My roommate has a problem with me but she never really made it clear until an hour ago.
I use things. Around the apartment. Many of these things are hers. Some of these things she doesn't mind me using. Some of them she does.
She doesn't tell me which is which. Which leads to the problem of today.
In our living room, there is a television, a stereo, a VCR, a DVD player and a PS2. They're all connected in one way or another. In the past, I've used most of them with no comment from her, and indeed, she left instructions on how to work out the connections when I moved in. Recently, I purchased a memory card and Final Fantasy X-2 (note: I already had some PS2 and PS1 games in my collection, just no system or memcard. This is a fact that she knows). Last night, I played some Disgaea. Today, I saw the PS2 controller gone. I asked about it, and she hit me with this tirade about how I should have asked to use it! She also brought up stuff which had been resolved in the past along similar lines: using something once and getting told to ask, then either (a) asking, and using the thing ad nauseam, (b) buying my own, or (c) never using that thing again.
The thing is, she wasn't around when I used the PS2. That irked her even more, but what flabbergasted me was that I'd left it exactly the way I found it. Not to be sneaky or anything, but out of courtesy, you know, that whole "campsite rule." The fact that she knew gave me flashbacks to Misery.
Me, I don't mind if people use my stuff. If it's (a) outside my room and (b) not food, it's fair game. That not a problem. The problem is that I've used the television and DVD player and radio to no comment, but when I used the PS2, she had an issue with it.
There's a connection between this obsessive attitude of hers and the fact that she can't keep a steady boyfriend, but I'm not vindictive enough to hypothesize.
I will, however, say that it was terribly discourteous of her to look into a job offer for teaching in Korea that would require her to leave at the end of July, a fact I was informed of on Tuesday.
