r/maliciouscompliance - "Fine, I'll leave them to ROT!"

hey everyone and welcome to story time my name is Jake and today we are looking at the subreddit our such malicious compliance where people conformed to the letter but not the spirit of a request just do the dishes that are mine have fun with bugs infesting your dishes I'm a 27 year old woman with three male roommates who are all grad students I'm in the master bedroom and they all are on the other side of the house they're all also about two years younger than me so there's a kind of house mom role that I've fallen into I don't mind it most of the time because I'm like hey guys don't forget to do X and then they do it but the cleanliness issue is the one that I really can't get over when I cook I either clean the dishes as I'm cooking or soak them in the sink for a little while and then clean them within the next couple of hours my roommates they just let that sit there I got annoyed about two weeks ago because I went to go make myself some pasta and there were so many dishes in the sink that I couldn't actually clean my pan out of frustration and probably a little bit of passive aggression I just cleaned all the dishes and then waited for a time when the guys were home to let them know hey I went to wash a pan earlier and there was no space in the sink I know you guys are busy with classes but there's got to be some way of getting your dishes clean within 48 hours of them being dirtied that way we don't get this pile up and I don't feel like you guys are leaving the household chores to me oh my god of course our dishes aren't your responsibility we're sorry from now on you don't have to worry about it only do the dishes that are yours fast forward to about three days ago roommate one is going out of state to visit family roommate two is in South America with his lab mates and roommate three is probably at his girlfriend's place they all disappeared like a whisper in the wind and I woke up the next day realizing that not only were none of the guys here but they left a bunch of dishes in the sink now we live in the south and it's just starting to get warm outside there are bugs and those bugs get attracted to grossest that gets left out on counters it's day three and all kinds of gnats and flies are gathering around their dishes normally I'd be so in sensed that I would just clean it all but you know what I refuse to wash that disgusting dishes because they told me I didn't have to I'm not even going in the kitchen right now it's so nasty thankfully being in the master bedroom means I have my own bathroom and I've decided for the hell of it I'm just gonna wash my dishes in the bathroom sink which is surprise surprise bug free tomorrow two of them get back from their trips I plan to give absolutely zero craps when they realize that this is what happens when they leave all the kitchen work for the woman of the house to do update just do the dishes that are mine the conclusion so this is like a follow-up to the previous story she posted this like two days after and this is the conclusion I guess first off to those of you saying that I should just move the dishes into their rooms that wouldn't be maliciously complying nobody told me to move the dirty dishes also that would have required me touching everything which I truly did not want to do I'll keep the strategy in mind for the future when I'm in more of a petty revenge mood though to those of you who saying I'm just setting up my house for a bug infestation it's an old rental house in the woods in the south bugs are an unfortunate inevitability that we have to stay on top of normally they kind of hang around the trash can which is gross but whatever it's trash and usually I spray the can down with rade whenever we take it out either way it's not my job to prevent the house from getting infested it's everyone's job that's the whole point anyway moving on because my roommates all came home at different times you're gonna have to know them individually so here are some fake names roommate one who went to visit the family is Nathan roommate two who went to South America is luciano roommate three who was hanging out with his girlfriend his son Jeet again not real just trying to keep them distinct so you don't get mixed up on who is who so first we have son Jeet who came home last night with his girlfriend as far as I can tell they skipped the kitchen entirely and went straight to his room this morning though I was unlucky enough to be woken up by my cat's claw in my foot at like 7:00 a.m. so I was very awake and heard them shuffle into the kitchen for coffee Sanji said it was really gross in the kitchen and his girlfriend agreed Sanji proceeded to say something like this is why I don't want to ever cook in here it's true Sanji doesn't cook very often he mostly gets delivery so I could safely assume that the dishes did not belong to Santi he and his girlfriend left the house not long after I heard this conversation next arrived was Nathan around 2:00 in the afternoon I was actually out in the backyard hosing down my cat's litter box it's the other part of the house that commonly attracts bugs when he pulled into the driveway I heard him enter the house but I didn't want to be standing in the living room waiting for him so unfortunately I didn't see the initial reaction when I did go back inside he was in his room unpacking from his trip but there was still that gross little business around the dish where I went into my room to reassemble the litter box and then started browsing reddit like you do after about two hours went by there was zero kitchen activity I started to get anxious I gotta say some of your comments worried me folks they won't care they your books now etc etc I seriously started thinking what if they really just don't care and these dishes get ignored for another 48 hours what if I got myself worked up for