Health & Fitness
Pesky House Guest? Give Them the Cold Shoulder (Part 2)
Need your house guest to leave? Offer them a mutton omelette, mutton sandwich or mutton stew...and repeat.
Since it occurred to me that there is a flipside to "giving someone the cold shoulder." Done in a flirtatious and coy manner it can be a part of the courting process. The playful snub can add allure to the chase and conquest. In conclusion, the "cold shoulder" isn't always a negative act. Let us continue.
How to Encourage the Squatting House Guest to Leave
Solution: Cook mutton, serve for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Repeat.
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Recommended Mutton Recipe for Sqautters: Medieval Recipes
Take a legge of mutton and cot it in small slices, and put it in a chafer, and put therto a pottell of ale, and scome it cleane then putte therto seven or eyghte onions thyn slyced, and after they have boyled one hour, putte therto a dyshe of swete butter, and so lette them boyle tyll they be tender, and then put therto a lyttel peper and salte.
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There are two schools of thought when it comes to house guests:
The first, delighted with house guests, you have, Kahlil Gibran, who said, "If it were not for guests all houses would be graves."
And then, Erma Bombeck: "House guests should be regarded as perishables; leave them out too long and they go bad."
What are your time-tested solutions for the overfamiliar house guest?
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall is an etiquette consultant who owns Your Relationship Edge in which she teaches classes and presents workshops to a variety of audiences. She can be reached at rosalinda@yourrelationshipedge.com and her website is www.yourrelationshipedge.com. She can also be reached on Facebook.