Worst Roomates!!

KittenKrazy · Jul 20, 2005

Lets see.....my first year in the college dorms...the girl in the room next to me was a nursing student...worked and had a small child who lived with her mom, so she was very short on sleep......every morning her alarm would go off forever, not waking her, but everyone else up and down the hall! Someone would get up and go wake her up....turn off the alarm and make sure that she was up before they left her.

catsrnmom · Jul 20, 2005

My worst roomate had to be my 1st college roomate..now we knew each other from high school, and I thought this would be great, well it was far from great..she was a spoiled rich kid, whom has had her way for everything growing up, with no regard for others. She would stay up until 1am with all of the lights on in the room(because that was the way she wanted it), and at about midnight, she would take a shower, dry her hair, and make a whole lot of noise...then her alarm would go off at 4am(we didn't need to be anywhere until 7am, ever), and take another shower, dry hair, makeup, with all of the lights on, and lots of noise... Even when I would ask her not to keep all of the lights on, and quiet down so I could sleep, she refused

Needless to say after about 2 months of this, I transferred rooms, and I had a great roomate then, and we both liked to

krazy kat2 · Jul 20, 2005

When we moved back to Augusta, GA from Kansas CIty, (a very stupid move) my sister found us a basement apartment in a beautiful antebellum house in a nice part of town. The house had wooden floors, and the couple that lived upstairs drank and fought constantly. She had these horrible wooden clogs that she would put on and stomp around when she was mad, which was all the time. I talked to the landlord and her boyfriend, at which point she got worse. She would stomp around screaming she was going to kill someone if anyone said a word about her, because she never did anything wrong. The landlord evicted them, but they didn't move out until the same day we did. That was the first time I actually laid eyes on this loony *itch. The landlord wanted us to talk for some reason, but when we started walking toward her, she ran like a rabbit, right out of her wooden clogs. I still have them somewhere.

hobbester · Jul 20, 2005

Originally Posted by Yosemite

Yes that is my hubby. Did you think it was me and that I was a "he"?

Oh i've always wanted to tell you this, we have Bruce Willis on TCS!

i was lucky because i never had to deal with bad roommates. Though i had one who was kinda weird. She had some sort of medical condition (i don't really know what's it called) where she cannot have physical contact with anyone. She feels dirty all the time and would wash her hands frequently. i've always kept the apartment clean and never had any problems with her. But then she would eat/drink and leave the dirty plates and cups in the sink and never wash them. i end up washing it for her. She NEVER takes out the trash, and even leaves her carton of milk out at the counter for weeks!

Her boyfriend would come over, and she would make him wait outside the living room for a bit before she fully disinfects her room. i am responsible for cleaning up the common area all the time, she never does any vacuuming because she spends most of her time locked up in her room. And she would make a fuss if i have friends over, not even party friends, but my good friend whom i hang out with most of the time.

i had a cat back then too, and she said it was ok for me to cat a cat. And when i did, she made "rules" that he was only to stay in my room and she avoided him like plague. Argh, in the end i had to ask another friend to take care of my cat. But he didn't really take good care of Binky (my cat) and never told me when he wasn't feeling well. When he finally did and we took him to the vet, it was too late. He died of UTI.

i moved to US after i graduated.

ricalynn · Jul 20, 2005

Let's see, in college I had two roommies from hell. My freshman year was great because we were both students and had steady boyfriends. Sophomore year I had a party gal - would go out for college night on a Tues and come in at 3am, turn all the lights on, invite her friends in. . . Did she think I was deaf????? I moved out at winter break and in with a good friend, which worked well.
Then Junior year I had the spoiled little rich girl - Daddy was a doctor in another state, she had a 3yr old EXPEDITION, which she frequently parked in the NO PARKING zone under our window (3rd floor) and then got pi**ed off when they booted it. I knew things would not go well when on Day 3 I came back to the room to find the ugliest oil painting I've ever seen over MY desk - she had run out of wallspace on her side of the room, so she propped it (the largest of them all) on the shelf above my desk. "I got an A on it in Art class. Isnt it great????" uh-huh. She found out in early Nov that daddy'd been having an affair w/his receptionist for several years and her parents marriage was on the rocks. She was so distraught I almost felt sorry for her. Almost, but not quite. Was glad to be leaving school that winter to move in w/ my fiance (now ex)

gailc · Jul 20, 2005

Two stories

When I moved out on my own in after college. I had a mail roommate. Didn't even know him answered an ad for a roommate. Actually turned out ok (no shoveling in the winter!!) But there were 2 guys living upstair I think working pt time going to school??
Loved to blast stero late at night. We of course got up early for work so we did the same thing-playing rather loudly also. That took care of that!! Plus one of the upstairs guys worked for Cable TV and we got free cable tv installed!!

