This Fish Needs A Bicycle

brit that i am, i totally understand. my thoughts are with you in this trying time.

Roommate already thinks I'm crazy...would you like me to stop by one morning and tell him that everyone knows tea kettles go on the back right burner? He would never think it came from you because I'm always saying "crazy shit" like that :)

love your blog. it's funny and a good read. just thought i'll drop a note ;)

You may look crazy to others, but this, this I understand. Though I have to argue, the Tea Kettle of Happiness belongs on the left rear burner, not the right. At least that's where mine sits. Thankfully, my husband understands this.

not if it's going to off-set the dish towel, which in my house, lives on the left!

Love the red. You wouldn't last a minute with my husband. We bought our house 3 years ago and he still dosn't know that the coffee mugs go on top shelf and water glasses on the bottom. However he can spout off the occupancy of every stadium in the county. HE DRIVES ME NUTS!

i'm sorry, but kettles go on the back left burner.

THAT is crazy talk.

hah, love the pic of the closet - mine is color coordinated as well! and i agree, back right corner all the way. but what really used to drive me nuts was when people didn't move the kettle off the stove when frying - hate the oil stains on my pretty kettle :(

hah, isn't it funny, but my kettle is always on the back left burner. I'd never thought of it before, but that's where I always seem to put it and when I have to move it around it doesn't feel right.

boy am i glad i live with my sister. she never moves anything sacred in the kitchen. :D it's her room that drives me nuts though..

neurotic much?

i have a bad habit of opening the dishwasher and having to rearrange the dishes that my housemates put in there. i haven't decided if there is an actual "right" way to put them in, or if it's just that there's "my" way to put them it, but i can never accept how they load the dishes in. so i just quietly reshuffle. sometimes we "everything in its place" girls have to just silently shift things to their places. makes sense to me. but i'm loony.

What you want, right, is an electric kettle!

Still, it must be a man-failing. Mine simply can't get the measuring cups in the correct cupboard. I keep finding them in the saucepan cupboard. I mean, really! Talk about crazy, man!

So if you use the kettle on the back right burner, then boil water, what do you do with the kettle once it's boiled? You can't leave it on the hot burner, can you? If I leave mine on the same hot burner it whistles for half an hour until the burner cools off.

I don't own a pretty tea kettle like yours, but I can certainly relate to the feelings surrounding this experience. I can't stand it when people rearrange my 'system' of doing something; it feels like someone has suddenly turned my eyeglasses upside down.

Hey, I do the SAME thing with my closet.. It makes that hot pink shirt that would look killer with those sexy GLO jeans (no, not J-LO, G-LO.. yay Kohls.) easy to find.

Our kettle also always stays on the same burner except on big holidays when all the burners are needed. So there. ;)

back right all the way. and puh-lease take it off when frying.

okay, i think whether the kettle goes on the back left or right (obviously the back though) and thus, whether the hand towel can be moved to the offsetting corner, is all dependent on where the sink is. where is the sink?

Can you perhaps show roommate the blog and see that there are people out there who say crazy stuff like this all the time other than you? That you're not alone in knowing the place the kettle goes?

It seems like such a fixable reason to divorce a good room mate. They are so hard to find... think about it-- what if you got a room mate who not only left the kettle in the wrong place, but, say, left something really icky on the counter? Like, maybe, cheese that had gone all rancid? Or never bathed? Or used your toothbrush? Seems like the kettle thing isn't as bad as it could be.

Ours (which I just HAPPEN to have a picture of online) lives on the back left burner when not in use, on account of it being in the corner of the room and that burner having a weird black plate over it making it convenient for storage.

However, it is only boiled on the front burners.

So, I like to have my soap upside down (the two ends that curve should point up, not down).

I had a mild freak-out in the shower a few months ago, when the ex started using my soap and putting it back the wrong way.

It took me two months to SAY anything, because I was determined not to look psycho. And when I did, he laughed at me for days.

So don't say anything. They're all going to laugh at you.

You're one crazy bitch.

Hon? You ARE crazy. ;-)

A little neurotic?

I used to live with someone much worse: shoes had to come off at the door - and if we had super types coming to fix something, he'd roll up the rugs; no TV - the background noise drove him nuts; no handbags on the kitchen counters - ew germs; nothing that even resembles caffeine allowed in the house - just the smell of coffee would give him headaches!; couldn't stand the smell of the cleaning fluid inside the Swiffer mop but wouldn't actually mop the floors himself; not too much detergent in the laundry; washed his hands every second he got; always traveled with hand lotion and chapstick - one day without made him cranky; used a fresh, clean washcloth every single day - how many bachelors even own washcloths? I'm getting anxious just writing this. Seriously, putting the tea kettle back in its proper place? Not a problem. Show roomie this to prove it could be MUCH MUCH worse and that you are actually a saint.

holy shit!

Roommate actually tells people how lucky he is. I mean, we really have a great situation. And he laughed off the tea-kettle bit, so I am lucky as well.