lol yours was pretty bad though.
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Worst Roommates!
- Thread starter Lexite
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If I were you guys I would try finding a place that just requires 2 people ._.
Believe me I would love to, buy Syberia wants to wait till he is out of college to do that (I think we can afford it in a few months but he doesnt). Once he is done then we will be getting our own place, but that is still in another year and a half. I have had my share of shitty roommates to last me a life time already.
Oy, never again will I room with ANYONE who has ANYTHING to do with the colorguard. T____T Good luck with finding a new place to live.
Good lord! I'm starting to fear for my adult years getting a roommate. That is just plain awful! I can't imagine anyone like that, and I've met some pretty crappy people in my short-and-still-going lifespan, but that's the worst I think I've ever heard of.
I've never shared a room with anyone (well I have, but not in this situation), but my cousin (Chris) always used to talk about his roommate.
The guy would refuse (for whatever reason) to clean dishes. He would just eat, then hide the dirty dish under the couch/table/chair/toilet/in the laundry basket/in the fucking bathtub/whatever he could find and then go on until someone found them and started yelling at him. The guy would just keep on buying new plates/bowls/cutlery or steal other peoples'.
Chris said that besides that he wasn't a bad guy. ;-)
Eventually he moved out when he broke his leg falling down the stairs leading outside and sewed the owner of the place.
The guy would refuse (for whatever reason) to clean dishes. He would just eat, then hide the dirty dish under the couch/table/chair/toilet/in the laundry basket/in the fucking bathtub/whatever he could find and then go on until someone found them and started yelling at him. The guy would just keep on buying new plates/bowls/cutlery or steal other peoples'.
Chris said that besides that he wasn't a bad guy. ;-)
Eventually he moved out when he broke his leg falling down the stairs leading outside and sewed the owner of the place.
I'm halfway through my freshman year (ninth grade/third form) at an awesome boarding school, and the roommate I have now is my first. Being my only roommate, he is automatically my worst.
I'm not saying he's a bad guy, though, but he has quite a few habits that chap my ass. For one, whenever he leaves the room, he usually puts on a very obnoxious song at full blast, puts it on repeat, and closes his laptop (so that the sound is still on, and nobody can lower the volume). If anybody turns it off, he'll go batshit insane. He can also be a bit too self-obsessed at times (always telling me about how great a swimmer he is, how many girls are head-over-heels for him, etc., which sting because they are true). Whenever I walk into the room, he is either looking in the mirror to see how "jacked" his muscles are, playing obnoxious music at full blast (and telling me to wear headphones whenever I want to listen to my music), or talking to one of his many girlfriends on the phone. He also constantly brags about anything he can. He eats any food I have lying around without telling me until after I find out, borrows my clothes without asking, rarely cleans, and has a short fuse.
But he isn't a bad guy.
I'm not saying he's a bad guy, though, but he has quite a few habits that chap my ass. For one, whenever he leaves the room, he usually puts on a very obnoxious song at full blast, puts it on repeat, and closes his laptop (so that the sound is still on, and nobody can lower the volume). If anybody turns it off, he'll go batshit insane. He can also be a bit too self-obsessed at times (always telling me about how great a swimmer he is, how many girls are head-over-heels for him, etc., which sting because they are true). Whenever I walk into the room, he is either looking in the mirror to see how "jacked" his muscles are, playing obnoxious music at full blast (and telling me to wear headphones whenever I want to listen to my music), or talking to one of his many girlfriends on the phone. He also constantly brags about anything he can. He eats any food I have lying around without telling me until after I find out, borrows my clothes without asking, rarely cleans, and has a short fuse.
But he isn't a bad guy.
Color Guard girls aren't always so slutty.
I date one.
I date one.
Don't worry, I already knocked him for a loop before Christmas break. He doesn't take my stuff, as often.
Wow, I was just about post a topic ranting about living with someone else. I’ve been under a lot of stress (partially because of my roommate) and I thought of ranting here. Haven’t really logged on Smogon in a long time, but I always end up coming back whenever I have a silly issue. I haven’t found a group of people as down-to-earth as Smogon posters anywhere else.
So I started uni in Sept of last year. My mother bought an apartment near campus. In the first term (which ran from Sept. to Nov.), she spent half her time with me and half her time back at our hometown (which is about a one-hour drive and a two-hour commute away). For various reasons, I disliked her presence. We argued a lot, and near the end of December, she eventually yielded to my constant protestation of wanting her to essentially get the fuck out and my friend to move in for the second term (which started two weeks ago on Jan 4th).
