Advice to the hippies: Dr. Brauners sucks. Oh, and Jerry's dead, so get over it...
RATINGS (1-10, 1 being not a lot and 10 being off the charts)
ALL THE HIPPIES
Spoiled (8)
Crazy (4)
"Blonde" (3)
Slutty (3)
Irresponsible (10)
Drug Addled (9)
Anal (0)
After Flora and Cam, my BF and I were really cautious about getting another roommate and we wanted someone, sane...
We found Bobby, a shy Asian raver who seemed very nice and very responsible. And he was for the first 4 months, than he went to a hippie rainbow gathering. I have never been to one, but I've seen people who have and it all turns out the same. they come back with weird hippie names and stop shaving and showering. This is exactly what happened to Bobby.
One month after Bobby came back from the hippie cult convention, and the day that rent was due he told us he couldn't pay it. "But", he said "I have a friend who lives in Big Sur, and only comes to Santa Cruz 2 days a week, and he can pay half the rent". We were basically blackmailed into it because we didn't have the money to pay Bobby's share, and so we had ONE more hippie living with us.
Then a month later, we came home and there was a note for us from Bobby. He went to Arizona to hang with some other hippies, and he didn't know when he'd be back, but he left us with a NEW roommate who could pay the remainder of the rent. This new roommate was a hippie named Tara and her baby daughter. Gee-reat...
And now we had TWO hippies and one baby.
Well the first hippie, I forgot his name, started staying more than 2 days a week, and inviting his hippie friends over. So did Tara. On any given day there were at least SIX hippies at our house. At this point we might have nipped it in the bud, but I had broken up with my bf cuz he was being a jerk and he refused to move out of the house. And he knew that having a passel of hippies was not my idea of fun so he fought for them to stay and I was outvoted.
Well, then Tara's baby daddy got out of jail and moved himself in. Then they went to some festival and brought back THREE more hippies. And they kept doing this until we had ELEVEN hippies staying on our floor. One had even commandeered our dining room, hanging a hammock up next to the table, and decorating the room with stuff he found in the dumpster (the dumpster - WTF)!
There was a hippie van parked out back, a pile of sage on the back porch, the house smelled like Dr. Brauners soap since they used it wash themselves, their hair, their dishes, their laundry. The neighbors were unhappy and so was I, so unhappy that I put in my notice. And then it got worse. This was the first and last time that I had a phone in my name. I got a $550 phone bill, where all the charges were to the jail (where Tara's babydaddy was), Massachusetts (where Tara's family lived) and Idaho (where my ex-bf's family lived), hmmm, who ran up the phone bill? I asked them all for their share and they got together and told me that they'd already paid me (WHAT, like I had amnesia and somehow misplaced $550 at the same time - AS IF @$%Y$^#@*%$#^)
So I got stiffed for $550 on my way out the door. For a group of "peaceful, loving people" they sure were selfish, mean and thieving.
As I'm sure you can guess, I'm not a hippie fan and I probably never will be, not after that...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Flora & Cam - early 1998
Advice to the lovely couple: Your the reason that sanitariums were created, you should have moved into one of those instead of moving in with me...
RATINGS (1-10, 1 being not a lot and 10 being off the charts)
Flora Cam
Spoiled (2) (0)
Crazy (10) (4)
"Blonde" (1) (3)
Slutty (1) (0)
Irresponsible (10) (9)
Drug Addled (2) (5)
Anal (0) (0)
Unlike most kids who move out of their parents houses, my parent moved out of mine. Two months notice and my mom was out the door into a studio, which was a glaring hint that I wasn't invited to move with her. I didn't know if I'd be able to stay where I was, at the house I had lived in for the past 6 years, so my boyfriend and I decided to move in together and we started looking for a place. We put up a notice at the local cafe and the local laundromat, which was the thing to do back in the 90's (think Reality Bites, the movie).
I got a call from a woman named Flora who had an apartment her and her boyfriend Cam had been living in with 2 other girls, and the girls had just moved out. Flora and Cam were not on the lease (which was normal in Santa Cruz, where I am from) and had to move out for a month while they reapplied. Flora and Cam invited me and my bf to move in with them once they were accepted back into their apartment. This couple seemed a little too old for us, and as a future fashion student I was appalled by Floras multi-colored neon windbreaker, so we decided we did not want to move in with them. BUT, we realized that if we they stayed with us for a month, during their application process, we would have time to find some permanent housemates, which would allow us to stay at my house instead of having to move.
This seemed like a good idea, but this is a housemate horror story, so I'm sure you are not at all suprised at what I'm about to tell you? Flora and Cam went to the landlord, who knew they were staying for the month and got on the rental agreement WITHOUT telling us, and next thing we knew they were there to stay. Cam had no job and Flora was a little weird but it wasn't that bad at first, just not what we had wanted. AND THEN...
