- Joined
- Feb 25, 2021
One nuance not brought up yet: this isn't just "follow house rules when you're a guest."He doesn't seem to understand that if you live in someone else's house, you follow their rules. If they say not to sleep on the couch, you don't do it. That simple. It doesn't matter what you want to do, you do what they require because you are living in their house by their good graces. Dave is too narcissistic to understand that he can't just do what he wants in someone else's house.
Sleeping on the couch in the living room impacts the rest of the house's function. People have to be quiet around the couch-sleeper, whether they're letting out dogs, making breakfast in the kitchen or they just wanted to watch TV. A lot of houses are laid out so you have to walk through the living room to reach other rooms.
It's one thing if this is a short visit and the couch was the only hospitality the house had to offer; the host expects it then, and everyone is probably all going to be awake around the same time because the visitor is here to spend time with the host and vice versa.
It's another thing if your argumentative failson ignores the room given to him and camps out on your couch for months with no end in sight. No evidence, but I suspect that Dave was a much later sleeper than his parents, after a lifetime of professional work and with the senior citizen affinity for the morning hours. Dave was suspiciously specific about keeping early hours when he posted his current cat-based itinerary; another guess, but I think that was in an attempt to seem more wholesome.