Mega Thread The Questions Thread - Part II

[Gough]

Oh yeah like weed /rollseyes

Fast women, fast men, fast cars, virtually every vice is an improvement in gambling.

 

[gaskin]

Anyone actually know a thing or two about the SJ Parker Stakes (aka Melbourne Cup) and give me a tip or two?

Just don't be Marge.

 

[Shell]

Just don't be Marge.

Idc. $50 is my limit. Have gone $20 in the sweeps at work so will do $30 at the TAB

 

[Shell]

Just don't be Marge.

Lmao I don't know which one to vote for

 

[RU_]

Am I the arseh*le?

My partner and I own our house and rent a room out to a girl around a similar age to us, from the UK. She bought her mum a ticket to visit AUS from the UK a few months ago and had mentioned to my partner about her mum staying with us, my partner told her to speak to me about it.

For hindsight - we have 2 indoor cats and a dog that we keep separated in the house as we are worried about the dog trying to chase the cats. I am very pedantic about doors being closed as whenever people come over they are either 1. Too slow to close the door and the cats can easily make it past them before the door shuts or 2. They don’t close the door properly. On the other side our dog goes ballistic (in excitement) whenever new people come over and it took a good 6 months for her to calm down around our housemates boyfriend even though she was seeing him 4 odd times a week. We live in a roughish area with a neighbour over the back that keeps screaming over the fence when our dog barks in excitement, so we just try to avoid bringing people over and that has settled it down.

She’s had 4 odd months to ask me about her wanting her mum to stay with us and I’ve been away for work the last two days. Today she got my partner to help carry a mattress in, and when queried she said it’s for her mum who gets here Friday. My partner had the ‘have you spoken to RU_?’ ‘No, why would I need to?’ conversation.

Long story short, she messaged our group chat saying her mum is staying with us for just over 2 weeks (1 week here, 1 week down south and then 1 week back here) and gets here Friday. I basically sent a message back saying ‘this is a pretty big request and 3 days is not enough notice for something like this. Happy for her to stay a few days this weekend until you guys go down south but after that you will need to book an Airbnb as I don’t want to stress about the cats getting out or the dog pissing our neighbour off for over 2 weeks. We had my partners family come to Perth recently and we made them book an Airbnb for these reasons’.

In what world can you rent a room from a couple that own the house and then invite someone to come stay for 2 weeks without actually making sure it’s okay? The fact she had mentioned it to my partner and then didn’t follow up with me as my partner suggested shits me, as she knew I would say no.

 

[gaskin]

You are not the arseh*le- she is. You should have flat out told her to send her mum elsewhere.

 

[Cruyff14]

Yeah, she's well in the wrong.

 

[Shell]

One week staying at my place is my limit for ppl I know. Not ones I don't

 

[Soups]

I don’t even let my parents stay at my place. They once said they were coming down to visit and left 9 days later, and that was only because I had a good friend coming down to stay the weekend. I live in a small 2 bed apartment by myself, having someone there when I came home from a long day was all too much.

They now stay in town when they come and visit, think they got the hint

 

[Kram]

Depends a lot on the size of the place you have imo.

When I lived in Perth in a 4 bed house for a few months on my own wouldn't care how long people stayed. If it was an apartment I'd imagine a few days would be more than enough.

 

[Billy ray]

you are not an arse hole at all.
if she arks up, evict as you will find a replacement single person in the current market to rent ya room

 

[Over The Post]

I'd be asking why your partner never bothered mentioning it to you.

 

[Shell]

Sounds like her and raskolnikov 's nephew would make wonderful flatmates together

 

[Quivorir]

Probably just forgot. She told her to ask RU_ and thats the end of it for her.

 

[RU_]

I'd be asking why your partner never bothered mentioning it to you.

She did, but she said our housemate was going to ask me and that never happened. I’d assumed that she knew what my answer would be as we had issues in the past with her boyfriend only coming to our house 3-4 days a week and her never going there so I told her that it needed to be an even split as it’s our home too. My partner isn’t a massive fan of conflict which is why she palmed it off to speak to me, as we are both uncomfortable with the proposition.

Also assumed that since she didn’t ask me and that she knew what my stance was likely going to be for her mum to stay elsewhere that she had just organised something. I figured she would ask me if she planned on her mum staying here. Guess I assumed wrong, but who doesn’t ask to have someone stay for 2 weeks when you’re renting a room?

Anyway she is a bit mad about it I think, my partner said bye/have a good day today on her way to work this morning and didn’t get anything back. Shouldn’t have left it to the last minute in hopes I’d just roll over and say yes I guess.

