Something that has surprised and baffled me since I started hosting is how many times I’ve scratched my head over certain conditions, configurations, object placements, etc. that I have found after guest departure. In my wildest imagination, I can’t envision the reasoning or scenarios for some of the things I’ve found. Off the top of my head, I’ve found:
1) Dining room table scratched *under* the glass
2) Bleached, half-moon shapes discoloring the fabric of a dining room chair
3) Various Mystery Substances on sheets, towels, counters and the floor
4) A slightly bent ceiling fan. (What were they doing, swinging on it? Drying their clothes on the blades?)
5) Furniture moved to completely nonsensical locations
6) Knife scratchings in the wax of our flameless candles
…and my personal favorite
7) Footprints on the walls near the ceiling. Yes, you read that right. The ceiling!
Given enough time to go through my notes, I can probably find 20 more “head-scratchers”.
How about you? What have you found at your place after check-out that wasn’t necessarily or specifically evil or negligent, but that you couldn’t for the life of you figure out the guests’ thought processes, no matter how hard you tried?
