Spinoff: Craziest roommate stories?

amelisha · November 2014

My worst one was one of the 3 guys I lived with when I first moved out. I ended up moving out of that place in the middle of the night because he accused me of stealing one of his textbooks (what?) and then raised a hand to me. I slept on the floor of my new place with no furniture or anything until he was at work and I could get my stuff out.

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

She did, but the cops said it was she said/ she said. Even with the xrays of the cat's broken leg.

Ugh that's what happened with me too. It's so so so frustrating. Like really, when they're bragging and laughing about it and there are vet records, that's not enough? I have so much hatred and rage for people that would hurt an animal.

themuffinman16 · November 2014

To me, people like that belong in jail. If they hurt an animal, the elderly or a child, they have no soul, and there is no limit to the terrible shit they will do.

themuffinman16 · November 2014

amelisha said:

My worst one was one of the 3 guys I lived with when I first moved out. I ended up moving out of that place in the middle of the night because he accused me of stealing one of his textbooks (what?) and then raised a hand to me. I slept on the floor of my new place with no furniture or anything until he was at work and I could get my stuff out.

He hit you? Wtf!

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

To me, people like that belong in jail. If they hurt an animal, the elderly or a child, they have no soul, and there is no limit to the terrible shit they will do.

100% agree with that

novella1186 · November 2014

JFC. I thought a lot of these would be funny, but most of them are scary and/or really really sad!

But the glitter chick and the naked Hot Pocket maker? Funny.

slothiegal · November 2014

Holy shit, y'all have some crazy in your lives.

I've been pretty lucky with roommates over the years. Two stand out, however:

1) When I was living in Italy, I shared an apartment with three other girls. One suffered from bipolar disorder and drama queen-itis. It was always something with her, and she always had some "woe is me" story. The worst was we had gone out together one night, she got drunk, and thought I was flirting with some guy she liked. When we left the club to head home, she confronted me in the street and started screaming that she was going to kill herself because of this. Her plan was to throw herself off one of the cliffs at the end of town. I put my hands on her shoulders--big mistake. She stomped on my foot with her stilettos and RAN off. Luckily, it wasn't toward the cliffs, it was in the direction of our place; I figured she was just embarrassed at the scene she had caused (there was a large group of Italians that had gathered around us; I'm sure laughing at these stupid, drunk American girls).

I walked back to our place and tried the door. It was locked, and I had given her the house key to hold onto the night. I rang the buzzer and suddenly, the windows FLEW open, and she's hanging out of the third story of this building, SCREECHING at me that she wasn't letting me in. My other two roommates were out of town that weekend, so I couldn't call them to let me in.

I spent the rest of the night wandering around dark side streets in a foreign country, trying to figure out what to do. (I ended up remembering where some other friends lived, hoofed it over there, and pounded on their door until someone woke up and let me in.)

The next morning when I got back to my place....well, let's just say it wasn't pretty. Long story short, after our little "conversation", roommate was TERRIFIED of me and didn't talk to me the rest of our stay.

She got in touch with me about...4 months after we left Italy. She randomly IMed me, "I just wanted to let you know, my mom committed suicide the other night." I think my response was, "I'm sorry for your loss, but never, ever fucking contact me again" (which was still nicer than what I wanted to tell her). And that was the last I heard of her.

2) Not as exciting of a story; I lived with two friends in DC and one decided that a really good way to pay rent was with checks that bounce. She ended up getting all three of us kicked out.

amelisha · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

amelisha said:

My worst one was one of the 3 guys I lived with when I first moved out. I ended up moving out of that place in the middle of the night because he accused me of stealing one of his textbooks (what?) and then raised a hand to me. I slept on the floor of my new place with no furniture or anything until he was at work and I could get my stuff out.

He hit you? Wtf!

No, he raised a hand TO hit me and I slammed and locked the door in his face before he got closer. It was still more than enough to make me leave, though. And I didn't even tell my boyfriend at the time because the boyfriend was 5'9" and a skinny musician and the roommate was a 6'2" bodybuilder type.

novella1186 · November 2014

FI told me a story that kind of blew my mind.

