Crash Courses for my Roomie Fjord Girl: Originally posted on Premium.
I'm seriously thinking about signing up my roomate for a few crash courses.
1. The toilet brush is not your enemy
2. Loving your kitchen and keeping it clean
3. Helping your busy roomate
4. Bagels are personal
5. Waxing your legs is not cleaning
6. Roomates are people too
7. Asking before you take
8. A good way to exercise: Taking the trash out
9. Brooms and mops are fun too
10. The art of cleaning on weekends
11. Hair on drain: Not good!
The list goes on. Seriously... I find it hilarious. I was on my knees this morning, cleaning the shower floor and she had the nerve to say "Wow, you're a cleaning machine today!" -- Then proceeded to ask for my scissors to cut strips to wax her legs. And then she informed me she ate one of my bagels and used some milk because, ooops... she "forgot" to go grocery shopping (who forgets about buying food?). No problem, I'm not selfish.
BUT, when you have worked 56 hours a week, you're sleep deprived and you wake up at 4 a.m. and get home after 9 p.m. to find your sink about to explode with dirty dishes you obviously haven't used because you've eaten at work all week... Let me tell you, that touches a nerve somewhere.
She is a nice girl, she isn't a pig or anything. Her room's pretty neat, but she has no sense of consideration when it comes to shared spaces. And the problem is that she knows I'll clean anyway, so she doesn't do it. And of course I won't be living in a pig hole waiting for her to move a finger.
Rant over. TYVM.
Re: Crash Courses for my Roomie JNA: Well I never had a "Roommate"
But had a GF that would never put the toilet seat back up... ;D
LOL
Just start doing things that annoy her then she will want to talk...
IMO
JNA
Re: Crash Courses for my Roomie Fjord Girl: Oh, I finally gave her the look of death today when I came home and found the sink about to explode with all the dirty dishes. I didn't say anything, just looked at her and when she asked "Are you OK?" I just mumbled "La vaisselle..." -- She got the message, of course she now must be hating me, but she washed the dishes.
And guess what? Now I'm feeling like caca because I have a lot of trouble standing up for myself and telling people to be more considerate.
Re: Crash Courses for my Roomie JNA: Fj wrote: And guess what? Now I'm feeling like caca because I have a lot of trouble standing up for myself and telling people to be more considerate.
Is that like "Cocky" in French...Or Spanish...
Damn should have opted for that second language study in School
But then again I "hated" School so...
JNA
Re: Crash Courses for my Roomie TeddyR: Early on she probably found out that your easy to take advantage of and allow her to use you as a doormat.The quicker you put your foot down and just get her to do her share the better.If you feel bad after giving her the stare... and her subsequently washing the dishes,it worked.Don't give it another thought now.Just see if it helped to change her ways. ;)
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