How Not To Be A Jerk: To Your Housemates.

None of them. Love-rats included.

None of them. Love-rats included.

Who has lived in a house before? I’m going to assume that as you are reading this on a computer or mobile phone, you all probably have. Next, who has had to live in a house with other people before? Oh, everyone again? Interesting. How did that go for you? Was it a beautiful coming together of two like-minded people sharing a space and having lovely chats over tea in your perfectly clean living room? Yeah, I didn’t think so. (If you said yes to that, congratulations. How’s life with the unicorns, big foot and socks that stay paired?) The point is, sharing a house with someone, whether they be long term friend, casual acquaintance or total stranger, is fraught with pot-holes of awkwardness and bear-traps of pent-up rage. Aren’t you glad I’m here to guide you through that? Have you had enough of rhetorical questions yet?

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