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30 Times People Realized They Were Living With A ‘Monster’ Roommate, As Shared In This Online Group
It's no big secret that living alone is a complete delight – however, in this economy, not everybody has the cash to support this kind of living. Renting a place with other people is a great way to tackle financial issues – but, with that, you also risk stumbling across some questionable individuals.
“What made your worst roommate ever such a bad roommate?” – this web user took to one of Reddit’s most philosophical and thought-provoking communities to invite its members to share their worst roommate experiences.
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#1
Had a weekend getaway planned, confirmed a couple of weeks in advance that she could take care of my cat while I was gone (side note: she had a cat too.) Before I left, re-confirmed that she would be around and could take care of them. Wasn't uncommon for me to do all the kitty duties, which I didn't mind at all, but because I was used to being on top of it I wanted to make sure she had it under control.
Got back after 3 days and clearly no one had been in the apartment for at least a couple of days. Cats had no water or food and had been clawing at the door enough to chip a bunch of the paint off of it. I texted her and asked if she had watched the cats, she replied that she decided to stay with her boyfriend for the weekend, completely oblivious to the fact that she had abandoned two helpless animals. I asked if she realized the cats hadn't had food or water in a few days, she replied "oh, they're just cats, they are fine."
I asked her to move out and also if I could keep her cat because I was worried about her ability to take care of another creature, both of which she agreed to. Some next level loser a*****e s**t to do that to creatures that are dependent upon you to survive.
Red Ruffensor 2 years ago
We went on a ten day trip and had our daughter's friend come by every couple of days to tend to the three cats. Knowing this friend was a bit of a flake, we left tons of food and water out, just in case. No, for some reason she never came over, but the kitties were OK, and they were sure happy to see us when we got home.
Lia is a platypus 2 years ago
That is such f*****g idiotic behaviour! 😠 at least you got a cat out of that terrible deal.
Lisa H 2 years ago (edited)
EDIT: Some of you haven't been reading my entire post before downvoting. Cats can survive three days without food as long as they have water. That's what that little pooch near the belly is for that many cat species have. That being said, though, fück that bïtch. These cats should never have had to go into survival mode. They're domestic, not wild. Glad she gave up her cat.
Stargirl 2 years ago
Domestic cats should not go that long without food as their internal organs will start failing. Cats have finicky systems, as any vet will tell you. Source: my vet.
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Shifty McFlea 2 years ago
“oH tHeY’rE jUsT cAtS, wHo ArEn’T aLiVe AnD dOn’T nEeD fOoD oR wAtEr, DuHhHh!” What an ignorant hunk of garbage.
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#2
TLDR; My Alcoholic roommate stole money I had hidden in my room and drank a bottle of expensive scotch given to me by a deceased friend and lied about it.
When I was 21, I got a bottle of Macallan 18-Year Sherry Oak Scotch Whiskey (he came from a very well-off family) from my best friend of almost 15 years who was battling cancer.
My friend and I made a pact when we were teens, that whenever either of us got married, we'd be each other's best man. My friend had gotten married to a wonderful guy that he had met in college, and the two were my closest friends that helped me get through a lot of bad things in my life.
When he gave me that bottle, he gave it to me not as a birthday present, but as a promise to be around to be my best man when I got married, like I was when he got married to his husband.
Sadly, the cancer spread and got out of control, and he passed away a few months after my birthday. After he passed, I planned to never open the bottle. I tried to give the bottle to his husband, but he refused to take it and told me that my friend meant the bottle to be for me, not him.
I kept the bottle tucked away in a steamer trunk in my closet.
I tell you that, to tell you this...
One day, I come home to find my drunken roommate passed out in his recliner. The bottle of Macallan next to him was on the table, completely empty! I thought that maybe he bought himself a bottle. But with a gut feeling, I checked my room. The trunk in my closet was wide open, the box the bottle came in was open, and the bottle missing. As was the envelope of cash hidden inside the trunk. About $2,500 that I had saved up over the year from working a side bartender job on the weekends.
I woke my roommate up, asked him if he took the bottle of out my trunk, and he said "No, I got this from the gas station." He sat there, staring at me, expecting me to believe him.
I was furious. I told him that I was moving out. He didn't understand why. I confronted him about the missing money and the bottle of scotch he clearly stole. He said "Bro, relax, it's not like you can't buy another bottle. You clearly have the money for it."
I left the apartment, went to the rental office, and informed them of the situation. They helped to get me off of the lease and even helped me find my own townhouse in one of the other property neighborhoods they had. I returned to the apartment, packed up my belongings, and moved out the next day while he was at work.
Aubry 2 years ago
He's a better man than me, if I came home to that, the empty bottle would be flying straight at the useless drunk's head
Invisible Panda 2 years ago
Exactly! I would also be taking back my $2,500 in some way or another. Smh, Idk why not but I can't believe the audacity of some of these people.
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Brian Dean 2 years ago
Pain and suffering is punitive damages, that's where you get into real money.
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I'd have also reported the theft and watched and smiled as his drunk a$$ was hauled off to jail.
