<p>My roommate came back from being out at a party at like 1:30 in the morning. I didn't have any problems with that. I don't drink personally, but what he does is his business, and I was still awake anyway.</p>
<p>An hour later, while both of us are sleeping, he falls out of bed and throws up all over our floor for a good minute. And I have no idea what to do. </p>
<p>Not only does the room reek of beer puke, but our whole floor is starting to. My RA is not available for contact right now. I could contact an emergency RA, but it's three in the morning. </p>
<p>What should I do? I can't even be on the floor because I'll probably throw up being around that. Would it be a "dick-move" to report it? I'm kind of *<strong><em>ed at this. He seemed to be an okay kid, we aren't really the best of friends, but we had a fine arrangement. I just feel really disrespected, grossed out, and like I said, just generally *</em></strong>ed. </p>
<p>Any middle-of-the-night advice would be appreciated. FYI, it didn't seem to get on any of my stuff, but I still feel like it needs to be professionally cleaned, and I can't even sleep in my room tonight. Maybe not until its thoroughly cleaned, even. :(</p>
<p>That is really disrespectful. He should have kept a bucket/garbage can nearby. It was really a dick-move to puke all over the floor, stink up the whole area, and interrupt your sleep. You would be justified in calling in back-up; just let him know what you’re doing and why.</p>
<p>I’m not sure why you don’t just wake him and tell him to clean it up? Turn on the lights, music, whatever, and get him up. It is just odd to me that you didn’t do this when it happened. By waking him, you would also make sure he is okay and hasn’t aspirated on his own vomit.</p>
<p>No, he was awake and moving around to the bathroom. I was just so disgusted that I left and went to one of the study lounges that our dorm has. I expect that he’s cleaning it up, but is probably still drunk and half-asleep.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your advice in my time of panic, haha. I returned to the room to find him sleeping, with it not cleaned up. So, I reported it to the emergency RA and they’ve sent a cleaning service right away. </p>
<p>That takes care of the physical situation, but there is still a personal problem that I’m going to have to figure out. How this affects our relationship as roommates, how he gets in trouble, or if we’ll even continue to be roommates is still up in the air at this point.</p>
<p>Again, thanks. Just had to get my head clear.</p>
<p>If you are not proactive in doing something NOW, you can’t complain next week or the next time. Take his wastebasket and his washcolths/whatever, wake him and tell him to clean it up. There are many threads like this on cc and I never understand why you just don’t tell them to clean it up. Quit acting the victim and take control.</p>
<p>crossposted with op, but still man up and take a stand.</p>
<p>First of all, I’m not going anywhere near there. Second, for health reasons, these types of things have to be properly cleaned. Somehow I don’t feel like having my drunk roommate clean his vomit in the middle of the night would make for a very sanitary result. </p>
<p>I’m not going to be -ostensibly- “proactive” until he’s sober and rational. He’ll get woken up by the cleaning crew when they get here. Getting upset at him and having him do things right now won’t help. I’m not doing any more than I have to at this point, but it will be dealt with tomorrow, both on an administrative level with my RA and with myself, personally.</p>
<p>I’m really sorry about what happened, my roommate was drunk last night/this morning too, luckily nothing happened. He owes you and the floor A LOT.</p>
<p>God, the guy just puked. He probably would have cleaned it up when he realized it happened.
What is with everyone on this site?
You’re so disgusted at the thought of puke, but I wonder if any of you would have the same reaction if the roommate had been sick. Or if you’re just endlessly judgemental of people who choose to do something you look down on.
Yes, it’s gross that he puked, but I’d bet good money that he will never let it happen again after having this experience.
