Roommate horror stories? - Page 5

AXJules · #61 03-12-2003, 01:29 PM

LOL FAB I was thinking the same exact thing. We must attract these people or something.....can't Mizzou make a special dorm for them?

XOMichelle · #62 03-12-2003, 10:24 PM

Another question-
Has someone ever peggd *you* as a bad roommate????
-M

josie · #63 03-12-2003, 10:33 PM

my roommate is a major cocaine dealer to all the indie rock/mod kids in the allston-brighton area of boston.

the crazy things us kids do for money while in college!

he's non-greek, by the way.

xok85xo · #64 03-12-2003, 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by AXJules
I cannot believe I'm posting this.
When people ask why I was banned I'll just point to this thread.
-IF YOU GET GROSSED OUT EASILY, DO NOT READ THIS. THIS MIGHT BE THE SICKEST THING YOU'VE EVER READ. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.-

Ok so one of my sisters is notorious for having bad luck with roommates. She's very picky now, and has this questionaire thing you have to fill out if you wanna live with her. Here's why:
Our freshman year, she lived in the nicest dorm on campus. Her roommate, Renee, was super trashy. She was missing a tooth in the front, had greasy greasy hair, and smelled pretty bad (I met her).
It wasn't long before Britt knew that Renee was not her type of person to live with. Renee constantly burped, farted, whatever, and made no apologies about it. For some reason, even though Britt always picked on her, Renee constantly filled her in on stuff she didn't want to know, including sexual fetishes, like the fact that she liked to get peed on.
One night, Renee was like, Britt can I have the room to myself tonite? My fiancee is staying over.
Britt wanted to be nowhere near the room, so she agreed.
The next day, Britt came back and got a detailed description of how Renee had done it doggystyle for the first time last nite and she didn't like it b/c, well, it made her stomach uneasy.
The story ended quickly, however, b/c Renee had such bad cramps from it being 'that time of month' that Britt had to take her to the hospital.
Fast forward a month- they hate each other, Renee moves back to her trailor (literally) w/her fiancee. She's still keeping all of her stuff in Britt's room, though, b/c she's paying for it. (We still can't figure out how she swung paying for both locations, but whatever). There is this sickening smell in the room, and Britt cannot figure out where its coming from. She washes and cleans everything, has the room 'scent bombed' by res. life, and even looks in the walls and ceiling tiles for dead animals. No luck.
Finally, in a last ditch effort, Britt takes off Renee's comforter and sheets to wash them, thinking it's B.O.
She has a heart attack when she discovers a mattress full of brown, red, and yellow stains. Do the math- doggystyle position + being on her period + stomach problems + getting peed on= a stench that stank up an entire room.

And that is why I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever resort to living with a roommate I don't know. It really could be that bad.

excuse me while i pick my jaw up off the floor. holy schnikes

ZTAMiami · #65 03-13-2003, 12:08 AM

AXJules:
Really gross! When you say doggy style I ASSume you mean anal sex, right?! The position alone wouldn't make you lose control of your bowels.
But, oh, how disgusting!

adduncan · #66 03-13-2003, 12:34 AM

Yowza...........

These are some pretty bad ones.

I admit, when I was in college, I was not a good roommate. I was an only child growing up and did not know how to live with people. So I can tell you, I drove some people off that could have been good friends w/ just that whole "loner" and "don't bother me" mentality. I learned a lot later on--especially what I missed.

With that said.......

Anyone else have a roommate that was convicted of conspiracy to commit Murder 1?

That was one of my sophomore year roommates. Let's just say there were problems at home. In addition to stealing copies of the forms I used to replace a lost drivers license, she and her cousin beat her father and stepmother to death, and her kid brother w/in an inch of her life. She didn't come back junior year, and has at least 20 years to go on her sentence.

Thanx to whoever revived this thread--there but for the grace of God go any of us!

Adrienne (PNAM-2003)

Jadey28 · #67 03-21-2003, 05:53 AM

Man these stories are horrible! And I thought my roommate was bad because she leaves the cleaning up to me. I guess I don't have it that bad!

On that note, I am moving in with my closest sister in a week. We were smart and laid down rules so we won't be fighting over the stupid things. I hope I won't be posting any horrible stories about our living situation!

Jadey

SapphireSphinx9 · #68 03-21-2003, 08:10 AM

Oh, but let me grace you with my roommate from hell stories! Oh where do I begin?

(Oh, I should let you know, I only lived in the dorms from May 7th-November 11th---of the same year!)

