Do you get along with your roommate?

[Neon Ness]

I've got my share of crazy roommate stories, and I was just wondering how well my fellow SWFers got along with their roommates.

For instance, this morning I was eating breakfast in my room, and my roommate was about to get out of his bed when he suddenly says "Dude... close your eyes for a second, I'm naked... and I don't know how I got naked..." Needless to say, I was o__________0. Also, sometimes he watches movies/holds loud Skype conversations with one of his many girlfriends late at night when I'm trying to sleep. I'm not saying I hate him or anything... he just has irritating habits. He's also drunk a lot.

Anyone got any roommate stories?

 

[Xsyven]

My current room mate rocks. We've decided that if we don't end up marrying in our life, that we'd move back in together. She's that awesome.

I've also had 2 other great room mates, and one bad room mate.

The only problem with the bad one was that though she she was cool, but she'd never buy toilet paper, milk, cleaning supplies, etc.

And one of the two good room mates turned out to be a nutso. One day he got really depressed and drank a lot of stuff under the sink in an attempt to kill himself. Made my room mate and I restrain him from drinking anything else as I called 911. Crazy ****.

 

[Azua]

Ugh...where to begin...


My first "Roommate" was an extremely immature and controlling boyfriend, although he didn't get like that until he moved in with me.
He also had a bunch of people over at MY APARTMENT without my permission while I was down in Dallas visiting Scav&co. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but a lot of his friends are drug addicts, and I want them nowhere near my things or my apartment, ever. He also tried to lie about it and cover it up until one of our mutual friends found out he was trying weasel his way out of it.
Needless to say, it didn't last long before I gave him the boot. He stole a bunch of my stuff from my apartment [including my Chinese Water Dragon, wtf.] but neglected to remember I had spare keys to his car.
There was also an issue I was still dealing with about the landlord and the condition the apartment was in when I first moved in. Details aside, I had an open-and-shut case I could start, so the landlord just gave me all of my rent money back plus the money that was used to waive the lease, since the lease wasn't valid due to the conditions of the apartment.
My ex is the one that paid to waive the lease, and he paid half of the rent, so I just considered it payment for him stealing a bunch of my things.
Karma....it's a *****.

I moved to another apartment.

The next roommate was someone that was genuinely down on her luck. She had a kid with her now-ex-husband before figuing out that he was cheating, and after the divorce she moved out into a small house. It was working out fine until she was laid off from GM. Moving back in with her dad wasn't an option, he lives in Mississippi and she wanted to stay in the area. She and her son lived with me for about two months before she got a different job with GM. We actually got along quite well, and her son wasn't a brat.


The next guy turned into a psycho after he started hanging out with his cokehead brother. I ended up needing a restraining order to get him to quit harassing me after he was kicked out.

I had an almost-girlfriend, Cherrie, stay with me for a while when she was fighting with her mother. [she was 22 at the time, I'm not a pedo]
Well, to put it bluntly, Cherrie needs to keep taking her depression meds. She decided she didn't need them while she lived with me, stopped taking them, and almost instantly spiraled out of control. I had to have her mother and father come get her after one of her episodes, and she stayed in a psych ward for three weeks after that.

I moved again after that, this time moving in with a good friend of mine at work to help her pay her bills/get me the hell out of the hood for a while.
Her boyfriend of a few years died in a car accident and she was left with the bills they both used to pay, plus being grief-stricken in a place alone isn't really all that fun.
It was great for about 4 months, but her depression never seemed to get any better.
Slowly, she started staying out in the bars longer, then she just stopped coming home for days at a time.
Heavy drinking combined with heavy ecstacy use are not good for depression. It quickly got out of control.
She was never home so we [her friends and I] could talk to her about it... when we'd try to confront her wherever she was, she'd just disregard it and disappear back into the crowd.
Then one day in late October, the power shut off. Apparently, the money I was giving her wasn't going to the rent and bills anymore.

I had met Cody sometime during my stay with this girl, and he offered to let me stay with him until the power was turned back on.
After a month, we went up there and got all of my clothes and things and moved them down to where I was staying. I looked at apartments around the area, but none of them seemed to be affordable and not in the ghetto at the same time.

The power didn't come back on until December. Cody was upset because he thought I was going to leave, but there was no way in hell I was going back up there.
He finally told me he wanted me to stay *here* instead of find an apartment.

I've lived her for over a year and a couple months now, we seem to get along pretty good.

 

[TheManaLord]

My first roomate was the smelliest and messiest mother ****er ever. Nice guy, but he was in a frat, was drunk all the time, and was aforementioned smelly and messy. Literally, it was so smelly, that the room was closed for two semesters after I had moved out of it, it had to get sterilized, and I've lived in the same floor for a while and the room still has that weird funk odor that I once frequently vomited over (not literally).

My second roomate was a stonewall quite weirdo so it wasn't a nice living environment.

My roomate now is great. Good living finally v.v ^.^

 

[Espy Rose]

My roommate happens to be my cousin that I always hung out with when we were young.
Needless to say, we get along fine, despite our amazingly different lifestyles, personalities, and upbringings.

 

[SuperBowser]

^Wow, Azua you must be a pretty patient person to put up with some of the people you had.

My first flatmate was pretty funny. He had never cooked in his life so I was teaching how to make an omelette. I left him in the kitchen with a heated pan and an egg. Two minutes later I come back to find the egg splattered on the floor . We were polar opposites on just about anything - politics, food, clothes, hobbies, religion, work ethic, you name it. But we got along surprisingly well. He may very well be living with me and my current housemates next year.

