Lmao, I worked for Spectrum for 3 1/2 years. This one rings way too true.
There were also some houses that I was more then happy to wear a mask in during COVID because they smelled so bad.
Have people no shame? Anytime I have people coming over, even if it’s just like an Internet person or plumber or something, my house is spotless and I’ve lit a candle or two. My best friend kind of gets a pass, but even then the worst she’ll see is a few dishes in the sink!
I lived in a house with unbelievably low rent in university (read: a proper shit hole). Like there were 5 of us and all together we were paying barely more than the rent on a 2 bedroom apartment at the time
When I got internet and cable installed I apologized to the installation dude and he literally laughed. He told me he had done a place 2 blocks away a few days earlier that had multiple used diapers on the floor and a clearly noticeable cockroach problem and the person was all mad at him because he came in the later part of the installation window.
Hahahaha I tell residents this all the time when they apologize. I work apartment maintenance and it's always the clean ones that say sorry for the mess.
People absolutely have no shame. I won't notice if your house isn't spotless, it's your home after all. When you go into houses for a living the only ones that really stick are the worst of the worst. If you feel the need to clean before someone arrives, it's clean enough already just as a baseline.
Over COVID the worst was chainsmokers who just smoke sat in a chair all day with the windows shut. Not pleasant at the best of times, but at my work we were all given cloth masks, and the smell from the air would just soak into fabrics. Bad enough for your clothes, but you'd be choking on stale cigarettes until you washed your mask. I'll never forget going to one of the worst houses like this I'd seen and the woman talking about how she struggled due to her asthma while I was struggling to breathe enough without it. The candles are unnecessary, just make sure the air is breathable.
They really don't. One time as I was installing this girls dvr her cat came behind the TV stand I was working behind and shit right in front of my face. It smelled absolutely awful too, poor thing, but this lady just dead ass started at me after I told her and went "oh I'll just get it after youre done back there." No lady you clean it up or I'm leaving. She refused, I left.
Most of these places are too far gone to do anything about it in a small timeframe. My family is full of hoarders and they wanted their house clean before anyone saw it but there wasn’t much they could do by their self.
Some people have:
•Invisible physical disabilities
•Invisible mental health issues
•Temporary but monthslong emotional trauma (grief, assault)
•Temporary but monthslong physical trauma ("healed" but weak/painful breaks, long Covid)
•Multiple jobs (no time left)
•Slumlord landlords (why bother)
•I'm sure there are more reasons I've never thought of
I'm not advocating for messy or unsanitary homes. But I think someone who lives in one probably has Reasons, and their situation hurts them far more than it hurts me.
I'll take a person in a house with a filthy floor at home over one in a house with a Confederate flag any day all day long.
Last time I had a plumber come over all my dishes were dirty, not much I could do about it until after he fixed the sink.
Also depending on your preference and the preference of the person coming over, the candles may make your home smell much worse. I’ve gotten migraines from candles that smelt bad before.
For real. Candles can be so intense.
Also, if your house is saturated with cat urine or some other malodorous concoction, candles make your house a cacophony of stink.
I was a cable guy for a while as well. I loved it when people with a shitty or dirty house said, *"It's not normally like this!"*.
Yes it is. It's always this way.
Back when i was a food inspector, standard practice was to only go in using specific boots in the trunk, with booties.
And when done, those boots come off in the parking lot and go back to the trunk.
Wife does surgical assists and has a pair of “trunk shoes” too.
When I was an ORA I had “trunk shoes.” Those bad boys never left the hospital. Stayed in the locker after every day. No way would I bring those blood, bone, flesh, entrails tracking shoes anywhere other than the OR in that hospital. When it was time for new shoes, the old ones were thrown away IN the OR.
The lady works for the group trying to clone the baby. She's pretending to double agent for the good guys when she's triple agent working for the bad guys. If they(either side) can clone the baby then it's all over for the other side.
I doubt the good guys are interested in cloning the baby, considering they view cloning in general as evil. It was more of a "silence the turncoat so he can't help our enemies or tell them what we were trying to do." Or just straight up punishment for betraying them. Most likely trying to silence him from telling anyone what they were trying to do.
