# July is the longest month for mini-rants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957 "2015-07-01T15:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/101 "2015-07-07T14:09:04Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I’m actually really, really pissed off right now, because I just learned about a series of episodes when the housemate’s son molested his much-younger sister. Yes, I kicked the son out six months ago, but he’d have never moved into my house, with my three young daughters, had I known then what I know now. > [@kayT](#): > > The only part of this that makes no sense, **Lacunae Matata** , is that you are waiting for one more offensive remark. I think NOW is the time to clean house, sweeping the “housemate” and family to the curb. “Housemate, upon reflection you moved a known sex offender and child molestor into my daughters house, and called my daughters ugly. GTFO.” > [@kiz](#): > > Oh, and did I mention that the female roommate has no idea if she’ll be hired to teach anywhere come September? And if she doesn’t get a job there’s no way her husband can carry the rent by himself? My friends keep telling me to change our locks. Yeah, the good news is they’r going. But definitely get their keys back, roll up the welcome mat, and if you don’t change the locks, at least add a cheap new one to the door so you don’t come home to any surprise houseguests. Getting angry on some of your behalfs here! ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/102 "2015-07-07T14:31:13Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Yeah, the good news is they’r going. But definitely get their keys back, roll up the welcome mat, and if you don’t change the locks, at least add a cheap new one to the door so you don’t come home to any surprise houseguests. Female housemate lost the key to our side door months ago. Her husband has the other key. She lucks out, though, because my husband works from home so he can let her in. Otherwise she’d either have to hunt down her husband at his work for the key or wait for somebody else to come home. Ever since we told her that no, she cannot take over the spare bedroom as HER sewing room (it’s earmarked to be my future office/craft space as soon as hubby moves the rest of his crap out of it), she’s been on a “can’t wait to get out of this shithole” kick. Well, sweetie, you may call it a shithole but it’s roof over your otherwise homeless head. Funny how you don’t think of it that way, isn’t it? (you can tell I’m on a roll, can’t you?) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/103 "2015-07-07T14:32:56Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Sweetie, you’ve BEEN done. For a while. You know with the certainty of the next sunrise that there \*will \*be a next {insert offence here} so why wait? > > I’m sorry for the Spare Girl, and I know you are too, but you’ve got to look out for your own family. Your Housemate is a known protector of child molestors (right? did I interpret your comment about her son’s molestation of his own sisters correctly?) and you have little children. Your Tony is injured, healing but hurt, and you’re spread so thin that you’re diluting your ability to care for the ones you love. (Spoiler alert: Housemate is not one of them. She does not love you.) > > Bless your heart for trying to right by so many people at once, but this situation has spun completely out of control. It’s time for you and Tony to find an exit strategy, pronto. This. So much this. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/104 "2015-07-07T14:45:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > We have friends/family make use of our spare bedroom every so often. I’m always a little surprised when they leave and I see they’ve made the bed, straightened up, tidied the bathroom, hung towels to dry, etc. > > In similar situations I seem to remember leaving things a mess, assuming my hosts would be washing the sheets. ☹ I ask, since it’s usually family. Most of us also don’t have a problem with using a bed that was used by a relative two weeks ago, but some do. Since we know who the “used bedsheet cooties” people are, they always get a just-washed bed. That one time Bro and SiL came to my house and brought their own bedsheets “so I didn’t have to bother”, thank Og I wasn’t in the house - when he mentioned it later, I gave him an “I’m not screaming because your children are nearby” rant that seems to have raised welts. That was certainly the intent, I keep my beds made all the time because they’re _intended_ for guests, not so they look pretty (most of them don’t look particularly pretty anyway). Some selections: “Dafuq, my bedsheets not good enough now? Did I raise you to be such an imbecile that you bring your own to a house that’s already got made beds? What, as if packing for a family of four didn’t include enough stuff? Do you also bring your own to hotels?” **Lacunae** , I do hope the best for the Spare Girl. But I can’t say the same about her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/105 "2015-07-07T14:47:39Z")
Every thought that my coworker has comes out of her mouth immediately. I am forced to shut my door just out of desperation. I don’t want to be antisocial. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/106 "2015-07-07T15:08:55Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Tony’s nice streak has run out. I told him what the housemate said when I asked why she hadn’t told us about her son’s molestation: “Your daughters aren’t as pretty as mine.” Because she’s crazier than her son! (Also, her daughter is perfectly cute. And mine are beautiful. And I don’t give a shite what her justifications are - I’m armed to the teeth, and will kill someone if he hurts my little girls. Tony will gut-shoot that person though, to make sure they suffer.) Seriously?! > > Also, the housemate seems to think that she will be using Boy 2.0’s truck while hers is on the disabled list. No. If you can’t be bothered to maintain your own vehicle, you aren’t using the Boy’s truck. I get that yours is “nice,” and his is just an old $900 pickup, but if you can’t be bothered to maintain your own “nice” vehicle, you sure as hell aren’t welcome to borrow his poor little truck. Because I said so, and I don’t have to offer you any justification. > > On the bright side, if there can be said to be one in this horrible situation - \*\*Tony agrees. We’re done. Next offensive remark means that the housemate needs to find a different place to be. \*\*We’ve had enough with folks who can’t be bothered to respect our home, to clean up after themselves, to even take care of their own stuff that they can’t afford to repair or replace if they don’t maintain it. I’m not willing to live with the drama, I’m not willing to take the chance that someone accuses my husband or son of something untoward, etc. Sounds like a double probation. Is it secret, or have you told her about it? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/107 "2015-07-07T15:44:17Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Start replying with messages that will make her emailers get in touch with her, and get her email address corrected. Such as: _snipped, on account of they don’t address the issue. Feel free to use them anyway, if only for your own amusement._ ^^^This, though. The people sending the emails probably have snail-mail information for her, and are using email in an attempt to save on postage costs (and if they don’t, you can now provide it to them :D). Explain to them that they’re going to have eat the postage until she provides a good email address, if they care to continue corresponding with her. > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Or how about, you must send these messages care of her bankruptcy lawyer? 😕 Do some of the emails suggest that she’s likely to have one? :eek::eek: > [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > If you want to be nice, send her a notice that, effective after x days, you will no longer accept email for her, and will be returning it with spoofed answers. > [@](#): > > Well, I _would_ except that her REAL email is still unknown. :mad: THAT’S what you tell her in the snail-mail letter you send: \*"Dear Flake-who’s-using-my-email-address: I am in receipt of emails, which I presume are intended for you, from\_[list of correspondents]. This is a courtesy notification that I have informed these correspondents that the email address they have on file for you is incorrect. I have also ensured that they are provided with your physical address, which I gleaned from the enclosed email, printed out for the purpose of substantiating the statement at the beginning of this letter. Please be so kind as to determine what your actual email address is, contact ALL of your correspondents, and ensure that they have a reliable means of communicating with you in future. As a further courtesy, if you will send me an email requesting it within one week of receiving this letter, I will be happy to forward the mis-routed emails to the address your email comes from. After that, any of your emails I receive will be discarded without notification to anyone. Very Truly Yours [the Actual Holder of the email account you’ve been passing around]"\* I recognize that the following the suggestion above would involve significant effort on your part, **StarvinButStrong** , so feel free to use the above as a template (also, send it _return receipt requested_, to make sure she got it). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/108 "2015-07-07T16:36:28Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > That one time Bro and SiL came to my house and brought their own bedsheets > . _sniffle_ I bring my own sheets and blanket because I have fluffy microfiber plush ones so I can get to sleep without it feeling like I am sleeping on sandpaper … ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/109 "2015-07-07T17:21:53Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > she’s been on a “can’t wait to get out of this shithole” Wait. She has a sexual predator under your roof. Insults your daughters. Isn’t paying on time or helping out. AND calls your house a “shithole”??? I don’t understand why she is still there. Do you need any physical assistance getting them out of the house? The location of an overgrown abandoned lot to hide the bodies in? Just what are you waiting for? _ **GET THESE PEOPLE GONE!** _ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/110 "2015-07-07T18:13:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Wait. > > She has a sexual predator under your roof. > Insults your daughters. > Isn’t paying on time or helping out. > > AND calls your house a “shithole”??? > > I don’t understand why she is still there. Do you need any physical assistance getting them out of the house? The location of an overgrown abandoned lot to hide the bodies in? Just what are you waiting for? > > _ **GET THESE PEOPLE GONE!** _ Dial it back, **Chimera**. **Lacunae Matata** ane **kiz** are two different Dopers. **Lacunae** is the one who _USED TO_ have a sexual predator staying with the family and whose current houseguest insulted her daughters. **kiz** is the one whose houseguests are delinquent on the rent, don’t turn to and do chores\*, and refer to their hosts’ home as a shithole. \*( **Lacunae** ’s “guests” may be guilty of not helping out as well. Probably are, in fact.) ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/111 "2015-07-07T18:24:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Dial it back, **Chimera**. **Lacunae Matata** ane **kiz** are two different Dopers. **Lacunae** is the one who _USED TO_ have a sexual predator staying with the family and whose current houseguest insulted her daughters. > > **kiz** is the one whose houseguests are delinquent on the rent, don’t turn to and do chores\*, and refer to their hosts’ home as a shithole. > > \*( **Lacunae** ’s “guests” may be guilty of not helping out as well. Probably are, in fact.) Whoa, yeah…I was going to say, Chimera, you’ve got Lacunae and me mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/112 "2015-07-07T18:33:43Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > The caterer made it sound like we were planning to have 2 food lines with the blacks only allowed to eat watermelon, fried chicken and ribs. I was flabbergasted and then furious. Welcome to Texas! d&r… > [@](#): > > **curlcoat** Ick, ick, ick! Does the idiot neighbor even bother to care for his yard? Sort of. They hire someone to mow the lawn and weed, and it looks halfway decent. No dog poop in the back yard since their dogs do it in my front yard … > [@kayaker](#): > > We have friends/family make use of our spare bedroom every so often. I’m always a little surprised when they leave and I see they’ve made the bed, straightened up, tidied the bathroom, hung towels to dry, etc. This must be why one of my best friends is always happy to have me stay over when I’m driving thru her area - I _always_ make the bed and tidy everything I touched. OTOH, I do that in motel rooms too. Habits! > [@kiz](#): > > The one good thing about all this is that if we ever take in somebody else they’re going to sign their name in blood to MY HOUSE CONTACT. No ifs, ands, or buts. You live here, you’re considered a member of the household and therefore you have chores. Don’t want to do them? There’s the door. I’ll even help you with your stuff 😃 Many years ago, The Engineer came into work to find one of his assistants wearing the same clothes he had the day before. After hearing the long tale of woe, he brought him home and we housed him for nine - ten months until he could go home again. He not only kept up his room and bathroom, he _volunteered_ to do things! Which is actually how he got into trouble in the first place, being too nice, but the point is I would never have put up with even a week of some of the things that you all are having to deal with. It’s disruptive enough to have an extra person in the house, but when that person also creates trouble? Yeah, no, out the door! ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/113 "2015-07-07T18:57:11Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Many years ago, The Engineer came into work to find one of his assistants wearing the same clothes he had the day before. After hearing the long tale of woe, he brought him home and we housed him for nine - ten months until he could go home again. He not only kept up his room and bathroom, he _volunteered_ to do things! Which is actually how he got into trouble in the first place, being too nice, but the point is I would never have put up with even a week of some of the things that you all are having to deal with. It’s disruptive enough to have an extra person in the house, but when that person also creates trouble? Yeah, no, out the door! We never dreamed it would end up like this, in all honesty. It was simply doing a favor for an old friend of my husband’s (aka Mrs. Entitlement Personified) who had finally found a job up this way and grabbed it without doing her homework as to the COL or where she was going to live. She’d brought her dog with her, which limited her options except for us since we also have dogs. Next thing we knew her husband (aka Mr. Laid Back, who actually has done a lot of fix-it stuff around the house without being asked) followed her up here. Then they had to take one of their other dogs back, a dog which had been adopted but the owner had taken a new job. So, four adults and four dogs. She had to rehome one of them when the town came knocking on the door saying that we were one dog over the maximum limit for a single household and, speaking of which, how long are these people staying with you? (our assessor lives around the corner – we went to elementary school together). This was right before Christmas. MEP has some issues which, shall we say, make it difficult for her to, shall we say, live with others. MLD lets her do what she pleases because, I imagine, he’s been fighting it since they’ve been married and he’s flat-out exhausted. I could go into more detail but I won’t. It’ll be interesting to see what happens once they’re in their new place. I’m willing to bet we’ll be getting frantic phone calls come September if MEP doesn’t land a teaching position because, you know, _she had no idea how high the COL was here in the first place and they can’t live on MLD’s salary alone._ ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/114 "2015-07-07T19:47:02Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > So, four adults and four dogs. She had to rehome one of them when the town came knocking on the door saying that we were one dog over the maximum limit for a single household and, speaking of which, how long are these people staying with you? (our assessor lives around the corner – we went to elementary school together). I only WISH that someone would knock on a few doors around here and ask how long extra people are planning on living in some of these houses. We have four bedrooms currently and could legally convert to six, and with our extra person we only had three people living here. Across the street? Three bedrooms originally, with another in the garage (illegal), five adults and I don’t know how many children living there. Next door - same floor plan as across the street, six or seven adults and I don’t know how many children. But, except for the illegal bedrooms in the garages, all legal. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/115 "2015-07-07T19:58:48Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I only WISH that someone would knock on a few doors around here and ask how long extra people are planning on living in some of these houses. Call your City Housing Inspections department – they will gladly come around and ask those questions. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/116 "2015-07-07T20:23:39Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Call your City Housing Inspections department – they will gladly come around and ask those questions. Wouldn’t do any good. I forget the actual number, but the law is something like you can have 3 or 4 people for every room without plumbing. So in a house with three bedrooms, a front room and a dining room, one can have 15 to 20 people living there. And if they legally convert the garage? Even more. Our house? 24 to 32 people without the garage, tho I have to hope that there is some cap on totals in the law. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/117 "2015-07-07T20:58:01Z")
Lacunae Matata, you’ve been under so much hideous stress, and you’ve been living with this person’s crazy for so long, that it sounds like you’ve got a little bit punch-drunk. Her giving WTF excuses about your kids’ looks is so minor, in context, that it doesn’t even register. Who cares what her excuse is? Why did you even bother to have that conversation? She moved a CHILD MOLESTER into your HOUSE with your CHILDREN. If someone told me months after the fact that she’d done that, the one and only thing I would ever say to her after that would be ‘You have thirty minutes to get your stuff out of my house.’ This isn’t me criticising your response. This is me saying that it seems like you and Tony have been through so much high-grade shit over the last couple of years that your parameters for ‘not OK’ versus ‘OH HELL NO’ have been worn down with fatigue. On the scale of Unacceptable Housemate Behaviour, where 1 is failing to change the toilet roll and 100 is burning down the house with your whole family in it, moving in a sexual predator without even warning you is about a 95. Why would you wait for her to do something that’s a 10 or a 20 before you throw her out? ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/118 "2015-07-07T21:06:42Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I only WISH that someone would knock on a few doors around here and ask how long extra people are planning on living in some of these houses. We have four bedrooms currently and could legally convert to six, and with our extra person we only had three people living here. Across the street? Three bedrooms originally, with another in the garage (illegal), five adults and I don’t know how many children living there. Next door - same floor plan as across the street, six or seven adults and I don’t know how many children. But, except for the illegal bedrooms in the garages, all legal. Ours are pretty stringent. A couple of years ago somebody bought the bungalow kitty-corner from us, tore it down, and built a two-family. I think they might have gotten away with it had they bothered hiding the two water heaters, two meters and two boilers which were in the driveway. The neighbors became very curious and contacted our assessor, who quickly informed the builder that this neighborhood isn’t zoned for two-family houses. It’s now a single family. Everyone has the feeling, though, that more than one family lives there, given the number of cars in the driveway. The only reason why the town found out about it was because our neighbor out back called to complain about the housemates’ dogs barking all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/119 "2015-07-07T21:10:40Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Tony’s nice streak has run out. I told him what the housemate said when I asked why she hadn’t told us about her son’s molestation: “Your daughters aren’t as pretty as mine.” :eek: :mad: I feel the overwhelming urge to go down to Georgia to punch a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/120 "2015-07-07T21:49:27Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Tony’s nice streak has run out. I told him what the housemate said when I asked why she hadn’t told us about her son’s molestation: “Your daughters aren’t as pretty as mine.” Because she’s crazier than her son! (Also, her daughter is perfectly cute. And mine are beautiful. And I don’t give a shite what her justifications are - I’m armed to the teeth, and will kill someone if he hurts my little girls. Tony will gut-shoot that person though, to make sure they suffer.) Seriously?! > > Also, the housemate seems to think that she will be using Boy 2.0’s truck while hers is on the disabled list. No. If you can’t be bothered to maintain your own vehicle, you aren’t using the Boy’s truck. I get that yours is “nice,” and his is just an old $900 pickup, but if you can’t be bothered to maintain your own “nice” vehicle, you sure as hell aren’t welcome to borrow his poor little truck. Because I said so, and I don’t have to offer you any justification. > > On the bright side, if there can be said to be one in this horrible situation - Tony agrees. We’re done. Next offensive remark means that the housemate needs to find a different place to be. We’ve had enough with folks who can’t be bothered to respect our home, to clean up after themselves, to even take care of their own stuff that they can’t afford to repair or replace if they don’t maintain it. I’m not willing to live with the drama, I’m not willing to take the chance that someone accuses my husband or son of something untoward, etc. Got any friends with backhoes? Hydrogen Peroxide works as good as bleach to get those pesky blood spots out, with out the smell of bleach. Just saying… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957.md?page=7)