What are the little things that drive you nuts about living with people? I can't stand hair in the tub drain. I don't leave mine behind for anybody else to deal with so I don't want to deal with anybody elses either. God, it just drives me nuts! How about you? :crazy:

Talking over the tv. Gosh that drives me crazy!!!:cuss::mad:

i hate living with my dad cause he hates me and always talks **** and whines about me dressing like a weirdo. i'll wear whatever the hell i want.

My roommate and I have been friends for many years and we get along great, but there's one little thing he does that irks the crap out of me.

We have one of those Brita water pitchers, and he never refills the darn thing. I hate it when open the fridge and it's empty, because you have to take the filter out an soak it in water for twenty minutes and put it back!
Like I have all the friggin free time in the world to play water pitcher monitor!

:wallbang :explode: :censored:

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I live with my mom most of the time, but my parents are divorced, so sometimes I stay with my dad...OMG. I DON"T like staying with him. :rolleyes: Everything he, my stepmom and my stepsis do all irritate me. They all leave their empty soda cans, dirty plates, whatever, lying around....and with my stepsis, she likes to take out a can of Coke sometimes (my dad has a stash of regular Coke exclusively for me), then she'll have like three sips and then not finish the rest. :wallbang IT'S A ****ING WASTE OF MY POP! :mad: There's more, but I'd rather not bring 'em up again AND get irritated all over again. :o

God Damn water pitcher! It's never filled!

NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!!!

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Originally posted by TJL
God Damn water pitcher! It's never filled!

NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!!!

;)

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Originally posted by sArAh123¼
i hate living with my dad cause he hates me and always talks **** and whines about me dressing like a weirdo. i'll wear whatever the hell i want.

Oh poor baby! Get over yourself you little brat!:rolleyes:

Originally posted by sArAh123¼
i hate living with my dad cause he hates me and always talks **** and whines about me dressing like a weirdo. i'll wear whatever the hell i want.

and I bet he pays for those clothes..He can whine all he wants. Not like hes stopping you from wearing them. I don't think any parent agrees with everything(or anything in my case) their kids do, esp the way they dress.

When someone doesn't turn the lights out when they leave the room. Irks me to no end!

Always being yelled at, I have the biggest migraine from my mom screaming at me about how crazy I am. I can't handle it, I cannot wait until I can move out of here. Next year will be the best, 18! Oh, the things my brother does really pisses me off. I use the downstairs bathroom and he has it raised really high because he's so damn tall, he also has his shower holder thing over the shower head and then he sets the water to extremly thin. I first take his towel off the shower (he hangs it over) and then I remove his steel shower holer thing that is hanging on the showerhead and then I have to set the water to thick.

AND HE PISSES ON THE TOILET SEAT WHEN IT IS DOWN. IT'S SO ****ING GROSS. I SWEAR. CAN HE NOT BEND OVER FOR ONE SECOND AND PUT IT UP? He also eats the food I have for myself, leaving me none. He's horrible. GROSS. He brings friends in at anytime of the night and my mom puts up with it, it'll be 4am and he'll come in with people he found at a bar/club. He has sex with new girls everynight, I'll be sitting on the computer in my pajamas and some girl will come in with him. It's awful.

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Originally posted by Kristina
AND HE PISSES ON THE TOILET SEAT WHEN IT IS DOWN. IT'S SO ****ING GROSS. I SWEAR. CAN HE NOT BEND OVER FOR ONE SECOND AND PUT IT UP? :lol: Thats a man thing!

I can't stand for anyone to mess with my belongings. :mad: My stuff is off-limits,to anyone.

Dont talk to me when Im engrossed in something, youre just gonna wind up repeating yourself anyways since I tune you out.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Oh poor baby! Get over yourself you little brat!:rolleyes:
I need to get over myself because i dont like the fact that my dad whines about what i wear? wow, what a spoiled brat i am. like tim said, he pays for them and then he talks about how much he hates it when i dress "like an ultra hardcore punk," as he puts it. it's flatout hypocritical. and its not the fact that he doesnt approve of what i wear that i dont like living with him, its just one thing that annoys me about living with him. if he wasnt a jackass about everything else i probably wouldnt have a problem with it.

Touch my stuff and DIE, literally, I cannot stand nosey people that go into my private domain and look at my personal belongings or take something of mine, without asking...NOBODY GOES IN MY ROOM..Not even Ronnie...

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Touch my stuff and DIE, literally, I cannot stand nosey people that go into my private domain and look at my personal belongings or take something of mine, without asking...NOBODY GOES IN MY ROOM..Not even Ronnie...

That's exactly how I feel! :nod:

When I have a problem and try to discuss it,
my parents always yell at me,''You such a baby!''
''Get over it!''or they just ignore me and then
they get mad after I start yelling back,I sometimes
get so angry that I start disrespecting others for no reason.

