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A portion back, we wrote astir immoderate of the wildest and ickiest room habits radical person witnessed. Then, a clump of readers decided to stock their own. Here's what they said:
1. "My champion friend’s household conscionable lets their feline roam connected the antagonistic portion they’re not utilizing the kitchen. Also, I don’t cognize if it’s their dishwasher oregon what, but nary of their dishes are ever afloat clean. I don’t devour determination erstwhile I can."
—Anonymous
2. "When I was a kid, my parents were friends with a childless couple. The woman was a nurse, and the hubby was a pharmacist. They had tons of wealth and timeshares successful a edifice municipality 70 miles away. They would invitation america to walk the play with them astatine the timeshare. Since I usually had to enactment late, I would travel up successful my ain car, and they would usually person already eaten. The caregiver had a wont of going done garbage down the market stores and past cooking the nutrient she found. My ma would person to archer maine things similar 'Don’t devour the rice, there’s solid successful it.' They owned contention horses, and erstwhile we would spell to peculiar events, the caregiver would instrumentality integrative retention containers and instrumentality the nutrient disconnected people's tables location and devour and service it."
—Anonymous, 71, female, Roswell, New Mexico
3. "My younger member and I stayed overnight astatine our friend’s house. There were six boys successful the family. At breakfast, the dada sat to my left, my small member to my right. Their ma fixed pancakes for breakfast, and she handed the syrup vessel to Dad, who poured it connected his sheet and handed it to his left. All their boys besides flooded their plates. The vessel made its mode astir the array and yet reached my brother, but it was empty. Their ma said, 'Oh, that’s alright, I person different bottle,' and she brought backmost a caller bottle, opened it, handed it to my brother, and past it got to me. After breakfast, my member and I, due to the fact that of our training, helped cleanable up portion each their kids ran retired to the backyard. Their ma took each the plates afloat of leftover syrup and scraped them backmost into the bottle. We made definite we were ne'er adjacent their location astatine repast clip again!"
—Anonymous
4. "In precocious school, I went to prime up a person astatine her location due to the fact that we were each going to the shot game. I got determination astatine meal time, truthful I was kindly offered the Hamburger Helper they were having. I graciously accepted, grabbed a plate, and went into the room to serve. As I walked astir the corner, I saw their feline sitting connected the antagonistic adjacent to the stove wherever the cookware of Hamburger Helper was. As I got closer, the feline dropped its caput and began to devour close retired of the pan. I enactment my sheet down, walked into the eating room, and stated, 'You know, I’m not that bare aft all.'"
—Anonymous
5. "An aunt didn’t navigator chickenhearted completely. I got truthful sick erstwhile we’d devour astatine her place. Especially erstwhile she made chicken. I retrieve specifically cutting into a drumstick, and humor was moving out, and the nutrient was pink. I showed my mom, and she got mad, told maine to unopen up and devour it. I got truthful sick. My dada was pissed. Years later, aft learning however unsafe eating practically earthy chickenhearted is, I was truly mad, and convey deity I didn’t get much sick than I was."
—Anonymous
6. "I utilized to day a feline overmuch older with teenage kids. He would ne'er enactment thing into the fridge aft cooking, mostly leaving nutrient straight successful the cookware connected the stove overnight. He would conscionable drawback bites of it for the adjacent mates of days. I don't cognize however helium didn't extremity up successful the infirmary for nutrient poisoning, but helium was ever complaining that his tummy hurt. Never could enactment 2 and 2 together. I refused to devour thing there."
—Anonymous, 43, female, Seattle
7. "Some kids would marque Kool-Aid oregon juice, and they wouldn’t usage a spoon oregon immoderate benignant of utensil to stir/mix it up. They utilized their bare hand!"
—Anonymous
8. "My parent volition usage the aforesaid cutting committee for earthy chickenhearted and then, without cleaning it, chopped vegetables for salads connected it. Same for a metallic vessel utilized for earthy food going into a fryer, usage it for a crockery bowl. We don’t devour my mom's cooking."
—Anonymous
9. "My ex’s ma made meatloaf, but it’d inactive beryllium earthy successful the middle, and I could spot the earthy ovum successful it. I made definite to get an extremity piece. When I said thing to my ex, helium got huffy and said 'That’s however she makes meatloaf.' I said it wasn’t cooked completely; it’s RAW successful the middle. He didn’t recognize the problem. His dada was a doctor. Guess helium didn’t mind."
—Anonymous
10. "After our divorce, my ex-husband had to navigator and cleanable for himself. While cooking, helium throws the trash connected the floor. He had lone a walking way done the room with trash everyplace other up past his waist. When a crockery yet gets soiled capable that it has to beryllium cleaned, helium puts it connected the level and lets the canine cleanable it up earlier utilizing it again. He sees nary crushed for him to lavation dishes oregon cleanable since they are 'women’s work' and helium is simply a man. My lad took 2 weeks to cleanable up my ex-husband’s location nicely. Didn’t instrumentality excessively agelong astatine each until it was astir arsenic atrocious arsenic before. My ex-husband inactive lives that way. Uuugggghhhhh!!!!!"
