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riennatelemnar
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

Well that was creepy

So my new family got all settled in their house and while my athlete was off joining the sports career, my soon-to-be stay at home mom called for a maid. Harold Lansing the maid showed up shortly thereafter. Once my athlete got home, he set about the business of working on their relationship. They went from friends, to being engaged, trying for a baby to married by the end of the day.

Here is the creepy part: Harold hung out in the spare bedroom for all of that. His little thought bubble kind of mirrored what was going on: kiss, hearts, engagement. It's like he was listening in. He wasn't doing any cleaning at this point. Just kind of stalking. At 8:30pm, he is still there and even put the just made food away before my Sim could grab a plate.

Yuck.

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  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    6 years ago
    Oh yeah, Harold Lansing. My selfsim fired him years ago after he got a bit too creepy. He could stand too close to my sim-daughter Annica, and things like that.

    Here he is, just before I fired him.

    https://i.imgur.com/AwvbEAY.jpg
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    6 years ago
    I'm not sure I read the OP correctly the first couple of times.

    Maid shows up.
    Athlete comes home and works on "their" relationship (one assumes by reading a little too quickly that this means with the maid).
    They are married and making babies before the maid's shift is over. Sounds pretty efficient to me.

    Then the story went in an entirely different direction and landed on "yuck" and "creepy." Wait, what happened here? :o :p
  • riennatelemnar's avatar
    riennatelemnar
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    Oh sorry @igazor! :D You are correct that I wasn't very clear. My Athlete Sim came home to his soon-to-be-wife lady friend (I had just created and moved them into the house individually so they weren't even friends yet). Harold was nothing but the maid. He wasn't creepy on day two but I wonder if he was designed to be creepy since @Cororon had a similar experience. I will definitely fire him if he keeps being creepy. There is a baby on the way now and we don't need riff raff hanging around the family.
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    6 years ago
    "igazor;c-17276930" wrote:
    I'm not sure I read the OP correctly the first couple of times.

    Maid shows up.
    Athlete comes home and works on "their" relationship (one assumes by reading a little too quickly that this means with the maid).
    They are married and making babies before the maid's shift is over. Sounds pretty efficient to me.

    Then the story went in an entirely different direction and landed on "yuck" and "creepy." Wait, what happened here? :o :p


    It's the feeling you get when something isn't quite right. He is a bit too much interested in the people he works for instead of only doing his work. In the OP's case he seemed to spy on the couple's love life, and in my case he was drawn to my teen daughter. It happened more than once, so I fired him.

    I don't hate Mr. Lansing, and he brought realism to the game. There are people like that in real life that just makes you uncomfortable. And it's "just a game", so it's not too bad. There should be some challenges or it wouldn't be fun at all. :smile:

  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    6 years ago
    "Rhiannon58;c-17277086" wrote:
    Oh sorry @igazor! :D You are correct that I wasn't very clear. My Athlete Sim came home to his soon-to-be-wife lady friend (I had just created and moved them into the house individually so they weren't even friends yet). Harold was nothing but the maid. He wasn't creepy on day two but I wonder if he was designed to be creepy since @Cororon had a similar experience. I will definitely fire him if he keeps being creepy. There is a baby on the way now and we don't need riff raff hanging around the family.


    You know, in Sims 2 there were these cow mascot that flirted with students to cause trouble. Maybe Mr. Lansing got his traits to either cause trouble or to quickly become a potential love interest of his employer?

    Anyway, take screenshots if he does anything creepy again! :lol:
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    6 years ago
    Upon conducting extensive research...okay, I looked this up on the sims' wiki, I see that Harold and his female counterpart Jane Dotner seem to have much in common and being favorite household servants beloved by their employers doesn't sound like it's among their particular strong suits. Perhaps they should get to know each other and do something else with their lives, other than annoying those meant to be paying for their services.

    If they really want to provide services to and annoy paying customers, they might be better off running a Resort on the edge of town or something. Could end up being a latter day version of Fawlty Towers if one wants to play through this. :)
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    6 years ago
    "igazor;c-17277131" wrote:
    If they really want to provide services to and annoy paying customers, they might be better off running a Resort on the edge of town or something. Could end up being a latter day version of Fawlty Towers if one wants to play through this. :)


    That would have been fun. :smiley: Oh, did you know that John Cleese's family surname used to be Cheese? And cheese is what maids... sometimes have to... uhm... clean up crumbs.... from. Or something. Oh yes! Harold Lansing is drawn to ladies like mice are drawn to cheese! :smiley:
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    6 years ago
    He looks like quite a catch too, if one is into that sort of thing. Okay, maybe more of a blank slate that could be become quite a catch with a makeover and some time spent on the treadmill. :)
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    6 years ago
    "igazor;c-17277282" wrote:
    He looks like quite a catch too, if one is into that sort of thing. Okay, maybe more of a blank slate that could be become quite a catch with a makeover and some time spent on the treadmill. :)


    He looks like he has fallen on one, face first. :D

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