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Laura Wingfield’s Influence? Man Can’t Stop Using Glassware, Leaving Them a Quarter Full in His Room

Writer: Broadway Beat
Broadway Beat
Apr 20, 2023
2 min read

by Blaise Wopperer. @blaisewopperer.

ASTORIA, Queens - Unable to locate a single clean glass in the kitchen cupboard for a week now, local man Jake Stampen is now fully accusing random roommate Max Prissert of channeling Laura Wingfield by hoarding the communal glassware and letting the accumulation grow into a private, bedroom menagerie.


“I didn’t want to say it, but that guy Max cannot, for his fucking life, bring the glasses back to the kitchen and wash them,” stated Stampen while drinking water straight out the Brita. “At first I thought maybe he was an extremely sensitive, young man who needs to surround himself with an assortment of glass objects, to which he attends with great care - until I finally realized he’s just a hoarder who cannot return the mold-riddled cups to the sink.”


Matthew Torres, second random roommate, voiced a similar dissatisfaction with Prissert.


“Max literally sleeps through his alarm for one hour every morning – and for some reason, it’s this strange customized alarm tone of an angry male voice screaming the name ‘Stella,’” claimed Torres, twitching from sleep loss, and just looking generally unwell.


“At first I thought the noise was a voice coming from some desperate lover on the street below,” he continued, while figuring out a comfortable way to hold his head underneath the kitchen sink faucet. "Until it finally dawned upon me that he just doesn’t know how to wake up and turn off his fucking alarm.”


Zak Biggins, third random roommate, also expressed confusion around Prissert’s recent behavior.


“Max has this habit of turning the central heat to about 100 degrees and just letting it run endlessly,” stated Biggins, while lapping water out of a cereal bowl. “At first I thought he needed to be constantly meteorologically transported to the sweltering heat of the Mississippi Delta, since it's the only climatic condition he’s ever known to exist - if he were, let’s just say, someone created in the eyes of a playwright who writes a lot about the South. Then it finally hit me: he’s actually just a psychopath, racking up my ConEd bill.”


When asked to comment, Prissert declined, claiming to have been in a hurry for work, because “the ‘7’ streetcar was running only local stops."


He then flat-out refused to explain why he insists on calling them "streetcars."

 
 
 

14 Comments


alex+ebl-ryyyymmdda-scale-the-depths-com-thebroadwaybeat-
4 days ago

Hoarding quarter-full glasses around the apartment really does feel like trying to stack fruit without letting anything overflow. If you need a relaxing break from roommate menagerie drama, スイカゲーム is a wonderfully addictive browser puzzle game to unwind with.

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Jie
Sep 09

floor plan maker seems like a necessary tool for anyone dealing with a roommate situation like this one. I love the specific detail about Jake drinking water straight from the Brita—that really captures the desperation. It's a classic case of how one person's quirky habit can become a full-blown household crisis.

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Chou Jasper
Sep 05

planliva really captures the roommate dynamic here. It's always that one person who can't seem to return a single glass to the kitchen, turning the shared space into their own personal museum. I feel for Jake drinking straight from the Brita.

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alex+ebl-ryyyymmdda-scale-the-depths-com-thebroadwaybeat-
Sep 05

The glassware collection definitely needs its own curator at this point. For anyone trying to step away from the kitchen sink drama and focus on the road, G1 Practice is a great study guide.

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alex+ebl-ryyyymmdda-scale-the-depths-com-thebroadwaybeat-
Sep 05

Leaving quarter-full glasses around like fragile museum pieces takes serious dedication. If anyone needs to get out of the apartment and focus on the road, G1 Practice is a handy resource for getting ready for the test.

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