First of all, let’s make it clear that I don’t actually live in a rubbish tip. But oh how it feels like I do!!
I think as my house at home is always relatively tidy (thanks to my Dad’s meticulous efforts) I find living in filth rather difficult. I don’t mind bits of clothing and work on the floor, provided it is confined to one’s bedroom, such as my pig sty at home (although that is due my sister’s scruffiness more than mine).
No, the problem comes when a couple of my housemates, who shall remain nameless, decide to use the communal areas as a dumping ground for all their work/clothing/dirty dishes/socks/books/dirty dishes/empty bottles/dirty dishes!! Now living in your own filth is fine, but living in other peoples is just irritating to say the least.
I have come up with 3 possibilities as to why they dump so much crap:
a) They have been mollycoddled at home - their parents clean up after them so much that they have never actually learnt how to do it. The worst possible example of this is those who do not scrape leftovers into the bin but, instead, just leave their plates on the side. Would you do that at home?????? If the answer is yes, I’m going to have to bitch slap your mum for letting you!!!!
b) They have some medical condition that makes them blind to mess - they simply walk past the shit on the sofa/crap in the sink and in their head see clean and spotless. If so I really hope someone invents a cure for what I call selective blind scruff-monkey syndrome!
c) They actually hate me and like to see me constantly tidying
The worst thing about being the only one who ever gets out the cleaning products is that it’s a lose-lose situation. If you don’t do it no one will and then you are living in squalor, if you always clean up they will come to rely on you to do it all the time.
DAMN IT PEOPLE ITS NOT HARD TO TIDY UP AFTER YOURSELF!!!!