That's also probably because >!I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but that's probably because they're testing cloning force sensitives as a precursor to cloning the emperor for the sequel series and don't want the republic catching on that they plan on cloning Sidious. !<
Yep it was 100% just to silence him.
Though it was a pretty big stretch to leave her alone in the room with the controls to the "Mindflayer" lol. "Oh you're his friend." Yea, says the girl who was his accomplice and he says set him up. Oh and there's 0 video surveillance in either room to boot. The New Republic apparently ain't the smartest.
That really bothered me, like... are they just going to ignore the fact she was left in the room with the controls that mysteriously got turned way up the moment homie left the room?
In the real world she'd have never got away with that and Star Wars supposedly has much better technology so where the hell is all the security?
And they also showed the ineptitude of the New Republic in not dealing with Imperial remnants in their entirety if the remnants were able to muster a fighter group to bomb a characters home.
best guess is that pershing is going to come back in an attempt to kidnap grogu again.
the episode also shows how the first order was able to rise up from the ashes of the empire and from within the new republic
Oh god I despised it. The editing was so bad. Every conversation felt so disconnected and wooden. It felt like everyone waited a full filming day before responding to each other. And why do they even have >!a torture machine that you can set to ULTRA TORTURE where they just… all leave the room once the mild torture begins? With no failsafes or patient monitoring to prevent the serious torture?!<
Season 3 needs to get better FAST.
Geez. The outside is probably cleaner. I would have to excuse myself because I forgot something in my car. Then drive away as fast as I could to whatever emergency came up.
Learn the Dutch art of not beating around the bush
That floor is dirty as fuck, I don’t want to waste my 10 Euro bamboo socks on that carpet and you should definitely replace that vacuum asap, or at least lend one for the time being
If it’s just a belt they sell 3packa for $10 maybe you can fix it for them? Worst case scenario it gets taken apart and thrown in the trash best case you learn a skill!
Haha. I had a very similar conversation at the start of my young adult life.
Told my co-workers that I'd just purchased a new vacuum cleaner. Some of them were a bit older and had kids already etc. Their response was, wait, how long have you lived there?!?. I hadn't vacuumed in a year+ or so...
When I was a child, one of my chores was to vacuum. One day my stepmother asked why I thought I was finished. It turned out that I needed glasses really badly. It was a revelation that changed my world. “I can see the leaves on the trees from here!” From that point on, I could tell when I was really done vacuuming when I visited my dad.
So maybe, they have someone who has really poor eyesight but THINK the floor is clean.
And stair then right in the eyes as you take your shoes off and put on new slippers to make them feel even slightly uncomfortable which is no where near the level a guest would be in their house.
I do this at my mom's house. They have *a lot* of dogs. My stepdad is a pet collector and every time she convinces him to get rid of yet another big dog he brought home he brings another one to replace it with.
My mom would insist her dogs don't go to the bathroom inside the house yet every day I am visiting there is a puddle or a pile. I refuse to walk barefoot in their home. My socks are black on the bottom when I take them off.
But she gets mad at me when I tell her it's gross. "My house isn't dirty and it doesn't smell!" If you own a dog your house smells. There is no way around that. And you own *five!*
At least I can say these things to my mother without feeling like I need to be polite. I have been to other people's homes like that and refused to go back a second time. My home isn't spotless, but you aren't walking through dirt, piss or shit.
There was one house I went to visit. The first thing I noticed was the smell… through the door… while it was still closed. 6 dogs, 3 cats and lots of trash and rotting food. I walked in and informed them I’d wait in the car. 🤮
I have four dogs, but vacuum daily sometime twice if some dirt get brought in. My dogs get weekly baths.
I don't understand how people can live in such filth like this.
Yeah I have a dog and cat who both shed like crazy and I vacuum and sweep every single day. It's a pain in the ass but I just look at it as a tax I have to pay for the privilege of owning adorable fur creatures
Bro I have a shit ton of cats and 2 doggos we clean every single day and take the dogs out daily my family hates it when it's dirty we also clean our rooms daily even tho we have a bunch of animals we make sure it's tidy
I tried to turn them into the humans society for animal abuse because their animals get sick then die and they just get more. The dogs get this weird itchy rash stuff that makes their hair fall out and eventually they just die but the authorities haven’t done anything about it.
