Comments:

Steph - 2006-03-13 15:09:33
Well, I'm glad the docs didn't think you were dying, although the notion that one should be puking for more than a week before seeking medical attention worries me. Go get a real doc! The stories I've heard about medicenters are not encouraging. Bitter melons are also putrid and disgusting and i never eat that soup. Cleansing my palate with turpentine would probably be more fun.
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matt - 2006-03-13 19:13:16
With medical advice like that, it's no wonder lawyers are busy these days.... Glad you're feeling better. I had roommates who once moved my dirty dishes out of the kitchen to outside my bedroom door. Sent quite the message. (although mine hadn't been there overnight, and they needed room for their own dirty dishes to sit overnight). Maybe buy a "dirty dishes" rubber garbage can with lid to keep in the kitchen?
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Anne - 2006-03-13 19:47:56
The consensus was to make everyone who leaves crap lying around pay $2 into a beer fund. My problems with this: a). Who the heck is going to monitor whether 5 people are paying up? We usually can't even tell whose stuff it is! and b). Not much incentive to quit it, if they're topping up the beer fund! Bah. Silly roommates.
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Steph - 2006-03-13 22:27:15
I like the piling of the dirty dishes outside one's room. Change that to piling dirty dishes INSIDE one's room (and thus attracting the mice right out of the kitchen) and I think you've got a plan.
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Lisa - 2006-03-14 01:02:16
I put a slobby roommates dirty dish that had been sitting on the counter for a few days, on his pillow. I enjoyed it immensely. Also humiliated him into cleaning the bathroom by walking past him every few minutes and asking when he was going to clean it while his sister was over. He probably was swearing at me under his breath, but both tactics worked. Never surrender.
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Will - 2006-03-14 17:25:04
Man, I'm glad my roommates only ever resorted raising my rent when I left my dishes for more than ten minutes. I gotta say, the best solution is to have an equally slobby roommate!
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Anne - 2006-03-14 17:31:51
Lisa: you are the queen of passive-aggressive roommate management. I should take lessons.
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Anne - 2006-03-14 17:35:17
I would also like to point out that WE HAVE A DISHWASHER! It's not as if they have to wash the dishes by hand, they merely have to scrape the food out and stick 'em in the dishwasher! Oh well, we will see how the dishes/mouse interaction plays out before I touch any of those disgusting pans to move them around the house.
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matt - 2006-03-15 00:30:42
Oh, that's just fucked up. You have a dishwasher? Open season, let loose the floodgates, and ridicule these nimrods until they cry. I know you can do it.
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matt - 2006-03-15 00:32:25
Sudden burst of inspiration - what if you "seeded" mice in the offenders' rooms? I think they're pretty cheap at pet stores (i.e. as snake food).
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Anne - 2006-03-16 10:41:01
Thanks for the idea, but... the last thing we need is IMPORTED mice living in the house as well!
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Will - 2006-03-16 18:37:20
I have a semi tame pig that you could let loose on your roommates. He's pretty much guaranteed to irritate them into doing anything to get rid of him.
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