Well, here's the low down on the RL Zyrus. Ill keep it short and sweet since its getting to be a long story at this point.

This whole thing has been getting to be a big burden on me with living with one of my college buddies, both financially and personally. He's been implying "favors" on me with out any sory of method to repay them. I've been taking time out of my day to pick him up from the train station on a regular basis, doing part of his OT work (he works for CNN's infotainment division, part of the OT work requires he watches the shows after his and reports on who they have as guests) and among other things, doing all the household chores (cleaning, cooking, laundry, grocery shopping, etc.). I've finally reached my breaking point and it has gotten to the point where I don't want to live with him. I'm not his mother... I'm not his cleaning lady, and for damn sure not his damn cats' caretakers (two cats... ide rather not go into that).

It has gotten to the point where he acts like an absoloute child when it comes to me asking him to pickup his end of the chores and "TRY" to keep the aparatment clean. I've tried for months to get him to clean up his room and help me clean up the rest of the apt... Still to no success, and I'll be damned if I willingly clean the whole apartment on my own any longer while he sits on his fat ass watching TV and causing more physical damage to my laptop. Thats right folks, he's damaged one of my pieces of hardware I use for work, theres screws missing in the screen plate and part of the body has been scratched, dented and parts ripped off. He claims he doesn't know how it happend, but he's the one who's been using it other than me. Hmm (insert sarcasam here), I wonder how that could have happened. Oh, I know, it was him, but he neglected to tell me about any of this til I finally confronted him about it when I needed a few files from the laptop... It's really gotten to the point where I have a hard time trusting the guy.

Any case, the lease on the apartment is up this april, and at that time, I'll be moving down to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. My family owns a 4 apartment house there in a nice neighborhood where I'll be spitting one of the two bedroom apartments with a cousin of mine at a better rate than what I'm paying now in NJ. It'll be nice to get out of the suburbs and get to a real metropolis. The Apartment is perfect for me and my cousin too, we get access to the balcony, back yard (though be it small, a back yard is a back yard; itll need some cleaning up, but I want to get it back into good condition this spring), no cats (the litter box is a story in itself, but that thing was cleaned so little, it makes it hard to even step in the bathroom), and I've already talked it over with my cousin and we'll be making sure the place is clean and help one another so that no1 is doing an unfair load of the work. Course, I set the same agreement up with my current roommate, but I didn't realize at the time he was gonna be a dick about it when the time came for him to clean up.

I've sacrificed a lot to live with him; personal freedoms, my time, money, and including my health to put up with that guy. I was sick and bedridden for a week at the beginning of 08, and what he says still puts me off to this day. "You can't be that sick, just go into work." I couldn't believe what I heard, I was falling over myself and I couldn't go 10 min w/o coughing/hacking some phlem up. And I wouldn't be so put off by it if it werent for the fact he saw me having a hard time just sitting up in bed as I was calling in sick to work. Some friend eh?

What really gets on my nerves is the fact he's also tried to put a guilt trip on me cuz I was "thiinking" about looking at another place to move to. Constantly he says that he can't afford to move out and live on his own and claims he's been paying most of the living expenses... No one who buys a new 360 game every few weeks should be saying that he's hard pressed for cash. The guy says he was ready to live on his own before we signed the lease for this place in Lyndhurst, how that has changed a year later is beyond me, but I think im done with him, but for good. Idk if I could still be the friend of someone who IMPLIES you to do a FAVOR for him or even puts a guilt trip on you in an attempt to manipulate you into doing what he wants you to do. I realize that what I'm doing by running out on him isnt much of a commendable move, and that there are better ways of handling it, but I've just run out of patience with him and really don't care anymore.

I apologize of you were put off yourself about this being more of a rant about my roommate being an ass, but thats just the state of things atm. Its not exactly an easy thing to deal with when someone who you believed to be your friend stops acting like it shortly after you start sharing a home together. I'm not his parent, nor do I wish to be, and theres so much to this story I haven't mentioned in which I can go at length with. But to be perfectly frank about it, I just don't like who the guy has either turned into or who he really is underneath his "friendly" exterior, and I'm disgusted with myself for not seeing it sooner. 

Tags: Reality Moving Roommate Brooklyn

Bookmark: