A lot of you guys and girls read and commented
last week about my situation: living with three women for my summer in New York City, and I appreciate all of your feedback. I just wanted to update on how it was going.
So far, it's generally been okay for me. I was friendly with all of the girls beforehand, and we knew a little bit about what to expect from each other, as we all lived in the same dorm building. In addition, as my roommates have female friends, I always get introduced, and these friends seem to enjoy that I'm apparently a "sensitive" enough guy to live with girls (and I'm happy to admit that I capitalized on this last weekend).
This living arrangement is
perfect, right?
Then again, I wasn't quite prepared for when my roommates started raising cats in my bathtub. At least, that's what I thought was going on in there, because there were clumps of hair hanging out in the drain. I later realized that girls with long hair shed. A
lot. It's like my apartment is a teenage boy hitting puberty: I'm finding hair in all kinds of new and interesting places.
And to think, one of my roommates yelled at me because I left a soda can in the living room. I'm thinking about leaving a hairball on all of their beds.
There's the hair, and then there are the little surprises. Like, for example, when I ran back to the apartment to catch Game 7 of the Stanley Cup last week... and found my roommate with friends, watching
Degrassi (I watched the game streaming on my computer). My personal favorite was the time I was about to put something in the microwave, and opened the door to find, logically, a box of tampons (my roommate said that she only had them in there until she could find space in the cabinets... needless to say, I was confused).
I think that I'll keep a steady update going for the remainder of the summer, but my question for this week is:
Does setting me up with a girl make up for the seemingly endless supply of wig-making material all over the apartment?
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Haha I'm sure you were surprised to find the box of tampons in the microwave. But seriously, she keeps the tampons in the kitchen? o_O
I think it's pretty normal for girls to shed hair. I know that I lose a lot of hair, so I'm constantly vaccuuming the bathroom. It's disgusting for me. Maybe you can talk to your roommates and politely remind them to pick up their hair. lol
Better just get used to the hair. You will be one step ahead of the rest when you settle down with a girl, and if you have a baby girl of your own who will shed everywhere for the next 18+ years. Sorry =/
Well you should have expected it.
When they bitch at you for something, just bitch back. Hopefully they'll realise how unreasonable they're being, either that or act like total bitches.
Good luck! haha....
DUDE. You're in an apartment with three girls. Be happy.
My sister has long hair, I have short hair, thus less shedding, if any. There were times when the drain would CLOG from her hair. So, what did I do? I pulled it all out (wearing protective gear, of course) and put it in a zip lock bag. The ball of hair was about the size of a base ball. Sick, nasty. I put the bag on her desk and wrote "Locks for Love" on it with a heart.
Since then she has been pretty good about cleaning up after herself.
Oh man, looking forward for the next updates because they are hilarious.
Haha, my first reaction to the tampons would've been like, "I know we're starving college students, but shit-".
hmm save the hair.. makes good voodoo dolls fer you to enact secret cases of revenge on... and dont think fer a moment that anything you leave behind wont be used as such...
lol and if ya think this sounds crazy.. umm.. lol tell me that again at the end of the month...@Dare2BDiferentt@xanga - Agree 100 %
@Zombies_Ate_My_Neighbors@xanga - LMAO! Good one.
"I'm thinking about leaving a hairball on all of
their beds."
Do it. I laughed out loud so hard.
Yea girls do shed. More so if they have recently been sick which resulted in malnutrition.
As for the tampons in the microwave? Tell her to keep them in her room! Under the bed! Or the bathrooom!
that's just being abnoxious to you.
She should have some respect for a shared living space. And its not hard to clean up her own hair. That's really disturbing that she can't even do that.
Haha what the hell. If I didn't have space in the cabinet I would of put them under my bed or in my room somewhere. Not in the microwave. That's silly. And yes us girls with long hair tend to shed, but I don't see why they leave it in the shower. That's a bit icky.
Hopefully you make it the whole time you're living with them. Just know that almost every girl can go a bit crazy from time to time, and just nod you head and walk away. They'll be mad that you're walking away at the time, but it will be better in the end.
