NationStates Jolt Archive

Most of us live or have lived with a roommate.

I'm sure some of you have had terrible experiences with them. I've heard stories of roommates burning down the place because of foot odor.

How have some of your experiences gone?

For me, my roommate right now at MSU seems like my long lost brother. I know it seems clichéd, but we are nigh on identical in our interests and activities. We have the same major, so that's a plus. We're also rooming together next year, so we can study off each other. And get grades that won't get us both kicked off campus. Hopefully.

Please, share some of your roommating experiences.

I've never had to deal with roomates. If ever I've lived with people, they have been in my house so they've been smart enough to make sure not to annoy me.

me and my roommate last year got along great.
First day we were both up here, we were supposed to go to matriculation. We set our alarms, and both woke up. we then looked at each other, said "fuck it" and went back to sleep. Friends ever since.

Now I'm in a quad with him, my other friend, and a kid we all hate.
see, last year, we all planned to live together . We got within a week of choosing housing and we figured out that we hated the 4th guy. Too late to just ditch him, so we took a quad. Me and the two others get along great. the fourth is an asshat/fuckbag. When he gets drunk, he asks why we don't hang out with him anymore and why I don't talk to him. I haven't seen him in a week or so because he's been living with his girlfriend. It has been wonderful.

Next year, its me, the same two guys, and our friend in an apartment. Can't wait.

My first roommate experience was in college and I had the roommate from hell, or, more likely, he inspired me to become the roommate from hell. I was a staunch atheist. He was a bible thumper. I listened to lots of punk and heavy metal. He listened to Don McLean and John Denver. I smoked. He hated smoke. I started to get annoyed with the smug, irritated attitude he always had so I decided to fix him. He was going to be gone for a while, so I closed all the windows, shoved a towel under the door and over the course of three hours, smoked a pack of regular Marlboros and half a pack of cloves. When he came back after I had left, he thought the room was on fire.

Two weeks later, I had no roommate at all.;)

Man, I hate mean drunks. The dude down the hall comes in most nights/early mornings completely trashed, and is a total asshole. I hope he gets alcohol poisoning.

I had a roommate when I was stationed in Germany who would set his alarm for 4:30 and hit the snooze button every 5 minutes until 5:45 when we actually had to get up. At about 4:45 I started to hook shot my boots over the wall lockers at him, and on the 5th boot (I had a lot of boots) I managed to get him right in the head. Needless to say he stopped doing that.

Other than that, he was a hell of a guy.

I'm lucky now because I don't have a roommate. I hear all of these horror stories at school, and I'm glad I don't have to worry about it. Plus, I'd have probably killed any hypothetical roommate for drinking my beer by this point.

My first roommate experience was in college and I had the roommate from hell, or, more likely, he inspired me to become the roommate from hell. I was a staunch atheist. He was a bible thumper. I listened to lots of punk and heavy metal. He listened to Don McLean and John Denver. I smoked. He hated smoke. I started to get annoyed with the smug, irritated attitude he always had so I decided to fix him. He was going to be gone for a while, so I closed all the windows, shoved a towel under the door and over the course of three hours, smoked a pack of regular Marlboros and half a pack of cloves. When he came back after I had left, he thought the room was on fire.

Two weeks later, I had no roommate at all.;)
cigarettes smoked out of spite are so much better, aren't they?

I just realized that I misspelled the title...damn.

I'm a senior in high school (no roommates) but I think the worst I've heard was my sister's freshmen year roommate. She would always bring drunk friends back to the room, and once one threw up on the floor. She covered it with newspaper and left it there for a week until my sister finally cleaned it up.

I didnt know you went to MSU, always figured you went to UofM. My dad went to MSU so ... actually I have no clue where I am going with this.

I'm a senior in high school (no roommates) but I think the worst I've heard was my sister's freshmen year roommate. She would always bring drunk friends back to the room, and once one threw up on the floor. She covered it with newspaper and left it there for a week until my sister finally cleaned it up.

Ah yes, that reminds me of another roommate story. Again, in Germany (it all happens in Germany) I was doing my laundry on a Tuesday night, and I found an ex-roommate of mine lying in a puddle of his own vomit in the laundry room. I took him back to my room and let him sleep on the couch. Bad idea, since he puked all over my couch in the middle of the night. I had to take the cushions to a dry cleaner downtown, and this old German lady was rather perturbed at me bringing her vomit covered couch cushions.

Good times.

I didnt know you went to MSU, always figured you went to UofM. My dad went to MSU so ... actually I have no clue where I am going with this.

Did he really? Ask him what dorm he lived in.

Did he really? Ask him what dorm he lived in.
Alright, he showed me it once when we drove through the campus but I forgot. I'll ask him tomorrow.