If it was bothering you that much, you should have made him get up and call the cleaning crew, claim he was sick. Trouble avoided, your room clean, way less of a dick move.</p>
<p>No, it’s nine hours later and he’s still passed out. People don’t magically have professional cleaning skills when they’re drunk, especially considering that the room is carpeted. It was cleaned by a cleaning crew but it still smells awful, to the point that I’m not going in there at all today.</p>
<p>You can’t compare apples and oranges here. Being sick and throwing up because you got drunk off your ass are two completely different situations. I don’t look down on him for drinking-- he can do whatever he wants, as long as it doesn’t affect me. When he got drunk, stumbled into our room, threw up all over himself, his linens and the floor, and then didn’t help at all with the clean-up because he was passed out, that’s slightly over the line, don’t you think? Hell, I even had to pick through his linens to put in a garbage bag because the cleaning crew can’t touch his stuff, but that’s what was creating the worst smell. So don’t accuse me of being “judgmental” when I have every goddamn right to feel disrespected and angry at what he did. We’re roommates, we have to share this room for an entire year. I’m certainly within my rights to call him out on dumb actions that like that which affect both of us.</p>
<p>Saying that he just got “sick” is not solving the root of the problem in any way. He should have some sort of administrative action taken against him, because he’s in college now. He’s an adult. He has to own up to his responsibilities and actions and he didn’t. The dick move was him throwing up all over my room to the point where I can’t even go in there today, even after a thorough cleaning.</p>
<p>I’m glad you called the emergency RA. Not necessarily to clean up the puke (but thank goodness I’ve never been in your situation, I’d be ****ed), but because if he was that incoherent/passed out and had thrown up he could have easily been dangerously sick.</p>
<p>I’m assuming the RA’s checked to make sure the guy wasn’t dying with alcohol poisoning.</p>
<p>Someone who gets that bad and cannot control themselves really has no business drinking, imo, and this is coming from someone who drinks.</p>
<p>I hate it when people can’t make it to the bathroom or garbage can. Luckily when my roommate puked freshmen year, she did so in a trash bag. It’s college, it happens. They should be pretty embarassed. Mistakes happen, let him know how offended you are, and move on. Freshmen do stupid things, it happens.</p>
<p>I don’t really consider it disrespectful that he puked in your room. I assume he didn’t know he was going to throw up. Just so all you people on CC who don’t drink know, it’s not always obvious that you’re going to throw up at any given point. It seems like this is the first time it has happened. Talk to him tomorrow, I’ll bet you it was a mistake. </p>
<p>Also, he COULD NOT HELP BECAUSE HE WAS PASSED OUT. I mean, I don’t really know what you expect him to do. I’m sure if he could he would have helped in the morning, no one wants to make others clean up after them like that, but in the interest of cleaning it up as quickly as possible, there’s not a real solution in which he could have done that. If you wanted him specifically to clean it up, then you’re going to have to hang around in a puke-filled room. That’s just how it goes.</p>
<p>It’s not a “dick move,” it was an accident. Remember it’s his room too and I’m pretty sure he would have avoided it if he could have.</p>
<p>Yeah…honestly…you are lucky it wasn’t something worse. One of my good friends roommate last year peed in her closet all over my friend’s $300 pairs of running shoes because she was so drunk (and she thought the closet was the community bathroom?) Last semester I also had my drunk friend come into my room and puke all over my bathroom, pass out and not clean it up. Get over it, you are in college. It sucks, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and clean it. Make sure that your roommate knows (the morning after, when they are sober and able to take care of themselves) that it blows to be the person cleaning it up, and if you have to do it again that there will be severe consequences. But don’t call the RA about it! That’s just bogus. Who knows, one day it might be you puking all over the place and needing a roommate to help you out.</p>
<p>You assume wrong. Drinking so much that you throw up in the middle of the night and throw up throughout the next day and have to stay in bed until like 3 pm is not a “mistake.” He knew damn well WHILE he was doing it that he was in way over his head, and still proceeded to do it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I’m aware of that, which is why I sorted through his vomit covered items at 5 in the morning. He woke up while the cleaning crew was there, it’s just that he rolled over and blocked it all out. Just because he didn’t feel like doing it because he was drunk doesn’t make him any less responsible for doing it, and doing it promptly, considering that the room was not even enter-able until it was cleaned. There’s no excuse for it, just because he was drunk. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place.</p>
