So I got completely tweaked this morning about the practices of a certain guest who stayed in my apartment recently. The stuff that ticked me off?
The caps on the soda bottles in the fridge were not tightened sufficiently. I now have two bottles of flat Coke.
I opened the peanut butter jar and found that said guest had not patiently peeled off the foil safety wrapping, but instead had jammed a spoon through it and failed to remove it completely.
The toilet paper is installed the wrong way (out the bottom, as opposed to over the top).
There’s no butter in the butter server, but there is a half a stick of butter, covered with toast particles, sitting on the top shelf of the fridge on top of its wrapper.
Hell, I’m getting angry for you just thinking about these things.
I’m going to drive my SO’s kids to murder me in my sleep if I don’t learn to get out of my rut. We have the lecture about putting things back where and the way they found them every day.
(I wonder if all Dopers are “over the top” people…)
Absolutely! These things are all grounds for murder. Get a nice anal jury and you’d get off scot-free.
The PB jar foil thing would have made me scream.
Re: the TP issue. Yes, of course the “right” way is over the top, but with cats, I have to put it on “backwards” so they don’t unwind it all over the bathroom.
[sup]Yes, I am rather anal.[/sup]
Definately not. Ruining perfectly good coke is reason for murder.
Yes, this is pretty anal, but I know the feeling.
Only COMPLETE IDIOTS install the toilet paper the wrong way (out the bottom), unless they have a REALLY GOOD excuse (such as having havoc-wreaking cats).
Toast particles in the butter is possibly an even better excuse for murder than the ruined coke.
What do you people think about other people putting your CD’s in the wrong case, and sometimes cramming more than one CD in a single case? (What I think? You guessed it - MURDER!)
You’re not that anal except for the bog roll. I think your guest went beyond the call of duty by bothering to put it in the dispenser at all. My house guests would either:
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[li] leave the empty roll in the dispenser, break out a new roll and leave it sitting on the cistern, or[/li][li] not bother to wipe their arse.[/li][/list]
Oh, I’m glad somebody pointed this one out. When my son was a toddler, he was over at my mom’s house. After leaving him to his own devices for about five seconds (always a bad idea), she went into the bathroom and found that he had teamed up with my mom’s cairn terrier. The terrier was standing on her hind feet, pawing at the toilet paper roll like she was running up the wall. The toilet paper was coming off the roll in heaps, which my son was obligingly stuffing into the toilet because, after all, that’s where it’s supposed to go…
IANA, but…
do I always have to be the one to fill the ice cube trays?
We are not Anal. We just like things the way they should be. Check out this thread for more about the CDs and other irritations. This is the only thread I’ve ever bookmarked.
Lids? Gah, don’t get me started on lids. My pet (former, love her like a sister) roomate peeve would be actual lid application. Toothpaste, jelly jar, cookie tin…none were safe, all would be ransacked and then cast aside unsealed and naked. Or at best, the lid would be deleeecately balanced on top, without engaging the threads at all so I can pick up the jelly for a late night pb & j and promptly fling the lid under the fridge with wild abandon.
I don’t think it’s anal to be annoyed by that sort of thing. I think it’s just polite to put things back the way you found them in someone else’s house…
Are you anal? My only comment is that people tend to forget, that if they’re going to accept “anal retentive” as a valid trait, then anyone who isn’t must be “anal expulsive”.
Kinda makes it seem like a compliment to me
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My pet peeve is people making a snack and then putting everything on the wrong shelves in the fridge.
There’s a REASON the milk, eggs, cheese and butter are all on one shelf.
They naturally belong together, and it’s just wrong to scatter them all over the fridge. And the condiment are happy in their fridge door ghetto and tend to get lost when released to roam the fridge at at will.
I think I’d be pissed at all of those things. Especially the peanut butter thing… what the fuck??
Something I’d like to mention here… my uncle thought I was INSANE for being upset by a habit my cousins had when brushing their teeth: they would remove the toothpaste cap, PUT IT IN THEIR MOUTH, apply toothpaste to brush, then fish the cap out of their mouth (where they had been rolling it around on their tongue and sucking on it) and screw it back on.