I just realized that I misspelled the title...damn.
You know what makes that so funny? The fact that isn't ironic at all.

You know what makes that so funny? The fact that isn't ironic at all.

Yes, that is sadly true. I've lost my ironic touch.

:(

all i can say is that iam dreding having to deal with having a roommate in college

all i can say is that iam dreding having to deal with having a roommate in college

It's no big deal. You really only hear about the roommates from hell. Most people are thinking the exact same thing you are. The VAST majority of roomates are tolerable.

In our 20 room floor, we only had one person move out.

It's no big deal. You really only hear about the roommates from hell. Most people are thinking the exact same thing you are. The VAST majority of roomates are tolerable.

In our 20 room floor, we only had one person move out.

iam not a people person and i have pritty much always had my own room so going from that to having to share a rather small room with some one i dont know will be very very weird,,,

I just realized that I misspelled the title...damn.

thats because you are stoopid...:D

well my roommate i have right now is racist, and i have two other roommates that are black. its drama all the time...

but, my first year in college i remember a devistating event that has effected me ever since. sound asleep in the middle of the night, i am awakened by my roommates speakers blasting the song "its peanut butter jelly time." my roommate runs out of the room and i am all alone, with the dancing banana. it scarred me for life...

but, my first year in college i remember a devistating event that has effected me ever since. sound asleep in the middle of the night, i am awakened by my roommates speakers blasting the song "its peanut butter jelly time." my roommate runs out of the room and i am all alone, with the dancing banana. it scarred me for life...

LMAO! That's why people need to set up 24/7 dorm cameras. :p

LMAO! That's why people need to set up 24/7 dorm cameras. :p

omg, the things those cameras would reveal!

omg, the things those cameras would reveal!

Exactly.

Exactly.

i think most of us would like to forget much of what happens within the confines of a dorm...

omg, the things those cameras would reveal!

Perhaps ignorance is bliss...

Perhaps ignorance is bliss...

indeed...

My freshman year, my roommate was awesome. We got to be friends, but had totally different majors and classes, and hung out with completely different people. But we kept the same schedule, and ended up in the same draw group for sophomore year (a draw group is a group of up to eight people who draw the same number - basically a lottery number - that determines how good their housing will be the next year). Worked out great. :)

Let me tell you all a story about my current living situation. It is my senior year and I live in a five bedroom apartment with five guys. One of them I've lived with in the same room before and I've known from home since before 3rd grade. Needless to say we get along great. The friends we really wanted to live with live across town (long story but basically it was too difficult to get a house for all of us that everyone could afford so it didn't work out). So now I live with these three other kids who I have known awhile in college but never really hung out with as friends too much.

One is quiet and can't drink much because of medical problems but he lives across the house and like I said just usually keeps to himself. The other works all the time and lives in the room adjacent mine. The third is a red haired kid who has no job and is usually around watching television in the living room and taking drinking protein shakes although he used to be kind of fat and shouldn't be drinking them to work out.

The biggest problem we had was with the worker bee next to me because he gets in bitchy moods and wants the house silent at 10pm on weekends. My friend and I also work and thus our only days off from class and work are fri and sat. That caused some tension for awhile but he has gotten somewhat better about it I think. Otherwise he isn't a bad kid he just thinks different and is only happy when bringing home a girl (any girl at all). Dirty.

Now it is mostly the red haired bitch that is the problem. For starters my friend and I have the smallest rooms in the house. Worker bee and red's rooms are easily 2 or 3 times the size of mine and 5 to 6 times the size of my friend's "closet" (that is really all it is pretty much). They found the apartment and we came in late so that was fine but when we brought up paying a little bit less red haired bitch was like no. Flat out. He said this to my friend in rather rude terms and even went as far as to say he couldn't even understand what he was talking about. Why would anyone ever pay less than someone else. I wrongly pushed for him to just forget about it since we have to live with them. Bad move on my part.

Now there is always tension over that on our side and even more it turns out red is a total asshole. He is fine when you are just hanging out but any opportunity he sees to exert his superiority complex he immediately has to take. Such as the rent issue. I did not realize this at first. It became more clear from his little comments he'll make. If my friend and I play some Halo 2 for awhile after class one day he'll get one of us alone with his silent buddy roomate and be like "hey if someone paid you to just sit around and play video games all day would you?". Of course on first thought I'm like I dunno I guess right now I would. He then goes on and on about how he could never do that blah blah blah Mr. Righteous. The fucker watches at least 30 hours a week of television and has no job during school. We both do and are constantly doing work. He's basiaclly a cock.

But I've learned that it's fine just never give the little bastard an inch or he'll try to use it against you. Some friend. So I basically never leave my room when I'm home.