Girls can't help the shedding, so I wouldn't complain TOO much about that. However, tampons in the microwave is ridiculous and you should talk to her about that. I would complain if my roommates ever did that.
i laughed so hard when i read that the tampons were in the microwave! haha goodluck with hair dude, because let me tell you, i have long black hair and even i hate dealing with my own hairballs. I can only imagine how disgusted you must feel D=
honestly, conflicts with roommates are best to be resolved as quick as possible. don't leave the problem hanging until like three months later! imagine how much hair you'd be dealing with!
You could always sit those bitches down and set some ground rules for all to follow, if you're getting irritated with it. Bitching about it does very little. As for the hair loss, well, that's life. I lose unusual amounts of hair myself but I live alone so who gives a shit. If you have hair that falls below the ears, yer gonna have hair loss. It's just the way things work. Ask them to wash it down the drain or to get rid of it in some way. You have as much a right in that place as they do, don't let them overrun it, but then when rules are set, don't you turn around and overrun shit too. My humble opinion, I've lived with messy pieces of shits before, it's always bad news, but sometimes, that's what you have to do.
The whole tampons thing is retarded, by the way. I hope you told her how retarded that was, even for "normal" female standards.
oh god, yeah we definitely do shed.. sorry to hear about it being all over your apartment! i recently moved in with my brother and he called me on the hair in the sink in the first couple of days; i understand, its repulsive when its not your own. if they piss you off you should definitely drop a hairball on their beds, that would be hilarious. x)
Haha when I read this I made a long Chkkkkkkkk sound like I was going to laugh but didnt.
And yes, we do shed a lot. I'm sorry. lol
Whats so bad about Degrassi?
@brittbritt__x@xanga - that is the worst way to get a woman to realize they are being unreasonable(assuming they are). what you want to do is not argue about it, and if they keep making an issue just ignore them. if you argue back it gives them a legitimate reason to get all pissed off. this way you will usually get them to notice it.
dude, the hair thing is gross. as a "mr. clean" looking guy I no longer shed hair at all. I would tell them that they can't just leave it all over the bathroom. it's gross.
That is weirder than all my friends.
You should write a book about your living experience with three ladies. It could be a top seller.
It only makes up for it if she's totally hot, has great tits and knows how to cook.
Women are disgusting (I speak from experience) and I hate living with them. I would much rather live with a bunch of men. At least they don't leave male items (hell, I can't even think of what a tampon equivalent is... does it exist?!) in the microwave because there wasn't space..
Put it on your bed! On the floor! ... NOT WHERE I PUT MY FOOD! Doesn't even matter if the box was unopened... it's the principle!
She put tampons in the microwave because of lack of space..? I put mine underneith the bathroom sink where all that stuff should be. What a weirdo. I shed a lot of hair but I scrape it up with toilet paper and discard it in the bathroom trash.
the title was misleading. i thought they were microwaving them ._.
My husband of 2.5 weeks is getting used to sharing a small apartment with a human female (he was already used to the cat), so he might be able to empathize some with you. My hair is over three feet long and curly and I shed a lot, like any normal person, but I keep it cleaned up! I clean out the shower drain after every shower and I try to pay extra attention because he says shed hairs gross him out 7 or 8 on a scale of 1-10, 10 being extremely grossed out. No matter how sexy he thinks it is when it's attached to my head, my hair becomes icky the moment it's off! I don't blame him, although he sheds his almost invisible blonde hairs everywhere almost more than I shed and his own shed hair bothers him more than it does me. Sometimes my hair escapes my notice and it ends up random places and he finds it. I can't help it; I keep the place pretty clean and do the very best I can (My hair being dark, curly and long does help me notice it better but it makes ones I miss more noticeable to him, too!). Anyway, girls normally do weird things, but tampons in the microwave is beyond normal if you ask me...
I think my husband acts more bothered by people hair than by cat hair, which doesn't make sense to me. We clean our hair with shampoo. My cat cleans her fur with saliva.
Tampons in the microwave? That's a new one.
I have long hair and I don't shed a lot, however I always clean the drain in the shower when I am done using it. It was one of the rules we had in the dorm room last semester. Maybe you should all sit down and set some ground rules?
...tamps in the microwave?
that doesn't even begin to make sense.