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December 6, 2005
No students please
A lot of the accommodation for rent ads coming onto the various Adzooks sites refuse students, and despite having been one myself until recently, I can’t say I blame them. The impression of students given in the press tends to be of drunken layabouts, which to be fair is not quite true, in my experience at least. The only two people I knew who actually were drunken layabouts, spending their days smoking, drinking, playing spider solitaire and listening to radio 2, were both chucked out before they could bring the results average down. Curiously, though, the general tramp-like standards which are maintained as the norm are not particularly emphasised.
My first reaction to those ads is to have flashbacks of the kitchens in various houses I lived in while at uni, where plates would leave the house with us to go to lectures in the morning. I guess this is pretty standard though, along with melted ovens and saucepan-sized holes burnt into kitchen work surfaces. I’d be interested to know however, just how many other people had flatmates who would take a leak in their sink because the toilet was a whole 4 metres away (before you mention anything about builders, apparently they only use their customers’ sinks) and who would use their neighbour’s dustbin as a toilet when the real loo was engaged. Surprises certainly abounded in some of those houses.
It would seem these things don’t happen in houses of professionals, leading me to wonder if general house cleaning and domestication are skills gained on graduation. Results arrive and hoards of university leavers have a road to Damascus moment involving cleaning fluids: “what is this?” and the reply came “I am Fairy Liquid, whom you are persecuting. Now get up and go into the kitchen.” But fair enough to landlords who don’t want to wait three years for that – take your chances with the professionals, they have more money anyway.
Posted by Selina at December 6, 2005 3:36 PM
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