rant

[ewt]

This should not be a big deal, but it would be nice if someone else took the bin out for once. Bin men have just been and gone and the bin wasn't out. If I forget nobody else remembers. I have three other people living here and none of them are sufficiently aware of Tuesday being the day before Bin Day to bother with it. This is ridiculous. It is not that hard, or I wouldn't be able to do it most weeks.

Disclaimer: haven't have breakfast yet, perspective is VERY broken.

Comments

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what you mean about housemates.

I really hate it when my housemate piles all her dirty dishes in the washing up bowl, thereby rendering it unusable. Which is mildly annoying since the house rule is to do your own dishes quickly and I really don't see why I should deal with her dishes, which by then are normally wedged tightly together in cold, disgusting water

Normally I'd just talk to her about this, since I didn't realise that the proper method to deal with such things is to post about them on LiveJournal in a somewhat passive-aggressive manner.

[hennes.livejournal.com]

Posting on LifeJournal only works if said housemates alsop read this.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

It takes maybe 30 seconds to take soaking dishes out of the washing up bowl. I do try not to leave things to soak too often, because I am aware that it is annoying. I am also not the only person who leaves things to soak. I have to do this regularly when other people have left things to soak.

It takes another week for the bin men to come again, by which time the bin will be overflowing.

I'm not going to get any further into a tit-for-tat discussion of things that annoy me, because it will go nowhere. None of us are perfect and all of us do things (or neglect to do things) and end up annoying other people.

I'm sorry if I came across as passive-agressive. I probably shouldn't have made the post. I did put a disclaimer - not having had breakfast yet and hearing the bin truck go and running outside in an attempt to get the bin out on time, only to see them turning the corner around the end of the street, isn't the best start to anyone's morning. It wasn't meant as an attack on anyone in particular, it was just frustration, pure and simple.