What a month of whinging and moaning I have had. All I can say, people - it's tough to be passive aggressive. I try so hard to state what I want, why and all this in a reasonable manner, but it winds up me backpeddling and initial demands backtrack to whimpering miniscule request with all the compromise on my part. Kitchen politics for instance. I start out with the self righteous, "I should not have to clean other people's nutricious snack and lunch dishes when I don't make multi pot efforts during the day saving explosive cooking for dinners". Then I think, well, I have left a bit of a mess in the lounge because all my stuff is exploding out of my too small room. Then I revert to "But when I bake or make non-communal things I clean my own mess up" which flips to wondering if I have maybe left something inadvertantly, a bad transgression if I am making something with dairy products (I have vegan flatmates).
Anyway, yesterday I had done a load of dishes in the ten minutes before work. I find out today that this was noted, but that it is expected that people do ALL the dishes when they do some. I have never noticed this occurring, unless the dishes all get done and then more appear immediately afterwards. Usually not rinsed or stacked neatly. And lets not begin to talk about the hair clippings on the bench.
Come to think of it, I never do all the dishes. I have my things I refuse to do - cups with teabags in them, pots with burnt stuff on them (unless I did the flambe)... and increasingly pots and pans from baroque creations throughout the day. I need a rule of thumb - one pot, non viscous material, will clean. 2 pots with creamy substance - definitely not. Its rather like my feeling about sick days though; I feel disadvantaged by not having taken sick days when other people have many paid days off. In the case of the dishes - here we have this marvellous policy whereby flatmates do dishes even if they were lunch dishes, or private cook ups - and I am not taking full advantage of it.
I bet my lunch dishes would not get done.
So whats a passive agressive person to do? Suck it up and then post about it, obviously.
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So negotiations have been entered...but an unwitting party has since vomited dishes all over the place. Can we hold out, not doing them? Normally would not have been a challange, but our hitherto majestiv collection of crockery has dissipated leaving us with three substandard bowls and depleted cups.
I could write a serial in a magazine about this drama
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