Soup - or a lesson in hygiene...
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63643)
United States
March 26, 2013 7:50pm CST
So, the roomie who does most of the cooking spent about two hours making butternut squash soup on Sunday. It was wonderful, and very filling (a little goes a LONG way)
Today D asked if she could have some for lunch.
The roomie who also works from home, told her where it was.
D started putting soup into a bowl then asked the roomie if she wanted some too.
The roomie said "no" so D put what she'd taken out back into the container and started to heat up the lot. There was more than enough for THREE people in that bowl (again a little goes a long way) when the roomie came out and caught her about to start the microwave.
"What are you doing?"
"Heating up the soup."
"What if you can't finish all that?"
"I'll put the lid back on it and put it back into the fridge so there's no dish to be washed."
"So, what if one of us wants some later? Or are we supposed to eat after you?"
"I'm not sick."
"That's not the point. Why would we want to eat out of something you've put your spit in?"
Silence.
"Besides, you already got a bowl dirty"
Silence.
"I guess I'll have to put the rest down the sink," D finally said.
"So, you're going to waste the rest of it? Never mind that I paid for the squash AND spent two hours making that soup."
Silence
"AND?"
"I guess I should put it into a bowl" She starts fishing for the dirty bowl she's already put into the sink full of dirty dishes.
"Might as well get a clean bowl at this point."
The roomie serves her up a portion of soup and puts away the leftovers then goes back to work.
Have you ever had to teach an adult basic manners?
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12 responses
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
27 Mar 13
If it was only me, I actually do this all the time. Now if I made something for others then, I would serve it in other bowls. But normally I just eat right out the bowl, and drink from a carton.
My sister has done this, and I told her off,seeing as she put it back on my shelf (my meal), and walked off like it was nothing.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
12 Aug 15
Good grief!
and yes, I do believe I have.. had to, that is..
and yes, I do believe I have.. had to, that is..1 person likes this
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
29 Mar 13
Unfortunately I see things like this all the time, and it really makes you wonder. Seriously why reheat it all instead of just enough for you for the moment? There is often so much wasted food I see but to finally get them to consider a bowl is better than a place I used to rent a roomfrom over 20 yrs ago, where the people never refrigerate food they had cooked, and then they would ask tell me the next day if you are hungry we have some food left over we cooked, and I was like no thank you, especially since this was mostly during the hot summer months.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
18 Sep 15
Some people are incapable of joining the dots - I blame the modern family where both parents are forced to work, and a series of minders, who have no vested interest in teaching their charges anything, are rearing the next generation...
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
27 Mar 13
I never figured we'd be having to do this! The former roommate, J, would drink out of the gallon of milk, but it WAS her milk - even though I tried to tell her that milk was the WORST thing to throw at an ulcer... have I said recently that she was an idiot?
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
27 Mar 13
i know what you mean. im glad the roomie caught her. my youngest son when he lived here was just nasty. he got mad at me a couple of times for saying did you wash your hands? tell me you didnt just eat out of that and put it back
my oldest here is very particular as to what is germs and clean, etc. like me. its like ive told my youngest and people that know him, he was not raised like that!! 
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
27 Mar 13
Your roommate D is something less! She never seems to have any common sense! She reminds me of some of the college students at the college I work at! So many waste food! Even though we went trayless at the start of the school year,we still are wasting alot of food! The students think they will eat all the food they have on their plates when in truth they usually don't! No matter what we do and try,to much food get wasted! So many kids were raised that way and don't care waht they waste! it is ridiculous!
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
27 Mar 13
She always had her mother to help her and when she didn't live at home she was either in her own apartment or in the dorm at the Blind School.
She said last night: "Oh, I guess I still have that twenties mindset."
I asked her what she meant.
She replied: "That I still think I need to be Number One."
I informed her that was more of a tweenie or teen mindset not twenties.
"Oh, yeah, I guess your right," she replied.
The roomie is getting tired of "I appreciate that" from her instead of "Thank you." We are BOTH tired of "Oh, yeah, I guess your right."
@WildHorses (718)
• United States
27 Mar 13
Yeah, EVERY DAY I have to teach my roommate to cut out his crap. What the hell is wrong with that chick? What it really boils down to is that she didn't think. They never do and so, hence, has to be talked to as if they were children learning the ways of the world. He does the same crap about how much to eat in one sitting too. I make enough to last for 2 days every time but the at the rate he's eating I there are never leftovers for the next day.
Furthermore, what's with the dirty dishes? MY SINK never has dirty dishes. Once I finish something I have used for eating/drinking, I rinse it out and place it in the dishwasher.
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@nyssa102 (748)
• United States
27 Mar 13
Oh that is just disgusting, and I am not a neat freak. I have limits and that is when people mess with food. That has little consideration for anyone else. I have never had to teach an adult basic manners. I would be afraid to leave a carton of milk or juice unattended with a person like that in the house, we'd probably all be drinking their spittle without knowing. Alone and single, fine, but with others? Very bad form.
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