This friend is a girl I met near the beginning of the school year, and we really meshed well. Just a heads-up: I was and am not interesting in a relationship or having sex with her, I just really liked and still like her as a close friend. In October, I had nonchalantly mentioned how much I wanted a roommate, and she enthusiastically told me she really wanted to move in with me. She was living some shithole about a 30-minute drive away from campus.
I enjoyed "chilling" and "partying" with her and she’s great at networking. I benefit a lot socially from being her close friend. But, she’s also INSANELY frugal and is really pushy with “ownership”. If I were an outsider wanting to rent my mother’s apartment, the monthly fee would be approximately $1,700 per month (living in Vancouver – a mediocre city at best – drains your wallet dry). I would not charge her a penny had this been my own place, but I had to fight hard to reach a compromise with my mother to drop her rent to $500/month and $50/month for parking. Ever since I told her the price, I could sense that she felt was unsatisfied, and I ended up paying her parking fee secretly to my mother (I had lied to her that I would throw in parking for free).
As the apartment is ultimately under my mother’s control, she didn’t get a chance to renovate it as much I reckon as she would have liked to. As well, even though my mother relented, she was not very supportive of her moving in, and left the house in such a state of shit that I stayed up two days cleaning to make room or her (and that was just to make space; I’m still slowly cleaning up). These past two weeks, I’ve been sacrificing a lot of time and money to please her, running little errands or buy appliances to show that I’m endeavouring to help her. I know the apartment is not living up to her expectations, but I feel like she’s overlooking the things I do to make it as livable to her as possible.
Then today, she comes back from the strata’s garage really traumatized. Some shitslice broke into her car and stole her snowboard and some cash. The thief somehow also drained the batteries, but jump-starting it wasn’t too much of an issue, just a nuisance. I know this is completely out of my control, but I feel responsible and I don’t really know what to do. It also vexes me that the thief lives in the same building as us, or is somehow connected to someone living within the buildin (as there is no other way he/she could have gotten in). As well, it appears the building doesn’t have a manager or even someone in charge, which is really fucked and I don’t know how that is even legal. One couple said we live in a “strata” and that we are supposed to have council meetings amongst ourselves to oversee these issues, except no one wants to bother with it.
Obviously this is really bad on my part because I know she and her parents feel I should have told them about this, except I didn’t of this prior to today. A quick aside: does anyone know how one can break into a car without destroying the locks/doors/windows/activating the alarm? Excluding that the car’s owner forgot to lock the door…although I reckon that’s the reason.
Before all this happened, I sensed we were becoming gradually colder towards each other. I want to go a little more in depth, but I’m not very articulate; in short, I’ve come to realize we’re not really “roomy” material because our lifestyles at home are so different (flaws in both parties). I feel I’m not totally in the right either, but I wish my roommate could see how hard I’m trying and how much I’m sacrificing to make it as best as possible. She thinks the apartment is a crappy place and is already planning with some other close friends of ours to find a place after April (when term two ends). They did say she wants me to move in with them, but I suspect she’s doing so only because feels obligated to, not because she actually wants to live with me again. Anyway, although I’m a bit of a dyke tyke, I don’t think I can handle living with all girls. Can’t even handle living with one!
Now that I’ve ranted so much, I realize my roommate is perfect compared to what Lexite, The Duke, and Fuzzberry had to endure; she cleans, takes care of herself, and only wants the best. Except she’s troubling me in a different way and I know it will be so hard to confront her about it. If she were a stranger, I think I could muster up some willpower, but I can’t bring myself do that to a friend. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll be a perfect roommate for someone else. I think I’ll be living some chill guys next year, haha.
I was actually just going to ask for advice on how I should deal with the car theft issue, but ended ranting a lot more (and I feel I still haven’t really expressed the situation fully yet). But yeah, that’s the main issue that’s bugging me right now. How would you guys handle this?
So I started uni in Sept of last year. My mother bought an apartment near campus. In the first term (which ran from Sept. to Nov.), she spent half her time with me and half her time back at our hometown (which is about a one-hour drive and a two-hour commute away). For various reasons, I disliked her presence. We argued a lot, and near the end of December, she eventually yielded to my constant protestation of wanting her to essentially get the fuck out and my friend to move in for the second term (which started two weeks ago on Jan 4th).