Cuppa tea? 2 years ago
Had similar experience, though not me. One of my housemates was working night shifts, before last one he bought couple of craft beers to savour for morning. This another housemate was bit of a drinker, thou only the cheapest Lidl cans of lager. He was out of money so he helped himself to the other fella bottles. When he came home from night shift a all bottles were gone, he went berserk. Woke up whole house, the drunk eejit had the stupid idea to defend himself saying he drink them coz "he was thirsty". A promised to buy him replacement. Which took him about a week, all it was his standard cheap lager. The difference on one bottle was around 2€.
Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago (edited)
This is why we put dead bolt key only lock on our doors. Also not only would that roommate got arrested for stealing the $2500 ! There's no way that he would've gotten away with stealing $2500 he would've paid that money back
#3
She repeatedly peed on the floor right in front of me while making eye contact. She was also a cat. She had multiple clean litterboxes, but she apparently preferred to pee on the floor in front of the litterboxes. My human roommate (her owner) did their best with her, but such is life.
Vic 2 years ago
Uggh! Some room mates never learn. Give her a taste of her own medicine.. go pee in her litter box, while maintaining eye contact with her.
Bonesko 2 years ago
My roommate follows me into the bathroom and jumps on my belly to demand food in the middle of the night
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Stargirl 2 years ago
Probably had kidney stones and was trying to communicate something was wrong. Cats do that when they're sick.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Right? If kitty isn't using the box, it's time for a vet visit.
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Jp@nda 2 years ago
This is normally the problem, or crystals in the urethra
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JN 2 years ago
Very often, yes, but sometimes also when they are unhappy or when the litterbox is not kept clean. In any case it is a sign that something is wrong and a visit to the vet to check for medical issues should indeed be the first thing to do in these cases.
Load More Replies... Marleina Hershberg 2 years ago
It's called take your cat to a vet to find out what your cat is trying to tell you.
Jennifer Checki 2 years ago
Years ago, I read an interview with a veterinarian who explained odd pet behaviors, including why pets maintain eye contact while peeing or pooping. The vet said it is because your pet feels vulnerable to attack during this time, and so looks to you for reassurance that you will protect him/her. (I’m not vouching for this information, as I am not an expert in animal behaviors; I’m just relaying it.)
Jen 2 years ago
Yup, had mine since she was a kitten and she was very skittish when we brought her home but I just worked from her room letting her get used to me being there, now at 2.5 she gets me to come with her to her litter box when she needs to go (or just goes when Im in the bathroom cause her box is next to the toilet). She also wont eat her wet food until I confirm it is safe, just looks up at me to say "ok for me to eat?" Less often she does the same with her dry food but occasionally.
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Dogcat vet (retired) 2 years ago
Did she ever use the box? And if she did, did she go into the middle and cover it up or stay on the edge and scratch outside the box? She could have an aversion to: kind of litter, odor of the litter, placement of the box (had one client who put it under the water heater so the fix was to move the box), is box covered or not. And if she urinates on a rug or some such the odor gets seated there: you can try to move the box to where she is urinating and see if that works then move it back if she cooperates. But some cats don't like clay litter, nonclay litter, perfume smells, dirty boxes, clean boxes, covered boxes, etc. Hope that helps.
#4
Hoarded/hid food and ate everyone else's, would leave dirty q-tips laying around, refused to do any dishes, and one time I caught him spitting on the floor. I backhanded him clean out of his shoes for that one.
SuperChicken 2 years ago
That last sentence got me in a laughing fit - that when my husband asked what's so funny, I couldn't talk straight 😂
Skylar Jaxx 2 years ago
Im still at the school I work waiting on parents to get their kids and I lol-ed so loud when im normally shushing them so they are looking at me like a hypocrite. Now I have to explain during school and after school is different. Lol
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Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago
This is why you buy your own refrigerator and keep it in your room and install a deadbolt on your bedroom door. I taught a roommate a life lesson. She kept eating my food so one day I put a ghost pepper in it and a bottle of laxatives. Let's just say she learned her lesson she never touched anything of mine again but she did end up moving the next month I was glad because she was a thief and a slob
#5
We had a shared kitchen, the 3 of us, we had cleaning schedules but they never followed it, they just piled it up until it was my turn.
After numerous complaints that i was the only one cleaning i stopped cleaning, 3weeks later there was rotten food and fungi all over the kitchen and even a cockroach infestation. a cleaning company had to be hired, the costs of which spread over the people living there, i objected the bill on grounds of my earlier complaints, they didn’t argue and i did not have to pay, i even got compensation for eating out every night, they got kicked out a week later.
Was a win for me eventually but a horrible time before that.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
OP lasted WAY longer than I would have. I'd be piling the dirty stuff on their beds!
Steve Robert 2 years ago
During summer break from uni, two friends and I spent that time sharing an apartment. I swear the kitchen became such a mess even the ants avoided it!
Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago
I would've moved! If the other people refused to clean up behind them selves then they would've had to pay for the exterminator. I would've stopped cooking, as well as cleaning behind slobs and I would've complained over and over again until the owner did something about it. I would've only done my part and not there's
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Wait until it’s a spouse you live with who expects you to do everything to maintain a home while they get to have fun, good times and hobbies.
Seadog 2 years ago
The problem is you don't know what other people find acceptable. When I first got married, wife and I went to look at a 6 month old mobile home that was up for sale. Nice looking, nice layout but.... when we went to see it, woman was fixing supper and the cockroaches were sitting on the counter and even on the stove top watching her cook. The only thing missing was the roaches holding a plate. 6 months old and already that infested and obviously the people had no issues with it. We high tailed it out of there.
