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Crazy Roommate Stories?
I saw a post on MM about crazy roommate stories, and there were some real doozies listed.
Anyone have any crazy roommate stories?
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I had a roommate who never showered, never cleaned and never did dishes. I lived in one of those college apartments where you lease the room but have a common kitchen/living room.
He used my kitchen stuff and ruined my dishes and pots and pans. I couldn't tell you how bad he stunk. I moved out a week early and had them walk the apt so they could close out my lease and I wouldn't be charged for the damage he did.
Seriously .....NEVER showered.
I've only ever had one roommate - my freshman year of college. She put a cigarette out in a guy's eye because he said something to her friend, got married one weekend just for the hell of it and used to have phone sex with God knows who while I was in the room.
Its largely because of her that I've done everything I can to avoid roommates since.
I had crazy college roommates.
My freshman year, I was randomly assigned a dorm roomie. She was so strange! At one point, she decided to see how long she could go without leaving our room or wearing something other than pajamas. She briefly dated a guy and then when they broke up, she regularly plotted ways to stalk him. I don't think she actually snuck in his bedroom window to surprise him, though.
After that, I moved in with a friend from high school who I knew was a little crazy. We lived together for 3 years, and I don't think we said more than 10 words to each other for the last year. Yep, she spent that entire year avoiding me. If she came home from school or work and I was in the common area, she'd go directly to her room. One time, her mom showed up because she was so worried about her. I haven't talked to her since!
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I don't know if you'd call mine crazy but it's weird and sad. My college roommate was "dating" our neighbor. He treated her like total crap but she kept going back to him. One morning she came home crying because he had literally kicked her out of his bed and told her to get out of there. Later that day, what do I find her doing? Washing his sheets because he had puked on them! I was irate and told her that I did not want to be paying the bills for this a$$hole's laundry.
It was really sad and aggravating.
I shared a house in college with 4 other girls - 3 of us lived there over the summer at the beginning, all was cool. the other 2 girls moved in, sharing the big master bedroom, when school started and all of a sudden we were missing spoons. someone bought more spoons, but we kept losing random dishes/utensils. when we moved out, there was a trail of dirty dishes in the master bedroom.
OH, I just remembered another story - one of the two girls would not wrap her pads, she would just throw them in the trashcan.
I'm seriously getting sick just remembering this stuff. I know guys can be dirty, but dirty girls are a on a completely different level.
Hmm, where do I start. First college roommate called herself Viagra Girl (mind you this was 11 years ago before ED commercials abounded). She was quite quirky in a not so pleasant to live with way. But roommate #2 was a doozy.
We moved into an apartment together after freshman year (had become best friends that year). Well, I started dating DH in March, and #2 and I moved in together in May. She became extremely jealous of the time I spent with him and turned nuts. She wouldn't let me put anything in the living room because it had her furniture (but I could do what I wanted in the dining area as I bought the table and chairs), she'd take her hand towels to her room so I didn't use them, she'd yell at me for what I put in the dishwasher, even when it wasn't her stuff, she told her coworkers (she and DH worked together) that we had sex so loud one night we scared off her friend (we did not have sex the night her friend was there), and she complained if the couch cushions were not 100% straight at all times. I actually became depressed living with her and refused to go home alone because if I did, she'd start screaming at me.
I moved out at Christmas into supplemental housing in the dorms and had to live with 3 other girls (roommates 3, 4 and 5), one of who decided to try to make DH her Austin boyfriend (she already had one at home and one at the school she transferred from). She kept drugs in our room and turned one of the other roommates against me. And she partied in our room til 4 every morning, knowing that I got up at 5:30 to work out with DH. I hardly ever made it through a workout without getting sick from lack of sleep.
I could go one. Roommates 9, 10 and 11 were awful, too. But I've said enough.
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In college I lived with 3 other girls. One girl's mother was BSC, she would call her daughter every morning(several times waking the rest of us up) to make sure she was there, and daughter would screen the calls, so mom would hang up and call back. Once she called and I picked up and she started talking to me about how she knew that a 3rd roommate's boyfriend spent the night, and how I was a "good christian girl" and how could I let this be happening. blah blah blah. All 4 roommates had boyfriends and they all occasionally spent the night.
I dreaded the phone ringing.
Also this same roommate had an eating disorder so she would sneak other people's food. We had to lock up all the good stuff or it would disappear
ETA: Whoah, I wrote a book! I'm still a little bitter
Summary: DH's roomate stole his money, left us $10K in the hole, and grew maggots in his room.
DH had a roomate when I started dating him. About 2 weeks after we started dating, the roomate lost his job. DH was in charge of paying the utilities and the roomate was in charge of paying the rent. DH would give him rent money to the roomate every month. Suddenly the roomate started saying that I should pay half the rent. As in I pay half, and DH and roomate split the other half. I had my own apartment and utilities to pay for! I did stay at their apartment Friday and Saturday night because I lived in San Marcos and from my place to theirs on Parmer was an hour drive. I showered there, but otherwise wasn't using any other utilities they weren't already using because I was only there when DH was there. Then one day, DH gets an eviction notice! For some stupid reason, everything was in DH's name (lease and utilities) but DH truste this jobless guy to pay the rent. Obviously, he wasn't. When DH asked him what he was doing with DH's share of the rent, the guy said he was turning it in. He wasn't. He'd spent it all on alcohol.
So long story short, DH and I worked it out so that we could kick him out and the two of us move into a one bedroom without any penalty on his credit (and I subleased my apartment). It cost us an arm and a leg. This guy left us $10K in the hole.
