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#1 2003-01-22 9:56 am
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Crazy Roommates
I don't have anything against Spam. I just have something MAJOR against this roommate I used to have about five years ago in college....
He didn't eat ANYTHING unless it came in a box or a can. And I mean NOTHING. The kid never ate a fresh thing in his life. He used to fry up Spam and it would stink up the entire house. He would never, ever look at me directly in the eye because he thought I was evil because I drank wine occasionally and had beer in the 'fridge' one and a while. No, he wasn't moron or anything, he was just a freak. Sometimes, for fun, I would have a few glasses of wine and then put an "out of order" handwritten sign on the toaster and micorwave (both owned by me). He wouldn't be able to eat for days until I took the signs off. He also wouldn't watch TV when I was in the house because I was the only one who paid the cable bill. Our other roommate was cool so he didn't care if I was around whilst he watched TV. He and I would watch "Melrose Place" together.... that was a guilty pleasure of our's. Heheheheheh.
I was ispired by the above that I found in the Spam thread, and thought more people would have roommate stories, not necessarily having to do with Spam.
I had a roommate in college who had a boyfriend who was always over. He would be over all the time. I would pop back to the dorm between classes, he was there. I would come back from class to rest for an hour before I had to go to work, and he was there. It sort of rubbed salt in the wound when I was coming back from the showers and he was there at our door, plugging in the combination to our door lock as if it were old hat, and this was after this roommate swore to us that she would never give him the combo.
And he and my roommate would constantly watch Animaniacs. Now, I enjoy Animaniacs, but not all the time. They even put sound clips on her computer so every time she made a mistake, the computer would say, "Helloooo Nurse!", or some Pinky and the Brain quote. Now, maybe she wasn't what you would call a crazy roommate, but manipulative and dependent. If I had to do it all over again, I would have gotten my own place. No sharing.
I am sure you guys have more interesting roommate stories than mine, so please share and let me know I wasn't the only one who felt invaded. I know a few of you have roommates now. Any good stories?
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#2 2003-01-22 10:19 am
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Re: Crazy Roommates
I've had crazy roommates, and I've been crazier in retalitation.
My last roommate for example. We lived in a small house with one and a half bathrooms. The typical routine was I wake up, take a shower, and leave for work by 7:30. It worked well. I was getting up a little earlier than I needed to, but I was in and out of the bathroom before she woke up. She would wake up at 7:30, take a shower, and then go to work or whatever, I was typically out of the house by then.
Well, I oversleep on occassion, so I wouldn't leave by 7:30, I'd leave by 8ish. I could still get to work on time though, as leaving by 7:30 was way early. That's where the problem occurred.
She would shower, and then dry her hair in the bathroom. I just waited patiently the first few times. Then, one morning, I knocked. She said she'd be out in a minute. tick tock tick tock. No noticable speed increase. So I bring it up. I asked if she could dry her hair in another room instead of the only room in the house with a shower. She told me straight forwardly, "No. You should have gotten up earlier. Just because you oversleep doesn't make it my problem."
I was all
and
and she was all
Then I was all
. This continued, as I was quite powerless from the dry side of the bathroom door. That is I was powerless for a while until one day I got an idea: :idea:
She left the house to go shopping or something. I had noticed that there was only one electrical outlet in the bathroom, it was built into the vanity mirror lights. I grabbed my trusty phillips head screwdriver and started disassembling the vanity. I opened the case, and saw the outlet and the wires that fed it. I grabbed pliers and yanked at the wires to remove them from the outlet (they were molded in) and pzzzt! poof! bam! big sparks flew! I ran to the basement, and pulled the main breaker cutting all electricity to the house. Ran back upstairs, put wire nuts over the now loose wires (so as not to leave a fire hazard, I didn't like leaving evidence, but it was better than an electrical fire in the bathroom). The coup de grace was this: I unplugged her hairdryer, and used my trusty Bic lighter to melt the plastic around the outlet. It was black, sooty, melted, and looked perfect. Obviously, this outlet burned out on its own. Must be the old wiring in the old house. he he he.
Then I reassembled the vanity unit, and ran back downstairs to turn on the mainpower. Came back up, mission almost accomplished. I hear her car in the driveway. She's back faster than I had planned. PANIC! I raced upstairs to her bedroom, reset her alarm clock (the digital variety that blinks 12:00 if the power goes out) and then bolted downstairs to the living room to act casual.
