Dear Roommates,
How are you? I should know this, considering we live together, but to be honest, I really don't care. The two of you are international students and have moved in way after I did. I get it, I'm not your favourite person. I don't want to interact with you simply because we all don't have a lot in common, including our schedules. I'm out most days and most evenings/nights, just how it is, and when I come home, I really just need to spend some time with Shani. You know her, right?
When I come home to spend Shani time, I do not want to come home and spend Shani time in a smelly house. That's not a lot to ask. Your garbage has to be thrown pretty much immediately if it's smelly; it is NOT to be left in the kitchen for longer than a period of a couple hours or outside the front door, considering the garbage can is about 5 feet from the front door. Stop making me out to be a bitch for asking this. This is a reasonable request. I have thrown your garbage out countless times in the past few weeks, which is unfair as it's not even mine. I keep MY dirty stuff in my room so it doesn't bother anybody else, and asking you to do the same isn't unreasonable, it's a requirement.
Secondly, I do not have to prove to you that I clean the house. It's simple, clean up after yourself. Shower? Make sure the drain's free of all hair. Wash your face? Make sure you haven't sprayed water all over the counter. Cook? Wash all dishes within 24 hours, keep the window open, wipe down counters after you're done. It's NOT that hard.
Not to mention, I do all of the outside work. One of you claims to have a hurt shoulder and the shovel being too big for you (hah!) and the other sprained her ankles MONTHS ago. If you can walk to the university, you can shovel a bit of snow. But no, I come home after a long day's work, shovel (which normally I enjoy but I'm coming to resent it because it's expected of me, and we've had about 5 feet of snow this year), and then I come home to a smelly house and have to throw out garbage that doesn't belong to me just so I can stand being in the living room? Who do you think you are?
And when I confront you about my frustrations, I'm somehow the BITCH? You say you're frustrated with me but won't tell me why....because "you're not like that". Well then I can't change what I don't know. I had to fight for one cupboard, I have the smallest rack in the fridge, I keep my dishes in one pile while the rest of the dish cupboard is full of your guys' dishes. There are over 14 cupboards in our house.....and I have 1.25?
I often think of moving but my house is in the most ideal location and our landlords are extremely wonderful. I am not going to move. I have told them about our friction and I hope when it comes down to it, and if it's you guys or me, I hope they choose my side. I have made no unreasonable requests. This is MY home and I'm allowed to have people over IN my room and watch hockey on tv.
Sincerely,
Shani
How are you? I should know this, considering we live together, but to be honest, I really don't care. The two of you are international students and have moved in way after I did. I get it, I'm not your favourite person. I don't want to interact with you simply because we all don't have a lot in common, including our schedules. I'm out most days and most evenings/nights, just how it is, and when I come home, I really just need to spend some time with Shani. You know her, right?
When I come home to spend Shani time, I do not want to come home and spend Shani time in a smelly house. That's not a lot to ask. Your garbage has to be thrown pretty much immediately if it's smelly; it is NOT to be left in the kitchen for longer than a period of a couple hours or outside the front door, considering the garbage can is about 5 feet from the front door. Stop making me out to be a bitch for asking this. This is a reasonable request. I have thrown your garbage out countless times in the past few weeks, which is unfair as it's not even mine. I keep MY dirty stuff in my room so it doesn't bother anybody else, and asking you to do the same isn't unreasonable, it's a requirement.
Secondly, I do not have to prove to you that I clean the house. It's simple, clean up after yourself. Shower? Make sure the drain's free of all hair. Wash your face? Make sure you haven't sprayed water all over the counter. Cook? Wash all dishes within 24 hours, keep the window open, wipe down counters after you're done. It's NOT that hard.
Not to mention, I do all of the outside work. One of you claims to have a hurt shoulder and the shovel being too big for you (hah!) and the other sprained her ankles MONTHS ago. If you can walk to the university, you can shovel a bit of snow. But no, I come home after a long day's work, shovel (which normally I enjoy but I'm coming to resent it because it's expected of me, and we've had about 5 feet of snow this year), and then I come home to a smelly house and have to throw out garbage that doesn't belong to me just so I can stand being in the living room? Who do you think you are?
And when I confront you about my frustrations, I'm somehow the BITCH? You say you're frustrated with me but won't tell me why....because "you're not like that". Well then I can't change what I don't know. I had to fight for one cupboard, I have the smallest rack in the fridge, I keep my dishes in one pile while the rest of the dish cupboard is full of your guys' dishes. There are over 14 cupboards in our house.....and I have 1.25?
I often think of moving but my house is in the most ideal location and our landlords are extremely wonderful. I am not going to move. I have told them about our friction and I hope when it comes down to it, and if it's you guys or me, I hope they choose my side. I have made no unreasonable requests. This is MY home and I'm allowed to have people over IN my room and watch hockey on tv.
Sincerely,
Shani
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