 

[Shell]

Anyway she is a bit mad about it I think, my partner said bye/have a good day today on her way to work this morning and didn’t get anything back. Shouldn’t have left it to the last minute in hopes I’d just roll over and say yes I guess.

Childish.

Just ignore her and let her have her sook.

 

[Kram]

2 weeks... I'm very easy going but that's a big ask. lol.

How big is the house?

 

[RU_]

Childish.

Just ignore her and let her have her sook.

She’s actually been a really good housemate in the sense of paying rent on time, generally cleans up after herself and I’d consider the 3 of us friends. However she has a bad habit of trying to swindle things her way.

• This example.
• Boyfriend only being at our house as he lived 30 mins away and didn’t want to do the double trip each time.
• She didn’t have a car for about 6 months which is why her boyfriend was staying here 3-4 days a week as he’d have to do double the trips to pick her up/drop her off. She would borrow my partners car on weekends while she was at work, which was fine but after a few months I started questioning if she was going to buy her own or not. Final straw in the car saga was her asking my partner if she could pick up a fridge for her boyfriends house and she said no because its a hatchback and an old fridge is going to leak/destroy the back of the car. Low and behold my partner was at work, she dropped off everything in the back of the car in the lounge room while I was home to assumedly pick up the fridge, I didn’t think anything of it until about an hour later and messaged my partner and it was only because of my message that when she wasn’t there to pick her up after work she had some idea that she was running late. We put an end to borrowing the car when she couldn’t pick her up on time or send a message to explain she was running late. My partner works part time while she’s studying at a shopping centre in a lower economic area, not ideal for a young girl to just be waiting in the carpark after hours. She now has a car which is great.

Maybe I’m being a bit stiff, but her boyfriend is actually my mate from the gym, I’d told him he needs to keep the animals separate and doors closed and 3 times I caught him leaving doors unlatched which just makes me anxious about the animals.

 

[RU_]

2 weeks... I'm very easy going but that's a big ask. lol.

How big is the house?

3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2 ensuites - she has one of the ensuites.

Front door/lounge is right next to our bedroom, her bedroom is at the opposite end of the house past the kitchen/living area space.

 

[PT Bar None]

Wasn't this an episode of Two and a Half Men?

 

[raskolnikov]

3 bathrooms plus 2 ensuites?

 

[Kram]

She’s actually been a really good housemate in the sense of paying rent on time, generally cleans up after herself and I’d consider the 3 of us friends. However she has a bad habit of trying to swindle things her way.

• This example.
• Boyfriend only being at our house as he lived 30 mins away and didn’t want to do the double trip each time.
• She didn’t have a car for about 6 months which is why her boyfriend was staying here 3-4 days a week as he’d have to do double the trips to pick her up/drop her off. She would borrow my partners car on weekends while she was at work, which was fine but after a few months I started questioning if she was going to buy her own or not. Final straw in the car saga was her asking my partner if she could pick up a fridge for her boyfriends house and she said no because its a hatchback and an old fridge is going to leak/destroy the back of the car. Low and behold my partner was at work, she dropped off everything in the back of the car in the lounge room while I was home to assumedly pick up the fridge, I didn’t think anything of it until about an hour later and messaged my partner and it was only because of my message that when she wasn’t there to pick her up after work she had some idea that she was running late. We put an end to borrowing the car when she couldn’t pick her up on time or send a message to explain she was running late. My partner works part time while she’s studying at a shopping centre in a lower economic area, not ideal for a young girl to just be waiting in the carpark after hours. She now has a car which is great.

Maybe I’m being a bit stiff, but her boyfriend is actually my mate from the gym, I’d told him he needs to keep the animals separate and doors closed and 3 times I caught him leaving doors unlatched which just makes me anxious about the animals.

Reliable with paying rent and cleaning up after themselves I reckon buys a lot of credit, not sure quite that much though.

 

[Billy ray]

3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2 ensuites - she has one of the ensuites.

Front door/lounge is right next to our bedroom, her bedroom is at the opposite end of the house past the kitchen/living area space.

you should sell and move back to qld and buy my place

 

[RU_]

3 bathrooms plus 2 ensuites?

3 bathrooms, 2 of which are ensuites.

 

[RU_]

Taking bets on when she’s going to give her notice to move out .

Came home last night on the phone, marched straight past us without a wave or a hello or anything, packed an overnight bag and marched out without saying anything, presumably going to her boyfriends.

My money is on the 27th November.