next time we went to the lake. The linens are mine.
I was surprised. I would have laundered them first before I dropped them off, but figured they had no manners. Also, a sweatshirt that belong to my hubby was clearly worn by one of them was in the laundry basket too.
In with the dirty laundry were the shams to the master bed. I asked the wife why she brought them to me. She said her DH slept on them and they were now dirty.
I felt myself getting hot. Those shams get dry cleaned. Why didn't he remove them or use the other pillows on the bed that had clean pillow cases on them?
This past Saturday, we drove to the lake to return the linens and cut the grass and check on things. The place looked okay....not as clean as I leave it and the beds were not made. I always put clean linens on the bed before I leave so the next time we go, everything is fresh and clean and ready to be used. So we made the beds and straightened up. I made dinner before we drove home.
I noticed that food was missing from my freezer. I have a small chest freezer and also a full size refrigerator in our shed. A few weeks ago, we purchased six very expensive steaks because we were planning on having some friends join us for dinner. Instead, we went out to a restaurant, so I froze the steaks. Three of them were gone and some chicken was missing too. I was okay with that. I am sure they used food from the cupboards too.
Well, fast forward to 15 minutes ago. I got a call from the wife who said she left a bag of salad mix in the refrigerator in the veggie drawer. She asked if I saw it. I did not.
So, she told me that it is there and we should go ahead and eat it. She said my DH could pay her DH for it the next time they saw each other. What?!
I told her we do not eat prepackaged salad mix and I was not going to pay for it. This salad mix has been in the fridge a whole week now and we won't be back until this weekend.
So, out of the blue, she got an attitude and raised her voice at me. I just listened and said nothing....until she said, "next year, I will make sure to get everything out when we leave because you are a thief"
I calmly said, you are not invited to come back next year and hung up the phone.
I am in shock. They got a free weeks vacation with free groceries included as well as laundry service and they want us to pay for a salad mix?
I should send them the drying cleaning bill.
I can't wait to tell my DH about the call. He won't be inviting anyone to our place again...ever.
This is WHY we don’t rent our cabin out or allow anyone to stay there. We also don’t let some family members stay either because they wouldn’t respect the property.
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