... Flora went off the medications we didn't know she was on and LOST HER EVER LOVIN' MIND!!! Turned out she was on disability for being basically insane - Surprise! She started talking in fragmented sentences saying things like "what are you doin? I'm just... I love peaches, they're really... went to the beach last night..." NEVER finishing a thought. Than she started barging into our room and looking through our stuff IN FRONT OF US. And when we locked her out, she would pound on the door. One day she broke the lock to get in. She also walked in on my bf in the shower, kept gabbing to him and wouldn't leave the bathroom. He had to get out of the shower and leave the room to get away from her. And Her and Cam would fight for 12 hours straight - no joke (from sundown to sunup). Oh, and Flora blocked all the doorways with couches, so we had to hurdle through the house like trackstars. She also frequented the neighborhood bar and liked to bring people home to party when it closed and then freak out on them once they'd gotten comfortable. SHE WAS SO CRAZY!
By this time, my bf and I always snuck into the house, tiptoed to the bedroom and put the TV on the lowest volume just so Flora wouldn't know we were home. It was at this point that we contacted the landlord to get them out.
Our landlord was more than happy to evict them (just about every neighbor had complained as well), and he did, but he also told them the house was being bulldozed hoping they would leave earlier. The landlord asked us to pack up our stuff and pretend to be moving too in order to instigate their move. We packed up everything we owned, but by Flora and Sam's final eviction day they still hadn't packed a thing. In the end the landlord had to pay them an undisclosed sum of $ to get them out. And they were finally gone! Or so we thought...
... 3 days later we had some friends over, (something we couldn't do with Flora and Cam in the house, since the house was always trashed and they scared everybody, including us) and we heard banging on the back door. Whattya know Flora was back demanding that we let her in. When we asked what she wanted she yelled over and over, "I want my toilet seat back", "Give me my toilet seat," and when we refused to let her in the house she broke the window, threw a bottle at my friends head and chased me through the house while I dialed 911.
The cops arrested Flora and we couldn't have been happier. Until we realized that the spare bedroom, which was a detached room 12 feet from the house was not empty like we had thought, but filled with Flora & Cam's stuff. In fact it looked like a fully furnished bedroom. The only moving they did was from one bedroom to another... God knows how we missed it. So we stacked their stuff outside the back gate and gave them 3 days to get it out, which is what they did, and luckily they stayed out. After that we were finally psycho free... and then came the hippies...
RATINGS (1-10, 1 being not a lot and 10 being off the charts)
Flora Cam
Spoiled (2) (0)
Crazy (10) (4)
"Blonde" (1) (3)
Slutty (1) (0)
Irresponsible (10) (9)
Drug Addled (2) (5)
Anal (0) (0)
Unlike most kids who move out of their parents houses, my parent moved out of mine. Two months notice and my mom was out the door into a studio, which was a glaring hint that I wasn't invited to move with her. I didn't know if I'd be able to stay where I was, at the house I had lived in for the past 6 years, so my boyfriend and I decided to move in together and we started looking for a place. We put up a notice at the local cafe and the local laundromat, which was the thing to do back in the 90's (think Reality Bites, the movie).
I got a call from a woman named Flora who had an apartment her and her boyfriend Cam had been living in with 2 other girls, and the girls had just moved out. Flora and Cam were not on the lease (which was normal in Santa Cruz, where I am from) and had to move out for a month while they reapplied. Flora and Cam invited me and my bf to move in with them once they were accepted back into their apartment. This couple seemed a little too old for us, and as a future fashion student I was appalled by Floras multi-colored neon windbreaker, so we decided we did not want to move in with them. BUT, we realized that if we they stayed with us for a month, during their application process, we would have time to find some permanent housemates, which would allow us to stay at my house instead of having to move.
This seemed like a good idea, but this is a housemate horror story, so I'm sure you are not at all suprised at what I'm about to tell you? Flora and Cam went to the landlord, who knew they were staying for the month and got on the rental agreement WITHOUT telling us, and next thing we knew they were there to stay. Cam had no job and Flora was a little weird but it wasn't that bad at first, just not what we had wanted. AND THEN...
... Flora went off the medications we didn't know she was on and LOST HER EVER LOVIN' MIND!!! Turned out she was on disability for being basically insane - Surprise! She started talking in fragmented sentences saying things like "what are you doin? I'm just... I love peaches, they're really... went to the beach last night..." NEVER finishing a thought. Than she started barging into our room and looking through our stuff IN FRONT OF US. And when we locked her out, she would pound on the door. One day she broke the lock to get in. She also walked in on my bf in the shower, kept gabbing to him and wouldn't leave the bathroom. He had to get out of the shower and leave the room to get away from her. And Her and Cam would fight for 12 hours straight - no joke (from sundown to sunup). Oh, and Flora blocked all the doorways with couches, so we had to hurdle through the house like trackstars. She also frequented the neighborhood bar and liked to bring people home to party when it closed and then freak out on them once they'd gotten comfortable. SHE WAS SO CRAZY!
