uhg so I was really hoping I would never have to write This Post, but it has come to this, complaining on the internet.
I have three roommates, I get along well with two of them, and one of them has become a good friend, but the third is, as I suppose cosmically necessary, the Bad Roommate. Usually the Bad Roommate is messy, rude or takes your stuff, my Bad Roommate is, however, the one that tells me the sink is gross and I should wash it, the microwave is gross and I should wash it, the floor is gross and I should vacum it when really, none of it is gross at all, everything is of normal dirty amounts. Very normal. Perhaps surprisingly normal for four people living in one small apartment.
She tells me she is not my mother, so she shouldn’t have to be telling me this, and then she gives me chores to do on the weekend because she goes home each weekend, and upon her return, I have generally done them, and she then accuses me of not having done them, because evidently my cleaning job is not up to par by her standards. I also work for periods of 6-7 hours at a time saturday and sunday, so I tend to not notice the tiny, tiny crumbs on the ground. I almost wish that I had the other archetypal Bad Roommate at this point.
When I was in a 3 bedroom house, the other two were both this. At one point, one of them posted signs around the house, in huge all-caps, telling me how to clean. She also didn’t like that I used the dishwasher. It was 4 months of hell.