roommates

behaviors and incidents which completely exasperate me:

• the fact that we just got ants again in our kitchen, yet when I arrived home tonight to an empty apartment there was a half peeled banana and cooked yam sitting on the counter
• the fact that we purchased and set up a basket for mail and a coat/purse rack next to the front door, yet there are constantly jackets and handbags and mail on the couches, coffee table, and dining room table
• the fact that the other toilet was broken all last week so we were all using the little bathroom ("mine") and for some inexplicable reason, the sink surface was continuously covered in puddles of water, as though one roommate had decided to bathe standing up, leaning over the bowl
• the fact that crickets linger on our front stoop waiting for any opportunity to jump inside (and hop into my bedroom), yet the door is frequently left agape when retrieving laundry or talking on the cell in the driveway