Wow... My mom let a couple stay at their home because they were in between homes and needed a place to stay for a while. Swore up and down they never watched tv and wouldn’t be around much anyway, just needed a place to sleep really. Every time when my mom would get off shift, whether it was at 3 in the afternoon or 11pm they were always watching the tv. Never once offered to switch it to a show my parents would prefer to watch, and would change the station the second a show my parents were watching ended....
In my second year of uni, I shared a house with three others. One of the girls had everything paid for by her parents - food, rent, bills etc. Good for her. The rest of us had to pay ourselves.
She would also frequently have her family to stay. We had a small spare room and her dad would often stay there as it was closer to his work than their home. We were fine with this, as long as she let us know in advance, which she often didn't.
One day, her sister came to stay (We had no idea this was happening, turns out she was just coming over because she needed to be in the town the next day). It was about 2am and I heard sound coming from the living room. Being a uni house, my room was downstairs. I woke up and found I was in a puddle of my own sweat, slowly suffocating in the heat. I went into the living room to turn the thermostats down, and there was the sister, eating my Ben and Jerry's, in a t shirt, watching loud TV, with the heating turned all the way up. She barely acknowledged me when I came in, so I grumpily turned it down, stated that some of us had to pay bills, and told her to turn the tv down. Next day my housemate had a go at me for making her sister feel unwelcome...
LindseyLee5 on July 31st, 2018 at 05:25 UTC »
Wow... My mom let a couple stay at their home because they were in between homes and needed a place to stay for a while. Swore up and down they never watched tv and wouldn’t be around much anyway, just needed a place to sleep really. Every time when my mom would get off shift, whether it was at 3 in the afternoon or 11pm they were always watching the tv. Never once offered to switch it to a show my parents would prefer to watch, and would change the station the second a show my parents were watching ended....
JWR91 on July 31st, 2018 at 08:42 UTC »
In my second year of uni, I shared a house with three others. One of the girls had everything paid for by her parents - food, rent, bills etc. Good for her. The rest of us had to pay ourselves.
She would also frequently have her family to stay. We had a small spare room and her dad would often stay there as it was closer to his work than their home. We were fine with this, as long as she let us know in advance, which she often didn't.
One day, her sister came to stay (We had no idea this was happening, turns out she was just coming over because she needed to be in the town the next day). It was about 2am and I heard sound coming from the living room. Being a uni house, my room was downstairs. I woke up and found I was in a puddle of my own sweat, slowly suffocating in the heat. I went into the living room to turn the thermostats down, and there was the sister, eating my Ben and Jerry's, in a t shirt, watching loud TV, with the heating turned all the way up. She barely acknowledged me when I came in, so I grumpily turned it down, stated that some of us had to pay bills, and told her to turn the tv down. Next day my housemate had a go at me for making her sister feel unwelcome...
Some people have no perspective.
_SexyWiddleBaby_ on July 31st, 2018 at 10:15 UTC »
If my roommate kept leaving the thermostat at 80 over this stupid shit or any reason I'd tell him to find a new living arrangement