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i'm sure i'm not the only one who has roommates here. i'm also sure i'm not the only one who has grevieances with their roommates.

so let's all bitch about our roommates, shall we?

well, for one thing, they never clean anything. the only reason i can tolerate using the bathroom is because i clean it once a week (i at least do the essentials - toilet and tub) we've got dishes stacked surrounding the sink, i just did half the dishes yesterday and i've been cleaning my dishes in a timely manner, so they're not mine.

and we've got a fruit fly infestation, yet i'm the only person who seems to be doing anything about it.

i mean, i wrote on our whiteboard "WE LIVE IN SQUALOUR!!" and what have my roommates done about it? they've adopted the habit of saying that we live in squalour instead of trying to fix it.

two of them also have terrible taste in music and insist on playing their music really loud all the time.

ok, now, your turn.

They treat your things like Crap...
You be generous, curtious, and thoughtful: they take over everything.

Mine wear clothing far too often.

Mine wear clothing far too often.

So I guess you have female room mates? :D

(Or if you are female, just switch that around :rolleyes: )

So I guess you have female room mates? :D

(Or if you are female, just switch that around :rolleyes: )

I am male, and you are correct.

Come to think of it, the people upstairs wear clothing far too often as well.

My ex-roommate put a curtain up in the room, because she didn't like me much.

They treat your things like Crap...
You be generous, curtious, and thoughtful: they take over everything.
oh that too. i let them watch my family guy dvds and they just throw them everywhere. like what the fuck, i dont' have to let them watch my dvds, but i'm nice so i do and they throw them everywhere and treat them like crap.

they also keep using my shaving cream canister to weigh down the shower curtain. that's why it has magnets in the bottom, damnit!

My ex-roommate put a curtain up in the room, because she didn't like me much.

My roommate in the dorms freshman year did that so he could get his self-loving in while I was in the room.

Well, my grievances are more about my roommate's idiotic girlfriend and the fact that he thinks I should act stupid around her just like he does. I usually just spend half the time rolling my eyes at them or giving them a look like: "How the f--- did that idea get into our head?!?"

As far as cleaning goes... he's a slob but does try to keep his crap on his side. Only problem is that dishes stay stacked for 2 or 3 days until I start rearranging them so that if he touches them, they tip over and make a lot of noise. You might want to try that... it's worked great for me so far.

oh that too. i let them watch my family guy dvds and they just throw them everywhere. like what the fuck, i dont' have to let them watch my dvds, but i'm nice so i do and they throw them everywhere and treat them like crap.

they also keep using my shaving cream canister to weigh down the shower curtain. that's why it has magnets in the bottom, damnit!

You should move in with me. There aren't any extra rooms, so you'd have to sleep in my bed with me :). But I'm anal retentive about being clean, and my roommates are worse. You would be in heaven.

I can tell some roomie stories. I had a roomie for close to 2 years. She would drag all manner of skanky drunk losers home, she could afford to drink 7 days a week but she couldn't pay the bills in full or on time. She'd get pets, but she wouldn't take care of them. She stole my bath products or makeup all the time, as well as clothes, and furniture when she moved.

She would have her three kids to visit. They would run, dance, stomp on the floor above me. Once one of her daughters pulled a candle I'd bought and then thrown away out of the trash, and accused me of trying to cheat her mom out of things. This was because I was obviously not classy enough to own the nicer things in the house. Her mom took a lot of my furniture with her when she left, and I had to hide the things I really wanted to keep down in my room.

I'm much happier without her. Believe me. Especially after the bills came after she'd left. Some of them hadn't been paid in a month or two.

Oh, and she'd cook these awful meals, and usually burn them, because she was drunk. She'd play Shania Twain really loud upstairs, and she was always sneaking her laundry in with mine, or I'd have to go up to her room to take my socks back, because all of them would be in her drawer.

Her kids liked my antique oil lamps, too. I'd come home from work to find them still burning, with the wicks cranked up to their full length. I had to keep all of that in my room. AND if I burned incense, I'd get no end of shit about how I must be smoking pot, because that was the only reason anyone would burn incense.

You should move in with me. There aren't any extra rooms, so you'd have to sleep in my bed with me :). But I'm anal retentive about being clean, and my roommates are worse. You would be in heaven.
hmm... that is tempting.

however this place is less than 10 mins from campus...

i do need a clean freak. i'm pretty sure there's some stuff growing on our kitchen table. (i eat in my room)

hmm... that is tempting.

however this place is less than 10 mins from campus...

i do need a clean freak. i'm pretty sure there's some stuff growing on our kitchen table. (i eat in my room)

Yeah, I suppose I'm like a 1000 miles or so from your campus....

