i get the dirty kitchen thing. that is no bueno.

but if i left clean dishes in the dishwasher for 24 hours (and didn't just set dirty ones in the sink instead of unloading the clean ones) and someone bitched at me, i'd be kind of annoyed that i was being nitpicked. i am just more laid back, i guess. clean kitchen yes, but leaving clean dishes in the dishwasher for 24 hours isn't really something i get upset about (unless, like i said, a new mess was made instead of just putting the clean dishes away and moving dirty dishes to the dishwasher. which seems along the lines of what happened with Wolfy's roomie)

BUT i realize that is not what happened in this situation. i am just saying if i cleaned and things were clean and someone said "but you didn't unload the dishwasher" i'd be like "um instead of telling me that you could have just unloaded it" i don't think it makes her the bad roommate for saying something about it. i mean...it is her house. she owns it. and the roommate sounds kind of pathetic (no offense) and weird (no offense).

but i don't do roommates anymore. they suck. do not want. mostly because i never want to be so irritated by someone ever again haha. or clean up after them. or get angry because they scrub not stick pans with steel wool. or leave a note in 18 different colors with pictures and arrows saying "cat vomit" on the floor and leave the house instead of cleaning it up OR telling me to clean it up and that my cat is sick. or someone that steals my food and never contributes $ to food. or someone that clings onto me and thinks that we share one life even though we are two separate people simply inhabiting the same space. the list goes on. and on. and on. ahhhh. roommates.

i also for some reason get irritated by people who put pots and pans in the dishwasher.

when i lived in a house with 4 girls we had a communal whiteboard that was constantly filled with bitchy notes about one another. i get angry just thinking about living in that house haha. it was way too much for me.


[Edited on June 28, 2011 at 10:25 PM. Reason : .]

6/28/2011 10:18:30 PM

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"one was......well special. Always had random guys over, always drunk, had sex alllllll over the apartment. All of which was fine by me, until one time she had had "period sex" and decided to hang her "trophy" on our lamp. Trophy meaning the white t-shirt they had used to clean up with."

lemme guess... e?

6/28/2011 10:39:41 PM

I hoard my money like no other and it was a tough decision to go roommateless, but I love not having roommates. I've had so many shitty ones the past nine years that I am happiest carrying all the responsibilities by myself and not having to deal with their annoyances.

6/28/2011 10:40:57 PM

I have never lived alone and I do not think I could stand to.

6/28/2011 10:47:29 PM

aha, if its e then nvm

6/28/2011 10:52:12 PM

kadwackle, just to clarify

the sink was filled with dirty dishes because the dishwasher was full of clean ones (so your scenario was right)

and not that im keeping track.... but when i can't remember the last time i DIDNT unload the dishwasher... hey maybe if it's clean and you're not busy eating a pint of ice cream while you bitch about being fat, you could spend 5min doing it

honestly the dishwasher thing wasnt that bad, it was just a very small part of the whole issue

6/28/2011 10:52:35 PM

exactly. i def understand. i figured it was more that scenario than the one i mentioned. i have known people like totally OCD though and will be all up in your grill even when you think things are neat. and then finally you are just like OMFG why do i even unload the damn thing if i put the cups one inch to the right when they are supposed to be all the way to the left! ahhh.

and i have also incurred the opposite (like you)

"hey there are fruit flies in the kitchen"

"DUH because you left your dirty dishes in there"

i've even tried the passive aggressive move before of washing everything i have used and leaving the other person's in the sink to see if they got the hint. same with stuff around the common areas. picking up all mine and ONLY leaving their shit out, untouched. yea. they never got the hint (not surprisingly)

it sounds like you need a new roomie. or that yours, like you said, needs a wake up call (slash reality check?)? might you ever be living with the SO? that might smooth things out a little. if you think you could live with the SO at this stage in the relationship i mean. then your roommate would be someone you already know you like! though i realize living with a significant other comes with its own battles

6/29/2011 12:08:51 AM

I dont care how deep the dishes are in the sink as long as damn fruit flies don't get in the house.

6/29/2011 12:19:51 AM

^^i wouldnt mind if she stayed through september

the whole month of july i think i am home like 5 days including weekends, august is pretty quiet and i am gone for 3 straight weeks in september

i need someone to feed my cat yo

i can deal with it. last night when the bf got here as i was walking upstairs behind him she said "sorry you were stressed out earlier" (ab me being stressed ab her dirty mess) and i said "sorry you're stressed in general"

i guess it was kind of a peace offering. and this morning when i went down to make coffee & bfast, everything was fine. it wasn't the while glove treatment that i would have given it but i don't expect her to. she did what i expected, reset the kitchen so dirty shit isnt stacked up everywhere

6/29/2011 9:04:36 AM

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"im a money nerd "

tell me all about it....maybe someone should create a thread about it!

6/29/2011 9:06:30 AM

Sheesh, good luck with that.
If this weren't terrible, it would be kind of entertaining

6/29/2011 11:03:06 AM

If they are paying you rent you need to factor in the potential cost of cleaning. next time.

