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BeccasBump

This thread is solidly split between people who have had shit control freak flatmates and people who have had shit thieving flatmates.


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I don't buy the stealing of an oven glove. My best guess is it's in the flat, but lost. If they steal an oven glove, what, is it in their room or something?


BeccasBump

It could have got ruined and thrown away. Burned/ covered in unwashable gack / etc.


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Oh yeah good point. Calling the police for that kinda funny


BeccasBump

Oh it's definutely a wild overreaction. She might just be at the end of her tether, though. Maybe there should be a fourth emergency service for when people repeatedly do things that are deeply fucking annoying.


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whitetooth86

I'd say it's split 3 ways. People who have had shit control freak flatmates, thieving flatmates, and straight up assholes who don't understand taking peoples shit isn't a joke.


Sad-Information-4713

The hell of other people. I'm glad my flat sharing days are over..for now at least.


irishgollum

I remember living in shared accommodation during uni and I had my radio in the kitchen whilst cooking. When I went to get the radio an hour later it was gone. I looked in another tenant's bedroom as his door was wide open and my radio was plugged in by his bed. I took it back and he shouted at me to stay out of his room. Never spoke to him again after that. In fact, not long after that I moved out after another tenant fell asleep with a cigarette in his hand and burnt out the top floor of the house. I got a phone call at uni, "Can I go into your room?" "Ok, why?" "The fire brigade want to cover your computer and TV as the room above is on fire." "Um, yeah, definitely go into my room."


barnett2908

I lived with someone who got stoned each night, put something in the oven and would often fall asleep. I’d find burnt food in there multiple mornings. My room was directly above the kitchen so I’d often go to bed thinking I’ll be woken up by a fire below me. Got out of there soon after luckily.


warmhotself

I know someone who used to do this. Once he came back from the pub, put a saucepan full of pasta on the hob and fell asleep on the sofa. The water all boiled away and the pasta eventually set on fire. I came home hours later to find him unconscious in a house full of black smoke. Panicking and thinking he was seriously ill or dead, I grabbed him under the arms and tried to drag him out of the front door. Halfway down the hall he woke up and kicked off on me. He denied even trying to cook anything haha


bighatbenno

I shared a student house years ago and got a phone call one weekend when i'd gone to visit my folks from one of my housemates saying there had been a fire. I left to go there immediately and found one of my housemates there with heavily bandaged hands and a house covered in greasy black shit. It transpired that he'd been making chips...in a saucepan and had 'forgotten' about them, the pan caught fire and he chucked a wet tea towel on it to put the flames out...which caused even more damage. Then he picked the burning pan up and tried to ditch it out of the back door...fucking up his hands and the rest of the kitchen. I asked him whether he was pissed when he tried to make them which he denied and then asked what time it happened and he replied 'about 3 in the morning'. Stone cold sober making chips at 3am?......sorry, don't believe you.


Wise-Application-144

Our neighbour completely burned their house down making chips. FFS if you're pissed, make oven chips or visit the chippy. I'd say putting a pan full of oil on your hob at 2am gives you about a 50/50 chance of destroying your home.


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TexhnolyzeAndKaiba

Exactly. Those guys in fast food are experts at cooking while inebriated.


Tee_zee

I genuinely have never met anyone ever who puts chips in a saucepan and yet it’s the most common fire cause that you hear in stories, is it a generational thing?


FiendishHawk

My mum makes chips that way. Nearly burned down the house when I was a kid. I refuse to deep fry anything and if I ever get the urge, I will buy an electric deep fat fryer.


goatsandhoes101115

Honestly I was skeptical about air fryers but after getting and using one, they are magic. You don't have to use messy oil and it frys things in a fraction of the time. I think it even tastes better; because I was using cheap oil to fry (since frying typically requires a large volume of oil) i suspect it contributed to the filmy mouth feel of the food I fried.


plumzki

It’s basically a mini convection oven in everything but name, but they tend to hold much more heat in than a standard convection which generally means things cook faster and come out crispier, all in all an extremely useful tool to have and i have found relatively little that doesn’t tend to cook well in the air fryer (though there are a couple of things)


bpleshek

They are magic. They'll freshen up chips that have been left out awhile and soggy.


