annoying things your roommates do...

christine24t
christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
edited October 5 in Chit-Chat
and go!!

my one roommate talks to her mom every night on the phone. it doesn't matter if me and my other roommates are watching tv, or talking in the living room. she just sits on the couch and complains away to her mom. the rest of my roommates and i will go into our rooms, but she doesn't care.
i like her a lot, but that bugs the crap out of me!!
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  • Nikki881
    Nikki881 Posts: 203
    My roommate cooks, and leaves EVERYTHING in the kitchen! Like, the remnants of chopped-up veggies, the dishes (without rinsing them), etc... and he piles it all in the sink, without regard for order, or stacking them, or rinsing them or anything! And he's very passive about them, they don't bother him, but it drives me INSANE!!
  • t_rog
    t_rog Posts: 363 Member
    my roommate has a grandson(baby) she watches several days a week. he cries nonstop and it drives me insane! granted, this started happening AFTER i moved in.
  • Hoppymom
    Hoppymom Posts: 1,158 Member
    Have you tried actually talking to her about it sometime when she is not on the phone and you are not angry. If all of you get together just say, "I'd like to like to everyone about TV room etiquette. I feel angry when I am watching tv and someone else talks on the phone next to me rather than going to her room. Then what are your views on this subject?" I feel statements are the most nonconfrontational way to solve problems like this.
  • Yakisoba
    Yakisoba Posts: 719 Member
    ._. She made a porno with 4 other guys in our room.

    I think I win.
  • alecta337
    alecta337 Posts: 622 Member
    she has her ex-bf over almost every day. And he spends the night all the time...

    not that I have anything against either of them, but seriously.... you're not broken up! so don't tell people you are
  • alecta337
    alecta337 Posts: 622 Member
    ._. She made a porno with 4 other guys in our room.

    I think I win.

    wow. link?

    haha
  • Sallycinnimon
    Sallycinnimon Posts: 102 Member
    I had one that used to turn the heat up to 90 degrees! And then is have a power bill that was a gazillion dollars. She also somehow tore up my furniture while fighting with a bf.
  • DeepAsAPlate
    DeepAsAPlate Posts: 121 Member
    I had a roommate who moved her boyfriend in (rent free), who then moved his friend in (also rent free). So I'd go to sleep every night with the apartment smelling like pot and leave for work every morning with some dude sleeping on the couch.

    Ended up moving my stuff out while she was at work. Yeah, I'm THAT jerk.
  • MisterDubs303
    MisterDubs303 Posts: 1,216 Member
    One of my roommates will eat the same meal for literally three months at a time, then change for three months. His breakfast always includes an omelet. But here's what used to annoy me. While scrambling the eggs for his omelet, he would ALWAYS use a glass and a fork, with the glass placed on the little triangle where the two sinks meet. Everyday I would come home from work and there would be a nasty little ring of what I called "egg ****" hardened in that spot. I never called him on it, but also never understood why he couldn't clean off the egg when it didn't require a chisel.
  • t_rog
    t_rog Posts: 363 Member
    ._. She made a porno with 4 other guys in our room.

    I think I win.

    HAHAHA! oh boy...
  • claire_xox
    claire_xox Posts: 282 Member
    Sister not roommate
    - uses the bathroom with the door open (ew!)
    - leaves the lid for the rubbish bin open
    - has the tv up way too loud late at night when I'm trying to sleep


    ... but my worse thing is I eat other peoples food so I'm no angel either.
  • Yakisoba
    Yakisoba Posts: 719 Member
    wow. link?

    haha

    lolnope. I didn't even look at that stuff.

    She also had a nasty habit of leaving cups of cocoa around the room to mold.
  • sjtreely
    sjtreely Posts: 1,014 Member
    ._. She made a porno with 4 other guys in our room.

    I think I win.

    I don't think you win ... I know you do! OMG, sorry, but I'm finding humor in your misery. ROTFLMAO. Again, I apologize.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Leaving dishes sit, until every plate or glass etc was dirty, then washing the pot needed for tonights dinner so he could eat straight from the pot rather than wash/clean a dish... I solved it in the end by moving out, but before that I packed away 90% of the dishes as they were mine anyway. Stopped seeing a stack of 20 dirty plates...
    Opening a "new" container of some product when there are still easily usable amounts in the "older" container, drove me batty buying a ketchup or miracle whip to have when the current one runs out and the new one's open...
  • Yakisoba
    Yakisoba Posts: 719 Member
    I don't think you win ... I know you do! OMG, sorry, but I'm finding humor in your misery. ROTFLMAO. Again, I apologize.

    Don't get me wrong; she was extremely attractive.. I just wish it had been someone else's room.
  • lynn1982
    lynn1982 Posts: 1,439 Member
    I once had a roommate who played an accordion. She insisted on practicing at all hours. It was a looong summer...
  • sjtreely
    sjtreely Posts: 1,014 Member
    I don't think you win ... I know you do! OMG, sorry, but I'm finding humor in your misery. ROTFLMAO. Again, I apologize.

    Don't get me wrong; she was extremely attractive.. I just wish it had been someone else's room.