By this time, my bf and I always snuck into the house, tiptoed to the bedroom and put the TV on the lowest volume just so Flora wouldn't know we were home. It was at this point that we contacted the landlord to get them out.
Our landlord was more than happy to evict them (just about every neighbor had complained as well), and he did, but he also told them the house was being bulldozed hoping they would leave earlier. The landlord asked us to pack up our stuff and pretend to be moving too in order to instigate their move. We packed up everything we owned, but by Flora and Sam's final eviction day they still hadn't packed a thing. In the end the landlord had to pay them an undisclosed sum of $ to get them out. And they were finally gone! Or so we thought...
... 3 days later we had some friends over, (something we couldn't do with Flora and Cam in the house, since the house was always trashed and they scared everybody, including us) and we heard banging on the back door. Whattya know Flora was back demanding that we let her in. When we asked what she wanted she yelled over and over, "I want my toilet seat back", "Give me my toilet seat," and when we refused to let her in the house she broke the window, threw a bottle at my friends head and chased me through the house while I dialed 911.
The cops arrested Flora and we couldn't have been happier. Until we realized that the spare bedroom, which was a detached room 12 feet from the house was not empty like we had thought, but filled with Flora & Cam's stuff. In fact it looked like a fully furnished bedroom. The only moving they did was from one bedroom to another... God knows how we missed it. So we stacked their stuff outside the back gate and gave them 3 days to get it out, which is what they did, and luckily they stayed out. After that we were finally psycho free... and then came the hippies...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
MY HOUSEMATE PROFILE FROM "THE HOUSEMATE QUIZ"
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"Although you're happy to listen to other's opinions, you're not willing to be pushed around। In some housemate situations you can be considerate, friendly and helpful, but you also have a healthy degree of self interest and skepticism of other's motives. When living with housemates it's important to be willing to compromise so that everyone in the house feels that they have some say in how things are run. You may find yourself acting as a mediator when making household decisions.
When living with others you can show conscientious characteristics at times, such as planning and persistence, but occasionally you put having fun before reliability and ambition. For many people you are the ideal housemate, showing a healthy balance of long-term goals and short-term enjoyment but you need to be aware that others struggle to find this happy balance. If you have a housemate that is focussed too much on either long-term goals or short-term thrills you may be able to show them how a balance can be achieved.
You have some extroverted characteristics and can enjoy the company of other housemates, but equally enjoy your alone time। It's important to make sure that you get this balance right as living with someone who is constantly looking to share time with you might overcrowd you. Equally, someone who prefers to be alone may leave you feeling lonely. If you can find a housemate who is like you, that's great, but if you can't, then try and explain to people that you like your own space.
Your reactions can sometimes be intense, especially when tired, which may cause stress to fellow housemates. However, on the whole you are emotionally stable meaning you are generally easy to live with. It may be advisable to try and pinpoint when you are vulnerable to over reacting and remove yourself from these situations before they occur.
You're intellectually curious, appreciate art, and are sensitive to beauty. You are aware of your feelings and are prone to thinking and acting in individualistic and nonconforming ways. When living with others you're interesting as you will always offer a new opinion but to many you could be conceived as arrogant and ignorant. You're most suited to living with people who are also non-conforming as conservative people will find you frightening and you will find them frustrating."
"Although you're happy to listen to other's opinions, you're not willing to be pushed around। In some housemate situations you can be considerate, friendly and helpful, but you also have a healthy degree of self interest and skepticism of other's motives. When living with housemates it's important to be willing to compromise so that everyone in the house feels that they have some say in how things are run. You may find yourself acting as a mediator when making household decisions.
When living with others you can show conscientious characteristics at times, such as planning and persistence, but occasionally you put having fun before reliability and ambition. For many people you are the ideal housemate, showing a healthy balance of long-term goals and short-term enjoyment but you need to be aware that others struggle to find this happy balance. If you have a housemate that is focussed too much on either long-term goals or short-term thrills you may be able to show them how a balance can be achieved.
You have some extroverted characteristics and can enjoy the company of other housemates, but equally enjoy your alone time। It's important to make sure that you get this balance right as living with someone who is constantly looking to share time with you might overcrowd you. Equally, someone who prefers to be alone may leave you feeling lonely. If you can find a housemate who is like you, that's great, but if you can't, then try and explain to people that you like your own space.
Your reactions can sometimes be intense, especially when tired, which may cause stress to fellow housemates. However, on the whole you are emotionally stable meaning you are generally easy to live with. It may be advisable to try and pinpoint when you are vulnerable to over reacting and remove yourself from these situations before they occur.
You're intellectually curious, appreciate art, and are sensitive to beauty. You are aware of your feelings and are prone to thinking and acting in individualistic and nonconforming ways. When living with others you're interesting as you will always offer a new opinion but to many you could be conceived as arrogant and ignorant. You're most suited to living with people who are also non-conforming as conservative people will find you frightening and you will find them frustrating."
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