Long showers
My flatmate has the tendency to take excessively long showers.. I'm not talking about 20 minute or 30 minute showers. I'm talking lengths of upto 45 minutes. Perhaps because she showers so infrequently she thinks it's ok to take showers of this length because her daily average is still within reasonable limits. Other than the fact she is being extremely wasteful with a finite resource, it means that subsequent persons using the shower get only cold water.
Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;
She takes excessively long showers that use all of the available hot water.
posted at 15:56
61 Comments:
I stubbled onto your blog, and I must say, I too feel bad for getting all this enjoyment out of your pain! I can't believe some people can be so rude. You are sharing a place, 50/50, so she should have a little more consideration, meaning, taking shorter showers, but taking them more often!
Good Luck, and I'll be back tomorrow to see what she does next to tick you off!
Cold showers are the worst! :(
I can empathize. Living with inconsiderate, selfish, and dirty people is the worst!
I think that some practical joking might help the situation (or at the least alleviate some of your angst). During the beginning of her next shower, perhaps you could shut the valve coming off the hot water heater. That will get her out of the bathroom in no time!
Only one solution to that problem.. Set up a webcam in the bathroom and link it to here ;o)
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Unless there's a lease you should serious ask her to move or just jump into the shower with her.
Ignore the naysayers and the people who leave the same type of comments over and over!! Keep on posting, I love reading this stuff!
She's likely using your shower massager for heinous purposes (if you know what I mean!) Remove it at once and replace with a standard shower head.
My roommate leaves dirty socks, underwear and clothes (oh, and shoes) all over the apartment. He does not lift the toilet seat up, so there are sprinkles of pee on the seat, and when he had something to drink, he totally misses the bowl and there will be pee all over the floor. And that's a preview. This 'roommate' is my husband.
I can relate to your miseries but Nicodemus_Smith is right. Unfortunately you will end up living with someone most of your life and you just have to deal with these things.
Can't stand cold showers. Might have to take a shower at night instead if she showers in the morning. Reading all these things make me glad I decided not to get a roommate myself.
A good toilet flush here and there while she's in the shower might encourage her to end the bathing ritual a bit early.
A shower massager? Oh the luxury. A showerhead you can move? More luxury. If I had a shower massager maybe I could get this bloody knot out of my right deltoid.
But seriously though, I'd really like John Doe to tell us why he hasn't kicked this mentally impared idiot out of the apartment. Don't get me wrong I really enjoy coming here every day and reading this stuff - I've had a gross flatmate - he was a good christian boy but took 6 hour (I'm not exagerating) baths, leaving scum and dirt in it from swimming in his own juices, left his washing in the machine to stink, and wore shirts that had mould growing on them. But I left.
i possibly have the best roommate in the entire world, so i thought that i would brag a bit. While my best friend for the past 14 years (since high school) isn't the most conscientious person when it comes to cleaning - i would rather pick up after her & enjoy her company each and every day we live together. i am so glad that i don't have to deal with your situation...
I think this blog is a healthy way to vent about the idiot flatmate. Heck, maybe she has some redemptive qualities that we don't know about, and this just happense to be the perfect place to vent about her less favorable ones so that he can enjoy the redemptive ones when he's around her.
Or maybe she's just a full-blown idiot and the fact that he has this blog keeps him from strangling her in her sleep.
Whichever way it is, I enjoy reading it. I think as people, a lot of us enjoy laughing at ourselves, sometimes it is the only way to cope. Sometimes, I can't help but laugh at her outright stupidity, even though I know I'm not the brightest crayon in the box.. on the other hand, being able to relate to the things smart-flatmate is saying, and knowing I'm not the only one out there who has to put up with crummy roommate habits, that makes me feel better too.
I mean, jeez... at least they are not married. (I hope. I really, really hope.) Look at the post a few paragraphs up, that poor lady is married to her wicked roommate...
Anyways, thanks again, I truly do enjoy.
Did you check whether you are living with one of Noseferatu's vamps ?
I would hate to live with you.
John Doe -- your shagging her, aren't you? Just admit it -- you're in the sack, giving her a good rogering and then get online, and whinge about how she sings to you.
Your posts have declined in their level of virtriol and you've removed all the nasty previous posts -- this is almost descendingto the puppy love of things my girlfriend and i have argued about.
