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6/11/2012 9:59:12 AM

my only year in the dorm, first semester, had a creeper roommate. I had some chick coming over and I told 'hey dude, can you peace out for a while, I got a chick coming over'. He was like "yeah" and rolls out.

35 mins after chick shows up, we're making things happen, in strolls homeskillet. I"m like 'yo, can you come back?' he's all 'I'm cool'.

So me and chick we're like whatevs, and continue bangin. Then she starts getting freaked out, I look up, and homeskillet is RIGHT THERE STARING AT US.

She bailed out. Next day I changed rooms. From then on I always heard about that dude doing some creepy shit.

6/11/2012 10:00:55 AM

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"I contributed in one of the old "I hate my roommate" threads, but now I have new ones. Yay. So I was living at my field house most of the time, doing my field work. I had to get a place back in Columbia, but I wouldn't be staying there often, so I decided to go the Craigslist route. Surprisingly, it didn't start off bad. It was a couple who, surprisingly enough, also used to live and work around Raleigh. For $350/mo, I had everything covered, and it was the cheapest option for me, and the roommates weren't psychos. Well...then I guess they realized I was gone all the time and they decided to convert the office back to a bedroom for another roommate (even though they told me when I signed the lease it would only be me). They were kind enough to talk to me about it first, and with a drop in rent for me, I figured, "how bad could it get?" For several months, it didn't matter, because I was living at the field house most of the time. Then field work ended. I moved into the apartment full-time. The new roommate has something wrong with him. He's in his mid-20s, which I don't expect to be fully "responsible" as a roommate. He works on my shared-areas peeves. Trims his beard, leaving his shavings all over the fucking sink, on the soap, dangerously close to my toothbrush (tucked away in the corner). His diet is fucking horrible...consisting of ramen, pizza, burgers, etc...which translates into him taking shits probably 4-5 times or more per day. Nasty shits with no courtesy of making sure he flushes it all down. Worse yet, his ass blasting must be so tremendous that he spackles the rear of the seat. Not beneath...on top. Like where your ass might touch afterward when you take a shit of your own. How the fuck do you approach someone about shit like that?! Personality? Well, the dude is kinda weird. At some point, I guess he picked up on the fact that I didn't want to put up with him distracting me. In my room, working on my computer, he'd just walk to the threshold of the doorway and look around for a bit until I'd ask what's up. He'd then engage me in 1-sided conversation for 30-45 minutes about one of two things: Star Wars or anime. I'm not basking Star Wars, I like the movies myself...but not in any way that I want to listen to him rant about it for that length of time. What really pissed me off was the unsolicited conversations about anime. I have no interest. I would not respond, I'd continue working on my computer, and he'd just stand there and elaborate about this "brilliant" anime that had something to do with baking or some stupid shit like that. 30-45 minutes of talking about it, and me trying to ignore him. He watches anime non-stop. Worse yet...he's watching My Little Ponies. I don't know if this started recently or how long it's been on, but he's a fan. It's his screen saver. He and the only friend of his I've ever known him to have go to Comic con a couple of weeks ago in Raleigh. He comes back with a My Little Ponies pint glass. My other roommates, at one point, take him to a party, and supposedly try to get him talking to an attractive chick. He immediately starts talking to her about anime. That worked well. The most annoying part I've found is his tendency to watch stupid internet videos and laugh VERY FUCKING LOUDLY. Even til 2 in the morning, and our little bathroom is all that separates our two rooms. Actually, let me correct something. He doesn't laugh loudly...he giggles loudly. And constantly. Like there's no way for him to hold back the joy of watching pikachu do...whatever pikachu does. And my other roommate confronts him about it. "You can't tell me to stop laughing" is the response. There's other, smaller things...but I'm fucking done with this shit. I still don't know anyone in Columbia, so I'm just getting my own apartment. I cannot wait. To finally be done with the hassle of shitty roommates, albeit at a higher cost, is something that is long overdue. "

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6/11/2012 11:04:40 AM

and my obnoxious dorm room mate, everything she had was pink... literally everything



even her vacuum was pink. My brother and dad moved me in that year and they were the first ones in the room (her stuff was already moved in but she wasn't there) and they just started laughing and my dad said "good luck". She was an overwhelming person. She also would not stop calling my bf an asshole.