6/29/2011 11:12:26 AM

drama llama update!

i came home today with groceries around 11:45 and the house was destroyed including the kitchen

to her credit, she immediately came downstairs and started cleaning the disgusting mess i won't even go into. i don't know how one human can consistently make such an incredible mess of food & shit

anyway, she starts making excuses (which is weird, i appreciate her coming down and cleaning the kitchen so i have the possibility of using it, which was not possible when i came home) she said she's had a really busy day. i commented that mine had been busy too

so shes running all over the house up and down the stairs screaming at herself, god knows...

here i am sitting on the couch trying to recover from the emotional shit storm i walked in on and she comes downstairs and wants to talk to me. apologized for the kitchen, started explaining her stress about finding a job....bursts into tears and says shes not talking to her mother and her brother and sister in law don't have time for her and she feels like a burden, that she should prob see a therapist but has no money.

oooook. i tell her to hang in there and the reason i've been stand offish is because i'm very sensitive to peoples moods and i feel like when i am home there is a black cloud in the house and this is supposed to be my haven but im always picking up on negative shit

she starts crying again and i just tell her to calm the fuck down and that when i come home i need peace and not her immediately dumping her problems/stresses/emotional shit on me

anyway i think its good. she might be moving out in the next 30-60 days for a job if its in another location so maybe/hopefully i won't be posting in this thread anymore!

7/1/2011 1:28:39 PM

bitches be crazy

7/1/2011 1:31:49 PM

she is moving out sept 2

i am doing cartwheels

time to prep my ad for another roommate. i wonder what kind of random shit craigslist will bring me next

7/21/2011 8:11:58 PM

Moving in to my own place next weekend

7/21/2011 8:45:38 PM

At least your roommate didn't do this:

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"This girl lives right next door to my parents. Apparently her and her little friends’ idea of fun is ripping apart and completely mutilating a cat. Amber Baird, you are a disgusting human being. Instead of everyone just harassing Amber Baird online, threatening to ‘go do the same to her’, or something of the nature.. let’s get something legal and logical done about it. I’m not friends with her on Facebook so I’m not sure, but I have heard that she has already deleted the photos. The police and animal control have been contacted, but there is strength in numbers so let’s make sure that this doesn’t fall between the cracks. Every little bit of help counts. Reblog to get the word out AND call! Here are the addresses and numbers. Oh and remember, bepolite butassertive. (: Wilmington Police Department? 615 Bess Street, Wilmington, NC? (910) 343-3600 Animal Control Services? 180 Division Drive? Wilmington, NC?(910) 798-7500 Piece of shit."

http://thinkstrawberry.tumblr.com/post/2957972981/vanessaxvx-mychicken-mybacon-this-girl-lives

7/21/2011 9:23:50 PM

^That's fucking gross. I hope she gets arrested.

7/21/2011 9:38:59 PM

my experience from page 1

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"1st roommate - complete asshole that tried to cheat me on every bill, beat my dog when he was a puppy and I wasn't home, when I moved out he trashed the place after running off 4 more roommates and hurt my credit for years til he ended up having to pay damages and now tries to hit me up for half even though I paid him generously when I left and he kept deposit."

Dude added me on FB and then tried to get me to pay for his shit again (been 6 years) and I kindly informed him that not only did he sign a contract absolving me of responsibility (which I have, along with the $250 check I gave him on top of $325 in deposit and $250 in pet deposit) but he was out of his fucking mind if he thought he was getting anything from me. He said he had to replace a door ($23), miniblinds ($30) and 4x4 of shitty carpet in my former closet, which was 2 years old at the time and at least 5 when he moved out. He now thinks that even after all of this, multiple roommates, normal wear and tear, and him getting a second pitbull and breeding them in the apartment, that I somehow owe him for $400 on top of the generous $575 that he profited off me to begin with. Cannot wait for this court date. I hope he gets an expensive lawyer and has to pay both attorneys fees and the full amount when I win

7/21/2011 9:54:50 PM

Update:

Indian moving out in a week. They have decided to give me a Asian. This is total bullshit. If I hadn't renewed I would move. WTF just give me an american state student roommate. NEVER STAY AT CAMPUS EDGE. They group the minorities together. Such horse shit.

update to update:

Added the new roommate on Facebook. Fucking Asian deleted me even after I informed it I was the new roommate and the leasing office called to see if they could release my information, Hell no. I'mma make this cunt move. What offends Asians the most?

7/21/2011 11:49:19 PM

this was next to the [other] BlackJesus thread and I read it as "I hate my black roommate"

[Edited on July 22, 2011 at 12:02 AM. Reason : ]

7/22/2011 12:01:23 AM

Man, some of yall put me to shame.

So my roommate is another grad student also doing research on the same species that I study. The big difference is she has no experience. She's constantly asking me for advice, and I'm constantly giving it to her, but she seems to constantly ignore it.

