Culinary Differences
I had a housemate that resembled Bilbo Baggins (of The Hobbit), but in his creepier incarnation (perhaps when coveting the ring). He was perpetually poor and would end up spending all his spare money on cigarettes and music (this was back when you HAD to buy music). He rarely left the house and was usually around when I was cooking so I would offer him some of my food. It was never reciprocated, but I figured he couldn’t cook. This became pretty obvious when I came home one day to find him sitting down with a raw onion on a plate and eating it with a knife and fork. This was a worse sin to me than never cleaning the house, I couldn’t believe any one would be that culinarily crass. Luckily, he was invited in to a squat house to live rent-free shortly after that.
ha! I lived with a guy who looked like Gollum once and had many of the same mannerisms. He crashed at our house for a week that turned into months. I had given him an air mattress to sleep on, and when he finally left we realized that the air mattress had deflated a long time ago and he had just been sleeping on its deflated self with no sheets. Perhaps they were related.
Oh no! He ate a raw onion! Call Jerry Springer, this guy is a nut case.
If you’re that epicurean that a raw onion is somehow less forgivable than squalor, I wonder how many of YOUR roommates have entries pending on this site.
Ewsh…raw onion with a knife and fork. That musta stunk and made HIM stink even more.
I think the OP mentioned that incident as one of many that space didn’t allow to print. Something tells me this guy did a lot of other things equally as horrendous, and this was just an example. Mooching food and shelter, then living like a hobo in such free conditions is pretty bad.
I bet he and the other squatters have a lot in common and will form some sort of otherworldly enclave.
“This was a worse sin to me than never cleaning the house, I couldn’t believe any one would be that culinarily crass”
seriously?
i’d rather my roommate be scarfing down onions for every meal if it meant she’d clean up the apartment and not leave her dirty dishes lying around for weeks, vomit caked on the toilet seat, and dirty clothes piled up in the living room. i can ignore what someone eats. filth around the apartment, that’s a whole other story