Roommates can be a pain in the behind as they tend to be someone who may have raised up with different morals or cleanliness standards and most importantly a roomate is not (usually) your partner. It is easy to get upset with them but as they are not your significant other there is no love to taper your feelings towards their behavior. I am glad to say that not all of these stories are mine.
Don’t move in with your friends
Three girls who had been friends during high school found themselves at the same college and decided to share an apartment. They found a four bedroom apartment and found one other girl to share the lease. I am not sure where exactly things broke down but I think food was eaten, messes were made and common supplies were used by all and replaced by one.
Not sure how it got so much out of control. My buddy and I decided to visit my sister to find out things were a bit rocky, I had a lot of bad ideas pretty much designed to make things worse, while Greg had some pretty good ideas. I am pretty sure that things didn’t really improve as over time I heard little things here and there. However, the wildest thing I did hear was that everyone had their own toilet paper which was brought in when you used the toilet. After the lease was up, they all went separate ways.
Don’t move in with someone wilder than you are
Unless my sister changed, and changed a lot, she most likely wasn’t the party animal of the 3rd floor. Actually, all of her roommates seemed pretty sedate to me, but looks can be deceiving. It seems that one of the girls was quite the party animal and the rest of the building found out one Saturday about 3 in the morning.
Someone came and knocked on the door asking to come and pick up Julie. I guess it wasn’t because she was too wild but actually because she was busy throwing up and that was a bit of a downer. So my sister and one of her roommates went down to fetch Julie.
Don’t move in with a practical joker
James was actually a nice guy but he was a bit pretentious. Not only that be he was more often than not a pain in the behind. Well, it didn’t take too long for tensions to build in the apartment until eventually Marcus didn’t really like James any longer. James wasn’t going to get murdered in his sleep but Marcus was out to get him.
I don’t remember all of the ideas that he had for James but I remember the worst one along with the one that was actually done. The evil idea was that we should get some dehydrated milk powder and sprinkle some in his underwear. No idea where that one came from but it seemed too out of proportion response for the James eccentricities.
What actually happened was James had his own plates and cups that he used instead of the more mundane plates and cups Marcus and I used. I guess food and drink simply tasted much better on this old china. The plan was to take one of the cups and saucers and hide it in plain sight. One afternoon when the dishwasher was emptied the china was placed up on top of the cupboards behind one of the other less used dishes. Oddly enough, despite all of James efforts and questions it was not found until the end of the lease when he was packing to leave at the end of the lease.
Don’t move in with a girl who isn’t a girlfriend
Back in the day I pretty full of myself and didn’t seem to lack confidence and seemed to have an opinion on a lot of different topics. I am fairly confident that I was shooting my mouth off on some topic or other but later in the evening my roommate Laurie seemed upset.
She was either cleaning up for the evening or hiding in the bathroom and so I asked her if everything was ok, only to be assured that it was. Not satisfied I asked if there was anything I did or if she was angry at me.
No, everything is fine.
Not being a ladies man I wasn’t able to translate this sentence. It was a few days later that a friend of mine who was dating my roommate confided in me that no everything was not fine. I guess what I said had apparently belittled her field of study, she had confided to him that lied to me that day “He asked if I was upset but I wasn’t going to tell him!”.
I never did understand it, upset yes, but why not tell me. I guess I learned a bit more about women.