Whatever. It's her deal, right? No. Now she is proposing that we switch places, and she does my field work so I can find rattlesnakes for her. Sorry, that's not how grad school works. So far, she has one of the rattlesnakes she's looking for. She's been looking since March. She's supposed to have roughly 20 by now. The one she has was found by her tech the first or second week he was down, and he had never found one before. He found it when he fell face first and saw one staring back at him from under a log. Then she called our advisor to let her know she finally had one. The advisor tells her to catch the fucking snake. She says, "I want to take pictures of it first." It was sitting next to a hole in the ground. Advisor cussed her out, and she got lucky she got the snake in the bag.

She has been living in the house with me since January. We live in a place where there is no trash pickup. She has not once taken the trash to the dump, which is just down the road (like 3 miles away).

She's left snakes and turtles sitting in bags on the couch for 1.5 weeks while she's been on vacation. She left a toad on the front porch for 2 days in 100 degree heat before I found it (still alive) and just let it go.

She has not put a fucking penny of her own money into any of her supplies. I am working on a government facility with high-dollar equipment that is bought for me by a natural resources office. This has nothing to do with her research. Yet, for the first 4 months, rather than drive her ass to campus to get the tools she had waiting for her, she just borrowed mine consistently. I have poured hundreds of my own dollars into equipment as well. Which she borrows...indefinitely.

She has left venomous snakes in bags out in the open in the house. After I told her that better not EVER happen again, she doesn't bother buying the proper bins. She just claims my personal ones.

She once found a rattlesnake in a tree hollow. She couldn't get it out, so she and her technicians decided the best way to do so would be by spraying bug spray into the hole. I know many people could care less about a rattlesnake, but there is an old, now illegal practice of blowing gasoline into burrows to get rattlesnakes out that destroys the burrows and kills the animals left inside. Let's just say that DEET isn't the friendliest chemical around.

She never cleans up a god damn thing outside of her bedroom.

She never cleaned the kitchen counter and often left dishes in the sink (a huge pet peeve of mine). Then came the ants. I bought poison. Her solution was to follow the ants to the cracks they came out of, and superglue paper over it.

Whenever we have to go to the same place, she never offers to drive. Instead, she ALWAYS asks if she can ride with me.

We had qualifying exams earlier in the year, which consisted of writing an original NSF proposal from your original research idea. Instead, she wrote a proposal for the study that was designed for her as a chapter of her dissertation before she even entered grad school.

I fucking resent the hell out of her. I have busted my ass to get where I am, and she comes with a stellar undergrad transcript...then often asks for me to do her field work.

Oh, and we only take fall semester classes, so the rest of the year, I can't get away from her. I've been staying in this house well before she entered grad school. My grant money pays the rent and hers pays nothing (since the property owners charge a flat rate on the place as a whole).

Personality-wise, she's a super-nice hardcore Catholic, so it's not like she acts like a bitch. It makes it difficult for me to be a complete dick to her, so I pretty much avoid her as much as possible.


[Edited on July 22, 2011 at 12:31 AM. Reason : and no, she isn't attractive]

7/22/2011 12:26:13 AM

How much of this behavior have you had a conversation about with her?

7/22/2011 1:14:20 AM

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"Added the new roommate on Facebook. Fucking Asian deleted me even after I informed it I was the new roommate and the leasing office called to see if they could release my information, Hell no. I'mma make this cunt move. What offends Asians the most? "

I would think just being black would be enough.

7/22/2011 1:27:47 AM

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"FUCKING ASIAN DELETED ME"

lol

7/22/2011 1:28:52 AM

^^ wow that really sucks

she's the definition of a free loader!

7/22/2011 1:29:13 AM

This is in all seriousness. Most of these were NCSU-assigned roommates.

Roommate 1: Homosexual vampire. Well, he's homosexual, and also believes he's a vampire. He regularly would LARP and meet up with his other vampire friends in our room, most of which were also homosexuals and dated within their group. Walked in on him "biting" his friends before, in his bed, straddling each other. So yeah. He played older Elder Scrolls games almost nonstop in his spare time. He constantly tried to steal my stuff, but all I had to do was mention out loud that I was missing, say, my iPod, leave the room, and I'd come back to find it on my bed. He was a teaching fellow.

Roommate 2: Awesome roommate, still friends. Honestly, probably the first Indian person I'd ever known, second generation Indian-Kenyan immigrant. He grew up Hindu but rejected it pretty much immediately out of the house--very Americanized, loved Taco Bell ground beef. He hated his mother's vegetarian Indian food, and would give it to me, which was awesome. He had some cool friends, and hooked me up with more than a few girls that were way hot. He introduced me to weight-training (though basic). He was an awful student though, never went to class, and watched TV shows all night. Eventually dropped out after that year and bailed on rooming with me again.

