So, I am pretty grumpy right now.
Sometimes I can't wait to get out of this place. To move out of this clusterfuck and just be done with these people. More specifically one person. One of our roommates moved out already, and I really want to. It's only three more weeks. Hopefully I can last that long.
It's really hard living with people you've never met before, and being the kind of person I am, see the archive for the "Supporting Cast" blog, I don't do confrontation very well. I would love to go out into the kitchen and yell at him for being a fucking pig and being so fucking disgusting and never cleaning up any of his shit, but alas I am too nice.
He came home from a trip to Vancouver yesterday and I cannot stand being around him for even one second. About fifteen minutes ago I walked out into the kitchen, the first thing I see is some kind of meat juice dripping down the side of our counter, followed by a plate on top of the counter soaked in whatever it is he was cooking. I look in the sink, which was empty a few hours ago after I had cleaned there, and there is a baking sheet, a used cutting board, a dirty frying pan, to mention a few things lying around. It's disgusting and I'm sick of it.
This guy likes to leech of everyone else and use everybody elses stuff. I am positive that he has stolen at least two of my tupperwear containers and put them in his locker. How do I know you ask? Well this weekend when he went away, I looked in his locker and saw them there, so I took them out and put them back where I had them, and today I came out of my room, and they're gone again. Later I hear him locking his locker. Hmm....
When my parents visited, they kindly bought me new dishtowels, dishcloths and bathroom towels, including a hand towel for drying hands. My roommate has used and abused every one of these since I've brought them out. The dishtowels, which have a general purpose of drying dishes and hands, have been used to wipe up spills, messes, and even used as oven mitts, getting burned. I cannot stand it. And then after they have been used to clean up shit, he'll leave them in a crumpled pile next to his dirty place which hasn't been put away.
Since living here, he has not: vacuumed the living room/kitchen, mopped the floor, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the shower, taken out the recycling, taken out the garbage or taken out the bottles. He likes to give us heck about the fruitfly problem we had a little while ago, saying that "we have to keep this place clean" when most of the problem is his. Everyday I find something new in the sink. Today, I think it's squash, but there has been onion, cantelope and strawberries to name a few.
Does anyone think that I am being too harsh or too critical of this guy? Please let me know.
Thanks.
- J
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Jason.
ReplyDeleteI don't know you that well, and I don't know said roommate, but I have seen how hard you work at keeping the place clean and nice, and making sure everyone is taken care of and getting along. I'm sort of like you, in that sometimes I blend into the background, so sometimes I'm watching, and I see. I do not mean that in a creepy way either :). But I want you to know that I, for one, appreciate some of what you do, though I'm not around nearly enough to appreciate it fully.
Also, I'm not really in any place to be giving advice, as I don't know the situation other than what I have heard, but I think that you should talk to this roommate. It may be hard and it may be uncomfortable, but I think that you need to stand up for yourself a little bit, because it's obviously past the point where it annoys you a bit but you can just shrug it off. You seem genuinely upset and annoyed and just at the end of your rope and I don't like seeing you (reading about you?) this way. I think that it will be better for you if you confront this guy, especially if you have to continue living with him. This is just one person's opinion, however I hope it helps and at the very least I hope you know that I appreciate you because you've never been anything but the kindest, sweetest person to me. If there is anything I can do, just let me know because it genuinely upsets me to see you so upset.
Karly