Temporary Insanity

I moved into a house with a woman with 3 dogs and 2 cats. I originally thought this would be nice for my dog as she would not be lonely when I was not home. The house was chaos! The other 3 dogs were hyper and barked all of the time, making my dog hyper as well. It was always such a disruption I couldn't stand to be home because I could never relax amidst all of that confusion.

Then came the attempted manipulation for me to get rid of my dog. My housemate would tell me that she thought her oldest dog was going to kill my dog in an attempt to make me afraid for the safety of my dog. This was odd because whenever I saw the two of them together, they were cuddled up on a dog bed as happy as could be. Then the housemate would go into hysterics that my dog ate this or that. This was interesting since there were 4 dogs in the house, but my dog ate it. I would tell her that my dog didn't usually eat things, but she would rant and rave that I was going to have to pay for said missing item. Then it would always miraculously be found. After several of these episodes I was quite over it.

Two weeks after I moved in I was told by the housemate that the heating system didn't work. At first I wasn't alarmed by this, but as winter started to set in, it became apparent it was going to be a problem. She didn't believe in putting curtains on her windows and we had hard wood floors. Also as winter was setting in, the hot water heater broke and she couldn't afford to fix it. So I had to inconvenience friends to let me take showers at their place. It was well over a month before that was fixed. During all this time, she also made me pay full rent and utilities. The confusing part is how could their even be utility bills? She would never show me a bill, she would leave me a note as to how much I owed.

The final straw came when we were snowed in. She used this opportunity to give me 25 minute lectures on how I didn't ring the sponges out to her liking, etc, etc. That pretty much did it for me. I emailed a friend who told me to come and stay with him for a while. So I packed up my car and my dog and left.

I remained bitter.....