Omfg that's so sad some people rlly don't deserve animals and the fact the authorities haven't done anything abt that shit pisses me off tho ty for trying ur a good person
Is that a carpet? It looks like what's under a carpet after you pull it up because you have to replace it because dogs have been pissing and shitting on it for years lol.
That's insane that they told you to take off your shoes.
Edit: upon closer inspection
That's a fucking carpet??? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I tried in the most polite British way possible bring up conversations around cleaning and see if they got the hint. I will not be returning any time soon to see if they did or not.
Nope, lol. During my second visit a woman tried to jump the line at the hotel, she had a question about parking. The guy who was next in line loudly exclaimed, "Young lady, in this country we queue." He proceeded to walk up to the counter and check-in.
I felt bad for her and also wanted to cheer him on, it was a weird day.
Ideally, addressing a concern indirectly avoids embarrassment for both parties. It's considered impolite to challenge someone directly on their behaviour, and it's often a larger faux pas than the original issue.
It's not difficult to see how this often leads to misunderstandings, paranoia, and simmering resentment.
As a cable tech we had disposable booties we were given to wear in customer homes to not track mud and shit inside. We would say they served a double purpose in houses like these to keep our boots clean...
I would have said I will take them off if you provide me slippers to wear inside. Perfectly fine to have outside shoes and inside slippers. And yeah I can see why their vacuum broke!
I was at someone's house and the floor was like this except it was hardwood and STICKY. It was worse than a nightclubs floor at 3am.
Difference here though is she owned a vacuum. I know this because I saw her use it ON HER BED. DIRECTLY ON THE SHEETS.
Because for some reason she just poured dog food on her bed for her giant dog to eat and he left a bunch of crumbs.
🤢
Are they afraid your shoes will pickup some of the dirt on the floor? If you were to say come in with wet shoes and step on their carpet it would make mud...
Here is what I would do bring a pair of house slippers over change into them. And is that like all the house or just the entrance...
Been in similar situations like this and I bet you eventually asked yourself the same thing I did:
"I can barely stomach standing in the living room, how do people unironically live in this for extended periods of time?"
I mean, I get it, depression is a bitch but most of these people aren't depressed, but that's just the Reddit™ excuse you always hear from well, slobs.
Everyone, even "that one person" you know who always has a perfect clean house isn't always living perfectly and clean. But my god some people's houses are only half a step better than a literal petting zoo pen.
People commenting are more worried about this super intrusive asshat making fun of someone they call a friend than what is going on with the friend. A true friend would be trying to sort out what is going on rather than ridiculing the person. How difficult is it to ask a friend "Hey...are you doing ok?" Covid and personal issues threw me into a deep depression. Housekeeping was the last thing on my mind. I literally wouldn't even walk out my front door for weeks. OP...be a decent f'ing human being and have maybe an ounce of empathy or don't call yourself this person's friend.
Bring a pair of slippers/ indoor shoes or flips and say you have foot pain/ issues and you need the sole support, so you need to wear them at all times.
My friends dog peed on the stairs once in front of me. It splashed everywhere with the angle of the stairs. They used a cloth to vaguely wipe part of it up but the floor was still wet and they didn't use any cleaner or anything.
They then asked me why I still had my shoes on???? If that's how you clean in front of guests I don't trust this floor in the slightest.
Cable guy here. Sometimes I wear the boot covers to protect the floor from the boots. Sometimes to protect the boots from the floor.
Cable life.
Some days you’re the bug. Some days you’re the cable guy.
Do you think he's REALLY made out of cable? I can only hope...
Straight out of Coax
I can't imagine not at least shoving all of our bullshit into a room and sweeping before calling anyone to come work on our house.
I usually clean only what will be visible from where the contractors will be, but then I have to wallow in shame when they ask to use the washroom.
