Houseguests are always interesting.

I traveled to Wales not too long ago. For those of you who don’t already know the answer, let me ask you a Jay Leno-ish kind of question. Is Wales a country or is it part of England?

I don’t really know what it is.  Actually, they think it is a country.  It is actually part of the United Kingdom, but it’s not really England. So, Wales wants to be its own country.

Anyway, when we were in Wales we stayed with a couple of friends. Let me tell you something about houseguests and about being a houseguest.

My Grandmother used to say that houseguests were like fish — they tend to stink after three days. So you either need to cook the fish or kick the houseguests out after that.

If you do have a houseguest, though, you need to make them feel special. When we were staying with those friends in a beautiful castle in Wales, it really opened my eyes about the right way to treat a houseguest.

I mean, I am pretty good with houseguests, but these guys just went over and above the hosting call of duty. They picked us up from the airport. they took us out to dinner.

That is really important by the way. When you have a houseguest in from out of town, do you take them out to dinner or do you expect them to take you out to dinner?

When people come to visit you, it is really nice to take them out to dinner. Treat them to a good meal.

They made the trip cross-country to meet you. The least you can do is take them out to dinner.

Also, you need to remember some of the “little things” that equal a nice experience for your houseguests. Did you put nice clean towels in the bathroom (or did you leave out the towels that have been hanging in the bathroom for the past two weeks)?

Did you change the sheets on the bed? I have stayed at people’s houses and slept in beds in which I swear their dog slept the night before.

I have stayed at people’s houses where they have expected me to pay for all the meals when we went out to dinner. It’s like they think, “Well I am giving him a place to stay so the least he can do is treat me for dinner every night.” I even had one host actually say that out loud to me one time.

I would rather get a hotel room sometimes. I have stayed at people’s homes where the accommodations at any hotel would be much cleaner.

When you have a houseguest, you give them the royal treatment. You make sure you treat them well.

You pick them up from the airport or, if you can’t, you make arrangements for a cab. Make sure you treat them to dinner. Show them a good time.

Offer the keys to your car or take them out to do something they enjoy. Educate them a little bit about your town.  If you don’t want to do everything with them, give them a list of things they can do in your town.

Pick one of your favorite restaurants and take them there. Choose a restaurant they can’t go to in their hometown (and don’t pick a chain restaurant like an Applebees).

The bottom line is that you need to treat your houseguests really nicely, because traveling is hard. I traveled for about three weeks and, I have to tell you, I felt like royalty at each person’s home at which we stayed. That is how every houseguest should feel.

And starting this year all bootcamps are 3 long fun days!!!!!

This is a conversation we had last night and it is something that most people do not ever think of.

Do you know what is the best place to sit when you go out with a group of eight people or more?

Most people will make the mistake of taking the end seat of the table. The problem with that seat is that if you have people on your side that you don’t want to talk to anymore, you’re just stuck in silent mode the whole time.

The key seat to take at all times when you go out with a group of people is the middle seat of the long side. Then, you can direct your conversation to just about everyone.

If you sit at the end, that’s not the lead seat – that’s the lecture seat.

Khiem: Sure, if you’re in a formal setting, the end is a good place to sit. But if you’re in a social setting, the best seat is absolutely-right-in-the-middle. You can connect to more people and you can also pay attention to everyone.

David: It’s a really important thing. Whenever you’re out at a group meal, make sure you’re not at the end. You don’t want to be at the head of the table.

You’d much rather be in the middle because if you look at the way the projection works – the person in the middle can basically project all the way across the table with no problem.

But when you’re at the very end, you’re stuck.

A lot of people always go for that seat because they think it has the most space. They think that it’s the best seat. And it is, from a power-structure point of view. You feel like you’re in the power zone.

It’s really that easy!
Todays video will bring back some fun summer memories.

Enjoy the day!!

They went out and they bought that furniture with their own money – use a coaster!

If the toilet seat is down when you find it, put it back down before you leave!

If the kitchen is spotless and you make a mess – don’t expect someone else to be your maid!

Don’t leave your dishes and glasses all over the house – are they supposed to clean up after you when you leave?

Volunteer. When you’re a guest at either a friend’s or a woman’s house, offer to take out the garbage. Load the dishwasher.

If they don’t have an extra bedroom and you’re crashing on the couch, put your stuff in a little corner – and make it neat – so it’s not all over the place. You can’t spread yourself out when you’re a guest in someone’s home.

You’re doing so much great work to learn how to meet the opposite sex, but then when you meet them and spend the night at their house, you’re going to turn them off! You want to leave them with a good opinion of you. It’s also good to form these habits.

It’s like the bad driver who comes home at the end of the day and complains that there is nothing out there but mean drivers that honk all day long. No, you’re the bad driver!

If you’ve been a guest at people’s houses before and you’ve never been invited back (yet you still hang out) it’s not that they don’t like you; they just don’t want you to come to their house again!

You have to look at things like this. You want to give people a good impression of you no matter what. Behave in people’s houses! You don’t want your host to have to tell you something five or six times before you get your act together and pick up after yourself.

It’s their house and their rules. Obey them! You have your own rules in your house, and you expect people to follow them.

If you like to keep your house a pigsty, then we’ll all come over and throw banana peels all over the place, we can fart and shit on the toilet seat, and we can stop up the toilet.

You have to realize that you are going to go out there and get the women that you want and then you’re going to have to leave them with a good impression. That impression is something you’re going to fuck up badly if you don’t pay attention to the little things.

Brian: I’m pretty clean, but I could be cleaner. And when someone comes over to my house and they are dirty, it drives me completely insane!

It’s your house – your home – and you’ve worked hard to put stuff in it. You can handle cleaning up after yourself, but you don’t want to clean up after your guests!

David: When my ex-girlfriend Allison and I were living together, my friend Wayne came to LA and wanted to stay with us. He had a cold and was coughing. I was like, dude, no, you have a cold. You’re not staying with us. That’s not cool. Go stay in a hotel. But he swore it was allergies.

Allison didn’t buy it, but I told her that he had promised it was allergies, so we let him stay with us. Three days after he left, Allison came down with the flu and missed a week of work!

If you’re sick, don’t bring it into someone else’s house! If you’re ill, go stay somewhere else.

It’s the little things like this. You just have to respect other people and their boundaries.

People do this all of the time. Rey was sick and coughed all over everyone. And he got a bunch of people sick! He learned his lesson. This respect is so important.

You’ve done so much work – just continue the work and keep respecting other people.

Enough about bad house guests!!!

Dazzle her with a new look and you will become a permanent house guest!!