Originally posted by JoCool
When I have a problem and try to discuss it,
my parents always yell at me,''You such a baby!''
''Get over it!''or they just ignore me and then
they get mad after I start yelling back,I sometimes
get so angry that I start disrespecting others for no reason.
omg my dads the same way. when i think something is unfair and i try to discuss it with him, he starts yelling at me and accuses me of starting a fight. dumbass, theres a difference between "i think it's johnny's turn to do the dishes" and "OMG HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME DO THE DISHES WHEN ITS NOT MY TURN YOU STUPID ******* I HATE YOU SO GO TO HELL! :mad:"

Originally posted by TJL
God Damn water pitcher! It's never filled!

NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!!!

;)


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i need my space and i need alone time. as soon as someone comes in my house and refuses to leave me alone i get mad.

alsoo...wen they take over my stuff and dont even let me use it!!!! :mad:

What do they do that doesn't annoy me?! Jesus.. ugh.

I live by myself but when people come over I hate it when they think they can just light up a cigarette w/o asking when they know that I don't smoke and then they have the nerve to ask where the ashtrays are. Also I never wear shoes in the house because I want my floors to stay clean and when I ask company to please remove their shoes at the door, they sometimes look at me like I'm a wierdo or something.
I hated living at home with my mother. She was always nitpicking about everything and would come into my room w/o knocking and go through my stuff when I wasn't home and take money out of my drawer whenever she needed it.

Not putting pool toys away in the summer, I have a nephew who's guilty of that. He'll leave them lying around the pool. He's old enough to know better and has been told repeatedly to put things away. That's annoying to me.

Originally posted by bandito
When someone doesn't turn the lights out when they leave the room. Irks me to no end!


Me too!!! Im walking around the house cutting off the lights in the bedroom and bathroom. My children are old enough to know better but they still do it. When they get grown I'm going to go over their house and cut on every light in the house and walk out!!

I've lived with several different roommates in the past, and the thing that irritated me the most was people who were too neat!
They would freak out if a dish was left in the sink, or some stupid thing, or if you accidentally left some of your items in "their" space. I am not a neat freak (I guess that's obvious!) and I just don't understand that house-keeping mindset (even though my mom is sort of that way. My sister shares my casual houskeeping philosophy!)

I've had three guy roommates, and two of them were very easy to live with - their housekeeping methods were similar to mine. The third was the worst neat freak (male or female) I've ever seen in my life!:lol: Drove me nuts!! I could NEVER be married to someone like that!

My sister is a freaking scumbag. She leaves a trail wherever she goes, whether it's clothes, food, wrappers...anything. She NEVER picks up after herself and it drives me and my mom crazy.

When my dad lived with us all he would do was complain (which my sister does too) and yell. So that was pretty annoying, but I havn't lived with him since I was like 7. He's a nice person...I mean, he means well...but he's just sooo annoying to be around a lot of the time. :wallbang

Originally posted by Mijada
I never wear shoes in the house because I want my floors to stay clean and when I ask company to please remove their shoes at the door, they sometimes look at me like I'm a wierdo or something.

If I was one of your guests, I'd be highly offended. A gracious host tries to provide a welcoming, relaxed environment and strives to make their guests feel at ease. Requiring them to remove their shoes is off-putting and makes them feel like an intruder.

Most people expect that they'll have to clean up before guests arrive AND after they leave. If you invite people to your house for dinner, do you also ask them to bring their own dishes because you don't want yours to get dirty?

now take it from these two, if you want to have a healthy, stable relationship, you have to stick together!!!

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When my sisters, brother, mom or dad talk well a movie/ tv.

Originally posted by TVgen62
If I was one of your guests, I'd be highly offended. A gracious host tries to provide a welcoming, relaxed environment and strives to make their guests feel at ease. Requiring them to remove their shoes is off-putting and makes them feel like an intruder.

Most people expect that they'll have to clean up before guests arrive AND after they leave. If you invite people to your house for dinner, do you also ask them to bring their own dishes because you don't want yours to get dirty?

Would you rather I came to your house with my shoes totally covered in mud, and then tracked mud all over your house?

I've had many people that asked me to do that and I respected their wishes.

Originally posted by tanquant
Me too!!! Im walking around the house cutting off the lights in the bedroom and bathroom. My children are old enough to know better but they still do it. When they get grown I'm going to go over their house and cut on every light in the house and walk out!!

OMG. That's another thing that REALLY annoys me. Whenever I'm staying with my dad, he ALWAYS tells me to remember to turn off ALL the lights when I go to bed -- which I do. The place he lives in is a four-leve split house, so if you were standing on the 1st floor, you could see both the upstairs and downstairs from where you were standing. So, if you were to stand on the upstairs floor and look down, you could see the kitchen from where you were standing. Anyway, I turn off ALL the lights, BUT leave on a little wee light that's above the sink, so that the other people can see where they're going when they first wake up. Then, when I wake up, ALL THE FREAKING LIGHTS ARE ON AND NOBODY IS HOME. Sheesh. Is it SO much work to TURN OFF ALL THE LIGHITS before you leave?! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!
Would you rather I came to your house with my shoes totally covered in mud, and then tracked mud all over your house?

I've had many people that asked me to do that and I respected their wishes.

That's how I feel exactly. I'm glad somebody understands. I don't want people walking over my hardwood floors and nice carpeting that I paid a small fortune for when God only knows what's on the bottom of their shoes. I always remove my shoes when I go visiting whether I'm asked to of not.