6/27/2012 10:23:28 AM

I really only ever had two roommates - - When I was @ WCU, my bestie and I (who were suite-mates) ensured both of us had singles due to what may have been considered irrational behavior, upon the other party's move-in... they never even bothered. (I distinctly remember the mother of one potential suitor carrying a fishbowl and stopping so suddenly that the water sloshed on her - - then turning right back around, to leave).

After I moved to Raleigh, the nail in the coffin was a roomie asking why I left dirty dishes in the extra storage unit (AKA - the dishwasher)... because she'd never had one, among other various cultural introductions to 'modern' appliances (also new, a microwave). From that point forward, I just took the solo route & called it a day.

6/27/2012 11:35:54 AM

^ lol where the hell was she from that she didn't know what a dishwasher was

^^ I automatically label people as crazy if they have an inordinate amount of pink products. This comes from dealing with crazy ass women in their 30s at the Hello Kitty store in the mall back when I worked there

6/27/2012 11:50:06 AM

shrug my gf loves hello kitty and pink. she's only somewhat crazy.

6/27/2012 12:21:33 PM

^she likes pink, but does she own EVERYTHING in pink (i.e. comforter, computer, vacuum, mouse and mouse pad, luggage, etcetc)

this girl was very well off and had 8 credit cards in her mom's name (who worked at AIG) and if it cost an extra $150 to have it in pink, she would get it. This is where I think you can draw the line, if they must own everything in pink and they are willing to blow some serious money on it, then you have crossed over to the full on crazy bitch.

I can't say I hate her, but she was really difficult to know, let alone live with.

6/27/2012 12:43:25 PM

I had a roommate who owed about 4-6 months of back rent and utils. He was having a superbowl party after not paying for the cable bill for 3 months. I unplugged the cable to his room and the living room at the splitter in the basement. He was too stupid to figure that out. Then I left to go to a different superbowl party. I made sure to lock my bedroom door while I had the superbowl blasting inside on my BR tv. As I was leaving, he was coming home with 10 other ppl and hundreds of dollars worth of food and alcohol. I asked him where he got the money for all that after he just told me that week he couldn't pay any bills.

6/27/2012 1:01:56 PM

^^ she does have a lot of hello kitty stuff like a humidifier and toaster. quite a few pink things as well, but not quite EVERYTHING.

6/27/2012 1:23:45 PM

You guys are so passive aggressive it makes me sick

6/27/2012 1:29:11 PM

There's some good stories in this thread... several years old now, but it's quite funny.
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6/27/2012 2:39:20 PM

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"I once had Christian roommates that were pissed off I was having sex with women."

in case anyone didn't notice, Spontaneous wanted to make sure you all knew he has had sex before

6/27/2012 6:12:17 PM

10^ I love the pink GUN in the picture just hanging out.

[Edited on June 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM. Reason : more ^]

6/27/2012 6:14:06 PM

not her pic

but yeah what kind of pistol is that

disregard that. taurus millenium 380

6/27/2012 8:55:13 PM

I wanted to say Ruger LC9 or something, but the trigger guard is throwing me off.

^ WIN.



[Edited on June 27, 2012 at 9:00 PM. Reason : millennium ]

6/27/2012 8:59:53 PM

I've had quite a number of shitty roommates over the years, but one in particular was the worst.

So we started off as coworkers/acquaintances at my old job while I was in grad school and we had mutual friends and he'd always seemed pretty responsible and cool, and I figured that he couldn't be any worse than my roommate who just bounced without a 30 day notice (always late on bills, smoked weed 24/7, forget to lock the door so the house got robbed, etc). I made the mistake of helping him move in and covering his share of the rent since he had just started a new job at Wells Fargo and he promised me he'd pay me back right away. Because I'm a fucking moron, I also covered his share of the utilities too, since I figured he was good for it (who works for a bank and doesn't pay their bills??), and I'm such a nice guy. He ended up moving in after Labor Day weekend.

