Roomates

[LoudIrishGirl]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 6:03pm

Whether for college or an overnight camp or whatever...what are some good roomate stories you have to tell? (horror, funny, moral, advice giving...etc)

[life_so_far]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 6:28pm

I know this isn't what your asking, but I've never had a roommate before (other than my sister). My parents never sent me to any sleepaway camps, so this is a entirely new experience for me. Give me a few weeks after I move in, and I'm sure I will have tons of stories for you.

[cindy013]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 6:59pm

This is really creepy, but it didn't happen to me because I'm only a senior in high school(haha). But anyways- one of my mom's friends at college had this roommate who was into witchcraft and devil-worship type stuff, and she would always have weird things lying around their room like dead frogs and gross stuff like that. So the girl complained, and her roommate found out and wrote death threats over her bed in red so she'd wake up and look up and BAM. Very scary stuff. So then they let her switch rooms. *shudder*

If that happened to me I would've probably died of fright and not have been able to tell the story. :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/31/05 at 8:04pm

My roommate and I randomly met up at an open house my school had for accepted students; we just sort of started talking. We spent the day together, and hit it off REALLY well, so as we were getting ready to leave, we were like "hey, let's live together!" So we put in requests, and my school will honor the roommate requests if they're mutual. So we lived together this year, and had such a blast; we got lucky after we took such a chance, but I absolutely adore her, and we're living together again next year.

Turns out that she and Thenardier went to high school together, too. And now Nard and I are friends! Small world.

[life_so_far]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 1:21am

luvtheEmcee - Thats awesome that everything worked out! With my luck I would have met someone at Open House and then have her turn out like the girl in the other post.

I have such bad luck- I've already had one roommate ditch me and we haven't even started school yet (she was moved to a nicer dorm because she plays a sport).

I could have roomed with one of my friends, but I decided too late (by the time I made my decision she had sent in her residence form ... )

[mabel]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 10:51am

I've had some really bad roommates, actually. I've had 9 in the last 3 years. Among them were a nymphomaniac, a pathological liar, a stoner (seriously, our conversations pretty much amounted to "Dude...I have those socks. That's awesome.") a fruiarian, a germaphobe, and a stripper (I'm not kidding). There were a few others scattered in there that didn't really fit into a nice clean little one word package. Here's hoping that this year, my roommate (singular!) is quasi-normal. *fingers crossed*

[Herbert_Von_Krolock]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 1:19pm

My first year of college I was lucky enough to get put into a single. Then at the end of the year, all the singles were taken and I started chatting with a guy from one of my music classes and we'd gotten on pretty well so I figured it would be fine. He knew I was gay and I asked if it would be a problem for him and he was very "Oh no its totally cool." First semester I was single and we got along great. Then the first weekd of February, I met this absolutely amazing wonderful guy in the most random bizarre way (I'll save that for a different time lol) and we hooked up and its our 6 month this week hehe. Anyways, so yeah, my boyfriend came over for a few hours after work one night and around midnight, I was getting my coat to walk him home and said roommate walks in and mind you, Nate and I were ten feet away from each other. Guy gets this totally disgusted look and walks out, then comes back in 5 seconds later and is totally abrasive and I tried to do a quick introduction on our way out and he was like "Hi." and stared straight forward not making any eye contact with either of us. Over the rest of the semester he made sure that his discomfort was known at any time possible. He would walk in and ignore any greetings, make wretching faces when he thought we were napping and couldn't see and rude comments about how gays don't deserve the same rights as other people. Then he became a born again christian and was hinting that I'm a horrible person and going to burn. I tried talking to him and he would ignore or say that there wasn't a problem with anything when his body language told otherwise. Then he would do things on purpose to piss me off like knowing I had 9 oclock classes, he could come home at 3 am, turn on the light and turn on his laptop with sound, leave the room ten times because its too much effort to go to the bathroom, brush his teeth, shower and shave all at the same time. One night he brought back his girlfriend and they made out quite loudly to the point of me having to leave the room and pull all nighters or sleep out in the lounge because I couldn't get any rest there. Then in March he decided that he wasn't going to talk to me at all for no reason. The only thing he said was that I was supposed to turn off the room phone and my cell phone at night. Yeah, not gonna happen. My grandmother and great aunt are in their 80s and in and out of the hospital all the time, so yeah if anything happens my parents would call right away, or to tell me to take out the trash because he didn't feel like it. I tried all the possible things to solve: talking to him, talking to my RA, talking with his girlfriend if he has any issues that we can work out and nothing worked. So, with 20 days left of the semester, I'd had quite enough and my hag had asked me to move in with her for the next year in an apartment, and after hearing about my roommate issues she told me to just move in to her current place, so I figured what the hell. Since Guy didn't find any communication necessary, I didn't find the need to let him know I was leaving. As luck would have had it, he was going away for that weekend, so Nate and I went to dinner and he helped me move out. Mind you, most of the room was mine: The TV, VCR, DVD player, Super Nintendo, Dorm Fridge, The dresser that had storage space and doubled as a TV stand, the phone, most of the little room things like tape, scissors, glue,stapler, iron/ironing board, the blankets that blocked out the streetlamp light right in front of our window, etc. etc. Needless to say, it came as quite a shock when he got back and all he found was a futon, microwave and answering machine. According to my RA, he was totally furious but expressed otherwise on the phone. Going out to dinner to celebrate, Tanja and Nate took turns calling my room asking "Is Jerr there?" *sad voice* "No, I don't know where he is. Have you talked to him lately? He's like disappeared. Do you have his cellphone number? I need to talk to him." Of course they said that hadn't seen me and thought I was going to a different friend's place. Quite amusing. I ran into him once or twice on campus and he was either overly friendly or having a hissy fit. I did wind up giving him my number because I had mail waiting and he demanded me $20 for a coaxial cable that I took. He had broken cable really stupidly/badly in the first two weeks and said he was going to replace it. I reminded him of this and he said that he paid for it and I should at least give him half for it. I simply replied "I'm not paying for the joy of having you break my $hit. Go fist yourself and have a nice day." Haven't spoken to him since.

