Roommate Rants

[Zephyrus]

Use this thread to blow off some steam of frustrations regarding the annoying aspects of your college roommate, significant other, or anyone else you have to share a space with for the better part of your day/night.


I'll start with a few words concerning my roommate. First off, he's quiet and keeps to himself, having no social life whatsoever. He's very polite and courteous when necessary.

Sounds great, but it isn't so much. He's a fat fucker, definitely over 300 lbs. His diet consists of NOTHING but hot dogs and french fries for lunch and dinner every single fucking day. I'd say something about it, but I don't want to sound nosy or imperious. He's so out of shape he's well out of breath from climbing two flights of stairs and when he walks he swings his arms like Bigfoot. He's a complete slob. His side of the room is a war-zone with clothes and papers, books and what-not scattered about. I have to spray some Glade every day to keep away the smell. I swear if he didn't have classes every day he would be inside at his computer the entire day. And what does he do at his computer? Lately he's been spending the better part of his waking hours watching people playing video games on Youtube, and when he's not doing that he's watching "Price is Right" re-runs.

But perhaps the most annoying thing he does is when he instant messages people on Yahoo messenger. He ends every single sentence he writes with a string of dozens of fucking smilies, typing out each one. You know what that sounds like on a keyboard? All the fucking time, and he's the loudest typist I've ever shared a proximity with.

Now I may sound like I'm bitching about his lifestyle, well I am, because his way of life is unhealthy. The way he eats, the way he spends his time, it's going to lead him to an early grave, and I feel it's not my business to interfere with his sad life, so I'll just let it be. So sad...


Well that made me feel better. Bring on the rants!

 

[Valerie]

Be careful, he might end up on this site and find your post

 

[Zephyrus]

I hope he does, and maybe it will help him change. He's way too polite to confront me about anything negative. He won't even sit with me and my friends at dinner because once a friend of mine asked him "so are hot dogs and french fries your favorite food or do they not serve your preferred brand of caviar here?"

 

[The Ozzman]

This reminds me of a shirt I've heard about:

Front:
Exercise. Eat Right.


Back:
Die Anyway.

 

[A8]

Can these rants be about small places you share, such as lockers for example?

 

[Valerie]

You should try talking to him more, try to become his friend, then it'll probably be easier and less awkward for you to drop a mention of your concern.

 

[Zephyrus]

Can these rants be about small places you share, such as lockers for example?

Go for it.

 

[A8]

Here it is:

I share a locker with one of my closest friends at school. Originally when asked I thought it would be a good idea, seeing how tidy he was with his room. I assumed the locker would be no different. Well, a couple weeks in I found out I was sadly mistaken. Everyday in the morning, during classes, before lunch, and after school I have to rumage through his disgusting shit to get to my books, gym clothes, lunch, etc. He leaves dirty gym clothes (and I mean dirty- wet sweat stains, and god knows whatever else stains, smelling like they came out of a fresh pile of toxic waste and crap.) The smell actually permeates my books and bags so I end up smelling it all day long. I've also started finding lunches....5 week old warm black mold encrusted cold cuts that he forgot to take out of the locker (this also contributes to the horrible smell.) I have to procede to pick up these digusting ancient artifacts and dispose of them myself. I've had soda, juice, and coffee spill and ruin notebooks, things of mine taken home with him by mistake, and one time he actually took my personal things out of the locker and put them on the ground in front so he could fit more of his stuff in.

The thing is I've already discussed it with him and it isn't changing. He's one of my best most caring friends and yet he seems uncapable of doing this one thing for me. I already went to try to get a new locker, but there is a shortage and I'll have to wait. It's hard because I take out so many library books, and I have lots of notebooks and texts for my classes that I can't carry around with me, but I can't leave them at home. I really don't know how to deal with it.

 

[Cythraul]

I live alone precisely to avoid these kinds of things.

 

[The Ozzman]

See, maybe you should try and encourage him to do some form of exercise with you.

I have a few rants about roommates:

1) My roommate freshman year was the biggest introvert known to man. He came in as a sophomore because of all the AP credit he got as a senior. Double engineering major. The only gripes I have about him is that he played nothing but country music and that whenever he smoked a cigar, our room would reek of cigar smoke.

I found out sophomore year that he was actually gay, but it didn't surprise me.

2) My roommate sophomore year ran cross country (I should have figured something was wrong with him when he told me this). Secondly, he would only do laundry once a month. That meant a pile of clothes about 4 feet high would be in the corner of our room and it would smell like shit. Thirdly, he didn't have a computer of his own for a while, so I let him use my piece of shit laptop (since my tower was having problems. I got a new laptop about 4 months later). I would want to get on when I got back from class and he'd be on. So I'd wait about 20 minutes and then ask him politely if I could get back on. Well, he wouldn't. I, not wanting to cause any animosity, said nothing. If he was using it when I was in class, all I asked was that he log off his screen name when he was finished using it. He didn't do this half the time, which infuriated me more. He disrespected his mom on the phone and that was probably what bugged me the most.

