Thread: What percentage of you are grots?

Ok i've had a few flatmates and a mixture of both genders.

I'd say I've had 4 clean female flatmates, 2 disgusting female flatmates, two clean male flatmates and 2 not so clean.

Thing is the girls who were disgusting were also complete bitches and i think they were fully aware of the fact they left the cleaning to me. They just assumed I would always do it and thought they had some sort of queen bee position in the household.

The grotty guys i think actually thought they were clean. They just literally didn't see the marks they left on the inside of the microwave or the dribbles on the couch or the fact their dog shedding a kg of hair in winter meant it needed a wash and would then be ok.

Their intentions were good they just lacked the ability to see their mess.

The two clean guys were partially clean because they ate a lot of take out and just didn't use many dishes. One had also spent some time being whipped into shape in the army.

I'm not a neat freak but I resent cleaning up after another person too much after a while. Plus the place i'm in at the moment is small so any mess really fills up the space quickly.

So I'm advertising my spare room now and i don't know whether to select female only or just go for either.

I suspect i'd be more likely to get a clean flatmate if i select female only but if i'm being irrationally sexist and i'm wrong i'd like you to tell me.

So honestly guys - how many of you have or are told by your girlfriends / mothers etc you just don't see dirt?

Do you think it's fair to say a greater percentage of guys who would be looking to rent a room in an almost fully furnished place are perhaps going through a stage where they're more likely to be grots?

I don't really know so i need some male input here please.

Thanks

I'm a grot. Once a grot, always a grot. A grot may clean up for a while, but will eventually fall back into old habits. It is more likely that a grot will see his dirt but decide that it is not significant. Unless you keep telling him, but you don't want to have to do that do you?

Ive never had lady friends say I obviously don't see my dirt, but I have had one or two tell me I don't seem to mind a little dirt.

If you are a clean freak you will be setting yourdelf up for a lot of aggravation if you don't choose your roommate carefully. But you already know that don't you? I suspect a grot may not admit it to you, and may mistakenly tell himself he can change, if he really wants that room.

A man is more likely to be a grot, IMO, because men are more likely not to sweat the small stuff, compared to women. IMO

Good Luck.

Neat freak here...

From my office at work to the way my trash bins are lined up outside.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Neat freak here...

From my office at work to the way my trash bins are lined up outside.

As soon as I saw you had posted in the thread I figured you were going to be a neat freak .

I'm somewhere in between, but I stray more to the grot (nice word, never heard it before) side of the spectrum. I notice the dirt, but I'm just too apathetic to do anything about it most of the time.

OCD neat freak I go on cleaning rampages late at night sometimes; it's quite humorous to watch or so says my girlfriend....I'll clean out cabinets just to reorganize them haha on legion.....though I do have a bad habit of throwing clothes on the table in a jumble, but everything else is orgamized to the point of being extreme.....And having cobras as pets drives me crazy as they crap all over their cages and destroy everything, so I am always having to reorganize them

Originally Posted by LEGION

they crap all over their cages and destroy everything, so I am always having to reorganize them

You reorganize the crap?

You are a neat freak...