Respecting People's Schedules

[ravan]

You know, I really try to respect other folks plans and schedules. I will cut stuff short so I can be where I need to be to allow for other people's arrangements, and try to be as flexible as I can. But some others can't be bothered to extend the same courtesy to me.

I'm going to get a ticket from the city, and have to pay extra to get my yard waste dealt with, because someone didn't get the able-bodied person in my house home from a party before dark today, in spite of telling me that they'd be back in the early afternoon. They didn't get back until 9pm. Trash pick-up is at 6am tomorrow. I'm screwed. I don't know how much it'll cost me, but it's money I can't afford. Not with my utility bills going up (new account, no rate reduction or medical baseline.)

This is the second time just this month that this person has dicked me and my helper over with this type of thing. I'm fucking furious.

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[mdehners]

Time for another round of roommate roulette. One thing a few DECADES of this BS taught me is they DON'T learn. Well, they MIGHT if you toss them out but WTF cares if all your suffering helped someone else;>?
Cheers,
Pat

[ravan]

Ironically, it's not the roommates fault - he has no transportation of his own. So if he goes out, miles away, she is his ride, and even though she knows he needs to be back, she doesn't get him home on time.

So he had to get up early this morning and do triage on the pile to get it legal before the pickup came. He gets screwed, I get screwed, she enjoys her little control game.

She isn't a roommate.