Weird Roommates

[Adam Dayton]

I currently am about a month and two weeks into living at my new apartment (using it for school), and I have the weirdest relationship with my roommate ever. We talked online for like 2 months prior to moving in and he seemed like a douchebag, but besides that we still talked regularly about a bunch of things: life, video games, and what we would do once we arrived at the apartment (we talked regularly). He told me he had a wii and we could play rock hero and this that and the other.

So, flashforward to when I meet him. As soon as I saw him I realized he was gay which kind of hit me off guard. His annoying mom moved him in and she didn't even go through the forced nice chat with me. After I helped him bring his tv stand upstairs without a thank you (and in the lobby she asked me nothing but questions pertaining to her kid, like how to get the school internet working for him), she immediately asked to see my room to compare it with his. I thought that was rather weird and cold. Anyway, I help him put his tv stand together (took about 2 hours lol) and used it as a time to "bond". He knocks on my door around 1 in the morning that night and asks me to help him get his internet working. I told him I would do it in the morning. The next day I was tired of being the one talking and being nice and helping, and I knocked on his door to ask about his internet, and he continued to stare at the computer screen saying "I have it working", not even looking at or acknowledging me. At this point I was pissed as hell that he was a douche and I was making all the effort, so I made a vow not to talk to him until he starts the convo or initiates niceness.

Well, the first few days we didn't talk or see each other, days turned into a week, week turned into 2 weeks, and now we avoid each other. I have not literally SEEN my roommate in a month and one week. I hear him go to the kitchen to get his food and he goes back to the room, he hears me, and we purposely avoid each other. Do you know how bizarre it is that i have not literally talked to or seen my roommate in a small *** college apartment in five weeks. This is the weirdest **** ever. Who else here has/had any weird *** roommate situations?

[callmetaternuts]

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My younger brother had one like this up at Auburn a few weeks back, and another one at UCF (both times i helped him move). At Auburn, his room mate was just a complete stoner, and stayed in his room all day. They avoided each other (mainly my bro avoided his room mate since he didnt smoke) and moved out after a few months to a new room.

The one at UCF was plain weird. His room mate paid the bills on time and didnt cause a problem, but avoided my brother (and my bro avoided him) at all costs. They wouldnt leave the room until the other shut the door. So if my brother was watching TV in the living room, the room mate would wait until my bro went to the kitchen or his room before he would come out. They didnt speak. I got to witness this as i would visit my brother from time to time.

Eventually, i bought the condo from my parents (they had bought it for an ivnestment for my bro to use and rent out). I bought it, needing a place to live in Orlando, and i got the family discount. When i moved in and we moved that other kid out he didnt say two words. I helped him move his stuff out. I even loaded up the Uhaul i had paid for (the kid didnt have a car, only a bike). But rather than him move his stuff out of the bedroom so i could move in, he left two boxes in there so i couldnt even put stuff in my own room. He never said anything to my brother, didnt say bye, in fact, he waited until my brother left to go to Wendy's before he left the final time.

I was around the two of them for probably about 20-25 days total over 1.5 years, and i can honestly say, i NEVER saw them in the same room (and the kid wouldnt talk to me either). Made it weird for him since when i went to visit my bro (before i moved in) i slept on the couch and his room mate wouldnt come out while i was there.

[bsb13]

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My younger brother had one like this up at Auburn a few weeks back, and another one at UCF (both times i helped him move). At Auburn, his room mate was just a complete stoner, and stayed in his room all day. They avoided each other (mainly my bro avoided his room mate since he didnt smoke) and moved out after a few months to a new room.

The one at UCF was plain weird. His room mate paid the bills on time and didnt cause a problem, but avoided my brother (and my bro avoided him) at all costs. They wouldnt leave the room until the other shut the door. So if my brother was watching TV in the living room, the room mate would wait until my bro went to the kitchen or his room before he would come out. They didnt speak. I got to witness this as i would visit my brother from time to time.

Eventually, i bought the condo from my parents (they had bought it for an ivnestment for my bro to use and rent out). I bought it, needing a place to live in Orlando, and i got the family discount. When i moved in and we moved that other kid out he didnt say two words. I helped him move his stuff out. I even loaded up the Uhaul i had paid for (the kid didnt have a car, only a bike). But rather than him move his stuff out of the bedroom so i could move in, he left two boxes in there so i couldnt even put stuff in my own room. He never said anything to my brother, didnt say bye, in fact, he waited until my brother left to go to Wendy's before he left the final time.

I was around the two of them for probably about 20-25 days total over 1.5 years, and i can honestly say, i NEVER saw them in the same room (and the kid wouldnt talk to me either). Made it weird for him since when i went to visit my bro (before i moved in) i slept on the couch and his room mate wouldnt come out while i was there.

If I was your brother I would have made some stomping noise's toward the door like I was about to leave. And then when I got to the door I would open it up and then slam it shut (but stay inside the room) so that the roommate would think I had left. Then when he came out of his room thinking I was gone, I would run up to him and kick in him right in the family jewels.

[callmetaternuts]

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Ive had some bad room mates, not weird. Had people who stole from me (awesome), caught a guy just straight pounding his girlfriend on MY EFFING COUCH in the living room (and that couch definitely got burned, no lie). Ive had a sleepwalker in college, but most people were at least civil to me, except the d-bag that stole from me.

[Scott]

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I guess I've been lucky, all my roommates have been cool...

[bkfount]

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I had a college roommate like that.

He would sit at his computer all day, even when watching tv. I'd invite him to go out with me and my friends, or to go get some dinner, or to even hang out..and he'd always refuse. I finally said forget him, and we didn't talk at all really.

He left near the end of the year because he got cancer. People were all freaked out because they were wondering how I was dealing with my roomy getting cancer. As cold as it sounds, I didn't even know the guy, so it didn't hit me at all.

There's only so much you can do to try to connect with people like that.

[davin]

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My roomate situation has been fairly interesting, though not in a good way. So I transferred in here for the winter. You couldn't apply for acceptance until the fall, so I was on a fairly rushed time table. I didn't find out who my roomate was until mid december. So I got the name and contact info, tried emailing and calling to no avail. Move in day comes, still hadn't heard anything despite constant calls, so I just brought everything I would need. Turns out that the roomate I thought I had, wasn't in my room anymore, and it was somebody else. I moved in and the room was a mess, garbage hadn't been taken out before winter break, so it smelled of mold. The bathroom hadn't even been decently cleaned I would say since summer. Parts of the sink were green, it was just disgusting. I got there first, and moved in (this is my first time living away from home, and my girlfriend helped move me in as well, so this wasn't exactly what I wanted her to see, a room in this kind of shape). Now let me describe this type of room: you have one common room, a bedroom, and a bathroom. About half of the common room is taken up by boxes of stuff, which he really doesn't even use. He brought a computer, which he hasn't plugged in yet.

So he gets here, and I stand up, go to meet him, you know shake hands and such. He just walks straight past me and ignores me. I figure, maybe he just wants to move in. His family also completely ignored me, but fine. So he finishes, and I talked to him about various things, backround and such (and that the trash had to be taken out, because non of it was mine so I wasn't doing it). That is the last conversation we have had that lasts past 2 minutes. He doesn't talk at all, not even to ask if he can change the channel on tv if I am watching something, he just gets up and does it. My girlfriend joked with me about what type of roomate I'll end up getting... she nailed it. He takes maybe one shower every 4 or so days, and is just not really clean. Now yes, right now my stuff is kind of a mess (thanks to my research paper on the Kent State shootings), but it isn't as bad as his stuff. Now back in one of those roomate agreement things, we agreed that if a person's family was coming or whatever, that we would straighten up our stuff and tell the other person in case they wanted to clean up their stuff. Now I told him when my gf's family came up to see me, but he didn't tell me at all about his family (which my room was a mess, Kent State stuff all over my desk and the floor next to the desk). I know it isn't some huge deal, but it just annoys me.

Anyways, the thing that really annoys me is the times he just stares at my computer screen while I'm talking to my girlfriend. It was like in school when you were trying to work on a math problem you didn't know how to do, with the teacher watching over your shoulder, not trying to help, but judging you. One time, I was on the phone with my girlfriend, following an emergency back home. I went into the bedroom to talk (as he was doing hw), he then 2 minutes later came in and got into bed (at about 8), so I left and went into the other room, which he followed minutes later, I then left into the bedroom again, and he came back... again. For god's sake I wanted to try to talk to my girlfriend about her grandmother who recently had 2 heart attacks and how she is dealing with it and I was being stalked.

He just flat out creeps me out. He keeps weird hours and just doesn't have any communication skills. I've tried several times to get him talking about something, but I never really can. I've just kind of moved on and don't care anymore about being friends with him. I know things could be a lot worse, but most of my friends who moved away to college had great experience with roommates, so I was hoping for the same.

[Beantown]

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I talk to my roomate probably...four times a week...and we live in a dorm room, not an apartment.

I haven't disliked a person as much as I dislike this kid. He has millions of annoying habits that all add up to make one ****ed up individual. Not to mention I think I've mentally noted about fifty situations in which I should have revoked his man-card (two off the top of my head: 1) Asking a girl to go to a concert with you and then asking her if she will pay for both tickets and 2) Sitting on your girlfriend's lap with her tickling him...granted she'd probably crush him if they reversed roles, but that's a sign that you just shouldn't do any ****ing lap-sitting). That doesn't even begin to mention the time he took my pillow off of my bed and used it one night because his friend stole his pillow. I ripped that sonofabitch right out from under his head when I got back to the room - he proceeded to steal the other two pillows I have for back-ups, and I finally just let him have one after he got sick on it.

I could go on and on and on and on about why I dislike this kid, but it honestly frustrates me to even think about it. No joke.

[Karlos05]

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If you've never had a weird roommate, then you're the weird roommate.

[nyisles16]

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dang guys.. I have to say in my 4 years at school I had awesome roommates (the only issue was the dork who lived in the same suite as me freshman year - thank god NOT my roomy, and an unfortunate incident my senior year).

[stewaat]

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Hahahaha this thread is hilarious

Who doesn't enjoy laughing at other peoples misfortunes?

You guys have had it ROUGH!

[Spectre]

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Damn son

My roommates from school are among my best friends today. I got lucky like a mofo apparently

[dkgojackets]

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I was friends with my roommate in high school and he's a cool guy, but still does some things that annoy me to know end. First, he always wants to keep the window open which I hate because the window is right by my desk, it gets really cold and sometimes blows paper around, and we're right next to the highway so it gets really loud.

Plus he snores and makes other noises at night, which I just can't stand. If he goes to sleep before I do then I end up calling our dorm phone with my cell and waking him up so he stops, and then I try to fall asleep. Sometimes I end up calling several times in a night.

[fistofrage]

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I moved in with a Wicca when I was in college in a random room assignment. he had some bizarre friends to say the least. They would wear robes and dance around bonfires out in the woods. We said about 3 words to eachother the entire semester if that. I don't even remember his name. But I never had any problems with him, apparantly if they do something heinous it comes back on them three fold, so he really couldn't do anything too bad to me.

[ehh]

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I have a very fun one...

Last winter, about a year ago now, my best friend/roommate took a new job in NJ. I found a replacement roommate until the lease ended in June but decided I wanted to move elsewhere.

So there was one girl I was pretty good friends w. since HS and her current roommate had just gotten engaged and wanted to move in with her fiance. So we were both in a bind and she was a cool girl so I decided what the heck, I'll move in with her. She wasn't attractive (a good thing, you don't want to go banging some girl you live with) but was chill, into sports, liked to have a good time, etc.

Turns out she was also a slob, lazy, and bat-**** crazy.

Issue One: The Friday before the opening Sunday of the NFL season she tells me she owes Comcast $400 in past-due balances or the cable is getting turned off. She tells me she doesn't have the money to cover it. I set up a plan that I'll pay the $400 (I'm not missing the first weekend of the NFL) and she can pay me back $200 every two weeks (each pay day) for the following month. So the next payday comes and I wanted to see if she'd just give me the money or if she'd "forget about it". So that Saturday she comes home in the afternoon with a brand new $200 winter coat she'd just bought. Right, can't pay the cable but she can buy a $200 coat. So I confront her and she apologizes and says she'll give me the $200 next pay day. So she does that, I'm caught up. Then a week or two later she tells me she owes $250 to the electric company and we're going to lose power if we don't pay immediately. Same story, I cover it, she takes forever to pay it back while still going to the bar, buying crap at the mall, etc. Yet she constantly whines how she is broke and can't afford her bills. So then the final financial kicker, I'm sitting in the living room watching TV one night and she comes out all giddy and I ask her why - she just bought a new $1500 laptop. Smart girl.

Issue Two: Two cats. One was fat, lazy and needy. She wouldn't let it sleep in her room so it clawed and scratched at the door all night and cried constantly. She refused to leave it in it's cage over night as well. So I had to go out and buy a $60 baby/pet gate to leave in front of my bedroom door so the cat wouldn't keep me up all night. The second cat was never spayed, so it was a total bitch 90% of the time. I mean this thing would hiss at you if you came within five feet of it and would randomly run up and scratch people. Then of course when it was in heat it moaned for three days straight and would constantly try to hump you. The last and biggest issue w. these things, the liter box. Yup, she didn't clean it. Probably once a month she'd scoop it. The entire apartment smelled like cat piss and **** and there were mounds of clumpy cat waste in the box. One day me and my boy decide to completely empty the box and wash it, etc. There was an inch and a half thick caking of urine on the bottom of the box. Yummy! This helped the smell a little bit, but I'm sure the cats pissed on the carpet so many times because the liter box was so nasty. So now I had to completely take care of her two annoying cats.

Issue Three: I was fortunate enough to meet my girlfriend through my roommate, they were co-workers. They had known each other for less than a year and hung out on occasion. Less than a month after I was dating my gf, my roommate came to my crying her eyes out saying I stole her best friend. Yes, her best friend - who she'd known less than a year and hung out with once or twice a month. She also told me I can't spend too much time at my gf's place because she does not like sleeping in the apartment by herself. I told her to **** off and deal with it (literally).

