So it seems I've moved back home with my parents.

[praxiz]

Btw, I'm 26 this fall. For the past 8 years I've been living away from home, first studying (the bottom of a beer-bottle), then working (to afford more beer).

I bought a brand new apartment in this tall building, almost a year ago. About a month ago I noticed water coming down from the roof in my bathroom. I contacted the land lord and after a while it got turned off. It seemed that some doofus above me had installed a washing machine on his own, with catastrophic results. Long story short, the water caused some damage and because it took a while before anyone could take a look at it, my bathroom roof is now mold-infested.

Gee, thanks a lot, doofus-living-above-me.

Anyway, long story short, the bathroom has to be torn apart, mold removed, bathroom put together again. It'll take about a month.

So I've moved back home. My mother is thrilled of course, because I'm the youngest in the family and I guess it gets pretty quiet around the house when all the kids are gone. I actually told her that I was moving back home on her birthday. See if you can beat that present.

Anyway, it's actually not all that bad. I mean I used to have a 15 minute walk to work every morning, now it's a 15 minute drive plus a 45 minute bus-ride and THEN a 10 minute walk to work, and I have to get up at 6 am in the morning.

But! I haven't worn something that's been ironed in 8 years, and I have to tell you, it's not all bad.

Also I get an omelette with sandwiches and fresh cold fruit juice for breakfast every morning, she's been buying me new clothes (which I guess I needed), and when I come home there's a warm delicious dinner waiting for me.

Best part is, all expenses I care to document are covered by the apartment buildings insurance, and I expect a pretty sweet settlement from the guy above me when this is over.

So I guess it's not all that bad, and it's only for a month...

.. but god damn I'm looking forward to coming home to my apartment, put on a dirty unironed shirt, light up a cigarette and open a beer and watch porn for 12 hours straight.

[WCGreen]

1. I guess you have a womb with a view now.....

[madeline_con]

5. Hey, Green...

that was cutting



edge. ;)

[Wetzelbill]

10. The Master Strikes Again!!!

LOL

:rofl: :spray:

[jeff30997]

2. You can stay straight for 12 hours ?

I'm impressed ! :)

[Merrick]

3. Parellel lives

I live beneath the laundy room of my building and it caused me no end of frustration until I lobbied the management to put in new flooring to keep the periodic overflow incidents from seeping through my ceiling.

I couldn't imagine watching porn for 12 hours straight, though. More like a max of 12 minutes at a time. You must be some kind of masochist.

[madeline_con]

4. "... something that's been ironed ..."

While you're at Mom's, learn to take care of your clothes. You're grown now.

Get off the beer, smokes and the 12 hour porn marathons. All three lead to fatness, laziness, cancer and lonely nights of masturbation.

Are you staying in your Mom's basement, by any chance?

Seriously, you need time to reacess...

EDIT it's a spelling thing

[praxiz]

6. Not that kind of house.

My parents still live on the farm, we don't have a basement, more a cellar. Very unpleasant cellar. I live in my old room now.

And since when was it mandatory for men to stop drinking beer and smoking and watching porn, just because they're "grown".?

PS: The 12 hour porn marathon was a joke. It just means I won't be too heartbroken when it's time to move back into my apartment.

[hfojvt]

7. Do people still iron? Really?

That's so pre 9-11.

[praxiz]

8. Not sure how I'm supposed to interpret that. NT

[hfojvt]

12. we were attacked and thousands of innocents were killed

I am 43 and male and have never owned an iron.
9-11 is the catch-all excuse for everything. Wanna end an argument? Just make a gratuitous reference to 9-11. If it is a non-sequitur that is all the better. Your debating opponent is left going "huh?" and can only sputter in disbelief or say "not sure how I am supposed to interpret that", but they cannot attack you because that would be "supporting the terrorists". You can just respond with "we were attacked and thousands of innocents were killed". Everybody knows "that changes everything".

[SoCalDem]

9. I LOVE to iron.. It's the one household chore that is satisfying

I even bought a new ironing board pad & cover the other day :)The ironing board I have was a wedding present 35 years ago:)

[datasuspect]

13. so i guess you are already married?

let me guess, you can cook too right?

damn.

[Wetzelbill]

11. 12 hours is too much, man

A good 5 minutes or so when needed is all a man really needs. (cut it back to 6 hours)