Revenge cleaning

[yrmencyn]

So, Kregg last week had made some passive aggressive comments about the bathroom needing to be cleaned.  I had figured, fine, whatever, I'll clean it Saturday.  Then he up and started cleaning it on Friday, to which I could only say "uh... I was going to do that tomorrow."  "No big deal, you can do it next weekend."  Fair enough, fair enough.  Shared duties and all that.

Fast forward to today.  It had totally slipped my mind that I was going to clean the bathroom this past weekend (because... sorry, but I generally don't do a weekly cleaning of the bathroom.  I just don't, it's not necessary to my mind).  Kregg asks me wasn't I going to have cleaned the bathroom this weekend?  I replied, quite honestly, that I had meant to, but it slipped my mind.  He requests that I do so "as soon as you can."  There was a tone thing going on that carried a meaning close to "you are entirely unhygienic."

Bitch, please.  On my way back from translating at Perks today (almost 25 pages, including one quite long poem that had some really crazy stuff going on, rock on), I picked up some Comet and some toilet bowl cleaner, because all we had was some Clorox all-purpose spray and some Windex.  And I'm sorry, you cannot clean a tub with Clorox spray, no matter what the bottle says: it will not get the job done.  Even more so, you can not clean our hard-water-stains-and-other-such-madness tub with a spray, that baby needs scouring powder.  This is evinced by the results of his cleaning last week, which took a long time and had *looks both ways carefully* no discernible effect.  Seriously, how can you be so manic about bathroom cleanliness and yet so not effective at cleaning?  Obviously you didn't have my mother.  She may not have managed to get me to clean the bathroom regularly, but by God when I did I knew what I was doing.

I cleaned the tub, the sink, the toilet, and the floor, then went on to empty the dishwasher and deal with the gross pile of dishes in the sink (rinse, people, rinse!  Caked on peanut-butter and chocolate milkshake is disgusting!) while I was in cleaning mode.  Total time elapsed for both rooms?  A little over an hour.  I am a domestic god, and the tub is shiny white.  You could eat off of that tub.

So take that!  The bathroom's... um... clean to your obsessive-compulsive standards.  Woohoo, I really put one... over... on you... didn't I...?  *sigh*  I can't win.

Comments

[purple-phys.livejournal.com]

With the pasive-aggressive OCD roommates, you really can't win. Been there, done that. You can only leave knowing you did your best. And that you're not the crazy one. And I agree, tubs need Comet.

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

25 pages? Damn, now I feel like an ass stressing over getting 10 verses of Hebrew done for tomorrow.

[yrmencyn.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair we're only talking about *checks* 1238 words in the final text, as opposed to 5500 (250 x 22) for full prose text, and I *have* been studying French a lot longer than you've been studying Hebrew.

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't be fair! It made me get off my ass and do double the Hebrew today!

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

With or without the vowels? Either way Hebrew is a whole magnitude harder due to that "non-Latin" alphabet going on.

and yet 13 year olds manage to learn whole passages of the stuff, so there is that :)

[malakhgabriel.livejournal.com]

With. God, if it was without I'd have quit my first semester. We did have to spend the first week or two mainly learning the alphabet, and even now, a year and a half later, I still can't recite it in order.

As for the 13 year olds... I take comfort in knowing that for the most part a lot of them just learn how to read/chant the necessary passages and never really understand any of the rest. There's a girl in my class (4th semester of Hebrew) who, from her synagogue experiences, can read Hebrew beautifully, but can't understand it to save her life.

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of them just memorize it. I never had my Bat Mitzvah(I stopped training in the 4th grade in order to be in Girl Scouts) but I did take 2 quarters in college. So I understand bits and pieces of the prayers and I was able to understand about every third graffito when I went to Israel for two weeks. I'd really like to go back and study it some more...just to know.

[pyralis-phyre.livejournal.com]

Damn, man, and you didn't even have Claire standing over you. I mean, eat off of a tub??????
Better watch out, you never know where his bathroom OCness will suddenly spread now that he's seen the kitchen clean, next thing you know, the cats won't be allowed on the counter. Let alone your bare ass.
Pyr.

[groovy2382.livejournal.com]

yeah one roomate i had was weird about...i mean the guy shed more hair than I did yet I managed to clean the bathroom of that unruly mess. But he'd fuss over something like taking out the garbage which is a bit difficult for me to log like 3 bags down three flights of stairs and walk (quite a ways) to the garbage bin. Yeah 1 or 2 bags at most I could handle...but 3? NOt to mention doing this while on the way to work in port allen so of course i wasn't wearing sensible 'tennis' shoes or whatever....ok long rant...btw camp pics and family camp pics will be on the way soon

[queenmargot.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I love that you have a "kregg" tag.

Anyway, maybe you could point out that next weekend when he cleans the bathroom, he might want to use the Comet since he didn't get all the hard water stains off the week before... :P