Annoying roomate(s)

[aephi alum]

SSS1365: You might try getting an attachment for your alarm clock, that vibrates when it's time to wake up. There's a company that makes them for deaf people (sorry, don't have the details). You put it under your pillow (don't get any ideas ) This way, if you have to get up before your roommates do, you won't bother them.

'Course, if you have evil roommates, you won't care if you wake them up at 5am when you want to go jogging (j/k)

[honeychile]

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[BAckbOwlsgIrl]

My freshman roommate was very religious.

She told me that I was going to HELL because I had short hair. It was a short bob, chin length with with a tight cut V in the back.

Her boyfriend told me called me POTTY MOUTH for cursing.

[BabyBearADPi]

Ahhh bad roommates...just recently, I lived with a girl that I didn't really know very well but I wanted to move off campus and she needed a roomie. It was a great and wonderful for a while, she never went into my room or ate my food, etc...without my permission. Well, I wanted to get a dog and discussed it with her for about a month before actually looking into getting one. I even let her help me decide which dog to get, she went to the shelter with me and everything. Well, after getting the dog home, I started crate training and she would leave my dog in her crate when she was home and I was not When she got back from a beach trip, she left a box of granola squared with chocolate on them in the floor, well we stepped out for a few minutes and left my dog on the couch. When I went back in, she had eaten 2 or 3 of the squares. What did the roommate do? Did she apologize? Nope, she started yelling at my dog for eating food she left on the floor!
Also, this girl couldn't cook AT ALL, she cooked hot dogs on the oven rack with no pan or foil and wondered why the oven always smoked and made the smoke alarms go off... When she finished cooking with a pan, she would immediately take it to the sink and run it under water (it warps the pan) and put teflon pans in the dishwasher (seriously, who does that?!).
Then, two months before our lease was supposed to end, she decided that she wanted to move into an apartment with someone else to "help her out" because the old roomie had moved out after graduation. She offered to still pay her part of our rent but considering her parents paid her bills and she quit her job shortly after making this decision, I decided to just find my own place. Needless to say, I'm happily living in a 1 bedroom apartment with my dog and happy as a clam!

[Xidelt]

Originally Posted by BabyBearADPi

Ahhh bad roommates...just recently, I lived with a girl that I didn't really know very well but I wanted to move off campus and she needed a roomie. It was a great and wonderful for a while, she never went into my room or ate my food, etc...without my permission. Well, I wanted to get a dog and discussed it with her for about a month before actually looking into getting one. I even let her help me decide which dog to get, she went to the shelter with me and everything. Well, after getting the dog home, I started crate training and she would leave my dog in her crate when she was home and I was not When she got back from a beach trip, she left a box of granola squared with chocolate on them in the floor, well we stepped out for a few minutes and left my dog on the couch. When I went back in, she had eaten 2 or 3 of the squares. What did the roommate do? Did she apologize? Nope, she started yelling at my dog for eating food she left on the floor!
Also, this girl couldn't cook AT ALL, she cooked hot dogs on the oven rack with no pan or foil and wondered why the oven always smoked and made the smoke alarms go off... When she finished cooking with a pan, she would immediately take it to the sink and run it under water (it warps the pan) and put teflon pans in the dishwasher (seriously, who does that?!).
Then, two months before our lease was supposed to end, she decided that she wanted to move into an apartment with someone else to "help her out" because the old roomie had moved out after graduation. She offered to still pay her part of our rent but considering her parents paid her bills and she quit her job shortly after making this decision, I decided to just find my own place. Needless to say, I'm happily living in a 1 bedroom apartment with my dog and happy as a clam!

Well, not everyone is a great cook or really savvy in the kitchen. But, about her leaving your dog in the crate when she was there and you were not: It was your dog, not hers. Therefore, it was your responsibility to take care of it. It's not her job to feed it, play with it, take it outside for potty breaks, walk it, etc, when you aren't there. If you were concerned about the amount of time that your dog was spending in the crate when you weren't home, perhaps you should have rethought your decision to get one. Your roommate only has to agree that it's okay for you to get a dog. She doesn't have to agree to help with its care. As for the chocolate around your dog, that was stupid and dangerous. You definitely deserved an apology for that one!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

As for the chocolate around your dog, that was stupid and dangerous. You definitely deserved an apology for that one!

Not unless she expressly told her. Not everyone knows about chocolate and animals.

[AlphaFrog]

I put my teflon in the dishwasher, along with everything else (except my cast iron skillet).

My theory: if it doesn't make it through the dishwasher cycle, I didn't need it to being with.

Ditto for the washing maching and a majority of my clothes.

[greekdee]

My sister-in-law and one of her sorority sisters lived in a dorm that housed three girls per room. One semester, they ended up in a room with a girl who didn't like sorority women and claimed to be a practicing witch. They would often come in and find her sitting in the lotus position, burning incense, playing eerie music and seeming to be in a trance. She would freak out whenever they "broke" her trance.

The three just didn't mesh at all and it was tense. One day SIL and her sorority sister came in and saw that the third roommate had left her journal out in plain view and wide open to that day's entry. SIL said she knew it was really wrong to do so, but they read the entry for the day. It was kind of staring at that them from the desk almost like the third roommate wanted them to read it.

"I still hate living with Sarah and Judy, the sorority princesses," the entry read. "BUT they have been much nicer to me ever since I cast the spell on them."

The other two had a good laugh, but started making arrangements to move out as soon as possible.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I put my teflon in the dishwasher, along with everything else (except my cast iron skillet).

My theory: if it doesn't make it through the dishwasher cycle, I didn't need it to being with.

Ditto for the washing maching and a majority of my clothes.

I'm with you on the dishwasher; my only exception is my wine glasses.

