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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A bit weird of her to jump straight into a kind of exorcism.
Especially since she wasn't even doing it right. Generally one should go to a priest or minister for that.
Load More Replies...The people that act like this are embarrassing for the rest of us normal Christians.
I know right, I hate it how I have to tall a priest every time my Spanish housemate calls his Mum
A boyfriend had a li’l guy like that out in the country in his Airstream! I was making dinner, and this raccoon pulled the screen door open, and sat down at the table for dinner. I wasn’t ever told about him before, so I wasn’t clear on what was happening there.
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.
This sounds like something me, or one of my old college roommates, would say to each other just to weird each other out but not do it. We were all great friends and this was our kind of humour.
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.
“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.”
Like hide it behind the couch, in the furnace duct, down the garbage chute....
Load More Replies...I do this to my wife with a garden gnome. Gnome in the home I call it. He's popped up everywhere: in the fridge, the washing machine, the toilet, under the sink, inside her pillow.... I don't know why she still loves me
Ugh yeah my family has this decapitated Barbie head thing you’re supposed to use to practice brushing hair and what-not but all my siblings randomly leave it in hard to reach places to scare each other. Once I found it on one of the ceiling fan blades in the middle of the night and screamed so loud my parents woke up. It sheds too.
My sister and I used to do this to each other growing up. Mum's nerves were very frayed.
That would have been me. I would have hidden it everywhere. Wanna be my roommate?
This would not bother me at all, unless I was busy mating with another human.
Load More Replies...This person would be my new best friend in that moment; I would likely grab my own sheet, throw it over my head, and announce they surprised me so hard I sheet myself, because puns
I sent a photo of this to my BFF because we need to do this to each other. No questions asked.
I don't understand the point of getting yourself so drunk that you piss in weird places, can't remember what they did, get into fights or criminal activity etc. How is any of that fun. I would be so embarrassed and disgusted with myself for behaving that way. You don't have to get completely s**t faced to enjoy yourself.
Most people underestimate their capacity though! Or in other words, when you are at the point you should stop you are now too 'merry' to realise it and it's too late. Only once or twice have I deliberately set out to get drunk and that was in extreme circumstances.
Load More Replies...When I was in the military one of the guys was so drunk that he forgot he was in the military. He climbed out of his bed, walked to the guard's office next to our dorm, opened a closet there and had a good long pee over a lot of folders. After a shake and carefully closing the closet door he staggered back to bed. We all had a good laugh about it.
I had a flatmate in uni who used to pee in a glass or cup and leave it in her room. She even brought a guy back with a cup full on her bedside table! Another friend didn't believe me so he went into her room to look, and the wardrobe door was open with a glass of pee sitting on the bottom. It was worse as I caught her using one of my glasses, and then found it in the dishwasher
Always make sure your roommate is housebroken before you move in together
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.”
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.”
Pants = trousers in North America. Pants = underwear in Britain. This story takes on another level of weirdness depending where it happened.
Does that mean naked? Or did he wear boxers or some other underwear? I have questions.
This is better when you're a musical nerd and immediately think of Evan Hansen
Some people apparently have a "thing" about not wearing masks as well...
That is such a stupid thing for your room mate to do. You could have been seriously injured.
Listen, I like the occasional shot with my meal as much as the next guy, but you & me need to have a conversation...
Exactly. Just get one for yourself to use while she gone.
Load More Replies...This...this is evil. The roommate would only do this once to me. It would not happen again.
Solution - buy a 2nd remote, changhe the channel play with teh volume while theyre watching tv.
Me and my siblings would do this. Whenever we could watch a show upstairs, one of us would kidnap the remote and hide it, or bring it to the bathroom/downstairs/everywhere with us to prevent remote theft.
He didn't go through four years of chicken medical school to be called 'Mr,' thank you very much.
Load More Replies...When you met him, did you have to find the Five Nuggets of Friendship? (Reference, anyone?)
what.. so basically after every sower she would smell worse than before? CRUNCHY FROM WHAT?!!!!!
Zet, honey, never ever ask a question you really don’t want the answer to,
Load More Replies...I never failed to be amazed by how many kids leave home with no clue how to take basic care of themselves.
