Riddle me this
Alright, tell me if I'm being crazy, an ass, etc. with this whole deal. I don't think I am, but I value other people's perspectives.
So Becky (one of my roommates) has a boyfriend Chad. I don't like anything about Chad. Nothing. He has no redeeming qualities in my eyes. Chad often spends the night, but I hardly ever see him because he comes in late and leaves early. Today, I get up and notice Chad's in Becky's room. Fine, I don't care. I go downstairs and Becky rushes out the door (she doesn't know how to leave any other way in the morning) and then rushes back in because she forgot her wallet. As she leaves, I ask her if Chad's still here. She says that he is and plans on sleeping in. I'm not comfortable with this situation. I'm about to leave for school (until 4pm, no less) and the only person that will be home is Weber (my other roommate, also a girl) who sleeps on the futon in the living room and has to go to work at 3 and plans on grocery shopping sometime before then. That means that Chad will be alone in the house with only a sleeping female who sleeps like a rock. I don't know this guy well enough to trust him with that much freedom in what is, for all intents and purposes, my house. Becky might and that's fine, so long as she's there or someone conscious is around to make sure nothing goes wrong. What could go wrong? I don't know and that's what I hate. He could steal something, break something and leave it broken until we discover it, let other people in that would do some of those things, try to take advantage of a roommate sleeping alone. Maybe he'd leave and not know how to re-lock the door and just leave it open, or in the best case leave and not be able to lock the deadbolt, making it easier for someone to break in. I don't know, but I do know that it's not his house and that means he might not treat it like his house.
Neither roommate can understand this line of thinking, because the same would go for Weber's boyfriend, whom I trust just a little more than Chad, or a friend of mine that would spend the night, or some floozy I picked up at a bar. Maybe I'm being paranoid, maybe I'm being an ass for not trusting this guy outright. But the way I see it, I'm being safe so that something bad doesn't happen and I have to do damage control. I'd much rather head a problem like that off at the pass. Granted, the way I handled this earlier this morning was not the best way, I was trying to keep it short so that Becky wouldn't be late for work (something I fear she is far too often) and I wouldn't be late for class. Now I have to wait for an offended female to come home so we can "talk about it" and I can be called a dick, an asshole, what have you so that I can get my point of view across, and apologize for not trusting her boyfriend. Maybe I'll just be honest and tell her that I hate the guy and then repeat most of this post.
So Becky (one of my roommates) has a boyfriend Chad. I don't like anything about Chad. Nothing. He has no redeeming qualities in my eyes. Chad often spends the night, but I hardly ever see him because he comes in late and leaves early. Today, I get up and notice Chad's in Becky's room. Fine, I don't care. I go downstairs and Becky rushes out the door (she doesn't know how to leave any other way in the morning) and then rushes back in because she forgot her wallet. As she leaves, I ask her if Chad's still here. She says that he is and plans on sleeping in. I'm not comfortable with this situation. I'm about to leave for school (until 4pm, no less) and the only person that will be home is Weber (my other roommate, also a girl) who sleeps on the futon in the living room and has to go to work at 3 and plans on grocery shopping sometime before then. That means that Chad will be alone in the house with only a sleeping female who sleeps like a rock. I don't know this guy well enough to trust him with that much freedom in what is, for all intents and purposes, my house. Becky might and that's fine, so long as she's there or someone conscious is around to make sure nothing goes wrong. What could go wrong? I don't know and that's what I hate. He could steal something, break something and leave it broken until we discover it, let other people in that would do some of those things, try to take advantage of a roommate sleeping alone. Maybe he'd leave and not know how to re-lock the door and just leave it open, or in the best case leave and not be able to lock the deadbolt, making it easier for someone to break in. I don't know, but I do know that it's not his house and that means he might not treat it like his house.
Neither roommate can understand this line of thinking, because the same would go for Weber's boyfriend, whom I trust just a little more than Chad, or a friend of mine that would spend the night, or some floozy I picked up at a bar. Maybe I'm being paranoid, maybe I'm being an ass for not trusting this guy outright. But the way I see it, I'm being safe so that something bad doesn't happen and I have to do damage control. I'd much rather head a problem like that off at the pass. Granted, the way I handled this earlier this morning was not the best way, I was trying to keep it short so that Becky wouldn't be late for work (something I fear she is far too often) and I wouldn't be late for class. Now I have to wait for an offended female to come home so we can "talk about it" and I can be called a dick, an asshole, what have you so that I can get my point of view across, and apologize for not trusting her boyfriend. Maybe I'll just be honest and tell her that I hate the guy and then repeat most of this post.