Beverly Lodge 2 years ago
I always thought fighting cleaning with not cleaning was idiotic. My friend stopped cleaning to make a point to her boyfriend. She got her kid taken away from her because their apartment was super gross. Point being: do you want to make a point or live in a disgusting pig pen?
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
That was immature for sure. She shouldn’t have put her child in jeopardy. The child will remember that incident and always have a feeling of being unsafe.
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#6
Called me at a friend’s house and told me that my father had died - he hadn’t and was perfectly healthy.
Emie N. 2 years ago
According to the op on reddit, they say that the roommates were deeply unstable and were trying to keep him away from coming back to the apartment and would constantly lie about things to keep him away. Including about his dad dying. What horrible people!
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Thanks for thw info, Ineaa trying to give the benefit of the doubt due to lack of context.
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Lonely Tentacle 2 years ago
But... Why??? Also I wish the worst to that person.. What they did, playing with someone's emotions as brutally as that... awful. ☹️
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There's a special kind of hell for people like that.
#7
It was five of us in a house and rooms were rented out on an individual basis. One guy was pretty awful. He claimed he used to be in the national guard at some point and had this weird sense of entitlement about it. Like, he genuinely believed he shouldn't have to do any communal chores or clean up his own messes because of that. He was also the biggest victim I've ever met. Nothing could ever be his fault and he'd deny any wrongdoing, even with the evidence literally in front of his face.
The entire time he lived in the house, he was supposed to be looking for a job but all he did was smoke weed, cook instant ramen (which again, he never cleaned up) and watch Netflix on his phone. We'd hear him getting in loud arguments with his parents about why he was still unemployed and it was always some new excuse that they clearly weren't buying. He eventually left because his parents stopped paying his rent. The worst part of it all is that this dude was 41 at the time but had all the maturity of a spoiled rotten 10 year old.
Lirael Kl 2 years ago
Sounds like the dude was pretty depressed. Not doing your chores, having trouble keeping a workplace, self-medicating, no social life, eating junk food, that is very little effort to make... it's classic
Joe Smith 2 years ago
Too bad that entitled vets are definitely a thing. I don't owe them anything.
Seadog 2 years ago
Sounds like he was kicked out of the Guard while at Basic...IF he was ever in it. One thing for sure, he wouldn't last long in the military with that attitude. If the CO didn't take care of him, his barracks mates would gladly give him a soap bar beat down. If you don't know what that is, watch Full Metal Jacket. And don't think for 1 second it doesn't happen even now.
#8
The landlord didn’t tell us there was already someone renting one of the rooms, so surprise roommate to begin with. This surprise roommate was schizophrenic and also tended to smoke inside.
It was awful.
foryouwhynot IB 2 years ago
Doesn’t sound like the surprise roommate was very complimentary…
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Joe Standford 2 years ago
That's illegal you agreed to rent the whole apartment said address I would have taken the landlord to court and had that other roommate removed
Skylar Jaxx 2 years ago
Against the law unless he specified it was a boarding house and would have other tenants
Danalalala 2 years ago (edited)
Was her name Kristin and did she put her cigarettes out in the coffee mugs before putting them back in the cabinet? Edit: it was a nonsmoking apt too.
#9
She would brush her long hair, and clean out the brush. Then to dispose of the hair she would stuff it in the *sink drain.*
Normal people throw it in the trash. She clogged the sink constantly.
Lia is a platypus 2 years ago
I used to have long hair, but I cut it. Never would I put it in the sink. That's gross.
#10
In the middle of a 100F heatwave in August, not only turned off the AC, but turned the heat on
To **90F**
Even at the coldest days of winter, has no one turned the heat to freaking 90
Came home to a sauna, and she didn't even stay after she did that
Vic 2 years ago (edited)
Did your roommate also offer to apply lotion on you? bring our spices and marination sauces to massage you? If yes, I may have an idea what your roommate is doing..
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
"It rubs the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again"
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tori Ohno 2 years ago
I work with some temperature sensitive products at my job, my workshop has no heater, only ventilation and A/C. When I got back from vacation, that beotch that covers for me had turned it up to 79! Meaning the A/C wouldn't turn on until it was 80+ in the room. She also destroyed some equipment with her negligence. Weaponized incompetence at it's worst. The boss didn't even care because nobody wants to work so he tolerates her garbage. I wish she were a roommate so I could kick her out or destroy Her things. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know I couldn't put that in the dryer.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
They can and it's insane. I'm sweating reading that
Load More Replies... Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago
Nope I would've turned the heat off and turned the ac on and if she would've touched it we would've been fighting
Snow_White 2 years ago
I had a housemate that cranked up the heating so much that I would even wake up in the middle of snowy night drenched in sweat. Her solution was for me to turn my radiators off.
Jen 2 years ago
I know (knew? They are all unfortunately deceased now) some extremely elderly people who kept thier heat at 90 and were still cold even in layers with sweaters. But that didnt start until they were over 80 and was due to poor circulation due to age (also why many nursing homes are kept so warm). Unless roommate was 85+ there is no reason.
naylene hess 2 years ago
Yea elderly people get a pass but everyone else can get a sweater
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Sally Signup 2 years ago
The apartment I live in has an old heating/AC system that is set to one or the other. Tomorrow it's going to be 83 degrees F. They won't turn off the heat until April. We have window AC units battling the heating system. This place is a waste of energy. At least the electricity is included in the rent, but I don't like the cost of living here either. We're paying for the stupidity either way.