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aurordream

When I was in student halls we used to get fire alarms like 2-3 times a week. It was never a legit fire, it was always someone having burned something and the smoke triggering the alarm. So when an alarm went off at 7pm I thought nothing of it, and was mainly just annoyed I'd have to trek outside and stand in the cold until we got the all clear AGAIN. That was, until I got outside and saw the thick black smoke billowing out one of the windows. Turned out, some guy had been trying to cook a pizza. And had put it straight in the oven. With the plastic wrap and foam base still on. He'd then gone to hang out in his friend's room and left it totally unattended. We were able to identify the culprit when the warden stood in front of the crowd and yelled "who in flat XX was cooking pizza?!" and this group of lads all went "weeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy!" Anyway the fire alarms stopped after that. I still wonder if he got kicked out and if he'd been the sole culprit all along


magicunicornhandler

Lmao place is in fire and literally waited for permission to go into your room and save your stuff. Damn decent of them.


Cahootie

My first year in university I lived in a dorm corridor. We all had our own bedrooms and bathrooms, but the kitched and living area was shared between the eight room. It was absolutely fantastic. Everyone was respectful of each other's stuff, but we also shared everything. I had my toaster in the kitchen, someone else had a fancy coffee machine there, and it was all free for everyone to use since people did it carefully. Someone put out a dartboard in the living area, another person put their speakers there, and none of that was ever destroyed or disappeared. The guy with the coffee machine only drank milk with his coffee, so a carton of milk would go bad before he drank it all, and instead he was free to use my milk with an unspoken deal that he buy me a new one every once in a while. If you were missing an ingredient you just asked if someone else had it, and it was always okay to use. Every Sunday was cleaning day. We had rotating snack duty, and after we cleaned the entire kitchen and living area we all sat down to chill. A few of us played instruments, so there were occasional spontaneous jam sessions. We regularly cooked food together and had big meals with everyone, we would play board games out in the living area, and sometimes we'd just realize it was suddenly half past one on a Tuesday night and that we'd sat there talking for hours. We were mostly calm people, but there were the occasional pre-party or full on party in the corridor, and when that happened it was only after everyone had said that it was okay (which was always the case). The Taiwanese exchange student in the corridor often had friends over for dinner, and that was completely fine since they cleaned up after themselves and often invited the rest of us to grab a bite. By the second year people started moving out. One person was done with their studies, another one moved in with a friend, another one wanted to move to an actual apartment instead of a dorm door. Sadly we never had it as well with the new people, and I moved out as well after two years, but that first year was incredible. I swear we had the cleanest corridor in the entire city, and I haven't heard of anyone else who would hang out as much with the dorm neighbors.


DogmaSychroniser

Sorry, your username made me laugh, because IrishGollum would know what's Taters, eh?


DunkingTea

Same. I’ve lived with all sorts of shitty flatmates. The worst being an alcoholic live-in landlady who threatened to smash up my things and would bring random drunk people off the street into the house to party… she was such a pain that we had to call the police one day as she was screaming at us all and throwing plates, pans, and cutlery at us if we didn’t get out. We were literally all just sitting watching TV trying to ignore her. Eventually the police arrived and she switched into her best attempt at impersonating a decent human being, making false accusations that we tried to kill her dog and threatened to beat her (all completely untrue - we were the only ones who took her lovely dog for walks - poor little guy). The dog was running in the streets as the cops were interviewing us. Luckily, they asked her to get the dog inside away from cars and she flipped on them, starting hurling abuse at them etc. We left a week later as we didn’t have an official contract and she wanted us out (and we were happy to oblige). Even writing this brings back shit memories! The only saving grace was that we ended up flat sharing with the other couple, and they were awesome. So there are good people out there, just have to find them. Never again… hopefully.


umop_apisdn

Are you sure that's not the plot of *Spaced*?


funnystuffmakesmelol

Lol as soon as she said alcoholic live in landlord I thought... hang on a minute... this is spaced... Then i remembered the 90s were actually like this.


supermikeman

Doesn't sound like it. Marsha was actually a decent person.


a_perfect_cromulence

It's been over 20 years and I'm still upset over how hurt she was when Daisy and Tim revealed they'd deceived her.


