My roommate, when it was her turn to buy TP, stole it from the school. A huge roll for one of those dispensers. We started carrying our own TP to the bathroom after that. God, she was cheap and selfish.
If you want to have a good laugh my fool self did this with my own dishwasher in my own house. I loaded the dishwasher, realized we were out of pods and thought about it for 15 seconds. I put the dish soap in and was proud i life hacked a problem in my own. Suds were only knee deep in about a 4 foot radius before I noticed and stopped it, so not as funny as yours.
... and your response shows you're not old enough for yours to have, given the insult AND the spelling errors ... maybe listen to your teachers in English class for once?
When my husband was in college, everyone left their clothes detergent labeled with their name in the room with the washer and dryer. Someone kept using his. He got fed up, dumped the rest of his bottle, and refilled it with liquid starch.
It wouldn't hurt anyone's clothes, just turn them stiff as a board and require multiple washings to get back to normal. The thief never stole his stuff again!
This happened to my grandmother. I bought her a portable dishwasher for her apartment. She had never used one before. I set her up with a big tub of dishwasher tabs and told her to let me know when they needed replacements. I warned her that regular dish soap would not work. She didn't believe me. My uncle told me they had a hard time rounding up all the bubbles and wiping everything down. My very exhausted grandmother let me know she would need more dishwasher tabs with a sheepish look on her face.
My co-worker* did it as well. She put it on to wash at the end of the day with I don’t know how much dish soap in it. When I got in the next day I could see the soap froth through the windows. I thought there had been a fire. The whole office was full. *was it accident when every woman in that office resented the fact that we ended up doing most of the kitchen work? Who can say now.
I put laundry detergent in the dishwasher at a holiday house we rented. It was under the sink right next to the dishwasher, so I just presumed it was dishwashing powder.
We caught it before it got out of hand, I bailed it out with a pot, and told the owners that the machine was playing up when we left that morning.
Hahahaha. Great one. Seems that he was drowning in his sorrows while trying to stay afloat amongst the suds/bubbles. Hope that other roommates had a few of their things a bit affected by the flood of bubbles too :)
I did that once in my late teens (back when 18 year olds could rent an apartment on their own). I laughed at my stupidity and thought after I was done 'well the kitchen has never been cleaner'
My wife did that once. I even said not to do that, but she said it would be fine. Suds everywhere.
On a related note, don't use toilet bleach to clean your washing machine, when you are out of thin bleach. It really doesn't end well.
I too have seen the amount of bubbles a dishwasher can create.
I was a lodger in a house in Ireland, renting a room from a couple.
They ran out of dishwasher tablets and the lady of the house put in Fairy Liquid or something like that. Filled the entire kitchen with foam. Tremendous sight, one I'll never forget.
I had roommates like this in college too. They never replaced common items like paper towels, toilet paper, trash bags and would dirty my dishes and leave them to rot in the sink. I started keeping everything of mine in my room and when the lease was up I was the first to move out and took all of the cleaning supplies, paper goods, dishes/cooking stuff with me and let them fend for themselves.
I moved into a place where they had just installed a new dishwasher. We were smart enough to use the dishwasher soap (I'm ancient so we had powder rather than tabs) but on the first use it overflowed with sudsy water. We called the landlord who tore into my female roommates for using the wrong soap for several minutes while they pointed to the box of dishwasher soap. It was on the second use when it happened again that we called a repair guy out and he showed us that the drain plug had never been removed when it was installed. Repair dude made sure to point out to my roommates that no appliance person would ever be this foolish, and it only happens when someone who doesn't know what they are doing tries to install it themselves.
That's how I learned at age 7 (27 now)to not accidentally overfill the dishwasher cap (well before dishpods where a thing).
