‘He traded his parents for you’: Gen X couple takes drastic action after the entitled runaway teenager renting a room upstairs refuses to wash his dishes

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 16, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

When you decide to live with a roommate or a housemate, you're rolling the dice a little bit. Without knowing for sure how a person acts behind closed doors, it's nearly impossible to vet a prospective housemate for good manners, shared space etiquette, and cleanliness standards. 

However, if things like 'cleanliness' and 'mutual independence' are important to you, don't be like the Gen X couple in our next story who got stuck being a runaway 18-year-old's new mommy and daddy. 

Due to the desperately high cost of living these days, a couple decided to rent out the room upstairs to a potential roommate. Knowing that they'd be cohabitating with whoever moved in, they graciously offered the use of the kitchen, living room, and all other common areas–big mistake! Once they realized the kid that moved in was a total slob and an entitled loser, all bets were off. 

Scroll for the entire story of how this couple took drastic action to uproot the parasitic man-child that moved in upstairs. 

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    "You're not his mom"
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    Posted by u/Amulet_17 "Not all dishes can be hand washed." 18-year-old kid recently moved into the upstairs room. Immediately we start having issues with him not cleaning up after himself in the kitchen. I tell him multiple times to not leave his dishes in the sink. I told him,
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    "You can use our dishes, but you have to clean them when you're done. If the dishwasher is available, rinse and put them in there. If it is not available, hand wash them and put them away. You can also empty it if it's clean and then put your dishes in it. Just don't leave a mess behind in the kitchen."
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    He consistently puts his dishes in the sink (full of food) and leaves them there for days. I even showed him how to use the sprayer to spray the food remnants down the drain and use the garbage disposal, so rotting food isn't sitting in the sink. He also never wipes the counters after preparing food.
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    One day, I go into the kitchen to cook after cleaning the kitchen spotless the night before, and find dirty dishes and food in the sink plus food and crumbs all over the counters. I texted him to go downstairs now and clean up his mess because I don't want to cook in a dirty kitchen and I had just cleaned
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    it. I wait in my room until I hear him go back upstairs. I go in the kitchen and the dishes and sink are untouched. I texted him do your dishes. He said he couldn't because the DISHWASHER WAS CLEAN, and evidently he couldn't empty it. So I told him to hand wash his dishes.
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    Then this kid legitimately says to me, "Not all dishes can be hand washed some need the dishwasher." That is ONE OF THE DUMBEST MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE. I told him to stop using our dishes to which he replied a salute emoji.
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    But then I notice our dishes are suddenly missing more and more, and 2 days ago he left the house and I found 20+ dirty dishes in the sink, raw meat juices and jelly on the floor along with a WHOLE slice of bread, and a dozen frozen food boxes on the floor around the full recycling can in the kitchen.
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    Evidently he was keeping all his trash and dishes (our dishes) in his room and dumped them all down here while I was sleeping and slipped out. And he KNEW I had an important client coming over the next day so he knew I'd have to f**king clean up after him!!! He hasn't been back yet but his stuff is still here. Luckily he is leaving soon to go back and live with his parents. Don't know if I'll ever rent a room to someone so young again!!!
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    Tue, Mar 5 at 5:19 PM I clean the kitchen spotless every night. And when I go in there to cook the next day, I expect to find it exactly how I left it. Go wash Idishes and clean the your counters and stove. The spray is next to the microwave. Do it now so I can start cooking dinner. Ill put the dishes in the dishwasher when it's in loaded
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    No you'll wash your dishes now Not all dishes can be hand washed some need the dishwasher Then stop using our dishes Not everyone has a dishwasher And every single dish in the universe can be hand washed I am done
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    Like I understand you are young but you are PERFECTLY CAPABLE of cleaning up after yourself. Invest in your own dishes and keep them in your bathroom sink if you refuse to clean up after yourself I even SHOWED YOU how to rinse out the sink and once again it's FILLED WITH FOOD And I would put them in the dishwasher if it was empty but it's not and some need to go in there I cleaned the counter off ect
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    You need to stop. I have no patience left. Clearly If you refuse to clean up after yourself, you may no longer use our dishes, and can use your bathroom sink to wash yours. + iMessage
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    CamD98xx 1 day ago . You can tell someone arent raised right but this mf was not raised at all. I would be completely embarrassed by this lol, I hate to be an inconvenience to others.
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    Aragona36 1 day ago If there were only some way to empty that dishwasher. 224 Reply Share ImOnlyHereForTheSims 23 hr. ago if only
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    ThePickleQueen_ . 1 day ago "I would put them in the dishwasher if it was empty but it's not" then just put them away!? It takes 2 minutes!
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    Full_Ad_347 1 day ago Sounds like you're finding out why he needed a place to move out to so young. The way he's acting is like he's traded his parents for you. Written lease? Anything in there about expectations of shared living space
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    • Amulet 17 OP 1 day ago edited 1 day ago He got a new job in our town and his parents live an hour and a half away. His dad moved his stuff in with him, they aren't on bad terms. Yes there is a written agreement and he's broken almost every rule in there. It says clean up after yourself in common areas. It also says you have to remain employed, and he lost his new job within a week.
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    RedHotSnowflake 1 day ago • "Not all dishes can be hand washed. Some of them my mom has to wash for me.' 91 Reply Share Amulet 17 OP. 7 hr. ago 10/10 my favorite comment so far
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    Montana-7 1 day ago I am my own dishwasher, I don't have a machine. Is he saying I'm not doing it right? 62 Reply Share PeachyMelodies 23 hr. ago Omg that's what I'm thinking! Imagine thinking you can only dish wash dishes!
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    Ganeth Ley 1 day ago Scoop that right off the kitchen floor and put it in his bed. FAFO 27 Reply Share Ganeth Ley 1 day ago Also, not all dishes can go in the dishwasher; all dishes can be hand washed. He's not even good at gaslighting
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    Jimbobjoesmith · 1 day ago i don't blame you, i'd lose my too. "some need to go in the dishwasher" is code for "i don't feel like doing it so i'm going to put it off". or like someone who leaves something "soaking" for days just to keep putting it off.
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    LostBeneath MySkin - 15 hr. ago This kid is obv a piece of work but I wouldn't respond kindly to being talked to the way you are either 15 Reply Share Sector-Away 20 hr. ago You're not his mom.
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    swiggitysquid. 1 day ago i read this totally backwards and was so confused how you'd think every dish can be dishwashed... then i read it again. i feel awful for you! good on you for standing up for yourself
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    veracity-mittens . 23 hr. ago Congratulations, you're now a parent of a bouncing baby 18 year old boy, apparently
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    Appleinacoconut - 19 hr. ago Oh. Speaking to someone that is not your child like this, who is paying you rent is unacceptable. If you want to evict him for breach of lease do so, but you can not speak to people like this.
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