In college me and my roommates had our laundry in our bathroom. I taught them the best thing ever was to throw your towel in the dryer while showering so you had a nice hot towel when you got out. The best on a cold morning. Somehow this reminded me of that.
Like an Arthur Dent universe hitchhiking emergency? Cause you'd want your best towel for that.
But aren't the soaked up 'nutrients' essential for such an hitchhiker's towel?
Load More Replies...What kind of emergency? Like aliens destroying the earth to make room for an intergalactic bypass?
Were you breathing? Did your roommate even try to test if you were?
My guess is she shook the roommate awake from the nap, then became so embarrassed that she made herself scarce for the rest of the year.
Clearly Caite was too busy getting high to notice her roommate. The instance she describes is when she did a little too much.
That's not weird. He was an introvert that needed time away from the crowd in the barracks. The flight helmet was his own little isolation pod, and yoga and classical music helped him relax.
Sounds like an awesome roommate! Him and the raccoon of course
I had a flatmate who would do nude yoga at random times of the day and night. It was not a pretty picture
Nude yoga? Seriously? Lol... I get that people want to take the good in our culture and interpret it their own ways, but wow
Load More Replies...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.
Why pay for a whole room when you only need it for 32 seconds? Amiright! :D
Load More Replies...At first I though it said "Humans Meeting," Goodness was I wrong...
I was curious as to why a human meeting would prevent one from entering a room.
Load More Replies...I'd have walked in, sat down witha cool drink, and take notes then give marks out of 10 ;o)
She "could not"? Why? Was the sign glued or so heavy it blocked to door?
Yes. He must have found it comforting and protecting in some way.
Load More Replies...Oh dear lol. The special effects were super awesome though. Such a great movie.
I'm going to assume this was not a roommate at a dormitory at Oxford or Harvard University.
My friend and went to a historical seminar that had people impersonating people like Jefferdon, Washington, etcetera. We were listening to the Amelia Earhardt impersonator when she leans over to me and says, "Wow, she looks really good for her age." I had to tell her that it was just an impersonator.
My first husband was watching a tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" of Willow where the running gag was their luck in finding nine inch tall actors to play the pixies (brownies?). My then husband looked at me in amazement. "Can you believe it? Nine inches tall." He'd totally bought it.
Idk why this is down voted im autistic and i do this because if i dont i will f**k up my smile.
Load More Replies...Could be autistic; autistic people sometimes practice or rehearse conversations or how to socialize.
I think she has been reading too much Cosmo. How to smile to get that job, how to smile to get you a man, how to fake a smile etc.
she's probably just neurodivergent. smiling dosent always come naturally to everyone
Load More Replies...This isn’t that weird, she’s probably just autistic or another form of neurodivergent. I do this all the time, with a number of different facial expressions and phrases
I can't help but think this guy must have had crippling social anxiety to the point of being too anxious and afraid to bump into anyone. Or he's a lazy disgusting human.
The social anxiety could have been caused by his parents going ballistic on him for getting up to go to the bathroom after bedtime. I knew someone who had similar issues because of how they were raised.
Load More Replies...That is someone I would actually like to live with.
It will catch on eventually - and he'll be in line for the first Grammy award
People who think they are "psycic" or a "medium" are usually either scammers or just plain nut jobs.
Speaking as someone who people generally call a psychic, I'm merely very observant but I don't tell people how I got the information. So I suppose that if I were to actually sell my services, then I would be a scammer.
Load More Replies...I didn't realize Benedict married Sophie Hunter. There goes my premonition that I would marry Sophie.
Sounds more like she had a mental health problem. I knew a girl with a similar belief in highschool. She got medical help and she doesn't have such thoughts anymore; and she's a phenomenal human in many ways.
He was probably being sarcastic since he had a huge horror movie collection and would be obvious.
Sort of like a "Duh, here's your sign" kinda thing?
Load More Replies...I'm always sarcastic when I get a "Captain Obvious" question like that as well
Make the roomie wear an adult diaper whenever she was gonna get drunk! That just might trigger her subconscious mind to stop peeing the bed. And now I know I'll get downvoted for "shaming", but sometimes it's necessary.