So a month after this dude moves in, I keep asking him if he was gonna pay me back and all I hear is excuse after excuse for a few weeks: "Yeah, they're still processing my paperwork with HR", "I thought I had direct deposit, but it turns out I don't and I need to wait for the check to clear," "I had some medical bills that I had to take care of, but I swear I'll pay you the next paycheck I get", "I'm still waiting on the security deposit back" etc. So about 6 weeks in, I'm starting to get really fucking pissed that this dude owes me over $900, and all I've heard is excuses, so I decide to call him at work to find out WTF is going on. He starts laughing and tells me to chill, and that he'd left me a check that morning, and to cash it ASAP. I open the drawer to where the roommates all put checks for rent/utilities, and sure enough it was there, so I'm feeling kinda dumb. He'd even thrown in an extra $50 for 'interest', and wrote a huge THANK YOU! in the memo section...

So instead of doing the smart thing and going immediately to the bank that very instant and cashing it, I waited a day or two since I had shit to do and I didn't wanna drive to the bank. A few days after I deposited the check, I logged into my online checking account and I noticed something fucked up: not only had the checked bounced, but I'm being charged a $45 return check fee (his bank, plus mine). I'm at work, so I can't just call him up to bitch him out and figure out what the fuck is going on, so I send him a perfectly reasonable text: "Uh, hey man, your check bounced. I can't talk right now, but call me ASAP" I go back to work, expecting a phone call or text in a while, and start stewing over the whole thing.

I get home around 9PM that night (it was either a Weds or a Thurs) and still no word. So I call him. Straight to voicemail. I send him another text. No response.

Another roommate comes home, notices I'm visibly upset, and asks me what's wrong. I explain the situation and she then informs me that he won't be home til next week, because he's on vacation and taking his new GF to Disneyland. She seemed surprised I didn't know. I almost hit the fucking roof.

Here I was, out of nearly $1000, from a guy that works for a fucking bank, because he's down in Disneyland with his goddamn girlfriend he'd known for only a few weeks? He left his phone off the entire time was there, and when he got back, he apologized, but said that he knew I'd be mad and he didn't want to ruin his vacation with his amazing new GF. He gave me a wad of cash that added up to about what he owed me, minus the bounced check fees. He proceeded to tell me that from then on, he'd be on top of his shit and that there wouldn't be any more problems. I was still furious, but what exactly could I do at this point? Try to have him evicted? I never made him sign a contact and he got along with everyone else in the house...

So for about a month or two, he cleaned up his act. He paid me on time and was even really cool about buying everyone Chinese food one night and leaving the fridge stocked with beer a couple of times. It's kinda hard to be mad at someone when they don't owe you money and they are generous like that. I still didn't trust him, and deep down I wanted him out, but my other roommates thought I was overreacting. I bit my tongue and tried to give him another chance.

By this point it's shortly after Thanksgiving (BEFORE rent and utilities are due) and everybody except for me seems to love this guy. He's helping set up decorations, coming up with ideas for a holiday party, and he and his GF even buy Xmas stockings for the house and put them up by the fireplace. Personally, I think he's full of shit, fake as hell, and an inconsiderate SOB, but if I say anything to anyone it just makes me look like an ass and a crybaby. "So what, it took him a while to pay you back? Let it go...He's done a lot of nice things for the house!" is probably the response I would've gotten if I'd said anything. It really pissed me off that I'd put myself in a position like this, but I couldn't say anything else. Yet.

So sometime before Christmas, the dude hasn't paid me any utilities for Dec ("Oh shit, I forgot", "I'll pay you cash tomorrow, I swear" ), and the landlord calls to tell me he's only paid half the rent. Immediately, I tell my other roommates, who seem genuinely shocked that this is going on. They think of a list of possible excuses for this 'odd' behavior, suggesting that maybe it has to do with his medical bills (he'd told everyone that he had some rare form of cancer) or that something bad had happened to his mom (he told everyone she was disabled). NOPE. The motherfucker left for Disneyland AGAIN with his GF without telling anyone!

When he got back, not only did he drink all of the booze I paid for in the liquor cabinet one night with his friends while I was out, he had the nerve to justify his actions by saying that he only had a few weeks to live and that he wanted to buy his gf Xmas presents and that there were more important things in life than rent and bills

Luckily, people began noticing that NONE of his stories seemed to add up. He told one roommate he had liver cancer, and the other that he was born with a rare stomach disease that had turned into cancer. In either case, the motherfucker drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney

At this point, the landlord was furious when I told him that it was a constant thing, and he gave me the right to give him the boot. But before I even had the pleasure of serving the dude an eviction notice, the dude informs us all that he has to move out to "take care of his mother on disability". That weekend, he bounces, leaving half of his shit in the garage, and his room completely disgusting and filthy. My roommate had to pay to have it professionally steam cleaned since he'd been smoking cigarettes in the house- even though we had repeatedly told him not to...

