On the Ted Radio Hour, engineer Saad Bamaela loves solving biological mysteries.

Like the strange way a bug in his backyard was peeing.

I was like, hey, there's something happening. There's a droplet at its butt and it's flicking it.

I said, all right. Challenge accepted bug.

Animal Enigmas. That's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.

Hey everybody, it's Mary L.

Okay, so what I'm about to admit,

I'm not saying I'm proud of it,

but I'm not not proud of it.

When I was a bit younger in one of my early roommate situations,

I had a roommate who would constantly forget

to pay me back for shared expenses.

And I tried telling her, but things never changed. So I started using her

shampoo. I told myself I was going to recoup my losses one hair wash at a time.

I mean, yeah, okay, okay passive aggressive but it did make me feel better.

The truth is living with other people sometimes it just gets under your skin. You know it's the way they do dishes or don't do dishes.

It's the heavy-handed rules they've imposed.

Like the toothpaste tube must go in the cabinet, not on the sink.

A little bit inflexible if you ask me.

But we're all different and we have different standards of cleanliness and ideas of how we want our

homes to feel.

I should say having roommates can also be a blessing not just financially but mentally

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