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The most annoying habit your Uni refugee has ...

230 replies

Besswess88 · 01/02/2021 22:38

I’ll start.

So he’s been pretty good bless him, shit situation etc not knowing when he’ll be going back.

Using bowls that we don’t normally use because the rest are fermenting in his room.

Blocking the washing machine got 3 days with his washing, then handing it out over mine which is drying making my clothes and the room he has hung it in absolutely stink.

😭😭

OP posts:
NoSquirrels · 01/02/2021 23:47

@seaclaidte

Instead of moaning about it to random people on the Internet. Why dont you have a conversation with your guest.

There is nothing wrong with setting out house rules.

Also I have reported your post as spam.
Good day

What?

Why is everyone so confused by a post about a student back at home being shit at laundry? Confused

Lalliella · 02/02/2021 00:12

@mouldyhouse101

Well this wins the award for best thread of 2021 already.
Second best after the self nipple licking 16 year old boy (cat) Grin
ZacSWeed · 02/02/2021 00:23

@seaclaidte @Twistered

🤣🤣 you've made my day, too funny!
Bless you guys for standing up to the non existent racism. Wish people were this quick to respond in real life

strudsespark · 02/02/2021 00:25

Great thread op, with the nibble thread in mind, all I think you need to do is plug in some feliway, your ds should hopefully soon be sorted then.

Taikoo · 02/02/2021 00:26

@seaclaidte

Instead of moaning about it to random people on the Internet. Why dont you have a conversation with your guest.

There is nothing wrong with setting out house rules.

Also I have reported your post as spam.
Good day

Can't you read?
CookEatRepeat · 02/02/2021 00:27

Oh my! Best accidental derail ever.

I’d love it if mine realised that if they get up at 11am I might have left for work (school) already. 😂

strudsespark · 02/02/2021 00:34

OMG sorry, nippel nippel nippel could be nibble though.

FuriousWithTheNHS · 02/02/2021 00:51

then hanging it out over mine which is drying making my clothes and the room he has hung it in absolutely stink.

Oh God I absolutely HATE this with wet towels. It's not just the kids, DH does it too. I have been known to have huge tantrums over it. Why are they all so stupid? How do they think they air drying process actually works? All that happens is their towel doesn't dry at all and the towel underneath it that was almost dry is now wet again. Angry

PigletJohn · 02/02/2021 01:17

@Besswess88

*That should say - Blocking the washing machine for 3 days with his washing, then hanging it out over mine which is drying making my clothes and the room he has hung it in absolutely stink.
I blame whoever failed to bring him up properly.
ILikeToMoveItMoveItILikeToMove · 02/02/2021 01:26

I had to read the title a few times to understand it 🤣

3 day old washing left in the machine then hung up over your clean washing 🤮

You deserve this lot OP FlowersCakeWineGin🏅

CharlieParley · 02/02/2021 01:43

Funny thread! Much enjoyed it the misunderstandings Grin

Mine is no bother, but he's gone totally nocturnal. Over the last week he's shifted to not getting up till 4pm. And then he doesn't get dressed. I don't know whether to try and gently encourage him to get up earlier or not. I feel he's had such a shitty end to school and such a rubbish start at uni because of Covid, he's quite easygoing, he's doing his uni work and since I don't have any work right now, the mess is manageable.

Do I really want the drama? Especially since my own parent-avoidance-strategy was to be up when they weren't and sleep when they weren't. Maybe I shouldn't have told him about that?

Crampon · 02/02/2021 01:47

@rossclare

Does that not make you really sad? I'd be devastated not to see my daughters for 6 months (we haven't hit the teens yet though!)
It is sad. 😥 Getting a bit better though.
1forAll74 · 02/02/2021 02:46

Just buy three or four new clothes airers

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 02/02/2021 03:01

Mine has gone back now and I miss her.

Not enough to find it funny when she accidentally butt-dialed me 4 times in a row around midnight the other night though.

ThatsAllFolks · 02/02/2021 08:37

Been here since November. Been in pyjamas ever since, usually ones with a huge hole in the arse. Idea of a snack is a roast chicken in a whole loaf cut horizontally. Hasn't clogged up washing machine but only because the discarded pj mountain hasn't made it downstairs. I go up five or six times whilst WFH in order to prise it out of bed to do its revision for exams. Once up, it has a long shower until all the hot water is gone. Every time. Then it goes back to bed 'to dry off'. Bit of working from bed, bit of texting, snooze. Loud zoom calls with friends keep me awake. Microwaving dinners in small hours ditto. There's nothing in my fridge by morning. I'm so tired. But uni life has gone, he still paying for it, hasn't seen anyone except us for months and has long covid, so....

