To many Houstonians, that's overstaying the welcome.
It is a European event, in France's case overlapping the country's treatment of foreign Roma, or Gypsies, who have overstayed the three-month welcome automatically accorded citizens of Bulgaria and Romania as members of the European Union.
While the Baby Boomers may have overstayed their welcome, the older end of the group will not be around for that much longer, particularly if the economy continues to rebound.
One or two of the lesser performers overstayed their welcome, but the successes overshadowed the weaker moments.
Among some of Lebanon's religious groups, particularly the Maronite Christians and the Druze, there is a feeling that the Syrians have overstayed their welcome in the country.
Wedding party photo sessions used to be, but not anymore: too many intoxicated wedding guests, often from parties catered by the hotel or the National Arts Club, overstayed their welcome.
We are only offered a glimpse of the private world May has constructed and before we know it, the lights are fading and we have overstayed our welcome in the intimate story of these characters.
"By the late '90s you could sense the exhaustion of the audience, that the musical had overstayed its welcome," Sito said.
A writer for Daily News described the episode as "bittersweet" and "emotional", but felt that the program "overstayed its welcome".
10.24am: Farrow said it was her impression that Charles Taylor overstayed his welcome at the Mandela dinner in 1997.
But the British overstayed their welcome and as early as 1920 they had to put down a rebellion known as the Great Iraqi Revolution that united Sunni and Shia against the British and led to the death of 6,000 Iraqis and 500 British and Indian soldiers.