Roommates 3: Three is a second-generation Vietnamese immigrant. Three is the most vile creature to roam the Earth. Three was Bipolar, manic-depressive, and pretty much unable to operate as a human being. He's a notorious weeaboo, addicted to Japanese anime--had bookshelves full of anime, a clearly labeled external hard drive full of animated porn, posters in his room, and it was all he ever talked about. He considered wearing two pairs of boxers to be the same as wearing shorts, and this was appropriate to lounge around the house in, shirtless, when my girlfriend, friends, peers, and family were visiting. He ruined tons of my stuff, either through incompetence like melting spatulas on burners he left on high after deciding not to cook, or just straight up threw a huge rage-fit and, screaming and sobbing as loud as he could, would just break everything he could. He would play videogames like Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3 and scream deaththreats at the TV--and not typical bro-yell stuff, he would yell so loud he'd trail off into sobbing, he'd cry and swear he'd shoot them all in real life, that he'd fuck their sisters and wear their clothes. He would often suggest we all went to the gun range, and when he refused he would shout at us about how he had, HAD to shoot something. He dropped out of classes the first week, and remained out of school all year. His only friend was Roommate 4, and he just stayed in his room most days. Sometimes he could come out and stalk my neighbors (close friends of mine), or be extremely creepy towards any female that would be with me, because he thinks women like being treated like unfathomable goddesses. I literally can't say more awful things about him. He once got drunk off three bud lights and sexually harassed an RA, and got upset when she reacted with horror.

Roommate 4: Four lived with me and Three. He's a big black man. At first I thought he was totally awesome. I was rooming with them because of Four. Three was Four's best friend. Four was smart, did most of his school work, had a job, and was at NCSU on a need-based scholarship (very poor). I liked Four, I still do, but he just let Three get away with anything. He used to joke about Three going "Virginia Tech on all the motherfuckers" and how we were in the only ones that would be safe, that is until Three decided to hate me (I stopped hanging out with them, for my own safety). I'm cool with Four, but he doesn't say shit to Three about his vileness, and he actually encourages it sometimes.

Roommate 5: Current best dude friend, so it's probably going to end badly. We're moving in together soon. I found out that he basically doesn't believe in AC. Fffffffff.

7/22/2011 2:01:40 AM

Roommate 1- Freshmen year at ECU. He was from Alexandria, VA so a pretty spoiled kid. Went to an all white HS, and hated black people. Threw the N-word around pretty easily. I had to remind him on many occasions that he couldnt say stuff like that in public. Joined a fraternity and never really came around the room that much after that. Overall a good guy.

Roommate 2- Navy A-school at Charleston, SC. Neat/clean freak. Never went out, had a gf back home, so he always talked to her. Played video games all the time and worked out just as much. We kept the room pretty spotless for inspections, so it didnt bother me. Got picked up officer, havent seen him since. Good guy.

Roommate 3- Prototype training Charleston, SC. Neat/Clean freak, but pretty inexperienced in life. 20 year old Virgin but smart as fuck...guy was crazy fucking smart. Played WoW all the time, kept up with all the bills and never complained about the sluts i brought over. We got him laid because we thought we were getting his virginity taking away, but apparently he had been banging one of our instructors the whole time....(she had a fetish for virgins)...overall a good guy.

Roommate 4- 1st ever girl i lived with. OMG this girl was friggen horrible with money, always buying shit....ALWAYS...and asking if i could pay the rent sooner and sooner...i finally told her if i paid her any sooner, i would be paying two months rent ahead. It was crazy. This girl was mad slutty when she didnt have a bf...I was always meeting a new guy atleast twice a week. I didnt complain because she didnt complain about my bringing women over except for one time when she had to be at work at 4am and some girls came over after a concert and we were all drunk and being loud in the kitchen...I'll take that one. She was pretty chill, though she ended up owing me like $2000 and had the audacity to ask for her dyson vacuum cleaner because she paid a lot for it. I said you can give me my 2k and ill give you your vacuum cleaner...I never heard from her again.

Roommate 5- 2nd girl I ever lived with. I had just bought a house and was tired of living alone and she was tired of living on teh ship. She was my best friend so i told her she could move in till she went on deployment, which was like 5 months away and take care of the house while I was gone. Awesome roommate, cleaned the house, helped out with everything, took care of my dogs, always asked if she could do stuff, always asked to borrow stuff...pretty awesome...had hot friends who she would bring over all the time and drink and all that great stuff...and of course never complained about the sluts that came over and actually brought chicks over that I would like...so overall my favorite roommate of all time...I actually tried to swing orders to Guam so we could be roommates again, but alas needs of the navy said i needed to move to Silverdale, WA. BOO!

Roommate 6- My sister. She moved in to take care of the house while i was on Deployment. little did i know that she was going to drive up all my bills and not pay ANYTHING because "you have lots of money in your account, you dont need me to pay rent"...so basically i told her to just get the fuck out of the house and let the house sit till i got back home, i didnt give a fuck. Lesson learned, DONT LIVE WITH FAMILY. Worst roommate out of the bunch by a long shot...wow

I now live alone which is good for the fact that i can walk around with my johnson hanging out and all that great stuff, but it does get boring at times when your only company is a 7 month old siberian husky named bandit. But I will give him credit, he has provided me with more stimulating conversation than some of the women I have hung out with in the state of Washington.

so overall I took out of this is...Females are good roommates if she is cool and not your family.

