Grrrr...room mate rant! Why can't people clean?

[Mahonri]

I had "room mates" in dental school much different than during my undergrad years.

During dental school, first three months was in the attic of a family.

Second three months was with an older divorced woman who rented me a room and she had stinky cats and they drove me crazy.

Last three years was with a wonderful widower in her 80's and another never married woman in her late 50's. I felt like a cast member of the "Golden Girls", we all did our own dishes but many times the two of them would offer to take care of mine... but I shoveled all of the snow off of the walks and driveway those three cold Milwaukee winters and they felt safe with me there.

Met my DW during Christmas break of senior year. Met her on the 14th of Dec. Asked her to marry me on the 24th of Dec... had a long distance relation ship the next 4 months and married her the end of June. 21.5 years and 7 kids later and I still love her like the day we got married.

 

[bluey]

That's a great story!

10 days...wow

That gal must be awesome!

 

[Mahonri]

She is.

And she gets better looking the longer we are married. Seriously!

I wouldn't want to live without her.

 

[beak]

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No, but I bet you were bigger than them.

 

[JustChicky]

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It seems to me that most people do not understand this! Or think, at all...

. Lucky for me, when I had room mates, I had the Marine Corps backing me on cleanliness.

Now I have a family, not room mates.

Just call me "Magenta" (a maid, for you non-Rocky Horror Picture Show people). Now I'm always looking for ways to trick them into cleaning, muhahahaha!

I'm glad things worked out for you. Some people can be stubborn, your lucky!

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Yeah, things are mostly better. I still find a few things out of place or not clean, but I try not to say anything. I don't want to be a pain in the butt. However, my one room mate is crazy about recycling, so I figure if she can have that, I can be crazy over keeping our apartment clean!

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

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bingo. You are now enabling their actions, or lack there of.

My housemate ie the loser. Was a compete slob.
My dishes , cups, plates utensils would disappear and when I finally got them back 9 out of 10 times i would have to toss them out. GROSS

Finally I said. No more eating or drinking anywhere but the kitchen and dining room. He would leave dirty clothes all over the place. For a whil i was pickig them up and putting them in the hamper. Til I got tired of that and started throwing them in his room. On his bed and pillow.
Not that he would have been able to tell clean from dirty since putting away clothes was also something he didnt know how to do. Socks, jeans, shirts, underwear.. all over the room. Piled on top of the bed and the DRESSER!!!

When we kicked his useless butt out (Gonna be a year Feb 15/16!!)
I had to open the three windows in the room he lived in and leave them open. In Feb for weeks. It was that gross.

People that dont clean up after themselves, have no respect for themselves or the people they live with.

 

[ksacres]

*collecting ideas in case she ever has a roommate*

 

[JustChicky]

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You sure can!

We all have a little nazi (as in the soup nazi) in us.

I am a dish nazi. Dishes don't need to be all over the house and you better rinse them off!