Hello, we are your guests

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

For me, guests have always been divided into several categories. And the very process of "visiting" is far from unambiguous.

There are guests who can be compared to a natural disaster. Because they overtake at the most inopportune moment and leave behind irreparable damage in the form of an empty refrigerator, unbearable mess, used condoms (well, this is a young business, you can understand it!), if they stay for the night, something tasty to get on the table, turn on the music at full power (friends are more expensive than the nerves of neighbors). True, sometimes it gets enough that the hurricane of friends and comrades disappears just as it appears. And I am left with chaos as a reward for patience. But I am silent, I do not grumble, I do not express my displeasure one iota. And all because in a week I will be part of the same hurricane, and I will leave behind unwashed dishes, crumpled, unmade bed and some other traces of stay, which, perhaps, will be found under the bed in a month …

Such is the rhythm of life, such is our law "you are for me, I am for you." We have discussed many times that this is wrong, have repeatedly said that we will warn each other in advance, because it is not civil. Come on … But could it be otherwise? Prove to the flood (also a natural disaster) that it is doing badly, it’s time, they say, to change already …

But there is also a civilized kind of "visiting". True, we have not been fond of this for a long time. The essence of this type is that everyone contributes the N-th amount of money to the common pot. Then this bowler hat is solemnly handed over to someone, and he organizes a party for this amount, to which we come and, in essence, do the same (see above).

Here the percentage of the possibility of getting a shock is less. The moral and material costs are less. The same amount of cleaning in the morning. Actually, this way of organizing leisure time was inherited from our parents. It has its merits and demerits. For example, on a certain day, there is no desire to visit, but it is necessary, because they are waiting …

But the most interesting and pleasant guest is the man who knocked on my door at three o'clock in the morning !!! Parents, as expected, are the first to wake up at the knock. Mom starts frantically looking for a phone in the dark so that, if anything, call the police. At the same time, she uses a room flashlight, which she holds directly in front of her. Dad gives out on-the-mountain all the set of profanity in stock of mankind … and then he walks in his wide family shorts to open the door. At the same time, the tipsy friends outside the door expect that it will be me who will open the door for them. And as soon as the lock turns on the door, they start yelling:

The Pope is very wise. He launches all this crowd into my room. Let me remind you of the time about three in the morning … And, naturally, when I tear my eyes and see a crowd of some people near my bed, my heart jumps into my heels. From my ora neighbors are already waking up, who are not childishly beginning to knock on the wall … And in unison to dad to replenish stocks of new obscene words.

Friends can also fall asleep on the floor right here. Then in the morning, when I sometimes see completely unfamiliar people with familiar faces, I begin very quickly to think about what happened last night. But last night I went to bed with a book, after having carefully watched the program "Good night, kids!" In a word, sometimes with these guests it seems that the world has gone crazy and you are with it. But it's fun …

It seems that the doorbell is ringing …