Since the second year though, I've lived in a house of 5 guys. There's an atheist, agnostic, Hindu, Muslim and evangelical Christian and everyone gets along great. We get up to pretty crazy/weird/funny things and it means we have some hilarious *cough*racist*cough* banter, but it's always in jest. Occasionally, we get interesting discussions too.

There was a night where we walked across half of London instead of getting to a party, a night where we went to a restaurant at 3am for no apparrent reason and a night where we played catch outside to 6am in the morning, despite it being 2 days before end of year exams.

The only downside is our kitchen after a night out. So bad....

 

[1048576]

My current room mate rocks. We've decided that if we don't end up marrying in our life, that we'd move back in together. She's that awesome.

I've also had 2 other great room mates, and one bad room mate.

The only problem with the bad one was that though she she was cool, but she'd never buy toilet paper, milk, cleaning supplies, etc.

And one of the two good room mates turned out to be a nutso. One day he got really depressed and drank a lot of stuff under the sink in an attempt to kill himself. Made my room mate and I restrain him from drinking anything else as I called 911. Crazy ****.

That's messed up that you stopped him. Who gave you the right to decide what to do with his life?

My roommate is cool. He talks loudly on the phone every night and always has the music blaring while I'm trying to study, and he never does any cleaning/general maintenance, but I assume I have annoying habits too, so I haven't said anything. Also, he left food out and now we have ants

 

[Bowser King]

That's messed up that you stopped him. Who gave you the right to decide what to do with his life?

I hope that's sarcasm. If not, you upset me -_-

-Bowser King

 

[notftomearth7]

My roommate over the summer was that one guy in the building nobody liked because everybody thought he was stupid. He was a cool guy, and had the tendency to ramble when he thought he was giving inspiring speeches, but like I said, cool guy.

 

[Neon Ness]

Sounds like even our friendly neighborhood moderators have had their share of not so great roommates. Also, Azua's story of uninvited house guests reminded me of something that happened at the beginning of the semester. My roommate had some people over, and one of them was playing Call of Duty 4. He suddenly says "I'ma get that n*gger!" Yeah, while I was sitting right there. He claimed he was joking or whatever, but still... not the greatest first impression you can give. After that he starts going on about how he's a devout Christian... and stuff. Besides that incident, though, he seems pretty cool, I guess.

Also, last year one of our suite mates threw up in our sink and our entire suite stank for the rest of the school year. This year we have ants because someone left soup bowls in the bathroom. With soup still in them...

SuperBowser, it's awesome that you know how to make omelettes. For reasons you probably don't understand.

 

[Azua]

Get some Terro for the ants, it seems to get rid of them pretty fast.

 

[_Phloat_]

Get some Terro for the ants, it seems to get rid of them pretty fast.

Who drinks soup in the bathroom?

 

[Azua]

I honestly don't know, but aside from the bathroom, I've eaten everywhere in my house.

 

[_umbra_]

I get along with mine well. I tend to stay up really late, and he's a really deep sleeper, so that works out well. Like, one night I stumbled into my room drunk and knocked all the stuff off my desk and he just kept snoring lol. He also goes home every weekend, so I get the room to myself

 

[JLynn943]

I've had a ton of roommates so far at college

My freshman year, I was in one big room with 3 other guys. All 3 of them drank a lot and are in frats now. One was a genuinely nice guy. The other two, well...they weren't bad, but we're very different people and didn't really mesh well. I don't drink at all, and I'm sort of socially awkward, while they drink a lot and were really sociable.

We had parties in our room that basically our whole building went too. I'd be stuck either staying in the room or going over next door to some friends who also shared one big room. My roommates tried to be understanding, and really did put out an effort to not hold to many random parties, or at least let me know ahead of time.

The one time we had probably 20-25 people in our room and it got too loud, and the party was busted, so everyone ran out the backdoor (yes, conveniently our room had a second door leading to the common room). My roommates didn't know if I got written up because I left when it got busted and went next door, so they came back to make sure I wasn't going to get into trouble for something I didn't do.

Sophomore year, I lived in an on-campus apartment with 2 of the 3 guys that lived next door to me freshman year and a guy I didn't really know. That year was really good, even though I kinda got screwed over when they were getting a house off campus for this year... They asked 6 people if they wanted to live in a 5 person house, so I ended up being the one not to do it.

Instead, this year I'm in an apartment with 2 friends I met sophomore year. One I didn't really know until this year, but he roomed with the other friend last year. So far so good, because even when we have parties, I know all the people. One of my roommates is going to Hong Kong next semester though, so I've got no clue what's gonna happen next semester.


*looks at wall of test* uhhh....sorry

 

[slave1]

my room mate i have known sense middle school. he is cool. we are completely opposite of each other in a lot of ways. politics, work ethic, sleeping patterns , you name it. he stays up till three or hour most nights. i go to sleep at midnight. we both play smash, gears of war, and halo. he leaves his clothing every where and hates having the door open, even though i love having the door open.

he is way cool though, and is fine with my weird self that i am. yeah we have little drama like you people.

 

[Neon Ness]

He also goes home every weekend, so I get the room to myself

Every weekend? Sounds like a freshman. Or just someone fortunate enough to live close enough to go home that often. Gas prices = heck. Well, they used to anyway.

 

[_umbra_]

both... lol

I would never want to go home on weekends, penn state is so much fun. I'm not complaining though, privacy is nice