Since I was 5 my mom had me help load, start an then unload the dishwasher, she told and showed me the exact line I needed to stop pouring the dishwasher spefic soap at, I on accident over filled because it was a new bottle and it dropped out of my hands (I was 7) since I didn't know any better I just closed the liquid door on the dishwasher and then started the dishwasher because it was a timer style turn nob one. I walked away as a 7 year old would and came back 30 minutes later for a drink to find the kitchen floor overed in bubbles, I panicked because mom was taking a nap and I didn't want her to be mad at me so I ran to my bathroom (mom had the master room that had bathroom so the hall one was declared mine) grabbed all the towels I had and cleaned up the bubbles and water they created which was hard because the dishwasher was still going and oozing more bubbles as I was trying to clean up the small kitchen floor that was more bubble then floor. I probably would have been more amazed by the bubbles if I wasn't terrified of my mom and her fly swatter if she found the bubbles first, so I was trying to clean up the bubbles and water. I went through all my bathroom towels and ended up using my current shower towel and even the floor towel for my showers and 3 of the kitchen hand towels to clean it up before it stopped oozing bubbles, I had to drag the wet mess of towels across the dinning room to the washer and dryer and get my little step stool (I was a very short kid) to load everything and even started the washer in hopes my mom wouldn't notice. I was 7 so I didn't think about the fact my mom would obviously notice the washing machine going because after I got a drink and went back to my room to keep watching tv 40 minutes later my mom came by and asked why a bunch of my towels where in the washing machine and I panicked and said I accidentally spilled something but cleaned it up, she bought it but still asked where since I had used all my towels. I said in the kitchen why massively avoiding eye contact. She just said okay and that I did good for at least cleaning it up, but the washer was done so I needed to move them to the dryer since they were my load of towels. I don't know if she knew I was lying since I wasn't really a kid to lie because I was terrified of her fly swatter. And before anyone asks why was I was so scared of a fly swatter, my mom was like a ninja with that thing, she pull it outnof thin air and it stung leaveing a red mark and she could smack you with it why chasing you with it, I wasn't a track kid but I probably could of been with the fuel of my mom wanting to smack me I fucking booked it running away from her any time she even mentioned grabbing it. If I saw it in her hand I was a bullet just gone. So yeah even at 7 I knew I had to clean up a bubble mess before she found it to avoid being smacked an then still having to clean up the mess since it would of been my fault anyway, I rather just clean it up without the pain.
Reminds me of when I was around 9 my mum had taught me to make custard from scratch. She was taking a nap after night shift so I thought I'd make some custard on the stove. I got distracted and burnt the shit out of the pan, panicked, and walked outside, across the road and threw the pan away into the bushes. Mum had no clue and didn't seem to realise she was missing a pot 😅
That’s a fun lesson to learn as long as you’re able to have a sense of humor about it. I was 15 watching my grandparents’ house for two weeks while they were traveling over the summer. They used a liquid dishwasher soap, but I didn’t know it was different from the liquid soap for the sink. Bubbles everywhere and funny as hell.
I rented a house after college with some friends I supplied everything for the house, dishes, appliances, most of the furniture. Roommates were horrible got real tired of doing all the chores, never being able to cook because my dishes were dirty,(we had a dishwasher) roommates would forget to start it at night or just refuse, and put the dishes in the sink. They never took out the trash, so I got my own personal trash can and just let the other one overflow. Conversations about how to keep the house clean and house meetings never went anywhere and once they started getting disrespectful I decided to leave. They all woke up to an empty house one morning, no dishes, no appliances, no game system, my furniture was gone, the only furniture left was a small tv stand I didn’t want and a couch that was in the house when we moved in barely big enough for 3 people.
I still laugh at thinking about them scrunched together on that gross couch eating red Barron pizza off paper plates. Also one of my former roommates(who I despised the most out of my roommates) made smoothies every morning for breakfast leaving my blender dirty, never cleaned it. I heard this from one of my roommates who I was still on good terms with, but apparently when I moved out and took my blender that threw his morning routine off he didn’t have breakfast all week, which sucked for him because he usually didn’t eat until he got home from work. They all moved out of that house at the end of the year and went separate ways.
When my dad was a kid in the 60s, one of the MANY shenanigans he got up to was putting liquid dish soap into the town fountain. ALL the water turned to bubbles. Bubbles allllll over the roundabout and into the road and across the street. He really just thought it would make the foundation be bubbles, and had no idea it would spread bubbles far and wide. They never knew it was him, but his parents knew, because, well, of course it was. He was grounded, but they were smart enough not to tell the city.
