Sadly, I decided to take out my belly button ring. No more sparkle =(
Sometimes I hate the people I live with. Last night I come in around 2am and find a note on the table. Which is not bad, cause I leave notes too, but the second part of the note made me really mad. I had left two rags on one of the chairs by accident because I spilled water, and I cleaned it up. The note said "It's really not hygienic to clean the suite and then leave rags all over every surface. It just spreads the bacteria around. Use the Clorox Wipes". This is from the two people in the suite with the worst kitchen etiquette. One, the one who was apparently the one this part of the note came from, doesn't wash her dishes without being asked unless some sort of miracle happens. Both of them leave their dirty dishes on the counter, where I like to do homework. And I highly doubt either of them EVER washes the counter tops. Needless to say, my first reaction was "How dare these people criticize the way I clean when they don't". Then "How can they say leaving rags to dry [which I then wash before using again, even if they sometimes hang for a while] when they leave their dishes out for two weeks at a time". Then "Why didn't they put it better?" Because in my various notes, I always try to phrase what I'm saying in the best way possible. Like "The kitchen smells, please wash your dishes so we can be sure it's not the dishes that smell like dead mouse" (This smell was meat that someone had left on the fridge and forgot about, which had rotted, as meat tends to do) or "I threw out moldy bread. I didn't know who's it was. Please check your fruit" All of which probably could be said in person, if it weren't for the fact that the three roommates most of these notes are directed at leave their doors shut all the time. Like today, all of them were home, but the only reason I knew they were home was because I saw them venture out the two times they went to the bathroom. As Becky said "You could be here for 8 hours and not know if anyone was home". So anyway, I talked to both note-writers today when I wasn't ready to scream. And as it turns out, the one who was bothered by the rags has been creeped out by them all semester, and hasn't said anything. So what do I do when I find this out? I remove the one rag I didn't remove last night after reading the note. That's the difference between me and her. She knows that she should wash dishes more. We had a suite meeting about it earlier in the semester, and I said to her tonight "I feel like you shouldn't be saying rags are unhygienic when you leave your dishes out for two weeks at a time" and I've asked her other times to wash her dishes. And guess what? She's still sitting in her room, on her computer and watching TV, her massive amount of dirty dishes still sitting by the sink. Funny, she said she tries to be flexible about this living with people thing. As much as I want to be like "Wash your fucking dishes, bitch" I know that won't help. Becky thought up the great idea of talking about kitchen etiquette next semester with the suite with our RA mediating the conversation. Sadly, that conversation has to wait until next semester.
What I don't understand is how can people not clean up after themselves? Like how do you have dirty dishes, and go to put them by the sink, see that there's no room next to the sink, so you put them in the sink with out thinking "gee I'd better wash what's mine so this huge pile of dishes doesn't get disgusting"
The dishes suitemate also said I shouldn't have thrown out the moldy bread. I should write a note and let the person throw it out when they see the note. She said that it won't make a difference if it sits in the fridge for anther short period of time. The thing is, people don't always seem to listen to notes. Or even direct requests. I asked her to put away utensils three days ago, and she was like "yeah, yeah, in a minute" and only today were all of them gone. So when I don't know who's moldy bread I was holding, my reaction was to throw it away, because the person who's bread it was probably didn't even remember it was theirs. I understand her point of view, and I do try not to randomly throw peoples stuff away without asking first, or at least informing by way of note that I threw something moldy away so no one wonders where their cheese from a month ago went. However, how do you let things go moldy in the first place? If you don't pay enough attention to your food to eat it before it goes bad, why should the person who discovers the moldy food wait to throw it out? Obviously you don't care enough about your stuff to begin with.
If you can't tell, this has been distracting me since 2am last night, and probably will continue to bug me.