My experiences educated me that its not usually workable to have an artistic liberal trying to live with a preppy conservative from the burbs who thinks he's gods gift to man. My current roommates are totally awesome and we have one of those rare houses in a college town where everyone feels like a second family. Its quite happy :) Sorry I prattled on so much heh

[timote316]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:07pm

I went this 6-week summer program in the summers of '00 and '01. My roomate the first year was great, we got along great together. The second year, I went into the room (not bothering to look at the door at my roommate's name), picked my bed, set up my stuff, etc, and my roommate for the summer walked in - it was the same kid as the year before! We told our leader guy, and he said that's never happened in the 20+ years of the camp, and that they'd get one of us switched if we wanted. We decided to stay, and it was another happy summer.
Updated On: 8/1/05 at 02:07 PM

Posted: 8/1/05 at 2:52pm

so i'm about to go into my second year of college. for my first year i lived in the dorms and i had the worst roomate experience! my roomate first semester was a total uptight bitch. for some reason she thought that i had talked **** about her and she stopped talking to me and like would never share anything with me even when i would share with her. so then i changed rooms and ended up living with this crazy bipolar chick. omg she had panic attacks and had alll these medical problems and like never went to class and had tons of different guys over allll the time and smoked on the balcony to our dorm.... ewww it was really really bad, so now this year my parents bought a condo near campus and i have my own room thank god!

[trpguyy]

Posted: 8/2/05 at 11:49am

not exactly a roommate, but my camp counselor one summer when I was 15 liked to sleep naked, on top of his sleeping bag. It wasn't really a problem because he went to bed after us, and woke up before us, but there was the one night that I had to get up to go to the bathroom. It was quite surprising.

Also, his nickname was "Thunder," because of the "thundering winds" that he could push from his ass. He sure did know how to clear a room, but he was awesome.

[Britt0913]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:34pm

This is going to be my second year living in a dorm. Last year I was a freshman and got the info packet with my roommate's name and number in it. After about 3 weeks, I decided to suck it up and give her a call. Well, let me just say, whoever she was her family was as rude as can be! She wasn't home and her family gave me the impression that they didn't care I was calling to introduce myself, just that I get off the phone. So I get to school the first day, and I'm as nervous as hell, because I really didn't want to meet her family after that phone call. I check in, get my key, sign up for my phone, and while I'm signing I see that there is a different name next to mine. So I'm feeling a little better, but still not 100%. So my parents and my best friend, Noelle are helping me move in and we're all finished, and still no roommate. We decided to go out to lunch and then come back later. We're gone for maybe 3 hours and we go back and the door is closed and I hear ppl talking. So I made Noelle open the door, I walk in and there was my roommate, Susan! Mind you, not the girl whose name was next to mine. She and I hit it off right away, we did everything together, until the second semester when she decided she wanted to transfer back home to PA. But all in all, it was a great first roommate experience.

On another note, I've talked to my roommate for this year online and she seems pretty nice, but I'll have to get back to you on that one Sept. 6th.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 2:15pm

Updated On: 1/11/06 at 02:15 PM

[life_so_far]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 9:41pm

I've finally started talking to my roommate via email, and it seems like we have a lot in common... hopefully that won't change once we get to school.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:01pm

Oen of my sister's roomate at her summer program was a Neo-Nazi. We're Orthodox Jews.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:37pm

I went on a tour of Europe last summer with a group of teenagers my age, and every new place we went, we'd have a new roommate. So the first stop was Madrid, and I was rooming with this girl. The only TV programs they had in English was MTV and ESPN, so we decided to watch MTV. I'm not sure what show it was, but it featured Boy George and Taboo, Avenue Q, Hugh Jackman and TBFO. So I started squealing and freaking out and was like, flipping out over seeing that all in the same show, and this girl was like "OMG you're so weird!! How could you like those freaks? Gay people are so weird!"

I didn't talk to her much after that.

