New Age Aussie
I am Australian and I once had a housemate who spend three months in San Francisco and came home with an American accent. This was mildly annoying but it was her new age tendencies that proved to be a bigger issue. She put wind chimes out on the porch next to my window. Since we lived in one of the windiest cities in the world, they would clang around like the death bells tolling during the night. One morning, I woke up to find our front door was wide open. She had apparently decided that we needed positive chi that flowed through the house during the night and left the door open the whole night! This is in a busy city! We also only had an ‘outhouse’ toilet, so she kept a potty under her bed. I sometimes had to witness her walking past me in the morning with a full pot to empty in the toilet.
You live in a very busy city, where it could be dangerous to leave your door open at night, but you don’t have modern plumbing? I call bullshit on this story.
I second the BS, unless “outhouse” means a shared bathroom with other tenants.
Also, what is annoying about an American accent? Or was it just that she developed one in three months? Heck, I tend to pick up accents after talking with someone for a few minutes….
Everything is annoying when someone completely changes their accent from Australian to American. I pick up my various coworkers’ accents (British, New Zealand, Scotland), but that doesn’t mean my WHOLE ENTIRE ACCENT CHANGED.
I think everything is annoying about someone who changes who they are because they found something enchanting.
Windchimes and portable poo? That’s all?
Big deal, make the windchimes “disappear”. Oh, and call a plumber. I don’t blame her for not wanting to go outside at 3am to pee.
Outhouses are apparently common to have in Australia. Google and Wikipedia are good friends of mine. But it doesn’t seem sooo bad compared to other horror stories.
one of the windiest cities in oz? That wouldn’t be perth, would it?
Also, i get why the accent would be annoying. Since she couldn’t have picked it up after such a short time and kept it after she got back to australia it’s really obvious that she put it on and is, therefore, a wanker.
I agree she sounds annoying (I can’t stand Madonna-esque folk who put on fake accents) but don’t see the problem with you seeing her take out her pee pot … what would you rather have her do, let it overflow in her room?
It might not be sooooo bad when compared to the other shit on here, but that still doesn’t mean it wasn’t this person’s worst roommate. One person’s bad roommate experience doesn’t invalidate another’s just because it was “worse”.
The accent thing is pretentious and annoying, and whilst I’m all for wind chimes, I also wouldn’t want them to be going ALL the time. One point though, it’s pretty common to use a chamberpot if you have an outdoor dunny, everyone used to at one point.