After I moved from their I answered another ad for a roommate. A bit closer to work, she seemed nice but was NEVER their. No problem with that or if she was I never saw her-this was an house converted to two apts so ours was pretty small. Her door was always shut. Once however last at night I heard her talking on phone and sobbing to the person on the other end-she was hospitalized on a local hospitals mental ward or in some type of halfway house. Turns out she was SEVERLY DEPRESSED and SUCICIDAL!!! After that phone coversation I was afraid I would find her hanging the next day in the shower. She did take lots of meds and wrote down the names and researched them-OMG!!! Turns out well as she did get better I think my positive attitude helped.

rosehawke · Jul 20, 2005

Well, I can see I missed a lot by not going out of town to college!

Cindy

yosemite · Jul 20, 2005

Originally Posted by Hobbester

Oh i've always wanted to tell you this, we have Bruce Willis on TCS!

He's my Dutch Treat!

lionessrampant · Jul 20, 2005

Originally Posted by lovemycodygirl

Yep, I hear ya there on Roommate #3! Mine was also VERY moody...would be in a great mood one minute and then not talk to me for a couple weeks and I had no idea what had happened. Very odd individual. She would borrow my things without asking...and when I asked for them back, she'd make ME feel bad. It was very emotional draining...and she NEVER cleaned...EVER! The last straw was when I told her about this house I was going to go look at...she had an appointment to look at the very next day. Talk about backstabbing!!!

Oh, and she freaked Cody out...that's always a good sign as to whether the person was nice or not...if Cody didn't like her, beware!

Oh yeah, Leo never liked her much either. And she would get really emotional about how the cat hated her and it was apparently my fault for not training him to like her. I swear, some people!

ginger's mum · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by Yosemite

Yes that is my hubby. Did you think it was me and that I was a "he"?

Yup, that's what I thought

katspixiedust · Jul 21, 2005

I had the CRAZIEST roommate ever between 2003-2004. Oh my LORD was she a nutcase!!!

Let me give you a *few* (if I gave them all I would be here all day) choice examples of life with her...

She had a boyfriend that she suspected was cheating on her, so one day when he was not home she went over to his apartment. I get this phone call saying, "Katherine you're going to think i'm crazy." Too late, I think to myself, but instead I say, "WHY?! What did you do??" "I broke into A***'s apartment because I thought he was cheating on me and I found out he's not." Ummmmmm.......yeah, crazy fit that one about right.

During the year she got a bunch of new furniture that needed to be assembled. She, Brendan, and I set to work on it and started putting it together. However she only managed to get about 2 legs on one piece of furniture (mind you there were 4 dining table chairs, the dining table, a coffee table, and two end tables to put together) before she quit and shut herself in her room. So Brendan and I put ALL of this furniture together. Then, because she was refusing to come out of her room we arranged the furniture in the living room so it wasn't laying all over the place. Eventually the roommate comes out and immediately flies off the handle, storms out, comes back, is screaming on the phone with her mom, slams the door in her room as she goes back in there, and never says a word to Brendan and I. Turns out she was pissed that we arranged the furniture since after all it was *her* furniture. Um, excuse me?! #1 it's not like you can't move it and #2 you weren't out here what did you THINK we were going to do! Ahhh!

She got a B in a class one semester, now, if you know this girl you would know that NOTHING is ever her fault. I'm not joking either, everything that goes wrong comes about because of someone or something elses actions, NOT hers. So she comes back to the apartment with her new boyfriend and is throwing textbooks against the wall and screaming at the top of her lungs at her boyfriend as he tries to calm her down. Turns out she was going nuts because she got a B in a class that she INSISTS she should have gotten an A in. According to her boyfriend she should NOT have gotten an A because she never studied and it was her own doing, but according to the roommate it's the PROFESSOR's fault! So, she continued screaming, crying, and throwing things around the room for a LONG time before her boyfriend took her out for a walk to relax.

This girl had an Australian Shepard (which was unruly because she never attempted to stick with the training after she paid for a trainer to teach him) and one day she was cleaning her room while her boyfriend was in the living room folding her laundry. Suddenly she screams at him to take the *bleep*ing dog because it just pissed on the floor and it was the boyfriend's fault because he should have known to take him out in the first place. The boyfriend doesn't live there and it's NOT the boyfriend's dog! She was constantly forcing him to take care of the dog, and she was so MAD at her boyfriend because the dog pissed on the floor that she slammed her bedroom door and wouldn't talk to him for half an hour!

