Got one this week
When I started teaching I shared a council-provided house with a peripatetic music teacher. Basically he was a nice guy but he had a serious booze problem that had lost him his previous job. This made him into the idlest slob imaginable. He would leave piles of washing up in the sink for a week. One time I came back after a few days away and noticed a rancid smell in the kitchen, which he nonchalantly informed me was rotting vegetables he'd left in the sink bowl. Frequently he'd cook himself a meal when he got back pissed at 1 am and fall asleep while doing so - it's a wonder we weren't burned alive. And when he had a cold he'd leave scrumpled-up snotty tissues all over the place. I couldn't wait to move out.

Booze cost him his driving licence and this job too. I hope he went to AA - he was a nightmare to live with but at heart a decent person.
(eesnahk, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 19:25, Reply)