Recently, I've read some posts on here about how hosts showed hospitality to guests by having dinner or sharing food together, and I decided to do the same. So the day before yesterday, I took one of my guests to a dinner party (the other two would have loved to come but they had other plans).
Just when we started to eat, the guest suddently said that he didn't feel well and wanted to go home (my place). I was trying to follow him into the elevator when the door closed. And when I went down to the lobby, he was already gone.
We called him multiple times, and there was no answer. We searched for him in the neighbourhood but to no avail. We decided to go to the parking lot to see if his vehicle was still there, and it was there. So we left a note on his windshield asking him to call me back. And then we went back to my friend's condo and continued the search from one cafe/bar to another...
Two hours later, I called him again and he finally answered the phone. I asked him where he was, and he said he was in a hospital. I asked which hospital, and he said he had no idea. I asked him to hand the phone to the nurse, and I heard that he was at the ER of the xxx Hospital. He felt sick and had called an ambulance.
When we drove to the hospital, we saw him sitting in a corner of the ER waiting for doctors. He said he was better and wanted to leave. But he still couldn't drive, so I had to drive him home. But the next morning he had gotten completely well and apologized for having freaked out the previous day.
I was thinking, Oh My God, what am I doing? I meant well and wanted to be as hospitable as I could and then this. No more crossing the line to be hospitable. Always keep a distance!
