I hear my friends with children complain constantly about how messy their kids are. I don't have kids, but I get it. I was a messy little thing as a child (apologies to my parents). But have they EVER been the adult of the house in a 2 bedroom apartment with 2 other 20 somthings And a teenaged adult(18-19). Where I grew up probably not. Before I get started with my rant I want to point out my fiancee is one of the other 20 something I live with, she helps me just as much as I clean. She's frustrated as well.
Here's what it looks like:
Instead of finding sippy cups everywhere you find glass cups (broken and not, with molded milk in the bottom if you took the weekend off with your fiancee.) Oh and for some reason still sippy cups?!?! (None of us have children)
These assholes have to eat and if you're not doing it for them chances are you will find every single goddamn mother fucking pot &pan dirty. But you won't find it until after working an 8 hour shift and had to skip lunch so you could afford the electric bill because these "adults" will leave every light on in the fucking apartment. Then go drinking at the bar down the street.
Instead of finding toys laying all over the house you will find lighters, cigarettes, beer bottles, whiskey bottles, keys, the wallet someone lost when we first moved in, someone's ex's clothing of some sort and of course (depending on your roomates) possibly drugs of some sort (not mine in particular but I've heard horror stories)
The garbage absolutely positively will over fill unless you're the one to take it out. (Really it's not even a short walk from our apartment to the garbage.
Then when you finally ask them to do their own goddamn dishes they will throw a fit about how tired they are because it's their first day off in four days and to quit hitching so much.
Well news flash, I worked 6 days in a row and did 2 loads of your goddamn dishes. Cleaned up the living room I never get to use because you're always playing fucking videogames in there. Leaving chip bags, soda cans and of course everything else you fucking own in there claiming your 'territory' even though you got the master bedroom. It took me 3 hours to clean up everything you assholes have left for someone else to do. Why did I do it? Because we have someone coming to fix the fucking garbage disposal that I had to place the work order for.
See the difference between your children being messy and 2 adult children being messy is this.
1. Your kids are still learning, you can teach them how to clean up a mess.
2. Your kids are still cute so you don't want to kill them.
3. Kids for the most part (in my experience anyway) want to help. They want to be good they still have a lot of energy and positivity. They just don't want to miss out on fun so (maybe try to make cleaning fun?)
4. The adult children are adults and are 100% capable of cleaning up after themselves, they just won't because they are lazy. I understand not everyone wants to clean all the time. Trust me I get it. But still we decide to clean once it gets to a certain point. They just simply don't.
5. You have control over your kids, I don't have control over my roommates. I imagine they would look at me and laugh if I tried to ground them.
I'm not really sure where I'm going with this post I just really needed to vent it's been almost a year of this shit but it's almost over now (thank god).
Thank you of you've made it this far. I hope you are not experiencing a similar situation. Because it's annoying as all hell. If there is a moral to the story what do you think it is? I would love to hear some people's opinions or even advice. Thank you!
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