to overstay (someone’s) welcome

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 194, “An Unwanted Houseguest.”

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 194. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in the beautiful City of Los Angeles, in the State of California, here in the USA. Remember to visit our website at eslpod.com. There you can find information about our podcast, as well as a Learning Guide for this podcast, which includes all the vocabulary, definitions, extra explanations and culture notes that that we don't talk about in the podcast, as well as a complete transcript of this program.

Today's topic is “An Unwanted Houseguest.” Let's get started.

About a month ago, my friend Richard called me and asked if he could come stay with me for a couple of weeks. I usually don't like having houseguests but Richard was a good friend. He's an artist and he was thinking about moving to LA. He wanted to see if he could get a job in the area. I told him, yes, of course, and he came down right away. As I said, that was a month ago. He's been living in my guestroom ever since.

I like Richard