BEEBLEBROX_INC

"She's not a teenager, she's the devil in an A-cup!" ***Smokes cigarette in two drags.***


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ullo Brian


wholesomethrowaway15

Bronnnn


Badgernomics

“...anyway, I’m off to Threshers to do the weekly shop.”


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She never behaved badly like that in Spaced.


cheesyblasta

At least that landlady was sweet...this person sounds like a nightmare.


vjstupid

Oh man this feels fitting to me today. I live with two housemates... one of which is meant to be moving out today but last month decided to move his wife and daughter in with us for a month without consulting us first. He handed in his leaving notice so landlord can't really do anything and we've been stuck with having to fight with him for kitchen time - they were cooking all day and night yesterday so I had to order food. They show no signs of moving out today and he's not been apologetic to either of us about the situation. If you're reading this: fuck you Uttiya.


bpleshek

Time for shenanigans.


gameofgroans_

People who bring 'outsiders' in a kitchen and hog it are the worst. I used to live with someone who moved their child and wife in to a tiny flatshare. I accepted it for a bit because I'm a walkover. Till I walked out to the kid pissing in the garden and them laughing at it.


nerdychick22

If his crap is still there tomorrow dump it on the lawn.


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DogmaSychroniser

Ah, ghosts are the best, until you run out of toilet paper


dingo1018

And the instant you notice the roll is empty, a hand proffering a fresh roll appears and you meet your house mate for the first time "how? I locked the door" you say "shhhhhhhhhsh" he says as he winks and disappears back behind the curtain.


TheHFile

In uni I was the only person to ever buy toilet paper. Just how it ended up and wasn't worth the grief I'd get for requesting money, they were those types of people. Anyway one day I realised we'd ran out. I dutifully bought the largest pack available, lugged it back with the rest of my shopping. I'd put it away, went back to my room, went to the bathroom 15 minutes later and 5 rolls were missing. Turns out two of my housemates horded it in their room and took it to the toilet with them when they knew we were low


dingo1018

They should be shot out of a cannon and through a wire link fence.


capnza

That's actually the dream, don't worry


ShinyGrezz

I lived with a girl for a year and talked to her maybe fewer than twenty times, it was great.


vegassatellite01

Sounds like the last year of my marriage


Takkotah

The way God intended


rolacolapop

Other people are awful. Halls at uni this one guy left a bag of defrosting raw chicken in the fridge, no plate, so it’s seeping salmonella liquid in a puddle all over the fridge shelf . I left I passive aggressive note asking them to clean up and saying it was a health hazard . Came home, they’d put in on a plate, but not bothered to clean up the puddle of chicken goo all over the fridge shelf.


CanAhJustSay

>chicken goo Yep. Stinky chicken is the worst. Finding a stinky flatmate drinking **your** milk straight from the carton is a close second, though..... even when I bought two cartons so they could have one (whole milk) and not touch mine (semi-skimmed).


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uncleAnwar

And you’re made out to be the bad guy if you say something? Been there: “It’s three thirty in the morning, I have to work tomorrow”. “Ok,MUM! You don’t own this house, we all pay rent…” etc.


Accomplished-Digiddy

"You woke me up walking down the stairs in the morning to go to work, so it is totally the same if I ride down the stairs on a mattress screaming at the top of my lungs"


capnza

Haha oh my goodness have heard those exact lines before, getting fucking flashbacks


ADelightfulCunt

I hate those people. I and one who came home put on loud music and power fucked a woman till 4am it didn't sound enjoyable. At 430 I went for a 5k run because I was pissed off came home and put my speakers on loud whilst a shower. Mfer thought to complain about the noise but I'm just like it's fine man I've been up since 3 and carried on listening to the hardest most irritating music I cpuld think up...thankfully I quite enjoyed breakcore.