As it turns out, the dude had lost his job a few weeks before and has a HUGE gambling problem and pill addiction. His GF dumped him a few weeks after he moved in with her too. No clue where he is today or what his deal is, but I can safely say he was the worst roommate ever.

6/27/2012 9:07:17 PM

HOLY FUCKING NEW MEME

6/27/2012 9:07:42 PM

haha yeah

unintentional or not, it works!



[Edited on June 27, 2012 at 9:19 PM. Reason : .]

6/27/2012 9:18:45 PM

I've posted these somewhere else on here, but the "highlights" over the years were...

1) the "lesbian" who constantly fought, fists and all, with her girlfriend outside my bedroom at 2 am, left
open boxes with dildos in them, and who I never saw clean the house once...then she gets mad at me for asking her to call the landlord to unclog the shower. She also had a failed bookstore and the remains of it were strewn around our house, to the point I never knew we had a washer/dryer until I moved out of the damn house. She was also in a band with one of my friends, and broke that up via the Independent, and got into a huge screaming match with him at a show when he started talking shit about her, rightfully so, to whoever he felt like.

She's now married expecting twins with an asshole who is her equal. She moved to New York briefly, but unfortunately, she's back in town.

C-R-A-Z-Y.

2) the young 18 year old whose parents kicked him out. When he wasn't doing drugs or not showering, he took up residence on the living room couch, and only moved to eat bagels. His bedroom was literally a garbage pile, we found mouse droppings, rotting food in the mini fridge, and used condoms in a nightstand when we kicked him out a few months later. I stole his bike in retaliation for that hell.

3) Crazy bipolar vegan who was opposed to us slaughtering chickens we had raised (damn annoying roosters), and promptly stole 6 chicken carcasses and buried them somewhere in Raleigh. Never did find them. This girl also wanted to start a rescue for pet mice.

4) Heroin addict who was also an alcoholic and a dominatrix, we found used needles much later in an upper cupboard when we were cleaning out a room...good thing no one got accidentally stabbed and got Hep C or HIV from that (I'm not sure of the longevity of virus in needles).

5) Autistic roommate who was brilliant in his fields of study (constitutional law), but instead chose to be a writer and locked himself in his room after spending exactly 1.5 hours in the bathroom every night. In our 1 bedroom house. This did not go over well with me.

Needless to say, when the last roommate we had, announced his hipster activist girlfriend had Crohn's disease and would be staying a lot with us, I was like "Holy shit, she's normal!"

6/28/2012 12:40:02 PM

wow, you people know how to pick em.

6/28/2012 12:58:19 PM

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" I logged into my online checking account and I noticed something fucked up: not only had the checked bounced, but I'm being charged a $45 return check fee (his bank, plus mine). "

I'm not a deadbeat so I don't know how these things work but it seems like the bank should be charging him a return check fee, not the person who got bamboozled with a bad check.

6/28/2012 1:01:36 PM

wouldn't do them much good to charge the one writing bad checks. he's already broke. blood from a turnip and such.

ever notice the signs in stores about charging customers a returned check fee? that's because they're trying to recoup what the bank just charged them.

6/28/2012 1:17:19 PM

Yeah I got hit with a returned check fee once. A tdubber wrote me a bad check for $20.

6/28/2012 5:23:27 PM

Where do you find these horrible people for roommates?

6/28/2012 5:31:44 PM

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"I'm not a deadbeat so I don't know how these things work but it seems like the bank should be charging him a return check fee, not the person who got bamboozled with a bad check. "

you seriously don't know how this works?

6/28/2012 5:39:59 PM

When you live in collective houses with cheap rent, you don't realize until much later how much mental illness abounds. And, how crazy most women truly are.

The most normal roommates, by far, were probably my dormmates in college. Both were Catholic virgins, except the sophomore year one got knocked up by her boyfriend in the Air Force and got married. Oops.

