Roommate Rant

I was once friends with one of my roommates...  Now I don't consider him more than a roommate.  He has proven himself to be unreliable, he has made no attempt to indicate he cares at all about the state of the house, or even the "rules" we've made for ourselves.

The kicker has been the last week and a half.  Basically he was "house sitting" for the entire week last week, not a big deal, except he left a huge stack of dishes.  Now this in itself isn't a huge deal... I mean, I can definitely see myself forgetting about doing dishes before leaving for a week.  The problem starts when he gets back to our house on Saturday.  To my knowledge he was home for 2 or 3 hours before leaving again, and in that time did nothing but play videogames and check his facebook.

SUNDAY
When I got back to the city on sunday and found his stack of dishes still lying there, I texted him (slightly rudely) "So why didn't you do your dishes last night?"  To which he replied... and oh do his replies always fuel my anger... here's his reply; "Why didn't YOU do the dishes?".  This is his typical response when it comes to things concerning keeping the house clean, a sarcastic response and then out of mind.  But I wasn't done yet.  I realized, after calming myself down and praying for patience (i need a lot of that with this roommate), that the way i worded my inital contact to him would warrant that kind of response.  So I followed it up with this ; "Look dude, you know what i was getting at with that text, right?  I'm sorry if it came off mean or something, but I think you can see where i'm coming from, its been more than a week.".  There was no response to this text.  He didn't come home sunday night.

MONDAY
When I get home from school on monday, guess who I see sitting at the tv just playing videogames, (he doesn't work on monday, so presumably had been there for at least 2 or more hours since his girlfriend likely works mondays).  We talk for a little bit about nothing important, a simple hey hows it going etc., I refuse to remind him about the dishes.  (For a while i would remind him of the things he had to do that he hadn't yet; dishes, cleaning the bathroom.  To which he would respond sarcastically and even angrily, then he would rebel and leave it till the next day.) So i went to my room, hoping that sometime during the evening he would take the time to wash the dishes.  Alas, I knew my hopes were for nothing when a friend of his came over, so i put my hopes on tuesday.

TUESDAY
Now i knew i would be leaving for Steinbach Tuesday right after school, so I put my hopes on tuesday night that somehow someway he might find the time to do his dishes, so when I came home the dishes would be done and I could stop fretting about it.  So tuesday evening was absolutely awesome!  The Peace concert rocked my socks off, and then hanging out at dairy queen was excellent!  But alas, I decided not to drive back to winnipeg tuesday night and would have to wait until wednesday morning to learn the fate of those dirty dishes.

WEDNESDAY
I got up, had a great talk with my mom, drove to the city, walked into the house, saw a huge stack of dishes drying in the drying rack, went up to my room, got ready for school, came back down the stairs and actually looked this time... The dishes in the drying rack were ones my other roommate had done.  The dishes roommate X (as i'll call him from now on... or maybe it should be roommate R) were still sitting there molding away.  Fed up with this, I decide that something had to be done.  So on the busride to school i contemplate many things.  But after further prayer and time, I decide the only thing that can really be done, is that I'd do his dishes if they hadn't been done by the evening.  I knew he had choir this evening so I knew he would be home  between 4:30 and 5:00 and then back from choir by 8:00 or so.  So 8:00 comes and goes... its 8:30, so I decide to put my plan into action.  So, now all the dishes are clean, the counters are clean and I await his response.  He had better have some response, if he doesn't, I think that anger me again.  I imagine the conversation may go something like this;

R - Did you do my dishes?
S - Yes
R - Well thats stupid, i was going to do them when I got home.
S - I'm sure you were.

He is a fan of insulting my ideas or thing I say with emphasizing how stupid it is and repeating words like stupid and dumb.  To be perfectly honest, I would very much like to hit him, but if I did, I would be forever ashamed of myself.  Anywho, those are my current planned responses.  I guess its partially an attempt at guliting him, which I know won't work because he doesn't care at all.  But whatever, at the next house meeting I plan to generate discussion of weekly chores within the house, and I plan to instigate that we do do these weekly chores.  If no improvements show in his conduct about the condition of the house and his responsibilities with such.  And if at least one of my other roommates back me, I will inform him that he doesn't have to live here if he doesn't wish to take care of his responsibilities. In the event that there is no change, and my other roommates don't wish to back me, I will move out.  I do not want to live with someone that doesn't care about the state of the house.

Rant out

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