# Whose responsibility to clean up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294 "2011-06-29T18:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/21 "2011-06-30T09:56:55Z")
I wouldn’t want to live with either one of youse. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/22 "2011-06-30T13:46:02Z")
The OP needs to e-mail Dr. Sheldon Cooper and get a copy of his roommate agreement. I’m sure this exact situation is covered in detail. And I mean exact. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/23 "2011-06-30T13:56:45Z")
Can’t the two of you just screech at each other until Mom comes down to tell you both to clean it up? Then go to your rooms. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/24 "2011-06-30T14:09:49Z")
> [@Bpelta](#): > > Who should clean it up? It’s a trick question. The roommate who should clean it up is the same roommate who cleans everything up – the one with the lowest tolerance for filth. (At least that’s how it seemed to work when I had roommates.) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/25 "2011-06-30T15:48:26Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Yeah, and it’s too bad he didn’t witness the bowl falling all by itself and breaking, because then you could say, “I made that happen, with my mind. And if you don’t pay this gas bill right now, the other dishes are next.” And then point at your eyes, and then at him, then your eyes, then at him. Then just walk away. I bet he wouldn’t be telling you to clean his shit up after\* that\*. Proper LOL. You brightened up my day with that. Thank you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/26 "2011-06-30T18:01:25Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Fuck him in the face with the broken ceramic [pronouned SERamic]. Who cares what that shit thinks about anything? If you’re a glutton for funishment, let him finish on your face, too. Buy him a new bowl, fuck his face with it, and then tell him to not be an assweed with your rent. Punctuate ad lib. with “bitch.” Oh wow. Now that is something right there. I need to become a member just so I can have “glutton for funishment” as my custom title. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294/27 "2011-06-30T18:34:39Z")
So your roommate’s bowl falls and breaks and nobody but you was in the room? Did it make a sound? The bowl couldn’t take it anymore and decided to end it all? If you then sweep it up and throw it away he might, rightly, wonder what the hell is going on with you and his stuff. Leave it there until the damned poltergeist cleans it up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-responsibility-to-clean-up/587294.md?page=1)