The best one I ever had was probably the Duke law student who never complained about anything, and was really into rock climbing. Cleaned up after himself, provided good weed, rode a bike to class, and had a really hot girlfriend that all my guy friends loved. A++

6/28/2012 9:12:32 PM

well another thing to factor in is that housing in big cities (I live in the SF Bay Area) is insanely expensive. Unless you're making $50k+ in your twenties, you're going to have multiple roommates at some point. I think the least I ever paid for a room was around $550 excluding utilities...

With that said, it's not always easy to discern who's a deadbeat/psycho/drug addict right from the start. These people are trained to blend in and appear normal so that they can float from place to place. It's actually pretty sad when you think about it

6/28/2012 9:58:17 PM

^^^ I've never had to deal with bad checks so I've never really thought about it lol.

6/28/2012 10:08:46 PM

One of my roommates at Wolf Creek let her bf's drunk friend pass out on our couch sometime after I had already gone to bed. In the middle of the night, while I was asleep, this dude bursts into my bedroom freaking out and then pukes all over my room. I had no idea who he was or what was going on, and she treated me like I was crazy for not just going back to sleep and ignoring it. She transferred to UNC not long after that - which explained why she always acted like she hated being at State.


A high school roommate of mine was craaaazzy dirty. Me or the third girl in that room would find old and crusty underwear of hers tucked behind some furniture or in the corner of the closet. We spent a weekend disinfecting that place floor to ceiling after she moved out, and it still felt kinda


My first roommate in Metcalf was probably the worst. She'd be laying in her bed with the guy from the floor above ours (whom she was having sex with on the regular) while talking on the phone with her boyfriend back home. She actually told that poor guy to start saving for the ring she was going to want. I think he even came to visit once, after she moved across the hall. Not sure if any of the other girls bothered to tell him she was cheating the whole time. Oh, and she broke my $3k laptop and trashed some of my stuff after a debacle at the TKE house one night when her boy toy from upstairs stole some of the guys beer. That was an interesting night

6/29/2012 7:58:26 AM

bttt

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7/8/2012 8:16:49 PM

I've been living with my g/f (now fiance) since I was a sophmore in college. Glad I've never had to experience any of this.

7/8/2012 10:12:02 PM

never had to experience life either, sounds like

7/8/2012 10:22:07 PM

I was pretty fortunate with roommates throughout the college years, other than the usual messy issues.

My most recent roommate was probably the worst though. I was renting a house about 4 years ago and lost my job, so I needed to rent out one of the rooms to help ends meet. Found the guy on Craigslist. He rarely left his room, but definitely kept it and his bathroom filthy as shit. Took me forever to clean both when he moved out. He was never on time with the rent either.

But the worst of all.......one day he just walked in with a puppy. Didn't bother to run it by me first, just went and bought a puppy. I was only approved to have 1 dog by my landlord (my dog), and I had paid a $200 pet deposit. So this douche not only put me in the position to lose my deposit with his dog chewing up carpet and pissing all over the place, but put me at risk of eviction if the landlord found out.

7/9/2012 11:52:27 AM

aren't pet deposits non-refundable? or does it depend on the landlord?

7/9/2012 11:56:20 AM

some are, some aren't. depends on the terms of the lease.

7/9/2012 12:03:03 PM

^ this. Mine was refundable

7/9/2012 12:06:17 PM

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"well another thing to factor in is that housing in big cities (I live in the SF Bay Area) is insanely expensive. Unless you're making $50k+ $150K+ in your twenties, you're going to have multiple roommates at some point. I think the least I ever paid for a room was around $550 excluding utilities..."

A friend of mine that rents houses on here, has a house called the refugee camp. Reading through the stories on this page sound like a page from that novel. One of his latest was crackhead that stole his TV and X-Box everything claiming they were at his girlfriend's. When they discovered a pawn receipt in his room they got the cops involved. The guy's dad gave them cash for all the items taken to keep the son out of the place. The guy that lived in that room before was jokingly called, basement crackhead. Little did they know the next guy would be a really, real crackhead

[Edited on July 9, 2012 at 12:52 PM. Reason : a]

7/9/2012 12:41:35 PM