My Roommate From Hell • Page 2

The only roommate I had was the first half of my freshman year before he failed out. Where do I start?

How about the time my girlfriend and I went with him out to eat. We were dropping her off before parking so she didn't have to walk so far in the rain. As a "joke", he decided to jerk the car forward as she was getting out so she would stumble. Well, she did. And the car then went over her foot. Her parents had insurance, but asked that he cover the co-pay for her cast. Nope, blunt refusal.

Another time, we were all joking around, and she made a joke. He was laughing, and "jokingly" threw a bottle at her. It was a plastic bottle, but more than half full, and it gave her a black eye.

He had a girlfriend who was still in high school and worked late shifts at a grocery store. She wouldn't get off work until super late some nights, but he always insisted on talking to her no matter what time it was. I had headphones and was usually up pretty late too, and I'm pretty easygoing, so it didn't really bug me too often. But after a while, I started waking up in the middle of the night to hear him having fucking phone sex with her on the bunk above mine. And once he decided he needed to serenade her to sleep (I'm completely serious). And his song of choice? Well, this is fall of 2007 so..."It's too late to apologize...it's too laaaaaaaaaate". The whole song. Twice.

And the best one: Once he got completely shit-faced, woke up, and pissed all over the floor in the middle night. I was on the lower bunk and I used to be a bit of a thrasher in my sleep. I would regularly knock my blankets or pillows on the ground in the night, and have to reach down and pull them back in bed. That night, the same thing happened, and so when I awoke in the morning, I realized I smelled like piss. All over me. All over the blanket that fell onto the floor. I had just woken up and had not realized what the hell had gone on. I step off the bed...into his pool piss. It sounds like something out of a shitty college movie, but my girlfriend was there and can vouch for every bit of it. I flipped out on him, and he denied it at first (because he was so drunk, he didn't even remember doing it), but eventually did come to the conclusion that he must have done it and he cleaned the floor and washed my bedding. But I still slept in his piss.

So yeah. I dormed alone after that until moving in with my now-spouse.

 

LOL I was totally that rm once. I'd had the same rm for two years and liked her and then she went to study abroad so I got a new one in the middle of the year. I'm shy and introverted and I knew she'd only be living there for 3 months so I didn't wanna put myself out there and decided to seclude. Pretty sure she thought I was a total weirdo.

 

My roommate my freshman year of college was a nightmare but now it's been long enough that I think the situation was hilarious. First off, dude listened to nothing but pop-country and ska. Second, dude ate tons of Indian food. Third, he was always fucking there, and if he wasn't rocking out to skabba the hut and pounding a curry bowl, he was watching anime with the volume super loud. But the best/worst part, was that he was a clown. An actual clown. He had pictures of himself in full clown make up / attire all over his side of the room. Our beds were parallel and on the side of his bed facing mine was a picture of himself decked out like the clown from that Rob Zombie movie with the clown in it (House of 1000 Corpses I think). So that's what I woke up to every day. Also, he bugged my ex gf for several months after I broke up with her trying to get her to date him. Needless to say, I lived alone the Sophomore year.

 

Did you check to see if he had a reflection?

 

Three years ago I'd moved in with three girls that posted an ad on Craigslist, and the first night I was there the girl with the room next to mine invited me to get stoned with her and then talked for an uninterrupted 45-minutes detailing many awful things, including having committed three hit-and-runs and peeing in the orange juice of the previous roommate whom I was replacing. She moved out like two weeks later thankfully.

Surprisingly the girl who held the lease turned out to be even worse for myriad reasons that festered over time. Got my own place a year later and don't think I could ever have roommates again.

 

I have two dogs and my roommate is wonderful and helps take them outside if I'm gone for long periods without being able to stop home first. I also pay him in some way or another, like buy him food or just straight cash. And I very rarely ever leave them overnight. I can't imagine being like your roommate. As bad as you may feel, I would probably put the dogs in her room. Once she comes home to poop in her room, maybe she'll get it. It's nice of you to help but ultimately they aren't your responsibility and she should probably not have animals.

 

Yeah last night she came home to let them in and left them AGAIN. I woke up today and they'd pooped on the floor again. Its happened nearly every day and she said she'd start taking them with her at night but she hasn't so if she leaves them again I'm gonna keep them in her room. Which I feel bad cause they're cooped up but idk what else to do. They always go in the kitchen too so I can't eat cause I refuse to be the one to clean it up. I don't mind letting them in or out sometimes but at this point I'm with them more than her and even tho she claims they're her children and being a dog mom is her life and blah blah thats clearly not the case

 

Yeah, that's so obnoxious! I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

 

This week dog thing went better. She has been coming home and taking them. Since she was doing that I didn't take the dogs in before I fell asleep kinda early. Woke up at 230am and they're still outside and haven't eaten in a while like... come on. So I let them in and fed the poor bbs so they weren't outside all night and day tomorrow without food. It's like does she even think of them?? It's past just putting me out and its neglect of her dogs. She works literally like 5 minutes from home. It's not a big deal to stop and take them or check up on them or at least text me so the poor things aren't stuck outside without food until whenever she decides to show up tomorrow.

