lol my sister did that to my bed! It was the wood slats under the bed that she broke really. Luckily easily fixed.
No it's not ban worthy (and I didn't say it was )It's really not that hard to break them. Not ban worthy in my house.
Ooooh, memories! When I was growing up there was a steady flow of "Cousin Eddies" in our home. My parents were incredibly soft-hearted and hospitable and loners and outcasts just gravitated there. In hindsight it did teach me a lot about kindness and having a generous spirit but at the time I hated it.I wanted to ban my step-daughter's now EX boyfriend. He was very annoying and always here. The best way to describe him would be "Cousin Eddie" from the National Lampoons movies. He was just WAY too comfortable. He would just "make himself at home" way too much.
Thankfully she broke up with him and I haven't seen him in like 6 months.
My former BFF’s boyfriend laid on my couch (with his shoes on!), grabbed the remote control and started flipping channels the very first time he stepped foot in my house. It was supposed to be a dinner to get to know him. That pretty much told me all I needed to know.I wanted to ban my step-daughter's now EX boyfriend. He was very annoying and always here. The best way to describe him would be "Cousin Eddie" from the National Lampoons movies. He was just WAY too comfortable. He would just "make himself at home" way too much.
Thankfully she broke up with him and I haven't seen him in like 6 months.
That’s what I was thinking about the dogs. I have 2 dogs & love dogs & most of my family & friends have dogs, but no one has ever tried to bring their dogs to my house. I find that bizarre!That’s crazy that people show up with their animals. Anyone showed up at my door with their pet in tow I’d send them packing. I say this as an animal lover.
I didn’t ban my mother but I did ask her to stop showing up at my door unannounced. So she just quit coming by altogether.
We invited a guy and his wife that DH worked with for dinner one night and then they started showing up at my door nightly. This went on for about two weeks before I told DH to ask them to call first. They also quit coming by at all.
FIL isn’t technically banned but I doubt I’d let him in. I’d invite him to sit on the porch and wait for DH to get home. DH for sure wouldn’t let him in.
A friend who was a drug addict.
The neighbor girl who was a terror.
A couple of DS's friends have gotten banned, though to his credit, I never had to do it myself. He has his lines and if friends cross them, they're no longer allowed in what we affectionately call the "dungeon" (which is kind of the hang-out space for his group, since he's turned one room of our unfinished basement into a teenage-man cave/gaming space). One came over with a girlfriend who had apparently run away from home, which ended up with the police at our door looking for them. DS has ZERO patience for that kind of nonsense, so that friend is no longer welcome and has kind of drifted to the fringe of their group. Another got banished for using something that offended DS. I don't know what - I know some of his friends smoke pot, which is legal in our state now, and he doesn't mind - but I do know there are certain drugs that DS considers a deal-breaker when it comes to friendship (esp. heroin - my brother, DS's favorite uncle, died of an overdose and DS isn't interested in watching friends do the same).
Older DD's friends are all so much like her - type A overachievers, student athletes, no time to party - that it has never come up. And younger DD's friends are still too little to seriously offend me. After raising the older two to adulthood (or near enough - DD will be 18 in Aug.), the stuff that 10yos get into trouble for seems so trivial.
Dogs are an absolute ban, though. Not because I don't like them - I do, very much - but because we have an anxious border collie/shepherd that we've had less than a year, and we're still working on socializing her. She gets along with other dogs at the dog park and on walks, but another dog in her space makes her very defensive to the point of aggression. Especially if DD10, "her person", is around. So dogs are not welcome as visitors at all, not in the house and not in the yard.