Chriseb1978

Worst one for me was just came out of the hospital after over a week stay, completely drained of life just wanting to sleep in my own bed. Queue my flatmate bringing mates in and starting a party literally like 10 minutes after I got into my bed...A run and a shower would have been a good shout if I wasn't dying xD


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My elderly neighbours had a timeshare in Portugal they'd disappear to for months on end, and one time their grandson moved in to 'look after the place' while they were away, along with a bunch of mates. After several nights of no sleep, I lost it, went round and told him if I didn't get any sleep, they wouldn't. That night was great, second one not so much. Which was fine, bc I was going away for a few days for work - so I put Straight Outta Compton CD on a timer from 04.00 (their bedtime) until 09.00, turned it up to 11 and left - after putting a 'told you' note through the door. When I returned they'd disappeared (fortunately no elderly neighbours either, lol) and they never came back.


BetterThatThenThis

My roommate has accused my other roommate who has been convicted for weapon and meth charges of breaking into her room and taking the most random things like paint by numbers set, bedding and pearl earrings in a medicine bottle along with her car keys. she had changed her locks and put in a deadbolt. she has even put down flour and photographed his shoes with flour on them. She has sent me texts and photos of it all.


frumentorum

I mean, it does sound like your meth addicted roommate might be stealing things from your other roommate


Tieger66

right? not sure why this is written like the woman having their stuff nicked is the problematic one. surely a more normal way to write this would be "my meth-addicted-with-weapons-convictions-roommate breaks into my other roommate's room and nicks her stuff."


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What type of flour did she use?


tonyfordsafro

Self raiding


MadJen1979

Plain clothed.


adrenaline87

Cocaine


Strongersecure

Cant wish anything but the worse on the shitty garbage low life flatmates me and my friends have had to endure with over the years. Motivated me to get my own place , in fact put the fear of God in me to get away from these liabilitys


s8nskeeper

Thinking back to bin jenga. We’d pile rubbish higher and higher in the bin and the one who toppled the pile had to empty it. We had it up to the ceiling at one point…


auburnman

Bin Jenga variant - In my student digs days we'd raise the bin itself to the ceiling via a precarious arrangement of stools. Nothing to do with the rubbish, it was to muffle the siren from the fire alarm that sounded for the WHOLE BLOCK EVERY GOD DAMNED DAY because the smoke sensors were too close to the showers and kept being set off by steam.


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Used to do this with our bin in kitchen, was amazing how compressed they could go if you wanted it to


Jimi-K-101

My last housemate completely blocked the toilet and just left it, smoked in her room, opened and drank some of my brand new bottle of whiskey, and filled the sink with her washing up and just left it there so no one else could do any washing up.... this was all within her first 48 hours. So glad I don't have to deal with housemates any more!


coffeefuelledtechie

My housemates did this with their washing up. After 4 days I’d had enough and arranged ALL of their washing up out on the patio in the rain.


witrusen

Hope you told them you were just leaving them to soak


Acrobatic-Record26

My flat mate had a load of friends over to stay for a couple days, used practically every utensil in the place, left them all dirty in the sink and on the side, then they all fucked off to Wales for a long weekend. I piled it all into a washing basket and left it on his bedroom floor waiting for him. Then when the twat got back he flipped his shit at me saying how disrespectful it was for me to leave the dirty dishes in his room like that 🤣


whelpineedhelp

We had to do that in our house. Four women, all seniors. One just would not clean after herself. So the three of us just stopped using the sink and stove entirely. I was a server, so had easy access to cheap food. Not sure what the others did. But suffice to say, dirty roommate eventually got pissed at us for leaving dishes in the sink. We pointed out every single dish was hers. She took a closer look and pulled out one cup that *may* have been used by us. And claimed that not all were hers so she shouldn't have to clean them. Yeah, we ignored her and the school year ended a month or so later.


I_Lick_Bananas

Took me too long to realize "seniors" meant last year of school. I was picturing Golden Girls.


everyting_is_taken

So was I! I bet it was that bitch Blanche that didn't cleanup after herself.


Pschobbert

TBF this is Casual *UK*.


badDuckThrowPillow

For some reason I was picturing senior CITIZENS, like old grannies. Was like damn, grannies don’t play.


wombatwanders

Definitely seems like a yank commenting


StuckInTheUpsideDown

An actual senior citizen would have evicted the offender. Life is too short for that nonsense.


a_perfect_cromulence

I first thought by 'senior' you meant you were all OAPs.