Success. Complete and total success. She stopped using her hair dryer in the bathroom, and assumed that it was an electrical failure. So when I overslept, I could still shower after her without waiting 20 minutes for the hairdryer. I never ever told her to this day. After a few months, she found a new outlet under a shelf in the closet, and ran an extension cord (those cheap brown ones you get at the Pharmacy for 99
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#3 2003-01-22 10:56 am
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Re: Crazy Roommates
Ohhh thats good man...
Mine was my first and only college roommate. The only people other than her I ever lived with were my ex and my parents. Never at one time.
So like..this girl was a rich snob. Ill admit I come from money but this girl made it painfully obvious. I love Target, but that wasnt good enough. So one day I bring my Target findings home after shopping there for liek 3 hours. She is sitting in the living room FREAKING out bec there is something in our apt. not from Pottery Barn. She cost us our security bec she wanted to paint and wallpaper her room purple and cheetah.
She always had some new guy in our place, and when they did it, they showed absolutely no discretion. They did it in the living room on the counter in the kitchen, in the bathroom. EVEN IF I WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE WHEN THEY DID IT. It creeped me out. Well since i knew she had this boyfriend back home, that she would die if he found out she cheated...I made sure when he called that night that I said oh no shes out on a date with whoever it was. One night he drove in and busted her in the act. I nearly wet my pants. She even screwed my date for a party I was going to right before we left. That was really odd.
SO anyway, she had a habit of stealing my clothes. She was like 6ft tall and skinny and I am a mere 5 6 and "normal" So all my pants fit her really weird but she didnt stop stealing them. I only wear pants from Express, Kikwear, or Dickies usually bec they fit me right. But all my tops were from all over. She stole a one-of-a-kind Rolling Stones shirt that was my Moms from like...forever ago. She stole my jeans that were two sizes too big, so that she could look like Skater Ame. She stole my grandmas engagement ring. She stole my sweet hoodie I got from Nova in STL. She stole my bras. Which cracks me up bec I got a huge rack and she was flat as a board. She would never wear underwear with my pants either so that all the guys she macked on could see she shaved (which she did with my f-in razor)
So one day her sister is in town, not a big deal till I come back from classes to find her sister went back to KC with like HALF of my closet! My room was torn apart. I had gotten smart about it a few weeks before i had borrowed my dads little camcorder to nail her. Which I did. I got a check from her mommy for like 3000 dollars to make up for it but the engagement ring she had PAWNEDto pay for her DUI ticketS. I was SO livid.
Anyway...this one weeked she decided to go home to see the guy she was cheating on and she had like a TON of cds. Mostly good, and she was always playing them fullblast when I was watching tv or studying. She left the book of cds sitting on our table when she left, and called from her car to ask me to put them in her room. Since I was going to be moving out in like a week I had a little fun.
Everyone who knows of tool knows that their Aenema CD jewelcase is grated for the art inside to read right....I scratched each and every cd I didnt steal from her over that I knew she loved and then went running through campus throwing the others around like frisbees.
I called my parents and said that my classes were almost done if they wanted to come out and move all my stuff. I cashed the check her mom gave me, went out partying with my friend who I stayed with for a few days before I went home to STL and sent a copy of my video busting her to the cops and to the school, bec theft of property gets you sanctioned and more than one violation gets you kicked out of school..needless to say.
I was moved out before she got back.
and all her stuff was being packed up and moved to campus security when she showed up.
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#4 2003-01-22 11:19 am
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rp that was the most unbelievable story ever. Even if I pieced together all the idiosyncracies of all of my roommates (The Animaniac girl, the pro-life marcher that aborted and the rich daughter of a high-power lawyer) I could never come up with a story like that. I don't know that any of my frmr roommates would have dared to use MY razor. MY RAZOR! That's just disgusting.
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#5 2003-01-22 11:24 am
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rp that was the most unbelievable story ever. Even if I pieced together all the idiosyncracies of all of my roommates (The Animaniac girl, the pro-life marcher that aborted and the rich daughter of a high-power lawyer) I could never come up with a story like that. I don't know that any of my frmr roommates would have dared to use MY razor. MY RAZOR! That's just disgusting.
She was really just gross about it too. My mom was thinking she might just have thought I was really swell and wanted to be just like me. The fact that she left..ew. God. There went any appetite I had for my lunch break here in a few. haha
I really wouldnt mind meeting the Prolifer...I love those kind of people. Its bad till you get knocked up being a stupid smurf.