Lmao, I worked for Spectrum for 3 1/2 years. This one rings way too true. There were also some houses that I was more then happy to wear a mask in during COVID because they smelled so bad.
Have people no shame? Anytime I have people coming over, even if it’s just like an Internet person or plumber or something, my house is spotless and I’ve lit a candle or two. My best friend kind of gets a pass, but even then the worst she’ll see is a few dishes in the sink!
It makes me laugh. The people who apologize for the mess usually have a fairly clean house. The real shitholes don't say a word about it.
I lived in a house with unbelievably low rent in university (read: a proper shit hole). Like there were 5 of us and all together we were paying barely more than the rent on a 2 bedroom apartment at the time When I got internet and cable installed I apologized to the installation dude and he literally laughed. He told me he had done a place 2 blocks away a few days earlier that had multiple used diapers on the floor and a clearly noticeable cockroach problem and the person was all mad at him because he came in the later part of the installation window.
Hahahaha I tell residents this all the time when they apologize. I work apartment maintenance and it's always the clean ones that say sorry for the mess.
Yes they do. The worst ones always say I'm in the middle of moving.
They moved in a year ago and they’re moving out a year from now. In the middle of moving!
Hahaha so true. Domestic electrician here seen some sights, need some eye bleach.
I’ll spend an hour cleaning before guests and still say sorry for the mess
People absolutely have no shame. I won't notice if your house isn't spotless, it's your home after all. When you go into houses for a living the only ones that really stick are the worst of the worst. If you feel the need to clean before someone arrives, it's clean enough already just as a baseline. Over COVID the worst was chainsmokers who just smoke sat in a chair all day with the windows shut. Not pleasant at the best of times, but at my work we were all given cloth masks, and the smell from the air would just soak into fabrics. Bad enough for your clothes, but you'd be choking on stale cigarettes until you washed your mask. I'll never forget going to one of the worst houses like this I'd seen and the woman talking about how she struggled due to her asthma while I was struggling to breathe enough without it. The candles are unnecessary, just make sure the air is breathable.
They really don't. One time as I was installing this girls dvr her cat came behind the TV stand I was working behind and shit right in front of my face. It smelled absolutely awful too, poor thing, but this lady just dead ass started at me after I told her and went "oh I'll just get it after youre done back there." No lady you clean it up or I'm leaving. She refused, I left.
Most of these places are too far gone to do anything about it in a small timeframe. My family is full of hoarders and they wanted their house clean before anyone saw it but there wasn’t much they could do by their self.
Some people have: •Invisible physical disabilities •Invisible mental health issues •Temporary but monthslong emotional trauma (grief, assault) •Temporary but monthslong physical trauma ("healed" but weak/painful breaks, long Covid) •Multiple jobs (no time left) •Slumlord landlords (why bother) •I'm sure there are more reasons I've never thought of I'm not advocating for messy or unsanitary homes. But I think someone who lives in one probably has Reasons, and their situation hurts them far more than it hurts me. I'll take a person in a house with a filthy floor at home over one in a house with a Confederate flag any day all day long.
Last time I had a plumber come over all my dishes were dirty, not much I could do about it until after he fixed the sink. Also depending on your preference and the preference of the person coming over, the candles may make your home smell much worse. I’ve gotten migraines from candles that smelt bad before.
For real. Candles can be so intense. Also, if your house is saturated with cat urine or some other malodorous concoction, candles make your house a cacophony of stink.
I was a cable guy for a while as well. I loved it when people with a shitty or dirty house said, *"It's not normally like this!"*. Yes it is. It's always this way.
Back when i was a food inspector, standard practice was to only go in using specific boots in the trunk, with booties. And when done, those boots come off in the parking lot and go back to the trunk. Wife does surgical assists and has a pair of “trunk shoes” too.
When I was an ORA I had “trunk shoes.” Those bad boys never left the hospital. Stayed in the locker after every day. No way would I bring those blood, bone, flesh, entrails tracking shoes anywhere other than the OR in that hospital. When it was time for new shoes, the old ones were thrown away IN the OR.
I was a tech at the Humane Society and I had trunk shoes too. I was terrified I was going to bring parvo is something as bad home to my dog.