[pshsx1]

One of my roommates and his girlfriend (also a resident) are super messy. They leave a trail of dirty clothes, laundry, garbage, etc. wherever they go.

I came home one day to raw pork and an ear of corn (with the knife halfway through it) sitting on the counter. I left in the morning and the remnants of the food was still there. Days later, the cutting board migrated to the stove and sat there for a few more days.

Now, this was only a few months ago and we have all lived together for over a year now, so I'm done with cleaning up other people's mess. If you want to like in a shit hole, let's live in a shit hole.

[trisigma212]

I had pretty bad roommates freshman and sophomore year of college.

Freshman year, I lived with a home-schooled, hard-core baptist (I went to a southern christian university). She was originally pre-Pharm, but skipped all her 8 am classes (including calculus, pretty much dooming her from the start). I tried to get along with her for the first couple of months, but she pretty much alienated herself from me. Apparently if you live with someone who was home-schooled, they go batshit crazy their first year of college. She had guys in our room all the time, and even had one guy spend the night in our room on my birthday. She woke up in the morning and didn't know how she got so many hickies on her body. She drank like a fish and was often drunk. One night the girls across the hall from me knocked on my door and said "We're so sorry to hear about your roommate." Obviously I was confused because she hadn't been in all day. She apparently got so drunk she fell down a flight of stairs and got a concussion. She was in the hospital. Luckily she moved out after one semester and I had a single for the rest of the year.

Sophomore year, the year that I rushed, I lived with a sorority sister of another sorority, another music major, and a pre-Pharm girl who was Vietnamese. We had a pretty run-down apartment, but we cleaned it up and it was quite homey. We even had a piano in the living room (which was amazing because my primary instrument in college was piano, so I didn't have to get a practice room and could practice in my pj's). The music major and I got along really well- she had a long term boyfriend (now husband) who we helped decorate the entire apartment in candles and streamers outside after he proposed to her.

The sorority girl was absolutely disgusting. She had horrible acne (to the point that it would break open and pus would drain out when she talked) and facial hair. She also had TERRIBLE B.O. She didn't wear deodorant and didn't wash her towels often so our bathroom always smelled like it. She wore perfume to cover it up during the day. She was a nice girl, but her hygiene was atrocious. I know acne is not something easily dealt with, but hers was something that I've never seen before.

The Vietnamese girl was weird. She was always cooking weird food in the kitchen (most of the time it was Pho which was okay), and some of the meat she used didn't look like beef or pork or chicken or duck. I never did figure out what she was cooking. She stayed to herself, studying or talking obsessively on the phone with her Korean boyfriend. Which was apparently a huge problem for her parents because they called all the time checking in on her and asking if she was with him. One night they even came to the apartment just to see if she was there (she wasn't and told us to lie to them and say she was at Wal-Mart). She came home crying not long after because apparently her parents found her and him shacked up somewhere.

[BabyBearADPi]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

But, about her leaving your dog in the crate when she was there and you were not: It was your dog, not hers. Therefore, it was your responsibility to take care of it. It's not her job to feed it, play with it, take it outside for potty breaks, walk it, etc, when you aren't there. If you were concerned about the amount of time that your dog was spending in the crate when you weren't home, perhaps you should have rethought your decision to get one. Your roommate only has to agree that it's okay for you to get a dog. She doesn't have to agree to help with its care. As for the chocolate around your dog, that was stupid and dangerous. You definitely deserved an apology for that one!

I was clear with her that she wasn't responsible for the dog, but a dog shouldn't be left in a crate when someone is home. She agreed but didn't follow through which was what gets me, if you say you'll do something, do it. If she didn't want the dog to go potty in the apartment (at that time, the dog was still being potty trained) then all she had to do was to take her outside for all of 3 minutes. I never forced my ex-roommate to care for my dog or to pay any money for toys, food, treats, whatever. The amount of time she spent in the crate never bothered me but if someone is home, there is no need for her to be crated unless you are asleep or in the shower, if you go to any reputable trainer or website, they will agree.

[Xidelt]

Your dog = your responsibility. Expecting your roommate to take the dog outside is putting a task on her she didn't ask for. If the dog was still being potty trained, then of course she's going to leave it in the crate. She doesn't want to be responsible for cleaning up accidents around the apartment. Plus, if it's still a puppy, she shouldn't have to keep an eye on the dog when it's out of the crate to make sure it isn't chewing her shoes, getting into stuff it shouldn't. It doesn't matter what dog trainers or websites say! It's not her dog to worry about.

[Senusret I]

I currently have a roommate. I gave him his 30 day notice on July 31.

The charges:

* Rent is due on the 30th of the month, which he agreed to when he signed our roommate agreement. He has been late every month that has the 31st. It is not my problem that you are only paid on the last day of the month, you need to be responsible enough to pay the rent when it is due. When I reminded him when the rent was due, he got an attitude. That's really the main reason why I gave him notice, but there is also more.

* He broke my window fan which was less than two months old, and lied and said it spontaneously fell down.

* He had been eating my food without asking permission and lied and said "I thought you said this was for everybody." (I would never say that.)

* My walls are MAD DIRTY now. It's as though he walks around flailing about, touching everything with every body part.

* He has NEVER cleaned the living room. It's as though he has never dusted anything in his life.

* I think he's cleaned the kitchen once.

* I KNOW he's only cleaned the bathroom once because he was so poor at it, I decided to never ask him to do it again.

* He lied and said he's not a smoker, yet he smells like Richmond (no offense) every time he gets home from work.

* He has drank my alcohol and has let my friends drink my alcohol.

* He's just a piss poor human being.

I hate that I have to have a roommate at all, but I'm definitely not keeping one that messes up my home life.

I really wanted to say this to him when I gave him his notice: