Hints for the houseguest
Here are five ways to tell if you have overstayed your welcome in someone’s home:
1. Your hosts start yawning, and talking about how much they have to do the next day.
2. Their eyes begin to glaze over.
3. They leave the room and the conversation, such as it is, to take a phone call. A long call.
4. They reappear in their pajamas.
5. They announce that they are going to bed.
My advice is to get the hint at No. 1. Some people don’t. A couple of visitors to our house have made it to No. 5. Repeatedly. And it isn’t like we go to bed at 10 p.m. when we have guests. I’d like to think we are just so interesting that we make people want to linger. But I suspect we attract a certain kind of stray: nice people who are maybe a little lonely. A few folks are welcome to stay for weeks. You know who you are.
I like this cartoon. I don't, of course, like the error.
Observe and report 
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