February 20, 2007...5:08 pm

For Your Inconsideration …

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Living with girls is not an easy task.  Some people are inconsiderate.  For example, I often leave my laundry in the washer and/or dryer, thus prohibiting another person’s laundry doing.  However, I am always patient with the people who use the washer and dryer before me, and if they leave clothes in there, I will fold the dry ones and be very careful about where I put the wet ones.  If I wash a load of clothes that includes Amber’s clothes, I make sure I wash it with her detergent because she is allergic to most laundry detergents.  I clean up after people, and I usually do this without complaint.  I do most things that are involved in living in the apartment that hate/silence built without complaint, in all reality.  HOWEVER, I am about done with the downstairs roommate having company over.  She doesn’t have any girlfriends (She is a freshman who lives with three juniors.  She doesn’t live in the dorm due to circumstances beyond all of our control, and I actually like her a lot.  It’s just a shame that I am never really home and that she can’t live with the freshmen girls and make friends and be goofy with them.), so she usually has boys over.  Don’t get me wrong:  I LOVE boys.  These boys, on the other hand, I do not love.  They don’t clean up after themselves, and the downstairs roommate doesn’t clean up after them, either.  NOT OKAY.

I had free time today.  I wanted to nap.  I like sleeping when I can.  I put on a pair of shorts because it is (thankfully) unseasonably warm outside and, therefore, unnecessarily warm upstairs.  I climbed into my bed and heard someone knock on the door.  Knowing the downstairs roommate was home, I let her answer it and tried to fall asleep.  I’m pretty sure it’s not five minutes until I hear cackling and just generally ridiculous conversation.  At one point, her company was pretending to be an auctioneer.  Y’all, I’m not kidding.

Is it so much to ask to have a little respect for your roommates?  No, we’re not all friends, and no, we do not hang out with the same people, but honestly, turn it down a notch.  Have company over, but make them clean up before they leave because I am most certainly NOT going to clean up after them.  Keep the volume level down.  No one wants to hear an auctioneer in her apartment, trust me.

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