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For the most part my experiences with finding a living situation via craigslist.org have been a positive. About a week in to almost every stay, one, or sometimes all, of my roommates will offer me the chance to smoke marijuana like a cigarette. In fact at two of the places they were even growing it. While I enjoy imbibing every once in awhile (it leads me to come to conclusions like "Jason Biggs should have a warning on himself that says 'dude sucks'"), I rarely spend any money on the stuff, and find it most enjoyable in small doses while watching really bad movies. Anyway, if they weren't offering to smoke me out, we were normally watching TV together or carrying on some form of peaceful coexistence.
My most recent craigslist roommates provided no pot, nor any sort of peer bonding. Ali's gift giving manifested itself in a different way. He left cigarette butts in the shower:
This particular butt stayed parked in its perch for close to three weeks, and after a heavy soaking gave off an aromatic mixture of tobacco, swarthy Pakistani, and axe body spray.
He also wedged yellowed q-tips under a mat in the bathroom, and one night I even discovered a half full bucket of water in the shower. The next day we had the following conversation:
"Is there something wrong with the shower?"
"No, why?"
"Well there was a bucket in there. I didn't know if you were conserving water or what."
"Oh, I was cleaning out the shower."
"Ok."
And then he walked away. The more I thought about his answer, the more perplexed I became. Why would anyone need a bucket of water to clean out a shower when water came out of the nozzle? Also, why was the bucket left in the shower overnight? And even more strangely, why was it that the shower was no cleaner the next day?
But then again, there were a lot of things about Ali that I didn't understand. Like how when I first moved in there was no trash can in the bathroom, and not a single towel in sight. The only conclusion I could come to was that he did not wash his hands. I put a paper bag under the sink for trash, but two days later discovered it missing. Then an empty water bottle made its appearance on the sink:
It stayed bone dry for two weeks and then was three quarters full for a period of 3 days. When Ali finally moved out he left the water bottle, which I promptly deposited in a trash bag under the sink, along with all other traces of him.
My most recent craigslist roommates provided no pot, nor any sort of peer bonding. Ali's gift giving manifested itself in a different way. He left cigarette butts in the shower:
This particular butt stayed parked in its perch for close to three weeks, and after a heavy soaking gave off an aromatic mixture of tobacco, swarthy Pakistani, and axe body spray.
He also wedged yellowed q-tips under a mat in the bathroom, and one night I even discovered a half full bucket of water in the shower. The next day we had the following conversation:
"Is there something wrong with the shower?"
"No, why?"
"Well there was a bucket in there. I didn't know if you were conserving water or what."
"Oh, I was cleaning out the shower."
"Ok."
And then he walked away. The more I thought about his answer, the more perplexed I became. Why would anyone need a bucket of water to clean out a shower when water came out of the nozzle? Also, why was the bucket left in the shower overnight? And even more strangely, why was it that the shower was no cleaner the next day?
But then again, there were a lot of things about Ali that I didn't understand. Like how when I first moved in there was no trash can in the bathroom, and not a single towel in sight. The only conclusion I could come to was that he did not wash his hands. I put a paper bag under the sink for trash, but two days later discovered it missing. Then an empty water bottle made its appearance on the sink:
It stayed bone dry for two weeks and then was three quarters full for a period of 3 days. When Ali finally moved out he left the water bottle, which I promptly deposited in a trash bag under the sink, along with all other traces of him.