One of my roommates was cleaning the flat for a dinner party he was having later that evening. Being the lazy guy that he is, he took the 7 garbage bags that were in the kitchen and placed them in another roommate's room for "one night only, I'll take them out tomorrow." Needless to say, when the other guy came back from the holidays a few weeks later, he was NOT happy.
I had a roommate whose girlfriend cooked for them. One time she cooked some salmon and she just left everything sitting on the counter when she was finished. Now, my roommate felt that since she made the mess, he shouldn't have to clean it up (not that he cleaned up his own messes). After a couple days he couldn't stand the smell anymore (I was gone over that weekend), so he took the stuff and put it out on the patio. I didn't know this, because I never used the patio. I came home and the placed smelled like fish for a while put that went away in a few days. Then one day I look out on the patio and there is this pan with crusty old salmon in it. It was gross. The same roommate cooked something in a pot and left it in the sink for about a month. I was not really a cooking type person so I didn't notice for a long time until I wanted to make something. I don't know what was growing in that thing, but it probably could have been used as a biological weapon.
I was in Vegas for a friend's wedding last year and when I got to my room, I found that the previous occupants had left a bucket full of dried crap out on the balcony. Some people have no class. I cannot imagine the circumstances in which one would crap into a bucket when there was a perfectly servicable toilet inside the room.
NBA Live 2000 caused mayhem and pandemonium back in University Commons #3083! You had to be there to fully appreciate it.
Thanks for that first post. I am about to puke now. Luckily, for me, I never dealt with a slob roommate in college. All of them were fresh and clean.
My freshman year I used to have a roommate who stole my money from my wallet. At first I never noticed that I was missing a $20 or two. Then one day I only had $100 in my wallet, then when I checked later in the day I realized I only had $30 left. My suspicions then got raised, but I still didnt approach him about it. I rused a plan then. What I did, was I marked all my money with red dots in the top right hand corner. Next day I left my wallet out when I went to the shower, and then when I came back I noticed that I was missing a $20. That night I checked his wallet and saw a $20 with a red dot on it. That was enough for me. I called up some of my frat buddies, and we thought of a good way to teach him a lesson. We decided that in the middle of the night we would pull him out of bed and tie him to a tree and beat him senselessly and tell him thieves go nowhere but to hell. The plan was executed marvellously. I wore a ski mask so he wouldnt know any of his attackers. He peed his pants I was told. I was too busy getting some quality shots at him. This went on for a good 20 minutes, until some kid saw us. So we all ran away. I went back to my room, and pretended to be asleep Some of the ppl involved were worried about him reporting us to the police. But there was no report ever filled. Next day I woke up, and saw him with a bruised face. I asked him what happened, and he told me he got into a fight. He never brought up the subject, and I think he learned his lesson. From that point on I never missed any money from my wallet. I guess he learned his lesson. Someone once asked me, why I just didnt keep my wallet with me all the time. I told him, "good question."
[rant] Yeah I have issues with both of the roommates I have shared this apartment with. The first one was ok, until she started smoking everything under the sun. Now I can understand cigarettes and weed, but CATNIP and LETTUCE?!?! COME ON! She wouldn't clean up a damn thing in the kitchen or the living room for weeks at a time (her room is her own business) but if I EVER left a dirty dish out for more than a day, she'd b**** at me to clean it up!!! She went into depression and started cutting herself (and smoking crazy things), for which I told her she needed to get herself together, and I suggested she move out and sort things out for herself. My second roommate is just as bad - she can't clean the kitchen either!!! When she cooks dinner for herself, she makes a whole box of Hamburger Helper, eats a fourth of it, and puts the rest of it in the fridge, just to forget its existence. Then when she does remember it's in there, she won't take it out and dispose of it because it's green and fuzzy. For the past 2 months, we've had gnats and other bugs in our kitchen because she never cleaned her dishes. She would rinse them off, but she wouldn't remember run the disposal until the stench was taking over the apartment. How disgusting. That, and she's an attention w****. She must be the center of everyone's attention at all times. She has to be with a guy, and if she's not, she has to be mad at one. If she can't be with a guy or mad at one, she turns on me and starts **** with me!!! And both of them wondered why I wouldn't eat (or spend much time) at the house after the first 6 months??? JEEZ! [/rant]
I had a roommate that talked in his sleep. He didn't believe me, so I got out the voice-activated recorder and picked up this beaut: "Do it again, honey..."
Holy sh*t! I'm going back to school this September and will be living with three others in a townhouse on campus, and now I'm seriously freaked out!
My roomates and I get along fine. We have a few simple rules, u make a mess, u clean it. No drug use in the house. Everyone does the dishes atleast one day of the week. I honestly think I have the best roomates possible for the past three years, but now 2 of them are off to Europe next summer for study abroad and the other is moving in with his gf. Now I'm rooming with my brother's roomate and from what I hear, it's not going to be as nice
Quite a few different roommates. My first semester, I had a senior from Trinidad, he looked British, was half british half indian, and spoke with a british caribbean accent. He was cool, but graduated in the fall. My second roommate moved in my second semester, he was ok too, but had an annoying girlfriend. She'd call every day always wondering where he was. Needless to say, I hated her and came to dread the ring of my phone. My third roommate was ok too, but he was trying to get into a frat and that meant he'd get calls in the middle of the night to do stupid pledge stuff for weeks. He also had a GF who would become a problem as the 2 of them didn't understand that they could lock the door. I walked in on them a few times and it sucked. My 4th roommate I really didn't like. He also was trying to get into a frat so I had that same nightmare of late night phone calls again. Most nights, he'd go to bed at like 8 pm which meant I'd have to watch tv with headphones. His worst quirk though, was that if I wasn't in the room when he was taking a shower, he'd leave the bathroom door wide open. My desk was in plain view of the bathroom, talk about akward.
I lived on campus my freshman year, and after that experience, couldn't think about trying it for another year. My roommate and I were best friends in HS, and we haven't spoken since the end of freshman year - 8 yrs ago. Some of his WEIRD habits: 1) He used to keep surgical syringes and used them to suck out the pus in his pimply face ... and instead of discarding the syringe he used to keep them all in a box. 2) He'd open up cans of Coke, put them in a Pyrex dish and put it in the fridge and drink from the freakin bowl after 3-4 days 3) Had a thing for doing aerobics naked ... *gag* 4) He had a stopwatch, and every morning I'd wake up to the sound of a madman rushing around doing things ... yeap, he used to time his morning actions daily. You'd see him running down the hallway with a towel trying to best his shower/shave etc time from the previous day. He'd actually get visibly upset for getting beat ... by himself. 5) Instead of a pillow, he used to sleep on a block of wood. Not annoying, but very weird. 6) The way he used to eat chicken ... like teriyaki chicken ... let's say he was eating a drumstick, he'd stick the whole thing in his mouth, suck all the sauce covering off of it ... making disgusting slupring noises in the process, then take the drumstick out and would then pick it apart with his hands and eat it ... nearly made me puke. 7) Like JBII said about the cereal bowls lying around ... same thing, with lil flecks of Cocoa Puffs getting fungus on it. There's so much more ... but just thinking about it is making me depressed.
