sorry didn't come back last night, DP took over the laptop and I fell asleep on the sofa....
Rosa, so sorry about DD, hope she's better soon (I hate when they vomit)
anyway, back to Flatmate 2:
as I was saying, because the house needed a lot of work and was inhabitable, Flatmate 1 had to find s.where else, which I was very happy about, got to the point where I used to go to bed at 7pm to avoid her, but couldn't bring myself to kick her out... A few months later she rang to ask if we could take her friend in (we've met her and she also ended up getting a job where I used to work, unfortunately as she caused some problems there), as she'd been kicked out of where she was staying (2nd or 3rd time it'd happen). we didn't really want to, but thought we needed the money, so DP and FIL (he was here helping with the works), went to pick her and her 22 boxes (I'm not exagerating) of papers plus all her clothes etc. to thank us, she made pizza (I wish she hadn't, and FIL was actually sick!) the size of 4 slices of bread for 4 people at 11pm (we were all starving). anyway, she was very tight with money; the 22 boxes were packed with recepies (a part from that pizza, she never cooked as she had 3-4 1cm slices of cheddar + 1 cup coffe + 1 glass of coke (if on special offer) + bowl of all bran every single meal, lunch and supper, 7/7 days), which she'd spend spreading around the living room every saturday (so that we couldn't use it or watch tv, though she had a big bedroom with tv). we had to (sorry TMI alert) endure listening to her straining in the toilet as if she was in labour followed by "plopping" noise (not surprised really with all that cheese), would only get washed once a week (filling/emptying the bath 3 times as she didn't like lying in dirty water), staying in the only bathroom anything btw 2-3 hrs (FIL told her to be considerate in the end but to no avail). thankfully she used to go out often (she used to get free premiere tickets all the time), but when she came home very late at night she used to stand outside our bedroom door for ages (I kidd you not, 20-30 mins, we could hear her heavy breathing) and I had vision of Norman Bates... if our friends came round she would just follow us and stay with us without saying a word (occasionally falling asleep) and making our friends very uncomfortable - she was veeeeeery weird, you really had to meet her to understand (she's still mentioned by our friends as our weird flatmate 6 years on!) we eventually found out that she'd been kicked out of places 2-3 times, the last suspected of stealing a wallet (we had some money gone missing too), and had to tell her a story to get rid of her...
sorry, I tried to limit myself, and haven't even told about the disgusting things, but I guess I've already killed the thread
and after her, we took my best friend's exBF in as a favour to her, which was another nightmare, but just because he was a stereotypical lazy shovinistic italian male... needless to say, he was the last tennant (fell pg so perfect excuse as we needed the space)
if you're still with me, you deserve a medal!