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Sorry for the length of this, this housemate annoys me more than I'd anticipated.

This housemate has been mentioned somewhere in this QOTW before, the one about the crap burglar. He's older than the rest of the other 3 housemates, who've known each other for years, so thinks (and has actually told me this on an occasion) that he has more of a say in the house because he knows how to live with people more than we do.

Only problem is, despite this nasty attitude of his in which he constantly looks down at us, he keeps making silly errors that show he has no idea how to live on his own. He never locks the door (which led to a burglar sneaking into the house), he once put some chips in the oven, fell asleep in the kitchen for 3 hours while he waited for them and then just turned off the oven and went to bed. The next morning I found what I thought to be sticks of charcoal in the oven on a baking tray.


But he persists, and he's created rules, mainly to save electricity, that we have to stick to, but just the simple ones like making sure nothing's on standby, turning off lights when we're not using them. Common sense stuff, he doesn't want the bills to be high and neither do we. Only problem is, despite this insistence on not using stupid amounts of electricity, he decided to bring his own freezer into the house despite the fact that the massive freezer that came with the house is only ever a quarter filled by the rest of us. And of course, he likes to keep his freezer on the highest fast-freeze setting, despite only having a loaf of bread in there most of the time.

But I let him have his freezer, mainly because I like to keep the ground floor hall light on in the evenings, it's energy-saving and only on for about 4/5 hours a night, not too much really, just means that since I live on the ground floor, I don't constantly walk into pitch-black every time I leave my room and have to search for a light switch every time. Quite annoying when you're trying to dash to the shower room. Also it makes it seem like we live in the dark ages when every light in the house but two back bedroom lights is off, not very welcoming for guests.

But no! He does not like this, every time he sees the hall light on, he has to turn it off! That's wasting electricity! Let's completely ignore his cold bread in the pointless freezer!

So we've had a constant back-and-forth, until yesterday evening, when I tried to turn on the light to go to the bathroom, the light didn't work... he'd actually gone to the effort and getting a ladder and un-screwing the bulb, leaving it on the window ledge in clear view as a message to me. Don't fuck with him and his electricity, he has a ladder. Except, I decided to not take that as the message, I'm playing dumb and thinking that he just wants us to put all the bulbs we can on that ledge, so every day I plan to buy a new pack of bulbs and just keep piling them up until the window and ledge are covered. It's already getting quite high. I love playing the dumb card.

And if that fails, I'm just gonna unplug his freezer. Sucker.
(Tue 3rd Mar 2009, 17:22, More)