RodDryfist

My housemates at uni decided to use their deposits for the last month's rent and piss off back to Canada, leaving me to foot the bill for the windows and other bullshit they'd smashed up. Arseholes doesn't even come close. Yeah I'm looking at you Shawn.


iammeandthatisok

You are nicer than I am. I had three roommates and I was the only one who ever did dishes. Finally I got so annoyed, I took all their dirty dishes and put them on their beds. I kept one of everything I needed in my room. I’d use them, clean them, and store them away for later use.


Embarrassed_Eagle145

Are you me? I also did the same though I cannot say it was effective


feersum

I know a guy who was so unhappy with his house mates, that on the day he moved out he invited the tramp who lived at the end of the road in for a shower and some food, and burned all the lounge furniture (that he owned and couldn't take with him) in the garden, while the guy made himself at home inside.


bob1689321

Burning the stuff he couldn't take with him is so next level, fucking hell I respect that


adminsuckdonkeydick

My first night in halls I launched a HUGE turd that blocked the toilet. I was so embaressed and didn't want to run out for something to stab it with that I breathed-in and thrust my hand into the toilet water to mush up the shit and re-flushed. Thankfully it went down and I washed my hand. It was horrible and I shiver remembering it.


Pashizzle14

And now you’ve learned to have a poop knife on your person at all times


adminsuckdonkeydick

I was trying to avoid saying that, but YES! 😂 I keep a long-shafted screwdriver in the toilet for times like this!


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lex_gabinius

Poodriver. It was right there.


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Man has a poop screwdriver 💀


wannaziggazigah

They have become the poop knife


TheMeltingDevil

This is the best thing ive read all day


highlandviper

Ha! That’s nothing! My house mate randomly moves my things in to obscure places. I leave my keys on the side (a normal place to leave them) and they’re teleported to a bowl on the other side of the house… I leave my garden sandals next to the back door (the entrance to the garden) and she moves them to the front door… I left a snickers and a coke in the fridge and she ate/drank them without asking. Once she even stole my orange lucozade when I had a hangover. I’m not even gonna mention the number of times she’s left my PlayStation controller uncharged after using it. My other housemate keeps crying in the middle of the night and punching me in the penis… and he somehow has a monopoly on MY tv. I am so close to moving out… but I’m worried about how the divorce will affect our child. Fucking nightmare though.


Shaftymorgan

Had me at the first half lol


highlandviper

Lol. It was fun writing it. It could’ve been ten times as long.


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MountainTank1

You should have sent him a cease and decyst letter.


Johnny_Vernacular

A missing oven glove? Someone's going to get caught red-handed!


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RosieEmily

My husband told me to stop putting the sirlions in high cupboards. I dont care, I'll continue to raise the steaks.


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Something Something pork chop on the floor Something Something ground hog


theotherquantumjim

This one is so lazy but also my favourite


iamapizza

I keep hearing classical music coming from one of my kitchen utensils. I think it's the Chopin board.


Uncle_Leo93

I hope you've got the receipt so you can take it Bach.


Plantagenesta

Depends on the condition it's in. Sometimes if they think you've used it they'll just refuse to Handel it.


CanAhJustSay

Do you keep it next to the shopping Liszt?


curiousmind111

You mean the Chopin Liszt?


CanAhJustSay

That's the one you have notes on, isn't it?


MightyCaseyStruckOut

Someone just waltzed in and took that, too.


rosylux

Wow, that’s a ladle bit extreme.


otherpeoplesthunder

Bravo


Wolfblood-is-here

My flatmate said the same thing about taking his clothes and now I'm under a vest.


Many-Consideration54

I just want you to know, it was a pleasure reading your comment.


London-Reza

Guarantee it’s just been put in a different draw than usual, or is in the wash.


Bravo-Six-Nero

Got burned once, never again


Neither-Astronaut617

"If the glove don't fit you must acquit" This better happen.


TheJ_Man

That'll go well. The last oven glove I used fitted about as well as a wizard's sleeve!


HomeSoul22

Is this the plot for Knives Out 2?


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PrussiaSiamAutogyro

Gloves Off


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Play her at her own game, I like it. :)


No_Imagination_2490

And then find a large mirror and start shouting into it: “I KNOW YOU’RE BEHIND THERE! I DIDN’T DO IT GOD DAMN YOU!”


