Hi all.... so I have found myself in a situation that after all of my guests I have not yet come across; dirty, messy house guests. I take immense pride in my home and keep it spotless even when I do not have guests in. I have these guests in for a week, and am already getting sick and tired of the mess less than halfway through their stay.
Thus far today, on my break from my actual job, I have hoovered enough crumbs off the kitchen floor and sides to rebuild a loaf of bread, cleaned the toothpaste spat all over the sink and mirror and cleared shards of broken glass (?) off of the rug in their room. I have never, ever encountered this before! It is an older man and his very young son but honestly I cannot work out which one is making the mess. I left the house to work with some of my patients for approximately four hours and left the place gleaming, and have come home to find mess everywhere I look. The other day there was a squashed tomato on my kitchen floor, and some odd sticky pink mess on the work surface that I cannot seem to get off no matter what I put on it. The bath mats are constantly left skew wiff - I go in, and put them back the way they are meant to be and literally moments later they have been slid all over the bathroom floor again. I feel like someone is messing with me.
They are not otherwise unpleasant - a little demanding with certain things (constant messages asking where they can buy things such as sugar free juice or gluten free bread - but asking repeatedly when I don't respond. In a city such as London, and particularly the area I live in, these things are not at all hard to ind just by taking a stroll down the high street)
I have printed house rules in their room that do say 'the cleaning fee is for cleaning at the end of your stay - please keep the house clean and tidy during your stay and respect it as you would your home' - I wonder if it might be worth bringing it up to them, or just grin and bear it and be glad they are leaving on Saturday.... another four nights/ days of cleaning up behind people. I don't know if I can cope . . . !