One of my new roommates has decreed that I can not have ANY garbage in the kitchen and I can NOT soak my dishes, even if she is not using the kitchen. This means that I can no longer cook.
I AM DISABLED. Like a blind man who has memorized where everything is, I do not look disabled as I have carefully arranged my life so that I get optimal use out of the short periods of time that I can be standing up.
I think this new roommate is from one of those cultures who believe that older women should be a slave or thrown into the street to starve. Maybe she is from India, where men throw their mothers out of the house when their father dies.
Americans do not harrass the old and the disabled. We have passed laws protecting the elderly.
These protective laws do not work when people use petty harassment to try to force the elderly into obedience. However, my roommate could not do this to me if the landlord and the other people in the house told her to stop harassing me.
HELP ME by helping others. If you see a disabled person, offer to help. (Forcing help is a bad idea. Let the disabled person tell you if you can help and how.)
For me, it would be nice if the garbage cans were returned to the kitchen EVERY time the crazy one puts them out into the wind and rain.
I do not know what to do about soaking my dishes. For a year and a half, soaking my dishes has gotten in the way of someone about four times. If asked, I ALWAYS quickly rinse my dishes.
FAIR WARNING! SUFFERING IN SILENCE IS NOT MY STYLE,
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