my flatmate is driving me NUTS!!!

i've having a bit of a problem with one of the girls i'm flatting with at the moment. She is getting all obsessive about the cleaning and getting angry at me if someone forgets to say put their dishes away after dinner or misses a spot of grease on cleaning the microwave. we also have a notice board and she writes things we haven't done or aren't completely neat up there. she is just so opinionated, it's like she'll argue over anything. she's beign really uptight and it's beginning to get to me...just needed to vent as it's rather irritating!!!

Maybe you should have a 'house meeting' each week where you can exchange points of view about how the flat-share is progressing.

I lived in a flat-share many years ago, and it was just the same then. Some girls were neat, clean and tidy and others were more laid back.

You'll have to agree to disagree on many things, but you do need to let this girl know, in a friendly and unconfrontational way, that she is being too nit-picking for the rest of you.

Call a meeting and get everyone to prepare by writing a list. Does this make sense?

FG

i agree.

and what's a flat? an apartment??

You got it! In the UK, a flat is what you guys call an apartment. An apartment in the UK is a very large, posh, upmarket flat.

FG