That's not shaming, that's the solution to the problem. Or, not drinking, might also work. Also - not THAT uncommon. I know at least three people who are drunk bedwetters ... either don't drink ... or don't wear nonabsorbent panties at night.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately I never went to college. I feel really bad missing out on all these wonderful experiences.
A former friend once told me he got so drunk at age 16, he got up and went to pee directly into the dryer. In the plus column, he had the presence of mind to turn the dryer on "to clean it", so...half credit?
perosnally i'd have left when she peed the bed the first few times. one thing to have a med condition another when you only drunk
Was probably voted Most Likely To Be Homeless in high school yearbook.
I went shopping for a neighbor that had a wheelchair access van. She wanted about 4 cases of water for her wheelchair bound husband. My back cringed thinking of loading and unloading the water. So I asked the store manager if I could take the cart with me as long as I bring it back. He said sure. My neighbor about fell over laughing when she opened her door.
did you use it or not? whatever happened to that cart? poor thing is probably still waiting to be used...so sad...
Apparently people think that's a romantic song...O.O
Load More Replies...My boarding school bully decided to forcibly sit on my lap and then fart on me. It was horribly stinky. I got my revenge by vomiting all down her back.
There are some people in the world who don't even have a real bed, so sharing is not actually that unlikely.
Load More Replies...The peanut butter was a key element in her plan.
Load More Replies...Someone told her about 5G radiation and how to protect yourself from it.
Maybe it was to protect herself from aliens allergic to nuts lol.
Ok but can we take a moment to think about the fact that it's probably not that weird for her, I do things that other ppl find weird but they're just a normal part of my life :/ Everyone has different brains, stop calling ppl who act differently weird. If I wanted to wrap myself in tinfoil with peanut butter on my face, I'd do it. F**k u.
Is it normal in the USA to literally share literally the same actual room with a complete stranger?
I can ALMOST sympathize, since my husband is a snorer. ALMOST. I do think attempted murder is a bit extreme.
Or maybe the person that snores so bad should move out???
Load More Replies...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.
Right? I don't know why, but my Sergeant HATED the tuna casserole mre, and I loved it, so we would always trade lol
Load More Replies...Hopefully he was not a sapper in the military. Grabbing unexploded mines with his hands
Big deal. When I was in the military we would heat up our C-rations by placing them on the exhaust manifold, drive for awhile, then have a warm meal.
My freshman year roommate heated soup in the can too...in the microwave. I can't comprehend how someone got to college and didn't know metal couldn't go in microwaves. She was awful.
"If it dont come in a can, it dont go in this man." - Cousin Leslie
Load More Replies...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.
The previous tenant of my (then) apt left two dead snakes in the freezer...and another one was on the lam.in the vents, found it much later cozy behind a radiator. No mice that winter.
Why a terrible journalist? And do you mean the girl who wrote the twitter comment?
Load More Replies...Nooo, not a ladybug. Majority of bugs I will just relocate or leave them unless there are many, like ants, mosquito's and flies or ones that sting/bite.
Or ones that are bigger than you i suppose since you are Australian😅😅😅
Load More Replies...This makes me think of my brother.. when we shared a room in our RV.. God that place was hell.
I had a male roommate terrified of those! I thought it cute. But would have killed him if he woke me. Hahahaha!
Once I learned an acquaintance hated lady bugs and butterflies and I didn’t want to know her anymore!
I get this to a degree. I used to fill a couple of laundry baskets with clothes that I'd take home to be washed (unashamedly by mum) at the end of each uni semester. It was the difference between constantly paying for washers and dryers, or someone doing it all for me for free. For my younger self it was a no brainier (though I would occasionally do a load while there if anything got particularly dirty)!
You pay extra for washer and dryers? Here it is included in all forms of rental lodgings by law (Sweden)
Load More Replies...(retch) Some stories on this site do make excellent appetite suppressants.
Reminds me of the song "Sunday Morning Coming Down". The line about "my cleanest dirty shirt"
It took you months for you to confront her about it. And she only did something when you confronted her? So disgusting.