Ok, my first roommate was a friend of mine. And was really nice in letting me stay in her dorm, since I got kicked out of my house that same night. I stayed with her for about 3 weeks, until the Summer Housing Track started (we can stay on-campus year round). She wasn't bad... Sometimes annoying, and had some habits that I wasn't use to... But all in all, she was a real help to me, when I needed it.

Since we lived in an apartment (we have apt. not dorms) we had another roommate. Oh jeez! This girl... If she was home, she would stay in her room. Never showered. Never turned on the fan after she would unload in the bathroom. Never cleaned anything... One day, my friend was over (she lived next door to us) and opened my roommates door. Why was there a stinch that came lofting out of the room, that made everyone sick? And she slept there?! YUCK!

Ok, so then I moved down stairs... My roommates in the other room were alright. They blew up a bag of popcorn in my brand new microwave! I mean it was brand new... Had just bought it an hour earlier. And they didn't even clean it up! Yeah, so that's about all the problems I had with them.

Then there was my roommate... Well when I was moving my boxes into the room, I noticed that she was playing some sort of Spanish music... She is Mexican. Since I understand enough Spanish to get by, I started listening to the lyrics. To my amazement, it was saying, "matando gueros" which I pretty much took to be 'killing the whites.' Since I'm white, I took that offensively. (If that's not what it meant, please someone let me know... don't wanna be thinking that she really wanted to kill me!

)

Oh, but there's more... (and this is extremely paraphrasing the whole story... if you were there, you woulda died... So much drama!) We always had guys at our house---in a friendly way, like playing cards and stuff---but on a few occasions, when the guys would get too drunk, and pass out, she would take them into our room to sleep it off. The guys would wake up to find her on top of them... One of the guys was a virgin, and ended up pressing charges against her. (did she get kicked out? oh no... there's more)

The other guy that had this unfortunate encounter with her ended up becoming really close with me. (I didn't know about her lil stunt she pulled) We started dating, and getting pretty serious. That's when she told me what she did, and how she thinks that she might be pregnant with his baby!

WHAT?! So yeah, we ended up breaking up for many reasons... but her being one of them. (BTW, she wasn't pregnant, she was just jealous that I was with him... and she wasn't)

Ok, so this all happens within a couple of months... So by the time summer comes to an end, I've pretty much had it with her. The last string was when she told my friend that she had that first guy's info...(the one that pressed charges) Like ss#, license #, address, etc. and how she logged into the school's database, to see what classes he was taking, because she wanted to enroll in the same classes, so she could torment him.

I had enough... I stopped talking to her, and moved into the other room, once my other roommates moved out. She caught me in the hallway, getting ready to go to jury duty one morning (at like 6:30) and started screaming at me about why I didn't want to be her friend anymore. I just let her scream, as I finished getting ready, and finally said "Because you're a psycho!" when I walked out the door. By the time I got back that afternoon, she was gone.

The sad thing is about this whole situation... She has a 4 year old son. Poor thing's got a psycho for a mom! Thank goodness he lives with the dad.

Yeah, so my other roommates where pretty cool after that. I didn't really care how bad they were, because no one could be as bad as her...

I moved home that November, and that's all she wrote.

~Beth

SapphireSphinx9 · #69 03-21-2003, 08:16 AM

Oh I forgot to tell you the best part... She thought that she could see dead people! Really though, she honestly believes that there was a woman sitting on the end of my bed one night. I was like, "Um, ok... there's no one sitting here." And that there was a man in our living room area. She made me go and turn on all the lights before she would walk out into the room, to get some water.

Yeah, great stuff, huh?

~Beth

CSUSigEp · #70 06-28-2005, 12:30 AM

My roommate is messy as shit. He honestly just doesnt give a shit about anything or anyone. Today i was watching him cook in the kitchen and he opened a beer, let the bottle cap stay where it landed, and then took a knife out of the drawer and left the drawer open. This was all within 4 seconds! He always leaves his dishes in the living room and never cleans up anything unless we all team up on him and force him to. He always leaves his clothes in the dryer for about a week, its so annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

christiangirl · #71 06-28-2005, 07:42 PM

Wow, SapphireSphinx9, you've got issues...ever consider a single? These stories are a lot to measure up to, but I'll give it a shot:

