Originally Posted by Hobbester
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 morei'm just glad i have a fulltime roommate now that i can bear with for the rest of my life - the husband
The first time my old roommate ever met my best friend was when she was dating her ex-boyfriend (the one who's apartment she broke into). I was in the living room with my friend when the roommate comes out very angry and visibly upset about something. Turns out she found a post by her then boyfriend on his Livejournal where he was venting about problems he was having with her. The roommate then proceeds to read us this letter, go on and on about how it hurt her, tell us that she's written him an email giving him hell, and that even though it's hurt her so badly she's going to KEEP this journal entry (which she had already printed out) and in fact put it in her SCRAPBOOK. She didn't want to forget what he had "done" to her! My friend and I tried to talk her down and explain that he was simply venting and that though it hurt her feelings, she needed to let it go. We told her it was NOT wise to keep such an item in a scrapbook, but of course she wouldn't listen. Again, this was my best friend's FIRST time meeting her! Talk about making an impression.
One day her ex broke up with her and my old roommate was devastated, understandably. However she wasn't handling it the way most people do and she became obsessed with getting him back. She ended up forcing him to come over (he refused numerous times before he gave in and agreed) and when he came she threw herself on the grass (the meeting took place outside our apartment, as he wasn't comfortable coming inside) at his feet and began "serenading" him with one of his favorite songs that happened to be aobut needing someone back. I watched from the window and was infinitely embarrassed for her. She hugged his legs, got down on her knees and begged while she sang, and had a little (ridiculous) dance made up to it. As soon as she was done he took off and I couldn't believe she put herself through that.
Her Australian Shepard was an "illegal" pet in the fact that she had not paid the pet deposit for him. She didn't think she should have to since I had already paid one for Waffle. Anyway, the leasing agents at our complex are good about knowing their residents and one of them caught her outside walking her dog. The agent, knowing full well she didn't pay for that dog ended up writing us up and one day I found an eviction notice on the door, stating taht if she didn't get rid of the dog we would be evicted in 7 days. The roommate wasn't home at the time and upon finding this letter I immediately called the front office and asked exactly what the roommate needed to do (and even covered for her stating that the dog was not hers and was only there for a visit) and then called the roommate right after. Well, the roommate (again, never thinking anything is her fault) came home and went on and on about how they never saw the dog in the apartment and that it was all the COMPLEXES fault, using some OUTRAGEOUS and incredibly offensive words for our particular leasing agent (who mind you, has been nothing but great to me for the 4 years I've lived in this complex). She ended up doing what she needed to do to keep us out of trouble, but she never got over the fact that the complex was TERRIBLE and a bunch of liars. I couldn't BELIEVE she actually thought that the complex was to blame. It REALLY blew my mind!!!
In that lovely note she wrote me calling me quite a few choice words (mentioned earlier) she also mentioned that the place was filthy and it was all MY FAULT (let's bear in mind here that she would leave dirty dishes and pots unrinsed for a week if I didn't end up doing them...yuck)! One day I had vacuumed with our bagless cleaner and FORGOT to dump it after vacuuming (she believed that after one use in our apartment the thing was full and wouldn't function with whatever had been sucked up already still in there...TOTALLY not true, it was never even 1/4 of the way filled) before putting it away. When her current boyfriend explained to me what she meant by the place being filthy (which it REALLY, REALLY wasn't) he told me that she was referring to the VACUUM CLEANER not being dumped!!! Apparently that makes a place filthy! So, with that note she wrote me she also was kind enough to dump the contents of the vacuum out, since I had forgotten to do it....ALL OVER THE LIVING ROOM. Apparently in her mind that's the mature way to handle things. Not only that but she let her dog piss in the corner of the dining room and never cleaned it up, and wouldn't let her boyfriend clean it up because she was moving and was so angry at me about the "filthy" apartment (i.e. unemptied vacuum), me borrowing her straightener, and my apparent stealing of her food (which I NEVER ONCE touched) that she thought letting dog piss fester on the carpet until I discovered it was a fair and understandable action to take.
I was SO happy when she was gone!!! What's sad is that there are even more stories that could be told about her, even after this post and the last! I felt sorry for her much of the time, as I felt that she would never truly be happy. Something in her world always needed (I felt that in some weird way she needed it this way) to be wrong, and I watched her lose about 5 friends throughout the year for some truly ridiculous things. It was an experience, and I think I can safely say that I could live with about ANYONE after her!