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<p>You’re looking at this from the completely wrong angle. It was not an accident. Drinking that much is never an accident. Hell, drinking at all is rarely an accident. “Remember it’s his room too?” No, screw that, it’s OUR room, as in “part mine.” He is the one that is completely at fault here. Try to avoid it? There were a ton of different options. How about, don’t come back to where you share a room with someone else when you’re drunk as hell? How about sleep in the non-carpeted common room? How about sleep in the bathroom? How about not drink so much that you’re incapacitated for a day?</p>
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<p>I should be glad that he didn’t do something worse? No, I should have a roommate who respects himself and respects me. I should have a roommate that should learn how to grow up. I shouldn’t have to deal with that shizzle.</p>
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<p>Get over it, I’m in college? Are you serious? How about he’s in college and should act like the adult that he is. I don’t think you can apply “suck it up” here. You suck it up when you cut yourself skateboarding, or when you have four hours of homework to get through in a night. Yeah, I sucked it up when I helped clean his puke, without any help from him. What I’m not about to “suck up” is letting him off the hook from this or from any future responsibilities that he has as a roommate.</p>
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<p>Of course I called the RA. I had a five-minute talk with him about it the next day, and he agreed that it’s unacceptable behavior. I will never be in that position because I am responsible and make informed decisions. I’ve learned how to grow up. And I know that if I ever am in that situation, I would definitely want my roommate to be letting the RA know, because at that point I would need to be set straight because I’ve apparently lost my skills of better judgment.</p>
<p>I’m not against drinking. At all. The purpose of this thread was just looking for some advice on a situation that had never happened to me before, and it’s degenerated into why I’m (somehow) being unreasonable to this kid. Had he not thrown up and made my weekend hell, then I would have just shrugged it off. However, he was over the line in several ways, and you can’t defend that. </p>
<p>I’m going to reiterate the point I made earlier: cj02, you were completely correct to call the RA, and I agree with all of your points in the post above this.</p>
<p>If you have a roommate who is literally passed out in his puke (I’m assuming at least a little got on his bed), the RA would probably be better suited than the op to judge if the guy needs to go to the hospital.</p>
<p>fa-la-la-lena, talking with your RA in this situation is in no way a dick move.</p>
<p>seriously people, it’s one thing to throw up when you drink. That happens to people quite often (and I’ve been there before myself). But hopefully you’ve made it to the trash/toilet and actually feel better afterwards. It’s a completely different thing to make it back to your dorm and vomit all over the floor, and then pass out until 3 the next day.</p>
<p>If you can’t stop yourself from getting that dangerously drunk, you clearly should not be drinking in the first place.</p>
<p>Johnson, I didn’t insinuate it was a “dick move” persay to talk to the RA, just rather unnecessary because I guess I naturally am distrusting of authority and prefer to handle things on my own terms (especially if no one’s life is in danger). To each his own</p>
<p>CJ, you definitely should have a roommate that respects you and your personal space. But when someone is puking all over the place, it is not like they wanted to do that (they didn’t make a conscious decision to say oh, I’m going to puke all over this room, pass out and **** off my roommate). Granted, drinking is their decision but you have to realize that this is so early on in the year that he just might not know where his tolerance level lies - once again, it shouldn’t be your concern but you can be a bit more lenient in understanding this. </p>
<p>You want a roommate who “learns how to grow up.” Come on…college is the perfect time for that. If he didn’t grow up in high school, he is in the process of “growing up” now - and also in the process of making mistakes such as this. So I really think you should give a little bit more leeway to your roommate in resolving the issue. You admitted it yourself, when you talked to him the next day he knew he was in the wrong.</p>