Guests absolutely cannot take long showers at my place, which is also a separate apartment, but I can hear the water going off and on. We are on a rain tank here. Short showers and water cons and awareness are in my house rules. Nearly all guests comply,with no problem.
In my case he is not n vacation, but here for work. I am not very restrictive by any means. I am not telling him about his showers, it was an observation and a bit annoying and makes no sense and wasteful anyway you look at it, but he keeps on taking his showers on a schedule. Though i am not going to have him do laundry every day, or make a mess to attract ants, or block my driveway so noone can access the house without walking all over my garden.
You could give him a 30 day notice that the price of utilities just went up three times what they used to be unless he wants to go to one or two showers a day. 
That usually puts it in perspective. I have lived with long term renters for five years and when there is no meter running they have been known to take 40 minute showers!
I will see what the bill will be this month. Usually the difference is tiny when i a m fully booked, like 12 $ a month. But noone took so many showers before. Also i told him only 2 loads of laundry per week but i suspect he does more. Yesterday i saw his clothes in the dryer and it was half of what a full load should be.
I live in CA where there is a severe drought so I am more ticked about the waste than the actual usage of water. I raise the utilities then tell them if they are conserving utilities I will give them a bonus each month. It works! If they donât come into my home until bedtime and are not wasting water by taking long showers I donât charge them utilities. I never see my newer roommate now that I told him. He comes in at midnight and leaves for work in the morning so that he can save 75 dollars a month. 
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I really donât like the way this guy disrespects you. Even if itâs subtly. You shouldnât have to keep talking to him.
I think he does not mean to disrespect me, he is just like that.
And listen to what i discovered. I did not snoop, but when i was cleaning his room, and had to change sheets, there was a piece of paper laying right on top of bed. And there was in big letters written something like court of Luisiana.
That caught my attention and i started reading. It was a sapina for him to show up before court for domestic violence, with the name of a woman with the same last name as his. I am assuming his wife.
I am not going to make any assumptions, who know what happened there, but just one more time i thought we never know who we really host.
He looks like a big teddy bear, who could have thoughtâŚ
RightâŚeeeek. Innocent until proven guiltyâŚTrue. the ex could have made false charges. We never know. Is this the reason he needed a place to stay? Iâm sure he does not âmeanâ to disrespect you⌠but the idea that heâs taking three 20-minute showers a day. Just that⌠Heâs not a conscientious guest.
Far from it:)
No, he got a job project to work on. He actually is a head of a project, and hires and fires people. But ithinkhe wants to move here. He had to cut his shower short yesterday as he had a phone call and ran out of the house and did not even stay the night. I never saw him since. Dont know, i think he has a bunch of things going on in his life right now.
He had to cut his shower shortâŚLMAO.
The whole thing just makes me want to gag. I donât knowâŚjust thought of stepping in that shower after him. I know there all kinds of potential for bodily fluids in shared showers, but I think it is just the fact of knowing all day he is probably obsessing about how quickly he can get back home to jump in the shower. And then after dinner in the carâŚhe is thinking about getting into that shower.
It just reminds of a pubescent teenagerâŚeeewwwwwâŚ
And the fact that he does not care that the whole house knows what he is most likely doing in there too!
Its private bathroom, and may be he is behaving in there, hehe. May be its some kind of crazy ritual these showers. There are seconds between him opening front door and water being turned on. Its like he runs in there because he worked all day outside under tropical sun.
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Thatâs good. I thought maybe he was sharing the bathroom with the other guest in the house.
You gals crack me up with all your âwhat ifâsâ about the Big Teddy Bear. What fertile imaginations! You got me beat, hands downâŚer, pardon the pun.
Iâm sure there will be more drama coming down the pike with this guy.
I can hardly wait for the next installment.
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Oh noâŚmaybe he runs the same fantasy through his head on the drive home everyday. By the time he reaches the front doorâŚthatâs the part in his fantasy where Yana is almost fully undressed. Then he jumps in to turn the water the onâŚand for the rest of the shower it is just he and Yana alone on the beach in FloridaâŚ
Hehehehehe 
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I literally LOLOLâed at this one.
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O thats sooo gross, hahahaha. Now i am imagining eekky things.
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Ummm, am I the only one who thinks itâs totally out of order to look at, never mind actually read, a guestâs private stuff? I would be very angry if a host went into my room looking at my things when I wasnât there.
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If she is supposed to be changing the sheets, letâs say once a week, and the item is on top of the bed then it would be kind of hard to not look at it. But if it were straight up snooping I wouldnât like that. I also wouldnât be leaving my subpoenas lying around.
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In Yanaâs defense, I imagine the guest knew she was going in to change the sheets and clean room, etc. He left it there on the bed. She also said she was not going to make assumptions and pass judgment. And she stated she was not âsnoopingâ in his room.
So she read itâŚno big deal. She isnât going to bring it up or anything- because of course a bitter significant other can cause these issues. Not saying he is innocent.
If I found in a shared bathroom a paper saying âWanted by FBIâ - you better believe I will continue to read. Itâs not like he left his diary out and she sat down to read it.
OK, fair enough. It seems I didnât read the thread properly, my apologies. If he knew she was going in to clean then it does seem odd that he left it out so prominently. Personally, I never go in the guest rooms when theyâre staying.