#11
My favorite: She would come in drunk at 2am, turn on all the lights, leaving either her keys in the front door lock, or just leave the door wide open and then pass out in the living room.
Good times!
naylene hess 2 years ago
I would install a chain lock so she couldn't get in and leave the door open f**k that
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
We had neighbors like that, once they're cat was wondering around the outside hallway meowing loudly at about 4 a.m., which was really weird as she was an indoor cat. We went out to look and not only were their keys in the door, it was hanging partway open (that's how the cat got out) and it was really quiet and dark inside. We've seen enough crime shows to know not to go in ourselves, so we called the police. Officers went in while we waited and the girls were fine, but even the officers had trouble waking them up to check on them...
Lorrinda Lane 2 years ago
If I was in that situation I would have picked the cat up, noped back to my apartment and then call the police. I guess I watch too many crime shows too
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#12
Found out the dude was keeping his webcam running when he was out. Being secretly filmed was kinda f’d up.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Really depends where the webcam was. In a public area, that's no bueno. If it's in his room, the real question is why you were there
Michelle C 2 years ago (edited)
I wonder if the roommate left his door open precisely to film anything else happening in the apartment when he was gone? Roommates stealing food, landlords checking in, checking on a pet, etc.?
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Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
Hmmmm, where was his webcam? Usually it's on the computer screen or close to it. So how did OP get filmed? While snooping around in their room? I wonder who the nasty roommate is in this case.
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
Or it was on the dining table or coffee table in the common areas.
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My BIL got a camera to spy on us when he was living in our living room (it was a room of its own with doors next to the front door and near the stairs for the second floor and you had to walk past it to get to the rest of the first floor) and i have never felt so violated he was accusing us of stealing s**t even tho he was the one stealing from us. Thats ok i ratted him out for it and he got kicked out because thats f****d up to do to your family who basically keeps helping you even tho your a moron who keeps making dumb choices cause haha immediate gratification
#13
They left beans in the fridge so long it became a sentient life form. Then got mad that I threw it out because "they were going to still eat that".
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I too enjoy consuming sentient lifeforms; it's s how I stock my power stores
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
I left cheese in a mini fridge and by the time I remembered it was evolving. It's still there, 2 months later. I'm waiting for something moving. So far just mold.
Liz Orreo trex ago go 2 years ago
And then she threw out the fridge because she could feel it lurking
Load More Replies... Rodney McKay 2 years ago
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PhoniexFox444 2 years ago
And by they do you mean the grubs and mold? Yeah, yeah i'm sure they would have..
#14
I wasn’t allowed out of my bedroom when she was with married men :/ still mad I allowed it to happen.
Linda Harms 2 years ago (edited)
My roommate had sex with my best friend's husband, in our apartment. It was 50 years ago and I am still mad at myself for not making it stop or telling my best friend it was happening. Was too shocked.
#15
I once scrubbed down the whole apartment because the landlady came by. It took literally all night long. He didn't help in any way. I scrubbed pots that had more culture than a classical concert. 5 minutes after the ladylady left he went into the kitchen, created lots of noise, and when I awoke from my coma and went in there it looked exactly the same minus the mold.
Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago
I would've taken all the pots, pans, dishes and silverware and hid them away so he couldn't do it again. Now as for messing up all you cleaned up oh yeah I would've went postal and made him clean it all back up asap
Dana Ondráčková 2 years ago (edited)
"more culture than a classical concert" I love that sentence
naylene hess 2 years ago
Ive cleaned hoarder houses of family i lived with and had the same experience i probably cleaned the same house 15 times by myself (2 story 2400sft house :( )
#16
She would invite people over with no notice even during covid shutdown or when we were sick (I didn’t have an issue with people coming over I just didn’t want to be surprised by it)
She would meal prep for the week always on the day that I had deep cleaned the kitchen
She never cleaned any shared spaces and rarely cleaned her room
Found dishes with moldy food in her room often
She would leave and not come home for days at a time leaving her meal prepped food in the fridge for us to clean (made even worse by the fact that we were vegetarian and she always cooked with meat)
Found coffee that had been in the fridge for so long that it actually had moving organisms in it
Brought home a fish that she didn’t know how to take care of. It was bloated and we had to nurse it back to health with no help from her
Brought home a kitten from a stranger at a jack in the box without talking to us about it or taking into account that we already had a cat and a dog that don’t do well with other animals
Then after I told her that a kitten requires a lot of attention and she actually needed to be home at the very least 60% of the week, she followed that advice for approximately one week before deciding that she could go back to her old habits of not coming home for 4-5 days at a time
So consequently that cat became horrible. It constantly attacked the other cat and dog, ripped up the carpet in our apartment that I had paid a deposit for by myself when we moved in and caused me to lose that deposit (though she did eventually pay me back for that so I guess that earned her some points)
And then when we moved out left a ton of her stuff in the apartment for us to get rid of. Also told me that she cleaned her room before moving out when she clearly hadn’t. I spent three hours cleaning her room after so we wouldn’t get charged a cleaning fee
She also complained multiple times that the apartment didn’t feel like her home and blamed me for that. I tried multiple times to get to know her better and hang out with her and she was never interested. When we moved in she refused to put any of her decor in any shared space even though I asked multiple times if she was sure. And when we was actually home she shut herself in her room and wouldn’t come out
2x4b523p 2 years ago
I once booted out a roommate after she abused my dog. She claimed she cleaned her room but I had to spend whole day in makeshift PPE cleaning that filth. The kicker is she worked as a cleaner. The double kicker is she tried to come back two weeks later when she got booted from her next flat.