(fyi- i never slept with any of my female roommates, that is just bad juju)

7/22/2011 3:21:00 AM

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"but if i left clean dishes in the dishwasher for 24 hours (and didn't just set dirty ones in the sink instead of unloading the clean ones) and someone bitched at me, i'd be kind of annoyed that i was being nitpicked. i am just more laid back, i guess. clean kitchen yes, but leaving clean dishes in the dishwasher for 24 hours isn't really something i get upset about (unless, like i said, a new mess was made instead of just putting the clean dishes away and moving dirty dishes to the dishwasher. which seems along the lines of what happened with Wolfy's roomie) "

If you started the dishwasher, you empty the dishwasher. And if you're at the house all the time, 24 hours is plenty of time to do it. If you look at is an isolate incident, not too big of a deal. But reading NCSUWolfy's rants...little things like this add up. So whenever something small like this happens, it's one of those, "Again!! This motherfucker."

As to the thread....I've lived with them all.

I've lived with:

- potluck freshmen year roommate, 300lb baby Huey look-a-like zoology major, watched dragonball-z 24hrs a day and played the clarinet in the marching band

- a drug dealer

- a pothead who ate everyone's food and dropped out of school

- redneck from back home that left his dip bottles everywhere

- asshole who jacked up the heat to 85 in the winter and AC down to 60 in the summer

- a midget (that was actually very interesting)

- a couple big time Campus Crusaders...also very interesting


And of course the regulars that are pretty shitty at cleaning. I'm a kitchen freak, so I like the kitchen clean at all times and I don't think that's very difficult at all.

My current roommate is on a month-to-month (I'm the homeowner)...and I don't want to ask him if he wants to renew...because the penny pincher in me wants him to stay so I can save more money...but I'm done with roommates. He's actually not that bad (generally picks up after himself)...but does a lot of the little stuff like not replacing the toilet paper and paper towels (I'll repeat again...if you empty it, you replace it). I'm pretty much the maid around the house. I know it's different because it's my first house and I've gotten pretty anal about it always being presentable...but I'd like for him to just try and clean the house...just once!

And the one that kills me about this guy...and it's not a roommate thing, just something that kills me about him in general that makes it worse because I'm around him all the time because he lives in my house...he has the worst memory in the world. Like asks me 5 times a day what I'm doing tonight. He does it just for the sake of conversation...but the problem is that he doesn't pay attention the first two times when I say, "I'm going to the Riverdogs game." First...if we're in the same room doing something, we don't have to talk about anything. Silence is okay. Second...if you're going to ask me something, put forth the effort into paying attention and attempting to remember it so that you can ask something different the next time and not annoy the fuck out of me.

It's been killing me. It sounds like I'm making a big deal out of nothing...but people who come over and witness examples are like, "holy shit, that's pretty bad."

But he's a really nice guy, so I put up with it. I just need to live alone. I've had one AMAZING roommate in my life, and he's easily my best friend. I've lived with other really good friends and it just hasn't worked out.

Roommates are tough.

7/22/2011 8:55:32 AM

umop-apisdn - that is really fucking sad and pisses me off to read it

7/22/2011 9:03:28 AM

^ Yeah, that's... It says something about her that she was able to get into grad school, but still, I would expect a little more sense out of her.
Why is your project getting so much more funding than hers (i.e. rent, etc)


I'm currently pissed at my roommate... I took the trash out twice last week, she hasn't taken it out yet, even though there's an overflowing bag of trash in the trash can and one next to it... it smells like moldy food, it's so disgusting.
I think she's pretending that those bags of trash are mine (yeah, I started the second one, but only because the first one was filled within two days of my taking it out, so that one's mainly hers), because she's got three bags (which I assume are trash, but I'm not sure) sitting by the kitchen table. If she's cleaning, that's fine, but there are currently 5 bags of trash sitting in the kitchen right now, and it's seriously disgusting.
There's caked dirt and grime all over the stove right now, and the floor. I was considering taking a picture of what the kitchen looked like yesterday... yeah, I don't clean up immediately after cooking, but I contain my messes, and I'll clean right after I eat. With her, there will be 3 different pots and pans on the stove, rice all over the counter from her rice cooker thingy, and she has something that cooks meat, which means there's drippings all over her part of the counter (this adds insult to injury as she's knows I'm a vegetarian, and the roommate who was here just for June was as well).
She's going to be moving out before I am, and she sure as hell better clean the stove and kitchen and common area so I don't get charged with fees because everything's a wreck.

Also, I think she hates me, I don't know why. We hung out last month, but since the second session started (and the other two girls moved out) she hasn't said a word to me. I say hey when I see her, but I haven't tried to do something with her or anything, and I've taken to avoiding her (which isn't difficult, because she shuts herself in her room with her tv) just as her pushy personality gets really frustrating, and it's not worth it to be her friend... we have nothing in common.
Actually, she's spoken to me two times in the last month, now that I think about it. Once was at the beginning of the month to ask if I ate her food, and once she said hey to me last week as I walked past her in the lobby downstairs... but I think the saying hey (after her totally ignoring me when I'd greeted her as she hurriedly walked past the kitchen and out the door if I was there) was just so she could drive off in front of me waiting at the bus stop a few minutes later.

I like this thread, it lets me rant about her without her knowing.

