annoying things your roommates do...

ItsCasey

All of this crap is why I have not had a roommate since my freshman year of college (going on 10 years now). I would absolutely turn homicidal if I had to live with someone who pulled some of this stuff, like cooking/baking and not cleaning up or essentially inviting people to move in rent-free. Saving money is not even worth it to me to have to deal with that.

HannahPastoor

I live with my 93 year old Great Grandma and she talks to much when I am already late for work. She doesn't take hints. She don't ever try to talk when I have time to talk, only when I am super busy. I love her a ton though : )

I also live with my 65 year old Grandma who has a boyfriend. She acts like a teenager and it is super annoying and kinda gross.

Thats it.

NorthRiver

I'm pretty sure hardly anyone lives with roommates because they enjoy it so much. For most, it's a financial necessity. Sadly, even if I stopped eating and decided to wear the same clothes and watch the same movies I already have for the next ten years, never travel or go out, I still couldn't afford a place of my own. So, gonna continue improving my character by putting up with other people's disgusting habits.

Vaanja

I've had a large number of roommates over the years, and only one of them DIDN'T piss me off...

Apart from the usual horror stories about messiness, loud sex and food theft, I had a guy who kept a poop log in the bathroom. It lay right next to the toilet on a little table and in there he recorded all his bowel movements. consistency, color, smell, number of necessary wipes... He also practiced the guitar daily without ever getting any better, and left little notes for himself all over the kitchen (e.g. a post-it saying 'I am yummy' on the pasta).

Then there was that couple who had an ever-growing collection of spirits. They never went out or had friends over, but they made themselves a cocktail or two every night, so after a few months they had a huge collection of bottles, anything from grenadine syrup and malibu to vodka and Kalhua. They stored those bottles on the kitchen counter, so about three square feet of kitchen counter were taken up by their stuff. They also practically lived in the living room rather than the three bedrooms they occupied between the two of them, so I constantly felt like an unwelcome guest in THEIR house.

And then there was the Turkish girl who cooked huge dinners for her Turkish friends and then left the leftovers out on the table to rot. Sometimes, I stole some (she was a pretty good cook), let them stand to see how long it would take her to realize they'd started to grow a forest of fungus, and sometimes I took pity and put them in the fridge. But her constant leavings (temptations for me) drove me insane.

Last but not least, one roommate developed a crush on me, got rejected, and then started showing his tongue whenever my back was turned, or pulling faces at me behind my back to amuse the other roommates, or snorted sarcastically whenever I said something. Moving out from that place was a glorious day.

Not that Dr. Poop isn't pretty disgusting, but I first assumed much worse when you said he kept a poop log in the bathroom next to the toilet...you meant a poop journal? Oh god please say you meant a poop journal...

bprague

My roommate has a cupboard of at least 20 cups. I wondered why she had so many when I moved in, but then I found out that she never re-uses her cups even if she is just refilling tea.

It takes her roughly 2 weeks to clean any of her dishes... and she won't pick up after her guests. Mind you I'm fastidiously clean and will leave a dish in the sink no more than two hours. It's a rough transition.

erinrose07

All of this crap is why I have not had a roommate since my freshman year of college (going on 10 years now). I would absolutely turn homicidal if I had to live with someone who pulled some of this stuff, like cooking/baking and not cleaning up or essentially inviting people to move in rent-free. Saving money is not even worth it to me to have to deal with that.

THIS!!

thetrishwarp

I actually like having roommates. I have 4. Our kitchen gets messy, but we take turns cleaning. We haven't had arguments, we have the same friends, so throwing parties/having people over isn't an issue.

Just posting to say it IS possible to enjoy living with other people! Their shortcomings (IMO) don't make me homicidal, they just...make us different people.

(although going out the the bar and waking me up by bellowing at 4am isn't my FAVOURITE, it's pretty funny)

kaaaayla

one of my roommates has a demon chihuahua. it acts all sweet to her, but when she's not here it growls and tries to bite me, etc. I'm the boss here, not this dog! ughhhh

backwardslant

All of these stories make me so very glad I live alone.

annacataldo

well i had 4 roommates at all times; some of them rotated; so my list might be a little bigger than normal.

the girl roomie would blow her nose at all hours and sound like a elephant was invading. i lived in the basement she was on the floor above me but on the opposite side of the house, and it would wake me up. shed leave dishes and socks and such all over the living room.

the guy two floors above me would blast his music at 9am every saturday morning; the only day i had to sleep in; and it was on an old record player and be honkey tonk type stuff that i cant stand. meanwhile the rest of us had to be quiet past 8pm sunday to thursday cuz of his work schedule, but didnt seem to care about anyone elses. same roomie would get food at a resturant, brought home in a box, and feel the need to then put it in a tupperware container to eat right then and there--why was the tupperware needed for something already in a box. tupperware is a pain to wash, needs more soap with his oily foods, etc, but hed never ever wash the tupperware. the rest of us would wash all the dishes and leave the tupperware and it would sit and sit.

another roommate was a dirty guy who i shared a bathroom exclusivly with; he'd shave and leave all his hair everywhere in a sink that would very easily clog and always had trouble draining; wouldnt clean the bathroom at all, ever. he was the only other person in the basement other than me and the smell from his room would linger into my room. and our doors were on opposite sides of the basement. he was a dominant male and his girls would be screaming no, stop, screaming bloody murder..and i wasnt sure if he was hurting them or if they liked it.

