I doubt it'd help. I b****ed for the first year... now I just deal with it, it's not worth fighting over. Now I just ask her how she is going to teach our children to do it right if she can't do it herself. That drives her crazy.
you wanna hear a crazy roommate story? get this... back in freshman year of college many eons ago, i was rooming with a friend from high school in a dorm. The two of us got along pretty well, but he didn't have many friends. He stuck with our high school crowd (nothing wrong with that), but i wanted to explore more. He was best friends with a guy from our high school (who I was also friends with) whose sexuality was questioned for at least 5 years. He never officially came out of the closet, but everyone pretty much knew. Now we weren't the gossipy type in high school, everyone respected this guy b/c he was intelligent and charming. We just wondered, that's all (natural curiousity). well one friday night, I came home from an evening of hard drinking to my dorm room. I noticed an unusually large lump under my roommates covers and thought "wow, he finally got a woman, thats awesome!" i wanted to give them privacy, but i was too drunk to find another place to crash that late at night (err, morning) so i fell asleep, woke up early the next day b/c I had a group meeting for a class and found my roommate "cuddled" with our aforementioned friend from high school!!!! imagine my surprise! i still don't know what happened... no one ever suspected my roommate of being homosexual through high school... perhaps they just fell asleep talking or hanging out? I never brought it up with him b/c it wasn't my business. but from time to time, i just wonder what happened that night?
yeah, i concur. i don't think its possible to be drunk enough to not sense an unwanted intrusion, unless you're unconscious and have suffered from alcohol poisoning. thankfully i've never gone that far!
Wow, no wonder I've noticed a drop-off in angry political rants! Everybody sing now: "six is company too!"
My roomate my freshman year was pretty bad. First, he was from New York which wasn't so bad, but he had this totally superior attitude to Southerners. He also liked to brag about doing every possible drug...ever. He smoked weed, which doesn't bother me too much, but he kept 2 pounds in his desk drawer. Two pounds!! Do you have any idea how much weed that is!?!? He had 2 huge bricks of weed in his desk drawer. I was always worried if I'd get in trouble if he were ever caught, and it didn't help that he would roll his joints out in the open with the door to the room open. He had his drug dealer friend come over all the time and they would weigh out drugs that he would take back to New York to sell because they could get so much more there. He loved Death Metal music. Its all he would listen to, and he'd listen to it all the time. He was ALWAYS in the room. He went to class, and to his car to smoke his weed, that was it. Other than that he was ALWAYS on his computer IMing people from New York, and he would never turn the volume down on the IM so there would be constant bleeps and bloops as he sent and received messages. He drank all my sodas without permission. He always left dirty dishes in the sink...a dorm sink...the one you brush your teeth and shave at, not a kitchen sink. He watched the crappiest TV...always something weird that didn't seem to fit his personality, like Jenny Jones and such. Being that he ALWAYS was there he always had his music playing and his TV show on. He cussed in normal conversation WAY too much, putting cuss words in places that they didn't need to be. "Yeah, I went to the fu***** store and bought some fu***** juice." He never cleaned at all, not once. His side of the room smelled like weed and he liked to burn that smelly crap on the stick that smells horrible. It smelled like a Catholic church. He threatened to murder the guy across the hall in his sleep. He watched A Clockwork Orange over and over like it had some personal message for him, he'd watch it like once a week. I hate that stupid movie. The list goes on and on...you get the idea.
I've got some f'ed up stories myself but nothing in the league of finding two guys cuddling in my room the next morning...WTF!
LOL, you guys make my roommate look like the greatest. I joined the honors college mainly for the purpose of having my own private room for free, but it was just my luck that in our WHOLE dorm building, my roommate and I are the ones that have to share a room for the 1st semester! For the first half of this semester, my roommate would ALWAYS skip his 8 o clock classes, but he would set his alarm every day for 7 am. He would NEVER wake up to the alarm, so I'd have to sit and listen to it for about 5 minutes before getting up and yelling his name out. He'd then proceed to roll over and turn the alarm off. When he had a C and D in his 8 o clock classes @ mid-term he started waking up. This is really the only thing I can complain about with my roommate. He does have one weird habit though, he changes shirts AT LEAST 5 times a day. He wakes up, puts on a shirt, goes to eat, comes back, changes shirts, goes to class, comes back, changes, goes to class, come back, changes, goes to eat dinner, comes back, changes...Its relly the weirdest thing I've seen. If he ever talks smack to me I just go "ah, go change your shirt!" Now my suite mate, this guy is a slob in the bathroom! The way our dorm is set up, we have 2 rooms that share a bathroom. This guy has long hair and has to be going bald, he just leaves gobs and gobs of hair in the bottom of the shower and never cleans them up. He also somehow gets his sh*t all over the toilet, on the outside and everything.
I don't know why I laughed so hard when I read this. It's the perfect visual. I mean perfect! I loved the he lies face down on his bed for hours. Damn that's rich.
First you almost make choke to death laughing at the roomate lingo for "Shut the f***up!" Then I almost puke out what I choked on with the toilet visual...
Worst experiences: Roommate puking in sink on night before a test for me. I had gone to sleep early, it smelled so bad I cleaned it up. Walking in. Roomed with two rotc guys. One by potluck.. one by roommate made a impulse decision to try it out. Alarm clocks go off at the but crack of dawn twice a week and one set his on loud and across room to force him to get up. Arg!! p*rn as wallpaper for computer. Didn't bother me, except that I had a few Catholic girls that I was friends at during the time. Locked deadbolt. Heavy sleeper. Water polo stories. He was a dirty player according to him. Nuf Said. Funniest things that happened in dorm to other people, but probably sucked for them: One guy puked in shower without telling roommate. Do people not look where they step? Pillow disappeared only to reappear later in the day. Guy's answering machine message was changed so roommate could add roommate's girlfriend name to message, but his name was left off his own machine. Parents called. Talking to a friend in Cafeteria. His roommate comes up and go, "your lamps on fire" and then leaves. A friend roomed with a drag rat. Roommate let a guy's friends in with snowballs before he was awake.
its one of the people who "hang out" on a street called Guadalupe St. the portion of it that runs through the UT campus is known as "The Drag" drag rats are homeless people who congregate on the street and ask for spare change or play musical instruments to earn people's change.
alot of those drag rats are highschool kids who come from rich parts of austin but it's the "cool" thing to do. i hated the drag rats while i was at ut. i lived at 21st and nueces for a couple of years. had to pass them everyday. the thing that pissed me off the most is most of them have dogs. being a drag rat you dont have any money and thus your dog cant eat often or healthy...
This was the case with this drag rat except she was already in college, but still doing the old high school stuff. Dressing up like the homeless and begging for money on the street is just wierd to me.
I think I was the a-hole roomie. I had this roommate at UT that would sleep all of the time and snore like an animal. So I would get drunk and Tea bag him and take pictures.
holy crap, i never heard this story. people dressing up as homeless to be cool? that's pretty damn sickening. i'm glad i'm out of school, or i'd be pissed off everytime I walked down the drag.
