ARGH!! My roommates are driving me crazy!

[intheflow]

I need to start of this rant by saying they're a nice couple. He's a disabled vet and she takes care of him and works part-time in a toy store. They are very generous individuals.

That being said, they are both dumb as rocks. She comes from Kentucky (outside of Cincinnati) and he hails from Beaumont, TX. They are both intellectually ignorant and incurious and they're really, really happy to stay that way. I'm sure the ignorance comes from the schools they grew up in, but that alone can't excuse two people who are Freeper-like in this one regard. Neither has ever cracked a book for pleasure. Their politics are ok, but the complete lack of interest in documentaries, the news, life outside their bubble just doesn't interest them. This makes it very hard to converse with them about anything that I'm interested in, since I'm primarily interested in books, documentaries, and the news. Here's an example from each of them about how ignorant they are.

HIM: You're from Massachusetts, intheflow?
ITF: Yep.
HIM: That's a state, right?

:banghead:

HER: I'm bisexual. My husband is the first man I've ever dated. My parents were thrilled when I met him.
ITF: Oh, your family doesn't know many GLBT people?
HER: What's GLBT mean?

:banghead:

They're also environmentally-challenged. They do put dirty dishes in the dishwasher, for instance, but they have no clue how to pack it, so it looks full but they really run it when it's about half full. They cannot remember to turn lights off to save their lives. They cannot remember what can be recycled and what can't be--even though it's pretty cut and dry and never, ever changes. Environmentally, it's like living with Rainman--you can tell him a million times how something is done but he's so stuck in his ways he can't change.

The cake was taken today. We agreed that we were going to pool our money together and split the grocery bills. They'd put in $250 at the beginning of the month and then I'd pay for a supplemental shopping trip mid-month. We were to make lists together to make sure everyone has what they like in the house. Well, I came home from work today and my roommate had gone shopping without telling me--so I'm stuck eating the CRAP they eat exclusively until I get paid in the middle of the month. When I confronted my roommate about it, she said, "Well, this was the only time I could go." Fine, whatever, I have no problem with her going shopping without me, but for fuck's sake, could you have told me you were going so I could put in a couple requests? So now for breakfast over the next 2 weeks I can chose from Frosted Pop Tarts :puke: or plain Rice Kripspies. :boring: For snacks I can have sickly sweet pre-packaged Rice Krispy treats, sickly sweet Little Debbie-type strawberry cream pies, or barbeque potato chips, none of which I can stand. I mean, I'm not a purist who doesn't like chips and Little Debbies, but of all the chips and all the LDs, those are the most repugnant to me. I'm very tempted to go vegan on their asses for the end of the month.

Anyway, thanks for listening. Rant over. :hi:

[Kali]

1. separate food stashes!

do you eat a majority of meals together? if not I would keep food separate. Maybe go in on staples if they are used equitably, but snacks and stuff should be on your own.

[intheflow]

5. We have been eating a majority of meal together.

It's just easier to cook for three than one, that's kind of how we came upon the system in the first place. But then, they are also big into southern cooking so everything they make is heavy in fats, and usually so much pepper I can't eat much of it. So it won't be too bad just cooking for me again. God, I can't wait until I get a full time job again. Then there will be no more roommates for me!

[alphafemale]

2. I'm still trying to figure out she could have possibly thought "Bisexual" meant--

Has only had sex with one person. From the way you related it, anyway.

I mean, some Stoopid I can sorta figure out how a person came to their stinkin' thinkin.

But that is a brain bomb.

[Kali]

3. first man she dated, maybe she dated women?

[alphafemale]

4. Okay. Rereading I caught that. I think my mind read "one" or something.

Still.