Crystal Ruiz 2 years ago
Everything else is ok but why did you find mouldy dishes in her room, constantly? Why were you constantly in her room?
kath morgan 2 years ago
Sometimes you have to go on a dish hunt because you need to make dinner and they’re all hoarded in someone’s room.
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BubblesD M 2 years ago
Maybe the dishes smelled? So investigating the cause?
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#17
He was so drunk one morning, making a gigantic mess in the kitchen in his underwear rambling to me while grabbed a cup of coffee on my way out the door.
He then p****d himself and didn't notice until he slipped on it...
Fast forward a couple months and he bailed out with two months left on the lease and never paid anything for those months and changed his number. Fortunately the landlord worked with myself and my other roommate. I never had a roommate after that.
#18
Best friend had his girlfriend come live with us. She was constantly coming into my room to ask me to explain some sort of emotional bit about my best friend. Id give her advise and she would never take it. Then she started started fights with him, tried to get me involved. I eventually had to start climbing out my window to go pee because she was such a nut case.
Then after he dumped her she started calling my mom to try and force him to talk to her.
Yeah she was aweful.
She apparently has cancer now. And has tried to contact me. I dont feel bad saying Ive blocked her, cause i dont believe for a second she has cancer.
Helen Taylor 2 years ago
Best thing to do when part of a relationship asks for relationship advice about a friend is to say “you had better ask (name of the other person in the relationship) about it.”
A. Starhawk Hunt 2 years ago
Even if she does have cancer, you have only had negative experiences with her, are not really her friend, you are NOT REQUIRED TO CARE OR SHARE about/with her.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Yeah, my sister claimed she had to have a kidney replacement. I am the only sibling with the same blood type. I refused to even be considered. The family understood, because I cut her toxic a$$ out of my life 25 years ago, also I knew she was lying in yet another pathetic attempt at sympathy and attention. She's been miraculously healed, btw.
#19
She made us Patient Zero in a campus wide bedbug infestation.
And this wouldn't have been that bad, everyone makes mistakes, but the reason why it was campus wide was because she saw 3 separate doctors over a period of 3 months, who all said the same thing, and then she ignored medical advice repeatedly before finally checking, at which point, she'd been all over campus.
Then she had the nerve to sit all 8 of us down for a roommate meeting where she told us that we all needed to be "serious" about the bedbug protocol, and get to the laundromat to clean our clothes and stuff, because she just couldn't take anymore stress and she needed this situation resolved.
MONTHS
I'm still really irritated by it, because she really presented it as though she was the victim, like someone had broken in and put bedbugs in her bed. But she has absolutely no sympathy or empathy for anyone else on campus dealing with this, nor for any of us, her roommates, who were forced to grapple and deal with it out of our own pockets. She had no apologies or even kind words for us. She wasn't a great roommate to start with, but she was living in the same room as two girls who were dating, so I gave her some leeway. This just took everything over the edge.
Sheila Stamey 2 years ago
Bedbugs are a terrible thing to get. Almost impossible to get rid of without surrendering every possession you own.
foryouwhynot IB 2 years ago
Or the use of very strong, very toxic pesticides…
Load More Replies... Invisible Panda 2 years ago
I'm confused. Why did she get "leeway" for living in a room with two girls who were dating? Wtf does that have to do with spreading around bed bugs?
M Jones 2 years ago
I just meant I didn't like her, but I tried to be nice, because it was an incredibly stressful experience for her, especially since they broke up partway through the year. The two things aren't connected, I just really didn't like her.
Load More Replies... naylene hess 2 years ago
You dont have to be dirty or a slob to get bedbugs my house is pretty clean minus some random stuff in closets i dont know what do do with and we STILL got them from when my late nana brought them from the SSI facility she lived at that had a huge infestation in the whole building
Tracy Rieon Hall 2 years ago
Everything would've gotten tossed out and I would've had the placed bombed until they were gone at her expense and she would've been out
#20
She let her bunny s**t all over her room including her bed and then wondered why she got a rash
Weirdo Axolotl 2 years ago
Can I just say the bunny in the pic is adorable 🥰
Load More Replies... Liz Orreo trex ago go 2 years ago
Bunny's will use litter boxes, it's wierd for them to use a bed
Dogcat vet (retired) 2 years ago
I've heard you can housetrain a rabbit but I'm allergic to their fur if they eat alfalfa so I've never tried it.
Skylar Jaxx 2 years ago
Ewww I had a cousin who had a bunny she let s**t everywhere it was disgusting.
#21
Made his own low-grade wine in the bathroom (which created a stench) and had bi-weekly mental breakdowns in the living room because he was convinced he had contracted AIDS.
Lia is a platypus 2 years ago
Wine in the bathroom? That is super unsanitary. I'm assuming he drank that...?
