Annoying Habits

[Corki]

Ok...I am posting this just to vent some frustration!

 

As some, if not all, of you know, I live in a house with 4 other people. Anyway, some of their habits are beginning to annoy me! I have mentioned it in the past, but not much action seems to be happening.

 

Anyway, I am about to describe these habits. Then I want you to share such stories of when you have lived with other people in a largish group!

 

1. Instead of actually washing dishes up and putting them in the drainer to dry, they just dump them in the bowl in the sink. The water is usually cold, and there is lots of rice...

 

2. One of my fellow housemates likes to leave al his post on the table. Our kitchen table is cluttered up with his post!

 

3. Another likes to go to the toilet for at least 30 minutes in the morning...just when I want to go for a shower!

 

I am sure others will turn up over the year! Your turn!

[Lanthirrhos]

Hey! the dishes in the sink one! i HATE that! how do you expect me, or ne1 else who washes the dishes, to wash them, if you have dishes piled passed overflowing the bowl?! :evil:

 

Or those ppl who use your tooth brush because its softer... :evil: learn how to rinse your own toothbrush! :x

 

I think i'll quit before i start bopping heads around here...

[Taymist]

Oh lord... yeah Corki, I totally symapthise. I shared a flat with various people over my 4 years at uni and some of them had unbelievably bad habits.

 

I remember one morning, going to the fridge for milk and finding a pair of dirty socks stashed there the night before by one drunken eejit.

 

Another horrible one is leaving dirty coffee cups lying around in weird corners until they are growing the most hideous types of mould imaginable.

 

Filling the bin up until its overflowing and has STUFF sticking all round the edges and never bothering to empty it... that really annoyed me too.

 

Ok I'll stop, my blood pressure is going up !!!

[North Star]

*pokes corki*

don't you have two showers?

[Justin89]

Well the dish's one yes, I have a very expensive and very good dish washer and it seems im the only one who knows how to load it.. tis flippin annoying

 

Clothes, my brother likes to leave his clothes all over the house and doesnt bother to pick them up... like bah at LEAST make a pile or throw them in the laundry basket

 

My brothers music, when im trying to sleep he will crank the stereo or the computer and wake me up, you know its not good music either, like i like metal and crap but his is sad, u cant hear one word and it gives you the biggest headaches in the world

 

CUPBOARDS!!!, I CANT STAND CUPBOARDS BEING OPEN OR DRAWS IN THE KITCHEN IT BUGS THE CRAP OUT OF ME.. hehe i know its weird.. anyone else have this one? lol

 

 

ill stop for now

[Corki]

Yes, we do have 2 showers. However, all my shower stuff is in the bathroom where we have both a shower and the toilet. And i am not that interested in trekking downstairs to the outside toilet first thing in the morning either.

[Taymist]

Outside toilet? :? :shock: That's barbaric Corki lol

[Corki]

we do live in a Victorian house.

[Guest Cadsuane]

In college one of my roomates used to wake up VERY early, and she'd hit the snooze button SEVERAL times. This was not so bad, but it was TERRIBLE when she'd hit the snooze, then finally get up and get in the shower, so her alarm would beep FOREVER until I got up to turn it off, or she got out of the shower!

 

HAIR. I have about the most annoying hair ever, so I am very consciencious (sp?) about making sure it is cleaned up - out of the drains, off the floor, etc. But my roomates would just leave theirs lying around everywhere! It would get stuck to your feet and socks, and get tracked all over the house! :evil:

[Corki]

I know what you mean! When I cleaned the bathroom on Friday, the hair in the plughole of the bath/shower was disgusting! It was all so long! I know it isn't mainly me, as I have short hair at the moment, but several of my friends do have long hair. It took me 2 attempts to remove all of it...and now the water drains away nicely...for now!

[Vorkia]

I can't stand people who micromanage--I mean COME ON are people really incompitent enough to need you to stand over them 24/7

 

Also MG's who nag people to post can be annoying as well ;)

[Canis Rufus]

I don't share a Flat but I do have some neighbors that had a habit of turning their radio too loud. In answer to their difficulties in understanding this problem I waited till about 0600 on a Sat morning after one of their parties and Turned up my amp posted it against the wall, Kicked up the reverb and worked out my aggression. Didn't take long to get my message across. Perhaps you could work out a similar solution. Corki

[Guest Cadsuane]

Yes, I now live by myself and it is fantastic! Except for the whole talking to yourself thing... :roll: :lol:

[Corki]

It doesn't take much to clean a knife. So why does someone have to keep leaving a chocolate spread encrusted knife on top of the chocolate spread jar????

[Lanthirrhos]

:shock: Yick!

 

They used to steal blankets off my bed in the winter so they could sit on the sofa all nice and warm(my room was actually part of a larger room), and then my blakets would disappear... :evil: Until i stole everyones pillows for three days... :twisted:

[Corki]

*chuckles*

 

Any mean ideas to get people to actually wash up instead of dumping their dishes in the sink??

[Lanthirrhos]

Well when it was my week, i only washed MY dishes, and those not in the sink... and left every one elses in the sink where they left them... and then the next person in line... well they got the hint

[Taymist]

Well I got mad enough once to pick the dishes out of the sink and dump them on my flat mate's bedroom floor. Then I washed my own stuff and cleaned the sink up. They got the hint too. Sometimes subtle just doesn't work. :D

[Lanthirrhos]

:lol: And then if they don't get it... hide silverwear in their bed... nothing to sharp mind... :P

[Corki]

I am now using a policy of leaving their stuff on the side of the sink. Hopefully that will work.

[Lanthirrhos]

First they try to blame it on you that they're stuff isn't getting washed... but after awhile they realize that if they just did it right...

[Guest Cadsuane]

Honestly, I'm with Tay. If it's subtle, it's too easy for them to lie to themselves and say it's not theirs or something. If you full on put it in their faces, they can't just pretend they didn't use ANY dishes, lol.

[Lanthirrhos]

OMGosh! :shock:

 

I am again too Corki... I leave for a week and they don't wash a single dish... :shock:

 

 

And they're all in the sink... :evil:

[Corki]

I haven't dared venture down to the kitchen after being away for the weekend!

[Lanthirrhos]

But thats ok... i left again.... :lol: They're gonna be up to their necks in dishes. :D