Roomates
You may have seen rose and me talking about our roommate situations in the chat box. well I feel like I need to let a bit of this out before I start losing my temper.
I live in a 3 person student apartment. it has two bed rooms, one large double room and a smaller single room. We have a small l shape kitchen sext to a 7x7" dining area and a 14x11 living area off to the side. in the dining room we have 2 bar chairs and 4 small chairs (like small waiting area chairs) of various designs around a small 2" radius circular table. off in the living area we have 2 arm chairs and a couch facing a 50in tv my roommate bought.
sounds nice right? well it is. when I can use any of it. tonight is one of those RARE nights where there is actually ONLY 3 people here. but thouse 3 people arn't just me and my 2 roomates. no it's me, the roomate who bought the tv and his girlfriend. did I mention she lives here?. she has her own student apartment but has not slept there once in the last 2 semesters and that's not an exaggeration. she and him share the bed in the single bedroom. every night. all week. all semester. I'm actually surprised I havn't heard them at it once. I'll give them credit for being at least a little bit discreet. oh and they are always talking about when they are going to get married (highschool sweet hearts) but they arn't engaged. she has him whipped,
ok so I have a room mate who has his girl living with him in his room. not intolerable but still annoying considering she basically claims one of the two bathrooms in the apartment as hers (I use the one attached to me and my other roommates bedroom).
my other room mate is ok, me and him get along fairly well. he's a high-school friend of the whipped roommate and their entire group of friend (almost) are studying petro engineering (they are kind all rednecks, they all have multiple pairs of cowboy boots and I hanv't seen a single pair of sneakers on any of them cept the girls) .
now we git to the bad part. their group of friends is big. and I mean big. and they all like to eat dinner and study at our apartment. there is about 15 of them all together. 6-8 people beside me ate here most nights. enough to fill every chair previously describes and leave people on the floor. and they are loud, all the time. I don't like half of them, tolerate the rest and have some animosity towards 2 of the girls they all are pretty devout catholic republicans and vice their opinions like god given truth.
this one time the whipped one's girlfriend decided to re arrange the furniture. that was fine, it made better use of the space. I only had one problem with it. she insisted on putting then small end table on the corner of four walking paths (from the door the the hallway and from the kitchen into the living area) and insisted it be aligned in such a way that all 4 paths were too small, I bumped my shin on it so I moved it back close to the chair and the wall my giveing proper walking room. she instantly got up to move it back but when I stopped here, said not and explained why she just got defensive and indignant. she was then instantly backed up but her two very aggressive female friends. two women who were obviously used to walking over the men in their lives (just part of their upbringing).
I'm trained in akido, a martial art that focused complete on defense and turning an opponents attacks on them. as a result my first unconscious reaction is to step off the line of an attack and move to intercept it. to people unused to it it look like I flinch aggressively. I'm fine with this because it means I'll never get blindsided by a left hook.
anyway, one of her friends brought her hand up to get in my face, my body reacted be fore I could stop it and I had to spend the next half an hour keeping a strait face and even tone as they berated my for attempting to "hit a girl" while I calmly insisted that wasn't going to happen.
the "you wouldn't hit a girl" mind set irks me to no end. sure it's born from a hate for domestic violence but at the same time it's escalated to the point were people are of the mind that if your male you have to let woman abuse you or fear social ostracizing. like a woman can't cause you just as much physical pain or kill just as fast as any man.
so ya, after that night I dislike those two girls
at least they clean up after them selves though so that's good I guess, I don't end up with 8 people mess to clean up every morning.
speaking of cleaning,
dishes and kitchen use.so ya, I apparently was the only one intelligent enough to bring silverware so until recently when they bought their own I could never find a clean spoon or fork and had to clean it myself if I wanted to use it. and if I want to cook I have to do it before 6 or after 8:30 if I want use of the kitchen.
so, ya know how I said this was one of those rare nights up at the top there? I spoke too soon, while I was writing this 4 more of their friends joined us, all the whipped one girlfriend's female friends, including the 2 I dislike.
and it not like the friend are only here if my roommates are. my roommates leave the door unlocked JUST so their friends can come hang out when ever they want. The first time I cam home at 2 in the after noon to find 2 of there friends hanging out in front of the tv but the roommates gone I took a good deal of effort to just keep walking back to my room with out making my thoughts known.
So it may seem like I'm a push over for not doing something sooner but at the same time I'm not fuming angry about the situation. most of the time I don't mind. in the beginning when it was only twice a week I was fine with it. but after the first month it started ramping up till it was every night and more and more people. and by that time I felt trapped with it. I can't speak up with out appearing to do a complete about face and a being a douche. and with the way they all are, especially the girls, they wouldn't listen anyway.
ok rant over. back to work.
EDIT:
PS. I forgot to say that on average at least one on my roommates friends sleeps on the couch every night, that's in addition to my, my roommates, the whipped one and his girlfriend. sometimes 2 friends, sometimes 3. (not all on the couch of course, they use the arm chars too). point being that an apartment for 3 has on average 5 people sleeping there.