Suave

So at the beginning of September I moved out for the first time, living with 3 roommates. One moved out after three days, and the second one moved out after three weeks. Why? Because of the other roommate. I've also acquired another roommate (so I'm up to two again), and he's been complaining to management the whole time he's been here (about a month now). I'm beginning to suspect that my current living situation would drive most people to insanity.

So here's the deal with The Roommate. Every day, our bathroom floor gains a good half centimetre of water (before I moved in, it was literally constantly flooded because he didn't put up a shower curtain), and we have some rather interesting-smelling mold growing on the bathroom floor. The bathtub look and feels disgusting to the touch, he blows his nose and leaves the tissues lying everywhere, he vomited in the kitchen sink and left it for hours (I avoided breakfast that morning), and he likes to play the same 3 songs multiple times per day, sometimes the same song 2-4 times in a row, at loud volume (absolutely NO exaggeration). That's probably the most noticable stuff that he does, or anything worth mentioning anyways, aside from the fact that if we lived in a warmer climate, there would be roaches everywhere.

Now that I'm done being narcissistic and telling the world about my living circumstances, I thought people might enjoy sharing their "fun" roommate experiences. I suppose if you want, they can be good ones too, but the bad roommates are so much more fun to talk about.

Bill O'Rights

Damn! Compared to that, I've got no complaints. All of my roommates were pretty cool. Of course, I haven't had a "roommate" since 1985, so my memory may be a bit hazy. But I know that had they been any where close to as nasty as your roommate...they woulda been sitting on the curb, with their bags lying at their feet. So I'm guessing that I'm remembering well.

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Suave

Hah yeah. I've sort of joined the rebellion against him, so to speak, but this is in my university dorm and basically the people in charge said they want to "correct his behaviour", and we're the guinea pigs.

sherpahigh

Man, sounds like a shitty roomate. I've had my share of roomates in the past and most were freinds beforehand making living together a lot easier. I did have a few terrible roomates though. The worst was when I was living in an apartment with him and another guy. We'd all split the bills and whatnot and for a few months "shithead" roomate was collecting it all together to take in to pay. For 3-4 months he was making sure to pick up the mail and get the bills, collect the money and pay them. No big deal since that was the regular routine until one month I end up getting to the mail before him and find a bill that was well overdue. Turns out the asshole was collecting the money and using it for whatever else he felt like doing, during the same time he managed to get a hold of a mutual freinds bank card and clean out his account. Pretty clueless as to how to act in society really. I eventually got back about half of what he owed me and we managed to make sure the whole dorm/apartment area knew exactly what an ass he was, and since he was so well liked before hand, this was better than getting some of the money back. Last I hear he had dropped out of school and taken a job at a fast food joint. Good for him.

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Suave

Hah that's way worse than mine. To my knowledge, mine doesn't steal from me (helps that I keep my door locked though).

dilligaff

i lived with a guy once as a teenager and he was at LEAST 350 lbs.....as soon as any food was brought into the house it was gone.....not once did my food last more then 2-3 days....i moved real fast or i would have starved.

Irishsean

The last house I shared with roomates was interesting. It was a 2 story townhouse, and right in the middle of the living room was about a 12 foot square skylight that strangely enough had an opening to one of the bedrooms in it covered only by a wooden shutter. My roomate tried hanging wool blankets over it and everything, but as soon as his girlfriend came over the whole house knew it, she was a screamer.

Suave

Hah that would make for interesting times Irish. But yeah, one thing I'm glad of is I don't have any food thieves in my place. That is something I couldn't tolerate.

joedog5in1

When I were doing basic training in the army we had a guy who refused to wash. After a few days we couldn't take it anymore. We threw him into the shower and scrubbed him with hard brushes until he was nice and pink. Didn't have a problem after that. He was the cleanest guy in the barracks.

alpha666

ok!! you've asked for it .... i have some great stories about some of the ...... people? ... well .... i'm not sure if they were people, but .... oh well
horror story #1
lets just call her "phycho hose beast" (PHB)
ok i moved in there because ...well i had to, answered an add in the paper and i was in, she seemed really cool and she was really cute. the first 2 weeks were great, we had beers and had a good ole time anyhow one night she comes home and freeks out about a mess that her cats had made ...... just completely flips, never seen anything like it. the next day she acted like nothing had happened so that was fine for a while then it happens again and again and again. i came to the realization that this girl had a few really deep seeded emotional probs ....
now .... it's not like she hadn't had her life handed to her on a silver platter, this girl grew up going to a $36,000 a year school, her daddy was high up in the australian military, she had just sold her first house for a good profit, her husband was the manager of a major department store and his father was the honcho of said department stores nation wide ..... (yes i did mention husband, and i will get back to that)
PHB would also always inform me of her sexual adventures, and would tell me at leanth how much she loved butt sex! all well and good, learnt some interesting things there, but i didn't really need to hear her engaging in said acts in the bed room next to me ....
i mentioned her husband earlier ... now from every thing i have seen of this guy he was pretty cool, don't know why he was with her (must have enjoyed butt sex with her) anyhow he came to live with us at one stage and i asked if she was interested in splitting the rent between us all ..... well she freaked at that suggestion .... and that was the beggining of the end ,....... by that time i had had enough of cat shit, (they were never aloud out of the house and they just went crazy) her bad moods and being made to feel like an arse hole on a dayly bassis so i left .... bitch still owes me $$$
this is the one person i would run over if i ever saw her again!
the next one is a guy we will just call STONERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
this one did nothing but sit infront of the playstation and smoke tons of weed and do lines of speed ...... i'm pretty sure that the carpet in the unit was the home of some beast that would eat you if you were to go bare footed on it!
STONERRRRRRR ...... would eat all of my food, not clean, create mess and generally break all of my stuff ..... damn
there are many more parts to these stories but ... another time.