Issue Four: We lived in an apartment complex and after three months we were allowed to move into a bigger two-bedroom model. My roommate had been on the waiting list for seven months so we were both excited and I hoped this would help alleviate some of the issues. Nope. The moving process was a disaster. My father and two of my boys moved all the big stuff - couches, tables, tv, washer, dryer, etc. That's fine, I don't expect a female to move that stuff. I moved all of my bedroom stuff on a Friday and had most of the big stuff moved by Saturday afternoon. She still had all her bedroom stuff and most of the small kitchen stuff to move. She asks me if I can help her move the kitchen stuff and I say no, I moved all the big stuff (which was 90% of the apartment) and that she can do the kitchen stuff by herself. So that Saturday night she has four friends come over to "help her move". What do they do? They sit around at the kitchen table and drink all night while my roommate complains about how much work she has left to do. So Sunday morning my gf and I move all the kitchen stuff, at this point in time my roommate had moved her clothes in her closet and some small bedroom stuff of hers. I was completely done moving all our mutual stuff by the afternoon and my roommate asked if I could help her clean the old apartment. I told her no because I had already done so much and left to go play basketball. The old apartment was disgusting once it was emptied, there was black mold growing all over the walls in her old bedroom and her bathroom was even worse. Mold and mildew everywhere, the shower and mirror looked like they hadn't been cleaned in years. There was cat hair all over the place (including the freezer somehow) and everything was putrid. She had lived there for two years, me only three months. I was not cleaning any of that crap. But my gf is a sweetheart so she decided to help her clean. The entire time they were cleaning my roommate was bitching about how bad a person I was and how inconsiderate it was to help her clean - after I had moved the entire apartment while she sat around drinking all weekend. Also, I cleaned my bedroom and bathroom to a tee so it's not like I was making her clean up my mess. After all that it's Sunday night and she asks me to help her move the rest of her bedroom stuff. Again I say no and tell her she should have put her friends to use on Saturday night instead of drinking. So she calls her mom crying and she comes to help her move the rest of her stuff.

Issue Five: I have a 50" HDTV. I want to watch it when I feel like it. I told her before I moved in that live events (sports) took priority over TV shows that can be DVR'd. She constantly wanted to watch crappy reality TV show re-runs (none are in HD). After a month or so she didn't like that idea and started fighting me for TV time. She would say things like, "I reserve the TV Thursday night for Grey's Anatomy" when the Yanks were playing in the ALDS that night. I told her no, tough. So she invites five of her friends over anyway and says, "We have to watch it out here (the living room) because we won't all fit in my bedroom." Again I tell her I don't care and she storms out of the apartment and they go elsewhere to watch the show. This process happened about a dozen times while I lived there.

Issue Six: She's the biggest attention whore I've ever seen. She constantly thought my friends (who also knew her since HS and were friends) were talking about her behind her back. One time we were watching a game at night and she left the apartment, then quickly opened the door again and poked her head in and said, "You guys are talking about me aren't you?!" Of course we weren't. Then we were playing poker at the kitchen table one night and she decides to call her friend on sit down on the couch right next to the table to talk loudly. We all laughed at something funny my friend said and she stood up off the couch and said, "I can't believe you guys are laughing and talking about me while I'm right here." Yeah, psycho.

The Intervention: A few nights before Thanksgiving she said something insanely rude to my gf about me being inconsiderate and more issues about the TV. By this point in time I had offered multiple times to move my TV into my room and let her have the living room all she wants. That night I decided I was moving out ASAP. So the day after Thanksgiving I take two of my buddies with me to move all my crap out. I hadn't told the roommate yet, so I warned my two boys to guard my TV in case she tries to break it when I tell her. So I walk in and she's in her room, I tell her that living here isn't working out for me anymore and she agrees. I tell her I plan on moving and she says that's fine and asks when. I tell her, "right now". The **** hits the fan. She gets up and starts screaming and yelling about how I'm an ******* and how I'm screwing her over (referring to the lease) and how she can't believe I'd do something like this. I told her I'd pay the following month's rent so she could have 35 days to find a new roommate and after that I'd put it on Craigslist. She's still going nuts as we move my stuff outside. Then we walk back inside, she still has tears all down her face and decides to headbutt the wall, breaking her nose. She is now covered in blood all down her face screaming like she just got shot. I completely ignore her but one of my boys consoles her. I get all of my stuff out and drive away, nothing broken by her amazingly.

The Aftermath: I moved in with one of my boys who had just bought a condo and had a spare bedroom. A few weeks later she text's me and says I owe her $450 for utilities. I tell her to fax me a copy of every single utility bill and then I'll pay it. A fax never came obviously and I never gave her another dime. She found a new roommate (random person) and they're still living together. She is in therapy now (one of my gf's friends still talks to her) but she's still a total bitch with major issues from everything I hear.