Strange behaviour

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@DaddyEvil talking of hoarding just made me think of other people I knew and their strange behaviour. Once upon a time, a long time ago, two of my student friends shared a house with another young man they knew. As he was the last of the three of them to arrive, he got the smallest bedroom. So when he left several bags of his things in the living room that just seemed natural, maybe he didn’t have enough space to put it anywhere else. Then one day his parents came down to visit. They took him out to lunch and then shopping for clothes. When he got home he just dumped everything in bags on the floor. Eventually he was asked why he didn’t put any of his stuff away, and he said he had no space in his room. So one day when he was out we went to have a look. True, his room was quite small, but it was also completely empty apart from the furniture. There was a decent-sized wardrobe with not a single garment hanging in it. Meanwhile in the living room there was a heap of black bin bags containing clothes, including some very nice things his parents had obviously bought for him. We couldn’t understand why he didn’t put his things away and look after them properly, but we never found out. I wonder what has happened to him since? Maybe he somehow found an organised wife to take care of everything. Or maybe he lives in squalor somewhere. I guess we will never know. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.