18 Things To Do While You (Patiently) Wait For Guests To Arrive

byTasha in Epigrams and Interludes, Nerd

Bit of a silly post this week. You have been warned.

How to Entertain Yourself Whilst Waiting For Guests Who Have Not Turned Up On Time. 

1. Double check all guest details, keys and make sure the rooms are extra pretty and tidy. Then do it again in 5 minutes just in case a velociraptor has been messing with your things (It could happen!).

2. Practice saying guests name out loud so you don't look like a complete idiot when they walk through the door. Fail at this miserably as soon as they walk through the door. (Mischa, Mika, Micca, Muca....Hey You! Person who would like to check in - Please take pity on me and don't be offended!)

3. Cue up several shows and movies to watch on Netflix - then get so stuck in indecision that you end up watching none of them.

Buffy or Supernatural?...or maybe Firefly? Smallville? Stargate? Arghh!

4. Stick all the maps, posters and timetables back to the wall just to have them them fall off the wall as soon as you finish.

5. Cook something delicious (like garlic bread) for dinner. Burn your hand badly getting it out of the oven. Drop your food on the floor. Look sadly at dropped food. Shrug shoulders and decide to follow the 3 second rule. Repeat as necessary.

6. Explore the dangerous world that is Pinterest. Browse for a few minutes then look shocked when you realise hours, days or even months have passed.

7. Make seventeen cups of coffee. Proceed to drink sixteen of the cups in quick procession. Slowly sip the seventeenth cup. Time may appear to stand still. Just roll with it.

photo by: david panevin

8. Stack all the coffee cups on top of each other until they make a tall tower. Stand back in awe of your creation. Name it something epic like "Leviathan", "Heimdall" or "Bob". Mourn the loss of Bob when someone comes in to drink a cup of tea.

9. Turn all the hostel heaters up to maximum setting. Give all guests a grass skirt and lei on arrival and invite them to the luau later that evening.

10. Swap the labels on the full cream and two percent milk. Sit back and watch the chaos that erupts.

11. Start talking to the kitchen appliances, then get sad that they have obviously suffered a magic curse rendering them mute, THEN speak for them using funny voices and your kitchen appliance telepathy.

12. Explain to your volunteer that all of the above was necessary because the toaster NEEDED to know the microwave has been cheating on him with the kettle.

13. Give all guests colourful nicknames depending on which Disney character they most resemble.

14. Speak like an Asgardian. Use the words "Midgard" "Valhalla" and "Verily" a lot.

15. Create an army of Blu-Tac creatures. Name each one and construct an elaborate back-story and social system for your new society

16. Watch both 10 hour loops of "Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" and "I've got a Jar of Dirt" back to back.

17. Stack all the tables and chairs in the common room to make an impenetrable wall and re-enact Doctor Who's second most heartbreaking scene in 'Doomsday' (For anyone who clicked that link - I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry!)

18. Give up and sit quietly watching the seconds on the hostel clock tick by - slowly descending into madness until your volunteer appears to remind you that there are no check-ins today.

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