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PEEVES

                                                     June 20, 1992
                                                  January 16, 2010

I first thought about writing
this one a long time ago:

      The peeves that are not peeves,
      the mountainous molehills.

  I was puzzled about where to
  "file" the results, and I guess
  I wasn't so sure the subject
  was that interesting.

  It's about living with other
  people, and getting into fights
  about stuff that at least *looks*
  like trivia, but I suspect isn't.

      You might go off on a roomate for
      leaving a dirty plate sitting in
      the sink, when obviously it's not
      a federal case... it would even be         Thankfully, I haven't
      easier to just wash it than                had to deal with one
      complain about it.                         of these in a long
                                                 time...
      But are you going to do this
      every time?                                It's largely a problem with
                                                 overgrown, underraised,
      And if you've asked them not to            kids... maybe it goes away
      leave dirty dishes in the sink             when you're dealing with
      already, then there's another              thirtyish people instead of
      layer to this problem, they're             twentyish.
      explicitly blowing you off.
                                                     Another way of looking
                                                     at it, though, is that
                                                     there are multiple
                                                     reasonable ways you
                                                     might set-up household
                                                     rules, and the "zero
                                                     tolerance" policy on
                                                     dirty dishes isn't
                                                     necessarily the only
                                                     way to do it.

                                                        Myself, when living
                                                        with around six
                                                        people, I've tended
                                                        to insist on it...
                                                        With only a few
                                                        roomates, it's possible
                                                        to be a little more
                                                        lax.





Why argue about such silly things?                        TITFORTAT (?)

Because it's just a symbol of a larger issue.
Who has control?

A sense of outrage,
fighting for justice
even in trivial causes.

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