Yeah, I suppose I'm like a 1000 miles or so from your campus....
unless you live in hamilton, ontario...

but then even if you did, i think my bf might have some issues with me sharing a bed with someone else.

My Roomate snores like a snow blower, farts explicitly in his sleep, listens to the most annoying music(britney spears) and He woke me up while he was having gay sex with someone. That really pissed me off. (how he thought it wouldnt wake me alludes me.) :(

unless you live in hamilton, ontario...

but then even if you did, i think my bf might have some issues with me sharing a bed with someone else.

No, Newmarket, New Hampshire. It's not that long of a drive....

No, Newmarket, New Hampshire. It's not that long of a drive....
i hardly have enough money to eat let alone pay insurance and gas money.

My Roomate snores like a snow blower, farts explicitly in his sleep, listens to the most annoying music(britney spears) and He woke me up while he was having gay sex with someone. That really pissed me off. (how he thought it wouldnt wake me alludes me.) :(
i knew a girl in rez and both her roommates would have loud sex while she was in the room. hell, she was on the bottom bunk... the one above her was worse than the other apparantly.

she spent many a night crashing in someone else's room or the common room.

i hardly have enough money to eat let alone pay insurance and gas money.

Ah, I understand that quite well.

Maybe I can come live with you and shape your roommates up.

Ah, I understand that quite well.

Maybe I can come live with you and shape your roommates up.
sure. maybe they'll quit with the "oh, but i have a job and school routine" when i'm in a more demanding programme and have a job that's taking up the rest of my time lately.

My room-mate usually stays up past midnight watching MTV or playing video games, when I have a class at 8 AM. Worse, he only has one controller for the video games...

sure. maybe they'll quit with the "oh, but i have a job and school routine" when i'm in a more demanding programme and have a job that's taking up the rest of my time lately.

I think your problem is that you're too forgiving. I can be a complete fascist and quite a dick about the apartment being clean. With the guy I used to live with, I went out of my way to make his sloppiness inconvienence him and him alone. If he left a wet towel on the bathroom floor, I put it inbetween his bedsheets. If he left dirty dishes around the living room, I put them at the foot of his bed, or on his desk chair, or under it. If he left his video games or board games out all over the living room floor, I took them and hid them. I made being messy very tiresome for him, and he got alot better.

I think your problem is that you're too forgiving. I can be a complete fascist and quite a dick about the apartment being clean. With the guy I used to live with, I went out of my way to make his sloppiness inconvienence him and him alone. If he left a wet towel on the bathroom floor, I put it inbetween his bedsheets. If he left dirty dishes around the living room, I put them at the foot of his bed, or on his desk chair, or under it. If he left his video games or board games out all over the living room floor, I took them and hid them. I made being messy very tiresome for him, and he got alot better.

I was meaner than that. If my roomie's kids came over and left crap on the floor, I'd just pick it up and throw it away in front of them. They might have been wild when she was around, but they wouldn't even dare to look at me funny, let alone act up.

I was meaner than that. If my roomie's kids came over and left crap on the floor, I'd just pick it up and throw it away in front of them. They might have been wild when she was around, but they wouldn't even dare to look at me funny, let alone act up.

Yeah, I've never had to deal with roommates with kids, being in my 20s and all.

well, one of my roommates leaves her dishes in her room. the same can't be said for the pots and pans. and the thing is that if i refuse to do anyone else's dishes, then i don't have anything to eat off.

for fuck's sake, i haven't even got to use my favorite cereal bowl because one of my roommates used it and it's been n her fuckign room for two weeks.

there was also one day when we ran out of clean knives.

i think i'm also peeved about the fruit flies. for some reason i have two in my room despite my lack of food in here. unless they're eating mouse food or mouse shit, then they need to get the fuck out of here and die already. fuck!

and yeah, i am too forgiving with cleaning shit.

i'm also too much of a neat freak to let things get so bad.

oh, another pet peeve with them: they used my room for storage in the summer when i was away. of course this means that they moved my shit around, dented my desk and made a mess of the place.

Yeah, I've never had to deal with roommates with kids, being in my 20s and all.

Just how freakin' old do you think I am? I'm in my 20's too. She was in her 30's, but man, she was more of an out of control juggernaut than any college student I've met.

I was meaner than that. If my roomie's kids came over and left crap on the floor, I'd just pick it up and throw it away in front of them. They might have been wild when she was around, but they wouldn't even dare to look at me funny, let alone act up.