nothing so I actually came up with Plan B plan a of course was the best timeline a beautiful moment of clarity where all the roommates recognized that communal living is a team effort and we all have to do our part to get by barring that Plan B would be to wait until all roommates were home yet again and Corral them all into the kitchen and say look at this this is bugs you literally left your dishes for over three days for me to do and don't tell me you didn't pass the bleach there's the insecticide get to work my blood was boiling a little just thinking about it and I can be kind of scary for a little lady so part of me was actually kind of hoping I would get to do plan B and laugh some steam thankfully at one point Nathan came out of his room and started making a frozen pizza in the kitchen I heard some dishes clang the oven door open and closed and the sweet smell of pepperoni filling the air a few more dishes Clank and then Nathan started coming by my room I heard him before I saw him Hey witty that's me hey man how was your trip good I'm just jet-lagged what happened in here what do you mean like did something is something wrong in the garbage disposal you're talking about the bugs I mean that's what happens when stuff gets left out like that and then everyone leaves town Nathan makes a face as if to say gross yeah it's pretty gross there's cleaning stuff in the cabinet underneath if you're looking for it ah cool thanks he walked off looking very sullen like Charlie Brown on a bad day the nice part of the Houseman thing is at the very least when I do explicitly tell someone to do something they do it so as Polly as Nathan was he started cleaning while his beets are cooked in my head I was just screaming hurray I did a little girly happy dance at my desk I'm all elbows and asked myself to relax a little not only was Nathan cleaning the dishes themselves but the surfaces in and around the sink he was attempting to spray the books to death I left him to it and kept browsing reddit I considered updating you guys at this point but not all of the roommates were back yet and I hadn't actually seen the finished product so for all I know he could have done a crap job I actually did end up checking the kitchen not long after this conversation I wanted to make myself some tea anyway and to my great pleasure there were no dishes in the sink and very few bugs we're still basically in a cabin in the woods so some little gnats and fruit flies are an unfortunate inevitability but it was nowhere near the thriving community they had been a few hours prior Luciano the final roommate got home around 8 p.m. at night much later in a wonderful mood he's the party boy roommate and he and Nathan are best buddies who often get drunk together our recycling bin is always full of beer cans and empty bottles of booze and it's pretty much always because Luciano and Nathan stayed up late smoking cigarettes and drinking so Luciano gets back and starts unloading beers onto the counter Nathan Nathan come here mate let's drink Nathan had apparently been asleep catching up from his jet lag and stumbled out of his room two beer cans open blue you owe me like five beers did you make chicken last week um probably you want some the fridge door opens no dude you didn't wash any of your stuff it was still sitting in the sink today when I got back an awkward pause the fridge closes yeah dude look at this I'm assuming Nathan took pictures of the sink when he got back and started showing them to Luciano this is what it looked like in here like I know the baking sheet was mine from before but ah my bad at this point Nathan started whispering a little bit so I couldn't really make it out I'm sorry guys but I'm fairly certain I heard my name in there so I can only assume it was somewhere on the spectrum between a charitable we literally just told ye she wouldn't have to do our dishes and then angry witty was a huge pain about it and I had to clean everything either way whatever I don't mind being the bad guy when I have a clean sink a few minutes ago I popped out to the kitchen to make myself more tea everything looked good thank baby Jesus Luciano and Nathan were out on the back porch chain-smoking and son deed is probably still out with his girlfriend for the sake of it I gave the kitchen another good hose-down with the insecticide and then wiped it down to dry the kitchen definitely smells like bug spray right now but honestly I'll take it maybe the lingering smell will be a reminder I wish I could fast-forward into the future here and tell you guys and they never left dishes in the sink again the end but only time will tell on that front it seems like the number one culprit here was Luciano and I'm a little sad that he didn't have to deal with the bugs face to face but if big bro Nathan keeps him on track then we'll be fine I'm sure some of you were waiting for there to be a big blowout roommate brawl and to be honest part of me was prepared to get into an argument with someone over this but I'm grateful that stuff was just got done without there being too much of an interpersonal issue I'm definitely gonna keep your strategies in my back pocket for the future so if this happens again they'll either get dishes on their pillows or I'll hide all the clean dishes so they can't use them hey everyone I hope you're all having a really good day and that you enjoyed that video if you did then please do hit like down below as it helps out and subscribe if you aren't already so that you never miss out on another video if you want to see some other videos they click on-screen now or check down below for the playlist for this subreddit but thank you again and I will see you tomorrow

Channel: Storytime

Views: 201,173

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Id: ZKUYBLH2yO8

Length: 11min 20sec (680 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 22 2019