7/22/2011 9:41:27 AM

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"it lets me rant about her without her knowing"

yuffie's roommate joins tdub in 3...2...

7/22/2011 9:42:42 AM

ha...that amber baird chick has a picture of a cat on her facebook.

7/22/2011 3:32:59 PM

roommate 1 - freshman year potluck. generally a good guy but obviously super sheltered and spoiled. thought he was going to make it big walking on to the school football team, which even if it was ASU, still wasnt gonna happen for him. went pretty nuts as far as going to lameass house parties in boone goes. ended up turning into a huge pothead which actually made him more agreeable. did some cool stuff for me including making sure i didnt die one time when i got the flu like crazy and there was 16 inches of snow on the ground. convinced me to take skiing with him for our PE and lie to the instructor about where he was (sitting on the slopes behind trees smoking). had 2 friends down the hall from his HS that were basically identical to him. they always tried to get me to smoke with them which i always refused. then they all thought it was funny that my GPA was higher than the three of them combined. they liked that i never snitched on them and could care less the room was so baked out i couldnt see the TV 12 feet away. played video games constantly and always let me in on the fun. good guys. still undergrads as of last year (ive had my masters over a year now). business majors at that.

roommate 2 - sophomore year potluck. a dirty hippie wannabe that was trying to learn to play guitar. liked to shock people with his vulgarity and get thrown out of restaurants. seeing that i was immune to this as well as verbal abuse, we became best friends there for awhile. we lived together for the next 4 years and all through grad school. stop speaking after i brought a whore to his families lakehouse last summer and she targeted him specifically for destruction (i dont talk to her either anymore). kind of a lazy freeloader but moderately smart. always got super pissed at video games (which he wasnt very good at). his desire was always to beat me at everything but always fell a tiny bit short. i helped him with a great deal of schoolwork but he recently got accepted to wake forest law school (good for him).

roommate - lived with roommate 2 and i our senior year of undergrad. 3 was a friend of mine from HS that went absolutely psychotic and dropped out in march. he watched the nastiest beaver porn imaginable all the time and played old videogames like final fantasy 7. he tried to hang out with us and be cool but was the most socially awkward person ever. ive never seen such fury as when he attempted to play wii. morally opposed to alcohol although beastiality porn was alright. very racist and somewhat scary when it came to his gun/hunting hobby. always walked as fast as possible between classes with no books or supplies other than a sharpened #2 pencil clinched tightly like bob dole.

roommate 4 - awesome guy that is one of my bestfriends now. kind of weird when it comes to all things japan. he hopes to score with a furry soon. i wish he could find a job- HS english teachers not really in demand.

roommate 5 - the reason i hate bob dylan, him and his wife also hate me for the whore/lakehouse incident. he refuses to go anywhere but UNC-CH for grad school, and because he is a history major he stands absolutely no chance with his 3.0 GPA. i wish them luck.

roommate 6 - the girlfriend who is awesome. she leaves little piles of stuff laying around, clothes, napkins, pens. she also leaves a bunch of cups/glasses laying around- usually with exactly one gulp left in them. i wish she would put them in the dishwasher or reuse a cup for an entire day. also she farts alot, but so do i. its all good.

7/22/2011 4:23:47 PM

I have talked to her about much of the stuff. Some of the shit I've decided to let go until either I snap or she can't stand it anymore either. Some of the stupid shit she pulls in the field is what I think will eventually get her stuck on another project. Part of the reason I resent her so much is because of not only the fact that I've worked hard, but I know herpetology is a highly competitive field with many people willing to sacrifice a lot, unlike herself. Plain and simple, she's fucking clueless when it comes to the reptile and amphibian species in the region. I quizzed her for a long time earlier in the year before I gave up. I have books all over the house that she could learn from. She's ignored them and is now planning on taking a herpetology class in the spring semester. A full year after her field work began.

She's also 24, I'm 29. She knows how to do schoolwork, but doesn't know a god damn thing about fieldwork. It's one of those things where to a lot of people, they like the idea of it more than the reality of it all when you're faced with working in the rain, 100+ degree weather, hundreds of tick bites, thousands of mosquito and chigger bites...but for some people it's very rewarding.

Quote :

"Why is your project getting so much more funding than hers (i.e. rent, etc)"

Because I have a large government grant funding my research on government property because they're concerned with how their rattlesnakes are affecting/could affect operations. She has an interesting study that has only pulled in a few small grants...basically enough to cover her supplies. Not all research gets the same amount of money. Grants can run anywhere from hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands (and more if you've got some sexy, cutting-edge, hi-tech research proposal).