I could go on with these stories for ages, because I have more than you could ever imagine. I'll just end by saying that I am a very patient and levelheaded person, I don't fly off the handle and if I'm living with you I'm going to do everything in my power to make it a comfortable situation. This is why I only ever confronted her to get her to tell me what was wrong, and never blew up at her. At the end of our living together however she ended up leaving me a note (because she never confronted anyone to their face, she said all of her choice words in notes and emails) with quite a few choice words about what she thought of me. This came about because I borrowed her hair straightener (after she had once before told me I could, and that if i needed it it was underneath her sink) and because she THOUGHT I was eating her food (which I never did mind you, in fact I told all my friends to stay away from her food -- conveniently marked with her first initial on the top since she's SO whacked).

I haven't spoken to her since she wrote me that letter, but I have spoken to her boyfriend who has been nothing but apologetic about the way she is. He's known that she was crazy and has been trying for two years now to get her to see why she continually loses friends, and to try to get her to take responsibility for her own life. He's told me before that the old roommate does feel some remorse for the way she treated me at the end, as she realizes she went too far without ever asking me if I did any of the things she accused me of, but she's too proud to ever say she's sorry.

So, that's my crazy roommate tale. Sorry it's so long. I could probably write a full novel about my experiences with her.

ricalynn · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by katspixiedust

I had the CRAZIEST roommate ever between 2003-2004. Oh my LORD was she a nutcase!!!

I haven't spoken to her since she wrote me that letter, but I have spoken to her boyfriend who has been nothing but apologetic about the way she is. He's known that she was crazy and has been trying for two years now to get her to see why she continually loses friends, and to try to get her to take responsibility for her own life.

That poor misguided man! Doesn't he realized it's her job to figure that out. That girl needs serious therapy - and maybe some downers, can you say "High strung"??!!??

lionessrampant · Jul 21, 2005

Oh my goodness, Katherine...you can be the president of the 'We've Had Terrible Roommates' club!

graykittenlove · Jul 21, 2005

You know reading all these stories makes me very happy that I never had a roommate. I have a temper and I don't see myself being able to not tell so of them off.

katspixiedust · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by RicaLynn

That poor misguided man! Doesn't he realized it's her job to figure that out. That girl needs serious therapy - and maybe some downers, can you say "High strung"??!!??

Yeah she is the very definition of high strung! All of my friends and boyfriend couldn't stand her. After meeting her they would always ask, "What is wrong with that girl?" and all I would ever do is try to point out her positive aspects because after all, I had to live with her for a year and I wanted to make the best of it. At the end I couldn't be bothered to come up with anything positive, it was just too much of a stretch! My experiences with her REALLY make me appreciate the roommate I have now, I can tell you that much!!!!

katspixiedust · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

Oh my goodness, Katherine...you can be the president of the 'We've Had Terrible Roommates' club!

Hooray! I've never gotten to be president of anything before!!

hobbester · Jul 21, 2005

LOL omg Katherine, you have my utmost respect. i don't know how you dealt with a girl like that for a WHOLE YEAR! Her bf must be a really good guy with a good heart, to stick around and believe in her for so long.

It's funny reading your stories and trying to picture it, i really wouldn't mind if you could post more

i'm just glad i have a fulltime roommate now that i can bear with for the rest of my life - the husband

loveysmummy · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by Ginger's Mum

Yup, that's what I thought

Actually I thought that for a long while too, Yosemite..Until you said a few things that didn't ...errrr quite click with being a "he"

and then I realized!!

vespacat · Jul 21, 2005

Originally Posted by Hydroaxe

LOL!!!

You're in Sioux Lookout girl! Isn't that the only think to do when it's dark besides sleep?

Yep, Ryan's right about that one!

Trust me, I know how it is... I lived in rez and THAT was brutal. But then sometimes I was the one causing all the noise.

boys mum · Jul 21, 2005

not a bad room mate,but bad neighbours who lived upstairs to me,thewy had laminated flooring and 2 kids,who where hyperactive from 6am through to gone midnight every night,they just didint stop the noise

eventully we had to say something and charlie had a quiet chat with the husband,that night she was on the doorstep really snotty and up her self!! but the noise quietened down 11pm at night it went quiet,(bit better) well eventully we found out they where looking at a house to move into in,boy party time we where over the moon

we have now got a lovely neighbour who has laid carpet (a bonus) she has a son but hes in bed by 8pm

just have watch my other neighbour shes ok but suffers from PMT badly,so i keep clear for 2 weeks every month

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