Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying roommates

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I mean I don't know if 'roommate' is the appropriate nomenclature for the squatters living in my attic.

Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link

six months pass...

dude ain't bad, he's chill and doesn't really give me any shit, but dude is weird sometimes.

like some nights he comes home and puts the AC down to 74. aight, a little cold, but i don't care. it's his electric bill (I play a flat rate so my monthly rent is the same every month regardless).

and then some days he just...turns the a/c off mid-day. even when he knows I'm home. today I'm training and mid-session, I'm sweating buckets, so I get up in mid-sentence and look and he's got the AC off on an 88 degree day when he knows I'm home, and it's 85 in the house. so I turned it back on and he didn't say anything, but then he leaves again later and turns it off again (this time it was only 78 which is fine by me so I didn't object)

i'm like y'know if you wanna save money on yr electric bill, maybe don't run yr a/c all night

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

This is tedious but I have to vent:

New housemate and I share a parking spot where one of us is always having to move the car to let the other out. It's kind of a pain when you have to move both cars by yourself, and I don't like to have to do it in the morning because it adds a few precious minutes to an already busy pre-work schedule. So we agreed that she'd text me when she got home in the evening and we'd switch the cars, or if she got home too late I'd knock on her door at 8 in the morning and she'd let me out.

Couple nights ago, the day before semester grades were due, busiest day of the semester, I got woken up at two in the morning by a text from her saying she'd just gotten back and might need to ask me to move the cars in the morning or get someone else to help, because she's very busy and needs all the sleep she can get, thanks, prayer hands emoji.

I failed in my two am grogginess to realize this meant, "You need to move the cars yourself." I was mostly busy being stressed about being awake, and I thought the operative word in the text was "morning." So I knocked on her door at 8 in the morning as usual, and now she is mad at me for waking her up.

And yes, I could have just taken a few minutes from my morning prep time and switched the cars myself, if I'd realized that was what she wanted. And I'm trying not to be pissed about being woken up, because she probably thought I had my phone on silent. But I'm really bugged by the mindset that goes, "Someone who occupies this spot needs to switch both cars by themselves. Even though I am currently awake and sitting in a car, I will text my sleeping housemate and tell her to do it."

Lily Dale, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link


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