I understand your annoyance very well... I had a Japanese homestay student that used to have a shower for 30 minutes then stays in the bathroom for another 30 miunutes, comes out of the bathroom THEN returns for another 30 minutes. That's a total of one and half hour EACH DAY!!! What she does, I don't know but she leaves the bathroom in a mess everytime as well. Happy to say, she left after 5 weeks after I let her know "subtly" that what she does pisses me off!
All things aside, I'm rather curious about the outcome. Will the flatmate never realize she's being criticized anonymously in public, or will the blog become so popular that she finds it? Will she read the blog and laugh, not knowing she laughs at her own folly?! So many questions! The suspense! You could use this blog as the base for a made-for-TV series. Or something.
I haven't had such a good laugh in ages!!!!!! Tears were rolling down my face!!!!!!!!! Hysterical stuff - keep it coming.
I am still enjoying your posts! What kind of water heater do you have that supplies 45 minutes of hot water in a flat!??!! No one in our house takes a shower after my youngest dd unless they want a very cold one!
I am jealous!
maybe, she wants you to get in the shower with her. maybe she was waiting for you.. hahaha
It's a well-thought strategie to kill you inside, little by little. Oh oh oh! it seems like it's working
wow, count your blessings. It could be a lot worse living with a roommate. For example, at least she's not an unemployed alcoholic, or some psycho lunatic that hides a gun by her bed...
Don't sit around an stew over things your flatmate does. Talk to her. You are setting her up for failure. You are just waiting for her to do something so you can post about it. Tell her your issues, change your heart, or move out! Why do you continue if you are unhappy. It's not fair to your flatmate either.
Our blogger friend here has already indicated that he will be moving out (Full access to the blog history will be availble when I move out) and I think this is just a fun and entertaining (for us anyway) way for him to vent his frustrations until that fateful day. I say, enjoy the posts while they last!
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I've been reading your blog for a couple of weeks now, and I empathize, I can assure you. I once shared a tiny three bedroom place with three other guys, including one who insisted on having his girlfriend move in with us, thus making it five adults sharing the squalor. The landlord could, I'm sure, trace his ancestry to Beelzebub. One year of that was enough and I finally reorganzed my finances, omitting things like three meals a day, so that I could get a place alone. You have my sympathy! Ignore the naysayers. Not ony is your blog enjoyable, it's therapeutic!
j'ai beaucoup raisons pourquoi je déteste mon flatmate
1. unpaid or late rent
2. unpaid or late payment on utilities
3. eats/drinks my food on the fridge
4. gets free cable (at my expense)
5. going to my room without my permission
focus on the positive
I can relate to this problem...I live in a suite-styled dorm and since there is no schedule for showers, I have to compete with girls taking 20 minute showers for no real reason as well as male janitors cleaning the bathroom in the mornings. Most of the time I just work out and shower in the gym, where there are enough showers and no janitors or annoying roommates.
Arrrrrrggggggggghhhhh.
both my mother and my sister do that and it totally pisses me off im normally late for work because they're both obsessed with their apperences and they're only ever going to check the mail or something stupid like that
to hea more about them and the things that piss off a teenager living in hell go to my blog : jaeslittleblackbook@blogspot.com
Dude! All you have to do is get in there before her and make sure you shower for an equal amount, if not more, length of time.
Then see what she says when there is no hot water.
i feel your pain...but try three (3) flatmates like that. they're inconsiderate and can't even pick up after themselves. i know all too well your pain. just be glad you have this as an outlet. i didn't even know these exsisted when i had flatmates or i would have started one of these. i learned my lesson about flatemates: don't ever have one. living alone might be pitiful, but at least you can be in peace and have everything your way. it's not that i don't get along with them, ok that's part of it, but they really stupid too.
Living with may parents is bad enough, my sister uses all the hot water...
But get up earlier than your flatmate, cos what goes around, comes around and gives you all the hot water!
I had a flatmate who used to have an hour long bath on mornings I needed to use the bathroom for purposes other than cleansing myself. You are 100% supported anonymous. Be brave!!!
PS: What was that about pouring raspberry jam on each other and licking it? That picture is framed and hanged in my head.
Maybe Garth, being the great person that he is, would like to offer your roommate accomodations at his place.