When I would snore, he would always wake me up to get me to stop. This motherfucker refused to wear earplugs to, so it's his fucking fault he was an insomniac for almost the entire year. I say almost because he moved out with 5 weeks left in the school year because he couldn't take my snoring anymore. I think it was just because he wanted to have his own room so he could boink his girlfriend whenever he wanted. She was a fucking bitch though.

I transferred schools after sophomore year and lived at home. It worked out better for me.

 

[The Ozzman]

Here it is:

I share a locker with one of my closest friends at school. Originally when asked I thought it would be a good idea, seeing how tidy he was with his room. I assumed the locker would be no different. Well, a couple weeks in I found out I was sadly mistaken. Everyday in the morning, during classes, before lunch, and after school I have to rumage through his disgusting shit to get to my books, gym clothes, lunch, etc. He leaves dirty gym clothes (and I mean dirty- wet sweat stains, and god knows whatever else stains, smelling like they came out of a fresh pile of toxic waste and crap.) The smell actually permeates my books and bags so I end up smelling it all day long. I've also started finding lunches....5 week old warm black mold encrusted cold cuts that he forgot to take out of the locker (this also contributes to the horrible smell.) I have to procede to pick up these digusting ancient artifacts and dispose of them myself. I've had soda, juice, and coffee spill and ruin notebooks, things of mine taken home with him by mistake, and one time he actually took my personal things out of the locker and put them on the ground in front so he could fit more of his stuff in.

The thing is I've already discussed it with him and it isn't changing. He's one of my best most caring friends and yet he seems uncapable of doing this one thing for me. I already went to try to get a new locker, but there is a shortage and I'll have to wait. It's hard because I take out so many library books, and I have lots of notebooks and texts for my classes that I can't carry around with me, but I can't leave them at home. I really don't know how to deal with it.

Get a new lock and don't give him the combination

 

[Valerie]

I never lived in a dorm, I stayed in my apartment all through college.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

These stories are great. Keep 'em coming, guys.

 

[A8]

Get a new lock and don't give him the combination

The lock is built into the locker

 

[The Ozzman]

The lock is built into the locker

Change the combination

 

[A8]

Change the combination

I'll talk to a janitor, I wasn't sure if I could do that.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I live at home.

 

[Matt]

I live alone precisely to avoid these kinds of things.

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Use this thread to blow off some steam of frustrations regarding the annoying aspects of your college roommate, significant other, or anyone else you have to share a space with for the better part of your day/night.


I'll start with a few words concerning my roommate. First off, he's quiet and keeps to himself, having no social life whatsoever. He's very polite and courteous when necessary.

Sounds great, but it isn't so much. He's a fat fucker, definitely over 300 lbs. His diet consists of NOTHING but hot dogs and french fries for lunch and dinner every single fucking day. I'd say something about it, but I don't want to sound nosy or imperious. He's so out of shape he's well out of breath from climbing two flights of stairs and when he walks he swings his arms like Bigfoot. He's a complete slob. His side of the room is a war-zone with clothes and papers, books and what-not scattered about. I have to spray some Glade every day to keep away the smell. I swear if he didn't have classes every day he would be inside at his computer the entire day. And what does he do at his computer? Lately he's been spending the better part of his waking hours watching people playing video games on Youtube, and when he's not doing that he's watching "Price is Right" re-runs.

But perhaps the most annoying thing he does is when he instant messages people on Yahoo messenger. He ends every single sentence he writes with a string of dozens of fucking smilies, typing out each one. You know what that sounds like on a keyboard? All the fucking time, and he's the loudest typist I've ever shared a proximity with.

You should make him come with you on a bike ride or something.

I know this will accomplish a lot, but still. Also try to include him in social activities. I've been in his position before (as have you), and you know what it feels like.

[/socialworker]

 

[cookiecutter]

When I would snore, he would always wake me up to get me to stop. This motherfucker refused to wear earplugs to, so it's his fucking fault he was an insomniac for almost the entire year.

Seriously, that's your fault. Wear a breathe right strip. He shouldn't have to wear earplugs because you snore.

I guess I got lucky because my room mate is a very easy going nice going nice guy. We share our stuff a lot and get along well. We are both moderately social, so it's not like there is a huge difference there. I stayed at his house for fake Thanksgiving and his mom bakes cookies for us.

The only annoying thing he does is that he will talk to me when I have headphones on. He also gets excited over things very easily where as I am very level headed. Also he's a even bigger nerd than I am and insists on telling me plot lines to animes and comic books he read.

That said I think I am really lucky to have him as a room mate, because I could've got a heavy partier or an asshole for a room mate.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I have a single room right now, which is great. I really like the solitude, but it does get lonely on occasion.

My roommate last year was pretty difficult. He pretty much ignored the concept of days, so there were lots of nights where I had to try to sleep with the sound of him hammering on the keyboard. He had a lot of crap too. He took up about 3/4 of the room.

Before that I had a really good roommate. He liked good beer and whisky, didn't mind metal too much, and he was gone enough of the time so that I felt like I had a lot of space. He was on the committee that was in charge of the film showings on campus, so he'd always let me in for free. They show a porn on campus every year, and oddly enough he picked out Edward Penishands one year.

Of course, everyone who's had to room with someone from GMD probably can't stand that loud noise we listen to all the time.