Originally posted by Mijada
That's how I feel exactly. I'm glad somebody understands. I don't want people walking over my hardwood floors and nice carpeting that I paid a small fortune for when God only knows what's on the bottom of their shoes. I always remove my shoes when I go visiting whether I'm asked to of not.

That's what we have at my dad's -- hardwood floors. I ALWAYS take off my shoes when I come in (especially in the winter time), due to the fact I don't want to track snow all over the house. Plus, it's not fun walking into puddles of water on the floor. :o

Originally posted by TVgen62
If I was one of your guests, I'd be highly offended. A gracious host tries to provide a welcoming, relaxed environment and strives to make their guests feel at ease.

Most people expect that they'll have to clean up before guests arrive AND after they leave. If you invite people to your house for dinner, do you also ask them to bring their own dishes because you don't want yours to get dirty?


Does this mean I should let people smoke in my house too? to make them feel more at ease.
And No I don't make people bring their own dishes. Dishes are meant to get dirty and they can be cleaned up easily. You really can't compare the two.

My roommate can be very noisy when he comes home late at night, and since I'm a light sleeper and my bedroom is right next to the door and kitchen, it's a pretty good bet that he'll wake me up.

Originally posted by Mijada
Does this mean I should let people smoke in my house too? to make them feel more at ease.

You can't compare smoking to wearing shoes because:

1.) Generally speaking, most people wear shoes as part of their attire when they leave the house. (Statistically, most people do not smoke.)

2.) One's wearing of shoes is not a health or fire hazard. (Smoking is.) In fact, not wearing shoes, at least in certain public areas, is considered a health issue. Restaurants, for example, won't let you in if you're not wearing shoes.

Originally posted by Mijada
And No I don't make people bring their own dishes. Dishes are meant to get dirty and they can be cleaned up easily. You really can't compare the two.

Of course dishes are meant to get dirty! That's why I mentioned it! (I was using sarcasm to make a point.) And someone figured out that floors get dirty too, which is why we have vacuum cleaners and a whole host of floor cleaning products. Have you considered buying a sturdy doormat so people can wipe the bottoms of their shoes before entering?

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!
Would you rather I came to your house with my shoes totally covered in mud, and then tracked mud all over your house?

I've had many people that asked me to do that and I respected their wishes.

There are a couple things wrong with your example:

1.) I have a doormat and would suggest that you use it. (Which is what you should've done in the first place.)

2.) Are you're shoes always covered in mud? You're using an extreme example and comparing it to ordinary, everyday use. (If my shoes were "covered in mud", I'd clean them first or ask if you had something I could use to clean them. If that failed, THEN I'd take off my shoes.)

Originally posted by TVgen62
There are a couple things wrong with your example:

1.) I have a doormat and would suggest that you use it. (Which is what you should've done in the first place.)

2.) Are you're shoes always covered in mud? You're using an extreme example and comparing it to ordinary, everyday use. (If my shoes were "covered in mud", I'd clean them first or ask if you had something I could use to clean them. If that failed, THEN I'd take off my shoes.)

:p well, I was just saying.

If I absolutely have to stop at somebody's house really quickly for a few minutes, I leave my shoes on. But I always take off my shoes when I'm at somebody's house - It's not my house, it's theirs and a lot of the time, they ask me to take my shoes off so I do anyway. It's a little thing called respect. :D

Good God people, you're all arguing over shoes! :lol:

Thought I'd share my worst experience in living with other people. (Disclaimer: I don't mean to offend any Buddhists who may post on these boards- I would dislike any type of loud chanting/prayer to which I am subjected within a small space!)

Several years ago, I was going to share an apartment with a friend, but then he decided (or rather his mom decided) that he was not ready for it, so I was scrambling at the last minute to find a roommate for this apartment I was all set to move into. I placed an ad in the paper, and an older lady answered it. I talked with her over the phone for quite a while, then met her in person. She seemed normal enough and as no one else had replied and I could not afford $700/mo. rent by myself, I decided I'd take her as a roomate. Right before we moved in, she told me she was a Buddhist (she was American, she had apparently converted) but that she practiced her religion in her bedroom and I wouldn't be bothered by it. I said, "fine" - I had not previously known any Buddhists and it didn't really matter to me at that point what religion she was. Well, the morning after we moved in, I was awakened at 6:00 a.m. by a sort of moaning sound. At first I didn't know what it was, and then I realized it was her chanting her prayers. As our bedrooms were back-to-back, the sound came right through the wall. It was very loud, and I tried to block out this ungodly sound, but to no avail. I finally had to resort to earplugs, but even those did not block out the entire sound. What was worse, at that time I had a job where I was on call, so if I put the earplugs in too tightly, I couldn't hear my phone ring, and then I would miss the call. After six months of this torture, I had had enough - (she had other issues also - suffice it to say it was like living with your mom!) so I let her take over the lease and told her I was moving out.

Lesson learned - find out as much as you can about your potential roommate. Call all references!! And - most important - trust your gut instincts!:)

I would say touching MY STUFF and interupting stuff I was watching and thats what I picked on za poll..........