‘Let’s normalize cleaning up before having company over’: Man goes to woman’s house. Then he sees something ‘disgusting’ on her table that causes him to leave
When inviting someone back to your home, it’s usually a given that you give it the once-over before they arrive. What if there’s something embarrassing—or worse, incriminating—they forgot to hide? Clearly, for TikToker @buns.buggyy, this fear doesn’t exist, as she shared with viewers how a man high-tailed it from her house after discovering something he didn’t like.
What exactly did he find in her house?
“So I just had a man over, and he literally left and walked out because he said this was so disgusting [and he] couldn’t believe it,” she began. The camera then panned to a bunch of flowers as she added, “Look! These are the flowers he brought. He let me keep him because here he gave him with me.”
She then pointed to a wrapped tampon on her kitchen table. “He said that ‘This was so disgusting,'” she shared. “Having a tampon in the kitchen table was disgusting, and that I was just a dirty person, and he didn’t like that. Like, what?”
The table itself had crumbs on it, while a lying-down glass bottle could be seen in the vicinity, along with various other items.
In total, the video amassed 420,900 views as of Wednesday.
Most viewers didn’t side with the TikToker
The majority of commenters agreed with the man.
“The tampon is actually the cleanest thing on the table,” one quipped. “I mean, some of us have standards,” another added.
“Show the house,” a third demanded. “I would bet that was the last straw.”
“It’s not dirty, however why is your entire home not cleaned prior to having company?” a fourth asked. “That’s just basic manners.”
Elsewhere, there were those commenters who agreed with the TikToker.
“Keep men out of your home baby,” a fifth advised. “Next time link up out in the public. Home is sacred, & he had no business being in there.”
“I mean you just saved yourself months of headaches and stress,” a sixth opined. “I’d put it there everytime for now on.”
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Should you clean up before inviting someone over?
When one Reddit user posed the question to netizens, specifying that it was for dates and significant others, the consensus was clear: you should definitely clean up.
“I do it for me more than them but I also think it is just good manners, I am not even a super clean freak but I have a one bedroom condo. Anything out of place makes it seem messy,” one Redditor wrote. “To me it’s similar to saying please and thank you, chewing with you mouth closed, etc.”
While a second shared, “I keep my place tidy by default. As someone trying to date seriously, part of the message I want to project is: I can handle a home, [and] I can meet the responsibilities of life. Those things are important to me in others, [so] I want to project them as well.”
A third added, “I care to a certain point. It’s always reflective of someone’s character to an extent. Last guy I dated would never clean his toilet and it had a black tar ring on the bowl. I asked him about it and he was like ‘oh I’ve never noticed that’. He turned out to be a real piece of [poop emoji] in the end so it all worked out I guess.”
The TikToker didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via TikTok comment.
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