7/23/2011 8:23:42 PM

current roommate has a dog that the landlord doesn't know about. I asked him to do something with him when the landlord came over to fix a few things, and he got mad but has his ex come take the dog somewhere. Landlord comes, fixes shit, but then says he needs to get some parts and come back in a few hours. I wait til 8pm and never hear from him, so I go to the bar to get food and my roommate comes back with the dog. Landlord comes by at 10 and my roommate is chillen with his girlfriend and tells the landlord that he'll replace the garbage disposal. The landlord also sees his dog. When I get back I ask what's in the box and he tells me what happened. I say "do you know how to replace it?" and he says "yeah, but I'm not trying to". On top of that he cooks a shit ton of onions for cheesesteaks and they're piled up rotting in the sink so now I either have to call the land lord back and lose face or do it myself, which is not my responsibility. Later that night he goes out with his girlfriend all night and his dog (a pit bull, big surprise) barks/howls constantly when he's not around no matter what I do. He calls at 1am and asks me to take the dog out. I go in his room to let the dog out and he's using my main blanket!! Now I have to wash that because him and his gf fucked on it. So pissed. He's moving out in 3 weeks though so I'll just vent here. I lived alone for over 4 years and tried the roommate thing again - not working. I am such a happier person when I live alone and don't have to depend on others to do their fair share.

7/24/2011 10:02:38 AM

I wish I could make this shit up for worst roommates of all time:

#1 Moved to Durham in '07 with 3 girls. One was an 'out and proud lesbian' who would fuck her girlfriend all over the house then fight and scream at each other, wake me up at 2 a.m. on a weeknight when they came home drunk clomping up the stairs, left her newly bought sex toys on the kitchen table, and would never clean or do dishes. When she wasn't doing that she was blocking my car in the driveway with hers or blocking the laundry room with books from her failed bookstore (I never knew we had a washer/dryer until I moved out).
The other one would pull her breasts out at breakfast and rub Bag Balm on them because they were chafed.

When they tried to kick ME out for "making them uncomfortable", I was like "GONE". Refuse to talk to them to this day.

#2 40-year-old Asperger's-syndrome man who was a hermit. Subsisted off of frozen dinners and cereal and wrote novels. Almost burned down the house when he tried to boil water once. Best trait: being in the bathroom for HOURS at a time, I had to bang on the door and threaten his life if he didn't get out (we had 1 bathroom).

#3 Straight edge, hardcore-scene vegan (complete with fixie) with emotionally manipulative and abusive girlfriend who would complain she couldn't afford the rent, then never work. Also threw out my eggs and cheese from time to time and would generally harass my friends and boyfriend for drinking, eating meat, or not riding bicycles.

4) Bipolar, former drug addict, vegan roommate who threw out 6 newly slaughtered chickens from the freezer in the middle of the night. Dream was to start a rodent rescue non-profit for pet mice and rats.

5) College student who was unemployed and newly estranged from parents, probably depressed because he would lay around on the couch in the same clothes, never shower, for days, unless he went to class. Never slept in his filthy disgusting room until I grabbed him at 7 a.m. one morning and told him to get off the futon and shoved him inside his room. When cleaning up later I found half-eaten bagels where he had parked himself on the futon. Later tenants who moved into his room reported finding a dresser drawer full of USED condoms. Did he use these to masturbate? UGH.

7/24/2011 3:56:58 PM

I almost forgot about my first experience finding a room for rent off Craigslist.

I needed to move to Aiken, SC...and fast. The Aiken area has its charm, but anywhere outside is pretty much a guaranteed shithole. I was desperate, couldn't find a place for rent, so I resorted to Craigslist. Got a response from a chick who worked on SRS as an engineer and owned the house. I stopped by, the house was very neat and clean, her dog got along with mine, and the room seemed fine. The roommate was gone at the time.

So I took it. After a few weeks, realized:

She was gone for long periods of time, often. Cat litterbox would basically overflow. House reeked of ammonia. I am allergic to cats, but don't have issues when they're cleaned up after. I do not have asthma, but it was so bad with cat dander/piss/shit/etc in the house that I would have what I can only compare to asthma attacks in the middle of the night. I would wake up often and not be able to go back to sleep.

She would leave for work around 6. She did nothing to try to be quiet. But I guess it doesn't really matter, because I wasn't sleeping anyway...I was just struggling to breathe.

She had an adorable, friendly dog that somehow just put up with her neglect. I took more care of the dog than she did. To my surprise, one day she got another puppy on impulse. That puppy was fucking terrible, but not necessarily its own fault. She would keep it locked in a crate pretty much all day. Needless to say, it would misbehave whenever it got out of the cage. Often pissed in the cage and knocked over its food and water bowls on the regular. Oh yea, and it would whine and bark from the second she left for work for at least 2 hours.

There was another roommate that was cool, albeit he was Vietnamese and his Engrish wasn't the best. He could cook some fucking awesome food. But she had planned on selling her house up until the point she took me as a roommate. She then decided she didn't want to sell and got another roommate in line for his room. He didn't want to move, but she got some other Asian dude to move in who was just fuckin weird. Weird to talk to and acted weird. And he didn't cook worth a damn. But both of the roommates didn't clean their dishes worth a damn. Fuckin rotten sink smell pisses me off, but I don't think I've ever had a roommate that knows how to clean dishes after eating.

She was a nazi with regards to the utilities, since they were included in the rent for us. She would never allow anyone else to manipulate the heat/ac. Stuck on 78 in the summer and 68 in the winter. The winter wasn't bad, but I can't sleep in a bed when it's 78 fuckin degrees.

