Personal HygieneThere comes a point at which your hygiene becomes less your problem and more everyone else's:
My old school nurse never seemed to wash - instead she wrapped herself in crepe bandages from the first aid kits. The smell was beyond pungent. If you got ill at school, it was better to suffer than try and explain symptoms whilst only breathing out.
When she was eventually 'let go',they had to strip the wallpaper in her office to get rid of the lingering odour.
How scuzzy have you got? Or, failing that, how bad have people you know got?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 12:40)
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SkidsMy housemate is very strict about the kitchen, if you forget to clean a pan for a few hours, he will, rather politely, remind you to do it. Its annoying when you make a meal then watch a film, only to be asked if you wouldn’t mind cleaning the pan out, but I can se his point, its a kitchen, and it should be kept clean. However, if asked to empty the bin, he won't do it. Ever. A kitchen shared by 4 students, 3 of which are males isn't likely to stay that clean, but you'd expect the guy to empty the bin every once in a while if the kitchen's hygiene is that important to him.
I also share a bathroom with the guy, who i spent hours persuading that tesco value loo role was like sandpaper, and there for not good enough to wipe your arse on, he then revealed that he'd stolen a kitchen role off me last year when he ran out of bog role, i shudder at the thought of the chaffing. He moved into the house a week before any one else, so I assumed he would have gotten the basics in, like a toilet brush or some bog cleaner. He hadn’t. Fair enough thinks I, skint students and all that, and I don't make a thing of it, just nicking the girls toilet brush when its needed. Over a couple of months, Lime scale started to build up in the toilet through lack of cleaning, which wasn’t nice, so I decided to use toilet cleaners to shift it, and bought a toilet brush so it wouldn’t get bad again, and it hasn't. But what is getting bad is the number of skids this guy leaves, I mean, if it was every once in a while, I'd not mind. But this guy goes for a shit at twice before he leaves the house on a morning, so they build up. I tried politely asking him, I tried making a little joke of it, but he is totally incapable of using the toilet brush or cleaning the bathroom in any way. There was an old MacDonald’s cup of his on top of the toilet for over a month. I'd have cleaned it if I had fewer principals, but I'm not his bloody mother, and their is a bin less then 4 feet away from the cup, he should be able to do it.
(, Mon 26 Mar 2007, 12:48, Reply)
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