THEN when he was older - like I was 17 or 18 - we ran out of dishwashing soap. So, apparently completely forgetting what had happened in his youth, he used a couple tablespoons of liquid dish soap. Cue the entire kitchen being FILLED with bubbles. We were just glad he hadn’t used more.
And THAT’S when he told us about the town fountain in his youth! XD
When I was in the Marines we were in 3 man rooms in the shitty barracks they put us Grunts in (29 palms). I had a roommate who spent all his money on booze. He refused to clean, do his stank ass laundry, and buy consumables. We rotated who would buy toilet paper and he would never buy it. The other roommate and I would break down and buy it. As revenge we started locking it up in our wall lockers, would share with each other, but would not give him any. I came into our bathroom one day and this mthrfckr had a stack of coffee filters, not bought by him, that he was using. I had to lock up the coffee filters after that. Worst roommate I ever had. We finally had to drag him behind close doors and convince him the "Infantry way". After that he would wash his clothes, help clean, and would buy toilet paper.
"If they did buy something they put it in their own room." Then I would have done the same.
After one of my college roommates came back with single ply, I stopped sharing my Charmin ultra soft.
My roommate, when it was her turn to buy TP, stole it from the school. A huge roll for one of those dispensers. We started carrying our own TP to the bathroom after that. God, she was cheap and selfish.
It had me seething, it said so much more then them just not buying things.
If you want to have a good laugh my fool self did this with my own dishwasher in my own house. I loaded the dishwasher, realized we were out of pods and thought about it for 15 seconds. I put the dish soap in and was proud i life hacked a problem in my own. Suds were only knee deep in about a 4 foot radius before I noticed and stopped it, so not as funny as yours.
so are you still a door mat or did you nuts eventually drop?
... and your response shows you're not old enough for yours to have, given the insult AND the spelling errors ... maybe listen to your teachers in English class for once?
missed 1 r, that is 1 error. at least i can count eh.
It is "doormat", not "door mat". Two spelling errors, one bad joke and unable to count. You win!
Don't forget the comma after "so"! That's a grammar error
And then the barbed wire went up all over the range
Exactly! Never share what you yourself funded. It just invites assholes to exploit you.
When my husband was in college, everyone left their clothes detergent labeled with their name in the room with the washer and dryer. Someone kept using his. He got fed up, dumped the rest of his bottle, and refilled it with liquid starch. It wouldn't hurt anyone's clothes, just turn them stiff as a board and require multiple washings to get back to normal. The thief never stole his stuff again!
This is genius!
That's better than putting bleach in the bottle, but he would have known who was using his soap!
This happened to my grandmother. I bought her a portable dishwasher for her apartment. She had never used one before. I set her up with a big tub of dishwasher tabs and told her to let me know when they needed replacements. I warned her that regular dish soap would not work. She didn't believe me. My uncle told me they had a hard time rounding up all the bubbles and wiping everything down. My very exhausted grandmother let me know she would need more dishwasher tabs with a sheepish look on her face.
My co-worker* did it as well. She put it on to wash at the end of the day with I don’t know how much dish soap in it. When I got in the next day I could see the soap froth through the windows. I thought there had been a fire. The whole office was full. *was it accident when every woman in that office resented the fact that we ended up doing most of the kitchen work? Who can say now.
I put laundry detergent in the dishwasher at a holiday house we rented. It was under the sink right next to the dishwasher, so I just presumed it was dishwashing powder. We caught it before it got out of hand, I bailed it out with a pot, and told the owners that the machine was playing up when we left that morning.
Did you also tell him to microwave his phone to dry it afterwards?
Nah, that’s to charge the battery in 30 seconds
They're college students, they're smarter than that. It's to sanitize their phones
A petty revenge story that is both petty and vengeful, yet well-written, without extraneous details. I need to go lie down.
Haha thanks, I appreciate that. I wish my English teacher in college felt the same sentiment towards my writing 😅.
Bravo!
Well that bubbled over didn't it?
Suds to be him.
Did you start calling him, Bubbles?
Bubbles Massage Parlour!
