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Xist · 01-13-2015, 05:22 PM

If you just checked in to tell me that I am a head case, please do not bother. So, I have been having fun with my roommates. If one stays much longer, he will be the first roommate who cleans that lived here for very long. I have cleaned up after the other guys for most of the time that I have lived here. That one "deep cleaned" the kitchen while I was at drill, but threw away many of my things in the process, and I needed to tell him to move the kitchen table from the living room. I have also seen him in a bathrobe more than I have seen him wear clothing. In the back of the refrigerator, I found an old bottle of pasta sauce, which one of them grabbed from my hands and threw in the garbage. I pulled it out and while they shouted at me and one talked about how wasteful recycling can be, with the others agreeing, I rinsed out the bottle and put it in the recycling.

Not that it makes any difference, since they put all of their garbage in the recycling.

So, today I came home to this:

RunningStrong · 01-13-2015, 06:31 PM

Upright Vacuum cleaner, carpet shampoo-er, steam mop, and a compact vacuum. That's a good cleaning set.

What did I miss?

freebeard · 01-13-2015, 06:50 PM

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If you just checked in to tell me that I am a head case, please do not bother.

To be fair, we've all known that for some time.

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I pulled it out and while they shouted at me and one talked about how wasteful recycling can be, with the others agreeing, I rinsed out the bottle and put it in the recycling.

Sounds like an educumation problem. Once they're no longer shouting (sounds like quite a scene), ask them to explain how it can be more 'wasteful' than wasting everything.

Start buying recycled toilet paper and see how they react to that.

Xist · 01-13-2015, 11:43 PM

The latrines ran out of toilet paper at drill. Had I remembered when I had the time, I might have been Johnny Toiletpaperbox. I heard one Soldier going through the stalls and call out "No, no, no, and this one has a roll of paper towels!"

Did any of you hear about this?

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[Sheryl Crow] tells the Global Warming College Tour to limit use to one square normally, two to three squares on 'pesky occasions'

Sheryl Crow's view on toilet paper: one sheet a visit | Environment | The Guardian

I do not recall seeing anyone who kept their vacuum cleaners in the living room. I brought out a third that I had in the shed, but the last time that I tried to use it, the thing just made noise. The house vacuum was the same model and I wanted to take apart both and see if one worked afterward, but allegedly the friend of a former roommate absconded with it and declined to return the item.

Fix it or recycle it, right?

I just wonder how many times I will have conversations about vacuum cleaners when people come to visit. Maybe it would be better to just rig a curtain, so people instead ask what is behind the curtain, I can say "My room," and the boring conversation dies a natural death.

Cobb · 01-14-2015, 10:06 AM

What are you saying bro? My father use to collect vacuum cleaners and lawn boy lawn mowers, but he used neither.

dirtydave · 01-14-2015, 10:35 AM

Don't you love roommates? Id rather be broke then have roommates again.

Xist · 01-14-2015, 04:15 PM

I got roommates because I was broke, but finances have not improved even though I spend about half as much. I am going to have a two-and-a-half-hour workday tomorrow. That must be a coincidence!