The Horrors of Living With Two Men
Oct 11 '00
My boyfriend, (http://www.epinions.com/user-spikor), has an apartment with his good friend, Steve. I live in residence at the University that we all attend. As can be expected, I spend loads of time at my boyfriend's place. I basically live there. I have never lived on my own in an apartment before (last year, my first year away from home, I lived in residence), so this was bound to be a shock anyway. Living with two 21 year old men certainly makes this new experience different.
I've titled this review, "The Horrors of Living With Two Men". It really isn't that bad. I don't bash men, I'm not a feminist, I don't sit around with my girlfriends and tell stupid jokes about them either. It must be stated, however, that this little living arrangement certainly has affected me. I am out numbered by members of the opposite sex. It has to be expected that I am going to have some things to talk about regarding their habits/ways of living. I think that it might be of interest for some of you out there to read what it is like for me, a young 19 year old university student, to be living with two rowdy, un-refined 21 year old university men (OK... I'm just joking... they're both great)
My top complaints:
1. The toilet seat
Girls: have you ever had to pee REALLY bad? You run into the bathroom, unzip your pants, and plop your bottom onto the toilet seat. Only to feel cold water splash onto your butt. Not a pleasant experience. Although I do realize that there are TWO people living in the house who pee with the toilet seat up, and only one of me, I think that they should be more compassionate about this. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to put the seat down, does it? When I leave the toilet seat down they don't have to worry about getting any water on them do they? No. I hate the feeling of toilet water on my butt.
2. The dishes.
Ok. I'm a lazy person. I'll admit to that. If I don't need to use a dish, I'm not going to wash them if they are all dirty. If I am going to use a dish, I'll just wash the one that I need and ignore the other ones...
Only in a house with two men do you find mould growing on the dishes on the counter.
This is gross. This is disgusting. This is the result of an imbalance of hormones (testosterone vs. estrogen) in the household. Ok. Maybe I'm exaggerating here. Maybe it has nothing to do with there being two guys living here and only one girl. It just seems to be a little bit odd to simply be a coincidence. Only when a strange scent comes wafting from the molding dishes will my boyfriend say "I think we should do the dishes". And guess who gets to wash them? ME! I'll give Spikor credit, however... he does dry...
3. The walls.
Spikor and Steve have taken very elaborate steps to decorate their livingroom walls. This in itself isn't all that bad. But only two men would put the things up on the walls that they have put it.
Steve stuck a poster of naked cartoon people skiing. Apparently, it's the greatest thing ever. I just don't see it. That's the worse poster. Then there's the "Ghost in the Shell" poster. It's huge. It's a promo poster for a Japanese cartoon, and naturally it's of a naked chick. All of the other posters are tolerable: Dragon Ball Z posters, one of Alex from A Clockwork Orange... the naked skiers and "The Ghost in the Shell", however, I blame on the two guys.
4. Media
What's this about media you may ask? Ok. Spikor and Steve have: 46 hours of MP3's AND GROWING, 150 movies/tapes, 300 CD's, and the stack of video games for the Playstation, Super Nintendo, and two NES's. And remember... we're all University students... all that I want to know is when the heck are we supposed to study?. Spikor is a video game/movie fanatic, Spikor and Steve are both 'Simpsons' fanatics (random Simpsons quotes are constantly being yelled out in the apartment), and I'm sure they would do almost ANYTHING to get out of doing school work... and they've got lots of stuff to do while they are procrastinating!
5. The ridiculous amount of electronics in the apartment.
Spikor and Steve have a grand total of 10 speakers and a subwoofer, all hooked up to the two computers, two CD players, two tape players, a Playstation, a Super Nintendo, two NES's (two... why two? There's only one TV!... in the livingroom...), a record player (?) and of course the television. This may not sound like a completely ridiculous amount of sound, but you must understand the size of the area that these speakers are in. The living room, where 8 of the speakers are, is only a 16 X 12 room. Why is it absolutely crutial to have that many speaker in such a small room? I swear that every time I walk into the apartment I automatically get cancer. You can just feel the radiation being pumped into your body. They can literally make the floor shake. Each of them have a TV in their bedroom, besides the one in the livingroom. Spikor has a VCR in his room. THERE ARE TWO SPEAKERS IN THE KITCHEN!!! THE KITCHEN!! IT'S FIVE FEET AWAY FROM THE LIVINGROOM! I completely blame all of this on the two of them. I had absolutely nothing to do with placing any of the electronic stuff in the apartment. I wish that all of you could see the amount of wires coming from every where going to every where else, and then back again. so much for classic idea of the starving student. Steve's girlfriend is sure that the Nintendo is hooked up to the microwave. I wouldn't be surprised.
Other honorable mentions:
- The mini-fridge in the livingroom for beer
- The complete lack of food in the place at most times
- The garbage can in the kitchen. It's extra-big so that they don't have to empty it as often. They don't empty it anyway. Eventually, you have to start throwing the garbage on the floor near the garbage can
So there. I've vented. Well, not really. It doesn't bother me that much... it's just something really fun to write about. The truth is, I probably contribute just as much as the two of them do towards all of the things that I've mentioned above. So perhaps this is just a comment on what you're in for when you leave home and get a place of your own. You may have dreams of having a neat, tidy little place where you spend evenings studying for exams and doing the dishes. Don't be surprised with yourself if things turn out otherwise, though. Living on your own for the first time is certainly tough, as I've shown here. But the important thing is that I have an onion tied to my belt, which is the style at this time (they told me to finish the review this way).
THERE ARE SPEAKERS IN THE KITCHEN!!!
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