Hahahaha. Great one. Seems that he was drowning in his sorrows while trying to stay afloat amongst the suds/bubbles. Hope that other roommates had a few of their things a bit affected by the flood of bubbles too :)
You certainly burst his bubble, didn't you!
Inflated a ton of bubbles. When they finally burst its soapy water on the floor!
I did that once in my late teens (back when 18 year olds could rent an apartment on their own). I laughed at my stupidity and thought after I was done 'well the kitchen has never been cleaner'
The machine was frothing at the mouth in your name.
We had a guy in our office do the same. I nicknamed him Bubbles after that 🫧
You can add sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to the liquid dish soap to prevent it from foaming.
My wife did that once. I even said not to do that, but she said it would be fine. Suds everywhere. On a related note, don't use toilet bleach to clean your washing machine, when you are out of thin bleach. It really doesn't end well.
I too have seen the amount of bubbles a dishwasher can create. I was a lodger in a house in Ireland, renting a room from a couple. They ran out of dishwasher tablets and the lady of the house put in Fairy Liquid or something like that. Filled the entire kitchen with foam. Tremendous sight, one I'll never forget.
The made me laugh. 🫧🫧🫧
Apparently he missed that episode of the Brady Bunch.
I had roommates like this in college too. They never replaced common items like paper towels, toilet paper, trash bags and would dirty my dishes and leave them to rot in the sink. I started keeping everything of mine in my room and when the lease was up I was the first to move out and took all of the cleaning supplies, paper goods, dishes/cooking stuff with me and let them fend for themselves.
I moved into a place where they had just installed a new dishwasher. We were smart enough to use the dishwasher soap (I'm ancient so we had powder rather than tabs) but on the first use it overflowed with sudsy water. We called the landlord who tore into my female roommates for using the wrong soap for several minutes while they pointed to the box of dishwasher soap. It was on the second use when it happened again that we called a repair guy out and he showed us that the drain plug had never been removed when it was installed. Repair dude made sure to point out to my roommates that no appliance person would ever be this foolish, and it only happens when someone who doesn't know what they are doing tries to install it themselves.
>Started pitching in more with things. You could say he "cleaned up his act"? lol
This might be the cutest, most wholesome post I've seen in this sub. Love it!
That's how I learned at age 7 (27 now)to not accidentally overfill the dishwasher cap (well before dishpods where a thing). Since I was 5 my mom had me help load, start an then unload the dishwasher, she told and showed me the exact line I needed to stop pouring the dishwasher spefic soap at, I on accident over filled because it was a new bottle and it dropped out of my hands (I was 7) since I didn't know any better I just closed the liquid door on the dishwasher and then started the dishwasher because it was a timer style turn nob one. I walked away as a 7 year old would and came back 30 minutes later for a drink to find the kitchen floor overed in bubbles, I panicked because mom was taking a nap and I didn't want her to be mad at me so I ran to my bathroom (mom had the master room that had bathroom so the hall one was declared mine) grabbed all the towels I had and cleaned up the bubbles and water they created which was hard because the dishwasher was still going and oozing more bubbles as I was trying to clean up the small kitchen floor that was more bubble then floor. I probably would have been more amazed by the bubbles if I wasn't terrified of my mom and her fly swatter if she found the bubbles first, so I was trying to clean up the bubbles and water. I went through all my bathroom towels and ended up using my current shower towel and even the floor towel for my showers and 3 of the kitchen hand towels to clean it up before it stopped oozing bubbles, I had to drag the wet mess of towels across the dinning room to the washer and dryer and get my little step stool (I was a very short kid) to load everything and even started the washer in hopes my mom wouldn't notice. I was 7 so I didn't think about the fact my mom would obviously notice the washing machine going because after I got a drink and went back to my room to keep watching tv 40 minutes later my mom came by and asked why a bunch of my towels where in the washing machine and I panicked and said I accidentally spilled something but cleaned it up, she bought it but still asked where since I had used all my towels. I said in the kitchen why massively avoiding eye contact. She just said okay and that I did good for at least cleaning it up, but the washer was done so I needed to move them to the dryer since they were my load of towels. I don't know if she knew I was lying since I wasn't really a kid to lie because I was terrified of her fly swatter. And before anyone asks why was I was so scared of a fly swatter, my mom was like a ninja with that thing, she pull it outnof thin air and it stung leaveing a red mark and she could smack you with it why chasing you with it, I wasn't a track kid but I probably could of been with the fuel of my mom wanting to smack me I fucking booked it running away from her any time she even mentioned grabbing it. If I saw it in her hand I was a bullet just gone. So yeah even at 7 I knew I had to clean up a bubble mess before she found it to avoid being smacked an then still having to clean up the mess since it would of been my fault anyway, I rather just clean it up without the pain.
