Va Va Vacuum
My roommate during my last year of college and I shared the first floor of a house that had been converted into apartments. The rooms were oddly-sized and the hallway was hardly wide enough for an average-sized person to pass through. This was my roommate’s favorite place to store the vacuum cleaner, meaning that every time I came in, I tripped on it. She left me with two choices: to move it to another room myself (and watch it come back days later), or nag her until she moved it.
One night, after I came in from a night class to find her in bed and the vacuum in the middle of the hall, I took matters into my own hand. I picked it up, set it in the middle of the shower, and closed the shower curtain. She, who had early classes the next morning, would get up early, be inconvenienced by the vacuum, and finally understand why having the vacuum there annoyed me so much.
The next morning, I was awakened at 6 a.m. by hysterical screaming and crying.
Apparently, my roommate had failed to tell me that she had a pathological fear of killers hiding behind the shower curtain in wait for her.
Guess where the vacuum ended up the next day.
So, when did you discuss this safety hazard with her prior to leaving the thing in her shower? While I find that quite humorous, your “point” fell on deaf ears if you hadn’t already discussed the issue with her.
At least she vacuumed. I can see it being annoying to always find the vacuum sitting in the hall, but living with a roommate means dealing with another person’s irritating habits, and on the Official Irritating Roommate Habits Scale, leaving a vacuum cleaner out isn’t that big a deal. How long would it take for you to move it yourself? Five, ten seconds? Putting it behind the shower curtain again when it made her cry and panic the first time was pretty immature.
It’s just… a vacuum :/ Doesn’t seem so terrible.
Not sure which is worse – leaving stuff out or passive-aggressive (turning into aggressive aggressive) behavior over a VACUUM!!!
It seems fairly obvious from the story that the hall was the least convenient place for the item while more convenient places for it were available (the other rooms the OP constantly moved it to). Why roomy never got the hint, but preferred a dangerous hazard, is odd indeed.
I agree with GarterSnake here. It sounds like the rare hygiene problem, as opposed to a no-hygiene problem. Why didn’t they try to discuss together a better place to keep the vacuum? did they not have closet space? And I’d put the vacuum in her room before the freaking bathtub! I hope it ended up in the hallway permanently, just because this story annoys me that much.
Though, I’ll admit, it is the little things that people let drive them crazy … I’ve heard stories of people who throw punches over time left on a microwave. That’s as aggressive-aggressive as you can get. LOL
Throwing punches isn’t exactly passive aggression…