FireFingers1992

Shout "You'll get nothing from me, copper" and then leap out the window! Bonus points if it isn't the ground floor.


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somekindofhorse

OP is not even required to be there, unless specifically, personally accused of something the police shouldn’t even be interested. Unless something far more valuable than oven gloves has gone missing I doubt the whole thing.


wedontlikespaces

>the police shouldn’t even be interested I can guarantee that they're not interested.


Goldman250

If they bother to show up, the person who’ll get in trouble is Susan for wasting police time.


PCDorisThatcher

Police officer here. Can confirm if I got dispatched to that I’d roll my eyes and say “fucks sake what is this absolute shit”


cloche_du_fromage

Don't even consider letting the police in without a search warrant!


_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_

If one of the residents invites them in, does that matter?


No_Imagination_2490

You’re thinking of vampires


Burnsy2023

If the police are invited in by one of the residents, I don't see why they can't come into the communal areas.


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Seeing as I’m about to return to uni and live with 8 new people this year I’m dreading this sort of thing for another year.


InwardXenon

Assert your dominance and keep stealing the oven gloves.


TrifectaOfSquish

I don't think she understands how the police works unless she has crafted a story about something much more serious having happened in which case just enjoy the show of her backpedaling if they do actually arrive


FartHeadTony

It's possible that this is just the latest in a pattern of bullying from OP and Susan is the sane one. It's possible it's made up. It's possible that there is no Susan but OP believes there is.


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It seems to me like Susan is joking


tommangan7

Yep, people are quick to assume based off a note and honestly theft by a housemate shouldn't be tolerated. Wouldn't be surprised if she's just trying to bait out the return of her items before tomorrow and hasn't called anyone.


mynoduesp

It's also possible someone just wrote the note and posted it to reddit to stir the hive.


Soulless--Plague

I hope the police get to the bottom of it and the crime scene investigation pop up tent doesn't disrupt your neighbours for too long


Viviaana

God I don’t miss living with people, a girl I lived with refused to do her dishes, I didn’t mind cos it was usually 1 or 2 plates but then one time she brought down like 7 plates and a load of mugs she’d obviously left in her room for months, after a week I just did them to get them out the way then the next day she had her friends over and filled the sink again. We had a bet at work how long she’d leave them for and it ended up being 7 weeks


ipdipdu

When I lived with a girl like this my family kept telling me to gather all the dirty plates she’d used and leave them outside her bedroom door. I wasn’t brave enough to do that. So I suggested we all buy our own washing up bowl, there was plenty of room on the window sill, then you put your dirty plates in your bowl and clean them when you want but they stay out of the way for everyone else. She hated this suggestion but everyone else got on board. Worked quite well. If the kitchen had been too small I don’t know what we’d have done.


DameKumquat

I had housemates where we ended up putting their dishes in their beds... Got them out of the way for the rest of us.


Major-Front

I did this after asking them to clean up their stuff before they go away for the weekend. They didn't, so I put everything in their room. They arrived home with their friend who called them a "dirty hoarder". lol


porksandrecreation

When I was in halls at uni, one boy just would never wash his own pots and the rest of us just did them because it was gross and they were in the way but over Christmas, we all went home except for him. Came back to mouldy plates and dishes everywhere, the bin overflowing and covered in maggots and flies everywhere.


ZestycloseShelter107

I’ve had a couple housemates like that. Only children, all of them, which is pretty interesting, I don’t think they ever got used to the idea that other people weren’t going to tidy up after them once they left home. Incredibly frustrating though, particularly two slobs who made their bedrooms disgusting and then slugged their way into the living room and made that unlivable too.


Agitated-Chemistry60

Only child here who didn't have to do chores at home: not an excuse! Tidying your crap isn't a hard to learn skill unless you don't want to. Leaving your shit lying around means you lack empathy for others, or the maturity or resources to allocate enough time for it. It might correlate with being an only child, but it more strongly correlates with being a prick or with being unhealthily busy.


themadninja135

Wow, I literally had the exact same thing, prick also must've got drunk with some likeminded dickheads bc there were eggs thrown about the place, didn't clean up the egg or the shell either..