i had a little kitchenette right outside my room with my own mini fridge, my own microwave, toaster, and a shelve... my one roommate i said could share some, but hed take alot of stuff, and things like cream cheese that id be sure to put in a baggy and neatly slice into as needed, he would grab the whole thing of cream cheese and squeeze the entire pack so its all squished up and use half the package for one bagel, and then put the tube back in the fridge, unwrapped, uncovered, not in a baggy, so the fridge dried it out. if i kept any beer in there, it was always drank; all my goodies, like packaged cupcakes, that might last me 2-3months, seemed to be gone in a week, or less... eventually i got rid of the whole mini-fridge idea, making it so all my food was in the main fridge..which then left it open for 4 people instead of 2..i was screwed any way i looked at it.

dishes--id wash my own with each meal; or set them in a pre-determined spot to be washed when i got home from work, or the following morning, etc... id always wash mine. everyone else used dishes, didnt rinse, disgusting mess that smelled, and pile them in the sink, all over the counter, etc... until wed run out of every fork, knife, plate, pot, and someone would eventually do them.. then id get blamed for never doing the dishes... when i always washed mine, why would i wash theirs? especially when 4 other people are cooking seperatly, thats alot of dishes.

bathroom drain--no one seemed to ever clean it, and then id go to use it and it would have 2inches of water during my whole shower at the base of the tub, so with 5 people all with long, thick hair, id have to clear out the most vile disgusting thing ive ever seen; and was always the only one to do it.

my room was directly under the stairs--people running up and down them at any hour, stomping, waking me up; or being so loud i cant hear the movie im watching...

throwing parties without mentioning anything; so suddenly on a night i thought id get some peace and quiet, at 2am when the bars close thered suddenly be a minimum of 20 people (and on a couple occasions onwards of 50) directly outside of my room playing beer pong, yelling cheering, etc..outside my room was the open basement area-the party room---prior notice would be great. an occasional off day from partying would be even greater. especailly when i work the next morning.

doing laundry outside my room when im heading to bed... i cant sleep with alot of noise--washer and dryers make noise last i checked.

the constant coughing from tons of people from taking bong hits. when i dont smoke weed.

accusing me of charging extra rent money and pocketing the extra without ever being asked to go over the bills with anyone. finally finding out they were accusing me, and trying to set up meetings to go over everything, and then getting a text saying "sorry, not going to beable to make it" and then saying im refusing to show the bills so it was proof i was pocketing money..

one roommate not liking the guy i was seeing, and letting me know it, and then one ngiht when i walk to the bathroom and shes standing in my basement roomamtes doorway in middle of the night drunk off her *kitten* (i had woken up to go pee), as i walk by her, she spits on me in the face, then comes and attacks me full force (shes 5'2, im 5'11; shes skinny, im onwards of 300lbs). shes pulling my hair, punching me, kicking me, calling me names, etc; so i fight back; she falls cuz shes so drunk, still punching me so im punching me, she stops and starts saying her knee hurts, i back off...she twists her own knee--i never touched it, yet im the bad guy for defending myself and accused of attacking someone who wasnt my own size, etc, and breaking her knee that she then needed surgery on, when shes the one who fell, i didnt push her.

AI1108

i had a roommate in college that was in an abusive relationship that her parents tried to end so she tried to end her relationship with her parents. problem was.. her and her bf were always on the phone and for some reason as soon as it hit like midnight / 1 am (when I was trying to sleep) the fights would start! i wouldn't have even minded if they were on the phone talking about nothing or whatever but really she was f***ing loud and they would fight to the point that the whole floor knew it was going on. and then Thursday and Friday nights when I would be trying to get ready to go out he would come by to get it in (and he always had the nerve to judge me about my relationship with my at the time loving bf). on top of that her mother that she was trying to "disown" would come looking for me to help her get a hold of my roommate. i was stuck in all of her insane relationships.. what a mess of a life. eventually i told her that even I couldn't help her if she wanted to keep going with this toxic relationship and to go get help or get lost because it was affecting my life as much as it was affecting hers.

sleepytexan

I have 5 roommates who expect me to cook food for them 3x a day, do their laundry, wake them up when they sleep through their alarms, get up with them when they're sick in the middle of the night, clean up their messes, drive them to school when they miss the bus, drive them places, watch them do this or that, sing them to sleep, listen to them playing the SAME SONGS OVER AND OVER AND OVER again on the piano, guitar, drums, etc. etc. etc.

sheesh.

xginanax

Omg how did u do that weight thing under your comment with your picture thingy on it ?

annabananana

my roommate comes in about once every day for like 5 minutes(which is nice) ....but when she does, she brushes her weaves and hair gos EVERYWHERE. i have to vaccuum everyday. ugh. lol

kleavitt1992

not tech a roommate but my brothers fiancee lives with us....she is a pathological liar (little things that dont matter like where she's been, what happened in her childhood) and she will come into the living room when im sitting there sit down and stare at me....not say a word just STARE at me, i say what?, she goes what?, YOU WERE STARING AT ME?!, her : no i wasnt, i was just staring into space. plus she will make food all the time and not eat ANY of it just so its around to tempt me she is that f *cked up