<p>(1) Drinking to the point of vomiting may very well have been a mistake. In fact, you should assume so if this is the first offense. People don’t always make rational decisions when they’re drunk (especially as inexperienced freshmen). </p>
<p>Nobody WANTS to vomit their brains out.</p>
<p>(2) You can’t expect a drunk person who’s puking everywhere to suddenly sober up and clean up his own vomit. From personal experience, the one time I drank too much and started vomiting I was certainly in no position to clean anything up, let alone even GRASP the idea that something needed cleaning. I felt sick as a dog, I could barely think - I was VOMITING for christ’s sake. Give the guy a chance; by the time you’re at the point of vomiting it’s too late to undo the last few drinks you had.</p>
<p>(3) Make it very clear to your roommate that he must not do this again. Hopefully he will realize what a fool he made of himself. Once is part of the learning process; twice is totally unacceptable.</p>
<p>okay so the puke will get cleaned up. If it was his first time, he’ll know better next time. Make sure that he has a puke bucket at hand next time. If it continues, consider a room change.</p>
<p>To all the people who don’t agree with my assessment 100%: fair enough. I can see some of your points, and although I think they’re skewed a little bit, I can accept that. I think that if it happened to you that your reactions may be different, but who knows. Thank you for your input nonetheless. It’s an interesting discussion on exactly where the boundaries lay between roommates, especially this early in the year.</p>
<p>Perhaps I should have mentioned that he had told me in the past that he used to be a decently heavy drinker. That may refute the “it was his first time, he didn’t know” type of argument slightly.</p>
<p>It’s been a few days. How are things going now? Have you and your roommate had a serious talk about what happened.</p>
<p>Don’t let things fester. Talk to him quietly and seriously and tell him everything you’ve put out here. Emphasize how gross it was cleaning up his mess.</p>
<p>If you had to take a bedspread to the cleaners or something similar, calmly give him the bill.</p>
<p>If he is ever so sick ever again, don’t hesitate to call 911…the degree of inebriation he exhibited is a sign of alcohol poisoning and can be very serious. If he suffers consequences as a result of a call to 911…that’s not on you, that’s on him.</p>
<p>Basically, don’t be rude about it, but, once he seems to have pulled himself together, explain to him that you don’t mind him drinking, just don’t overdo it to the point where it’s going to become a problem like it did that night.</p>
<p>Your a huge ****** bag for gettin the “EMERGENCY RA” have you ever been drunk? Like yeah its gross he puked in the room but you shouldve just woken him up made sure he was good and then told him to clean it up. So unnecessary to get the RA. GOOD JOB ****** BAG now he’ll probably be written up & have to pay a fine for drinking in college…& good job no one will EVER want to be your room mate now.</p>
<p>^ How is the OP a d-bag for calling the emergency RA? If anything, we are encouraged to call the RA if a person is throwing up and almost to the point of blacking out or passed out just for precautions. If anything happened to his roommates, especially something as drastic as “death” due to alcohol poisoning, I’m sure most people would complain “Why didn’t you do anything?”</p>
<p>And if you are that sick to the point of throwing up where you can not reach a toilet or trash bin, then the OP’s roommate was probably not functional at that time where he can wake up and clean his own vomit.</p>
<p>If the OP’s roommate was more responsible with drinking, especially if he is not of legal age, then he wouldn’t be in this dilemma. If he was of legal age, then yet again, it shouldn’t be a problem if the RA was called. If the roommate must suffer the consequences – if he’s written up, fined- so be it! Petty things like that seem harmless when compared to just shutting up and letting the roommate get sick.</p>
<p>A not-so-funny but true story…the son of a friend had a roomie who threw up all over the room–completely inebriated and out of control. On both of their beds. Etc. Several times over just a few weeks…obviously the roomie wasn’t learning his limits. One night roomie came back, puking as usual…my friend’s son held out the kid’s open backpack to "catch’ the vomit…all over roomie’s macbook pro,class notes, textbooks, ipod etc.</p>