When I married my husband, I didn’t exactly realize most people that was coming along with him! Not only is there his dog plus his son, but then his parents drop into our apartment for a weekend every month without notice.
Not to mention all the tunesians who stop into town for gigs plus crash at our site, but plus all of our friends who drive cross country to visit, but it feels like continual visitors, rotating in plus out of our pro-bono AirBNB.
I don’t mind having the company around the house, but there are a few aspects of the whole deal that try my personal anxieties, and for instance, all of the cleaning that goes into preparing a apartment for guests, plus sterilizing it again after they leave… You see, I’m a bit of a germ nerd, plus I’m most anxious about the bacteria my friend and I breathe. I struggle with the thought of indoor air contamination stemming from strangers’ coughs, dander, plus sneezes. I do not love the idea of these guests leaving pieces of themselves behind, plus my indoor air handling system circulating those airborne pollutants all throughout my home, but that’s why I’m obsessive about our indoor air quality, plus continually pestering my husband for a media air cleaner! Currently, after our guests leave, I have to go through plus change all the air filters in our heating plus cooling equipment, try my best to vacuum out the air ducts, plus disinfect down the air vents in every room. I disinfect down every surface, plus even went so far as to purchase UV sterilization lights to zap any remaining bacteria circulating in the air. I would much rather have a real whole-apartment air purifier hooked right up to our new Heating plus Air Conditioning plan to remove all the airborne toxins. If he’s bringing all these germs into the house, he should help me get them back out.