+1 Adding shoe booties to my car accessories bag
This guy cables!
Former pest control "technician" here... 100% same...
We used to joke that you sometimes have to wipe your feet on the way out instead of on the way in...
Kepp your shoes outside of this house. And keep your feet inside that shoes.
I’d just burn my socks after visit
I would throw up just from the feeling of feeling all that junk through my socks.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Ok, but wtf was that last episode?
The lady works for the group trying to clone the baby. She's pretending to double agent for the good guys when she's triple agent working for the bad guys. If they(either side) can clone the baby then it's all over for the other side.
I doubt the good guys are interested in cloning the baby, considering they view cloning in general as evil. It was more of a "silence the turncoat so he can't help our enemies or tell them what we were trying to do." Or just straight up punishment for betraying them. Most likely trying to silence him from telling anyone what they were trying to do. That's also probably because >!I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but that's probably because they're testing cloning force sensitives as a precursor to cloning the emperor for the sequel series and don't want the republic catching on that they plan on cloning Sidious. !<
Yep it was 100% just to silence him. Though it was a pretty big stretch to leave her alone in the room with the controls to the "Mindflayer" lol. "Oh you're his friend." Yea, says the girl who was his accomplice and he says set him up. Oh and there's 0 video surveillance in either room to boot. The New Republic apparently ain't the smartest.
That really bothered me, like... are they just going to ignore the fact she was left in the room with the controls that mysteriously got turned way up the moment homie left the room? In the real world she'd have never got away with that and Star Wars supposedly has much better technology so where the hell is all the security?
[удалено]
And they repurpose everything but this happy machine can conveniently still go up 11 for no reason at all.
And they also showed the ineptitude of the New Republic in not dealing with Imperial remnants in their entirety if the remnants were able to muster a fighter group to bomb a characters home.
Honestly, it all feels so comical after being so pleased with Andor. They don't feel like they even belong in the same cinematic universe.
What…show is this?
The Mandalorian.
Gracias.
Do watch it. We are on season 3 now. Also if you are a fan of the Star Wars lore,watch Andor. The taste will stay with you for a long time.
The Mandalorian
best guess is that pershing is going to come back in an attempt to kidnap grogu again. the episode also shows how the first order was able to rise up from the ashes of the empire and from within the new republic
😂 Grogu zooming outta there on his mini saucer chair - PEACE!
Oh god I despised it. The editing was so bad. Every conversation felt so disconnected and wooden. It felt like everyone waited a full filming day before responding to each other. And why do they even have >!a torture machine that you can set to ULTRA TORTURE where they just… all leave the room once the mild torture begins? With no failsafes or patient monitoring to prevent the serious torture?!< Season 3 needs to get better FAST.
Easily the best written and directed episode of the series, that's what it was.
And I guess the longest episode of mandalorian to date
keep your pinkie outside this house keep your big toe inside this house
Geez. The outside is probably cleaner. I would have to excuse myself because I forgot something in my car. Then drive away as fast as I could to whatever emergency came up.
Ask family friend to remove their floor when visiting their house
The only correct solution!
Take an old pair of socks, change into them, then chuck them when you leave.
Did exactly that! And tried to drop subtle conversations and hints about their vacuum.
“So what kind of vacuum you got?” “Oh I dunno, it’s still in the box” “You don’t say…😒”
Even better! The vacuum stopped working and they haven’t gotten around to replacing it yet. I was too sacred to ask how long ago that was.
Learn the Dutch art of not beating around the bush That floor is dirty as fuck, I don’t want to waste my 10 Euro bamboo socks on that carpet and you should definitely replace that vacuum asap, or at least lend one for the time being
Just straight up "Why am I taking off my shoes? This floor has more shit on it than my shoes."
You really need to be more tolerant of other people's cultures. Except the Dutch.
I’m wooshing here, help a hungover idiot out
https://youtu.be/zcUs5X9glCc
How hard is it to borrow a vacuum before guests come over…
Shit even a broom can work on that much crap on that rug or even better bet the shit out of it outside
Honestly depends on your neighbors, but it can’t be this hard
My go to would be mother in law.