I heard from someone that we went to school with that she has 2 kids by two different black men--her mother was SO racist--so that should be an interesting life she made for herself.
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#6 2003-01-22 4:28 pm
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Re: Crazy Roommates
from reddP:
I heard from someone that we went to school with that she has 2 kids by two different black men--her mother was SO racist--so that should be an interesting life she made for herself
hey .... was her name like Jenn or Jan?? Or ... wait ... Morgan??? I'm lookin' for one of my little .... uh ... 'mistakes'.... if you know what I mean

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#7 2003-01-22 4:47 pm
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I did the whole move from a small midwestern town to NYC for college, and just to make sure it was a awkward and Cliche as possible, my roomie was and overwieght rasict cross dressing homosexual (now Rasicim is the only one I have a huge problem with, I am none of the the others either, and come to think of it, racism doesn't seem compatible with homosexuality.. but... sure enough...)...
He would always act feminine, but honest to god, everyonce and a while he would dress up and put on a wig and call him self Cinnamon, which was, by the way, also thge name of his wig...
He would lie around in drag yelling on the phone to send one of the "insert offensive racist term here" up to fix our stove or something, and when he got drunk he once cornered me and my suitemate with a large spoon and propositioned us (sure enough we declined!)...
It was crazy...
He was entertaining to watch though...
and if he weren't a racist, we'd be better friends...
He once had a flaming towel on his arm that he didn't know about and almost burnt our apt and himslef to the ground... but that is a whole other story...
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#8 2003-01-22 5:10 pm
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Maybe you can get Scorcese to do a movie about crazy roommates. You're an IT guy. E-mail him. Set it up!! 
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#9 2003-01-22 5:27 pm
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Re: Crazy Roommates
from reddP:
I heard from someone that we went to school with that she has 2 kids by two different black men--her mother was SO racist--so that should be an interesting life she made for herself
hey .... was her name like Jenn or Jan?? Or ... wait ... Morgan??? I'm lookin' for one of my little .... uh ... 'mistakes'.... if you know what I mean
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No, Megan. She is like...the definition of psycho. Oh wait that would be renee...megan is just a nut.
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#10 2003-01-22 6:05 pm
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Yeah!! that's her. Tell that skank to call me!! Er ... ok get her to post here and hook up. Hell ... get Renee too. I am not picky. Not in the least. Look in the dictionary for the definition for 'horn-dog meat head' .... you gonna see a little itty-bitty gorilla looking picture. That would be me. 
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#11 2003-01-22 6:13 pm
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Yeah!! that's her. Tell that skank to call me!! Er ... ok get her to post here and hook up. Hell ... get Renee too. I am not picky. Not in the least. Look in the dictionary for the definition for 'horn-dog meat head' .... you gonna see a little itty-bitty gorilla looking picture. That would be me.
um where ya live? hahah
No I will not give Renee over to anyone breathing. She got my ex to cheat on me by "creating problems" in our own relationship bec hers was a mess. And when I knew something was up and he was going to ignore her bec I had him by the balls and made him ignore her...she broke my windows and my sunroof out of my brandnew F-in civic. She wrote letters to my parents in MO telling them Im a smurf who stole her man..uh yea we were together before he met her...she went to where I worked and tried to slash my tires but got busted on our security cameras (which was a riot I might add)...Um...psycho much?
It has GOT to be me...I attract the psychos, and the cheaters. Its a great life I live. 
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#12 2003-01-24 2:47 pm
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um where ya live? hahah
No I will not give Renee over to anyone breathing. She got my ex to cheat on me by "creating problems" in our own relationship bec hers was a mess. And when I knew something was up and he was going to ignore her bec I had him by the balls and made him ignore her...she broke my windows and my sunroof out of my brandnew F-in civic. She wrote letters to my parents in MO telling them Im a morally upstanding lass who stole her man..uh yea we were together before he met her...she went to where I worked and tried to slash my tires but got busted on our security cameras (which was a riot I might add)...Um...psycho much?
It has GOT to be me...I attract the psychos, and the cheaters. Its a great life I live
I know what you mean ... sometimes its just hard to spot 'em. They sneak up on you. I found a sure cure for makin' them go away. I just invite them to go deer hunting with me. I'll supply the guns (course they wouldn't get any ammo) 
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#14 2003-01-25 11:32 pm
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I shared a house with three other guys. One of them had the nickname "Jungle" because he was thick, green and dense.
Jungle was also learning to play the drums, while I was learning electronics. No, my studying did not interrupt his drumming. In addition to electronics I learnt to concentrate.
