Where do I begin??
July 22nd, 2009 5:29pm by admin
Let me preface by saying that THANKFULLY, I moved out of this house over a month ago and have since regained some degree of my sanity.
Rather than go through the entire 10-month ordeal from start to finish, let me just summarize her crimes- I’m sure I’ll have to add more posts as I remember everything she did!
1. Had a number of dirty dogs, none of which were housebroken, which she allowed to urinate and defecate all over the house, bark constantly, chew on everything, eat cat food, eat out of the cat box, and just generally be disgusting and destructive. They were so filthy that when I moved out I had to have all my furniture professionally cleaned just to get the smell out, and when we moved my furniture out there were piles of dried dog poo under everything. When my friends helped me move out, I had to open all the windows and air the house out because they walked inside and physically GAGGED at the stench of animal urine.
2. Had several cats which she never fed, never gave water to, and never cleaned their catbox. The entire house reeked from her catboxes and the cats screamed constantly for food and water, which I usually had to give them (I paid hundreds of dollars to feed her cats while I was there because she would not bother to get them food and they just screamed and harrassed me all the time because they were hungry. If she actually did get them food or put out the food I bought, she left it where the dogs could eat it so the bowl was still always empty and they still always screamed). She also did nothing about their claws and they ruined my very expensive microsuede furniture and parts of the carpet, which means the security deposit went down the drain.
3. Insisted all the utilities go in her name to improve her credit, and then never bothered to pay any of them on time, so she ended up coming to me every month saying she had to have “x” amount of money RIGHT NOW because the bills were already late. I also ended up paying several months worth of water bills myself and she never gave me any of the money back.
4. She broke a brand-new vacuum and THREE carpet steamers in the space of 10 months. How, I don’t know. I paid for the vacuum and one carpet steamer myself (never got the 50% she promised to pay out of her) to try and keep the house clean, and the few times she actually used them (for her own bedroom mainly, she never bothered to clean up the rest of the house) she managed to break them. The second steamer belonged to my friend and I had to have it repaired, the third steamer she borrowed herself and still destroyed. Towards the end I borrowed a vacuum from my mom and kept it locked in my room, and ran it whenever I wanted to have people over (which was pretty rare since the house was so foul by the end).
5. She. NEVER. Cleaned. For months, I would vacuum almost every day, sweep every day, take the trash out, tidy the kitchen, tidy the bathroom, and scrub the whole house down on weekends. She did NOTHING. She came home every day, threw her crap all over the house, left dishes everywhere, trash everywhere, left things all over the bathroom floor and counters, and no matter how much I cleaned she had it trashed by the next day. She would leave dirty dishes in the sink next to an empty dishwasher rather than actually put them in herself. I had to load and unload the dishwasher, clean the stove every time she dumped stuff all over it, mop up the floor when she spilled stuff everywhere, clean out the fridge of her moldy leftovers, take the trash out, clean the bathroom… She. Did. NOTHING. I have never met a filthier person in my entire life. And her excuse? She worked a lot. Yet she managed to be home with whatever idiot she was calling a boyfriend that day 6 nights a week sitting on her fat backside on MY couch watching TV and not doing squat.
6. Which brings me to: she took over the entire house as though I weren’t paying half the rent. Every night, she and her boyfriend parked themselves in front of the TV, cooked in the kitchen, and basically took up the entire downstairs all night long. Which meant I was pretty much confined to my bedroom. And she took long obnoxious showers/baths constantly, and threw a fit if *heaven forbid* I was in the bathroom when SHE needed a shower.
7. She was RUDE. I had friends over for a nice dinner one night, when I actually got off early and claimed the downstairs. We were sitting at the table in the middle of eating when she got home, walked into the kitchen, and proceeded to vent about work for a good 20 minutes, completely ignoring my friends and the fact that we were TRYING to eat dinner. What the ??? Another time, I had people over for a party, she let her dogs run around stealing food off the tables, and when I told her to lock them up, she responded with, if I didn’t stop being a b**** she “wasn’t going to let me have people over anymore”. I’m sorry, last time I checked, it was my friggin’ house too. And I’m sorry that not everyone is dirty enough to appreciate dog spit in their food. Every single person who ever walked into that house commented on how horrendously rude she was ALL THE TIME.
8. And the DRAMA. She broke up with her boyfriend of the week about every other day, and I had to either listen to them scream at each other, or listen to her rant about what happened if it occurred outside the house and I hadn’t been subjected to it already. She even stormed in one night screaming at ME for not having my phone on so that she could have ME get stuff out of HER room so that HER ex could come by for it in the middle of MY dinner and movie. Because somehow I was responsible for dealing with her drama? Good grief. If it wasn’t a guy, it was her mother, or her sister, or her friends, or someone at work, and I had to hear about every last thing that was wrong in her horrible little “woe is me” life. (Because none of it was HER fault, obviously!)
9. She and her friends ate and drank the majority of my groceries every week without paying me for anything nor replacing anything, to the point where I started keeping pretty much all my food upstairs in my closet where she couldn’t access it. Before I left she even made off with an unopened bottle of my booze! And I’m not talking one soda here and there, I’m talking 2-3 cases of a soda and sport drinks per week disappearing EVERY week! Plus my food!
10. When I finally told her I was leaving, she went even more psycho than she already had been. She all but tried to chase me out of the house immediately instead of me leaving in a month or two like I’d planned to (because she wanted to give my room to the dogs), she turned off our cable for no reason (it was already paid), and she tried to demand that I give back my key prior to the lease being up, and yet still pay the rent even though I wouldn’t even have a key (in her own words, because I “might come back and mess the house up”.) She even tried to threaten me with restraining orders to keep me out of the house (I’m pretty sure somewhere a lawyer laughed his a** off at that!). She also threatened to basically wreck the house and try to pin it on me so that I’d have to pay for the damages.
In the end, I lost HUNDREDS of dollars between the costs of trying to keep the house clean, feeding her animals so they wouldn’t starve, cleaning everything after I moved out, paying her part of the bills, etc. Meanwhile, she sat there running her mouth about what a terrible roommate * I * was. Now, I’m sure I’m not perfect, but here’s a rundown of what I DID do as her roommate:
1. Took care of her animals, to include feeding, watering, litterboxes, picking up feces off the carpet, letting dogs outside, even watching them all for weeks while she was out of town, with NO compensation, not even for the food I purchased.
2. Cleaned the entire house, up until the last month or two when I got fed up and just kept my own room clean and picked up after myself, and let her trash the rest and then live in it.
3. Allowed her to borrow my TV for her bedroom the entire time I was there.
4. Gave all the basic courtesies of offering her dinner when I was cooking, warning her before I had people over, telling her if I’d be away for the night, etc., and plenty of “above and beyond” courtesies like folding her laundry when I needed the dryer (since her laundry generally stayed there until she wore it again otherwise), and invited her to any parties or events I had at the house, or even out of the house. I even vacuumed/steam-cleaned HER room if I was doing the rest of the house- in spite of the fact that she pretty much only cleaned out her own room and left the rest of the house in shambles.
Again, I could go on and on (and I’m sure I’ll post more later) but of all the roommates I’ve had, this one takes the cake. Thankfully the horror has ended and I’m now living quite happily alone.
Dude! She sounds like a total Bitch! How did you put up with her? And i really feel sorry for the poor cats, too.
honey, you are way too nice.