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They say that the purpose of having a roommate is to eat their OREOs, use their shampoo, and have someone open the door for you when you’re dead drunk from a night out, no judgment included. That’s not true. Apart from a fraction of roommates who become life-long friends, most of them are there in your life so you can have hilarious stories to tell.

For anyone who knows what it’s like to live with other people under one roof, Jimmy Fallon’s new #MyWeirdRoommate challenge is a safe place to talk about very weird but very real things. Starting with Fallon’s story about a roommate “who only ate chicken nuggets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Everyone called him Nugget,” the thread started rolling with each story better than the previous one.

So get ready to cringe, laugh, and dive into something so relatable that no one who never had the pleasure (and a curse!) of having a roommate would understand.

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Foxxy (The Original)
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4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bit weird of her to jump straight into a kind of exorcism.

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    October
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a roommate but a landlord. At night he liked to get naked, cover himself in flour and just stand still in his kitchen for hours.

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    Bored Panda spoke to Twitter user Save Bandit! who said she woke up to a roommate reading bible verses over her. “I woke up to my roommate reading bible verses over me because she had heard me whispering in "tongues" the night before. I was in bed talking to my family in my native language and didn't want to disturb her sleep,” they tweeted for the #MyWeirdRoommate challenge.

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    “My first thought initially was ‘what the hell’! Then she explained what had happened and honestly, we laughed pretty hard about it, she learned I spoke another language and I learned she was quite religious,” Save Bandit! said. Having said that, the Twitter user added that they definitely wouldn’t call that roommate weird, but “perhaps a little sheltered.” They added: “It can always be worse, I found that out once she left and I got a second roommate who never stopped talking.”

    When it comes to keeping in touch with roommates, Save Bandit! said that they lost touch some years back but prior to that, "we would occasionally reach out and send funny memes to one another." They also added that “I definitely prefer living alone, roommates can be fun but sometimes it's a hassle living with another person.”

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    KJ
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I would have accidentally misplaced Bertha.

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    We also reached out to one Twitter user that goes by the nickname “mother of staircase humor” who participated in Jimmy Fallon’s #MyWeirdRoommate challenge. “Back in dental college, I had a roommate who would wash all her fresh fruits with soap. Little did I know that a decade and a half later, all of us would be doing the same,” she tweeted in response to Fallon.

    The Twitter user said that the moment she saw her “weird roommate” washing fruits with soap, she “exchanged glances with other roommates, by the end of college, we had our own secret eye language.” Even today, they still have “our own little fest based on social media posts of old peers.”

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    While living with other people at dental college, the Twitter user said that they learned to read each other very well. “There were a ton of hilarious instances, we were all weird in our own ways,” she added. In general, she had a great time as she was “wise enough to understand that college days never come back and it indeed was the golden time of my life.”

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    Al Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're lucky that's all that happened!

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    Jayne Kyra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, the smell had to be vomit-inducing.

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    BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were you breathing? Did your roommate even try to test if you were?

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since when is mating a valid excuse to lock someone out of their room? If you don't want to be disturbed find a motelroom.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh dear lol. The special effects were super awesome though. Such a great movie.

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    Jayne Kyra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just weird, but absolutely revolting!

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    Al Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who think they are "psycic" or a "medium" are usually either scammers or just plain nut jobs.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was probably being sarcastic since he had a huge horror movie collection and would be obvious.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't blame you. She did pee in your bed after all.

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    Ann Coffman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was probably voted Most Likely To Be Homeless in high school yearbook.

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    Al Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She didn't want to be abducted and probed!

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    oktopus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it normal in the USA to literally share literally the same actual room with a complete stranger?

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    Al Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that is pretty much how field rations are cooked, though rather than a tin can it's a kind of vacuum sealed metallic bag which you can touch when you've pulled it out of boiling water. So it's probably just that ingrained into him. Side note, those rations never look great, but some are actually pretty tasty.

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    IlovemydogShilo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like Joey wearing Chandler’s clores in Friends.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think that's weird, she probably forgot it was there. Plus we used to have a snake, so having a mice, rat or baby chick in the freezer wasn't weird for us.

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    Al Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This makes me think of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory

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    Jo Choto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dated somebody who did that. Fortunately he was open to new ideas. Amazingly enough, his chronic scabby eczema cleaned right up when he started doing laundry regularly.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It took you months for you to confront her about it. And she only did something when you confronted her? So disgusting.

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    Fred
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would do that after a few knocks as I don’t want to annoy someone by accidentally doing a knock knock ginger

    Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do a Sheldon: *knock knock knock* Penny *knock knock knock* Penny *knock knock knock* Penny

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    Jo Choto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a (former) friend who became my stalker. She would also sit outside my door when I wouldn't answer, waiting for me to come home, and I would be stuck inside, making sure to be absolutely quiet.

    Cold Contagious
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hear you. There's some boundary issues if they didn't answer and you sit down in front of the door and wait...

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    tw 72
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This guy will eventually be on Dateline.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Combine all her drinks into one container too.

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