What's your worst experience living with a roommate?
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Oh god, are you sitting down?\n\nMy freshman year roomate was heavily into drugs, drinking, and having sex while i was sleeping on the other side of the room.  I was like "ok whatever we're in college and she's havin fun." But things got bad once she started trying to SELL illegal substances...and broke Scarface's number one rule ("never get high on your own supply...") thereby becoming a coked-out, violent, disrespectful nut job.\n\n...Soph year...lived w/ a girl who was one of my good friends at the time.  The I came to realize that the reason we were so compatible wasn't b/c we had so much in common, but b/c she was trying to BE ME.  Copied EVERYTHING from bedding, to accessories, to perfume, to mouth wash.  I couldn't purchase a single d**ned thing w/o her buying the exact same item the next day.  Started listening to all this obscure music I like.  Declared the same major as me.  Then she got a boyfriend and attached herself to him like lichen to a rock.  Oh and then she adopted his Boston accent and love for the Sox, she's from the south.\n...aside from that, she was a slob and never cleaned the bathroom and left her crap everywhere - not that it would affect her ever b/c she would leave the mess and go to her boyfriend's place.\n\n\nNeedless to say, I live ALONE now.  And that's just the way I like it!!!
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Don't do it till you or she or they move out. I've been there, my friend, and heartache is infinitely better than angry housemates x
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Annoy Your Roommate\n\nRepeat thoughtfully the last word of everything your roommate says (e.g. Your roommate: "How are you doing today?" You: "Today.... Today......") \nContinuously refer to your roommate using terms of endearment (sweetcheeks, honeybuns). Slap him/her in the face if s/he ever does the same. \nKill several people. Store the corpses underneath your roommate's bed. Call the police. \nBecome Forrest Gump. \nIncessantly rant about the government's attempts to control our minds by poisoning us with Dihydrous Monoxide. If your roommate tries to explain that Dihydrous Monoxide = H2O = Water, exclaim "HA!! THAT'S WHAT THEY /WANT/ YOU TO THINK!!!!" \nIntensely study the complete list of ways to annoy your roommate. Form a discussion group with your roommate. Give tests. \nStart a food drive around campus to feed your roommate. Comment often on how fat s/he's getting. \nRead nothing but "Human Calculator" books. Consistently make mistake's on simple math (e.g. "2 + 2 = ..3? No, 5! No.......") \nSwitch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class. \nTwitch a lot. \nPretend to talk while pretending to be asleep. \nSteal a fish tank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them. \nBecome a subgenius. \nInject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG. \nLearn to levitate. While your roommate is looking away, float up out of your seat. When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin. \nSpeak in tongues. \nMove you roommate's personal effects around. Start subtlely. Gradually work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he owns to the ceiling. \nWalk and talk backwards. \nSpend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in the middle of your room. Number them. \nSpend all your money on Transformers. Play with them at night. If your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face, "They're more than meets the eye." \nRecite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man, "Casablanca,") almost inaudibly. \nKill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your performance art class (or hit him/her with the wrench). \nChain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you food. \nGet a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off when you are. \nAsk your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of weeks." \nFake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come, pretend nothing happened. \nEat glass. \nSmoke ball-point pens. \nSmile. All the time. \nBurn all your waste paper while eyeing your roommate suspiciously. \nHide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash can. When you get hungry, root around in the trash. Find the food, and eat it. If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry, demand that s/he reimburse you. \nLeave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list of grievances. \nShoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and then look away quickly. \nDye all your underwear lime green. \nBye three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet. \nHide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse him/her of stealing it. \nRemove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due). \nWhenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then stand up. Announce that you are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this up for three weeks. \nArray thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser. Refuse to discuss them. \nPaint your half of the room black. Or paisley. \nWhenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start with "Didja ever wonder why...." Be creative. \nShave one eyebrow. \nPut your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under there and pile your dirty clothes
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find a new place, leave the roommate with no warning, just pack up and move on, screw them!
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Wow, That sounds like you had a pretty crazy night. My worst date would have to be with this guy name Eric. We had gone out to eat and then he took me back to his gay brother's house and we walked in and his brother was on the couch having sex with some guy. His brother started yelling at him and everything and they got in this fight and they went off into the back bedroom and left me there and I ended up having to call my friend to come pick me up. I never went out with that jerk again.
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Good Luck and if you come by any solutions, please let me know, for some reason my apartments lease to a bunch of non-working hood rats who party all night long. And aparently the lady living above me is actually mentally disturbed. (no kidding)
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The one I work for now is the best.  We get along great.  The worst I've had was at my last job.  She was backstabbing bitch and she talked about everybody then acted like their best friend to their faces.  She even talked trash about her best friend, the assistant manager.
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That is tough... I've been there done that. At one time or another I have had:\nMy Sister and her husband\nMy Brother, his wife and their 4 kids\nand then\nMy sister in-law and her two kids.\n\nAll varying in length of stay from 6 weeks to 6 months.\n\nJust this past Jan I had a friend that had been living with us since Aug move out.\n\nIt can be tough..\n\nWhy do you ask?
