h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Try to remember that not only are your flatmates annoying you with their completely unreasonable attitudes towards 'sharing' other people's food, milk and expensive shower products, their failure to understand what constitutes 'normal hours' for playing jungle music, and their complete incomprehension of how and when to wash up. BUT YOU ARE ANNOYING THEM TOO.

You too are a flatmate. And as you sit in the pub bitching to all your friends (until they make an excuse and leave), your flatmates are sitting in the living room amassing a huge collection of empty beer cans and overflowing ashtrays, bitching about you. Or vice versa. Or something.

If you can all tell each other about problems BEFORE you are really annoyed (and will lose your temper), you should be able to keep laughing until you can avoid your own place.

Alternatively, follow Demon D's advice and kill them.

(The management accept no responsibility etc etc).

that's AFFORD your own place.

doh!

Kill them? Good plan, now why didn't I think of that earlier.

...And you wonder why I plan to move out next year?!

Things I recommend:
1.) Don't leave all the toilet paper & bin bag buying to one person, and then complain bitterly when you've run out. Similarly, when that person buys a new pack of toilet roll for communal use, don't take all the rolls in the bag out of the toilet and keep them in your room.
2.) Keep your housemate informed of what you are doing. Don't go off to Paris for the weekend, for example, without letting him know.
3.) Don't stop your housemate from using the lounge/dining room by moving a sofa in front of the door.
4.) Don't, without warning, take up the entire floor of the dining room with a scalextrix track and then complain when it's moved so that your housemate can get to the table.
5.) Don't, when you only have 20p's worth of electricity to last 2 days, turn on 2 computers, stereo and television and blast them all at full volume when your housemate advises you that "in an hour the power will run out, and that we won't have any lighting, heating, power to cook, the freezer will defrost ruining all our food, so could you kindly keep electricity usage to vital use only?!?".
6.) Don't spend a year promising reasonable internet access and then deny it to your friend by not having the courage to tell your friend yourself, but getting an innocent third party to, unfairly, do your dirty work for you.
7.) Don't refuse to pay the TV licence fee, claiming "..But I only own a TV, Video and DVD player" when you know that it's only going to be the price of a DVD and will allow you legal access to 70,080 hours worth of viewing, which is better value than any DVD I've ever seen.
8.) Don't refuse to do the washing up and then complain that other people wash up to a standard less than you like.
9.) Don't take up all the washing line with all your clothes when they could be arranged to only take up 1/3rd of it.

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See now I really want to know if you are the person in your house who does these things, or are they done to you???

Following your advice of:
"If you can all tell each other about problems BEFORE you are really annoyed (and will lose your temper), you should be able to
keep laughing until you can avoid/afford your own place."

I've written down the things which pester me before they have made me lose my temper. (The advantage of having one of my flatmates in this thread is that he gets to read all of this - for better or worse - and I get to see his reaction (although admittedly most of these were done by a third party who also shares the house). On second thoughts - ) Things I suspect I do that annoy my housemates:

1.) Run away screaming if anyone mentions the dreaded P food.
2.) My hair (head) gets everywhere, it seems, no matter how often I clean the bath, hoover etc. there's always my hair about.
3.) I only wash up one bowl full at a time if no-one helps me to dry, or if I do wash up everything on my own, I try and do it as quickly as possible.
4.) I never have enough money to pay all the bills in one go, but have to borrow money and save up to repay them.

Anything else I'm sure Peregrin will let us know about.

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