Whew, I thought I blew it with the new roommate

He’s a good roommate so far with just a couple very minor annoyances. He impressed me right after he moved in by going out back to meet the women. In my own defense both women used to like me, it’s just that things went bad.

But yeah, so far we stay out of each others way and just talk minimally but it seems to suit both of us so “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” A few times he annoyed me by doing my pet peeve: People hacking and spitting contemptuously. When people do that near me I think they are doing it to show contempt of me.

Maybe I’m wrong because my sisters last housemate had a bad habit of hacking and spitting every morning and my sister said it was disgusting and annoying but never once said she felt it was showing contempt. So maybe I was wrong but I reacted when my housemate did it and I thought our getting along was over. But any misunderstanding or bad feelings seem to be erased and things are back to normal. Whew! I can’t be that sensitive to things, that’s the only thing he does that bothers me and I will just have to put up with it while keeping my pride intact.

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man, what a drag…why don’t you ask him to spit somewhere else?

He only does it when he’s in the bathroom. It might be innocent, it might not.

oh don’t read into it…that’s normal.

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Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping.

Hacking and spitting. That sounds nasty. Is he a smoker or have any allergies?

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He doesn’t smoke. I really don’t know if he has allergies.

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