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The worst things about living with housemates

Dirty dishes, empty loo roll, passive-aggressive notes… Sound familiar?

Aug 15th 2013, 12:50 PM 28,656 Views 70 Comments

SHARING A HOUSE can be a joyful, uplifting, life-affirming experience.

Or it can be a long, bitter, drawn-out war of attrition. These are the signs of the latter:

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The worst things about living with housemates

Dirty dishes, empty loo roll, passive-aggressive notes… Sound familiar?

This sight.

Being afraid to walk the floors in bare feet.

Reaching ‘professional’ level at Bin Jenga.

Food theft.

And its opposite: extravagant food-security measures.

Having to get adults out of bed.

The one person who leaves the bathroom looking like this.

AAAAAARGH. THIS.

You know them by the trail of droppings.

This situation.

Lying awake listening to people… doing things.

Late-night ‘cooking’.

Passive-aggressive notes.

Which sometimes descend into all-out ‘note wars’.

But here’s the thing: they’re your friends, so you can take revenge!