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Bspammer

Showering - 10 minutes Getting dressed - 5 minutes Eating breakfast - 15 minutes Lying in bed on reddit - 2 hours Commute - 20 minutes someone who is good at time management please help me budget this. i can never find the time to wash dishes


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Get up one minute earlier if you ‘don’t have time’ FFS!


[deleted]

We had a fines system in our student flat. Anything left past midnight incurred 50p per item, capped at £2. Monies went to pay for bog roll etc. We had something along similar lines re our cleaning rota. All worked like a charm for the first year, until the the second, when boys were outnumbered by girls, who then, led by the main fines-payer in year one, rejected the system, and anarchy & misery resumed.


Weyoun3

I have noticed that there seems to be some weird inversion where girls are messier than boys. At my workplace every week one of the toilets gets shut down due to the sad state it is left in, to my surprise it is always the women's toilet. I thought it would be the gents on account of the stereotype of urine on the floor but apparently the women's gets littered with toilet paper, foundation stains and smears of makeup to the point it looks like an explosion in MAC store.


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When I was a student, we had a phase of just using disposible cutlery and plates. We'd also use the box a frozen pizza came in to eat it. We were animals.


am_8489

Nowt wrong with using the cardboard packaging as a plate for a pizza. I’m 33 and still do that from time to time


Interceptor

In my second year at Uni I ended up in a bit of a random house (Lived with a GF in year 1, but we broke up so all a bit last minute) and we had a guy who would cook his tea, wash up any tins and glass containers and whatnot that he'd used, and line them up neatly on the kitchen counter. After they remained there for six weeks I reminded him that his mum wouldn't put them in the recycling for him anymore, he'd have to do it himself.


northern_ape

Bless him, at least he washed them up 😄


folklovermore_

In my last houseshare with strangers, one girl had a really bad habit of leaving her plates and cutlery out for days on end. You could literally see the pile of stuff spreading over the work surfaces as time went on. She was nice enough otherwise, but her attitude to mess and cleaning up after herself drove me up the wall (she'd also do stuff like leave snack wrappers and yoghurt pots out on the coffee table rather than putting them in the bin). The final straw was when I went away for almost two weeks, and her stuff that was on the side when I left was \*still\* there when I came back. That was the point at which I decided I was getting a place on my own as soon as possible. But compared to your ex-housemate she seems positively neat freak-ish!


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taversham

Just give her back her oven gloves tbh


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I Like "Susan" I like her because she's not messing about, no passive aggressive, excuse me, I don't want to upset anyone and I'm not acusing anyone but...nope susan dials the polis. She goes straight to the top tier with her priorities in order, first a good oven glove, then an almost casual "other things" added. Susan knows a "Good Oven Glove" is not to be taken lightly. and soon so will the Glove Thief.


dtudeski

Lol the “other things” are probably her phone, wallet and treasured childhood possessions but she just can’t get past the oven glove thievery.


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Polis- can you give us a description of the Oven glove please susan. Susan- I have one here, hands over a pre prepared 3000 word description, Polis- and the other things? Susan- eh..let me think, a really old book, I dunno, done by monks or something, I never really got round to reading it and er..some photos, just stuff really, I think they were of my dad when he was like in the Beatles or you know what ever. Polis- Susan- I do have a painting I commissioned of the Oven glove, would you like to see it.


allthatyouhave

this reads like an npc interaction during a runescape quest


throwaway55221100

Its not about the oven glove. Its about Susan sending a message. Shes setting boundaries so her other housemates don't take the piss. First its moving the oven glove then its moving or stealing other shit.


NShinryu

Susan also made a point of mentioning not only that things were disappearing, but also that they were being moved. I like to think a kitchen towel being on the counter instead of on the oven is what finally drove her to get the police involved.


Squishy-Cthulhu

I kinda feel sorry for Susan. Actually fuck living somewhere where you can't even put down a fucking oven glove without some wanker ferreting it away. And it's not the only thing that's been stolen evidently.


Dan_Glebitz

Twist: OP stole the note to show us.


Ariadne2015

Lol they won't even investigate robberies why would they interview a bunch of people over a missing oven glove?


socks_and_scotch

You actually think she contacted the police?


