I do declare...
I've been in 6 different living situations where I've had roommates. College dorms and off-campus apartments. Rooming with friends. Rooming with strangers.
In 5 of the 6 places, something has always held true about the roommates I've had.
Dishes could be piling up for days. I'm not washing, the roomies aren't washing. But, AS SOON as I run water to fill up the sink to wash dishes, the roommates migrate like vultures to road kill (nasty example), and start using the dish water I've run to clean their dishes.
This theory holds true over and over and over again...
What's the reasoning behind it? I really have no idea. I think it's embarrassment. The roomies are embarrassed about the dirty situation and that I "beat them" to cleaning up.
For instance, the friends I'm living with now are not in school right now and only works a few hours every night. I'm in nursing school. That's no excuse for being dirty but still, 4 am mornings 5 days a week is crazy. All week the dishes have been piling up. Friday, I get home after a 12 hour day of clinicals, and no one's home. One roomie is working, the other has left town for the weekend. Great. So I start preparing everything to clean up. I sweep all the floors (but I don't move the swept trash to the garbage), reorganize the bathroom, kitchen, living room. And run dishwater for the dishes to soak so I can wash them Saturday morning. One roomie has a crockpot full of sauce that has gone bad. I'm not touching that mess so I leave it in the corner where it's been ALL WEEK collecting funk. Roomie from work gets home. The first thing she does is dump the crockpot.
What in the ham sandwich?
It's been there all week. You've seen it all week. But now you feel the need to dump it in my dishwater. Interesting. Saturday morning, I wake up, and roomie is washing dishes and has swept the floor. I go to the store for 30 minutes and when I get back, she's cleaning the bathroom.
I'm not at all complaining. If your pride is causing you to be Superwoman around the house all of the sudden, I ain't mad at ya! But why did it take you seeing me tidy up to get the wheel going?
I don't understand people!
*Goes to call friend whose a psychology grad student...*
Comments (2)
Goes back to my college days when a good college friend and myelf got an apartment together. Our biggest problem was the dishes as well. I was doing them allll the time and I finally had it and stopped doing them all together.
The sink finally got so high and food was getting stuck to the dishes, they started to smell and mold was starting to build. It was getting so disgusting. I finally just said FINE and gave up. Had to throw away half the dishes and I was sooo pissed!
And while I was doing them she said oh I was going do them while looking at the computer and STILL didn't get up! I spent an hr and half on that!
Some people are just messy as hell! We are still good friends but I don't think I would live with her again!
eww, wow! I hate throwing stuff away, I would've been mad too! and why do people
say "oh, I was going to do that?" man i really don't understand... lol
whooo! Kristen, don't get me started. People always said it but I didn't think it could be that bad: never live with friends if you want to remain friends!