Three of his best friends from high school (I'm now close with two of these guys are they're both in our WP!) ended up being college roommates. We'll call them A, B, and C. Well, A started acting very strange. He got extremely close with B and followed him around everywhere. He seemed to be harboring extreme hatred for C, which was inexplicable and sudden. C started noticing that A would creep into his room in the middle of the night and just stand there for a long time in total silence, staring at him.

It became apparent that A was having delusions. He started referring to B as a god, and honestly believed this. B was a force of good, and C was a demon. So in A's mind, he had to ally with B for protection and defeat C. A admitted to B that the reason he was watching C sleep at night we because he was standing there contemplating how to MURDER him, and was just waiting for the right moment.

They called A's parents and he was pulled out of school and put in a mental hospital for a while. Turns out, A had legit schizophrenia. He was fine for a while, but then quit taking his meds, and was found naked, at 4am, standing on the end of a pier over a lake, playing the trombone.

themuffinman16 · November 2014

novella1186 said:

FI told me a story that kind of blew my mind.

Three of his best friends from high school (I'm now close with two of these guys are they're both in our WP!) ended up being college roommates. We'll call them A, B, and C. Well, A started acting very strange. He got extremely close with B and followed him around everywhere. He seemed to be harboring extreme hatred for C, which was inexplicable and sudden. C started noticing that A would creep into his room in the middle of the night and just stand there for a long time in total silence, staring at him.

It became apparent that A was having delusions. He started referring to B as a god, and honestly believed this. B was a force of good, and C was a demon. So in A's mind, he had to ally with B for protection and defeat C. A admitted to B that the reason he was watching C sleep at night we because he was standing there contemplating how to MURDER him, and was just waiting for the right moment.

They called A's parents and he was pulled out of school and put in a mental hospital for a while. Turns out, A had legit schizophrenia. He was fine for a while, but then quit taking his meds, and was found naked, at 4am, standing on the end of a pier over a lake, playing the trombone.

Wow... that is messed up.

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

novella1186 said:

FI told me a story that kind of blew my mind.

Three of his best friends from high school (I'm now close with two of these guys are they're both in our WP!) ended up being college roommates. We'll call them A, B, and C. Well, A started acting very strange. He got extremely close with B and followed him around everywhere. He seemed to be harboring extreme hatred for C, which was inexplicable and sudden. C started noticing that A would creep into his room in the middle of the night and just stand there for a long time in total silence, staring at him.

It became apparent that A was having delusions. He started referring to B as a god, and honestly believed this. B was a force of good, and C was a demon. So in A's mind, he had to ally with B for protection and defeat C. A admitted to B that the reason he was watching C sleep at night we because he was standing there contemplating how to MURDER him, and was just waiting for the right moment.

They called A's parents and he was pulled out of school and put in a mental hospital for a while. Turns out, A had legit schizophrenia. He was fine for a while, but then quit taking his meds, and was found naked, at 4am, standing on the end of a pier over a lake, playing the trombone.

Wow... that is messed up.

Yeah, kind of gives me chills to know he'd been planning a murder all that time. And kind of makes me nervous, because a few extremely odd things have happened to indicate that A is still a little fixated on "godlike" B, and no one knows where A is these days. Not even his parents.

themuffinman16 · November 2014

I guess I did have one crazy roommate. He was an ex-boyfriend, though. He was a selfish prick. One time, I had an allergic reaction and my eyes swelled, shut, and my throat was feeling tight. He made me walk to the hospital because he was afraid he would fall asleep at the wheel (the hospital was 10 minutes away driving distance). It took me 50 minutes to walk there with really limited vision on a country road at 2am.

Same boyfriend got mad at me over nothing and threw a mug at my head. I ducked and it shattered against the wall. I did get burned with hot coffee, though.

I lived on my own, after that, in a dump of an apartment, but I didn't share it with a douchelord, so I was ecstatic.

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

I guess I did have one crazy roommate. He was an ex-boyfriend, though. He was a selfish prick. One time, I had an allergic reaction and my eyes swelled, shut, and my throat was feeling tight. He made me walk to the hospital because he was afraid he would fall asleep at the wheel (the hospital was 10 minutes away driving distance). It took me 50 minutes to walk there with really limited vision on a country road at 2am.
Same boyfriend got mad at me over nothing and threw a mug at my head. I ducked and it shattered against the wall. I did get burned with hot coffee, though.
I lived on my own, after that, in a dump of an apartment, but I didn't share it with a douchelord, so I was ecstatic.

