It's that time of the week again, guys. As you might have read, I've been trying to chronicle my summer in NYC while living with three girls. When I left off
last week, I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that girls allegedly keep tampons in microwaves and shed more than the average puppy.
I've gotta say, I really enjoyed all of your comments on this. Surprisingly, it seems to me that way more
girls were into the idea of me leaving a hairball on my roommates' beds. No sympathy, Mancouchettes? Anyway, this week, the update is going to be a little light (we don't spend that much time together during the week, and I was back visiting home for the weekend), but I do have a couple of tidbits:
*I sadly didn't act on that revenge fantasy 100%. Instead, I did take one of the clumps and left it on the rim of the bathtub. When this didn't work, I came pretty close to taking an even
more passive-aggressive route: not rinsing the sink out after shaving.
Instead, you know, I just brought it up to them. Hair problem in the bathroom: resolved. Hair in every other room of the apartment? Not so much.
*As for the tampons? This one resolved itself, which is good, because unlike the shaving thing, there isn't a guy counterpart that I can strategically place.
What I'm slowly but surely learning about this is that the secret to making it out of this summer alive is to pick my battles. When my roommates insist that
"Poker Face" is the song that they need to be blaring, I accept it. When Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN continually loses out to
True Blood (okay, Bill is dreamy or something. I GET IT.), I watch it on the Internet. When my bathroom drain looks like it's been fed a stray cat,
American Psycho-style, I feel like I have to spring into action.
But my question to you guys is this: I've heard stories (maybe myths) that when girls live together, it's possible that their cycles can sync up. Now, I don't know if this is true or anything, but I know that two of them have been living together all year anyway. Based on the fact that I was awarded
far too much information by one of them when they moved in, if this is accurate, the moment of truth is sometime next week.
Am I making stuff up, or am I going to need a helmet to survive and boots to wade through all of that estrogen?
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Hahaha. Yeah, we sync up, it's hell and one of Nature's many ways of procuring that only the strongest survive. Good luck. Can I add body armor to the precautions you already have on hand?
oh do I feel sorry for you! its bad enough that you guys have to put up with a girlfriend or spouse during "Aunt Flow's" visit but to live with 3 girls! My hats are off to you. To answer your question yes it is true that we can "sync" to each other's cycle and have no idea why it is. God Bless ya because you're probably going to need it. Also, I have never heard of nor have I ever put my feminine products in the microwave.!? I don't think I even want to know why. But again my hats off to you for putting up with 3 and I can't even put up with myself during that time. Good Luck
Helmets, boots, and if available, a tranquilizer gun.
Although picking your battles is very important. Although if Poker Face were blasted then I would blast something back in response. No one goes between me and quality music.
People over exaggerate PMS..
Yeah I tend to sync up with my sister and mom if we hang out together too much. And most women don't get PMS that badly anyways. I never take my PMS out on anyone except myself, it's a personal rule of mine. I don't need to be the heinous bitch that most females are in my family.
2 other girls in my house, I think I may have had mine synced with my 2 other sisters when we were younger, but now that we are older, and not around each other as much I think we have fallen out of sync as weird as it sounds haha. So maybe only girls that are around each other a lot?
p.s. when my older sister lived at home she had a bad habit of putting her loose hair on the shower walls, it used to look like our shower was growing its own hair, yuck!
-Ashen
if it's coming next week, you should already be ready for the PMS you're suffering... well... around now. =P
wait, girls put tampons in the microwave? why?
It can happen, yeah.
But it's more likely that they bitch it out together. So, you might actually be in for a girl fight or two.
(awww yeahhh)
Id suggest a vacation....not a helmet.
I'm actually synced up with a lot of my friends and they don't even live with me. Â Haha
dirty jock strap in microwave, jus visit local gym... and yes womens do sync up. cook loaves of fresh banana bread all next week... and have plenty of ice cream on tap plus a case of midol wont hurt... and worse come to worse a jug of Jack Daniels and a heavy lock on your room door...
yeah, syncing definitely happens there. as others have said, the pms should be happening already. so next week would be them wanting sympathy and possibly asking you to help out..."can you get me some midol?" or "can i borrow your electric blanket/heating pad?" or my favorite, which i have said before "will you sit on my lower abdomen please?"
Syncing is a medical marvel and it's definitely real and something you should be afraid of. Very very afraid.
My best friend and I don't live together, but we were in sync for a long time.
@hann_ah_mazing@xanga - Agreed.
@MissXMorbidx@xanga - Same here.
Ah I can't live with girls and I'm a girl. Good luck! =) Remember safety. Helmet, knee pads, shoulder pads, and goggles.
Girls can sync up with their cycle. Sounds like you're going to have fun.... eep. Good luck dude.
Syncing is very likely. I work with all women and it's like one week after another. Kind of scary.
Helmet, boots, and chocolate to throw at them when they attack. Just tred carefully.
Hahahahaha. You're doomed. Practice now to smile and nod!
Good Luck
Nice to have an update on your situation.
have chocolate available at all times and you will be fine.
Tampons in the Microwave: radioactive ...ness?
@beforedawn@xanga - hahaha and get some good headphones so you can just tune them out that way as well.