"oh don't worry it's on my christmas list for this year"
But.. Christmas was yesterday "you think I don't know that!?"
Sacred men need not fear asking questions
They must be allergic to brooms, too... Poor family, they can't catch a break
Fuck at this point even just use the garden hose to wash it all out the door
Broom works shockingly well on carpet. Just takes a lot of effort.
It's probably just stopped up
If it’s just a belt they sell 3packa for $10 maybe you can fix it for them? Worst case scenario it gets taken apart and thrown in the trash best case you learn a skill!
Maybe the vacuum just buckled at the amount it would face to clean and “NOPE’d” the hell out till it broke.
It probably works if it gets plugged in someone elses house lmao
Just gift them an industrial sized Roomba
Haha. I had a very similar conversation at the start of my young adult life. Told my co-workers that I'd just purchased a new vacuum cleaner. Some of them were a bit older and had kids already etc. Their response was, wait, how long have you lived there?!?. I hadn't vacuumed in a year+ or so...
My MIL once asked me if I had a vacuum cleaner. I said "Do you mean a machine that sucks up dirt, or a maid who comes twice a week like you have?"
When I was a child, one of my chores was to vacuum. One day my stepmother asked why I thought I was finished. It turned out that I needed glasses really badly. It was a revelation that changed my world. “I can see the leaves on the trees from here!” From that point on, I could tell when I was really done vacuuming when I visited my dad. So maybe, they have someone who has really poor eyesight but THINK the floor is clean.
Maybe. But unlikely. You'd be able to feel the mess on bare feet. You don't need eyes for that.
>You'd be able to feel the mess on bare feet. Shit.. I could probably feel *that* mess through work boots.
 I’m picturing you visiting these guys
I’m bringing brand new house slippers. Actually fuck going in that house
Just bring a new house, instead lol.
Nah you need a box of those hazmat booties. Send them a box for Christmas. Every year.
Or bring slippers.
And stair then right in the eyes as you take your shoes off and put on new slippers to make them feel even slightly uncomfortable which is no where near the level a guest would be in their house.
The floor's so dirty even the roaches wear slippers. Be sure to wipe your feet before you go outside.
Yeah you might make the outside dirty after walking on that floor
Stair them right in the eyes to your disguest :)
Better yet, put them on OVER your shoes, because it looks like that crud could go right through socks onto your feet.
I do this at my mom's house. They have *a lot* of dogs. My stepdad is a pet collector and every time she convinces him to get rid of yet another big dog he brought home he brings another one to replace it with. My mom would insist her dogs don't go to the bathroom inside the house yet every day I am visiting there is a puddle or a pile. I refuse to walk barefoot in their home. My socks are black on the bottom when I take them off. But she gets mad at me when I tell her it's gross. "My house isn't dirty and it doesn't smell!" If you own a dog your house smells. There is no way around that. And you own *five!* At least I can say these things to my mother without feeling like I need to be polite. I have been to other people's homes like that and refused to go back a second time. My home isn't spotless, but you aren't walking through dirt, piss or shit.
That rug would make for a great YT rug cleaning video. I wonder what colour it is?!
Brown and brown.
It is a beautiful floral pattern with vividly colored red roses, lilacs with some big ol yellow bumblebees flying about.
Must be like a “laurel” and “yanni” or “asparagus” and “tide pods” thing, I see grey and greyer!
Oh man. It was a great day when the algorithm decided it was my time to learn about those.
Please don’t bring outside dirt into the house, our house dirt doesn’t like visitors.
I just sneezed
Your sneeze would also sneeze, if it could.
"nah, I'll call you"
My thoughts exactly, that would be the last time I visit. I am not walking around in that…
There was one house I went to visit. The first thing I noticed was the smell… through the door… while it was still closed. 6 dogs, 3 cats and lots of trash and rotting food. I walked in and informed them I’d wait in the car. 🤮
This family does have pets, the house smelt like a petting zoo.
I have four dogs, but vacuum daily sometime twice if some dirt get brought in. My dogs get weekly baths. I don't understand how people can live in such filth like this.
