We won't talk about how she threw away my toaster and I had to make toast in the oven

Hattie and I were roommates for about a year, once upon a time.  She moved in six months after she was going to, originally, because I used my dining room table for book storage and she stopped talking to me in a fit or rage one night when she and our friend Dave came over to my house and she was unable to, I don't know, set the fucking table or something?  She hadn't even started to move in, we'd just discussed the possibility, and I was already infringing on her ability to properly entertain guests.  Now, we weren't eating at my house because I don't cook.  It was actually after the super fancy dinner and wine tasting Dave had paid for since he was the grownup with an actual job and salary at the time.  And, well, he still is the only one of us with an actual job and salary, but that's beside the point.

The point is, Hattie got in a giant snit about how many books were on my dining room table and picked a fight with me over it and we didn't talk for six months.  I know it seems like a ridiculous fight now, but, well, no, it seemed pretty ridiculous at the time, too.  I maintain that tables are flat and, therefore, the perfect place to put other flat objects, like books.

But what about bookshelves?  Well, yes, I have those, too.  I have giant, seven-foot tall bookshelves lining my, well, let's just call it a dining room.  I also have smaller bookshelves scattered around my house.  And I used to have cupboards full of books.  Kitchen cupboards.

Look, when you don't cook, when you think of the kitchen mostly as the ice room because that's where you go to get the ice for your cocktails, all those shelves are nothing but empty storage space waiting to be used.  And books fit very nicely on kitchen cupboard shelves.  And the cupboards beneath the counter?  Perfect for shoes.

Do not give me that horrified look.  I'm tired of judgey people looking at me all judgey and being judgey about the choices I make in regards to the contents of my kitchen.  I say all a kitchen really needs is an ice maker, a liquor cabinet, and a toaster, and the rest of it is just wasted space, and if I choose to house part of my truly prodigious shoe collection in my kitchen cabinets that is no one's business but my own.

Unless you move in with me, in which case, like Hattie, you'll fill boxes and boxes with shoes and books and dump them in front of my bedroom door with the demand that I store them somewhere that isn't shared space.  She actually said that storing shoes in kitchen was unhygienic, as if there were any actual foodstuffs in my kitchen before she moved in.

Well, I did have a lot of tea.  That kind of counts as food.