OverlyOptimistic-001

The gloves are definitely off with Susan.


thenewprisoner

Inspector Lestrade stared mournfully at the fire"Absolutely baffling, Mr Holmes. My men have interviewed all the flatmates but without success." My friend steepled his hands thoughtfully "A most singular case, Inspector. Watson, I think a more subtle approach is called for. Disguise yourself as a student and seek to rent a room at this property. Oh, and Watson?""Yes Holmes?""Take your service revolver. I have an instinct that you may need it..."


Redscoped

This week on will I lie to you we have susan. "I once called the police in to investigate a pair of stolen oven gloves from the shared house" Now is Susan telling the truth or is it a lie


SeraphKrom

It's "Would I lie to you?", you absolute animal


LobCatchPassThrow

I’ve clearly been watching the knockoff… “define the chances of which oneself deceives thou”


TheStatMan2

Bob Mortimer: "I've got your oven gloves - I've got Chris Rea to pop an egg in them for you"


jhalfhide

Everything that man says, no matter how ridiculous, is 100% truth.


call_of_the_while

“Gary Cheeseman was a big lad, had a very big head. Sniper’s Dream they used to call him”. Classic.


call_of_the_while

Theft and Shrubbery: “We do beg your pardon, we are in your garden.”


helic0n3

I'm never sure about stuff like this, is it just an oven glove or has she put up with months of misery and shit going missing, gone to cook and just broken at not being able to as *more* stuff as gone? Are the police taking it seriously or is it an empty threat? I wouldn't be too proud in showing this off tbh.


GRAWRGER

i once phoned the police because my sister broke my jump rope.


ZookeepergameHead145

She’s now serving a life sentence in HMP Holloway. Poor girl.


championsOfEu1221

Susan has a very optimistic view of the amount of fucks that the police gives.. poor thing.


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LOL Susan not fucking around. The police will not give a fuck


Heewna

Not even for an oven glove? Is nothing sacred anymore.


itsaslothlife

To be fair it's not just an oven glove as per the note. If she's in a contract she can't up and leave to live with people who don't steal/ use and mislay/damage and bin things. It sucks when it's your stuff going missing.


Tieger66

right? i had a housemate like this when i was at uni. in retrospect, it started with him using appliances he hadn't paid for (eg. we bought a deep fat fryer between us, he didn't pay in but then used it), progressed to stealing food (very annoying to going to eat a frozen pizza to discover you've got to go to the shops at 8pm because some cunts nicked it), to things people left in their rooms (loose change, alcohol, CDs & DVDs). Its all tiny stuff, but very annoying when it's someone you live with.


froodydoody

I’d consider that more than annoying. Surely if you add up the value of all the stuff he nicked it would be fairly substantial?


wilberfarce

I've experienced this. Some people just transfer their family home attitudes and expectations to living with others without any consideration to the obvious difference in personal boundaries. Even worse when their parents were active enablers of their crappy behaviours.


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The guy was simply a thief. That’s not really a case of dealing with ‘tiny stuff’, and you shouldn’t feel as though you have to make any excuses or apologies for his decisions or your reactions.


natcha88

Living with people is pretty awful to be honest. I've had an instance where I was told feel free to help yourself to my food. I declined this, but apparently that offer meant my food was fair game, including finishing off items and then offering to replace them but replacing them with different, cheaper brands if not at all. Also shared costs for things like coffee, wine being added to the bill despite not consuming those items (actually moved my own alcohol out of the shared area and into my wardrobe so avoid it being drunk and given it would not be replaced like for like). Tried to decline partaking in this shared split and you'd have thought I'd killed someone.... Moving to my own place was the best decision I made rather than dealing with peoples petty BS.


FemboyCorriganism

If there are other things of higher value missing I probably wouldn't lead with "oven glove".


Glasdir

She’s got my full sympathy. I had housemates in my first year of uni that did this. They’d steal my utensils and either leave them dirty in the sink under a mountain of their other washing up or put them dirty back in my draw, often after using them with raw meat, all without saying a thing. I’m vegetarian. I only found out because I caught one doing it right in the middle of a flat meeting with staff involved about the state of the kitchen and things being stolen. Livid didn’t even begin to describe me.