28/04/2024
WEEKEND NUGGET:
When you visit people, no matter how close you are to them, be sensitive and donât do any of these things:
âDonât walk into their house with your shoe unless they asked you to do so. Itâs always more respectful to remove your shoes at the doorstep especially if you didnât come with a car (if you must enter with your shoe, make sure you use the doormat correctly).
âDonât sit on the one-sitter sofa. In most houses, the one-sitter Sofa is usually the favorite of the owner of the house. Instead, sit on the 2 or 3 sitters' sofa. The sitters are for everyone.
âMind your leg. Itâs very annoying to march on the sits of your host. Some of you are used to carelessly putting your foot on whatever chair you are sitting on. This is the most important of them all. Keep your foot on the floor or top of your other leg. If you donât comport yourself, donât feel embarrassed if your host tells you to bring down your foot. If everyone marches on the chair that way, you would be the first to tell how dirty your host's sofas are.
âWhen they offer you bottled water, ask for a cup if you know that you wonât be able to finish the full bottle. If you drank directly from the bottle, ensure you leave with the remaining water. Donât open, kiss, and leave the rest behind. No one would drink it and your host wonât be happy throwing it away. This one annoys the most. I hate wasting water and food and itâs not about the money. Some people donât have good water to drink or food to eat.
âIf your host is a bachelor and you have access to his kitchen. Whatever you dirty in the kitchen, clean it up. Donât mess up his kitchen and leave it behind like that. Whoâs going to clean it?
âWhatever you touch, ensure you keep it the way it was. I donât like my house being disorganized. Everything has its place. Donât get over-familiar with your host and disrespect his or her house. Make your host want to have you around longer than wish you should leave immediately. This is one of the reasons why some people leave alone. They donât want to come in and see the pillows of chairs on the floor or the books on the bookshelf turned upside down. At least, not until one gets married and have kids.
âLastly, donât make videos in people's private houses without their permission. A house boy that used to leave with a neighbour would wake up early in the morning and start video calls with people I don't know and even capture me on boxers. Ha! He would walk from one end of the house to another with his camera trying to impress his girls. Such madness.
Be sensitive. Be mindful. Be composed. Donât walk into peopleâs houses and forget yourself. Feel at home doesnât mean you should become a masquerade.
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