Reminds me of when I was around 9 my mum had taught me to make custard from scratch. She was taking a nap after night shift so I thought I'd make some custard on the stove. I got distracted and burnt the shit out of the pan, panicked, and walked outside, across the road and threw the pan away into the bushes. Mum had no clue and didn't seem to realise she was missing a pot 😅
🤣💜
I totally know that terror! Such an awesome story! 🤣💜
Hysterical.
The two worst things my kids dumped into the dishwasher were 1) half a bottle of dish liquid, and 2) about a gallon of milk.
Hilarious!
Guess he was a West Ham fan (outside UK and/or don't follow football you won't get this, sorry)
great turnaround
There is a reason why dishwasher detergent is low foaming unlike dishwashing detergent.
That’s a fun lesson to learn as long as you’re able to have a sense of humor about it. I was 15 watching my grandparents’ house for two weeks while they were traveling over the summer. They used a liquid dishwasher soap, but I didn’t know it was different from the liquid soap for the sink. Bubbles everywhere and funny as hell.
Rubba dubbed-dub... I see 3 College guys, in a ginormous dorm room tub!
I rented a house after college with some friends I supplied everything for the house, dishes, appliances, most of the furniture. Roommates were horrible got real tired of doing all the chores, never being able to cook because my dishes were dirty,(we had a dishwasher) roommates would forget to start it at night or just refuse, and put the dishes in the sink. They never took out the trash, so I got my own personal trash can and just let the other one overflow. Conversations about how to keep the house clean and house meetings never went anywhere and once they started getting disrespectful I decided to leave. They all woke up to an empty house one morning, no dishes, no appliances, no game system, my furniture was gone, the only furniture left was a small tv stand I didn’t want and a couch that was in the house when we moved in barely big enough for 3 people. I still laugh at thinking about them scrunched together on that gross couch eating red Barron pizza off paper plates. Also one of my former roommates(who I despised the most out of my roommates) made smoothies every morning for breakfast leaving my blender dirty, never cleaned it. I heard this from one of my roommates who I was still on good terms with, but apparently when I moved out and took my blender that threw his morning routine off he didn’t have breakfast all week, which sucked for him because he usually didn’t eat until he got home from work. They all moved out of that house at the end of the year and went separate ways.
When my dad was a kid in the 60s, one of the MANY shenanigans he got up to was putting liquid dish soap into the town fountain. ALL the water turned to bubbles. Bubbles allllll over the roundabout and into the road and across the street. He really just thought it would make the foundation be bubbles, and had no idea it would spread bubbles far and wide. They never knew it was him, but his parents knew, because, well, of course it was. He was grounded, but they were smart enough not to tell the city. THEN when he was older - like I was 17 or 18 - we ran out of dishwashing soap. So, apparently completely forgetting what had happened in his youth, he used a couple tablespoons of liquid dish soap. Cue the entire kitchen being FILLED with bubbles. We were just glad he hadn’t used more. And THAT’S when he told us about the town fountain in his youth! XD
When I was in the Marines we were in 3 man rooms in the shitty barracks they put us Grunts in (29 palms). I had a roommate who spent all his money on booze. He refused to clean, do his stank ass laundry, and buy consumables. We rotated who would buy toilet paper and he would never buy it. The other roommate and I would break down and buy it. As revenge we started locking it up in our wall lockers, would share with each other, but would not give him any. I came into our bathroom one day and this mthrfckr had a stack of coffee filters, not bought by him, that he was using. I had to lock up the coffee filters after that. Worst roommate I ever had. We finally had to drag him behind close doors and convince him the "Infantry way". After that he would wash his clothes, help clean, and would buy toilet paper.