Today, we have a fruit fly infestation again because my roommate keeps buying fruit and letting it rot on the counter. Despite the moldy fruit being covered in flies, she insists it's my fault because I left an empty bottle of beer out. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I finally found out what that weird smell in my apartment was. My ex-boyfriend had been breaking into my apartment and hiding rotting fruit all over the place. I found this out when a ceiling panel fell and a swarm of fruit flies attacked me. FML
Today, after I cleaned out the fridge of things that expired months ago, my roommate got angry and insisted upon pulling all the moldy dairy products out of the garbage and putting them back because "they weren't mine and I shouldn't throw out other people's food." FML
Today, I came back to my apartment to see that my roommate had left out bread, deli meat, and cheese on the counter, so I made myself a sandwich. When she came back, she informed me that she found bugs in the fridge and took out all the food she thought would be contaminated. FML
Today, my dad threw out all my food because a fly landed on a loaf of bread still in its package. He claims the bread and everything else that touched it is "contaminated". That was all the food I had for the rest of the month. FML
Today, my roommate yelled at me yet again for using the dishwasher because it's "unsanitary." This is all while a mountain of her dishes were going mouldy in the sink. FML
Today, I just moved into my second apartment after the first one was infested with fruit flies, which were coming out of cracks in the floor. We discovered they had tried to cover this fact up so we'd move in. Guess what this new one has? Bed bugs. I asked if there was a history of bug problems and they said no. Lies. FML
Today, I found out that the gnat infestation in my dorm room was not caused by the recent cool weather, but rather the rotten pear I found under my roommates bed. FML
Today, I have killed at least several dozen flies over the course of the past few days. My cat, who used to be a fly killing machine, isn't doing shit to help me. She's not old or fat or anything, she's just lazy. Meanwhile, I had to go buy a water bottle with a cover to keep flies from going into my drink. FML
Today, my coworker spilled sticky fruit glaze all over my cake display cake and left it overnight uncleaned. The same display case I spent 2 hours cleaning the day before. FML
Today, I was taking my morning pills. There had been a lot of fruit flies in my house lately. I grabbed a cup of water beside to sink to wash the pills down. As soon as I tasted the drink, I realized it was vinegar and dish soap used to trap the flies. I washed my pills down with dead flies. FML
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Top comments
theRonin 18
Why not just throw out the fruit instead of arguing about it? Be less of a hassle if the fruit is dealt with before it rots.
Sady_Ct 38
Flies is flies. Fruit or beer. They will get into anything if you leave the door or windows open
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Comments (26)
allysabeth286 4
Same problem here! One roomie made banana bread which requires rotten bananas which started our fruit fly problem and the other juices which maintains it!
murph_fml 21
Easy peasy, just throw her fruit out after she leaves it on the counter.
tomoc1990 9
Zip-lock bag. few coins. fill zip-lock bag half way up and hang from the ceiling over the door and the flies think it is a hive so they wont enter the house :)
Frid_Kun 7
Buy him a few containers for his fruits- problem solved.
Lefty_Guns 16
Try putting a glass of red wine or vinegar on the side, with cling film on top and small holes poked in the cling film. The fruit flies will be gone in no time.
Lull_fml 4
Place a few pieces of rotten fruit at the bottom of your beer bottle. Put a cone of paper on top, so it's a funnel to the fruit. It will trap all the fruit flies in there then you can throw the whole bottle of fruit and fruit flies out. Fruit attracts fruit flies. Bottles can kill them. :)
Bekll 31
Is this in North Carolina? Because I had a roommate a few months back who is exactly like this. She had her own compost pile of rotting fruit and blamed me for the fruit flies.
soulreaper12296 28
Then why aren't YOU just throwing it out? Yeah your roommate is the one buying it, but you're also letting it sit there long enough to rot.
petergozinya37 8
And people wonder why I live by myself.
Juggalette_623 9
Either way, apple vinegar in a saucer will fix the bug problem.