Brian+P's+OpEd+Article

media type="file" key="brianp-muckraker-2011.mp3" align="center" I hate when people leave things, that are not mine, in my room. Not that many things make me angry, or even unhappy for that matter. I might say, “well that really pisses me off”, but it's usually just for a laugh and it doesn't //really// piss me off. I think I'm a fairly mellow person, though I am happy or sad when it is appropriate. Sure some things make me a little discontented, but one thing that really irks me is inconsiderate people. For example, today at lunch I waited with my friend Dirk for the microwave in the cafeteria because he wanted to heat something up. Someone was using it so we just waited off to the side. Once the girl was finished using the microwave some other girl rushes to the microwave and starts heating up her own food. That in itself was a bit annoying, but we gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed that she simply did not see us. We let her go on and use the microwave without saying anything to her. Her friend then walked up to her and the two of them started a conversation. When the food finished she took an abnormally long amount of time to take it out. It was painful. I would have said something, but the whole time she seemed like she was taking her food out, but she wasn't. She just kept her hand on the button which opens the microwave door and stood there talking to her friend... My main point however, is that I hate when people leave things in my room. Trash, cups, bowls, food, or whatever other unwanted items. Bring them into my room, that's fine, but when you leave, bring them with you! Do you think I want it? I don't. I hope this is not something that happens to just myself, otherwise me writing this is next to pointless. People always come into my room and leave things there, specifically my sister. I don't even think she knows that she has a room anymore. Her room is more like her storage area now. Everyday I come home from school and she is lying on my couch eating food and watching T.V., which is fine if she would clean after herself. Sometimes, I'm sure she honestly forgets that she left some trash on the floor, and I've forgiven her many times. But she has left her own things in my room way too many times for me to continuously forgive her. It's not that she forgets now, it's simply that she is being too lazy to actually get her things OUT of my room. If you want to hang out in my room, I want you to respect that it is my room and when you leave I don't want to even notice that you were IN my room. I still love my sister though. I'm going to show this to her now. 