<p>This happened yesterday and I had to share it somewhere. My son is a neat guy, sharing with a nice guy who’s a bit of a slob. They are both 26ish. When my son got up this morning, there was a pot filled with leftover stew in the sink. This guy never cleans up after himself. My son took the pot and put it in the guy’s room. My son left for work. The guy takes the pot and DUMPS THE CONTENTS ON MY SON"S BED! My son got home to find the mess, and he was very upset. Needless to say, my son is not renewing his lease! It made me think other parents have funny stories about post college apartment sharing.</p>
<p>Well, to be honest , my initial take on this story is that it is not too funny. Sounds like your son and his roommate both made mistakes here.</p>
<p>Oh,my. If they were getting along at all before this, they are not now. How much longer is left on the lease?</p>
<p>The kitchen sink is a much more appropriate place for a pan of food than a bedroom.
Sounds like they didn’t learn how to get along with roommates in college.
They both should grow up.</p>
<p>Sorry, but what’s funny about that story?</p>
<p>Oh dear! Time for a sit-down discussion between the two of them. Something else happened years ago with DD. She and her apartment-mate kept smelling a bad odor in the kitchen. It took them several days, but eventually they discovered the pan and remains of their shared chicken dinner in the oven where they had left it. Oops. I guess each though the other had washed up the pan.</p>
<p>My son came home for fall break and he said they didn’t do their dishes before they left the apartment but not to worry - they sprayed the dishes with OFF so they wouldn’t get fruit flies before they returned to campus. Ughhh.</p>
<p>S., 25, has had several very different roommates in the last few years. (He’ll complain to me about them on the phone.) S’s latest roommate seems very clueless. S had to show him how to wash dishes by hand (apparently he’d never done this). S had to tell him that SOAP is necessary. S also had to tell him not to use metal utensils on non-stick pans (this was AFTER he ruined all of S’s pans. . .) Roomie lost his keys and just kept borrowing S’s. This went on for more than a week. Roomie originally said that he misplaced them in the apartment and was “waiting for them to turn up.” S got annoyed, and finally told him that he needed FIND his keys, or get new ones. According to S, the guy had never even thought to LOOK AROUND for his keys. Then S asked the guy to think back, what did he think could’ve happened to the keys, where might they be, could they have fallen out of his pocket, etc. , the guy said, “Well, maybe they could’ve fallen into the couch. . .” He reached into the couch and there they were.
S’s best roommate was a 19yo guy who just wanted an address so he could pretend to his parents that he wasn’t really living with his girlfriend. Yes, he paid the rent, and no, he wasn’t around much.
(I think getting the leftover stew pot into the sink was a good first step…I don’t see anything wrong with it. In our house washing dishes includes “Step One: First, find all the dirty dishes. They may be in the kitchen, or they may be in any other room of the house. . .”)</p>
<p>“When my son got up this morning, there was a pot filled with leftover stew in the sink”</p>
<p>Wow, that was exactly what was in my sink this morning.
Well, it was beans, and we had a great block party last night.</p>
<p>I think your son was wrong to move the kitchen problem beyond the sink.</p>
<p>Don’t see the funny part here… Guess you had to be there…</p>
<p>I agree…I don’t see anything funny about the OP at all. Did your son think his roommate would be amused? Was your son amused? It sure doesn’t sound like it was funny from their perspectives. Did you really laugh when you heard this story from your son?</p>
<p>You are all right- not funny! I guess having a son in prison warps your sense of humor. I guess it was very mean of him to dump the food. Apparently, this has been an ongoing problem.</p>