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"Last week," Ungersven confesses, "I vomited over almost everything in a friend's spare room. The only thing to escape the deluge was the rather attractive (alas engaged) French girl who was sharing the bed with me." Tell us about nightmare guests or Fred West-a-like hosts.

(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 14:20)
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Christmas slugs
Might as well pea this, as it's vaguely related to the question:

Prelude
This didn’t happen to me but to my schoolfriend O. But it did happen at my parents’ house.

Act One
At around 3 am one Christmas Day in the mid-1990s, my mother heard something rustling in the garden, but thought nothing of it. At 6, the doorbell rang. O stood there, looking bedraggled. “I was wondering, Mrs Enzyme’s Mum, if you might have a spare bed?” he asked. O was always very polite, and I think my mother fancied him a bit. She took pity on him and let him in.

Act Two, Scene 1
My schoolfriends and I, having gone to various universities, used to make a point of going to the pub to see in Christmas Day. (Non-linear narrative ftw!) At the end of the evening, we dispersed. O realised that he was much too drunk to drive to his house several miles away, and was invited to crash at V’s house. O and V had been going out before university; they had finished with each other now, but were on reasonable terms. However, in the small hours, O misjudged just how reasonable those terms were, and ended up getting thrown out. Still drunk, but now bewildered, alone, and far from home, he needed a plan.

This plan involved walking to my house.

Act Two, Scene 2
My father, having gone through a phase of insulating the greenhouse, the kitchen, the study, and just about anything else that didn’t move, had a large roll of bubble-wrap in the greenhouse. O arrived at my house and found it dark and quiet; too polite to wake anyone at that point, but still needing somewhere to spend the night, he let himself into the back garden with the intention of sleeping under a rhododendron, and found the roll. The greenhouse was too cluttered to sleep, but, wrapped in bubble-wrap under the rhodo, he would be fine.

Anagnorisis
What forced O to bite the bullet and ring the doorbell was that, few hours later, it began to rain. He apparently hadn’t really minded the slugs with whom he shared his bivouac.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 12:20, 2 replies)
my dad once shared a sleeping bag
with some slugs.

apparently they adjust to your body heat and you don't notice them, like little warm kittens of slime.
(, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 20:26, closed)
Bahahaha
Little warm kittens of slime!
(, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 0:54, closed)

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