[cindy013]

Posted: 8/3/05 at 11:01pm

*gasp*
I had a similar occurence the other day, except it was with my aunt. It made me realize that I don't care that she gives me a disapproving look every time I say I want to major in musical theatre though. She was talking about someone and then was like "but they're GAY" and whispered it and made shifty eyes and everything. By the way, I'm a straight female, but I hate it when people sterotype and dislike someone because of that. Gay guys are hilarious:)

[dietcherryemma]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 9:30am

I should get my roomie assignment any day now. I'm rather nervous, but hey, i'm not expecting a best friend, just someone who will tolerate me.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 10:22am

Diet Cherry, that's both healthy and realistic. Often roommate relations can be destroyed when one roomie wants to be "BFFs!" and the other... well, just doesn't, and therefore is always trying to avoid the other at all costs - or, even worse, deliberately piss them off.

[shines]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 11:24am

My freind had a roomate at camp that would stay up playing music until 3 or 4 in the morning, then wouldn't get up complaining about how tired she was. She would leave her alarm on for over an hour every morning before getting up. She also had to blowdry her hair like 3 times every day with my freinds blowdryer. It was crazy.

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 11:04am

At FCLC, our dorms are called "Suites." They consist of a common room and a kitchen and two or three bedrooms. I live in a 6-person suite which means there are three bedrooms and therefore two bathrooms. (in a 4-p there's only one bathroom). So anyway, My freshman year I was thrown into the biggest suite in the building with 5 other girls. I was the techie and my roomate was/is a blonde britney wannabe. Did not go well at first, but now we're okay friends. It's just that the other roomates and I did not get on particularly well when it came to my busy schedule and my lack of time to do dishes. At the end of the year, I was sitting with my friends Mike and Eri in their friend Ali's room. Ali had an illegal pet in her room (a bunny named Alice) and so we were all playing with it. We were talking about roomates and how Mike didn't want to live in the building anymore, and how Ali hated her roomates and how I hated mine...and Ali and I decided we'd be sophomore-year roomates. This past year was a BALL. We were able to get a room with 4 other girls (one left before the fall semester started) who were pretty cool. But the girl who replaced Vanessa in the fall is a total moron. She's a ditzy film major who insists that Quentin Tarantino is in love with her and that she had a relationship with Michael Buble'. Anyway, she and Ali and I shared a bathroom...OOOOH the horrors. She would leave cakey makeup residue allover the bathroom, her **** would stink, her clothing would be all over the place, she never cleaned anything, she would be in the bathroom everymorning from 5:45am to 8:30am, so no one else could take a shower or use the bathroom---oh yeah, she refused to buy toilet paper. Once, Ali and I staged a sit-in. I sat in the bathroom and then showered from 5:30am to 7:30am and Ali sat in there from 7:30am to 9:30am. It was hysterical and Nicole (the biatch) was late for work for it. Oh, and the other thing...she likes to steal things. First of all, she eats everyone's food. One night at 1am, Riss (another roomate) woke up cuz she heard the fridge open (Nic likes to watch tv and eat other people's food from 12am to 2am) and the microwave on. She opened the door to her room to see Nicole run to the couch and sit on a tortilla wrapped in a papertowel. Ew. She was always stealing CHEESE, too. Oh, and BUTTER. It was SOOO gross the things we found in her desk...eoifasmvfasgh. ANyway, she also likes to steal other things. Like my makeup brushes. She stole my angle brush once, and I found it in her makeup bag. I put it back with my things and didn't say anything. Two days later it was missing again, so I asked her about it. She goes "what? what brush? oh...no...I don't know what you mean". So after she left I searched her stuff and found it in her desk. DUH.
This year we're stuck with her again, but Riss and Rivya have left us so Elyse, Ali and I will have to warn the 2 new roomates about the great Cheese caper.

[Yorkie1276]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:09pm

All I can say is never start dating your roommate. I learned that one the hard way.

[life_so_far]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 2:40pm

They switched me again... this is my third roommate and I haven't even started yet!

[JenniferWren]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:11am

I go to boarding scool nd i've got a few boarding scool pranks up my sleeve.... Me nd my old roomates used to put *used sanitry towels* (not acutally used we faked it with chocolate nd red paint)in ppls beds or stuck to their windows... classic!! (only in our frends beds as a joke, i'm not a bully dont worry. Tapping on peoples windows by leaning out ur window nd tapping it from afar with a long stick in the middle of the nite is anotha classic tht scares the poop out of ppl!!
O and ppl don't worry if ppl ditch u to go elsewhere. I've had 2 different roomies leave me, it doesnt mean they hate u.... unless the write on ur wall "I hate u"... which actually happened to me... its ok she was a biatch nd no one liked her... still hurts tho. Updated On: 8/30/05 at 11:11 AM

[Sporti2005]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:30am

my roommate and i get along so well! she tolerates my random taste in music (including a lot of bway and opera that most people would get sick of REALLY fast) and when we get stressed we turn on michael jackson really loud and jump around until we feel better.

it's fun!!

[Taryn]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:54am

Five days since moving day, and my roomate has yet to show up. >_>