    Still ... bleach for your eyes! Shaking my head trying to get rid of an image of people I've never seen out of my mind.
  • Leslietheriot
    Leslietheriot Posts: 303 Member
    Bakes brownies and cookies and buys chocolate and leaves it out instead of putting it away and does not clean up after baking his junk in my kitchen.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    My roommate in college accused me of being a racist because I asked her to not yak on the phone at 3am when I was sleeping. That was the end of roommates for me.
  • Yakisoba
    Yakisoba Posts: 719 Member
    Still ... bleach for your eyes! Shaking my head trying to get rid of an image of people I've never seen out of my mind.

    No no no. I wasn't in the room when she did it. I came back after going out with a friends for the night and I asked her why the room smelled weird. :/ I found out when someone tried to link me a video to xhamster. I didn't click it. I already knew.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Don't eat anything they put in the fridge, but ALWAYS move it to the opposite side.
  • vespaberrie
    vespaberrie Posts: 86 Member
    One roommate would leave his dirty dishes and half eaten food all over the kitchen then... go out of town for the weekend. Until he found his dirty dishes in his bed.

    Another would re-arrange furinature and vaccum at 2am (Tweeker?)

    Yet another stopped paying rent and utilities, but would have is pot dealer come by the apartment twice a week.

    So greatful for the roommate I have now!
  • Savemyshannon
    Savemyshannon Posts: 334 Member
    My (now ex) roommate once went on a three-month internship on the other side of the country and locked his bedroom door, taking his key with him.

    That wouldn't be a problem if he didn't leave fruit and food in his room. The entire apartment began to smell like death and we got an infestation of fruit flies that I couldn't fix because the source of the problem was locked behind a deadbolt.

    When he returned, he threw the food into the garbage can and left it! I came home from work to a kitchen full of flies and a horrid smell.
  • anhancock10
    anhancock10 Posts: 148 Member
    This post reminded me of this youtube video! FREAKING hilarious ( if u cant see it type in annoying roomate into youtube) its the first one that pops up!

    http://youtu.be/iXp2ruZoxK8


    & the worst thing for me was my roomate stealing my clothes or bringing random dudes home from the bar and having them rob my house!!
  • Vaanja
    Vaanja Posts: 163 Member
    The breast-possessing half of my housemate couple is an absolute slob. Uses 8 dishes utensils to make herself a ham sandwich and a heated tin of soup, then leaves everything all over the kitchen I clean twice daily. Keeps pet rats, doesn't clean out the foul-smelling cage that stays in the supposedly communal den (I've been known to clean it out myself simply because I was sick of smelling it and I felt bad for the poor little plague-bearers). She's continuously trying to intellectually 'one-up' my 11 year old son and replies to him in French when he's stumped her (I'm teaching him a few phrases in Swedish, and, she's 36.) She keeps her 'artwork' EVERYWHERE (and she's rather untalented).

    Mostly, though, she's absolute crap towards her husband, who is one of my oldest and dearest friends. She views him only as a wallet, refuses to work, refuses to even take the rare opportunity to sell a few of her pieces. She pays him no attention, supports none of his endeavors...she won't even cook for him, and he works 12 hours a day. It always falls to me to feed everyone communally, because of course I handle my own family, and I just can't find it it my heart to let my friend go hungry or live on potted meat and crackers just because he married poorly.

    We've housemated for over two years now, and I've been ready to move out for ages...but, if we do leave, my friend cannot afford to keep up the payments on his house. -.-

    /edit Seriously at my wit's end with this one, and trying to figure out how to tell my friend he needs to figure something out because I'm not spending another year here. I just can't think of a friendship-saving way to say, "Sorry that your religion forbids you to divorce this life-leech you've picked up, man, and you've been my bro for half my life, but I absolutely detest the supposed light of your life there and I'm getting tfo, dude.".
  • maygans
    maygans Posts: 196 Member
    It's threads like these that make me glad my roommate is my kitty! My boyfriend visits and stays over sometimes, and it drives me nuts how he leaves stuff around like the package off an ice cream cone (the trash was 2 feet away!) or his clothes on the floor. He is trying though because he knows that I like it tidy, so I'm trying to cut him some slack when he forgets to put something away (also I know it could be worse!).
  • t_rog
    t_rog Posts: 363 Member
    This post reminded me of this youtube video! FREAKING hilarious ( if u cant see it type in annoying roomate into youtube) its the first one that pops up!

    http://youtu.be/iXp2ruZoxK8


    & the worst thing for me was my roomate stealing my clothes or bringing random dudes home from the bar and having them rob my house!!

    omg...thank you for that link. that was hilarious!
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    This post reminded me of this youtube video! FREAKING hilarious ( if u cant see it type in annoying roomate into youtube) its the first one that pops up!

    http://youtu.be/iXp2ruZoxK8


    & the worst thing for me was my roomate stealing my clothes or bringing random dudes home from the bar and having them rob my house!!

    Do you think pigeons have feelings? LOL
  • Unwrapping_Candy
    Unwrapping_Candy Posts: 487 Member
    The only things my housemate does that annoy me are he doesn't clean his own loo, and he sometimes vomits on the floor. :grumble:
  • NorthRiver
    NorthRiver Posts: 35 Member
    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.
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