This friend is a girl I met near the beginning of the school year, and we really meshed well. Just a heads-up: I was and am not interesting in a relationship or having sex with her, I just really liked and still like her as a close friend. In October, I had nonchalantly mentioned how much I wanted a roommate, and she enthusiastically told me she really wanted to move in with me. She was living some shithole about a 30-minute drive away from campus.
I enjoyed "chilling" and "partying" with her and she’s great at networking. I benefit a lot socially from being her close friend. But, she’s also INSANELY frugal and is really pushy with “ownership”. If I were an outsider wanting to rent my mother’s apartment, the monthly fee would be approximately $1,700 per month (living in Vancouver – a mediocre city at best – drains your wallet dry). I would not charge her a penny had this been my own place, but I had to fight hard to reach a compromise with my mother to drop her rent to $500/month and $50/month for parking. Ever since I told her the price, I could sense that she felt was unsatisfied, and I ended up paying her parking fee secretly to my mother (I had lied to her that I would throw in parking for free).
As the apartment is ultimately under my mother’s control, she didn’t get a chance to renovate it as much I reckon as she would have liked to. As well, even though my mother relented, she was not very supportive of her moving in, and left the house in such a state of shit that I stayed up two days cleaning to make room or her (and that was just to make space; I’m still slowly cleaning up). These past two weeks, I’ve been sacrificing a lot of time and money to please her, running little errands or buy appliances to show that I’m endeavouring to help her. I know the apartment is not living up to her expectations, but I feel like she’s overlooking the things I do to make it as livable to her as possible.
Then today, she comes back from the strata’s garage really traumatized. Some shitslice broke into her car and stole her snowboard and some cash. The thief somehow also drained the batteries, but jump-starting it wasn’t too much of an issue, just a nuisance. I know this is completely out of my control, but I feel responsible and I don’t really know what to do. It also vexes me that the thief lives in the same building as us, or is somehow connected to someone living within the buildin (as there is no other way he/she could have gotten in). As well, it appears the building doesn’t have a manager or even someone in charge, which is really fucked and I don’t know how that is even legal. One couple said we live in a “strata” and that we are supposed to have council meetings amongst ourselves to oversee these issues, except no one wants to bother with it.
Obviously this is really bad on my part because I know she and her parents feel I should have told them about this, except I didn’t of this prior to today. A quick aside: does anyone know how one can break into a car without destroying the locks/doors/windows/activating the alarm? Excluding that the car’s owner forgot to lock the door…although I reckon that’s the reason.
Before all this happened, I sensed we were becoming gradually colder towards each other. I want to go a little more in depth, but I’m not very articulate; in short, I’ve come to realize we’re not really “roomy” material because our lifestyles at home are so different (flaws in both parties). I feel I’m not totally in the right either, but I wish my roommate could see how hard I’m trying and how much I’m sacrificing to make it as best as possible. She thinks the apartment is a crappy place and is already planning with some other close friends of ours to find a place after April (when term two ends). They did say she wants me to move in with them, but I suspect she’s doing so only because feels obligated to, not because she actually wants to live with me again. Anyway, although I’m a bit of a dyke tyke, I don’t think I can handle living with all girls. Can’t even handle living with one!
Now that I’ve ranted so much, I realize my roommate is perfect compared to what Lexite, The Duke, and Fuzzberry had to endure; she cleans, takes care of herself, and only wants the best. Except she’s troubling me in a different way and I know it will be so hard to confront her about it. If she were a stranger, I think I could muster up some willpower, but I can’t bring myself do that to a friend. Anyway, I’m sure she’ll be a perfect roommate for someone else. I think I’ll be living some chill guys next year, haha.
I was actually just going to ask for advice on how I should deal with the car theft issue, but ended ranting a lot more (and I feel I still haven’t really expressed the situation fully yet). But yeah, that’s the main issue that’s bugging me right now. How would you guys handle this?
saddly, people can break into cars with no sign of entry with a slim jim. Its the tool the tow trucks use to open your car when you lock your keys in it (Ive seen it used a few times, Syberia locked my keys in my car). To everyone out there that has a car, i would highly reccomend getting one of those magnetic boxes so you can hide a extra key under your car.