2004-06-06 07:49:10
Do you ever want to kick someone so hard in the nuts that it might possibly knock loose the mysterious brain blockages that seem to be preventing this person from rational thought? A type of kick-start for the brain I suppose.
Dear Lord.
Must. Control. Temper.
The events that initially invoked my range were at least a week ago. But the sight of a bowl that has been occupying our sink - still unwashed - has brought the feelings of fury flooding back.
I ask you. What is SO hard about washing a dish when you are done with it? Are there some mysterical forces I don’t know about that somehow make dish washing much more fun if you leave them to fester for a few days or so?
Perhaps some background is necessary. The only problem here isn’t just dishes. I could maybe handle that. It is the inability of another individual to clean any part of the kitchen. Or the bathroom. Or the living room. It is the ability to borrow lots of money from me and somehow remember paying me back when in fact this event has never taken place. And I’m beginning to think probably never will. It is the ability to lie. Poorly. And repeatedly. Get caught in lies, and just turn and leave the room instead of addressing the issue. It is the ability to spray roaches - sometimes in the vicinity of my food - yet the inability to dispose of roaches, leaving a trail of dead bugs for others to pick up. It is the inability to buy toilet paper, papertowels, soap, or any common consumable, expecting that the purchase of these items will magically always be taken care of by someone else. It is the ability to literally climb over or even sit on piles of one’s belongings which have been strewn all over the common areas without noticing they are still there. When asked repeatedly to remove such items, the response automatically generated is "yeah, i was JUST ABOUT to do that." yet the items remain weeks later. It is watching loud movies on one’s computer for some reason directly outside of my room (this is slightly bothersome since I do not have a real room or real walls)instead of in one’s room. Every night. Until 5am. When asked EVERY night, at several points during EVERY night to turn it down so that I can sleep. Automatic response generator spits out "yeah, i was JUST ABOUT to turn it off." Several hours later, now at the point of tears, asking once again to fucking go into one’s own room so I can at least get two hours of sleep before a very long day, new response is miraculously generated. "yeah, i was JUST about to turn it off… i didn’t know it was such a big deal." didn’t know. DIDN’T KNOW? That is very interesting since we have had this exact same exchange the previous night. And the night before that. And pretty much every night previous since we moved into this place. This is why, after waking up the next morning on very little sleep, coming across pots and plates in my sink encrusted in what my mom would refer to as "dead food" made me want to aim my foot for a good kick square in this individual’s nuts.
At this particular time, I was running late for a group meeting on a research project, but I paused briefly to write the following note which I left next to the sink.
"There seems to be some kind of problem here, but I will have to assume that it is because one of us never got the answer to that all-important question… "Mommy, where do baby roaches come from?" Well, you see little tyke, baby roaches come from bigger roaches who roam around this kitchen looking for food, usually find it very easily thanks to dishes and other random garbage left out, they fall in love, and reproduce. Maybe this newfound knowledge will help this situation.
But probably not.
So to further this educational experience…
An occasional dish left here or there when one is very busy is totaly understandable. But this is starting to become a regular occurrance. And I see no reason for it. I KNOW you were not too busy to do dishes last night… although SO many movies and friends episodes to watch - so little time. Maybe that counts as "busy".
And, washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen is an activity you can participate in for FREE! So it couldn’t be the money thing. I am just at a loss.
In the future please just clean up after yourself when you are finished. it only takes a few minutes, it costs nothing, and maybe it will break the roach procreation cycle. Thank you."
Although there was never any mention of the note, the sink did remain dirty dish free for at least 3 days. But unfortunately all the progress I thought we made seems to have been reset, and dirty dishes abound once again.
wtf.
I am just in a pissy mood, possibly thanks to the fiftygagillion assignments I need to be working on, and I don’t want to deal with this idiot, and I just want to whine at somebody. So thank you for letting me whine. Or if you already stopped reading when you realized how lame a post this is, you suck. Not that you will ever know that.