SoupDragon · 02/02/2021 08:48

Can't you read?

Can't you?

SoupDragon · 02/02/2021 08:54

My refugees have generally been quite good - I had two of them last year. Apart from eating SO much food and having to tell them to remember we couldn't really just be popping out for food top ups and that when something was gone, that was it. Plus the noise of midnight gaming with their mates.

One went back before January lockdown and one is now an unemployed youth having graduated.

I don't miss the one who isn't here really as I know he is with his mates and "not being here" is how it should be really. It must be tough to come back home and be stuck there after living independently.

AuntieStella · 02/02/2021 09:01

My refugees are not currently here (isolated then returned to shared houses)

But when they were, I was always amazed at how, when left to their own devices, they wouldn't eat for ages, but would then descent on the kitchen like a pair of locusts and eat absolutely everything.

No idea how they coordinated their snake-like sporadic feeding patterns, but as one is a very good cook at least I got some nice meals out of it too!

ErrolTheDragon · 02/02/2021 09:03

@SoupDragon

Can't you read?

Can't you?

There's always some who can't RTFT.Grin
ChiaraRimini · 02/02/2021 09:05

I've got 2 at home on "gap years" but this is so familiar, the sleeping all day then demolishing the kitchen overnight making pancakes at 3am using every utensil in the kitchen. At least I get a break when they are at their dads. Neither are working rn because lockdown but have applied to be vaccinators which would force them to get out of the house a bit!

AuntieStella · 02/02/2021 09:06

@WolfHunter

I heard uni refugees are like gremlins... Do not get them wet!
Love it!!
Madhairday · 02/02/2021 09:09

Oh I love this thread and the responses. I also have one and she ticks pretty much every box here:

Washing in machine for days/laid over mine on airer - check
Plates and mugs and glasses culturing alien beings in bedroom - check
Every towel in the house also culturing alien beings in bedroom - check
Nocturnal and makes toast at 2am - check. Plus shorts out electricity making toast and coffee and is super proud of self when locates the fuse box to flip the switch.
Does not get dressed and lives in variety of dressing gowns / pyjamas with holes in - check
Facetiming friends all night every night and then sleeping all morning - check
Dramatic swoons at having to do work and assignments, and cannot possibly be asked to do any thing so outrageous as go and post a letter for me because I'm working, mum, and I have to get this assignment (that I've had for a month but the deadline is suddenly tomorrow) done! How about you get up in the morning and do it darling - look of utter, scathing incomprehension. What is this morning you speak of?

It is lovely having her around and I hate that she's missing out on uni experience. So I smile and hug her when she deigns to be hugged, and try not to be too naggy unless she doesn't do her set chores. Then I will snap and she will hold her head and say she has a headache and she will do it later, and she really means at 3am when I do not want to hear the hoover thank you.

Bronzegate · 02/02/2021 09:10

DS has a part-time job in a local supermarket, and at the end of every shift he buys chocolate / brownies / ice cream and then brings it home and insists on sharing it with me. If I decline, he looks all disappointed.
He stays a healthy weight. I continue to be fat. If he doesn't go back to university soon, I will have to start exercising.

ErrolTheDragon · 02/02/2021 09:14

@Bronzegate

DS has a part-time job in a local supermarket, and at the end of every shift he buys chocolate / brownies / ice cream and then brings it home and insists on sharing it with me. If I decline, he looks all disappointed. He stays a healthy weight. I continue to be fat. If he doesn't go back to university soon, I will have to start exercising.
What an utter cad!Grin
Mydogisagentleman · 02/02/2021 09:21

Mine is living in halls at the moment.
When he was back over Xmas it was lovely and horrible t the me time.
Lovely because we missed her but horrible because of her temper.
We had made the mistake of painting her bedroom and bathroom, putting new carpet and Lino down and taking Jeremy corbyn’s poster off the ceiling.
She made us suffer.
DD is seldom available for phone calls except when I get a message sent at 04.20 asking me to wake her at 8 or, most recently asking if I thought that putting £500 into bit coin would be a good thing

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