David Cross

I lived in a three-person dorm room with two other girls, one of whom was a total lazy slob. She never washed a dish or did laundry. When she ran out of dishes or clothes she just went and bought new ones. Eventually our room had piles of her dirty clothes on the floor three feet tall with footpaths cut in so we could all get to our desks and beds. We ended up... Read More » with a pretty good roach infestation. We had asked her nicely countless times to clean up her mess but she just blew us off or told us to live with it. We could have moved out but we had been there first and she joined us later. One day I woke up with a roach in bed with me and I lost it. While the slob was at classes the other roommate and I picked up all of her dirty clothes, bed sheets and dishes and threw them out. They were so covered in mold and mildew that nothing could be saved. We cleaned and scrubbed the entire room, killing over one hundred roaches in the process. When we were done we gathered up all of the dead bugs and put them on her bed. When she came back from classes she walked in, turned purple, and walked back out. Three hours later she came back drunk and with new bed sheets. She moved the roaches, put the sheets on the bed and went to sleep. Never said a word. But there were never any dirty clothes or dishes left on the floor after that. Win!

February 3, 2012