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Hmm. I’ve made fruit wines before and there really isn’t a smell I can recall.
Skylar Jaxx 2 years ago
Fermented it's a wine smell. They make it in jail in the toilet eww.
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#22
One day I get a text from her that there were ants on the floor due to some Doritos or something she ate. I text back okay and move on and think that's the end of that.
Welp. Low and behold it's time to move our a couple months later from our dorm room and she had left so I was stuck cleaning things to not get charged. I find a wet sock covering the crushed Doritos and a whole colony of ants...
Clearly it was too much to assume she picked up her Doritos and her way of dealing with it was to cover them with a stocking wet sock.
Strings 2 years ago
Knew a girl in San Diego who's first college roommate would have sex with a guy, then "dispose" of the condom in a tub under the bed. When everyone came back from Spring Break, the room had to be quarantined
Chez2202 2 years ago
I shared a house with a girl and I got first choice of bedroom because I knew the landlord. Got back to college after a weekend home visit and she told me that she and her boyfriend had spent the weekend having sex in my bed because it was a king size. No. She didn’t change the sheets.
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Erica Ventura 2 years ago
My daughter was the last one out of her campus apartment last year and the amount of cleaning we all had to do was insane. I told her that come hell or high water we would do everything to make sure she was the first one out this year. It's not even the cleaning, it was dealing with everyone's c**p left behind that they didn't feel like moving with them.
Allan D 2 years ago
A couple of months later the sock was still wet and the ants hadn't finished the Dorito?
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
In college a roommate moved out after about 1 week because she wanted to be in the quiet dorm; my dorm was a free for all. I was doing my weekly heavy clean a few days later and found used condoms nearly stuck to the wall next to her bed. Pretty gross but that was the worst from that roommate
Nyree Bergeest 2 years ago
Other peoples bad hygene and general grossness always baffles me. I once had to work in a young ladys apartment. She had left a pair of pants, tights, and panties that were soaked through with menstrual blood on her living room floor and on a white chair. The bathroom garbage can was overflowing with heavily used sanitary supplies, and the toilet seat itself was also covered in blood. She came home every day after work and did nothing about it. Found out from a co-worker that they were there weeks ago and it was the same stuff laying around. As a woman myself, I cant figure out why you would leave things like that in the first place, let alone leave it knowing strangers and contractors were going to be in and out of your living space. Like WTF???
#23
Disrespect for standards of living. I kept a clean house, and before I agreed to let them live with me we talked about it. While I held my tongue about their room and bathroom, the constant mess in the kitchen and other common spaces was too much.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
My husband creates piles of detritus around the couch he spends most of his time at home upon.Drives me nuts until most of the time I clean it up.
Joe Smith 2 years ago
Isn't that the exact same thing anyone with a roommate has dealt with? It only gets worse when your "roommates" arr your messy children.
naylene hess 2 years ago
At least children have an excuse. They dont know better and are learning. An adult has 0 excuse
Load More Replies... GamerChick5567 2 years ago (edited)
This is my exact situation rn. Best friend is a horrible roomie. Glad she is moving out sooner than me. Breaking the lease early. Ugh!!!
#24
I had a roommate in college in an apartment setting who worked as a fry cook or something similar at a chain restaurant (can't remember which one, maybe Applebees or Chilis). He fancied himself a real chef but apparently didn't understand the whole cleaning up after himself thing.
Anytime he would make eggs or cook something where you trim off pieces or whatever, he would throw the refuse in a grocery bag he hung from the handle of the oven. That wouldn't have been a big deal had he ever actually thrown that bag away. Multiple, multiple times we had fruit fly infestations because he would leave that bag sitting there with rotting food scraps for days.
I've dealt with fruit fly-causing roommates a couple of times in my life and thinking about it just makes my skin crawl.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
I hope you never need to know this. To a small clean jar, add apple cider vinegar to almost full, then a couple drops dish soap, leave in the area of the infestation. The vinegar attracts them, the soap breaks the surface tension, so they land, they sink, they die.
Phyzzi 2 years ago
We have some carnivorous plants on the windowsill near our food scrap bin. During the summer, especially with kids who like fruit, the flies are pretty inevitable but since we got the plants they never get out of hand, and as a bonus the plants are kind of pretty too. Also, they tend to be swamp plants which means watering is easy, just make sure there is standing water at all times, which also means they can't be "over watered" but if you forget for a week but had it pretty full to begin with then it's still probably fine.
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Persephone 2 years ago
The other cause of fruit flies, is drains... I keep my kitchen super clean, but always get a few in the summer. I clean the kitchen sink with powdered comet, dump some in the drain, and run the garbage disposal. Drains are actually 1 of their biggest causes, and they often come in via produce to start that whole "fun" cycle.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Yes this is true, and not just kitchen sinks but bathrooms. I had a few of them in our primary bedroom bathroom and couldn't figure it out. Saw a tip about drains in our local paper and treated not just the drain but the overflow, and that stopped the problem. Never had that happen before or since in this house in 36 years, but one source to consider is often a new houseplant. Spray them and isolate before putting a new one next to your existing plants.
Load More Replies... lizzie coppock 2 years ago
To truly eradicate fruit flies attack the source. They breed in the drain of your sink if you place a small personal fan (the kind people use in their cubicle) blowing across the sink they will be unable to enter or leave the drain. They have a very short lifespan so the problem will not last long!