So, I lived in an on-campus apartment, 6 girls to an apartment, but we each have our own rooms. It's a pretty cool set-up, but there's some drawbacks, starting with somebody we'll call K. K moved in when one of my roommates moved out and I knew her by face, but not much else. Turns out she's got a boyfriend who was in our apartment CONSTANTLY. Of course that pisses me off b/c I don't want to come out of my room in a towel or in my bra first thing in the morning, on my way to the shower, to see him coming out of MY steam-filled bathroom saying, "It's all yours, I'm done." The bathtub was ALWAYS dirty after he started coming over, there was a jet-black ring around the bottom, including the edges of the shower curtains (and we were never able to get that off). K had the nerve to complain that nobody would clean the tub when it's dirty, well it didn't start turning black until her man starting using it! I mean really, visiting's fine, but come on, he sleeps here, bathes here, and has food in our fridge! BROTHA LIVES HERE!!! If you want him to live with us, just ask us it's not that hard. Then to top it all off, her bed was in a corner, and on my side of the wall, my desk and bed met. So it seemed like one too many times, whether I was studying or trying to sleep, all of a sudden there'd be this "scritch-scratch" sound on my wall. The first time, I thought it was coming from the window, but then realized it was coming from the corner. I put my ear to the wall, thinking there was some animal inside the wall or something, only to hear ragged breathing and moaning, on top of the scratching. I tried to ignore it at first, but in between scratches, there's these huge THUDS---girlfriend was punching the wall. I mean these were hard, my wall shook like there was an earthquake going on. She kept hitting it until the light fixture kept flickering and then FELL OUT OF THE WALL. I was so pissed, I kind of lost myself after that. I put my ear to the wall again, and listened until I could tell by her breathing that I was right next to her head. I RAISED MY FIST AND BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THAT WALL!!! There was absolutely no mistaking that message, they shut up sooooo fast. I know, that was so wrong, but it was too funny and I was able to finish studying. It didn't stop there, though, after the second time, I politely told her to keep it down b/c all that noise was interrupting my study/sleep time. She obliged for a few weeks, then went right back at it. But she started turning up the TV really loud, so I couldn't hear the scratching or moaning, but all that did was piss me off that my light and wall were shaking AND I couldn't concentrate because her movie was playing through the wall. I came home late one night and they were going at it so loudly that I could hear them from the kitchen and that's when I just felt disrespected. What if I'd had company over? I slipped her a note under her door telling her that either she move her bed to a different wall and keep it down or I'd file a complaint with our community apt. assistant. (I probably wouldn't have really, but it did the trick). The next day, she moved her bed to the other side of the room, the wall that's against the bathroom. I could still hear them if I went pee in the middle of the night, but I didn't complain, it was good enough for me, at least I could sleep.

JupiterTC · #72 07-03-2005, 10:45 AM

I was fortunate enough to have wonderful roommates. They had their own quirks, but we always managed to work through them. But I definitely had some bad suitemates/apt. mates.

Sophomore year I lived in a co-ed dorm room with my friend Julie. We shared a bathroom with the room next door, which were our friends Caitlin and "Sonya". Sonya had a boyfriend who was in the Navy and was stationed in VA Beach, but you wouldn't have thought that because he was over all the time.
There were a few times when Caitlin tried to fall asleep, and Sonya and her bf were going at it while Caitlin was in the same room! They would also use the shower constantly, and Sonya would use up all of my shaving cream while using the shower with her bf. We've talked to Sonya several times about it, but her excuse was that she "couldn't help it" or she "couldn't control herself". So whenever the bf was in town, Caitlin slept over in our room.

The two eloped about four months ago, and didn't bother to tell anyone, not even their parents.

christiangirl · #73 07-04-2005, 03:45 AM

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Originally posted by JupiterTC
There were a few times when Caitlin tried to fall asleep, and Sonya and her bf were going at it while Caitlin was in the same room!

And I thought mine was bad...

She should've just started heaving textbooks at them while they were at it and said, "You were offending me and I just couldn't control myself."

UKTriDelt · #74 07-04-2005, 12:23 PM

I had the same odd roommate for two years in a row, which was a horrible idea. She is an extremely emotional girl, and on a regular basis I'd come back to the dorm in the middle of the day to find her sitting in the dark, watching something sad on TV and crying. She would also refuse to let any of my friends in the room if she wasn't wearing makeup, so after a while I would only come into our room to sleep or grab something out of there.

While she never did the whole "have sex with her boyfriend while the roommate's sleeping three feet away," she did let him spend the night on occasion, and it was horrible. The man's snoring could've woken the dead, and he made some weird gurgling noise all night that was disgusting (I think it was related to his acid reflux). Needless to say, when he was over, I would either sleep at a friend's, or sleep with my headphones on.