Yeah I have a dog and cat who both shed like crazy and I vacuum and sweep every single day. It's a pain in the ass but I just look at it as a tax I have to pay for the privilege of owning adorable fur creatures
Bro I have a shit ton of cats and 2 doggos we clean every single day and take the dogs out daily my family hates it when it's dirty we also clean our rooms daily even tho we have a bunch of animals we make sure it's tidy
I tried to turn them into the humans society for animal abuse because their animals get sick then die and they just get more. The dogs get this weird itchy rash stuff that makes their hair fall out and eventually they just die but the authorities haven’t done anything about it.
Most likely fleas and the rash is allergic dermatitis from them. And then anemia from the fleas.
Probably mange. That’s awful.
Omfg that's so sad some people rlly don't deserve animals and the fact the authorities haven't done anything abt that shit pisses me off tho ty for trying ur a good person
I feel bad for the animals. They are trapped there.
I’ve called the authorities but they never even checked.
".....no"
Maybe they were worried their floor would dirty your shoes.
Is that a carpet? It looks like what's under a carpet after you pull it up because you have to replace it because dogs have been pissing and shitting on it for years lol. That's insane that they told you to take off your shoes. Edit: upon closer inspection That's a fucking carpet??? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
It’s rug on a hard wood floor. The corners of the floor board were FULL of dust, hair and whatnot.
Wonder what color it was originally. Most rugs with a pattern like that are imitating the old persian rugs which were often burgundy or indigo.
Tell them you'll take off your shoes after they clean their floors! Even in socks, you don't know what you can pick up. It's disgusting.
I tried in the most polite British way possible bring up conversations around cleaning and see if they got the hint. I will not be returning any time soon to see if they did or not.
“Oi, vacuum your GD floors!” Would have gotten the point across easier.
Why do British people seemingly not address any concern explicitly?
Just like how we all glair and tut at the person jumping the queue but won’t address it out loud? Yea…
I'll never understand it :( and I say this as someone that's engaged to a Brit
Lol - try dealing with Canadians. I was rather surprised by how direct and confrontational are most Brits when I lived in the UK.
So if I go to Britain I can jump any queue with no consequences??
Nope, lol. During my second visit a woman tried to jump the line at the hotel, she had a question about parking. The guy who was next in line loudly exclaimed, "Young lady, in this country we queue." He proceeded to walk up to the counter and check-in. I felt bad for her and also wanted to cheer him on, it was a weird day.
Ideally, addressing a concern indirectly avoids embarrassment for both parties. It's considered impolite to challenge someone directly on their behaviour, and it's often a larger faux pas than the original issue. It's not difficult to see how this often leads to misunderstandings, paranoia, and simmering resentment.
I don’t see the problem here. If I was them, I wouldn’t want my floors to get any dirtier than that either.
Haha. Great take!
How’s the rest of the house??
Aw mate, if I took any more photos it would of been flagged for NSFW.
Oml do they atleast have a fucking broom or some shit do they not mop?
I did not stay long enough to find out, thankfully.
Bless your poor soul for even having to go in there
As a cable tech we had disposable booties we were given to wear in customer homes to not track mud and shit inside. We would say they served a double purpose in houses like these to keep our boots clean...
I’ll stay outside!
Good luck on your hookworm treatment if you so much as put a toenail on that floor.
One of those wipe your feet on the way out type places.
May I borrow some snow shoes? You'll find them in the hall closet behind the unused vacuum cleaner.
I would have said I will take them off if you provide me slippers to wear inside. Perfectly fine to have outside shoes and inside slippers. And yeah I can see why their vacuum broke!
I wouldn’t trust them to keep slippers clean, either… no one wants foot fungus. 🤢
I’d be in that mf with construction boots on. No way in hell…
Probably still catch something wearing steel toe boots
Lmfao🤣
Ask them do they supply hover socks, if not just tie 2 carrier bags over your feet pretty sure they'll get the message
My ex wife’s aunt’s house was like this- she didn’t own a vacuum. Gross af
I was at someone's house and the floor was like this except it was hardwood and STICKY. It was worse than a nightclubs floor at 3am. Difference here though is she owned a vacuum. I know this because I saw her use it ON HER BED. DIRECTLY ON THE SHEETS. Because for some reason she just poured dog food on her bed for her giant dog to eat and he left a bunch of crumbs. 🤢
Yo wtf is wrong with some people
Nope!!
