Neeja
28-07-09, 01:44 PM
Minor rant here.
A year ago I moved out of a flat I shared with my best friend and into a house-share with another guy. I'd met him a few times and he was ok, but I didn't get much say in the matter - my best friend had told him it'd be fine without really consulting me.
We moved in, and everthing was good for a month. Then his rent didn't get paid. Same the month after, then he put in 1 month. We then had bank-charges due to his non-payment, which we tallied on to his debt.
For the last 10 months I've been chasing this, and he's down to owing us £85 out of the £475 he owed at one point. In December he tried to tell us that he didn't owe us any money at all because he'd done a large food shop. I very calmly (barely raising my voice, very little red-in-the-face shouting at all) told him that there's no way that he'd spent £475 on food without us noticing, and if he had, I'd like to see the bank-statements as we'd had basically no food in the house from Oct-Dec.
During the time he's been here he's become more and more lazy. He'll leave washing up for days at a time, often until we tell him to get it done because it's rank. He puts food into the sink side-compartment and doesn't clean it, so that within a day or two it's gone all mouldy. He's never vacuumed or cleaned a bathroom since we moved in, despite us telling him to repeatedly. He's let the bin overflow and then complains that it's not been taken out. Right now there's a pile of pizza boxes in the kitchen that he's left, despite the bin being close by.
I used to just clean up after him after a few days, but I got sick of that about 2 months back and told him that I won't do it any more. He threw a tantrum.
To top it all off, our contract runs out on August 27th, and he's just text my best friend letting him know that he's moving out. He was househunting for the last 2 months, but didn't let us know, despite me talking to both housemates about it over a month ago when the estate agent asked us what we were doing. He's giving us 30 days notice to find a new housemate or find somewhere else to live. He's not even told me yet, probably out of fear that I'm going to kill him. Which is likely.
So, the poll: If I murdered him during the night, do you reckon a court would convict me for murder or manslaughter? Or do you reckon they'd award me a medal for helping clean up a large pile of uselessness?
A year ago I moved out of a flat I shared with my best friend and into a house-share with another guy. I'd met him a few times and he was ok, but I didn't get much say in the matter - my best friend had told him it'd be fine without really consulting me.
We moved in, and everthing was good for a month. Then his rent didn't get paid. Same the month after, then he put in 1 month. We then had bank-charges due to his non-payment, which we tallied on to his debt.
For the last 10 months I've been chasing this, and he's down to owing us £85 out of the £475 he owed at one point. In December he tried to tell us that he didn't owe us any money at all because he'd done a large food shop. I very calmly (barely raising my voice, very little red-in-the-face shouting at all) told him that there's no way that he'd spent £475 on food without us noticing, and if he had, I'd like to see the bank-statements as we'd had basically no food in the house from Oct-Dec.
During the time he's been here he's become more and more lazy. He'll leave washing up for days at a time, often until we tell him to get it done because it's rank. He puts food into the sink side-compartment and doesn't clean it, so that within a day or two it's gone all mouldy. He's never vacuumed or cleaned a bathroom since we moved in, despite us telling him to repeatedly. He's let the bin overflow and then complains that it's not been taken out. Right now there's a pile of pizza boxes in the kitchen that he's left, despite the bin being close by.
I used to just clean up after him after a few days, but I got sick of that about 2 months back and told him that I won't do it any more. He threw a tantrum.
To top it all off, our contract runs out on August 27th, and he's just text my best friend letting him know that he's moving out. He was househunting for the last 2 months, but didn't let us know, despite me talking to both housemates about it over a month ago when the estate agent asked us what we were doing. He's giving us 30 days notice to find a new housemate or find somewhere else to live. He's not even told me yet, probably out of fear that I'm going to kill him. Which is likely.
So, the poll: If I murdered him during the night, do you reckon a court would convict me for murder or manslaughter? Or do you reckon they'd award me a medal for helping clean up a large pile of uselessness?