Housemates dish the dirt
Some frustrated Leesiders have taken to Cork’s official Reddit page to do a little venting about their housemates from hell.
Asked what their “biggest housemate pet peeve” is, Cork Redditors listed everything from dishes being left in the sink to blobs of cooked egg found floating in their tea on the social media site! Receiving over 60 comments in the space of just 5 hours, the post serves as damning evidence that Cork is most likely crawling with terrible housemates and they probably don’t even know it.
Some of the more common complaints include being messy, slamming doors, smoking inside, never emptying bins, being loud at inappropriate times, leaving the heating on 24/7, and eating other people’s food. However, amongst the comments were a few examples of some very strange and often infuriating behaviour that would have anyone at their wit’s end.
Redditor Fionn_MacCuill was left feeling particularly sour when a housemate spilled litres of milk all over the kitchen floor and simply left it there for days. “I came back on the Sunday and the house was absolutely stinking. It was in the summer so the sun was beating on it all weekend,” they wrote.
For Redditor imnotamilkman, a housemate’s failure to lock the front door after a night on the town left them in an awkward and potentially dangerous situation. They wrote: “Housemate left the door unlocked when they came home late one night and when I was out of the shower about to go to work the next day, I woke up to a stranger walking around the house still drunk from the night before telling me he used to live in the house so he came back to sleep.”
You couldn’t accuse Redditor PollyWaffle2010 of “micro-managing” when they complained of a housemate drying their undergarments in the kitchen, but not where you might expect.
“Used to live with a lad for a few months and he used to throw his socks and jocks in the microwave in the mornings before work to take the dampness out of them. Putting them in for 5 seconds, off again, on again and so on.”
And finally, user MidnightSun77 was left scrambling for an explanation when they found something in their tea that really shouldn’t have been there.
“Once lived in a house where a fella would boil eggs in the kettle. None of us knew until one day an egg broke and when I was drinking my tea a small blob of cooked egg was floating in it,” read the comment.
Hopefully they didn’t have to shell out for a new kettle.