You left the pan on the stove that long, in a silent struggle to see who would crack first? You and your roommate were literally playing chicken (I'll show myself out)
I had a roommate who would fill a pot to almost overflowing and then boil gnocchi. The starchy water would bubble over and she'd leave it there. And do it again the next day. When I asked her to clean it because my parents were coming to visit, she just said "I hate cleaning" and left. She did not, in fact, clean it. She also used to drop pieces of lettuce on the floor after washing it to make a salad and just leave it there.
I would have let that just sit until she returned. Or cleaned it up and left the wet towels on their bed.
I would have just thrown the pan in the trash after the first month.
I would do that after a few knocks as I don’t want to annoy someone by accidentally doing a knock knock ginger
Do a Sheldon: *knock knock knock* Penny *knock knock knock* Penny *knock knock knock* Penny
Load More Replies...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.
I hear you. There's some boundary issues if they didn't answer and you sit down in front of the door and wait...
Load More Replies...After one cranberry/milk/Redbull/latte it should not be problem any more.
Load More Replies...Def don't touch what's not yours, and divide the fridge, if poss. If the situation is diff, put in 1/2 drinks. When you take 1 out, put one in. You still have a cold back up, and the warm new one behind. We do this at home bcuz there are 4 of us sharing the fridge and we have multiple drink preferences. If we have the same preference, we'll put in 3/4 or adjust accordingly. If company is coming, we'll def adjust and make room for more, use an ice chest, or wish we had an extra fridge.
I had a roommate who would eat half of my food. I would make 2 burritos for my lunch the next day, and over night she would eat half of each one. Why?? If you're going to steal, take 1 whole burrito! Not half of both!!!
My first housemate always lived very isolated, you rarely saw him and you never knew if he was home, as he left no food in the fridge, only weird stuff here and there, and one day when I got home he was just standing in tbe hall. Staring.
I could go on and on, but my top two are: 1) my roommate in junior year of college once fell asleep face first on the living room floor at 5 pm, and 2) I once went downstairs to use the half bath late one night to find my roommate and some of his friends buck naked in the living room drawing on each other with markers.
My weird roommate was more sad than weird...I noticed every so often she got ill. Vomiting, chills, fever...the works. I thought it may be Mono and asked her about it...she always just called it her "sickness" and swore to me it was not contagious and not to worry. But worry I did. Until I had a friend over and she needed a tampon. I was out, so told her to knock on my roomies door and ask if she had any. She did. She came back to my room with a strange expression on her face. She said my roomie answered the door and left it open slightly when she went to get the tampon. My friends said she saw several lines of tan-colored powder substance on top of her nightstand. It all suddenly made sense. My roomie had a secret habit of snorting heroin. Her "sickness" was withdraw symptoms when she was broke and couldnt get any of her drugs. I tried to bring it up, but she got very violent and stomped out the apartment. She moved out a couple of months later, but I still think about her and wonder.
I was the weird roommate. Wasn't there for a social life, was struggling with trauma issues, got about as much sympathy as you'd expect, etc. I think one of them really fears me, since I alone know her secret: She didn't get a 4.0. She got her mommy to bully the registrar into accepting her Overseas Semester grades in lieu of her crappy-in-USA grades for a semester... Perfect grades my left bu** cheek.
Got home late with friends for a few after-bar drinks, downstairs neighbor wanders up, buck naked, sits down in a chair. Me: “Hey, Dave” Dave:“Yeah?” Me:“It’s late, you should go to bed” Dave:“Oh, ok…” Then he got up and wandered back downstairs.
When my husband was in the army, he was designated driver all the time because he didn't drink. Many nights he had to drag fellow soldiers to their rooms because they were too drunk to make it there themselves. As he got one soldiers bunk ready, he heard the window open behind him and the soldier throwing up. The soldier lived on the third floor of the barracks.
Another story involved the soldiers that occupied the room next door. My husband said he came home to see a commotion in the room next to him. It turned out that both the soldiers that occupied the room had gone out drinking. One had tripped getting out of bed and slammed his head on the corner of the table. His drunk roommate was duct taping and entire roll of toilet paper (still on the roll) to the injured soldiers head. My husband said in the morning you could hear the injured soldier (now sober) screaming as he pealed duct tape off his crew cut.