What a piece of shit. I would have called an ambulance and then given him the bill for it. I'm so so so so so glad I didn't live with my psycho boyfriend, but I did live with 2 other boyfriends during college. One moved in without my permission because he had no job, failed out of school, had a drug problem I wasn't aware of yet, had a gambling problem, and stole money out of my purse. Also pawned my stuff without me knowing while I was in class so he could gamble and buy drugs. I broke up with him in October and he refused to move out. He stayed there no matter how many times I threatened to put all his shit outside and change the locks. He just would not fucking leave. So we lived in separate bedrooms and didn't speak to each other hardly ever from October till May when the school year ended and I peaced out as fast as I could.

ilovecake84 · November 2014

Apparently my roommates weren't nearly as bad as I thought they were!

The worst was the year that my landlord moved in 2 random people without telling us. A good friend and I had individual leases for a 4 room apartment. We had been like this for a year so thought nothing would change when we went home for the summer. Came back in September to 2 randos moving in.

The guy was a giant pot head but spent most of his time. In his room. The girl was older than us and about 14 hours away from home and couldn't handle it. She just started using all our things, our phone line, etc. We had vonage so could track phone usage. Not even exaggerating, she would spend an average of 10 hours on the phone on a Saturday and 5-6 during the week. She lost her shit when we told her she had to get her own phone line, started sobbing...

sarawifenow · November 2014

These stories are wild! Like I said in the other thread, H is the only roommate I have ever had. So I guess my weird thing is that my roommate always tries to have sex with me? TMI?

novella1186 · November 2014

sarawifenow said:

These stories are wild! Like I said in the other thread, H is the only roommate I have ever had. So I guess my weird thing is that my roommate always tries to have sex with me? TMI?

That just made me laugh! You are lucky to have no crazy roommates! My current roommate (FI) is awesome enough to make up for the bad ones, I suppose

theycallmelinz · November 2014

I only had 2 roommates. At first, all 3 of us lived together, then 1 moved out and it was just me and the other girl. We eventually had a falling out and don't speak anymore. The only story I really have is the time I saw all of her naked pics on her computer. I didn't have a laptop at the time so she said I could borrow hers for a project. I hooked up my camera to her laptop, and the photo program automatically opened with the recent uploads. There is my roommate, all spread eagle and boobs and everything. Awwwkward.

novella1186 · November 2014

smichek said:

I went to a college that does apartment-style dorms. Each dorm houses 4 people. Four tiny bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, tiny kitchen, and a living room. My BFF and I were on one side of the dorm and shared a bathroom. The other two girls lived on the other side and shared the other bathroom. Unless there was an emergency, you only used your bathroom. One morning E wakes me up and asks if she could use mine and BFF's shower. I said sure and asked if M was hogging the bathroom. "No," E said, "M PEED all over the bathroom. Like it is EVERYWHERE." M was a weird chick. Didn't drink or party, so I knew this wasn't a drunken fall off the toilet situation. Later that day, the pee was still not cleaned up so we left a passive-aggressive note on M's door.

M also changed with her blinds open all the time, would walk around the dorm with her hand in her butt crack, would randomly skip across the side walk, and run to and from class screaming. She put her trash on top of the trash can or beside it. Never cooked or cleaned. If she heard you in the kitchen, she would come out and asked what smelled so good and if she could have some...half the time I hadn't even started cooking yet, I was just preheating the oven or boiling water.

If 2 or 3 roommates gathered in the living room, M would come awkwardly skip around the couch and get way too close to people without saying anything, then she'd randomly yell something completely weird like "I THINK MY SISTER IS INFERTILE!"

I was very happy when we no longer lived together.

lol what the fuck? I can't even abbreviate with "wtf" cuz this post deserves the full-on spelling out of the words. What the fuck. Just... what the fuck? I read through that whole thing trying to come up with some explanation but I got nothin'!

novella1186 · November 2014

theycallmelinz said:

I only had 2 roommates. At first, all 3 of us lived together, then 1 moved out and it was just me and the other girl. We eventually had a falling out and don't speak anymore. The only story I really have is the time I saw all of her naked pics on her computer. I didn't have a laptop at the time so she said I could borrow hers for a project. I hooked up my camera to her laptop, and the photo program automatically opened with the recent uploads. There is my roommate, all spread eagle and boobs and everything. Awwwkward.

