Had to cancel same day stay

First draft :joy: I call it:

Guest or Porcupine?

You Guest, not my best
Dirty, rude, pig. Porcupine?
One star for you, Pest!

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It is so creepy. I read a post from a young, female Japanese host. She was asking for advice because she had a male guest who was coming on to her and she didn’t know how to handle it. Not only was he making sexually charged remarks, he’d been trying to hug and kiss her. She said she’d just been wriggling away and going to a different part of the house. She thought because he was a guest, she had to put up with it.

So, a combination of her living in a culture where total politeness is considered to be necessary in social situations, her lack of assertiveness regarding boundaries, and thinking all guest behavior must be endured, led to an extremely uncomfortable and potentially dangerous situation.

Other hosts advised her to contact Airbnb to report him and have him cancelled asap, to ask a friend or family member to stay with her until he was gone, to list her home-share as “females only”, and that it would be a good idea for her to take an assertiveness training course, as well as self-defense, if she was going to continue to host alone.

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You definitely dodged a bullet!

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Oh no. I’m a host and I don’t get the joke. Help!

LOL! Ok, so any post/reply must be a minimum of 20 characters. People will use “202020…” to make the min character count sometimes. Re-read with that info and it should make sense :wink:

Got it. Thank you so much.

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No problem! 20202020 :wink:

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