After my plans to live with a good friend didn't work out for my sophomore year, I didn't have much choice but to live with this girl again. Big mistake. In the dorms freshman year, she would keep stuff piled on her side of the room, to where you couldn't move around on her half of the room. This should've tipped me off, not to mention the fact that she came from a less than great family where no one cleaned ever. I was still shocked at how gross the girl was when we moved into our new apartment! She would leave bowls of cereal in her room for months on end, not clean up after the cat, and pile dishes up in the sink (rather than using the perfectly good dishwasher). I would come home and she'd have all kinds of candles lit to cover up her nasty stench... why not just clean?

To give her a little taste of her own medicine, I stopped staying there, coming home only for the occasional meal and to change and shower. I never took out the trash or put away my dirty dishes for about a month (this was after about 6 months of cleaning up after her). I think she finally got the point, but her and I don't speak anymore.

ETA: I'll be living with two sorority sisters this coming year, so things will be much much better!

Stef the Pef · #75 07-12-2005, 02:14 AM

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Originally posted by KappaStargirl
this is me taking dictation from KappaStarBoy, who really needs to get his own account

"I had a roommate who didn't like to wear clothes. One time my friend Amanda was coming over to study chemistry 'cause we had an exam the next day and I asked 'Naked Roommate' as he was referred to by my friends...i'm serious, we called him that when he wasn't around...I said to him 'Andrew, Amanda's going to be coming over so we can study for our exam tomorrow.' And he looked at me and just said 'I'll just stay under the covers. The end."

LOL, I had a friend whose roommate last year was like that. When another girl and I went up to his room once, his roommate was sure enough, on his bed, naked, covered with just a sheet, with his eyes glued to World of Warcraft II. Apparently, he didn't do much else, and he even missed class just to lay around naked and play World of Warcraft II all day.

My bad roommate situation was just a complete mismatch--my roommate was in a different honors program than me, but it was the same one that most of the girls on our hall were in. Anyway, I had these chicks who made up a floor-wide clique in and out all the time, asking me "is [roommate] there?" Grr, arrgh. Plus, I'm a study-in-the-room person, and of course, I'm going to get extremely PO'ed when the hall clique decides to play with crayons outside MY DOOR that's on MY HALF OF THE ROOM on the day before my big huge Spanish test. Plus, I got stuck with a light sleeper. Pardon me, I live in the honors dorm and I can't work in my own room, and my roommate, after going all year probably talking who-knows-what behind my back to the hall clique (who to me, were all acquaintances because I never had any of their classes and their honors college program had WAY less work during Freshman year), decides to really make a big deal out of the fact that she can't sleep at all when I use the computer at night (because every insomniac should know that typing across the room is noisy? heck no!) the WEEK BEFORE FINALS.

And it was just a mismatch to begin with--liberal arts/science, hard honors freshman load/light freshman honors load, football is life!/"I have homework," heavily involved in campus orgs/"honors and some Bible studies are more than enough," never works out and hates the smell of sweat/always works out, etc. We hardly had any interests in common at all, so that didn't help the situation at all.

I'm the one who got blamed for everything--"you should study somewhere else or go to bed." What the banana? That's why I applied to live in the honors dorm, stupid. If she'd have been ballsy enough to really bring up the fact that this wasn't working earlier, I could have switched rooms to a fellow insomniac or at least a more flexible person. I felt like I was always kicked out of my own room, plus when I had friends from out of the dorm over to do anything, I hated being on the first floor at all, so I was stuck in the lobby. When I invited over an environmental major to help me figure out the questions for that final, I was interrupted with friends' random comments on the MRS Degree because we were out in the lobby, there for the pestering.

Needless to say, I spent many a night at the end of last year sleeping on the floors in friends' rooms who were a little more flexible about studying/light/noise and who didn't live on the cliquey hall who probably heard up and down how much of a weird b I was.

(Plus the environmental major was kind of cute! Nooooo!!!)

ETA: a funny story from my high school English teacher, a former RA at WSU:
Sometimes while she was doing rounds in the dorm, she would notice this fellow who had no rhythm while going at it at all. It was the room directly above hers in a co-ed dorm, and from time to time, she'd notice a "thump..........thumpthump...thump...thumpthumpthu mp................THUMP.....thumpTHUMPthumpthump" from above. Must've been painful for the poor chick with him!