Only Child Mess
E seemed like a good candidate to fill the space vacated by a roommate who had left to move in with her boyfriend. She was interesting, had her own social life and was gainfully employed so my roommate L and I invited her to take the third bedroom in our three-bedroom Brooklyn apartment. It didn’t take long to realize that this only child was completely unprepared to take care of her own mess.
- The first strike was her getting sick on our living room floor (from drinking) and using my bath towel to clean it up. She couldn’t understand why I was furious.
- The second strike was her daily breakfast where she would spill half of her cereal on the floor and refuse to sweep it up so that we would step on crunchy cereal every morning.
- The third strike was her frequent unflushed bathroom visits (featuring some fairly large bowel movements). When I politely suggested she be more aware of this, she said she would but “could I please be more careful of leaving lights on?” Yeah, cause that is totally the same thing.
This is the second time recently I have read somewhere about people complaining about another person not flushing their BMs. Is there some psychological reason why people would not want to flush!? I don’t get it. So gross!
It’s not about not wanting to flush it, it’s about forgetting to flush it. I often don’t flush my BM when my roommate is showering so that they don’t get hit with a stream of super hot water (two bathroom house).
This post was sort of lame, especially the third point that speaks more of WR’s passive aggressive behavior to the OP’s request than the WR being a poop leaver. Either the WR wasn’t that bad or this was just poorly written. If three specific items made the WR so horrible, it seems the OP expects perfection more than the WR being a needy dolt that can’t clean up after herself. It seems less like examples and more “Yeah, these are the three things that annoyed me the most.”
I’ve encountered non-flushers before (regarding pee) and my impression was always that it was to save water – not necessarily to save money, because our water usage was included in our rent, but to save the planet. I don’t want to have to smell/look at/sit directly above someone else’s pee, but I can kinda, sorta respect people and their wanting to save the planet. What I can’t respect is these same people never lifting a finger to clean said toilet, which got dirty that much faster with all that urine sitting in it.
RJ: the rule is “if it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down,” and I think that even the most environmentally conscious prefer that you flush #2.
Agreed!
I don’t care which hole it comes out of, FLUSH THE TOILET! Urine starts to smell after it’s been in the toilet too long. I also wouldn’t mind if someone flushed the toilet as I was in the shower… just let me know… simple as that.
Ewwww. I know non flushers. They just…didn’t. No reason. And they would poop A FEW TIMES. then it would sit, because no one wanted to plunge it. They never understood when I spoke of there being a better way.
Years ago, I went to visit a friend and spent the night. Her boyfriend didn’t flush either, and it sat there all day long. I just couldn’t bring my self to flush for him and actually left early, just to be able to go home and pee in peace.