With us planning to move into a professional let next year, I think I’ll miss the querks of a student house. After all next year we will have…
- Front doors that stays open when you open it so you can carry things in
- Streets that aren’t lined top to bottom with cars 90% of the time
- Streets you don’t need a four wheel drive to safely navigate over the potholes
- Hallways you don’t have to swim through due to the amount of leaflets put through the door
- Door handles that you can twist without having to push it back together first
- Bathrooms that don’t randomly have woodlice appear in
- Kitchens that don’t randomly have slugs appear in
- Kitchen taps that release water when you turn them on rather than within about 5 minutes of turning them on
- Kitchen floors that you stop sticking to once you’ve cleaned them
- Washing machines that don’t randomly stop working and randomly start working again later
- Ovens that light when you turn them on
- Microwaves that turn on when you try to put them on for less than 2 minutes
- Irons that allow to entire your entire item of clothing rather than the bit within a foot of the plug socket
- Telephone lines that were installed within the past 200 years and so can actually carry a signal
- Surfaces that you can clean the dust off and come back to an hour later without discovering they are once again covered in dust
Then again, maybe not.
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I’ve never seen woodlice in our bathroom.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Consider yourself lucky. I’ve had to live in one room for the past two years. ONE ROOM.
Top of my list is having more than one room to myself. Elsewhere on the list:
Windows that open more than 5mm.
Post collection any time of the day, as opposed to whatever arcane hours the site office are keeping.
Not being woken by the guy above me having loud sex.
Not being woken by the guy above me listening to repetitive dance music.
Not being woken by the guy above me having loud sex whilst listening to repetitive dance music.
And so forth…
May 9th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I found one in the sink one night.
As for your one room situation Si, as you well know I lived in halls for two years so I’ve gone through the one room thing. While you choose to go BACK to halls :p.
My windows at both Bod and Ellerslie opened fully to allow people to throw themselves out of which I was very pleased about.
I hope I don’t get woken up by the guy above me having sex lol. I will get woken up by repetitive dance music but that’s because that is the alarm tone on my phone ;).
May 10th, 2008 at 2:05 am
You found 1 woodlouse and it appeared above slugs!!
Also, I have never ever been woken up by the person above me having sex, and I also lived in halls for 2 years. Woo for me liking top floor rooms! However, not having windows which opened more than 2mm went near the top of my list of things that I wouldn’t miss about Henry Price. Just under having no lock on the bathroom door!
May 10th, 2008 at 2:47 am
This post made me LOL so much!
It’s so true!
Slugs are disgusting *cringes* I didn’t notice woodlice, but I’ve seen lots of silverfish in the downstairs bathroom.
My last two houses I got woken up by the people above me having sex. Not been a problem this year thought
May 10th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Yes because it was in the bathroom. It’s like a sanctuary. You don’t understand because you’re a girl ;).
May 13th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
What a silverfish? Are they those weird things that go really fast around the floor? I always thought I was the only one that could see them! Looks like Im not goin insane
Ive not been woken up by the person above me having sex, Ive not been able to sleep once because the person above us had loud music on tho
heh heh!
Tho, I just thought it was because Sarann was mardy at me and didnt want me to sleep
May 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I was drunk and didn’t realise, I’m sorry
Yeah that sounds like a good description of silverfish, they’re shiney aswell.