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This Old Breadbox
5:03 pm · category: House Calls, Kids Are All Right, The
There are five college-age boys sleeping in my house for the next four days. They are truly packed in like sardines. Sardines in a breadbox! Mmmm, tasty! Last night I put two of them in my full bed and the other three on a pallet in the floor. I am stuck sleeping on the couch. They’re basically living and sleeping in a van while they’re on tour, so hygiene hasn’t really been a top priority. Their feet smell so bad that I have to smoke to get anything resembling fresh air, and I swear that if I had wrung the oil out of their hair I would have had enough to fry an entire chicken.
But after their gig tonight, they want to watch Buffy, so I’m trying to be a good hostess.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Cool. But, like, ew. You do have a shower they could use, right?
June 7th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I do have a shower. (Strangely, the bathroom is the second largest room in the breadbox.) Yesterday I put out a huge pile of towels as a big hint. The stench is subsiding. And they even hung up their towels!
June 12th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Sneak them into your hotel and “comp” them a room! Threaten to kill them if they tear anything up! Also, I now know why you were scared of seeing a naked boy!
June 12th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
It actually went really well. They painted the inside of the breadbox. They all hung up their towels and remembered to put the toilet seat down. Most of them even washed their own dishes. And they watched the last five episodes of Buffy (mostly because they had raging hard ons for Eliza Dushku) and liked it so much that they want to stay with me on their way back through and watch the entire series.
It was nice! And I never saw any of them naked!