—Anonymous, 62, female
11. "A erstwhile household person was making a immense salad. They person cats. He petted the feline connected and off, did not lavation his hands, and continued to usage his bare, dirty, cat-hair-covered hands to premix the salad. He besides enactment his digit successful his nose, did not lavation his hands, and continued to interaction nutrient with his bare hands, picking his nose! I commented astir each of this. He didn’t deliberation thing was wrong. His parents utilized to ain a bakery, and helium worked there. I conjecture helium didn’t larn astir hygiene oregon nutrient safety. I stopped eating there, adjacent erstwhile I’d enactment for days. I brought my ain food. He besides licked the weapon disconnected and enactment it backmost into the peanut food jar. I went disconnected connected him. He didn’t recognize what the large woody was."
—Anonymous
12. "My ma utilized to marque what she called ‘stew.’ A large pot, tons of water, and past immoderate mightiness beryllium successful the fridge. Sometimes it was beauteous basal but bland: potatoes, carrots, full onions, and leftover roast beef oregon cooked hamburger meat. Other times, it would beryllium acold much 'exotic.' Leftover Chinese food, ham, leftover vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Lima beans), French fries, and, connected 1 memorable occasion, 16 oz. of top-quality maple syrup. She didn’t judge successful brackish and pepper, but lone successful those dried bulb flakes that clasp their signifier and texture adjacent aft boiling for 3 hours. My dada utilized to say, 'I taught her everything I cognize astir cooking, and she inactive doesn’t cognize anything.'"
—Anonymous, 72, male, Ontario
13. "My household has an ashtray connected the stove, smokes there, and blows the fume into the microwave vent/fan. There are ashes everyplace connected the stove, and they routinely enactment nutrient close adjacent to the ashtray. Disgusting."
—Anonymous
14. "I worked successful a nonrecreational room for a fewer years. One summer, we hired precocious schoolhouse kids. One feline I caught successful the cooler was putting a solid helium had already drunk from backmost into the cooler and refilling it. He enactment the glass/cup into the immense instrumentality with his hands and scooped up much lemonade. I tried to explicate that’s not good and present it’s contaminated. He didn’t recognize why. I told the chef, and helium tried to explain. I made a large motion that the instrumentality was for that feline now, and not to usage it. I needed to marque a caller batch for the lawsuit we were to service it at. We had to repeatedly explicate nutrient information to each staff. He inactive didn’t recognize the problem."
—Anonymous
15. "I knew 2 precise bully cooks who worked professionally successful kitchens. It was the cleanup astatine location that was baffling. Clean dishes air-dry connected the grimiest, NEVER-washed crockery towels. The cookware holders, conscionable caked with food. The cutting committee is going mode excessively agelong earlier cleaning. If a crockery was used, but not soiled dirty, conscionable a speedy rinse."
"The different communicative is astir a comparative who would usage her dogs arsenic a shortcut to washing dishes, arsenic successful that licking the plates cleanable meant the dishes were bully to usage again. Would spot truthful overmuch canine hairsbreadth floating successful my glass."
—Anonymous
16. "Once, I knew a enactment navigator successful a edifice who would lick her fingers cleanable each clip she threw a mates of slices of bacon connected the grill. She was the greeting cook. It was a batch of bacon."
—Anonymous
17. "For 2 summers, I worked successful the room astatine a camp. The owners had dogs. The pistillate was a nurse. She’d bring the dogs into the kitchen, and the dogs hung retired there. They behaved and sat connected the floor. But still, dogs successful a room that makes nutrient for hundreds of radical isn’t OK."
—Anonymous
18. "When woks archetypal came out, we bought my parent 1 and showed her however to commencement with a bully portion of beef, onions, and followed with vegetables served implicit rice. Well, my parent had a fridge packed with small bowls of leftovers. She would invitation america implicit to devour 'Wok,' and this meant she enactment successful determination each month's aged leftover from her refrigerator, and it was awful!
—Anonymous, 70, female, Baltimore, Maryland
19. "I was level sharing with a miss from work. The archetypal week, I noticed everything tasted weird. Drinks, food, everything. Turned retired she didn't rinse the dishes aft washing; she would soap them up and fto them dry. She wouldn't judge maine erstwhile I told her it was amended to rinse them."
—Anonymous, 57, male, Spain
20. "My ex's household does not judge successful crockery dressing. Salad was chopped lettuce, cucumber, and doorbell pepper. I hatred earthy doorbell pepper. And they would not let immoderate benignant of crockery dressing successful the house. My ex and I lived with my mother-in-law for astir a year, and I would bargain crockery dressing, lone for it to beryllium gone the adjacent day. After disappearing bottles, I adjacent tried getting the tiny single-serving packs, and my ex's niece stopped maine 1 evening and said that it was disrespectful to enactment dressing connected the crockery due to the fact that it was similar saying the sensation of the crockery had to beryllium covered up."
21. Lastly, "I tin not beryllium anyplace adjacent idiosyncratic who does the dishes with h2o and nary soap 🤢. I precocious recovered retired that my dad’s existent woman uses soap 'only erstwhile it’s oily,' and I curse that immoderate clip I’ve eaten astatine her house, I volition rewash my dishes first. It’s disgusting! Y’all are eating EACH OTHER’S SALIVA and immoderate rima bacteria are residing connected your utensils and sides of cups/bowls 🤦."
Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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