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
I just sent hot water and bleach down the offending drain, and that did the trick, no need for a fan, but still good to know that trick just in case!😊
Load More Replies... naylene hess 2 years ago
Just drag the trash can near the stove omfg why do people act so cluless
#25
He was filthy. He would make spaghetti, eat it, and then put his dirty dishes in the dishwasher. He wouldn't scrape anything off. But he would never run the dishwasher unless it was *completely* full, so I would open it for once after three days and see mouldy spaghetti on hos dishes. It smelled awful.
When I would point it out, he would be like "Huh? What happened? I don't understand what is wrong 🧐". Bruh
Bonus, he would play the same level of the same PS2 game in the living room every single day and laugh very loudly at the same lines.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
This honestly sounds like me. I am autistic and have these routines. Especially the same level in games. If I find one I really like I'll just keep going back. If he was autistic, he legitimately did not understand. We can't understand most normal social cues or situations.
Sa Ruuu 2 years ago (edited)
Being autistic isn't an excuse to be a bad roommate
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naylene hess 2 years ago
Thats how you use the dishwasher tho. Your supposed to have some food left (not solid stuff tho like whole noodles or whatever) and fill it up. If it isnt cleaning them there's something wrong with your dishwasher or you need to run a cleaner (mabey two if bad build up) do not put grease i nyoir dishwasher. JUST DON'T
Glass Ghost 2 years ago
I fully believe that dishes put in a dishwasher need to be rinsed or scraped off properly before. Dishwashers aren't meant to clean off so much. Mainly clean what's stuck and sanitize. I worked as a dishwasher for a few years and it would've been impossible without the pressure sprayer that you HAVE to do before you put dishes in or you'll find chunks of food and unclean things and that's an industrial dishwasher. I guarantee a home dishwasher still needs help. My home has a dishwasher and I keep catching dishes that my family puts in there without trying to clean it a little first and they come out terrible. Dishwashers are great but not magical.
Load More Replies... Seadog 2 years ago
Dated a woman for a short time that would test the doneness of her spaghetti by throwing a piece on the cabinet door to see if it stuck and stayed. The problem was, she wouldn't take it down, just left it there until it fell off on it's own. The big kicker? She is a health inspector.
#26
Whenever he ironed his clothes, he would leave the iron on the table. Without turning it off. Next to hanging towels. 4 times in a 2 week span.
#27
His girlfriend basically moved in immediately after he did. She was nice enough but adding another person to a tiny 2 bed apartment sucks.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Ah freshman year at the dorms. Oh Fran you were were a terrible person and I hope you've grown and have stayed away from that garbage being you dated that practically lived in our room. I had to physically throw him out of our room after they had a fight and he started choking her. Huge screaming match between him and i; me yelling he was an abusive scum bag and him calling me a fat whøre [pejorative term for lesbian] (I'm not even lesbian either but I guess sticking up for women makes me one)
Death’s Entropy 2 years ago
When did “fat whøre” become associated with being a lesbian? News to me.
Load More Replies... M Vee 2 years ago
I had to move in with my bf and his roommate once because I would have literally been homeless otherwise. I tried to do most of the cleaning and I was usually just shut up in our room being quiet, but I still feel a little bad about it sometimes.
Pursuing Peonies 2 years ago
The op saying three people in a 2 bed apartment is terrible is somewhat incorrect. People like you are why it's feasible, people like the other roommates on this list are why it's terrible. It really comes down to how people treat each other, and unfortunately too many people aren't like you 😊
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 2 years ago
Similar story in reverse. Girl moved into house, soon her bf stated stayin at first 1-2 nights a week, then at least 5 times or whole week. After a while they split and she moved out while he kept stayin. She was tennant on lease, landlord was not aware of bf situation.
#28
Not only did he use my butter, but he scraped it lengthwise so he marred the whole stick AND left crumbs all over whole thing.
Pretty good roommate butter aside.
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago
Isn’t this a crime? It has to a crime, right?
Load More Replies... Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well, I guess if that was the worst of their crimes, I’d have a decoy butter and a secret pristine butter stash. I lived with my still best friend for a while and the one thing that would drive me nuts was how her long blonde hair would get glued to the bathroom walls when she used her blow dryer and hairspray to style it, but she’d never see it because her eyesight isn’t too good, so I had to clean it up regularly. I never said anything about it to this day because she is a good and supportive friend and was a darn good roommate.
naylene hess 2 years ago
Tbf you cant really be mad if she legit wasnt aware of it and you didnt say anything lol
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Irene Donovan 2 years ago
While I've never seen anything wrong with scraping butter lengthwise, just how my whole family does it, the crumbs part is nasty. I don't want someone else's burned s**t in my food.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Hairspray makes painted bathroom walls impossible to clean. Ugh and ick.
#29
He had severe undiagnosed OCD. He had a laundry list of rituals that would consume his entire day and p**s me off.
One of his rituals was to play a movie and music at the same time on his laptop and then go take a 2 hour shower. We shared a room so I would close his laptop when he left the room and after his shower he’d come out and ask me, “Why did you touch my laptop?”
I would tell him because the noise was really distracting and he would tell me to just use headphones. This happened every Tuesday and Thursday night.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Honestly, it sucks, but I feel bad for the roommate. OCD is really bad.
