Little annoyances
You know the way that you can be subjected to many things that individually aren't that bad, but taken together add up to become one gigantic anger-inducing hell? That's what it's like for me.

Bit of background, I was originally supposed to be moving into my current house with four other friends, all nice and happy, but for various reasons which I shalln't go into they all decided they didn't want to live there within a week of moving in.* My landlord hurrily found the first four people he could to fill the spaces and as a result the house is inhabited by five people who don't really know each other, and are too disimilar to really be more than just aquaintances.

Of my housemates, I get on reasonably well with the two other lads, who are usually prompt and trustworthy about sorting out bills, etc. The two girls however, are a rather different matter. One alternates between being at the house all the time, and never being there at all (usually when bills need paying or there is a huge pile of washing up to do.) The other is the bane of my life. Among her various annoying habits is:

- Playing appalling rnb at needless volumes. I hate rnb at the best of times.
- Having one of those loud and deep voices that reverberates around thin-walled houses such as ours. To be fair she can't help this, but it's still annoying.
- Leaving the taps running in the bathroom/kitchen.
- Leaving the lights on when they don't need to be on at all, i.e. during the day, or all through the night, or when nobody's in the room. It surely can't be that difficult to turn a light off as you leave the room, but she doesn't seem to have mastered it. As already mentioned, she contributes nothing to the electric bill.
- Bringing her boyfriend over, and the two of them going into the kitchen, shutting the door, and making dinner in the most noisy way possible. My room is, of course, right next to the kitchen, so all I hear for an hour is the clattering of pans.
- Never ever washing anything up, including leaving pans half full of food sitting on top of the cooker. She does however complain about nobody else doing the washing up.
- Managed to get herself into debt with some dodgy loan company, who are either phoning or coming round for her at least twice a day. Since my room is closest to the phone and door, I am inevitably the one who ends up answering them almost all the time. I once experimentally left it ringing for ages when I knew two of my housemates were in the kitchen, to see if either of them would pick it up. They didn't.

I could go on for ever, but I won't. Suffice to say, I'm glad I'm off to a new house in a couple of months.

*Two of them were a couple and decided to move into a smaller house, for just the two of them. Before Christmas they broke up, yet can't get out of their lease agreement until June, and have been forced to share the one bedroom flat since. I still hear tales from both of them about how unbearable the other is to live with, which I of course find hilarious.
(Uncle Comrade, Fri 6 Apr 2007, 17:40, Reply)