WITH ALL THE SWIMMING POOLS, FOUNTIANS, FAKE PONDS, JACUZEEZ, CAR WASHES, AND MILLIONS OF HOUSES BEING BUILT WITH MULTIPLE BATHROOMS....Where is the water shortage comming from?...Not from long showers!
Society has burdened some of us with needs only a bathroom can accomodate.
1. pee/poo wipe thoroughly so you don't leave stains.
2. Wash hands after pee/poo so you don't contaminate food or furniture.
3. wash body with soap.
4. rinse off soap.
5. shave armpits.
6. shave legs.
7. shampoo rinse repeat---shampoo rinse repeat.
8. condition--takes forever to rinse out.
9. towel dry.
10. apply Deoderant.
11. Brush teeth. Floss if necessary.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER?? These people who claim to do all these things in 5 minutes or less? I think the ones who do have an Anal Retentive Fear of Water. There is always something odd about them.
You sound like you have a need to only take showers AFTER her. Hmm sounds like a fetish.
WITH ALL THE SWIMMING POOLS, CAR WASHES, JACUZEEZ, FOUNTAINS AND FAKE PONDS, AND MILLIONS OF HOUSES BEING BUILT WITH MULTIPLE BATHROOMS....Where is the water shortage? ...Not because of long showers for sure.
Society has put upon us needs that only the bathroom can accomodate. Common uses are--.
1. pee/poo wipe thoroughly so you don't leave stains.
2. Wash hands after pee/poo so you don't contaminate food or furniture.
3. wash body with soap.
4. rinse off soap.
5. shave armpits.
6. shave legs.
7. shampoo rinse repeat--shampoo rinse repeat.
8. conditioner...takes forever to rinse out.
9. towel dry.
10. apply Deoderant.
11. Brush teeth. Floss if necessary.
You have to wonder about the people who claim to do all this in 5 minutes or less????? Or do they do it at all?
They seem to have an Anal Retentive Fear of Water.
Do they run and hide when it rains?
try to be more zen and help her to be comfortable with her little habit by offering her a chair in there, and then maybey she will be more relaxed about a productive discussion of her sinful wasteful habits
Maybe you should just tell her not to shower for so long!!!
oh GREAT, you HAD to be so witty, and so articulate DIDN'T YOU!?
NOW i will NEVER get my housework done...I'll be HERE reading your "perils of being a flatmate" blog. THANKS A TON! ppfftt.
I'm personally most definitely in favor of choosing to do a sizable load of dishes or laundry about ten minutes into said shower. Switch frequently between hot and cold water.
Why ten minutes in? Because then she'll have soap all over her when the water suddenly turns frigid or scalding. Presuming this pig uses soap.
Why, yes, I am somewhat passive-aggressive, why do you ask? ;-)
Oh, and you know what puzzles me? My stepsons do this too, take ungodly long showers. Why? Whatthehell are they DOING in there? They have short hair, they certainly aren't shaving anything - what on earth takes so long about rinsing, soaping up, and rinsing off? GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE, GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A CHANCE, WHYDONTCHA?!
Did you hear about the computer programer who starved to death in the shower?
The shampoo instuctions said "Lather, rinse, repeat".
Hey .. sounds like an annoying flat mat that i had... hope it's not the same one... anyway his long showers always made me late for work in the mornings... one day he was so long in there, he'd gone past his start time for work and left promptly... while I was still in bed his girlfriend jumped into the shower... to cut a long story short.. when she got out.. I shagged her... revenge is sweet :-) ... she look a little like kylie minogue
Those that are saying that this person is being too tough on their flatmate perhaps are only saying this because they are just like this horrendously disgusting and selfish flatmate and have had to deal with many a flatemate in the past constantly complaining about them. Before you sympathize with this lazy, careless, obviously clueless jerk think to yourself- why?
Why should ihatemyflatmate move out? This person knows how a person should behave when living with others. I completely side with ihatemyflatmate and feel that they have every right to complain. I know I would!
I don't know whether to laugh because your complaints are hilarious, or cry, because I relate to more than one of them.
Wow, is this a funny blog. Reminds me that home ownership truly is bliss. I must say that I've had my share of brutal flatmates over the years but luckily none as bad as yours. Have you considered giving her the boot?