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Gosh my mother in law moved in with us last year and was here for 9 months 10 days. The day she moved out was awesome. I like the lady but can not live with her.. Get out and get your own place.
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nothings wrong with you, you're roommates.\n\nOften friends do not make the best roommates, though kudos to those who do.
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Mine was ONE particular event. I came home from work, and she had moved out, and moved in with another guy! All in the same day!!
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Hid under their (brothers) beds, and after they were tucked in for the night I reached up and grabbed a leg and held on... they screeched like little girls.\n\nAlso blew pepper at another brother.. which he thought it was my sister, so he got her back instead..she can't stand pepper even today.\n\nKilled my sisters favorite stuffed animal by giving it a bath in the washing machine... all the insides became outsides.. until our mom performed surgery and restuffed and sewed it. I was so scared she'd hate me..Thank God Mom was able to fix it all.
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You don't have to be good friends to be roomates.  Since the friendship is not working out, plan on going your own way.  Don't expect her to invite you to places and don't tag along.  Find your own friends and spend time with them.  When you need to be alone, leave the room.  Take a walk outside, or go to another friend's room for a while.  \n\nIn order to make things more tollerable, sit down with her and discuss some ground rules.  You will have to compromise on some things.  Maybe no naked guys in the room would be a good rule.  I'm sure there are rules for the dorm about guys and girls mixing.  Review those rules with her.   Try writing out a contract that both of you will sign.\n\nAbove all else, realize that you are roomates and that doesn't mean you have to be best friends.  When I was in college, I didn't socialize with my roomates at all outside of the room.  I do have to admit that they were much more respectful than your roomate is so life was a lot easier.
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I don't but I once had a hoochie roommate that would do it all of the time. like EVERY weekend on Fri And Sat night plus all the dudes she would meet on-line and invite over during the week. Her name was Kari and she was NASTY
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Difficulty holding a job for more than a few weeks, and that only because sometimes you can fool people for a few weeks.  Difficulty holding a husband, live-in boyfriend, family member or roommate, because I have the hoarding form of OCD, which makes me very difficult to live with.  My collected clutter makes people claustrophobic and uncomfortable.  Difficulty making decisions, even unimportant ones such as where to have dinner.  Tends to irritate people.  Landlords hate me--I try never to let them in while I am in residence, or I would be evicted on the spot--because after I leave, they usually have to tear out the carpets and start over.  Impossible to vacuum when there are piles of clutter everywhere all the time.  I have been divorced 4 times.  I seem to only get worse with my symptoms as I get older.  The same thing happened to my father:  My mother divorced him, he ended up living alone in a trailer park, where he filled his trailer up to the ceiling with clutter and trash, even the bedroom, even the bathtub(!). and had only a narrow path to go through the house.  He could never let the landlord in to see how he lived, so he was afraid to ask them to fix anything.  If the toilet broke, he fixed it himself or just lived with it.  If the heat went off or the fridge quit, same deal.  DIY or just deal with it.  He had no hot water for years.  Sorry to get so wound up, but it truly does affect sufferers' lives in a negative way.  I live in fear that I will become as bad as my father was.\n http://www.squalorsurvivors.com
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Laying out expectations and preferences before you move in together, or as soon as you do can help ease a lot of conflict.  \nIf we're talking college roommates, issues such as your sleep schedules, thoughts on overnight guests, level of comfort with alcohol or other substances being consumed in the space, and cleanliness may all come up.  \nBe honest.  Don't be afraid to bring something up if it bothers you, because the longer you let it go the more likely it'll blow up.
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Go ahead, use force and then they can sue your friend, and then he won't be your friend any more. \n\nAre they really trashy, or just poor?  If they pay their rent, then not having furniture or hanging blankets in windows is not an indicator of trashiness.\n\nHow about this?  Does he keep the plumbing up? Does he flake out and pass the water bill over to his tenants even though there's only one meter and originally he was going to cover this by charging $50 extra per month in the rent?  Now the upstairs is still owed 50% of the water bill by the downstairs?  Does he refuse to get the upstairs people a mailbox?  Does he move marijuana smoking punkers downstairs that are up till three a.m. playing their music and then yelling at the normal people for being awake in the daytime?  Does he care to fix a dishwasher which is leaking into the downstairs apt, which he promised to fix on day one, along with the tub plumbing that's starting to make a huge spot on the ceiling downstairs?  It's the only bathroom, are the renters supposed to not bath indefinately while paying twice the rent of comparable units in the are? Does he insist the upstairs people take care of the gardening, without covering the cost of gardening tools?  Does he refuse to put in writing that there is a refund for the person who is paying 100% of the water bill for both apartments and covering the gardening efforts with her kids?  Did he offer to sell the entire house to both tenants before they even signed a rental lease and cause the one downstairs to go into fuedal mode because of this?  Could the fact he's not fixing anything be because he wants to sell the house right away and never intended to be a real landlord.  If your friend is anything like this, then HE is a slumlord. You're both more trashy than the people you want to kick out.