I hear you--I vary drastically between the two. Well, I'll never be an anal cleaner (anal cleaner!) but I finally discovered why people like to keep their apartments clean once I lived on my own. It's so nice! It's your home! It's a Good Place!
Hrm. I'm sure at least once I let some fruit rot to a truly stupendous degree. Any incidents of real nastiness must've had to do with fruit rotting.
Right now, there is a large pile of unfiled stuff on top of my hanging file cabinet. There is an empty paperboard fourpack of Frappucino sitting on top of my colored pencil case.
One of my old apartments had a walk-in pantry where we'd hung one of those three-tiered wire mesh baskets. A potato went bad in the basket, and we somehow managed to not notice until it started dripping fetid black slime onto the floor below. Took us a couple days to figure out what the smell was coming from, too, so we had to live with that rancid stench for longer than anyone should have to. And once we found it, the potato was more mush than solid. To date, that is the nastiest smell I've ever experienced.
That's awesome. "Fetid black slime"--now that's a good turn of phrase! (It reminds me of the decomposition chapter of "Stiff." Wait--did we have this conversation? Did you read it?)
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But is certainly not the worst one by far...
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however, i have only lived alone for a few months.
right now the grossest thing i do is eat all my meals in bed, but that's because i don't have any furniture.
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Right now, there is a large pile of unfiled stuff on top of my hanging file cabinet. There is an empty paperboard fourpack of Frappucino sitting on top of my colored pencil case.
That's about it. I'm pretty anal.
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