RANT: I hate roomates
I swear.
I have two roomates, S and T. T has been living here before I got here, but this house is owned by my parent so I'm responsible for it. S just moved in December 1st. T works a job from 5PM to 2AM and parties until 6-7 at someone elses house, so I literally don't see him. Ever.
NO-ONE DOES ANYTHING. I swear. Roomate S doesn't need roomates, he needs a mom. He is the only one who uses our dishes 90% of the time, and he has only done the dishes once (or twice) since he's moved in (3 months or so). He always has shady people over and always thinks our house is a party house by blasting techno music until 11 at night and having people over to smoke pot. BTW, he promised he wasn't going to smoke pot all of Feb. because he didn't want to hurt our friendship (since he knows I hate it). That lasted... oh.... 3 days.
I lent him $150 for us to buy an Xbox 360 on Novemeber 18th and he didn't fully pay me back 'til last week. He's left the front door (and back door) wide open all night. He left EVERY SINGLE LIGHT on in the house and he wasn't even home. He leaves his dirty laundry out, his dirty dishes out, and he goes into my room to borrow my laptop.
WTF! I swear, if he defaults on rent I am going to kick him out like woh!
I have two roomates, S and T. T has been living here before I got here, but this house is owned by my parent so I'm responsible for it. S just moved in December 1st. T works a job from 5PM to 2AM and parties until 6-7 at someone elses house, so I literally don't see him. Ever.
NO-ONE DOES ANYTHING. I swear. Roomate S doesn't need roomates, he needs a mom. He is the only one who uses our dishes 90% of the time, and he has only done the dishes once (or twice) since he's moved in (3 months or so). He always has shady people over and always thinks our house is a party house by blasting techno music until 11 at night and having people over to smoke pot. BTW, he promised he wasn't going to smoke pot all of Feb. because he didn't want to hurt our friendship (since he knows I hate it). That lasted... oh.... 3 days.
I lent him $150 for us to buy an Xbox 360 on Novemeber 18th and he didn't fully pay me back 'til last week. He's left the front door (and back door) wide open all night. He left EVERY SINGLE LIGHT on in the house and he wasn't even home. He leaves his dirty laundry out, his dirty dishes out, and he goes into my room to borrow my laptop.
WTF! I swear, if he defaults on rent I am going to kick him out like woh!
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My last flatmate was like that: he never vacuumed the apartment once - left dishes in the sink, and always left toothpaste marks over the sink bowl. Incapable of cooking, and definitely not house trained. Even worse, he'd end up spraying the window with the shower hose completely drenching the cotton blinds. It wasn't the lighting he left on - he'd leave the central heating on in summer, in order to dry his clothes on the radiator. I'd be sweltering, and he'd insist that it was only for a short period, as we had to open the windows and doors, just so that he could dry his clothes.
His most amazing trait was that he never seemed to use any toilet roll. I'm still amazed at that. I don't know how that's possible, but anyway, I never got to ask him.
I swear, after his second birthday we are going to have a serious talk with him...
my replacement roomate after the above failed and transfered to berkley, was from nicarugua (sp)
who was part of a govt bilingual education program. only he couldn't speak english so how could he teach someone else to, but hey that's your tax dollars at work and another story. about a month after he started, he faked his own suicide, hiding in the closet taking criptic notes while the entire city police and campus police were looking for him, once found he said he was doing a psycology experiment.
then i got the room all to myself and kept it that way till senior year and graduation.
so don't tell me about room mates.
my buddy had a basketball player which could do no harm, till he got drunk pulled up a bunch of trees and held his sacraficial girlfriend over the 3rd floor balcony by her ankle till the cops convinced him to let her go.....my buddy also finished the year alone. so maybe the moral is get a freak much better odds they implode and leave you to your peace and solitude.
All the roommate experiences in my life were pretty good overall.
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...Even worse, he'd end up spraying the window with the shower hose completely drenching the cotton blinds. ...
His most amazing trait was that he never seemed to use any toilet roll. I'm still amazed at that. I don't know how that's possible, but anyway, I never got to ask him.
I think I see a connection there.
Man, you guys live/d with a bunch of losers!
All the roommate experiences in my life were pretty good overall.
Haha.
Seconded.
It really pays to screen your roommates as well as you can ahead of signing the lease. Talk about your expectations beforehand, etc. Almost like you're getting married.
Man, you guys live/d with a bunch of losers!
All the roommate experiences in my life were pretty good overall.
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Err...you're more likely to be that room mate we're talking about...
Shawn's the second
And both of you probably don't use toilet paper either huh?
I think I see a connection there.
Living with him, I really didn't want to see any connection between the two!
So in the room next door one night one roommate comes home drunk and proceeds to take a leak in the "sink" and instead gave his roommate a golden shower in the face.
Err...you're more likely to be that room mate we're talking about...
Shawn's the second
And both of you probably don't use toilet paper either huh?
I will admit to being the messy one. Sometime I'll leave a sink full of dishes for a day or two, and yes, I don't leave much space for my roomie's things in the freezer. Maybe the occasional glob of toothpaste in the sink. But we seem to get along just fine.
Err...you're more likely to be that room mate we're talking about...
Shawn's the second
And both of you probably don't use toilet paper either huh?
Hey, I'm innocent
Seriously though, if you're in a situation where you can put some thought into who you live with, it usually works out. Sometimes not even that's needed. When I was in grad school I hadn't met either of my roommates until the day we moved in, and it worked out well.
Guess it depends - are you the kind of guy who needs a home to move into, or can you make a place a home for yourself and others?
Usually when people 'vet' a flat mate, out comes the inflated CV claiming that they've been housetrained.
A bit like university - once you join the faculty, then that's when they start treating you like ____
One of my roomates has never cleaned a dish. He tosses food on the floor, drinks all the time and is known to puke. He does try to sweep some of the time, but he is horribly inefective. He sleeps and wakes at the oddest times. He has never paid a cent in rent, though, to be fair, he did not sign the lease.
I swear, after his second birthday we are going to have a serious talk with him...
Someone really should have posted an lol here before now. Just me that chuckled here? Oh well, thanks for brightening up my day!