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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Hi, I worked in delivering furniture and appliances straight to peoples' houses, and boy oh boy does it get bad.

-You can tell a lot about a person by the level of filth they tolerate. A lot of people, especially parents under other pressures like being low income, sink to a very shallow level of filth because they just get too tired cleaning up the same mess over and over, so their house ends up with a fine layer of chip fragments, other crumbs, and light dirt and mud tracked by the kids. Honestly, don't blame them. If I had kids I could see myself burning out and ending up the same.

-An absolutely startling number of people still smoke in their house. In addition, there is a three-way venn diagram that's just a circle between smoking in the house, smoking around children, and letting animals shit on the floor without cleaning it up. If an indoor smoker has a kid, they will smoke around their kid. If they have an animal, their living space is covered in animal shit. 100% of the time, every indoor smoker fit these.

-there's also a direct relationship between filth and child abuse. I don't have the math off the top of my head, but there was a huge overlap between spaces that were filthy, and people abusing their kids.

-you get surprisingly good at identifying stains. I could spot the differences between tobacco spit and shit at fifty paces.

-the above makes it all the more horrifying when you see a stain you can't identify.
gpt
Before being adopted as a kid, my apartment looked like this and you described my living situation perfectly. 7 people in a small 2bdrm apartment and 3 dogs. Was disgusting