SitizenVZ

What kind of jackass doesn't use a shower curtain? The bad roommates I've had were sporting bad attitudes, sounds like you've got one with bad habits.

metalgeek

roomates haven't been to bad.
just sometimes annoying.

First: coworker, apartment downtown, (nice place, rpetty cheap rent)
threw lots of parties though, and would then pass out, and I'd have to kick everyone out.
ended up getting us kicked out because he wouldn't pay his fiens to the landlord (furniture on the balcony, friends smoking in the hallway)

Second: nice guy, but 35, with the emotional intelligence of a 12 year old.
would occasionaly rant on various things, lkike how Costco is an arm of the Chinese military and there using it to infiltrate NA, MEC (local outdoor gear coop) was actually a for profit comopany and the owners were rich, etc. also spilt drinks on floor, and stain carpet (says he would clena up, neverdid) put a hole in the wall from the handle of the front door. (never fixed) broke my dryer. (never fixed)

my third roomates where girls, much better to live with (one was a feriend though, one was my sister, so they might not count.) (although the friend was much easier to live with than the sister)

My roomate in College? nice enough guy, horrible sleeper (I'm a lite sleeper)
He:
Snores
Grinds teeth
Chews
Moans
Talks
and breaths really loudly while sleeping.
needless to say, my schedule switched to sleeping from 8:00am-3:00pm. and I missed lots of classes.

Corneo

Ahh... I had my share of bad roommates.

My first set of roommates were all girls and I was the only guy. One of them was simply loud and rude. She would be typing on her keyboard upstairs chatting to her friends at 3 in the morning. I could hear every word of her conversation. When I confront her about it, she would be quiet for a bit but then resume her ways a few minutes later. One night she invited 12 of her friends over at 1 am and they all were like her. They laughed and screamed loudly right outside of my door. After they left I confronted her again and she claimed she didn't know I was home.

The next one was simply just a plain bitch. She would never clean up after herself. She would track dirt into the apartment. When I reminded her it was her time to clean the floors, she would claim she did it already. Which is a total lie considering I was home all day and I never saw her pick up the mop. When it came time for her to move out she lied to me about when she was going to move her stuff out. In the end, she stored her stuff in a crawl space for a few days after her lease was out. I got revenge though when she called and said she was coming to get her stuff in the afternoon. I purposely left for the weekend. With no one home to open the door, and with her dad traveling 2 hr to help her move. She got screwed over.

RainbowBright

I've lost a few friends after being roommates, it's a sticky situation. I had one that said I couldn't use any of her things because she thought she was going to catch and STD from me!

The worst was the pig. She never cleaned. Her room smelled like dirty socks. She would cook large meals and then just leave the left overs on the stove. Drove me nuts because it was so wasteful and so dirty. She was incredibly lazy and had no initiation. I moved in a couple of days after her and she still had not turned on any of the utilities. I called and had the phone turned on. She wouldn't call about the electric and somehow it just got put in my name by default. That was fine but I wasn't about to get the gas in my name by any means. Come Decemember in Michigan and she still hadn't had the gas turned on. I stuck it out freezing my nipples off for as long as I could then finally moved out. Got my own place, paying way more rent than I could afford but it was definetly worth it.

We had a roommate once that went psycho and put a lock on his door. Never cleaned blah blah blah. He moved out early and didn't make any effort to help clean before we moved out. He forgot his golf clubs in the basement. We left them there, still don't know if he ever missed them.

guthmund

I rented a two bedroom apartment with adjoining shower with a guy I knew from work. He was a nice enough guy, but his cleaning habits left a little to be desired to say the least.

He only bathed like twice a week. He worked in a fast food joint so he smelled of burnt grease and it eventually permeated everything in the place. I once used a pair of his beyond funky socks to ward off a strange neighbor's dog who kept shitting in front of my door. When he did bathe, he'd leave a horrible mess in the shower. Occasionally the drain would clog with his hair (it was rather long.....and greasy) and the filthy, disgusting water would sit in the tub until I noticed it and fixed it. His bathroom was so disgustingly filthy, his friends wouldn't use it and they'd ask to use mine. I didn't mind, but I did reserve the right to refuse entry and did on occasion.

