The Logic of Some People

29
Sep
2012

The Logic of Some People

I spent my Saturday morning cleaning my apartment. It’s an apartment I pay roughly $1,600 a month for with three other roommates who pay $500 for a couple and $500 for a guy and a kid on the weekends. I pay all utilities.

So, I clean my room and when that is spotless, I move on to the living room, and when that is spotless, I move on to the kitchen. I discovered that the bottom of pretty much every pan I own is scratched to shit and the teflon is coming off. These are pans that I’ve only had for a year and a half, and I love them. They are red, and they match my kitchen.

I’ve finally had it. I send a message that says from here on out, all my stuff is off limits. One of the roommates comes out to try and plead his case. My response is this: I don’t give a shit who did it. I have nice things that I pay for, and as such, I don’t want them ruined. My stuff is off limits.

Then, I continue cleaning. It takes me 2 hours to clean the rest of the house. When I finally sit down on facebook, I see this nice passive aggressive status from my roommate:

Here, let me enlighten you to my logic, since apparently it is so ASTOUNDING.

I like nice things. I spent my hard earned money on nice things. I don’t want my nice things destroyed by people who aren’t me.

I also like a clean house. I pay a lot of money for my nice things and I want my nice things to be in a clean area. I don’t want a fridge where I can’t find food because there are week old leftovers in bags in my way. I don’t want fruit flies in my sink. I want my microwave to not have leftover food in it because no one knows how to run a damn lysol wipe that I went and bought through it.

You know what else I don’t want to have to do? Take out all the trash. I hate taking out the trash. Everyone does. But you know what, when my Saturday cleaning generates this much trash:

After I already TOLD YOU four days ago that I was tired of the trash situation, that I’m left to do BY MYSELF because god forbid someone else do it, I’m going to be pissed.

And if you don’t like my logic? You can get the fuck out. Because your $500 isn’t worth me being your fucking maid.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=635420176 John E Radioo

But how do you really feel?
- http://www.howmanyfrogs.com/ Stephanie Dorman
  
  I think it’s fairly obvious how I really feel.
http://www.facebook.com/LesAnn Leslie Perales

Ugh. I feel you. Roommates suck so much. I’ve had stuff destroyed by roommates, taken or borrowed without asking only for it never to return. General inconsiderateness. I had one group of roommates in college that I loved—we got along so well. But I feel like that was rare and special. And funny enough, I’ve never really had an issue living with Steve. Sure we have our habits that annoy each other but we’ve just always got along well I guess.
- http://www.howmanyfrogs.com/ Stephanie Dorman
  
  If there’s one thing I miss Zack for, it’s the fact that he was an awesome roommate. We had the same level of clean going on, and I never had to bitch about anything as far as the living situation.
  
  Besides you know, the other girls in my bed. That kinda sucked. LOL
http://www.facebook.com/maria.kumro Maria Kumro

I don’t understand how people can live in dirty spaces and not make an effort, especially when the other person you live with is clean. Shouldn’t that teach you to try to keep things clean? My roommate is like this, and it makes me insane. I buy all the cleaning products and do 95% of the cleaning here, and her contribution is the dishes, occasionally. I told her earlier this week I won’t be the damn maid anymore, or if I am, she’s gonna pay me more.
- http://www.howmanyfrogs.com/ Stephanie Dorman
  
  You know my pain. It’s so frustrating sometimes.
http://twitter.com/sonja_rois Sonja Rois

I don’t remember writing this. It has someone else’s name on it, but I’m pretty sure this is me and my house that is being talked about here. Right down to the red Teflon pans that were destroyed. Point being, I feel your pain. I miss living by myself so much. At least then if something was destroyed or cleaning was left undone I had no one to blame but myself. Now I’m afraid the authorities are going to find me in a clock tower screaming about crumbs being left on the counters (gee, guys, I wonder where the ants are coming from) and how ppls hands MUST be broken because, god forbid, anyone other than me knows how to put a dish into the dishwasher. I really see either jail or a straight-jacket in my future.
- http://www.howmanyfrogs.com/ Stephanie Dorman
  
  I really see either jail or a straight-jacket in my future.
  
  HA! Oh girl, I definitely feel you on that one. I think there should be a webservice for people like to us to find roommates who are clean like us. You have to be pre-vetted in some way. It would be so much easier….