20. Drinking Milk Out Of The Carton Is Now A Crime
DreamworksEvery university student is familiar with the taste of sour milk. At least once a month, you go downstairs in a pre-lecture rush and absent-mindedly take an enormous swig from the carton that has been languishing in the fridge door for a few days only to find something unexpectedly chewy in your mouth. It's not exactly the best way to kick off a new day. You probably have your own pint of milk because you can't stand whole milk and your housemates won't go near your strange skimmed stuff or vice versa. With that in mind, it's perfectly okay to eschew glassware entirely and just drink the old-fashioned way. The situation at home is completely different. With more people sharing the carton and an altogether greater sense of civilisation, it's probably best to avoid putting your mouth around the top of the milk - forget it and you will be castigated as some sort of animal. Though thankfully it is true that parents pay far more attention to the state of the milk than housemates do.
19. Food In The Kitchen Isn't Labelled
Orin Zebest / FlickrPost-it notes are every bit as essential as cutlery in a student kitchen. Around cash-strapped students, food has a habit of going walkabout every now and then. Everyone has their own little luxury items that they don't want the other housemates nabbing. So whether it's your favourite mug or that nice chocolate from Thorntons, it needs a label complete with a suitably sarcastic message to everyone else. At home, the scenario is very different. The labels aren't there, but people are equally precious about what belongs to them. Items that looks like perfectly communal biscuits very quickly become "your brother's nice chocolate ones" when they're discovered missing the next day. If only someone had jotted it down.