Spring break they went on a cruise(red with daddy's money) so my friend and I got wasted and kicked in one's door and graffittied the others. Then I accidentally melted his microwave (among other things). We fixed the door and replaced the microwave and eventually painted over his door. After that week we realized maybe we were the asshole roomates from hell....and it was about fucking time.

Exactly.
some things are best kept between roommates.

Although, the fact that we sometimes communicate in only grunts would be kinda amusing.

some things are best kept between roommates.

...Bad mental image, there.

I just realized that I misspelled the title...damn.Really? The thread isn't about marsupials who are friends?

...Bad mental image, there.
no...a bad mental image would have been me telling you that for two weeks, my roommates goal was to show me his ass. It took the full two weeks for him to think to take a picture and tape it to my laptop. Bastard.


or was that too much information?:confused:

no...a bad mental image would have been me telling you that for two weeks, my roommates goal was to show me his ass. It took the full two weeks for him to think to take a picture and tape it to my laptop. Bastard.


or was that too much information?:confused:Was it a nice ass?

Was it a nice ass?
a bit hairy.

actually, very hairy.


damnit, now you made me go and have a flashback!
*vomits in mouth a little bit*

a bit hairy.

actually, very hairy.


damnit, now you made me go and have a flashback!
*vomits in mouth a little bit*You like them smooth?

You like them smooth?
well, in general, there aren't mountains of hair on females, so yes.

...





....


...damn you.;)

Wow, there's definately something very homoerotic about a bunch of guys living in cramped quarters, talking in grunts, and showing each other pictures of their asses.

*mind wanders off*

Wow, there's definately something very homoerotic about a bunch of guys living in cramped quarters, talking in grunts, and showing each other pictures of their asses.

*mind wanders off*Isn't that why people live in dorms together?

Wow, there's definately something very homoerotic about a bunch of guys living in cramped quarters, talking in grunts, and showing each other pictures of their asses.

*mind wanders off*
you have no idea...


seriously. homoerotic is an understatement at times. this is why I can't wait for my apartment.

Isn't that why people live in dorms together?
It sounds pretty exciting, in fact.

you have no idea...


seriously. homoerotic is an understatement at times. this is why I can't wait for my apartment.Don't lie to yourself, you know you'll miss it.

It sounds pretty exciting, in fact.
Don't lie to yourself, you know you'll miss it.
oh, no doubt. But I'll be living with the same two plus another one next year. And I'll have my own room.


mmm...the sweet smell of privacy.

Eh, I have a pretty good roommate right now. We have a similar sense of humor, which helps. We've gotten into some arguments (and some fights), but overall we get along well.

I just realized that I misspelled the title...damn.

You can edit it. Click on the edit button underneath your first post, and edit the title.

I go to a British University (University of Salford (http://www.salford.ac.uk)), being British an' all, and I don't have a roommate - just flatmates. Two don't seem to be very nice people, and there's a guy I hardly know because I hardly ever see him. 4 people including me. We only share the kitchen and the shower/toilet room (not at same time - there is lock on door). We don't have a dining room or a living room.

I had a roommate once, when I went on a mega long journey by push-bike (see my blog for more details, look at "Be happy...") but we didn't really speak to each other. The place I was staying at only let you stay at nights (it was a night shelter), so I was not in the room during the day. He seemed quite clean (which I unfortunately probably wasn't when I first arrived, having travelled so far) and tidy.

Really? The thread isn't about marsupials who are friends? Awww. :)

Again, in Germany (it all happens in Germany)
But it's not our fault. Plus, we showed you the pleasures of real beer. :p


I don't have any bad enough roommate stories to qualify, but about the worst one I ever heard was from this girl whose roommate not only was so messy that you could hardly even step inside her room anymore because of all the clutter, but also turned out to be working as an escort and entertaining clients in her room, culminating in the night she asked the girl if she could use her room since her own was too messy. :p

. Then I accidentally melted his microwave (among other things). We fixed the door and replaced the microwave and eventually painted over his door. After that week we realized maybe we were the asshole roomates from hell....and it was about fucking time.

Dont you use the microwave to melt other things?

Last year one of my flatmates was a big fat bastard. I believe his name was fatty or something like that. He played dance music all night, which wouldnt be so bad but he used a saucepan he stole off me to prop his door open so we could all hear. then he trashed the kitchen and threw all our food all over it. We gave him 24 hours to replace it and said if he didnt we would kill him, and then HE complained to the management about US! Then he left an uncooked chicken on the floor to rot while everyone was away for the weeked. the smelll was awful and we got a plague of flies. Took 2 full cans of raid to kill them all.

I really hope that guy is dead by now.

Well, let's see.

