it’s about 36 hours later… We need the epilogue!!!
Oh okay I didn’t think anyone was interested. More than happy to oblige! Quick note - she is leaving later than I thought, on the 12th… Sorry this is going to be lengthy!
So to take you back for a minute,when she asked what time the next guest was moving in she put it like this, ‘hey I was just wondering what time your next guest is moving in because I have a friend who is going to help me move my bags to my hotel but he can only do it after he finishes work at 6pm, or before he starts. Obviously I don’t want to get up at 6am if I can help it… Uber won’t take my case…because well you have seen the size of it’. At this point I was distracted by the lie - standard size case, hello Uber X, and what about my local cab firm that I had already suggested? So my response was to question that, while she piled more lies on top of each other ‘I think they were just being difficult’, as if she had tried to book Uber on the phone! Then when I pointed out it is all automatic on the app and she could order an Uber X, she just dismissed ‘but you know then they get here and the bag is too big and they just drive off!’ Then she does this thing where she gives a big fake laugh to make the convo difficult to follow through. She does that alot. It like rounds up the convo ‘hahahaha and that is the end of it’. Anyway, by now I obviously realised how much crap she was giving me and I never did reply to her question re what time my next guest was arriving, which I didn’t know at this point anyway.
It’s not even like she is asking to stay an extra hour or so, she is assuming (or pretending to) that if new guest is coming later that she can stay until 6pm and I think possibly even later (from how she put it - ambiguous - pal most likely finishing work at 6pm…still got to get over here from knows where). Anyway, like I say, I didn’t respond as didn’t think it deserved a response and thought I need to think this through and consult Muddy and the team!
In the meantime, someone had taken my front door key from the hook which is near to the front door. I am the only person who currently has the lock needed to double lock the front door. To counter this, we are leaving the front door un double locked at all times, except that I double lock it for security at around midnight before I go to bed. This way there can be no problems. I have pointed out where my key is to the Tricky one, and other guests, just in case they are leaving early and the door is, still locked from the night before. In this case they can use it to open the door, and then put it back on its hook.
Anyway my key went missing. It caused tonnes of problems including making daughter and I both late out the next day due to searching for it. And of course I thought daughter had not put the key back in place the evening before, telling her ‘guests would never do that’ and insisting she search her room. I had four guests and wasn’t going to ask them when my daughter seemed the most likely culprit, even though in back of my mind I was wondering if it could be Miss Narcissist. After two days of searching, I texted to ask her if she had taken them and her answer was ‘I have. Switched for red,’ meaning she left her keys on the red key ring and took mine on the blue! I was totally baffled , and as we switched back she said ‘I just wanted to make sure that I could get back in if the front door is locked’, huge fake laugh. I replied ‘but it wouldn’t be double locked, it never is.’ Certainly COULDN’T be double locked now since you have nicked my only front door key, you crazy’, I was thinking.
Anyway we swapped back and my initial thought was ‘not leaving my double locker key in public place again’, I realised that wasn’t an option since someone might need it. So I texted Miss X and said ‘Hi Jane, if you’re going out early the front door key is back on the hook so please help yourself to let yourself out but very important please put it back immediately! The front door is only double locked after midnight so you’ll always be able to get back in (just let me know if you’re going out later), don’t worry. If the key isn’t there, I can’t lock the house at night! Thanks. To which any non narcissist would surely respond ‘oh gosh sorry I didn’t think’. Instead I got ‘got it.’’
If anyone is wondering about the key situation, this double lock broke on the day after this woman moved in. She is aware of that. I had a new lock put in immediately, but haven’t been able to get more keys cut for it (shop has something on order). But I don’t think it is unreasonable for people not to have that key given the routine I have adopted which worked fine until she nicked my key.
Now, worse still, on that keyring were two bedroom keys for one of my Airbnb rooms. Woman has removed them. I messaged her saying ’ have you got those smaller keys’, which she obviously took off they keyring. Her reply ‘Nope. I left everything as I found it’, which is a strange thing to say as I then had to take deep breaths to prevent myself from saying ’ well you didn’t did you as you took my keys’. But anyway she is lying, I know she has the keys. She would have known I was baffled and annoyed that she took my keys, and I guess she just didn’t want to look wrong again by admitting she had become that attached to my keys that she thought it was okay to remove some of the keys on my key ring, and not only that but she had forgotten to replace them when returning.
So now I am going to have to pay to get this bedroom door lock replaced.
So check out is in two days. I am not going back to her to let her know what time next guest is arriving as it is none of her business . I would like to just ignore, she can ask if she wants to know check out time. BUT danger is that then on FRIDAY she will miss her ‘before work’ lift, and then tell me at check out time that she now has to wait til pal finishes work, and that she told me that! So I am thinking of just saying to her ‘oh you were asking about check out time weren’t you? I have double checked and its at 12pm’