That totally happened to my friend and I in high school when we went to visit her older sister! And there were CLOSE UPS of her boyfriend biting her vagina! A whole screen of these photos popped up and she couldn't get it to close. Omg it was so effing awkward.

carrie0924 · November 2014

Wow. At least I know I'm not alone...

Roommate 1 - random roommate my first semester in college. I moved in a couple days before her & waited to meet her before I completely settled in, so we could decorate together & discuss how to arrange the room, etc. Her parents helped move her in, and I made sure I told roomie & parents I didn't much care how the room was arranged, but I could not be in a top bunk because I fall off. I left for an hour, came back to my bed - you guessed it- as a top bunk! Foot of my bed was at the top of her desk, and every once in a while I would kick something off of her desk in my sleep (totally legit accidents). She would get pissed when stuff broke because I, an admitted active sleeper, kicked things in my sleep from my top bunk that I told her up front I could not have. One night, I was sitting ON MY TOP BUNK studying, and she says "I think we should unbunk the beds and arrange them in an L shape." So my boyfriend and I did this a couple of days later. She came back furious that I had arranged the room as she had suggested! I had early classes, she would come home late every night, turning on all the lights and slamming doors. She was smelly and never washed her sheets, so our room always smelled like dirty feet. She had a townie friend who was disgusting. Never bathed, always high. He would sleep on our floor frequently, which made getting out of the top bed even more challenging. One morning I woke up to find he had pulled covers off of my bed and covered up with them!!!!!!!! She would lose her keys and then leave notes on the outside of our door for everybody walking by to see, asking me not to lock the door so she could get back in. She would leave her key under the couch cushions so her friends could get into our room when we weren't around!! She finally decided we weren't great roommates, and decided since she "had more stuff", I should be the one to move out. We were both going to have to move out in fairness, until the night her townie friend showed up drunk, banging on the door and looking for me. He wasn't a student and had no escort so he was trespassing and screaming at me that I should be the one to move out. I called campus security. She had to move out. She would still accost me on campus and yell at me until one day she actually yelled at me in front of the campus police station. I just walked in, filed a report, and the officer walked out and told her to never ever speak to me ever again.

Roommate 2 - Another random roommate. Slept her way through an entire floor of our dorm, crying every week that guys would stop talking to her after she slept with them. Ate all of my food. Any and all food I brought into the room would disappear before I had a chance to eat any of it. Borrowed my clothing all the time & would get food stains on it. Super annoying, super emotional. Also she liked to steal clothing. She would wear loose clothing, use a hunting knife to pry sensors off of clothing, and then wear the clothing out underneath the clothing she wore in. One Sunday she returned to campus with a gash from her hunting knife. I drove her to the infirmary for stitches because she cut herself stealing clothing.

Roommate 3 - A friend I had made Freshman year was my sophomore roomate. She met a guy online 2 weeks into the semester. She would talk to him on web cam for hours and hours and hours. She disappeared one night. She had just decided to leave campus and drive 2 states to visit him. She didn't tell anybody because all of us were super creeped out by this guy and the relationship. About a month later, she dropped out of school entirely and moved back home. A year later, she called to apologize and tell me I was right. On one of her visits with this guy, she got really sick. He wouldn't let her catch an earlier flight home and wouldn't take her to the hospital. He threatened to lock her up. Fortunately, he left her catch her originally scheduled flight home and she was able to get away from him without getting hurt.

None of my roommates lasted for even an entire semester. I always wondered if it was something about me that made my roommates crazy...

themuffinman16 · November 2014

My mother's boyfriend had a bunch of dirty magazines. And I mean dirty. I was 9 when I found them. So many life lessons learned that day. There was a picture of one girl with two penises in her mouth and she was biting down on both of them and blood was trickling down her mouth. We moved out, that night. To this day, when I see two people kissing one person on the cheek, at the same time, i can't unsee that photo. It haunts me.