 

Sorry to hear you're still dealing with the dog situation. It doesn't make sense she treats her dogs that way when you say she thinks of them as her kids. Is she going to neglect her future kids and always leave them with a sitter?

 

can I open this thread back up with a very long rant about something very annoying?


so I live with my sister in a house with one other person. when I moved in, the landlord moved out of the room on the top floor (it's a whole floor, with its own bathroom, three times the size of my room and my sister's room) and our other roommate moved to the top floor. we've been splitting rent evenly since then, but now we're trying to get a roommate in the spare room (half the size of my room) who would be sharing the one bathroom with my sister and I. we spoke briefly and all agreed that we wanted a roommate, and the one guy who lives on the top floor put it up on Craigslist for a price that would mean all four of us would split rent evenly, without consulting us. we're now at the point where the new roommate is ready to move in, but we haven't been able to reach an agreement about how to split rent--the new person will be sharing the bathroom with my sister and I, while also sharing the same floor with my sister. And the room is smaller than all of ours. So my sister and I are saying that the room on the top floor should be paying a little bit more than us while the new person should pay a little bit less than us. when we first suggested it, we wanted the top floor to pay seriously 35 dollars more than he would have other wise, now I've suggested making it only 25 more, and he just refuses and keeps saying that he doesn't understand why when it literally should go without saying and we really have listed 100 reasons (and haven't even gone into the fact that he doesn't clean, leaves food out when we have a pest problem, contributes nothing to the house in general). He says that he's never there (which is not true?? and doesn't really matter??) and doesn't use the wifi or the electric (also 100% false). it's not even like my sister and I will be saving money, we just think it's totally fucked for the new roommate to pay the same amount as someone with a room 5 times the size and their own bathroom.

 

So. For months I've been like hmm do I still live with my rm? She and her dogs stay with her bf all the time. It's a running joke between us that just like Phoebe on Friends, she's secretly moved out and hasn't told me. But lately I'm like ok but for real. She took her bed to her bf's so his mom could use it while she was in town (???). She also asked if her friend who is getting a divorce can rent out her room for a month. I said "no" cause I've never met them in my life and a month can turn into way longer. Then she offered her other friend her room temporarily. She was supposed to stay for a week but its past that and now her dog is here??? This rando isn't doing anything that bad but she's def made herself at home and I don't feel at home. We have yet to run into each other and she's been staying for 1.5 weeks so I haven't interacted with her, but idk I'm so shy and anxious that I dread running into her.

Plus we're going through toilet paper really fast now and she replaces it with the roll under instead of over omg!!

 

I live with 7 people right now... in a tent (deployed). One of the guys forgot to turn his laptop audio down before starting porn yesterday. Awkward.

 

Is your current roommate on your lease? It definitely sounds like she's planning on leaving soon, especially if she's trying to rent her room out. I'd maybe try to have a backup roomie in order, maybe the girl that's already staying there.

 

Naw I don't think she's trying to move rn. I am always braced for her moving and I've told her I won't be mad as long as she gives me notice. If she moves I'd move too. Def wouldn't stay here. I def don't want to live with this rando girl either but she's looking for houses to move in with her bf anyway. I think she put in an offer.


Before, the rando staying here annoyed me on principle but she herself wasn't annoying. But they're def getting comfy now and I see them all the time and hear things I don't wanna hear and her bf was showering when I needed to shower this morning so my patience is thinning!

 

I have been the bad roommate before.

Back in college, after living in the dorms for a couple semesters, my ex and I decided to move in together, but we picked a student living place -- one of those apartments that come pre-furnished and if you sign up for a four bedroom, you are assigned to one of those bedrooms and the other roommates are all strangers unless you have someone else you request to room with.

So she signed the lease and we both moved in, not even considering whether the other roommates would be ok with that. One of them was not comfortable with it. She put up with us a few weeks but eventually told the office what we were doing and got my ex moved to another unit (where I still spent most of the time but luckily the roommates there were ok with it).

Anyway, I feel guilty from time to time about this and wish I could find the girl to apologize. I also called her a bitch on Facebook which is something I would never do now and I feel bad about it.