You two are far too amusing. Post more.

Just how freakin' old do you think I am? I'm in my 20's too. She was in her 30's, but man, she was more of an out of control juggernaut than any college student I've met.

I apologize.

well, one of my roommates leaves her dishes in her room. the same can't be said for the pots and pans. and the thing is that if i refuse to do anyone else's dishes, then i don't have anything to eat off.

for fuck's sake, i haven't even got to use my favorite cereal bowl because one of my roommates used it and it's been n her fuckign room for two weeks.

there was also one day when we ran out of clean knives.

i think i'm also peeved about the fruit flies. for some reason i have two in my room despite my lack of food in here. unless they're eating mouse food or mouse shit, then they need to get the fuck out of here and die already. fuck!

If they leave dishes around the apartment, put them in their beds, under the sheets. If you're running out of clean dishes, buy some paper plates and plasticware, and hide them from your roommates. Either they'll do dishes or eat like animals.

oh, another pet peeve with them: they used my room for storage in the summer when i was away. of course this means that they moved my shit around, dented my desk and made a mess of the place.

Well that there is little you can do about now. I'm a jerk, but I wouldn't go denting their shit to get back at them. Or would I?....

I didn't mind the kids so much. It's when she tried to give me way too much info on her sex life that I got a little upset. Like the guys. They were the nastiest drunk pieces of trash you could pick up in a bar. There were lots of them. She picked up drunk stalkers all the time.

Oh, and she took a bedside table of mine to use, because I didn't have room for it in my room. I went looking for bills in it before she moved out, so that I could get them paid off. I found out that this was where she kept her vibrator.

THEN she told me in a moment of drunken TMI about how her ex-hubby's todger was so little that it collapsed in on itself in the cold, and how she was afraid her son would inherit it.

I didn't mind the kids so much. It's when she tried to give me way too much info on her sex life that I got a little upset. Like the guys. They were the nastiest drunk pieces of trash you could pick up in a bar.

Oh, and she took a bedside table of mine to use, because I didn't have room for it in my room. I went looking for bills in it before she moved out, so that I could get them paid off. I found out that this was where she kept her vibrator.

THEN she told me in a moment of drunken TMI about how her ex-hubby's todger was so little that it collapsed in on itself in the cold, and how she was afraid her son would inherit it.

Ah. You aren't enough of an asshole. When my roommates start telling me stuff I don't care or want to hear, I just tell them outright. It keeps stupid conversations to a minimum.

well, one of my roommates leaves her dishes in her room. the same can't be said for the pots and pans. and the thing is that if i refuse to do anyone else's dishes, then i don't have anything to eat off.

for fuck's sake, i haven't even got to use my favorite cereal bowl because one of my roommates used it and it's been n her fuckign room for two weeks.

there was also one day when we ran out of clean knives.

i think i'm also peeved about the fruit flies. for some reason i have two in my room despite my lack of food in here. unless they're eating mouse food or mouse shit, then they need to get the fuck out of here and die already. fuck!

and yeah, i am too forgiving with cleaning shit.

i'm also too much of a neat freak to let things get so bad.

oh, another pet peeve with them: they used my room for storage in the summer when i was away. of course this means that they moved my shit around, dented my desk and made a mess of the place.

Buy a lock.

Ah. You aren't enough of an asshole. When my roommates start telling me stuff I don't care or want to hear, I just tell them outright. It keeps stupid conversations to a minimum.

I tried being honest and up front to start with, you know, the whole "This is a business arrangement ONLY, I don't want to be friends, I just want to split the bills."

She wanted to be friends anyway. Then she'd go on these crying jags, or it would be a fight, or she'd get suicidal and tell me I was her only real friend. It got to be too much like hard work to go through that every time I wanted her to stop doing something. It was easier just to work around it, adapt.

I tried being honest and up front to start with, you know, the whole "This is a business arrangement ONLY, I don't want to be friends, I just want to split the bills."

She wanted to be friends anyway. Then she'd go on these crying jags, or it would be a fight, or she'd get suicidal and tell me I was her only real friend. It got to be too much like hard work to go through that every time I wanted her to stop doing something. It was easier just to work around it, adapt.

Yeah, well, I'm friends with my roomies, and I still tell them when I don't give a damn. Like my roommate will come into my room and say,

"Hey Matt, want to hear a really disgusting story?"

"No."

"Well, I was going to the store today and...."

"Didn't I say no?"

"...there was this accident up ahead...."

"Shut up."

"...so traffic was backed up for a few hundred yards...."

"Please shut up."

"...and I was bored, so...."

