<p>so me and my new roomate (who is a midyear freshman at my school-just came this semester), reorganized our room from having lofted beds to bunk beds. she took the bottom (well i let her kinda have it, because she brought this cumbersome ladder from home and i just wanted it GONE)...</p>
<p>but now i'm regretting having the top bunk (climbing up is annoying, and making my bed is a bizznitch..), and i wanna get the bottom one. i asked yesterday when there were a bunch of people hanging out and chatting in our room, and she pretended that she didnt hear me & talked to someone else. how do i get her to let me have the bottom? shes been at home the entire first semester in a normal bed, so i deserve to sleep somewhat close to the ground now too right?</p>
<p>p.s. i don't like confrontation, and try to avoid it whenever i can. </p>
<p>I got a loft bed last semester but took it down and jsut basically sleep with the mattress on the floor. Although climbing up the ladder did build up my upper body (just kidding) I couldn't handle hitting my head on the ceiling or trying to climb up there after a night of drinking. Go with the suggestion above, go back to loft beds or make up something about not being able to sleep on the top. Or maybe you can make a lot of noise up there so she'll want you on the bottom. I hate confrontation and am really bad at it, just be creative.</p>
<p>Or you could just say that if she wants to keep them as bunks, she will have to switch every month (or at midterms, or whatever is agreeable). Otherwise, she will have to revert to the earlier loft system. Why was the original layout bad for you in the first place?</p>
<p>the original layout was bad because there was less open space in our room; having bunk beds gives us extra space to store stuff under the bottom bunk, and makes it so that when we're at our desks, we're not enclosed/claustrophobic by being underneath our bed frames.</p>
<p>wow. you are a stuck up *****. i'm sorry, but it's so true.
if you like your roommate (as you said in your other post), let her hang out with you. she's new to the school, and you get along with her. why do you have to be so cliquey? i mean, i would understand if you absolutely could not stand the girl... sometimes roommates just don't get along. but if you like her, why not be friends with her and welcome her into your group?</p>
<p>and about the beds - she has just as much of a right as you do to have the bottom bunk. you both made that decision, so the moral thing to do here is stick with it. you can't always get what you want. it's just a bed for christ's sake.</p>
<p>i AM NOT a *****..like "..." said. i like my roomie, but that doesnt mean she has to be around me 100% of the time. i see her enough throughout the week that i'd like to hang out with OTHER PEOPLE during the weekend. sheesh, is that so much to ask?? just because i like her doesn't mean that i have to be around her every second of every day.</p>
<p>anyways...get back to the bunk bed convo..jeez</p>