Becks Home Furniture

I was good friends with a girl since about Junior year of high school. a couple of years after high school, my boyfriend and I moved in with her after living alone. I had always kept my house spotless, but walked into this particular situation knowing that it would be silly to put those expectations on someone else. We had a dog and a cat (both house and litter trained) and she had a dog and two long-haired-rarely bathed cats. One of her cats wasn't fixed and bled in random places, the other cat liked to pee lots of items that weren't the litter box (due to getting used to her not changing the box as frequently), and the dog got on furnitures (willing to forgive that)....except for the fact that she rarely bathed her dog. Her apts. never looked as bad as ours ended up, so all of this was a complete surprise to me. We were such good friends that we could always finish each others sentences, came to each other crying, etc....so you would think that we had a rather good level of understanding. It was about a month into living with her and I was cleaning every day on my own accord (not bitter, it's just what I do)....She decided that we should have a huge party and I was down.....though after her cats had destroyed my rugs with blood and urine, and her dog made our personal furniture smell awful.....on top of the tumbleweeds of cat hair blowing all over the house/kitchen/meals, I told her that a party was fine, but that we needed to clean up the house first. She first told me that I was insane and secondly said that I was being rude about how she did things. I told her that it was rude to invite people over to a dirty house and that once we decided to live together we had indirectly agreed to compromise. I was never looking for a chore wheel because I've always been about cleaning up my own messes and or directly asking others to do the same. We got into a bit of a spat once I told her that her peeing cat had made our basement smell so unbearable that previous guests had openly asked or complained. She told me that I was exhausting her, and slammed the door in my face. I felt like I'd done or said something wrong, or that my delivery wasn't friendly enough, so I wrote her a three page note explaining where I was coming from and apologising for hurting her feelings. I also asked that we sit down and have a conversation later. The next day she acted as if everything was ok, didn't want to talk, and I found my note in her recycling bin. It hurt that we could be so open before and when it came to something more personal involving a space we both shared...it meant nothing. We talked a few more times and eventually got a new roommate (who also complained about the mess but was too passive to say anything directly to her). She continued to be unclean and uncompromising for the remainder of our two year lease. I stopped busting my ass JUST to keep the amonia smell down and the hair out of food during the last half of our two years. I just couldn't take it. in addition she had no respect for anyone's time. I work 5 days a week and would come home and want to relax. She had a different schedule than I did and happened to be off one day and wanted me to walk to the post office with her. I told her "no" politely, and turned my back to fill up a glass of water and she screamed "FINE!!!" and stamped her feet and walked away. She was the type of roommate that NEVER EVER wanted to be alone. She wanted everyone in the house to be a "sibling" at her beck and call. It wasn't that I never wanted to do anything with her...I just wanted to do my own thing, regardless if she had something to do. I tried to have many conversations with her throughout our time together, but eventually I realized that if I wasn't agreeing with her 100%, she'd lash out at me and tell me that I was talking down to her. Eventually I just distanced myself from her, while still being civil. She didn't seem to care when I told her that it hurt my feelings that we couldn't compromise on pretty simple things (like living space), even if we got defensive about it initially and then came back to the drawing board. It was her way or the highway. On the day we moved out I tried to clean the best I could as not to inquire fees...and I FOUND OUT THAT WE HAD RATS DUE TO THE STATE OF THE PLACE!! She didn't care. I didn't want to talk to her anymore and she pretty much gathered as much from all of the times I brought up her inconsiderations and how they made me feel, but disregarded all of them. I was done being friends with her and told a couple mutual friends when they asked why, that it was due to her inconsideration as a friend and roommate...which got back to her....at which she told me that I was passive aggressive for telling others that she was rude AND NEVER TELLING HER!!!!! WHAT????!?!?! after all of the approaches, was I wrong?

You weren't wrong and were very patient and tolerant with her. Some people only show their true colours when they are living with you. You found this out with her and must have been shocked at her Jekyll and Hyde personality.

It's best to avoid her as she will only bring you down, she is immature and doesn't even deserve you as a friend. Just be glad you got away from her, before you ended up smothering her with your ruined rug!

Have a great new year and I hope you never have to experience such behaviour again.

2010-12-27 10:59:46 by Jadey-jade jade

A TV pundit suffers from a sudden blackout, causing the team to discuss the finer points of Glenn Beck's douchebaggery. House nails Wilson&#39 ...

Banner day today for news stories that are a sign of the times.

#1. Race is on for the Texas governor election. Republican in trouble because he refuses to answer questions about rising unemployment during his term. Asked about it on live radio, he said, "It's true, we've lost 270,000 jobs but the rate has slowed." But the commentator slams him by pointing out that there were actually 350,000 jobs lost on the private sector, while 80,000 NEW ones were created -- guess where? IN TEXAS GOVERNMENT!!! Not exactly what you'd call your basic anti-big-government scenario.

Eerie was the sidelight about the 'Tea Party Independent' candidate who, according to the commentary, lost her points and position when she appeared on the Glenn Beck radio show and was asked about US Government complicity in the events of 9/11. She said, "There's a lot of evidence, but I think it is premature to say it is sure." Guess what. Her viewpoint was TOO MODERATE! Heresy!
OFF WITH HER HEAD!

Now, you'd think that double-barreled fiasco would for sure be the top hypocrite story of the day. But that would be ignoring Florida -- ALWAYS a mistake when duplicity is the subject.

#2: It turns out that there's a Florida legal-eagle guy named Freeman who, after being named business "Man of the Year" in 2005 became, with recent events, the Golden Boy of choice to clean up finance; being appointed as Receiver by the courts when all the bankruptcies, foreclosures and defaults began to pile sky-high. He's the one who steps in to stop the bleeding, taking possession of what is left and liquidates it so that the poor folks who have been scammed and lost their homes or life savings or whatever it is get at least something back after the crooks like Bernie Madoff are caught, or corporations go under leaving nothing but office furniture and shredded paper behind.

Well hang onto your hat. Sir Galahad Freeman was indicted today in Miami for like a bazillion counts of larceny, fraud, and grand theft. Turns out he was skimming all along , and took millions of dollars for himself. Actually stealing from the people who had already been stolen from! You have to admire the chutzpah, I guess. Call it "Equity Recycling".

#3: Meanwhile, I heard yet another one of those chummy TV advertisements in the new vein from some investment company or other -- all about "We know how it is. We look after you like family in these tough times", and so on. But when the name-hook came at the end, I almost fell out of my chair. No, you'll never guess. AIG.

It's the old riddle:

Q: Why do people who live next to Niagara Falls have ears that stick out and a flat forehead?

A: Because every morning they wake up and say, "What's that noise?" *hands push ears out*, and then "Oh! The FALLS!" *slaps forehead*.

You're too much for me, man; wouldn't even attempt to post a meaningful response - would take way too much time and energy.

Just wanted to let you know that I greatly admire your writing skills: most impressive. Just wondering if you're a professional Journalist?

Take care,

Alberich

2010-02-24 19:53:50 by titou

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