"Yeah, I don't care."

[walk out of room or return attention to computer or TV]

well, for one thing, they never clean anything. the only reason i can tolerate using the bathroom is because i clean it once a week (i at least do the essentials - toilet and tub) we've got dishes stacked surrounding the sink, i just did half the dishes yesterday and i've been cleaning my dishes in a timely manner, so they're not mine.
Sounds like my life. When my flatmate cleans something, it's likely that she'll either do it REALLY badly, or it will be dirtier than before...
Case in point: She cleaned the bathroom mirror with a dirty wet cloh, so it just spread dirty water all over, which then dried, leaving grey splodges everywhere...
Then theres cleaning half the bath and pretending she's done the whole thing...

She never cooks. EVER. Neither does she eat my food when I offer her anything. She just eats things out of tins and boxes.

Edit: Oh and I forgot having no interest in the world AT ALL. She only found out who Donald Rumsfeld was this year sometime... And she has all these horrible racist friends. Never mind that her parents were refugees...

There's more... But I won't vent here...

I just took to staying in my room. I moved a microwave down to the basement, and a coffee maker and a refrigerator, and every so often I'd skulk upstairs, make a load of pasta, and freeze it in gladware containers downstairs. I could hole up down there for weeks. I didn't mind. I'm not very sociable anyway. I had my computer and a TV. I didn't even care about accusations that I was a hermit.

That seemed to take care of it. Out of sight, out of mind.

I just took to staying in my room. I moved a microwave down to the basement, and a coffee maker and a refrigerator, and every so often I'd skulk upstairs, make a load of pasta, and freeze it in gladware containers downstairs. I could hole up down there for weeks. I didn't mind. I'm not very sociable anyway. I had my computer and a TV. I didn't even care about accusations that I was a hermit.

That seemed to take care of it. Out of sight, out of mind.

I'm a much bigger jerk than you are, it seems. I sort of force people to live by my standards.

I'm a much bigger jerk than you are, it seems. I sort of force people to live by my standards.

You know what the irony of it all is? I'm a really laid-back person. I don't demand much of anyone, except that they respect my space and hold up their end of a deal.

You know what the irony of it all is? I'm a really laid-back person. I don't demand much of anyone, except that they respect my space and hold up their end of a deal.

Yeah. As long as things are going the way I want them to, I'm very easy to get along with. Which is why I can get along with my current roommates so easily; they're just like me. They are clean. They don't bring guys in at all hours of the night and have loud sex. They don't bother me with inane "girl" things like one of my old girl roommates. They like to live the same way I like to live, so it's very easy to get along with them. It's when someone doesn't live the same way I do that I become King Dickhead.

I'm never living with a roomie again. I'm getting married in a month, so I won't have to think about it anymore. The man I'm marrying is like me, and an easy person to live with. From what I understand, the ex-roomie is marrying one of her itinerant drunks. One that has money. Good for her. I wish her every happiness and the luck to not get caught driving drunk.

I'm never living with a roomie again. I'm getting married in a month, so I won't have to think about it anymore. The man I'm marrying is like me, and an easy person to live with. From what I understand, the ex-roomie is marrying one of her itinerant drunks. One that has money. Good for her. I wish her every happiness and the luck to not get caught driving drunk.

Congratulations are in order then.

Did she invite you to her wedding?

Playing the piano at 8am on a Sunday.

Playing the piano at 8am on a Sunday.

If that's the worst of your complaints consider yourself blessed.

Congratulations are in order then.

Did she invite you to her wedding?

I wouldn't have gone if she had. ;)

Nor will she be getting an invite to my wedding. I didn't leave her a forwarding address either.

I wouldn't have gone if she had. ;)

Nor will she be getting an invite to my wedding. I didn't leave her a forwarding address either.

Well, yeah, I wouldn't invite her to my wedding if I were you either. I just thought, since you said she described you as her only real friend, that she might have invited you.

Well, yeah, I wouldn't invite her to my wedding if I were you either. I just thought, since you said she described you as her only real friend, that she might have invited you.


I didn't tell you about how I finally blew her off. I didn't think that I should have to pay another house payment for her, and when I finally gave in and paid it, I told her that if I could get her out of my life forever for $400, it was worth it, and cheap at the price. I made her cry.

I didn't tell you about how I finally blew her off. I didn't think that I should have to pay another house payment for her, and when I finally gave in and paid it, I told her that if I could get her out of my life forever for $400, it was worth it, and cheap at the price. I made her cry.

Ahhhhhh....

Yeah I wouldn't have expected an invite after that....

Kudos to you.