It’s easy to be a good
house-guest when
you're on familiar turf.
My Mom expects me to
do all the things I did
when I lived at home,
except be a brat. So, I
cook all the meals,
drive her car and do the
shopping. She _ steps
right back 25 years and

follows me around the _

kitchen, wiping
counters and scrubbing ©
pots. Mom hates to
cook and I hate to

scrub - we make a-
helluva team.
Frankly, being a.

houseguest isn’t easy. With
most casual friends, I prefer
staying in a hotel, visiting for
a day and getting on my way.
There’s not a whole lot of
people I like well enough to
want to meet them on the
way to the bathroom in the

morning.
I hope I'm a_ good
houseguest for those few
e that get blessed with

me from time to time. Since —

they keep asking’ me back, it
can’ t be too awful. .

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pansies. a arigolds’ - ~ all.
grown, in space =;thanks to a
family-run garden and seed
company. |

When NASA's space
shuttle Challenger blasts off
on its first mission — ift

January, 25 pounds of seeds - |

in 46 varieties -
aboard.

Developed and packaged -
by George W. Park Seed Co.:
in the rolling countryside
near Greenwood, the seeds
are a special mission.

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cabinet, but if they decide to
hit, the sauce with a
vengeance, provide their

"S. ‘Don’ t expect us to foot
the whole bill for
restaurants. (As a guest, I
always try to treat my hosts
to at least one dinner out)

* When I visit someone’s
home as a houseguest, I
bring a gift.

would rather leave
everything till tomorrow and
sit around the mess ex-
changing stories late at
night. Sometimes the fact
that you pitch in and help is
appreciated. Other times it’s
taken as a criticism of your

hostess. We have to walk a’

C7 - Wednesday, October 13, 1982 - North Shore News

we've taken them to some
homes. The orders were:
Sleep where you're put. Eat
what you're given. Open
someone else's refrigerator
and Til kill you. Luck held!

Perhaps we made good.
choices when it came to.

bringing kids to homes that

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thin line. didn’t challenge them to do

- Food. Visiting friends is something outrageous. T R A V F L
no time to diet, unless you’ve NEXT: YY --Y-4—
got. a severe medical Being a houseguest

Remember those “Toasty-
‘Pie” irons:I mentioned a few
‘months ago? A few have
found new homes in far-
away places. A prompt
~ thank-you letter arrives from
me as soon as I return home.

There are a few things I’ve
super-sensitive about:

- Bed-making. I try to
keep the room that I've
borrowed as neat as it was
when I arrived.

- + Laundry. I bring my own
“detergent and: wash only
: when it’s dire necessity. Who
i a to ‘pattern my needs someone. else’s
behavior ‘on standards I lingerie ‘festooning the
appreciate. at home. My shower? In hotels, who
favorite guests: cares? But when visiting a

1. Make. thei~coffee if private home, I pack more
they're first to emerge in the clothes.
morning. - Bathrooms. I keep my

2. Time their showers so toothbrush etc. in a plastic
that the scheduled members travel bag and cart it with me
of the family can get geingto when I use the bathroom.

by Barbara
McCreadie

_school---er— work without — “And, TI clean the tub or —

running the blockade,

- shower after I’ve used it. ~
3.. Enjoy... the. fact that

. - Helping out! What a
“we've = got 2a: number © of ~ tricky business it is. Visiting

“, arrogant four-legged. crittets. -cousins. in. Nova Scotia, I

that: we love dearly." ‘Our: realized right away . that

house (is thes‘ wrong Connie “despised -doing
destination if you dislike dishes. My best friend freaks
. if somedne' loads her’

our liquor dishwasher. Another friend

- agriculture.” And: this”: new.
“protection,” said: Georiie. B:
Park Jr: a descendant. of the...
company’s ‘founder. and an” Mevelopment, of all ‘others. ”
executive of the firm. : -
Park,- whose - ‘company is

"one of the nation’s biggest of African violets, roses, °

mail-order seed ‘firms, said watermelon and. ‘plack-eyed’*

sending seeds to. be grown in

peas, were put into a special
space would provide “real

cannister | and taken

require less space than Florida this week to be ©
sending up food. ‘loaded into Challenger'’s 60-
“Historically, man has foot cargo bay. Flower seeds :

taken his agriculture with were included to test the .

him into new frontiers,”

effect of space on their
Park said in a telephone

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” Seeds, inclading. varieties

to i.
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problem. Don’t we all try to
feed our guests the best we
can? What a put-down if “ .
someone refuses everything ;
“fattening”. To hell with it -
eat. Or stay home. .
- Schedules. I've found |
that most people I visit are
anxious to fill my every
waking moment with ex-
cursions. It lets them off the
hook if I can say, “Would it
be alright if I spent the af-

someplace else — overseas.

o
woe

like to try the bus system.”
-Or a rented car. Or my own.
flat feet.

- ness. It’s never
happened to me, but Brian
got a case of bronchitis
recently that couldn't have
picked a worse time to

ar. He said one word:
“Pack” ‘We cut our visit short
and headed home.

- Kids. The worst
‘houseguests I ever endured
had three monsters, com-

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