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.

posted originaly at 1/22/2005 07:16:40 AM

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.

posted originaly at 1/21/2005 06:40:45 PM

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.

posted originaly at 1/20/2005 09:31:11 AM

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.

posted originaly at 1/19/2005 07:53:37 AM

Did you know?

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

posted originaly at 1/18/2005 09:06:09 AM

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.

posted originaly at 1/17/2005 07:41:44 AM

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.


posted originaly at 1/16/2005 05:22:46 PM

Late night antics

Having lost her keys (again - but this time apparently for good), she made several calls after midnight last night explaining she had lost her keys, and that she wanted
the door left open for her. My other flat mate who received the calls didn't feel comfortable leaving the door unlocked (it wasn't a couple of months ago there was a
shooting just down the street) so after 2am she was woken again to open the door for her. Despite being asked not to the slam the door, she slammed the door
without thinking (or listening) waking up me in the process.

So todays reason for my flat mate pissing me off;

Loosing her keys and then waking up the household on three separate occasions after midnight.

posted originaly at 1/15/2005 12:12:37 PM

Unable to close the front door

In recent weeks after having our front door frame replaced and the lock on the door also replaced, the front door now requires a slight amount of force applied to make sure the bolt from the door lock propery enters the hole in the door frame. Despite a series of cases where I have woken up in the morning to find our front door wide open, led me to put a sign on the door as reminder to make sure the door is closed properly. But the door has continued to be left open. In the most recent case, the sign had been removed by my flat mate, and the door was left open all night. To remedy this, I replaced the sign on the door and casually mentioned to all household members that the door must be closed and locked at night. However, while my suggestion was open, and not directed or targetted at anyone even though I knew who was at fault (again) , it led my flatmate to burst into tears claiming that she was under too much stress.

So todays reason for my flat mate pissing me off;

Being in denial about her responsibility for closing and locking the front door properly.

posted originaly at 1/14/2005 08:07:23 AM

Extreme case of foot odour

Her poor personal hygine combined with her habit of infrequently washing her clothes has led to an extreme case of foot odour. For the past number of days the smell coming from her body has been almost unbearable. But my main concern has been that the smell remains on basically everything she touches in the apartment, for example on the couch, and where she leaves her boots near the front door. And due to the unfortunate fact that the doors to our rooms are next to each other, each time I step out of my room, I'm greeted with an overpowering pungent stink that I've tried unsucessfully to mask with my deoderant.

So today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;

An extreme case of her foot odour has taken over the apartment.

posted originaly at 1/13/2005 07:36:46 AM

First Post - The start of it all !

About this blog
In this blog, I intend to list one event per day that my flatmate does to piss me off. It shouldn't be hard. It's 8am in the morning and she has already done something to piss me off.

Today's reason my flatmate pisses me off;

She walked from the shower to her bedroom without drying herself, leaving pools of water in the bathroom and throughout the house.

posted originaly 1/12/2005 11:00:30 AM

About this blog !

In this blog, I intend to list the full arcive of Things I Hate About My Flatmate !

This blog posting daily reasons of things a flatmate do to make life harder has very quickly become a big hit in the online world but unfurtunatly the author chose to dellete all arcived posts only displaying the most recent ones..

Well, nothing ever disapers totally from the world wide web and Imo. anyone should have the chance to read up on these crazy and funny postings.. So here you have it - The "Things I Hate About My Flatmate" Arcives !

Blog will be updated frequently with new arcived Things I Hate About My Flatmate blogs !