Edited for bad word

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

My mother's boyfriend had a bunch of dirty magazines. And I mean dirty. I was 9 when I found them. So many life lessons learned that day. There was a picture of one girl with two penises in her mouth and she was biting down on both of them and blood was trickling down her mouth. We moved out, that night. To this day, when I see two people kissing one person on the cheek, at the same time, i can't unsee that photo. It haunts me.

Edited for bad word

Holy. Shit.

themuffinman16 · November 2014

novella1186 said:

themuffinman16 said:

My mother's boyfriend had a bunch of dirty magazines. And I mean dirty. I was 9 when I found them. So many life lessons learned that day. There was a picture of one girl with two penises in her mouth and she was biting down on both of them and blood was trickling down her mouth. We moved out, that night. To this day, when I see two people kissing one person on the cheek, at the same time, i can't unsee that photo. It haunts me.

Edited for bad word

Holy. Shit.

As bad as that was, for me, I think my mother had it way worse. Not to mention all of the wtfs she had abut her boyfriend, she had to answer 9 and 10 year old questions, all night long, in the hotel room.

novella1186 · November 2014

themuffinman16 said:

novella1186 said:

themuffinman16 said:

My mother's boyfriend had a bunch of dirty magazines. And I mean dirty. I was 9 when I found them. So many life lessons learned that day. There was a picture of one girl with two penises in her mouth and she was biting down on both of them and blood was trickling down her mouth. We moved out, that night. To this day, when I see two people kissing one person on the cheek, at the same time, i can't unsee that photo. It haunts me.

Edited for bad word

Holy. Shit.

As bad as that was, for me, I think my mother had it way worse. Not to mention all of the wtfs she had abut her boyfriend, she had to answer 9 and 10 year old questions, all night long, in the hotel room.

oh man, your poor mother. I can't even imagine going through all that with a boyfriend, and on top of that trying to take care of your kids alone, and on top of that trying to explain things to your kids. She wins the Badass Award for sure.

flyingfoxes · November 2014

TBH - I always kind of wished I'd gone off to college and done the dorm thing....but now, not so much, lol. FI is my first roommate, and I just moved in with him in April when I was 37. I lived by myself from 19 until this spring - doesn't sound like I missed out on much. Yikes!

themuffinman16 · November 2014

"If you can catch disease from a toilet seat, how many do you catch from there." (I was an 80s child.. diseases on toilets were the thing, back then). She didn't even respond, just poured herself a glass of wine, looked at me, and drank it.

amelisha · November 2014

mobride2015 said:

TBH - I always kind of wished I'd gone off to college and done the dorm thing....but now, not so much, lol. FI is my first roommate, and I just moved in with him in April when I was 37. I lived by myself from 19 until this spring - doesn't sound like I missed out on much. Yikes!

None of my 14 roommates were even dorm related! I went to university but didn't live on campus, so mine were all just in the interests of frugality. But I've never shared a bedroom, thank goodness.

cupcait927 · November 2014

mobride2015 said:

TBH - I always kind of wished I'd gone off to college and done the dorm thing....but now, not so much, lol. FI is my first roommate, and I just moved in with him in April when I was 37. I lived by myself from 19 until this spring - doesn't sound like I missed out on much. Yikes!

I was SO thankful when a friend of mine from high school asked to be my roommate since we were going to the same college. I never had to live with a stranger and after hearing these stories, I am so so so happy about that.

mrscaty · November 2014

Mine isn't awful, but my freshman roommate was like a 12 year old. She came from a very close extended family, so that is who she spent all her time with. Her best friend was her 12 year old cousin. She put pictures of the Jonas Brothers all over the wall. She thought boys were "icky" (like, my now H couldn't stay over if she was there. One weekend she went home, and I asked if he could stay and her response was "is he going to sleep in my bed?" uh, no.) It was the worst. Then I became an RA so I didn't have to deal with roomies anymore.

LadyMillil · November 2014

My worst roommate is really tame compared to some of these. My freshman year I was in a forced quad so one room, 4 girls. One of my roommates was from Korea and she never adjusted to our time zone so she slept all day and was up all night. This meant she was on her computer all night with the lights on chatting with family in Korea and would never stop no matter how many times we asked. Since she slept all day we couldn't bring visitors over. I have no idea how she managed to pass her classes.

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