After about 4 months of this shit, I had a little "talk" with him after work about the more disgusting habits and things went fine after that. We ended up living together for another 8 months until he got himself his very own sugar momma.

Kind of a side note, but as disgusting as this guy was, (I mean, he was a nice fellow, but a little this side of "funky hobo") he got all kinds of action. Not just from fellow hobos, but from some real good looking girls. I was no slouch, but he always had someone warming the bed for him.

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Jizz-Fritter

Wow, I thought my place was bad. Now I think I have it good. I live in a house, so we each have our separate rooms, but my roommates don't wash their dishes for days. It's really bad after one of them makes tuna helper. So we always have at least two or three fruit flies in the house.

Guess who cleans the shower/toilet/sink/bathroom? Guess who cleans the common areas and vacuums? I guess it isn't that bad.

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Suave

Hah yeah. These threads are always good pick-me-ups to show you that your situation might not be so bad (unless you've posted the worst, in which case, godspeed ).

Update on the situation: he finally got moved out, and the apartment is slowly recovering. We knew the guys he got moved in with, and turns out they asked to have him moved out as soon as he arrived; he is currently in a third apartment somewhere else. Poor guy.

Rinndalir

Yeah I've had my share of bad roommates...I'm a neat freak so it really bugs me when someone is a slob. In college I roomed with this guy who did nothing but play Everquest and sleep...all his classes were after 12pm and he'd still sleep through them half the time. He was too lazy to cook so he'd order pizza damn near every night, and the boxes would pile up in the corner till they were ready to fall over. Right after college I moved in with this guy who turned out to be the classic bad roommate - never had money for bills, sloppy, never cleaned, ate my food. Hell my own wife isn't a very good roommate either, she will clean if I ask her to but she leaves her clothes everywhere, makes a huge mess when she cooks, forgets where she puts things...hell our 1.5 yr old daughter is cleaner, she sees me straightening things and cleaning and follows me around trying to help...

My brother is the messiest person I know though. His place looks like a warzone, months old food and soda everywhere, can't see the floor because of clothes and junk, never cleans his bathroom. He drinks milk all time but will leave a glass with a little bit in the bottom and not pour it out, so it sours and then congeals in the glass...

canuckguy

these stories are classic! I feel for you all, its hard to find the right roommate, you really don't know what someone is like until you live with them. In university I shared a townhouse with 3 guys, all very nice, we each had a week doing dishes...etc, every saturday was clean the house day...etc. was not that bad. My one roommate was crazy though, he would buy Philadelphia Cream Cheese and keep in pantry....and yes he would eat it over several days. I never said anything to him, just thought it was too funny. I made the mistake of telling my mom for a laugh, she ended up calling one day when i was not there told the roommate to keep it in the fridge. dude was pissed i did not tell him! hehe

stonegrody

I had a roomate that would watch porn in the living room ALL THE TIME. I wouldn't normally care but he would leave it on even if I came home with girls or even my parents. Most people would have a LITTLE shame and change the channel, but no, he would keep watching without a single blink. I guess I was lucky that he was only watching it and not jerking off to it...at least not while I was around.

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brinkn1

My current roommate:

Sits in a chair and scribbles with pencil and paper. Every once in a while he'll laugh. Why is he laughing? Oh, that's just because he found the image of another demon face, skull, or mushroom in his scribbles.

Yeah, he's crazy.

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ozahs

In college (many years ago) I lived with 4 other guys in a house we rented near the campus. It soon became clear that the guy I was least familiar with was not going to work out (we'll call him Brian, because that's his name). He always left a mess, never cleaned up, the usual stuff.

The clincher came one night when 3 of us brought home some ladies from the bar. So we are sitting there in the living room watching SNL and drinking beers when Brian comes out of his room and into the bathroom. After a while he came out and went back to his room. Not too long after that one of the ladies has to use our bathroom. As soon as she went in she comes running back out gagging and choking. Turns out Brian had laid down some of the world's largest cable and neglected to flush. The part that really made us cringe, however, was the absence of any evedence that he used toilet paper.

Did I mention he was a theater major?

Irishsean

Hmmm, I just found out the roomates girlfriend whom I was speaking of is a member here, hehe...

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Coppertop

Once lived with 2 close friends. We grew up together and had known each other for 20 years before moving into a 3 bedroom house together. I can confirm firsthand that living with one's friends can put a serious strain on the friendship.

The one I am referring to was a slob. Not the total slob who is always messy, just the kind who lives like a slob until Sunday when he cleans up all his mess just to do it all over again. He once left the milk out on the table with maybe an inch in the bottom for several days. The other roommate and I refused to clean up after him so we toughed our way through it until we finally told him to take care of his mess. If you've never smelled 4 day old milk consider yourself lucky.