Sometimes, I am confused whether I live with my husband and two children or a college dormitory.  More often then not I have flashbacks to being 18 and confused by the odors/noises/objects found the common areas.  Do people really live like this?  Why, yes, yes they do.  Little did I know how it would prepare me for parenthood.  So, thank you, Avila, for the mandatory dorm requirement for freshman.

Here are such flashbacks:

• There is always that one girl babbling incessantly. 

• You find half eaten food behind the couch pillows, and when you point it out, someone eats it.

• Your friends don't take "NO" for an answer.

• There are plastic cups strewn about the room.  All are half full.

• Your roomies wake you up for a midnight snack run.

• There is someone walking down the hall with little or no clothes on and they don't seem to care.

• No one wants to go to bed.

• There's that stinky guy who always wants to hang out with you.

• You never know when the next fight will break out.

• Every piece of furniture has a stain on it, 90% probably contain DNA

Anyone else have anything to add?