Bad Manners and Brimstone

We have given the master bedroom and slept on the sofa bed in past times, because we had dogs who would be up at the crack of dawn and needed to go out, which due to the layout of our house would mean traipsing straight through the living room, probably waking the guests. This gave everyone better sleep, more privacy and less disturbance. Depends on circumstance, but as a guest I would not demand (or even ask) that of my hosts.

I just had a flashback of the women's retreat for church held at a vacation home, where the older ladies got the bedroom and I (and several others) were on cots in the living room.

We were required to clean the apartment before we left (since we were getting it for free instead of paying for the homeowner's cleaning service), and the older ladies had volunteered for that crew.

I was driving. And was still feeling the deficit from my late-night drive into the town. And I had to drive back later that day.

So at 2 hours before the rest of us had to get up, the older ladies were up vacuuming the whole area and clanging dishes and calling to one another.

Boy was I mad. I get that the older ladies might have needed a bit less "roughing it," but honestly, I should have been sleeping in the closed room.