If you are sharing a house with a budding musician, make sure his instrument is not from the concussion (oops - percussion) section of the orchestra. (It could have been worse. At least it wasn't the bagpipes.)
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#15 2003-01-26 1:17 am
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I shared a house with three other guys. One of them had the nickname "Jungle" because he was thick, green and dense.
he was green? wtf?
or was it mrgreen?

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#16 2003-01-26 2:35 am
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Green, LOL...
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#18 2003-01-26 9:32 am
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A,
someday, if statistics are true, you will probably have a roommate. There will be times when you want to kill her/him by smacking an empty Arizona iced tea bottle over her/his head while they sleep. I hope you never get to this point. #29 on that list you linked was about getting a pet rabbit. I myself brought two tiny mice to college and I really didn't care what my first roommate thought. She was a bit mousy anyway. No pun intended. Yeah, I think they freaked her out, but oh well. They both died of some weird cancer during second semester. In any case, sometimes we get stuck with the crazy roommate, but to others, we might be that crazy roommate. Think about it....
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#19 2003-01-26 1:51 pm
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ill definitely be the weird/crazy/annoying/bitchy/etc roomate[/b]
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#20 2003-01-26 2:26 pm
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There was the one guy that bought toilet paper and kept it in his room because he didn't want to share it. Another guy that liked to kill smurf in the backyard with my BB gun. A guy that pissed himself every time he drank...the usual stuff. The only thing that really killed me was the sink full of dishes. There were 6 of us and nobody would EVER fess up. Someone (usually me or the 1 other cool guy) would finally cave and just wash the whole pile and the next day there would be more dishes that apparently dirtied themselves. Not much of a story compared to the rest of you but it just kept going. It never stopped.
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#21 2003-01-26 10:36 pm
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The only thing that really killed me was the sink full of dishes. There were 6 of us and nobody would EVER fess up. Someone (usually me or the 1 other cool guy) would finally cave and just wash the whole pile and the next day there would be more dishes that apparently dirtied themselves. Not much of a story compared to the rest of you but it just kept going. It never stopped.
Dude, some of us just fricking hate doing dishes!
Oh, all right, we should have done them, but I swear, dirty dishes reproduce themselves. It's a scientific fact. Look it up.
I've had great roommates, but some of them have been wacky. There was the guy who went on a spaghetti-eating kick (for the first half of the time I lived with him). And I mean, that's all the man ate. Then, one day, no sign of spaghetti. All he ate from that point on was peas. Canned peas. "Peas," he would say contently over a bowl of some. "Don't you just love peas?" he would ask. Never saw him eat anything but peas from then on.
Then there was the "playa"-wannabe, who talked a good game about getting girls, etc, but who my gay friends insisted was the biggest gay-in-straight's-clothing they ever saw. Hmmm, that one's not very good.
Oh, there was the roommate who had a little ... shall we say ... "growing" operation in his closet. I was like, "Dude, what if the landlord comes by?" (he did often enough).
I've been lucky, most of my roomies have been very cool people. Now, landlords, on the other hand... . Well, that's another thread.
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#22 2003-01-26 10:52 pm
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One of my roommates from college was supposedly wanted for manslaughter in another state. A different roommate from that same year was hauled away by the cops for statutory rape. That roommate's girlfriend was a 14 year old runaway. She was a mess too.
That was an intereting year.
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#23 2003-01-26 10:58 pm
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...There was the guy who went on a spaghetti-eating kick (for the first half of the time I lived with him). And I mean, that's all the man ate. Then, one day, no sign of spaghetti. All he ate from that point on was peas. Canned peas. "Peas," he would say contently over a bowl of some. "Don't you just love peas?" he would ask. Never saw him eat anything but peas from then on.
LOL! Yeah! I had one that ate nothing but rice and gravy for a whole semester! He had one of those huge bags of white rice and would make that instant gravy crap that you buy in little pouches 5/$1.00. He was a really nice guy, just weird.
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#24 2003-01-27 9:01 pm
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Luckily, I don't have any bad stories about roommates. Unfortunately, I don't have any weird ones either. I mean, there was one who dressed up like anime characters, but he was in a club, so I don't think that counts.
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#25 2003-01-28 6:55 am
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Aubrey, Tickle-me-Eric, if you didn't know, green can mean inexperienced, unseasoned or gullible among other things.
Sorry if this is late getting to you but I'm quite a few time zones away.
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