Snow_White 2 years ago
Should get some help then. Can't expect people to accommodate his OCD
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MongoMarcia 2 years ago
I would suggest to the roommate that they wear headphones because that's how that works.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
How does one have a 2 hour shower? Like really? What are you doing the whole time?
Pursuing Peonies 2 years ago
Depression, stress, ect ect, lots of reasons why someone wouldn't shower every day. Society could deal with learning how to deal with and accept a bit more body odor than we do currently
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As a child I had to share a room with my brother. If I was snoring, he'd hit me in the face with a pillow from the top bunk.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
My older brother once tried suffocating me with a pillow. Brothers just do this. It's the natural order.
Benjamin Blom 2 years ago
Some people are just ungrateful. Did OP not consider that they have sleep apnea? Poor brother was so distraught that OP stopped breathing during the night and tried to resuscitate them, and now OP is upset at brother who was just trying to save their life!
Charles Bryant 2 years ago
And so the author couldn’t be bothered to find a stock photo of bunk beds?
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
I'll do you one better--I was the terrible roommate because when my little sister snored, I tried holding a pillow over her face.
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A.p. Gerspach 2 years ago
I have many bad roommate stories. One that pops to mind was the orgy guy. 65 separate partners over 6 months. Had a new guy over every 2-3 days. Occasionally there were repeats. The final straw was 1) the hookups taking a shower when I needed to get ready for work 2) coming back from holiday in England and receive message from friend that roommate had an orgy all over apartment, found my clean room a mess and my cat hysterical…they had the orgy in my room as well.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
At various points, she boffed every guy she could in the upper bunk whilst I tried to sleep in the lower bunk, then claimed I "cramped her lifestyle". Yes, I did. I often ended up sleeping in the study room. Ugh.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
In Uni, I lived with three other guys. Two were fine, the other and his slob of a girlfriend pretty much commandeered the house. The smell from their room was so vile, people wouldn't come upstairs in the house. And their standards of cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen were such that I refused to use the kitchen and used to go to a friends house. We would take turns cooking in her shared kitchen and that would be my one hot meal a week...
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Unfortunately, I've never been ambitious enough to afford my own place, and I hate having roommates. I'm relieved to say that none of mine were this bad, and I don't think I was either, although I did get sick of taking one guy's buckets of tighty whities out of the bathtub every morning. But sharing a home, to me, is how to keep home from feeling like home
Phyzzi 2 years ago
I lived in a quad for a year in college, which is an interesting situation because you have shared living space (kitchen and shower) but didn't get to choose "roommates". In the time I was there, there was a nympho Catholic, a drug dealer, and an "army brat" who had mostly grown up on bases overseas. They were all pretty good roommates, actually. The one that got me was "seed guy". I think I only ever saw him twice, always dressed in hippy patchwork, which is fine. The upsetting and baffling thing was that he seemed to drop seeds everywhere he went. Like a LOT of seeds. Literally thousands, like every time he came in the common space he dumped a full large spice jar worth of seeds, but they were spread out. On top of that head scratcher, he used my cast iron without asking then left it in the sink, soapy, but clearly not intending to clean it (he also cooked with other stuff that wasn't his and that he didn't clean, but the cast iron was the one that was actually activating).
A.p. Gerspach 2 years ago
I have many bad roommate stories. One that pops to mind was the orgy guy. 65 separate partners over 6 months. Had a new guy over every 2-3 days. Occasionally there were repeats. The final straw was 1) the hookups taking a shower when I needed to get ready for work 2) coming back from holiday in England and receive message from friend that roommate had an orgy all over apartment, found my clean room a mess and my cat hysterical…they had the orgy in my room as well.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
At various points, she boffed every guy she could in the upper bunk whilst I tried to sleep in the lower bunk, then claimed I "cramped her lifestyle". Yes, I did. I often ended up sleeping in the study room. Ugh.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
In Uni, I lived with three other guys. Two were fine, the other and his slob of a girlfriend pretty much commandeered the house. The smell from their room was so vile, people wouldn't come upstairs in the house. And their standards of cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen were such that I refused to use the kitchen and used to go to a friends house. We would take turns cooking in her shared kitchen and that would be my one hot meal a week...
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Unfortunately, I've never been ambitious enough to afford my own place, and I hate having roommates. I'm relieved to say that none of mine were this bad, and I don't think I was either, although I did get sick of taking one guy's buckets of tighty whities out of the bathtub every morning. But sharing a home, to me, is how to keep home from feeling like home
Phyzzi 2 years ago
I lived in a quad for a year in college, which is an interesting situation because you have shared living space (kitchen and shower) but didn't get to choose "roommates". In the time I was there, there was a nympho Catholic, a drug dealer, and an "army brat" who had mostly grown up on bases overseas. They were all pretty good roommates, actually. The one that got me was "seed guy". I think I only ever saw him twice, always dressed in hippy patchwork, which is fine. The upsetting and baffling thing was that he seemed to drop seeds everywhere he went. Like a LOT of seeds. Literally thousands, like every time he came in the common space he dumped a full large spice jar worth of seeds, but they were spread out. On top of that head scratcher, he used my cast iron without asking then left it in the sink, soapy, but clearly not intending to clean it (he also cooked with other stuff that wasn't his and that he didn't clean, but the cast iron was the one that was actually activating).
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