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Hope We Can Be Friends
Jeff, can you please pay the rent by the first of the month? Actually, maybe I should rephrase this: Jeff, can you please just pay the rent? It has been a full seven months since you have contributed A Cent towards The Rent or even to Any Of The Bills, and I have polled all of my friends: All of their roommates pay part of the rent. Therefore, I think it is not too unfair to ask. You see, subletees normally move out when the person they were subletting from comes back from wherever they were. Maybe this wasn't made clear to you when you moved in. I guess I just thought it was Assumed. Now, I hate to be a Nag, because I know, I have brought this issue up to you Many Many Many times before, and when I have brought this issue up before, you made it clear that you thought this was rather Unfair because you were just a Guest and No Longer Subletting, as I am Back and you made the rather Creative Point that before you moved in, my roommate and I covered the rent fine by ourselves, and you didn't see why we would need you to contribute at all, but I don't really think that is The Point. I told you, when we talked about you moving out Last Time, that I have discussed this matter At Length with my Therapist, and she suggested I was a Rather Large Doormat, and you agreed, Yes, I was a Doormat, and so I know you Appreciate My Initiative in Discussing This Matter with you. I am sure you are getting upset now, so why don't we just move on to other matters and we can talk about the whole rent thing again in a few months. Some minor stuff, just to begin: Can you please make sure that if you take a phone message for me, you remember to actually give it to me? There is nothing worse than hearing from a friend that they called you weeks ago and "left a message with some Weird Guy who said He Didn't Really Live There so he Wasn't Sure If I Would Get It" and you don't ever recall receiving said message. While
we are on the subject of the phone, I was wondering, Jeff, if you
could please not apply Smelly Face Cream and then talk on our phone,
then fail to wipe the phone off. I've noticed that you seem to apply
some sort of Smelly Gel-Like Lotion to your face and then you will
talk for hours on the phone and then you will leave and the phone
will ring, or I will go to make a phone call, and I will pick up
the phone and there will be this Smelly Face Cream on the mouthpiece
and it will end up all over my face and hands and I don't want Smelly
Face Cream on my face and hands. If I did, I would have just asked,
"Jeff, do you mind if I borrow that Smelly Face Cream of yours?
I want to put it All Over My Face! And My Hands!" But I don't.
So, please clean up after you apply Smelly Face Stuff and talk on
the phone.
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Hey,
Jeff! Thank you so much for talking to me about our Living Situation.
I was afraid that you weren't going to see the note that I left
for you by the phone, the post-it on the bathroom mirror, the card
in the mailbox, or the 3 x 5 poster in the refrigerator on top of
your Organic Pasta Thing. Last time, you claimed that you didn't
know those notes were for you, even though they clearly stated,
"For You, Jeff." Thank goodness you figured it out this
time, and I really, really, really appreciate you taking
time out of your Busy Dog-Walking Schedule to sit down with me and
work this out. I realize that you work Very Hard: What 38-Year-Old-Manhattan-Dog-Walker
doesn't have to work hard? There are so many dogs in Manhattan!
And they all need walking! And, one has to provide for one's 38-Year-Old-Self,
right? Especially when one's 38-Year-Old-Self does not have Any
Other Form Of Income. Which brings me to my First Point: I know
that you were originally subletting my half of the apartment this
summer, while I was out of town, and you were living with my roommate,
but if you haven't noticed yet, I'm back! I've been back for Seven
Months Now, and you haven't seemed to have Moved Out Yet. You don't
appear to be leaving any time soon, because I've noticed you haven't
packed up any of your stuff or appear to be looking for a new place
to live, even though you were supposed to be out of here at the
end of August. So I thought this would be a good way for me to tell
you, Jeff, that there are some things I don't really like to put
up with in a roommate, if you were actually a roommate, which I
want to make clear, you are not. You are a Temporary House Guest,
looking for a New Place To Live. That implies that you are moving
out Really Soon. You look drunk. Aren't you supposed to be in AA?
I thought that's where my roommate told me she met you and I know
you don't want to hear it from me, but I don't think you are following
those 12 Steps very well. Maybe I should just go straight to my
notes. I wrote out all of my thoughts on these sheets of paper,
in order to be as concise as possible. 
