Nancy Young wrote:

> "Lou Decruss" > wrote
>
> > You don't have to be single to be a slob. *I've run across a few
> > couples that have no problem with dishes stacked 2 feet tall in the
> > sink and on every inch of counter space. *Cups, cans and bottles on
> > the tables in the living room and bedroom nightstands with mold in
> > them. *Takeout boxes piled 3-4 feet high on the living room floor.
> > Many years ago I had a job that required going to several homes a day.
> > When I saw a woman put her husbands shit filled underwear in the
> > DISHWASHER I knew I needed to find another job.
>
> I really don't know how people get to that state. *Even more
> amazing to see cases where two people like that find each other.
> It's sad. *I used to work with a woman like that. *She really didn't
> get what was weird about the filth she lived in. *I mean, she had
> fleas! *They finally had to fumigate her cube at work.


GAWD...!!!

Once had a neighbor who had an "apartment of filth". Three cats,
roaches crawling all over the cats' wet food dishes and EVERYWHERE in
fact, nauseating bathroom, etc. He was a biologist. When I complained
about his vermin problem to the management company (since it affected
me), he got all hostile about them coming into spray, thought that
putting Fuller's Earth around would take care of the roaches, and that
encouraging *spiders* in the place would also help...

He was highly intelligent, had Asperger's Syndrome, meaning no social
skills. I guess being a biologist and all he thought everything was
"relative", since everything is "organic" in nature...including the
vermin problem.

Mercifully he left soon after that...

Knew someone else, fairly "normal" - seeming. A friend of hers was
dragooned into taking care of her cat over xmas holiday. The gal's
apt. was a real filth hole, stuff stacked up, fridge used as a garbage
can, cat poo all over the place. The housesitter called up the gal's
sister and had her come up, the sitch wound up with the person getting
some psychiatric intervention...

Did the person not think that the filth in her apt. would NOT be
noticed by the housesitter...!!!??? Jeez...

Who knows...very puzzling.


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Best
Greg