That sucks. Happened to me too once. She also did not wash the shower out once she had finished, and left the plug hole bungged up with her hair!
i lived with a guy who smoked so much weed he used to pass out of the floor of the shower, i had to bang on the door for 3 hours once coz i thought he was dead.
Funny someone else had mentioned a Japanese homestay student overstaying their time in the shower. My flatmate is Japanese as well and the length of time she spends in the shower would wipe out Niagra Falls at a strike. I've timed it once at 40 min in the shower alone. It's like clockwork, the second I'm about to use the loo she manages to slip in just in the nick of time and that's when I hear the clock ticking. To top it off she leaves the shower in a mess afterwards. What is she doing? Shaving her whole body?
I get chills whenever I read your blog - it brings back memories of one flatmate before I moved in with my current Neanderthal.
That woman loved taking hour-long showers, and always in the morning (when you have to get to work). In the end, I moved out.
Right now, it is a daily battle of wits to nip into the bathroom before Neanderthal begins his 45-minute beautification ritual. He once saw me at the bathroom at the door, and ran in anyway.
Where do these people come from? Why do I keep finding them?
I can't believe I found this blog! I am going crazy about the two tenants that live on the foor above me. Both of them (husband & wife) take seperate hour long showers between 1:00am until 3:00am. The problem is that the water pipes run right through the wall in my bedroom. All while I am trying to sleep to wake up for 5:00am. All I can hear is water running...and running...and running...and running. It's driving me crazy! How does one go about complaining to the landlord that the upstairs neighbors are taking showers all night long and not sound like a nut! Well I think you get my drift. Anyone that needs to take an hour long shower has a serious mental problem in my book. Any advice on how to deal with these morons.
I agree. Anyone that takes a shower for an hour should see a mental health professional. Not only that but I think you should make up some story to get them thrown out of your building. I have been in the mental health field for twenty years and can say with certainty that spending that much time in a shower is indicative of obsessive compulsive disorder. You should report them as well. They are a danger to themselves and others if left untreated.
Hi, I was looking for a site where to share my sad destiny: on of my flatmates takes a shower, every day, between the 40 and 60 minutes! Obviously, at most convenient time for her: 7 or 8 in the morning, when also the rest of us would like to shower!We have nicknamed her: 'The lady'!
I think your solution is easy. Turn off the hot water one evening. Leave it that way. When she complains... just tell her -- this is what we experience... Thought you'd like to share. Or set a timer for a resonable amount of time - then go turn off the water at the hot water heater, presto no more hot water for her. Do that everytime she showers and she'll cut down her time.
This blog is an act of cowardice.
My roomate took a frivoulous 45-minute shower yesterday morning and I was 3 minutes late to my class. As I was exiting our a apartment, (oh the shock) I told that motherfucker not to ever do that again.
It is called verbal communication. Use it.
For example, this morning I clocked his shower in at 7 minutes. It sounds like you need to "check" your roomate and put the indulgent asshole in it's place. Run a tight ship but be nice to your roommate, however if they mess around let them know that you can be a wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-domestic-fascist that will put them in their place...instead of whining about it on the internet.
Here is what you do. You get her an insurance policy, then you hire a hitman to whack her/his idiot´s ass; if you need details on how to do that or you keep putting up with this inconsiderate unhuman dork then you are the idiot. Don´t forget to move after, some place nice... no roomates.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking long showers. It's called cleaning yourself. If you think your five minute showers are sufficient, you probably stink pretty bad, and most people are just too polite to tell you so.
You really need to spend at least 10 - 15 mins or so under very hot water (as hot as you can stand) in order to get a proper shave, and that doesn't include washing yourself.
Also, some people (like myself) suffer from back problems. Taking a nice long hot shower does wonders and genuinely improves quality of life.
Some people don't like taking long showers, and that's fine. You should however, respect the wishes of those who do. It's not a matter of "oh, I hate this person because of the length of their showers", you just need to wake up earlier than them. I've lived with several people where I had to get up around 3:45am, take my shower, go back to sleep, and then wake up at 7:00 to go to work. It may not be that great getting up so early, but it beats being confined to a worthless 5 min shower.
The #1 thing I've always hated about living with other people is how they complain about long showers. Your complaining is not going to help anyone, and it only makes me take longer showers because I hate you now that you complain so much. You should probably go take a shower to get all that sand out of your vagina.
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