Roommates

You know those times that the people you most get along with really get under your skin and give you hives. Its not the fact that you stop liking them as a person its just the repetitive things they do that you obviously have no control over that gets you.

I've been living with two wonderful people now and they've been my really good friends since last year. We rented an apartment together and they just never clean and are almost always disrespectful in common areas. They always leave their junk everywhere and more than 4 times I've had to do their dishes because its starting to pile up. Or when it isn't my turn to throw the trash, I have to because its going to start to smell. I'm not annoyed at them as a person but their habitual actions that clearly don't mesh with me. I don't see myself as a clean freak, but little common sense things like if RAID has been sprayed on the floor and you ask someone to do it you expect them to do it right away. These spots I obviously stepped on later because they haven't done it yet. Or little things like putting away dishes after they're done drying is never done.

I'm bitching, because instead of taking it out on them I realize that I have to change myself to coordinate with them. But at what point do they realize they have to change too?