By the bye, how about that question I put to you, and that you seemingly avoid: I a friend of yours had stood on your doorstep at 2.15, begging you for a place to spend the night, what would you do?
Surely you must have an idea?
Surely you must have an idea?
First of all it is clear that my circumstances are not the same as MJK's and I have a house with different rooms, a husband and teenage boys.;and people have mobile 'phones nowadays and would never just knock.]
When I was very young I shared a bedsit for a while with a gregarious friend
who did let some blokes in to crash for the night..and I remember having a row with her about it..call me mean if you like, but I remember arguing that if you let blokes crash there after they had been turned out of nightclubs at
1am, having spent the evening drinking, a) they would be back another night and b) it was asking for problems and c) I didn't want to meet them over the breakfast table and have to be polite before I'd had my morning tea. and d)
They might be people that I'd like talking to in the pub, but I didn't want to be forced into a very intimate relationship with them by sharing my bedroomand e) it was their own problem if they hadn't sorted out their sleeping arrangements beforehand and it wasn't my responsibility.
Mary would surely have had far more pretendants than me for her floor, and she was alone..so I'd say No Way !!
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