Monday, January 17, 2011

Couch Surfing in Pittsburgh,PA...I wouldn't do it again...really

After having an incredibly pleasant couch surfing experience in Ohio, Pittsburgh showed me that I still had some things to learn about mistreatment and degradation when staying at someone else's place.
First person I stayed with was a girl in her early 20's living alone. She called herself an anarchist. For a young woman she seemed very confident and sure of everything she talked about. She showed me where the anarchists gathered in Pittsburgh and I even went to one of their meetings to plant trees. Anyway, when I first got there, her apartment was modest but pleasant, and she told me I could eat anything out of whatever she had, which she didn't have much, mostly rice,she also had some cheap wine and whiskey. There was a porn movie with the cover facing up laying on the floor (not something you want a guest to see,male or female).
That was it, over the next couple of days during a four night stay, she was not home at all during the day, and when she came home, she just asked me what I did that day, as if I had been doing homework and I had to report to her.She seemed disappointed at my day's activities.
We went to a nightclub the second night, her idea, paid for her cover and her first beer, then she took off to find some friends. I was left by myself to drink, bored, I must have had about five or eight beers and then I went out to the dance floor to find her. She was dancing with two other women. I placed my hand on her shoulder and said I'd like to stay but I'd probably needed to go since she did not have transportation and neither did I but she was going to go somewhere else after the club closed.
Last day,she gave me a hug after giving me a lecture about how you NEVER put your hand around your host's shoulder,ever. I apologized and said I understood.She gave me a good review on the couch surfing website, but everything would change in two days.
I was still in Pittsburgh staying with another hostess, when she texted and said she found out some of the rice and whiskey were gone. She said I had been very disrespectful and I pointed out that she had told me to help myself to anything, then she said that she had said it but she didn't think I was going to eat so much rice and drink half of the $5 dollar whiskey bottle, she said she was sorry but she was going to change the reference on the website because she said she had to do it for the couch surfing community.
So she changed the reference she gave me from positive to neutral. Then I just changed hers to negative because she just kept texting me that I took advantage and ate all her rice and this and that,so guess what she did? she changed it to Negative too ha ha what a surprise.All for the sake of fairness for the couch surfing community, right?
Then she messaged me to say that if I ever gave her a hard time, she would go to the authorities. Can I tell you the last thing I wanted to do was give her a hard time? I was DONE with her.I did not want any type of contact with her in any way. What was really funny though, is that when I came back to Denver I heard her fucking bullshit stories about me from another couch surfer. This Pittsburgh girl was immature. Like I said, she gave me a positive review right after I left,and according to her, when she found out her rice was gone, she changed the reference,and then for some reason, the arm I put around her started to bother her for the following weeks and she even said to others I touched her leg.I got tons of rice and food in my fridge,and can I tell you the last thing that I would give anybody shit about is eating all the rice? How ridiculous!
I looked at her profile recently and she says if you want to stay with her then you will be staying on the floor in the living room and warns you to not take showers that are too long . She also has a roommate now because apparently she cannot pay her rent buy herself anymore.Immature broke ass loser. If you stay in Pittsburgh. I recommend you stay with someone who is not that uptight and who has resources to host you, not someone who says you have to replace all the food they offer you. Better yet, save your money and go to New York if you are going to go to the Northeast, instead of visiting lame cities like Pittsburgh or any other shit cities in the Northeast. After you go to New York, Pittsburgh will seem like a farm in Kentucky in  comparison.

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