Sharing a bathroom with my neighbour is slowly breaking me

[beefthief]

Thread title: Sharing a bathroom with my neighbour is slowly breaking me
OP — Posted by: WallTooThin
I need to vent and also check if I’m losing my mind.
I share a bathroom with my neighbour (old building, “temporary” setup that has now lasted 3 years 🙃). On paper it sounded fine. In reality? Absolute chaos.

They will occupy the bathroom for 45 minutes minimum. Shower, music blasting, mirror monologues, the works. Meanwhile I’m doing the pee-dance in my hallway like an idiot. Knocking does nothing. Texting does nothing. It’s like once they cross the bathroom threshold, the outside world ceases to exist.

Hair. Everywhere. Sink, floor, shower walls. I don’t even know how one person produces this much hair. The toilet seat is also constantly left up, which would be annoying but fine—except they also don’t wipe it. I shouldn’t have to mentally prepare myself every time I need to sit down.

I’ve tried being polite. I’ve tried hints. I’ve tried schedules. Nothing sticks longer than a week.

Has anyone survived a shared-bathroom situation like this? Do I confront them directly, or do I just accept that this is my villain origin story?

No, it doesn't sound like a shared house that the LL rents out separately. That would still make them housemates.
It sounds like she has a bedsit and the toilet is out in the corridor, shared by a neighbour in the bedsit on the other side of the corridor.

Why not use your own brain to write your posts rather than destroying the environment to create something that is unintelligible?

I don’t understand why anyone needs to “clarify” a forum post so much that they need to use ridiculous amounts of natural resources and energy to do it.

What a wasteful, thoughtless species we are. 😞

Sounds absolutely horrendous.My son had to share at uni recently with about 15 people.Can you have some wipes with you always when you entter the bathroom after him? Try and clean up a bit?
Can you get up earlier and get in there first/ make him wait?
As other posters have said speak to your landlord and leave eventually.
Sound very hard I am sorry you habe to live this.

AI generated posts always read like a terrible article in Take a Break.

beefthief · Today 02:40
Thread title: Sharing a bathroom with my neighbour is slowly breaking me
OP — Posted by: WallTooThin

Who is the OP- Beefthief or WallTooThin?

Confused.

Whoever you are, are you living in a shared house or maybe a bedsit with a bathroom for tenants to share? (Which was common in the 1960s)

eh?

Can you agree a timetable? But honestly, I would look for somewhere else to live.
If you can't move then attempting to agree a timetable, agreeing that bathroom ahould be left clean. Agreeing certain things and sticking it on the bathroom door as a checklist before exiting the bathroom, ie wipe toilet seat, dry excess water, wash round basin, remove hair. And jointly buying stuff to enable quickly doing these things. Ie a scrubbing brush and squeegy.
Failing all of that complain to landlord and move??

I used to live in a tiny flat with a shared loo and bathroom. It was an old Victorian house conversion, and the facilities were on the landing, and my neighbour lived on the other side of the landing. She and I were very considerate of each other, and it really helped that the loo was separate!
Fond memories of singleton life with ridiculously cheap rent.
Sorry OP - no help at all.

"Clarify things through a bot"
No wonder it makes no bloody sense then.
Hate AI and ChatGPT so much, people are losing the ability to think for themselves or write coherently. They'd rather output their brains.
Rah.

Why is anyone responding to this when it's just AI? Its even got the draft title etc at the top

Do you mean 'outsource' their brains?

Exactly, people just responding as if it's written by a human and that it makes sense.
Make it make sense 😁
It can't even make up its mind who the OP is -(beefthief? Wallstoothin? Who knows 🙄)

Exactly. A friend of mine had a house share with him and other people in the house, with one (!) shared bathroom. I think I'd move on as I'd hate to put up with that for years - uni was bad enough with annoying housemates 😆

I think there's a theory that AI is bad for the environment somehow (not sure why!)

How is AI bad for the environment?

Fucking AI.

We are doomed as a species.

It's not a theory, it's fact. There are countless articles on this from well-respected sources. The data centres used to train and power AI use absolutely massive amounts of electricity, all fossil-fuel based, and massive amounts of water. It has a huge impact on climate change. The International Energy Agency published a report saying that a single AI search uses 10 times more electricity than a Google search.

I think it's something to do with how much water it needs to cool down the servers (something like that anyway)

Cross post

Generating an AI answer to a question uses AI data centres and way more processing power than simply Googling something. The tech uses more electricity and more water for cooling. Asking ChatGPT a single question consumes around 100 times the energy of a Google search.

Using AI like ChatGPT is incredibly damaging to the environment due to the amount of CO2 it produces (just training a system before it is even put into use generates the same amount of CO2 as the lifetime emissions of 5 cars). It also requires tons of water to constantly cool the processing centres to prevent overheating, and relies on vast amounts of fossil fuel consumption to run. AI hardware needs a lot of rare minerals to manufacture which leads to habitat destruction and pollution when mining for them.

If the massive environmental damage caused by AI has passed you by, I think you need to read up on it urgently.

We are destroying our planet so that people can look at pictures with the wrong number of fingers and avoid thinking too hard about how to form a sentence.

A single AI search can provide more than equal the information of 10 google searches. One AI response when used wisely can replace a limitless number of google searches.

Do you think it was used wisely on this occasion?

7-15 times actually, not 100 times!!