setting: living room of flat
scene: CET comes home for lunch after a morning of classes. she sits down with her winter vegetable soup and toast and reaches for the remote control. flipping through the channels she realises that other than the free channels that you don't have to pay for, all the other channels have been LOCKED by the flatmates, and requires a PIN number! it sure wasn't like this yesterday!
reason: this all started because i e-mailed flatmate S about the bills...one of the items listed was the cost of the cable box. now, i will pay the monthly bill for cable if i use it, but because i wasn't consulted AT ALL about getting cable in the first place, i felt i shouldn't have to pay for the box. it's only fair, isn't it? besides, when she quoted me the price she DID NOT mention any cost for the box, so i'm only finding out about this now.
the way i see it, it's like if i bought a brand-new leather sofa for the flat one day and expected the others to pay for a portion of it. we don't need a new sofa, and a leather one at that, but because i just felt like i "needed" it i decided to go ahead and get it anyway, without consulting the others. do you get where i'm coming from?
anyhoo, this is definitive proof that i live with freaks. paranoid, standing-water-in-a-pot-in-the-sink-phobic, too-many-neuroses-to-count, anal-retentive freaks.
CET
p.s. NOW she e-mails me to tell me it's okay, she's decided she will cover the cost of the box because she'll be taking it when she moves. again i stress, freak. here is her e-mail:
"(Flatmate J) just nicely informed me that the box is mine therefore travels with me when I move. In which case, don't worry about the price of the box.
He did however think it unjust that I pay for the tv tax on my own. It's currently up for renewal."
i love how she couldn't figure that one out for herself, and needs her whipped boyfriend to tell her, and to back her up too. and yeah, i think it's unjust too that she pay for the tv tax (i.e. tv licence - yes, you need a licence here just to watch tv) herself, but she DIDN'T TELL ME IT WAS UP FOR RENEWAL, so how the fuck was i suppose to know???
freaks.
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4 comments:
Hey honey!! don't worry about them, I think we all agree with you about how weird is this freaking couple you live with! hopefully time goes by very quickly and soon, you'll be over to leave that scary flat and hopefully move to a nicer place with nicer (or at least normal) people and closer to your friends!!
Please don't worry and ignore this stupid people, you don't need their stupid channels anyway coz you'll be very busy studying for your exams and afterwards, parting with us!! xxx Gabri
What is it with London and freakoid roommates??? We haven't had a great track record, eh CET? Let me tell you girl, I'm vexed for you, what a total bitch! Her and her whipped boy are lucky I won't be in London any time soon because I'd cuss them out! Grrr...
Love you, speak soon!
Oh...can I fly over and kick her ass?? Please??? When do you get to move out? Can you leave now? Is that even a possibility? I hope it is.
What happened to the normal flatmates you moved in with? Are these still the same people?
gabri: you're right, i should ignore them (and the channels) and focus on my studying (and partying), it's just the principle of it all, you know? like the fact that locking the channels was TOTALLY unnecessary??? whatever!
canuckian: yeah, our flatmate track record here stinks. hopefully it'll get better next year...and don't worry, if and when the time's right i'll cuss them out myself...
styxxx: you can come over to kick their ass ANYTIME! and yeah, these were the "normal" flatmates that i started living with back in september. oh how things have changed...
CET
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