I spent the last year living with three thoughtless cunts who never lifted a fucking
finger. They didn't seem to realize that not washing their own dishes would just mean more work for everybody else at the next meal time, so the kitchen quickly became like the kind of place Sinister Agent described earlier. One time it was so badly cluttered and dirty that one of 'em bought himself a couple of new pans and plates just so he wouldn't have to, y'know, make a clean spot in all of his mess. Their rooms were absolutely filthy, too, but even if I lived like that, I'd still show a flicker of responsibility in the communal areas, so as not to look like a prize prick.
I gave them plenty of bollockings about it, initially, and did a lot of the tidying up myself, but there was a period in which I could have the place spotless and it would be a shithole again literally 2 hours later, so I just gave up and spent more and more time in my own room - which they would often retreat to, it being the only pleasant room left
- or out. They left the place about 2 months earlier than me, without doing anything to their rooms. It was blissful to be able to just clean the house and have it stay that way for those 2 months, but the amount of work I had to do in their rooms - including removing broken armchairs and piles of undies, fixing kicked-off locks and re-attaching smoke alarms - was ridiculous. One of them was poncing around France at the time, and I didn't have any of their numbers, so I couldn't even phone them up to shout "CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT" at them three million times each.
I'm also the only one the landlady can still contact, and while she always saw me as 'the good one', I have a feeling a bill for all their braindead, deliberate damages (one of 'em ripped out the entire burglar alarm system one night, because he hadn't bothered to learn the code and had set it off) is gonna flop through my letterbox any day now.
Lesson learned: never move in with anybody you aren't sleeping with.
It's comforting to know I'm not the only one who's had to do a Kim & Aggie Extreme. SA's experience sounds far worse.
(I probably sound like a 'clean freak', but I'm actually not that fussy at all. It was just that nothing ever got done at this place, except by Captain Mug here.)