Thursday, July 2, 2009

Taking Advantage

So today, I had made a bunch of brownies for a potluck at work. This was far and away the best potluck I've ever experienced. Anyway, the reason why I mention that is because the food was so splendidly good, that everyone ate so much of it that they didn't have any room left for any desserts. So I had a lot of brownies leftover. a full 9X9 try, and about 3/4 of a 13X9 tray. Mikey stopped by my room last night and asked if he could have any brownies. I told him he could help himself to the lasrger tray, and if he wanted, he could take them to work, and leave me the small tray. So Mikey took the large tray and said, "Thank you."

I went out to the kitchen later, after my nap, and Mikey, again, had left a mess. After the fiasco from yesterday, with the messy kitchen, I assumed that wa a one time thing. But I went out to the kitchen today, and he made another mess with just the brownie supplies. He took the aluminum foil off of the tray, and just placed it on the counter. Used two paper towels for something, and left those laying on the counter as well. The empty ziplock bag container was on the counter, as he used the last ziplock bag out of the pack to carry the brownies. Finally, the had placed the brownie tray in the sink and filled it up with water.

(In addition, like usual, the cabinets and drawers were left opened.)

It took me all of 5 minutes to clean up and wash the tray. Sure, not a huge deal, as it wasn't THAT much of an inconvenience to me. But being that it didn't take me that long, it wouldn't have taken him that long either.

At this point, he's just being flat out lazy. He's taking advantage of the fact that he knows I'll do it. How hard is it to throw a couple of napkins away and simply scrub a dish when you're done with it? Is this roommate setup really at the point where when he says, "I'll take care of my mess," it's really just code for "I'll consolidate it and let you clean it later"?

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