Load More Replies...I had a roommate that stole my comforter and money while I was away on a short study abroad. She was kicked out of the school before I came back so I had no money. Thankfully my friends "hid" my laptop so she wouldn't steal it. I couldn't file a police report because she was out of the state -_-
I had a roommate that rarely did her any dishes that she used so it was left for the rest of us to do them bc we needed them. I even left a note on the whiteboard we had saying "dishes are like boyfriends/girlfriends, your roommates shouldn't be doing them". She didn't find it as funny as the rest of us and still didn't do her dishes. I got fed up so I washed all the dirty dishes and then hid the majority of them in my closet so there was very little amount of dishes to be done when they were all used. I also bought paper plates and cups so we had extra for when we had company over.
I had a roommate who would eat half of my food. I would make 2 burritos for my lunch the next day, and over night she would eat half of each one. Why?? If you're going to steal, take 1 whole burrito! Not half of both!!!
My first housemate always lived very isolated, you rarely saw him and you never knew if he was home, as he left no food in the fridge, only weird stuff here and there, and one day when I got home he was just standing in tbe hall. Staring.
I could go on and on, but my top two are: 1) my roommate in junior year of college once fell asleep face first on the living room floor at 5 pm, and 2) I once went downstairs to use the half bath late one night to find my roommate and some of his friends buck naked in the living room drawing on each other with markers.
My weird roommate was more sad than weird...I noticed every so often she got ill. Vomiting, chills, fever...the works. I thought it may be Mono and asked her about it...she always just called it her "sickness" and swore to me it was not contagious and not to worry. But worry I did. Until I had a friend over and she needed a tampon. I was out, so told her to knock on my roomies door and ask if she had any. She did. She came back to my room with a strange expression on her face. She said my roomie answered the door and left it open slightly when she went to get the tampon. My friends said she saw several lines of tan-colored powder substance on top of her nightstand. It all suddenly made sense. My roomie had a secret habit of snorting heroin. Her "sickness" was withdraw symptoms when she was broke and couldnt get any of her drugs. I tried to bring it up, but she got very violent and stomped out the apartment. She moved out a couple of months later, but I still think about her and wonder.
I was the weird roommate. Wasn't there for a social life, was struggling with trauma issues, got about as much sympathy as you'd expect, etc. I think one of them really fears me, since I alone know her secret: She didn't get a 4.0. She got her mommy to bully the registrar into accepting her Overseas Semester grades in lieu of her crappy-in-USA grades for a semester... Perfect grades my left bu** cheek.
Got home late with friends for a few after-bar drinks, downstairs neighbor wanders up, buck naked, sits down in a chair. Me: “Hey, Dave” Dave:“Yeah?” Me:“It’s late, you should go to bed” Dave:“Oh, ok…” Then he got up and wandered back downstairs.
When my husband was in the army, he was designated driver all the time because he didn't drink. Many nights he had to drag fellow soldiers to their rooms because they were too drunk to make it there themselves. As he got one soldiers bunk ready, he heard the window open behind him and the soldier throwing up. The soldier lived on the third floor of the barracks.
Another story involved the soldiers that occupied the room next door. My husband said he came home to see a commotion in the room next to him. It turned out that both the soldiers that occupied the room had gone out drinking. One had tripped getting out of bed and slammed his head on the corner of the table. His drunk roommate was duct taping and entire roll of toilet paper (still on the roll) to the injured soldiers head. My husband said in the morning you could hear the injured soldier (now sober) screaming as he pealed duct tape off his crew cut.
Load More Replies...I had a roommate that stole my comforter and money while I was away on a short study abroad. She was kicked out of the school before I came back so I had no money. Thankfully my friends "hid" my laptop so she wouldn't steal it. I couldn't file a police report because she was out of the state -_-
I had a roommate that rarely did her any dishes that she used so it was left for the rest of us to do them bc we needed them. I even left a note on the whiteboard we had saying "dishes are like boyfriends/girlfriends, your roommates shouldn't be doing them". She didn't find it as funny as the rest of us and still didn't do her dishes. I got fed up so I washed all the dirty dishes and then hid the majority of them in my closet so there was very little amount of dishes to be done when they were all used. I also bought paper plates and cups so we had extra for when we had company over.