Grad school saved my ass, as much as I liked what I was doing at SRS. She let me break my lease after only 2 months. I got someone in line for the room...She bailed 2 fuckin days before she was supposed to move in. Fuck. I was very nice, since I bailed on the lease, and paid 2 extra months of rent. Plenty of time for her to scout a new roommate on her own (and so I wouldn't hear about a shitty roommate moving in). After that period lapsed, she wrote me an email asking me for help finding a roommate to take my room, since she had gotten someone who also bailed last minute. I did not respond, especially seeing as I knew no one in the area.

7/24/2011 6:39:29 PM

moving into a studio in a week suckers.

7/24/2011 7:30:15 PM

any more stories???

7/25/2011 6:38:21 PM

Not sure if I posted it already but CrazyJP threw away all my bowls. (like food bowls)

7/25/2011 7:03:35 PM

The only really bad roommate story I have is a complete whore I found off TWW classifieds. I lived with her for about 4 months. In that time she brought home about 2 dozen different dudes (including her engaged at the time, TWWer ex-boyfriend) to fuck. On nights when she wasn't bringing dudes home, she was out at clubs and bars and would sleep over at their places. I also found out she was fucking my other roommate (They left the door open and started fucking when I was out in the living room watching TV) on the nights when I guess she was too lazy to leave the apartment to find a new dick. There was even one time where she brought a guy over and he went straight into her room and they were in there for maybe 10 minutes tops. When he came out of her room and left, I said something along the lines of "He didn't last very long" and she said that they only did oral and that she needed the real deal now, so she went into my other roommate's room to try to get fucked. At least he had the self control to turn her down that night. She was also supposedly bi-curious (I read her TWW PMs a couple of times) and made out with her female friends when she was drunk. So I suppose it wasn't all bad. For some reason, she hated me and blocked me on AIM even though I only messaged her to talk about bills or rent or whatever. We never had a fight or argument at all, but she always acted like she was too good to be around me and wouldn't let any of her friends even speak to me. The last month or so was pretty tension filled just because she started acting like a complete bitch to me for an unknown reason.

7/25/2011 7:31:17 PM

^Because she wanted you to fuck her too?

7/25/2011 7:40:28 PM

useless without user name

7/25/2011 7:40:58 PM

^^^ that's juicy!!

I also had a bad TWW roommate. Things were great, 4 of us were sharing a house, pretty low rent, close to Wolfline, etc. Then the offender brought 2 squatters to live with her. Both were gang members. They slept on the living room couch / floor and stole money from me. I was delivering pizzas so I always had a lot of cash in my room. They even took the change out of my car ashtray, and later stole my digital camera. I was really naive at the time and didn't want to believe that someone would go through my stuff and steal my cash. Especially someone who was already getting free room and board from my house! So it took a long time before I finally moved out in disgust.

She also got 2 kittens, which was cute at first but they eventually got fleas. And the fleas started living in the couch. You couldn't sit on the couch without getting bitten by fleas.

7/27/2011 5:50:26 PM

One thing to add about the current roommate.

Next time she says her aunt makes the best salad in the world, respectfully decline the heaping bowl of lukewarm, wilted mishmash of various fruits, nuts and vegetables dominated by the taste of onions.

7/27/2011 10:18:41 PM

Update

Roommate officially moved Monday.

7/28/2011 9:11:58 AM

Most of the roommates I've had have been awesome and on the same page as I am as far as priorities. For 5 years, 7 of use all lived together in a huge house and never had any major issues. We each paid rent separately, which helped, and we each had a bill in our name. We had a "house fund" they we paid into that paid for stuff like toilet paper, paper plates, plastic cups, etc. Money left over at the end of the month paid for kegs for a party and a personal keg for our kegerator. We each had a chore to do and we all just did it. Never had issues. Looking back, it was like being in a frat without the douchey stigma.

After that, I moved in with a friend and his "acquaintance". I was told this dude was rich and we wouldn't have any problems. To this day, this POS owes us over 5 months of rent and bills. And he would have 3 or four of his friends get wasted and sleep on our floor nightly. Keep in mind this is after college and I have a full time job I go to. I would have to climb over them to get out of the house in the morning. They would straight up ask me for money. I would have to wait in line to use the shower because of them. Dude had a big superbowl party with all his loser friends at our house. Me and other roommate weren't having anything to do with this. He hadn't paid his share of the cable bill in months. So on our way to another superbowl party, we locked our bedroom doors and unplugged the cable connection from the outside of the house. He started texting us while we were out that he had no cable. We were LOLing all night. Fuck that guy.

7/28/2011 10:43:58 AM

i only have to spend the night at my house 6 more times before she moves out on labor day


but i am home for an hour today before leaving again and she's listening to the same song (somewhere over the rainbow) on repeat.... for the whole hour

she did alternate a few times to "roxanne"

soooo happy shes leaving!

8/14/2011 3:19:31 PM

Mine is supposed to move out Wednesday. We'll see if that happens he hasn't moved anything and has to work all week.

8/14/2011 3:29:29 PM