My spouse and I have been saving up for about three years to have a dacha, we ended up buying one after that time. For a year we have been going there on weekends or for the whole summer.
Also my mom and dad helped us out a little bit, they wanted to help us realize our dream as early as possible. We had enough money at the time and then we still built something there ourselves. We needed a greenhouse next to the garden to grow something in the winter, and we also had a sandbox and a couple of swings in the yard for the kids to play there. From the very beginning, our friends, friends of my husband and mine came to our dacha almost every day, in place of them we often went to the river, because it was a couple of hundred meters from our house. Then in the evening we would come and roast meat on the fire, and then late at night they would leave us, but some stayed overnight, because not everyone had his own transport to get home by himself at such a late hour. In general, each of our acquaintances congratulated us on the dacha we had purchased.
A year later, almost everyone we knew realized that it is necessary to know the sense of proportion. That is why in the course of time everyone stopped coming to us so often. In general, they come to us on holidays, when we invite them and no one asks for it. But there’s one person I know who doesn’t understand that. If this woman hears anything about our trip to the country, then immediately packed a suitcase and his son did not forget to take it, and then come and will be there to get on our nerves. It does not matter to her at all, whether we take her to visit or not – the most important thing is what she wants.
Okay, if I had only come here with my husband, but here in addition to us are my parents and my young children. I would like her to leave us, but all my attempts to kick her out were unsuccessful, and then it turned out that all three months of the summer vacations, my friend lived with us at the cottage, but it did not bother her.
My hints that it was time for her to go home, she did not perceive at all. I even tried to trick her into moving out, saying that my husband’s parents were coming to visit us soon too, that it would be too crowded here. And my acquaintance even agreed to lie on the cold floor, but only if we gave her a mattress, as a result I always slept on a bed that had no mattress. But even when my husband’s parents came to visit us, my friend actually slept on the cold floor and did not resent it at all.
Her visit can be described as follows: she arrives on Friday evening and just rests the remaining two days on the couch in front of the TV, while my husband and I take care of the vegetable garden, water it, and even wash the floors in the house every day. But to all our requests for help she always replied: I came to you to rest and I am supposed to do nothing.
My spouse and my parents never said a word to me about my acquaintance, apparently I was the only one who had begun to get annoyed with her lately.
It was finally getting cold outside and winter had arrived. We were sitting at my dacha with this very acquaintance drinking coffee, and she started to say: Eh, it is a pity that it is winter now, then I would come to you for a long time, as in summer, but only on Saturdays, it would be rather warm, and I was tired of being in the city already. I shuddered at her words and think to myself in my head: that’s why I can not say to her face that I do not like to see her every weekend and it really annoys me. What if she gets offended and doesn’t talk to me anymore?
I didn’t want that at all. I wish she would just stop coming to my cottage every weekend, but that kind of scandal doesn’t suit me very well either.
