Definition: Tea Towel

tea towel n. A cloth for drying dishes; a dishtowel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

A relatively simple tool, used to drying things with which you use to eat. Things that will no doubt, in some way or another will come in contact with your mouth. With that in mind, would you think someone would say, drop a tea towel on the floor and then put it back up to be used (or for a change not, and just leave it laying there)? Or perhaps even wipe up food dropped on the floor and then put it back up where it belongs? Until recently, I've not had the pleasure of meeting anyone who would do such a thing. It's quite horrible, to reach for a tea towel to dry a plate and find that it is actually dirtier than the bottom of a shoe. Essentially everytime I use the kitchen, I bring out a fresh tea towel because I can not trust the cleanliness of the existing towel. I have, until recently, been the only one in the past 4 months to wash the tea towels.

Today's reason why my flatmate pisses me off;

Using tea towels to wipe the floor (and god knows what else), and then returning them back to the handle of the oven to be used unsuspectingly by others.

Smelly cooking

My flat mate has a tendency to cook the most strong smelling foods, the kind that are really pungent and tend to linger. Garlic seems to be one of favorite flavours, and while I don't mind garlic, its use should only be in moderation. Where the normal person would use a clove or two of garlic, she will use an entire bulb. Tonight, it wasn't garlic (although I no doubt it was involved in some way). I'm actually unsure of what went into her concoction, but it certainly involved some rank meat (probably dodgy lamb or uncastrated pig), and some overwealming strong sickly sweet ingredient. And there was no attempt to use the range hood to evacuate the toxic fumes.

Today's reason for why my flat mate pisses me off;

She stank out the house with her revolting cooking.

Hocking

While sitting down to have breakfast my flatmate decides to sit down in the room and watch the television with us. Within in a matter of minutes she is coughing and splatering, hocking up the most aweful things from her lungs. I don't want to hear this shit when I'm eating. So she goes to the bathroom which was actually closer to the table than where she was sitting to hock the rest up, but didn't think to close the door. Disgusting.

Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;

Expectorating the most vile of contents from her lungs while I'm eating breakfast.

Emptying the garbage

Our household has a relatively large garbage bin which is great because you don't have to empty the bin as often. This of course is its biggest down side too. By the time it is full - depending on the content - it can be quite horrifing to deal with. Last week when my flat mate emptied the bin - I'll give her that; she did actually empty the bin - she took the garbage as far as the front door, and dumped it there. Now, I don't know about you, but when you have a large bag of rotting waste that absolutely fucking stinks, and because it is so cold outside, all of your windows are closed meaning there is no ventilation, you don't just dump it in your living room, you dispose of this bag immediately. And you don't leave it there for someone else to deal with.

Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;

She leaves rotting waste in the living room for others to deal with.

Did you know?

Her towel in the bathroom has not changed in at least 4 months.

Coffee Expresso

Having not seen my flat mate in the past day, I'm going to refer to an incident that happened in the past, to make sure I complete my daily quota.

When I first moved in, I bought a brand new coffee expresso, the stainless steel kind that you put on your stove and let the water boil up through the coffee. You know, the really expensive kind. Being a generous person, I was happy for others in the household to use my things, just as I was using much of their things in the kitchen. But it wasn't a week before I came back to use my coffee expresso that I found it was no longer silver, as chromed polished steel should be. It now had a golden tinge, and the underside was completely burned. Because it had been left on so long on the stove, the metal had burned and changed shape, meaning that the correct temperture and pressure for the water to come through was no longer correct, and I would now get luke warm coffees.

Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;

She destroyed my $70 coffee expresso within a week.

Dirty floor

After eating breakfast on saturday morning, the kitchen was swept and cleaned. The kitchen was not used again by us until sunday morning breakfast, but the floor was dirty again with crumbs and pieces of food all over the floor.

So today's reason my flat mate pisses me off;

Making a mess in the kitchen and not cleaning it up.