living with a stranger
Picture it - I'm renting out my spare room because I need the extra cash right now, okay?Tenant scored a hat-trick this morning. Went out leaving the electric shower switched on, skid-marks in the loo, and the hair-trap in the shower clogged with hair, so the water couldn't drain away.
a) increase his rent to include a cleaning fee?
b) scream like a fishwife?
c) ???
I'm not used to living with someone. Is this standard guy stuff?
Sure as hell not with the men I know.
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you' d only need 2 sinks,special makeup lighting,extra cabinets,+ electricty for
hair dryers,perfume/aerosol restrictions
O.K. This is a no-brainer.
Scream like a fishwife...AFTER you sell tickets to people to watch a Scorpio Ginger woman scream like a fishwife.
With the proceeds from the performance, you won't have to rent the place out.
Schedule encore performances as needed to avoid renting.
Pretty cool, huh?
He's a model tenant in most things, must be said - the dog likes him, rent is paid on time, he knows I'm selling and this is short term, and he's out 90% of the time. Perfect!
Even sharing the kitchen isn't a problem. Just this sharing a bathroom - oh dear oh dear oh dear.
I suppose this must happen when you start living with someone, too - I mean sharing lives living, not just sharing bathroom living. All their little foibles vs all your own little foibles ...
But I'm a shy retiring nonconfrontational fishwife -
Do you think booze would help? I'll buy booze. Any brand guaranteed to build aggro? Whisky keeps most of us Scots ornery ....
And at least you're not having to scoop little woven toupees for mice out of the shower trap every day. EW.
As for the skid marks, I think you should have a quiet word with him about acceptable toilet etiquette
You'll never know who'll be staring back at you
Is he at least house-trained?
I nearly sent you a teddybear hug to comfort you. Close call there!
Er - I say - um - er, gosh - did you,. er, know there's a toilet brush in the loo-roll holder?
Do you know what toilet brushes are for?
Yes, I agree, most people find paper softer. Um, actually, they have another very useful ability ....
Unless he is fanatically houseproud. After all, I am trying to sell the house at the moment. A good cleaner is a good cleaner.
That'd teach him
Seriously. Apart from your boilermaker, have you always had immaculately clean and tidy visitors to your smallest room? Or did they simply wait until they were somewhere they could shoot out all those curries?
Not sure where I am going with that question. Doesn't help me in the slightest, unless you can tell me you once did have a messy fella under your roof and tactfully sorted the problem.
Much simpler when you're married to the slob and can just explain what the price of nookie is, then point to the cupboard with all the cleaning materials
Biff, Yes most of the residence are toilet trained thankfully, the rule is even men must sit to pee, I won't clean splatter off the ceiling and walls.
Dont know about most men, but will not use someone else's loo to drop the kids off, I wait until I am home, even if I have extreme tortoise head, If Im an overnight guest, then thats another conundrum.
Too funny...
Roommates...glad I live alone...remembering all that caked on hairspray on the bathroom counters...not to mention her messy ways...never again...
Vertical, horizontal - yup, got it right.
I wish there really was fairy dust.
The first is not an option, especially now
Care to handle negotiations for me for the second?