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[labellementeuse]

Crazy-ass flatmate has hit an all-time low. Lately she's never around, spending all her time at her boyfriend's place - I mean all her time. She was home for two nights last week. The thing is, when she is home, the boyfriend was with her, and for the past two weeks they haven't done their dinner dishes - nor, obviously, breakfast and lunch. So yesterday we asked her to do Friday's dishes, since she hadn't done anything. Saturday night before dinner? Still not done, so we did about half (so we could, like, cook) including some of hers. Tonight when I got home? Yep, still not done, including her and her boyfriend's dinner dishes from the last two nights.

This was all getting a bit ridiculous and I was a bit pissed, so I texted her (with the blessings, or actually the blasphemings, of my other flatmates) "Any chance of you ever doing any dishes?" Admittedly sarky, but also kind of deserved considering she hasn't picked up a scrubbing brush for two weeks.

The sum of her response? "No."



... so we hid her rice and her cookbook (which, in our defense, were left on the kitchen floor. We don't have that much kitchen floorspace. We had to hide them...) and put her dishes on her bed. The ones we could leave, anyway, which was like, two pots, but we need her plates and things. God knows when she'll be home long enough to notice, but it made us feel better, along with a concerted bitch-session-and-major-kitchen-clean.

Comments

[rewihendrix.livejournal.com]

don't hide her stuff that's just stooping to her level. Don't be bitchy to her, just do her dishes and then ask her to do yours the next night.

[cactus-cat.livejournal.com]

It's a nice idea, but it never actually works in real life and at least when you stoop you get some satisfaction. I'd stoop further than that, personally...

Wow, my standards have dropped hugely over the last few years! ;P

Tui: Can you and your flatties kick her out?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

We were, like, cackling last night because we felt so much better. :D

We could, probably, although she's on the lease, but we're all leaving in october and it'd be too much of a hassle to find someone else. The one thing she does do is pay the rent...

[cactus-cat.livejournal.com]

Hey, awesome! Some flatties don't even do that! ;D

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Er, you seem to be missing the fact that that's what we've been doing, for the past three weeks, and when on Saturday we asked her to do some of ours... she didn't.

Also, I'm serious, we actually did have to hide them. She's short & we put them on the only shelves available, which are very, very high up.

[keymash.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH FOR YOU! One of our old flatmates made spaghetti bolognaise then left the pots, plates and everything soaking in the sink. For five days. There was all this orange foam and ugh fjkhsjkfhd why are people such assholes to live with?

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Man, tomato sauce leavings are just the worse. Urgh. Especially when there's meat in. :-(

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

OH GOD GROSS. Our problem is we don't actually have enough dishes to just leave them there, but in future of this happens again, I recommend picking them up and putting them on the beds. It should get a reaction.

[keymash.livejournal.com]

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU DID IT

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

She hasn't been home yet, but it has reportedly had good results with other people I know.

I really can't wait til she gets home. *evil*

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. Brilliant. And entirely called-for.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I think so. :P

[kheha.livejournal.com]

Oy. That's awful. I feel like blessing my roommates right now, however unbelievably conservative they are. Just let me find the cross and holy water....

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

hahaha. sometimes I think it would take an actual exorcism to get through to this girl.

[lady-larla.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathy... ;) Think about it its only a matter if a few more months and you hardly see her anyway.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's true, at least...

[kuril.livejournal.com]

Now I clearly remember why I refused to be moved into newer dorms while in S. Korea... they had shared kitchens between two rooms, and I knew that I'd end up cleaning after whomever lived next door to me. The other factor is that kitchens are great places to fail inspections. I had a hard enough time sharing bathrooms, with the people on the other side never doing their part.

Needless to say, I'm not a fan of roomies anymore despite the obvious financial incentives.