Weird Roommates

[fistofrage]

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I just remembered that one year, my roommates drunk mom called me up and started laying into me to leave her son alone and stop picking on him. She started off the converstaion, "Listen here Turkey Bones......and started screaming at me...". I ended the conversation with her by informing her that it wasn't me found stark naked on the futon at 3 in the afternoon with my schlong in my hand when I supposed to be in Calc class. And if I'm always drunk causing commotion, why are you the one slurring and why do I have the 3.6 GPA. He moved out 3 days later.

[Spectre]

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I just remembered that one year, my roommates drunk mom called me up and started laying into me to leave her son alone and stop picking on him. She started off the converstaion, "Listen here Turkey Bones......and started screaming at me...". I ended the conversation with her by informing her that it wasn't me found stark naked on the futon at 3 in the afternoon with my schlong in my hand when I supposed to be in Calc class. And if I'm always drunk causing commotion, why are you the one slurring and why do I have the 3.6 GPA. He moved out 3 days later.

LOL

I love the guys who caught their roommates with their pieces in hand

That would have scarred me for life

[untouchable04]

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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.

Damn dude. This chick sounds like a complete psycho *****. You've got more patience then I do because after paying the first 400 bucks, if I didn't get anything back I don't think I would've gave her another cent.

Just curious though, did she ever pay you anything back?

[Hassan Darkside]

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My roommate's pretty weird as well, but not to the extent as some of you guys.

First off, he's a lazy bastard. He never takes out the trash. I found myself taking out the trash when it was mostly his or beyond overflowing the first couple weeks of school. So he offered me $6 to take it out for the rest of the year and I took it knowing that he wouldn't do it anyway.

Now, all he does is play computer games, specifically COD4, Battlefield 2142, and a couple RTS games. He will honestly wake up at 8 am and start playing videogames. Thankfully he has a headset with sound input, but he's constantly talking. He will play for 14 hours straight without thinking. In fact, virtually everyday he plays all day long. His social life seriously lacks big time, I've never seen him go to another pod in the building, nor talk to a girl or anything.

No lie, when COD4 came out for PC, he went out and got it and played from 4 pm to 2 am. Then the next day from like 8 am to 2 am. He got to level 55 in the first 3 days of playing and Prestige mode wasn't even available.

What pisses me off the most is that he is always here. We only have one small dorm room and I have like ZERO privacy. I don't beat my meat or anything, but it's just nice to be able to chill alone, play my music loud or something. But I can't, I'm lucky if he is outside of the room for 30 minutes in a day (aside from class).

He has also numerous times turned the channel while I was watching TV. And my TV goes from 0-100 in volume and I find 40-50 pretty consistent. He watches it at like 75-90 and it is about 6 inches from my desk and 6 feet from his.

[dkgojackets]

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What's wrong with the guy playing computer games. Some people just have fun and get enjoyment from games, while you get enjoyment from hanging out with other people or whatever. Doesn't make one or the other wrong in any way.

[Hassan Darkside]

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There's nothing wrong with it, it's just the extent that he does. He never leaves the room, heck he never leaves period. And he always has his headset on, I wake up to him usually uttering some weird combination of curse words I've never heard before. Fortunately he goes to bed before I do. I could probably guarantee that he's talked more online this semester so far than he has talked in person to people the entire last semester.

Also another thing I hate is that my desk is by the window and he always pulls the window shade down so it's constantly dark in my room. As soon as I leave he pulls it down, so when I get back I put it back up. I swear he's a vampire or something.

And he never washes his dishes. After he eats (usually cereal) he throws the ball in the sink, puts soap in it, and turns on the faucet. Then just goes back to gaming and leaves it. It'll literally sit in there for hours filling the sink up with water and everything. There's been times where he does it and then just leaves it running and goes to class or somewhere and I'll walk back in my room to find the faucet running and nobody in sight.

[Flyboy]

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LOL

I love the guys who caught their roommates with their pieces in hand

That would have scarred me for life

My roommate caught me with my meat in my hand. Sucked for him.

[dkgojackets]

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Also another thing I hate is that my desk is by the window and he always pulls the window shade down so it's constantly dark in my room. As soon as I leave he pulls it down, so when I get back I put it back up. I swear he's a vampire or something.

Buy a lamp?

imo none of this sounds as weird as bolding every post on a message board.

[ehh]

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Damn dude. This chick sounds like a complete psycho *****. You've got more patience then I do because after paying the first 400 bucks, if I didn't get anything back I don't think I would've gave her another cent.

Just curious though, did she ever pay you anything back?

Yeah, I got every penny back that I was owed. The only reason I was more lenient was because I'd known her for ten years. But I eventually had to draw the line, sad stuff.

[NYJets]

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Also another thing I hate is that my desk is by the window and he always pulls the window shade down so it's constantly dark in my room. As soon as I leave he pulls it down, so when I get back I put it back up. I swear he's a vampire or something.

Yea my roommate does that too. I don't understand it, and it is really annoying.

Neither my roommate last year or my roommate this year have been too bad. I'm not good friends with either but they aren't impossible to live with like basically everyone mentioned in this thread

[Hassan Darkside]

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Buy a lamp?

imo none of this sounds as weird as bolding every post on a message board.

I don't know what to say, I've never listened to myself nor anyone else post before, so I couldn't tell you what's weird and what's not.

It's my style, I bold my posts on all message boards. It's really no different from changing the color, font, size, or anything. Same goes for avatars, all it does is help separate me from everyone else.

[dkgojackets]

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If there was someone that changed the color, font, size, or anything for all their posts then that would be viewed as weird too.

[fistofrage]

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If there was someone that changed the color, font, size, or anything for all their posts then that would be viewed as weird too.

If pulling down shades and changing fonts is considered weird, then you got a rude awakening coming if you have circumstances where you'll be getting a random roommate. There's a 10% chance the dude will be a psychopath and be thinking of ways to completely undermine you. A 25% chance the guy is pissing in something you'll be consuming that semester, an 8% chance he's drawing male genetalia on things you own, and a 5% chance you will find him stark naked with his schlong in his hand with another 1% chance he's thinking about you at the time. Roll those dice my friend.

[dkgojackets]

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I think you need to read some of the above posts. I said pulling down shades wasn't weird at all, and that it was less weird than bolding posts, which is a very low scale of weirdness.

[Cebby]

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Also another thing I hate is that my desk is by the window and he always pulls the window shade down so it's constantly dark in my room. As soon as I leave he pulls it down, so when I get back I put it back up. I swear he's a vampire or something.

Depending on where you are, it's not that weird.

1. If your room faces East, it's annoying as hell to wake up with the sun in your eyes.

2. If you're on the first floor, do you really want everybody outside seeing into your room?

3. Having an external light source of a room bothers some.

I personally always close my blinds, but I get enough light during the day, and then turn on a lamp at night. External light sources are rarely convenient and just in general bother me. Plus I hate anyone who's able to look into my room.