Also, he was the BIGGEST slob you've ever met in your life. Once he brought a plate with half a watermelon out of his room .... about 1000 flies flew off of it. He later brought out a cooler. When I opened it I nearly vomited. There was a half gallon container of milk in there with no lid on it. The ENTIRE container was full of maggots that were overflowing into the cooler. Most.Disgusting.Thing.Ever.
And that barely scratches the surface of the hell we went through over 2 months with this guy.
Now 7 years later, DH insists on being friends with him still because after a couple years (and we had recovered from the debt) he said Sorry. Sorry?! Big f-ing deal! He screwed us!
For the record ... the guy is now almost 30 years old, lives at home with his parents, doesn't have a car, can't keep a cell phone, gets fired from about 1 job a month, still does drugs, and has drunk himself into several arrests (oh and brags about the arrests, one of which caused a very bad accident).
roommate 1: We shared a room in the dorms. She slept 15 hours a night, and took 3-4 hour naps every day. If she wasn't at her computer, she was in bed 'resting'. She ended up dropping out after her first year and transferring to a different college. All in all, harmless - but super strange. I couldn't ever have people over because roomie would get worken up.
roommate 2: We lived in the dorms too. She was outside of her mind. Used a plastic bags as contraceptive
. Insanity. Was cheating on her boyfriend and would make up ellaborate lies. Crazy.
roommate 3: My boss' daughter. I didn't know her at all before we moved in. Bad idea. Thankfully, we had our own rooms in the same apartment. (shared kitchen and living room). She accepted football tickets in exchange for 'favors' from ut football players
. Brought strangers home from 6th street. I was never.at.home. this year. Thankfully, DH had his own apartment by this year and I just stayed with him. When she would see me, she could never understand why I would rather be with him...
After #3, I swore never again would I have a roommate. I no longer speak to any of them.
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Um, what?!?! Where does one even come up with that kind of idea?!
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I know, I know. And she thought she was *so smart* to use it if condoms weren't handy.
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I have had my fair share of AWESOME roommates...
After moving out of one apt on Riverside from roommates who smoked marijuana in the apartment while I was there, I moved into an apt with a random roommate (the individually leased apartments on riverside) because I refused to live with drug users. Well I moved in with a girl who was no older than 25 years old and when I moved in I found a 12 year old boy living in the room supposed to be mine. TWELVE years old! She was like 13 when she had him! Then she always had tons of guys over, really big guys, and I was scared to come out of my room. So I kept cereal in a box in my room and when she had people over I would stay in my room and just eat dry cereal for dinner and lock my door.
Several nights she would be gone and people would come and bang on the door and holler for her. I always would call DH just to have him on the phone and one time had to call the police because I was so scared. She finally got evicted after I got home and my electricity had been shut off because she didn't pay the electricity and hid the bill from me...
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ooh, ooh, I have one!
The girl I lived with for one semester freshman year--we were in an efficiency, but two girls, what did it matter, right? Well, the week before I moved in, she has her boyfriend move in with us. So now it's me and a COUPLE in a one-room efficiency. Then she gets pregnant. She has horrible morning sickness and has to drop out of school and move home. The day before she leaves, she says, "oh by the way, I haven't been paying any of the bills, I hope they don't turn something off on you." (I thought she hadn't asked for any $ for bills because she was making up for the fact that her BF wasn't paying any rent.) So then she leaves, and I'm stuck hunting through all her crap for where she's stashed the bills so that I can pay them. In my hunting I discover that she had been going through my diary and copying my personal poetry out of it. About a month later, her mom comes down while I'm out of town one weekend to get all her things. Only problem is that her mom didn't know what was hers and what was mine, so she pretty much just took everything. Right down to the shower curtain, microwave, can opener, dishes, etc. So I'm essentially left with nothing. When I call about my missing stuff, they tell me it's all in boxes and that I can come after the baby is born and dig through the boxes to find whatever I'm missing.
I lived by myself the next year.
My first roommate was at a SWT dorm. She moved in a few days after me & she and her mom blessed our room with holy water. They literally sprinkled every surface of the room w/water blessed by her priest. Ok...nice thought. When her mom left she told me they blessed the room b/c she heard a girl had been murdered in our room. Seriously, what freshman wasn't told a girl had been murdered in their room? And who believes it?! She was so freaked out about it all semester. She had a night light & would wake me up all hours of the night b/c she heard/felt "the ghost."
She was also weird about food. I supplied a fridge & random munchies & told her it was fair game. Almost every day she would come home & ask if she could make a sandwich, have a Coke, eat some Cheez-its. I didn't care & thought it was nice she asked even though I told her it was no big deal. One day I'm leaving in the morning & she had left her closet slightly open & I noticed she had a whole stash of food in her closet just for herself! Why was she asking for my bread & munchies when she stocked stuff in her closet & never offered? Crazy!
My second roommate was cool enough, but she got into a car accident and moved her creepy overweight, jobless, 40+ year old boyfriend (!!!) into our DORM room so he could help her get around. He was like that weird old guy who tried to be "down with the cool kids" but just really had no clue. I hated that I had to wake up and take a shower knowing he was right on the other side of the door and get ready in a tiny bathroom with him alone in the room. After 2 weeks I asked when he was going to move out & she got all offended & they both moved out a few weeks later.
These stories are crazy!!! There are some nutcases in this world. Who moves a 40 year old man into a dorm?! Who even has people stay over at a dorm? I never lived in one, so maybe I don't get it?? I had a boyfriend once ... okay ... maybe more like a 1-week-stand .... with a guy who lived in a dorm. I was so freaked out he wanted me to come back to his dorm to ya-know. He said, "It's okay, my roomate will go out of the room." Umm okay, no?