Shouldn't have invited him: "They open the trunk, a huge pit bull gets out."

Between the friend you invite on vacation who turns out to be rude, the friend you lend your couch to as a spare and who stays longer than expected, or those you invite to a party who make a mess... Sometimes, we regret our generosity. This week, Libération tells you stories where our witnesses really said to themselves: "you shouldn't have invited him." Today, Christophe (1), a forty-year-old visual artist based in the South of France, recalls a vacation that was cut short.

“The story takes place in 1997, I was 20 years old at the time. We were a group of friends, who came from all over the place. Some of them were, like me, in the graffiti scene in the Paris region. One of them, Fabrice (1), told us that he had a family home in Royan (Charente-Maritime) and invited us there for a summer vacation. Fabrice and I went to see his mother in Sarlat-La-Canéda, in the Dordogne, then we arrived by train in Royan. Three other friends arrived by car, and two others were supposed to join us by train later. So we met up at first with five people, everything went well, we went for walks, we went to the beach, it was summer… Anyway, at the beginning, it was cool.

“Very quickly – the same day or the next day – one of the guys in our group, Stéphane (1), picks up a girl he meets at the seaside, and leaves us. We’re a bit disgusted, we hardly see him anymore. Plus, we’re all single so we’re jealous. Three days later, there’s a big Volkswagen Golf that