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itt awful flatmate/roommate experiences

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    I don't have an awful roomie. His OCD is a bit annoying at times, and also when he invites people home that I don't like lol.
     
    Mine were the equivalent of living in a dirty ashtray.
     
    My roommates were pretty chill, but one of them did wake me up at like 5 in the morning once because he was on ecstasy and got lost on the way to his room.
     
    My last round of roommates in college drove me to move out of the dorms. One would stay up until 4am on Skype and was so loud I could hear every word (we shared a wall) and then would wake up SOMEHOW by 6:30am and blast music and sing.

    My other roommate was a club promoter who would drink my alcohol and invite like 10 people over between 12am and 3am on a weekday for pre-club and post-club shots.

    Finally the third girl used the table and counter as a cutting board and would leave chopped up onions and other food on the table for days and wouldnt put her pots in the dishwasher, she'd leave them on the stove.

    There were always flies in the apartment and I could never get sleep.
     
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    One of my housemates lived in her room, almost never leaving, with her boyfriend. You knew when they did leave because of the smell that appeared when their door opened.
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    When I was in college, I have one dorm roommate that would bring her boyfriend sometimes and they would, um, yeah, same thing. x_x
     
    I had a truly terrible set of house-mates during my first time away at university - as if being squeezed out of a house by your best friend wasn't bad enough!

    There were three of us and one of their boyfriends was staying (rent-free and without contributing to the bills of course)They were all second and third years who were a tight group of friends. Things were ok at first and we'd talk a little bit but I felt like things felt odd if I'd sit in the living room with them or anything like that. As time went on I'd do it less and less and this was mainly down to the fact that they'd close the door to whatever room they were in and making it uncomfortably awkward if I tried to get involved in things.

    One night when they were all going out (I of course wasn't invited like I'd want to be anyway) the aforementioned boyfriend was roaring abuse at me from downstairs calling me a loner, fat, ugly etc. and all the while I was just in bed watching Heroes. I hopped out of my room and ran down to try and confront him but he was nowhere to be found, it was just as they were leaving. I never got an apology.

    By the time November rolled around the only interaction I had with them was them telling me when bills were due to be paid.

    I'm not gonna get into the poor conditions of the house or them not being willing to pay for oil to heat up the freezing cold conditions.    ​
     
    I hate my fucking roommates. I knew two of them for about six years now and they aren't even really great friends to start with. They never wash dishes and they leave all the dishes in their rooms when they finish eating so if you wanted to clean one you couldn't anyway. No one takes responsibility for anything and when something goes wrong it's always someone else fault. Two of my three roommates have dogs and they never pick up the shit from the side yard. One of the rules of the house that is on the lease is no smoking in the house and if there is smoking done you have to pay for getting the smell out and painting the walls to get the yellowing off. Now one of my roommates smokes in his room and completely ignores this fact. Everyone bitches about heat when it was winter and freaking freezing in this damn house. I weigh 120 pounds and have anemia so I cannot live without heat so I turned the heat on for the winter. When bills came for heat they forced me to pay the damn bill because I turned it on. Yet I didn't see them complaining about it when they were warm. I just really have come to dislike these guys. I hang with them sometimes but it is hard to anymore.
     
    My roommate ultimately made me decide to leave the dorms altogether after only a semester of living there.

    Lighting became my biggest problem with my roommate. Turns out that she was afraid of the dark, and normally I wouldn't have had a problem with that if she wanted to have a nightlight or something, but she blew things way out of proportion. She had a nightlight set up in our dorm, but the thing was so bright I found it hard to sleep! When I asked my roommate if she could turn down the intensity just a tad, she basically said "no." Gee, thanks buddy! -_-
    Then the lighting thing got worse around Christmas, when she bought Christmas lights to hang around the hallway and bathroom of our dorm, not to mention she bought smaller lights to hang around her desk. And all of these d*** lights were on 24 / 7! Enter the bunch of sleepless nights I encountered because of all the freaking lights! :p I can't tell you how many times I would wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom, only to get bright light radiated into my pupils! What really sucked about this was the fact that my roommate was never really there to begin with; like she'd be gone 90% of the time. Would've been nice for her turn the lights off if she knew she'd be gone for the night, but nope. She had them on all day and all night! -_- I normally have trouble sleeping as is, but the lighting thing only made the problem worse!

    The last straw for me, however, came in the form of a coffee cup. It was nothing special; it looked like something you'd buy from Starbucks, but I remember her leaving the thing on her desk, and it was still half full. She ended up leaving it on her desk for an entire month! You could see mold starting to grow in it, too, which was absolutely disgusting! So, not only did I have the light thing going on, but now I'd also be breathing in mold spores because my roommate was too lazy to throw the d*** thing away! :p Even when I asked her to throw the stupid thing out, she simply ignored me and left it there! I ended up having to be the one to throw it out, and it wasn't even my responsibility to begin with!

    Now, I commute from home, and it's not even that bad. It's worth it just to get a good night's sleep alone. Turns out the person that ended up getting my room (after I left) also left the dorms, so I guess it wasn't just me having problems with my ex-roommate.
     
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    My former roommate wouldn't clean his cat's litter box, so i had to clean it even though it wasn't my cat. I also had to give the poor thing food and water. He never took care of the cat, luckily he has a girlfriend now and she takes care of it. He also never cleaned the house and would leave food and drinks out, so eventually there would be mold all over our plates and cups. I got fed up with that so I just bought my own, luckily I left soon after that.
     
    I was hanging out with my roommate a couple years ago and he got way too drunk and proceeded to urinate on my favorite shag carpet which was a real bummer because it was such a rad carpet, really tied the room together. we still make fun of him to this day by telling him that he was just marking his territory hahaha
     
    My roommate this year was just very blind to realizing how his actions affected me. Such as banging around in the morning while I am sleeping. Making popcorn in our microwave at 4am. Spending 8 hours a day playing Xbox and never once helping me to clean the dishes or anything else. I was basically his parents. I can only wish him luck when he makes it out into the real world, cause right now, he will not do well.
     
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