I’ve noticed you around
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by The LandLady in Confessions, Housemates' stories
I had a housemate in fourth year of college who was absolutely insufferable.
All the other people in the house hated her with a passion. It all began with her leaving long-winded rants on A4 sheets of paper on the kitchen table if somebody didn’t clean up after cooking food. I’m not a dirty person, nor were the rest of the household, but in a college house plates can get left around from time to time – that’s just the way it is.
This girl literally couldn’t handle it if a plate was left around for 10 minutes without being cleaned. She’d leave her ‘Dear John, Please Clean Up’ letters on the table for all to see anyway, but the thing is then she’d walk into the room being all nice to you and not mention the letter what so ever!
The woman had serious communication issues.. very strange altogether. So weeks went by and we had gathered a fair few of these notes and were keeping them to show them to people and have a good chuckle at them every now and then !
When it started to get boring we started to scrutinise these letters and come to the realisation she hapoor grammar. We began to correct her grammatical errors in red biro, and graded all of them.. Needless to say she never got higher than a C- and had a “can do better” comment included at the bottom. They stopped shortly after that.
It may sound like we were ganging up on her but seriously, we were always nice to her but she rarely gave anything back except complaints. Someone told me I should make a box with “Suggestions/Complaints” written on it and put it on the table for her, but I never bothered, should have though!
Senor Beezlebub, Irlanda
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