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Duty Roster for Bachelor Pads

April 12, 2006

A few weeks ago, I read this posting by our local famous dentistry student blogger Jolene about her cleaning this papaya that smashed onto her porch column. No, really, its actually more interesting than it sounds here. (Check it out, but be prepared to wait for Blogdrive to load s-l-o-w-l-y…)

Anyways, after cleaning the mess and washing the white porch column, she wrote her name and date on the trunk of the poor papaya tree, to make sure she’s not the next person to clear the crap if and when it happens again.

(Side note: Personally, I’d PLUCK the fruits before they turn yellow, thereby decreasing the chances of the over-ripe fruits on going KER-PLASH on your porch / motorbike / car / clean white laundry / priceless Van Gogh painting put outside to dry in the sun. In addition to that, I may get to eat the fruit, of course not before removing all the other inhabitants and vermin from it. Anyway, I don’t live there, so I may not understand the story of these strange organic matter falling from the sky…)

So what she did was institute some sort of a duty roster for her housemates. Well, sort of. For cleaning stray falling yellow fruits.

The only time I stayed in a bachelor pad was this time in a house with 2 other guys and a girl. For most part I rented my own room, or stayed in a freaking dorm.

Anyways, coming back to this small house I bunked in. It was with my pal Dan, with his ex-colleague Josh, and Josh’s friend, a girl I can’t remember name. The girl hardly spoke to me, so let’s leave her out of this story.

(Here comes another side note: In fact, I’ve only seen this girl a few times, and only in the dead of night when the other two guys were not around. Come to think of it, Dan and Josh never seem to know about the 4th occupant in that house… Hmmm. Strange.)

Back to the main point. We guys do lots of strange chores and tasks around the pathetically small house. Most of these were often self inflicted, but that’s not the point. We never had a duy roster per se, but i reckon if there was, it’ll be something like this:

Basic Duty Roster for Bachelor Pad at #23A – February

Duty Person in charge
Sweep floor Josh
Mop floor Simon
Clean toilet Dan
Clean toilet again, because the first person didn’t do a good job and the dark brown spots are still visible… Josh
Wash the week’s supply of cups and mugs in the sink Depends on who needs the cups most.
Exterminate the bloody cockroaches
(which actually a losing battle)		 Josh

Frankly, we never really follow the schedule, unless some girl comes to visit the place (not counting that girl appears at night). Or our parents.

Then there are the more rare tasks that requires latex gloves and / or surgical masks.

Auxillary Duty Roster for Bachelor Pad at #23A – February

Duty Person in charge
Kill the rats that share our kitchen with us Josh
Scrape off the squashed lizards in the gaps of our doors. Simon
Remove dead bird carcass from gutter Dan
Unclog toilet bowl Josh
Retrieve somebody’s girlfriend’s ring from inside sinkhole.
Usually that somebody’s who’s girlfriend who owns the ring will have to do it		 Depends.

I don’t understand why some people say bachelors are sloppy.

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