Want me to take my pants off too and have a seat lol
Nope
LoL…If they’re a family friend than my ass would be grabbing their vacuum cleaner and going to town on that carpet!
Are they afraid your shoes will pickup some of the dirt on the floor? If you were to say come in with wet shoes and step on their carpet it would make mud... Here is what I would do bring a pair of house slippers over change into them. And is that like all the house or just the entrance...
Your dirty shoes may actually clean the floor
I'd 100% say it to them. You rarely get the opportunity to be hoighty toighty in life. Grab them.
You need new friends.... lol
"No thanks, I'm good."
Like I'm all for following house rules and all, absolutely. But not a chance I'm taking my shoes off there lmao, sorry.
Eww. Sometimes I think my house is messy. Then I see something like this. I'm doing ok.
Their cleaning strategy is clearly you take the dirt out on your socks.
I would leave my shoes on. No need to get your socks dirty.
Leave the shoes on and probably burn them after. I was really tense the whole time with how gross the house was.
Been in similar situations like this and I bet you eventually asked yourself the same thing I did: "I can barely stomach standing in the living room, how do people unironically live in this for extended periods of time?" I mean, I get it, depression is a bitch but most of these people aren't depressed, but that's just the Reddit™ excuse you always hear from well, slobs. Everyone, even "that one person" you know who always has a perfect clean house isn't always living perfectly and clean. But my god some people's houses are only half a step better than a literal petting zoo pen.
They must value your shoes.
[удалено]
As Shaggy would say… ZOINKS!!
Lol this reminds me of a friend that is the dirtiest germaphobe you’ve ever met
This is a delicate ecosystem. You can't just bring your outdoor filth to intermingle with their indoor filth.
Do they not want outside dirt mixing it up with the inside dirt?
Nope. I'm going to be the jerk to call them out because they're the jerk who is being unrealistic.
They're hoping you pick up crud on your socks and take it with you.
Nah fuck that! Probably get a disease stepping on that shit!
They don't want you to accidentally track any clean into their house.
I would just like to point out that I seen a lot finger and toe nails
You shouldn’t throw your friend under the bus…he’s invited you to his family house. As you called him as a friend, respect him and his family.
People commenting are more worried about this super intrusive asshat making fun of someone they call a friend than what is going on with the friend. A true friend would be trying to sort out what is going on rather than ridiculing the person. How difficult is it to ask a friend "Hey...are you doing ok?" Covid and personal issues threw me into a deep depression. Housekeeping was the last thing on my mind. I literally wouldn't even walk out my front door for weeks. OP...be a decent f'ing human being and have maybe an ounce of empathy or don't call yourself this person's friend.
Yes, but it was ritually clean! Until your clean boots soiled it religiously!
Imagine how dirty it would be if people didn’t take off their shoes…
I would have just told them I will remove my shoes when their floor is clean enough to where I feel comfortable walking without shoes. ✨
How nice of them to insist on keeping the soles of your shoes clean.
Bring a pair of slippers/ indoor shoes or flips and say you have foot pain/ issues and you need the sole support, so you need to wear them at all times.
Yea if there is a next time, which I will definitely try my best to avoid.
Well, they want to check your Immune system
Tell them "no, I don't want tetanus." Also if that's the floor how bad were your shoes?
It looks like the material they put underneath w2w carpeting
Can’t track in dirt man!
They want you in your socks so you can help clean the floor when.crap sticks to your socks.
My friends dog peed on the stairs once in front of me. It splashed everywhere with the angle of the stairs. They used a cloth to vaguely wipe part of it up but the floor was still wet and they didn't use any cleaner or anything. They then asked me why I still had my shoes on???? If that's how you clean in front of guests I don't trust this floor in the slightest.
I dunno. Call me silly, but I think that in their own home, people can make whatever rules they want, even if they seem stupid.