Pink for October
This is just a minor vent at my brother-in-law, because he will never see it here.
Hey, buddy. You are the one who subscribes to the newspaper in our house. You are the one who reads it. Therefore, as we agreed, it is your responsibility to carry them up to the curb to put out with the recycling. Our driveway is long, and I am not strong enough to carry them myself. Driving them up there is a pain in the ass, especially when they’re your newspapers. So even though it’s my month to take the trash, bottles, and cans up to the curb…it’s always your month to carry the newspapers. You receive ‘em, you get rid of ‘em. The rest of us generate very little paper waste - I would only have to take the papers out every two or three weeks if it weren’t for all your newspapers. Kindly remind yourself of what we agreed to when we split up the garbage tasks, and take the damn newspapers up your own damn self.
(That said, I did it all this time, because while it’s fun to vent about it’s not worth actually arguing with him over.)
One Response for "Newspaper Venting"
Ah, the pleasure of having roommates!
Luckily we don’t fight about chores very much, but we have friends who have this elaborate system where they get points for doing various things around the house and then get to cash them in, or at least guilt the other for not getting as many as them. We’ve been thinking about this because we are both very disorganized, so although we don’t fight about it, we aren’t often motivated to do stuff till the last minute. So I’ve been working on a web application that keeps track of different chores and tallies points based on difficulties, schedules them, and alerts you when something is about to be due or overdue. It’s been a fun project, but we’ll see how much we actually use it!
Also, we have been getting even more newspapers thrown on our lawn lately as the Washington Examiner started coming. I swear if you’re out of town for a few days you have to pick up a half dozen papers now! I finally had to go and call all of these free papers (even the Vienna Times) and opt out. I figure we can always check their sites and save a bunch of trees! If only they had RSS feeds, though…
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