My old roommates (housemates) used to never clean the place except when they were going to have a party. One of them however, would bitch at me everytime I left a pot in the sink and became obsessed with making sure the sink and counter area remained free of pots and pans. One of my roommates had shitty taste in music and would play it loudly. They didn't take care of my stuff and one summer I was gone so they used my room as storage. Also, they would open all the windows in the winter and one of my mice got sick because of this and died.

My current hosuemates are alright, except one girl who I share a wall and a bathroom with. She hasn't cleaned the bathroom all semester and has a habit of waking up really early and playing awful country music and adult contemporary as well as some really crappy rock. I think she seeks out the worst music in every genre and plays it as loud as she can.

Oh, and I don't know what she eats, but she's managed to stink up the bathroom so much I can smell it with my door closed.

Well, my current roommate disappeared for about 6 months, during which time I usurped her computer, as mine at the time had broken. Unfortunately, I miscalculated her return date, and left her room a bit of a mess the day she got back. Now she wants nothing to do with me, and shows no interest in even trying to be the least bit sociable. It's a bit awkward. Not to mention that she and her boyfriend generate ludicrous amounts of trash, which they apparently have no qualms about leaving anywhere in the kitchen. They use tupperware as bowls, which are just left in the sink.

I wish I had a neat freak for a roommate. I'm not the world's neatest person myself, but I do prefer things clean, and it would get me to make more of an effort to be neater. But when you have roommates who just don't give a damn, you find it hard to do so, yourself. In fact, all of my past roommates have been slobs.

I've also had roommates bring friends over, who are just absolutely pathetic and aggravating... One night, in my first apartment, one of my roommates had friends over drinking, and one of them proceeded to get completely hammered. He spent hours - HOURS - moaning and crying to one of the girls there about how beautiful she was and how much he loved her. Ultimately, he ended up throwing up all over the bathroom and passing out in the bathtub. The same guy also brought over another girl he knew, who was a big slut (both big, and a slut). She kept begging me to show her my penis... Well, eventually, I did. Some might have found that exciting, but by that point, I was just annoyed, so I did it just to get her to stop bugging me.

Another one of my roommates at that time was just a complete dumbass and jerk in general. He even done stole the lady I'd been lookin' to court. ... But that's another story. He eventually left, and the guy we got in his place... well... Basically, he stayed home all day playing Final Fantasy XI and watching anime. He didn't even notice when I nearly set the apartment on fire when I left a pot of water on the stove and forgot about it. Then, one day, he disappeared, never to return. Like, seriously. One day, we woke up, and he and all his stuff were gone. Eventually, it came down to me and one other guy in that apartment, and by then, I didn't really care to be too sociable, myself... He'd bring over these two girls sometimes... Whenever I was around, they'd get all quiet. Like I was the weird stranger walking into their home - oh, wait, I WAS THERE FIRST. But it's just as well, because of what I would pick up from my room, it didn't sound like they had a thought in their heads worth hearing.

But I finally moved out of there, into a place with a big bedroom to call my own... No interesting stories here, really. But in June, I'll be moving into a townhouse with the rest of the guys in my band. That should generate a whole lot of life experience... And a lot more scars.

Well, let's see.

My old roommates (housemates) used to never clean the place except when they were going to have a party. One of them however, would bitch at me everytime I left a pot in the sink and became obsessed with making sure the sink and counter area remained free of pots and pans. One of my roommates had shitty taste in music and would play it loudly. They didn't take care of my stuff and one summer I was gone so they used my room as storage. Also, they would open all the windows in the winter and one of my mice got sick because of this and died.

My current hosuemates are alright, except one girl who I share a wall and a bathroom with. She hasn't cleaned the bathroom all semester and has a habit of waking up really early and playing awful country music and adult contemporary as well as some really crappy rock. I think she seeks out the worst music in every genre and plays it as loud as she can.

Oh, and I don't know what she eats, but she's managed to stink up the bathroom so much I can smell it with my door closed.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but roommates are different from housemates. Roommates share your room. Housemates share your house but have a seperate bedroom.

I was not fond of my roommate since September, but the one I have lined up for the Summer is a pal with whom I look forward to sharing the apartment.

My roomate Corie is insane. She is the biggest control freak I have ever met. I live with her and my fiance. The only problem is that, not only is she a control freak, she's one of the hottest chicks in the universe. I mean she's Playboy centerfold hot. It sucks when she's yelling at me about one of the spoons ending up in he fork slot in the silverware drawer while she's wearing nothing but a towel because she just got out of the shower because all I hear is "blah blah blah" and all I can think is "please, towel, fall off." It also sucks that I dated her for a while but never got the farther than her boobs. :(
My fiance got some, too. We were getting really drunk last Saturday and I passed out and she told me the two of them made out all night after that. :) I wish I had stayed up. :(