 

I got home from a 4 hour drive to my rm's dogs having pooped on the floor. It smelled terrible so it has been there a while. I text my rm about it, which to me, I would come home ASAP to clean it up because it's foul. Instead, hours have passed and she still hasn't come home. idek if she's coming home tonight? And like fine go out do what you want, but not when your dogs have gone to the bathroom on the floor!!!!!!!!!! I can't even walk around my own house. I'm exiled to my room where it's not gross. And like I know she's looked at her phone in the last 3 hours!!!! She's always on her phone!


People keep saying move out and I get it, but this town is such a trash heap. It's so hard to find housing that's not sketchy and filled with roaches or ridic overpriced, cause I've looked. Plus if I'm gonna move I want to leave this town which I don't have lined up yet. I said I'd try moving after next school year but the way things are going I may streamline it for this summer, idk

 

That makes me so mad. I have two dogs and there have been times where I've been caught up and not able to make it home to let them out when they're needing to, but I usually will have my sister or mom run by to let them outside. Or if I know I'm going to be gone long, I at least ask my roommate if he wouldn't mind letting them out later. If they go in the house a lot, maybe she should invest in a crate for when no one is home. You live in Oregon right? Which part do you live in?

 

Tbh idek if there's room for a crate. They are big dogs and our house isn't huge. I feel bad for them. She doesn't take them on walks so they have no way to get energy out cause our yard isn't fenced. They sit at home all day, mostly alone. I dont remember their breeds but theyre country dogs that wanna run around. She has started putting them in her room at night which has helped a bit and for all intents and purposes is like a crate. Idk why she didn't last night.


Meh, rant. I live in eastern oregon. Housing is a lot cheaper here but a lot of it is slum lords or sketch. There's an apartment stigma about low-income people living in them so most of them suck and aren't up kept. Plus maybe my standards are too high idk. The town is like wasting away so the housing is usually either dodgy and run down or really nice and expensive with little in between.

 

My freshman year in college the first semester my roomie didn't show up (and judging by our convo before hand we clearly nothing in common) HOWEVER the next semester was a whole other story...

I had my then friend move in cus the suitemates (2 dorms shared a bathroom in the middle) were tryna get their party buddy into the spare bed and one dude would even show up walk in my room and tell me hes here to scope out his room like a dick even testing me to see if I'll get hot.
So I ask my friend to come stay and alright, cool, you expect a party. Nope.
It started with him cheating on his girl and all his girls girlfriend coming and fading him. THEN he tried to OD on Tylenol and just ended up making himself sick for a few days. THEN he spilt his mega box of cheerios all over his rug and didn't clean it for 2 months.
THEN I go to see my then girlfriend for a weekend, come back, hes got a plastic bag over the smoke alarm, my fan in the window (Reversed), a porno stuck n my tv's built in DVD player, and crushed oreo cream all over my rug.
At the end of the year I was talking to my Grandma on the phone and he was yelling cusses (even doing so to fuck with me when I asked him to chill cus I'm talking to my Grandma) so I finally had it and body slammed him lol.

 

Unrelated but awesome username

 

Oddly enough, the only roommate I ever had that didn't work out was my best friend from high school. We roomed together my freshman year of College and while we never fought or got on each others' nerves, our friendship has never been the same and now, 13 years later, we only speak one or two times a year - if that (he lives out of state now).

When we got to college, he was going through a lot of personal stuff and kind of just became a hermit. He was still dating his HS GF who was a year younger and still in HS and they fought all the time and I think he was really homesick, so he completely missed out on enjoying the first year of college and I was out having a ball every night. We just kind of came disconnected and by sophomore year, I roomed with other friends from high school, who I'm still best friends with today. I never again had a problem living with anyone and am still to this day very, very good friends with anyone I ever lived with.

 

Yeah that's really sad for those dogs. I hate irresponsible dog owners. If you really loved your dogs, you'd either spend the time with them or rehome them to someone who will.

I don't know much of eastern Oregon! Hermiston is about the only place I've been over there and I'm not even sure that's considered eastern haha. I live in Oregon City and it's gotten so expensive, it's the worst. Hopefully you find yourself in a situation you like more soon!

 

Thanks! Hermiston is def eastern! I live fairly close to there. I'm hoping to relocate further west and finally live ALONE in the next year or two. I'll probably whine about being scared home alone once I make it happen haha but it still sounds so nice!

 

I've lucked out by having mostly fantastic roommates who are my best friends.

I had one roommate, though, where the only interaction I had with him for ~4 months was him in the kitchen microwaving hot pockets, and would say "haha [whatever sawhney was doing at the time]? you're gay".

Every. Single. Time.