<p>I know you all have one, but here is mine, at Umass Amherst before transferring:</p>
<p>I live with a jock in a hockey dorm, and I'm here only because it's a 9 month residence. My roommate just smells, he doesn't take showers. He smells like soysauce, cheez-its, and elephant manure combined. Not only that, he keeps his fan on 24/7--it sounds like a jet engine. I told him to turn it off when he's not in the room, and I do turn it off at night (people get sick with fans on at night)... he then takes the knobs off. I use my fingernails to turn off the fan; he then proceeds (while I'm gone) to duct tape the fan. I can't hear my alarms with the noise..... and soon enough, I miss my psychology exam next morning b/c I couldn't hear the alarm of my friends caling to wake me up. So I got a W b/c no makeups were allowed. And now he's watching TV on his headphones while playing with a screwdriver, and twisting it on his bedpost--I can hear it in the hall.</p>
<p>Anyone else have an inconsiderate roommate? I don't think roommates are beneficial at all. You can make friends with the person next door--you don't have to live with them.</p>
<p>My story doesn't involve any roommate I ever had, but involves my former next door neighbors.</p>
<p>These two, I'll call them Manny and Moe to protect their innocence, never got along real well. The problem was that Manny always called his girlfriend on his cell phone each night. She didn't go to the same school. Now Manny would have some intense heart to heart conversations at times. Moe didn't like this very much. Instead of politely asking Manny to leave, he grabbed him, threw him out into the hall, and wrestled him right in the middle of the hallway! It was loud, there was lots of cursing, the girl was scared that someone was killing Manny, Moe refused to apologize for the noise to the girlfriend, and the kicker--the RAs thought it was funny even though it disrupted everyone who was trying to study.</p>
<p>There's more to Moe's story. A week later he beat up the guy a few doors down, let's call him Jack. Manny, who had wanted out for a while, got moved to another dorm. Moe actually went to jail. So it was a good ending for Manny in the end.</p>
<p>My worst roommate... He left the Camembert in the freezer! My succulent pates as well. He drank the chardonnay and left me nothing to eat except those measley Cheez-Its that he was always gobbling up. It worked out alright, though. The minute I got home I gorged myself on eclaires and petit fours.</p>
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Not only that, he keeps his fan on 24/7--it sounds like a jet engine. I told him to turn it off when he's not in the room, and I do turn it off at night (people get sick with fans on at night)...
<p>my freshman year roommate would call her boyfriend every night at exactly 9:01. She HAD to be home at 9:00 so she could call at 9:01 since that's when her night time minutes started. They'd talk till 2 am EVERY NIGHT. she'd also put infomercials on the TV while talking to him and never watch anything else. I quickly got sick of being in my room and would just hang out elsehwere till 2 am and come home then... which made her mad that i was staying out so late. she also would dance naked around the room when nobody was around and enjoy playing with her lipstick vibrator at the same time. I don't know how many times i came home and opened the door and there she was.</p>
<p>some other girls on my hall had their underwear stolen out of the laundry room as some prank, and so my roommate decided she wasn't going to put her underwear in the dryer anymore. so she bought a drying rack and would put it right in the middle of our dorm room. nothing like having friends over sitting right next to a giant rack of thongs.</p>
<p>my roommate that i had soph. and junior years was obsessive compulsive which drove me nuts. she also had to have things completely quiet at all times. every time i made a peep she'd flip out at me. you couldn't make a peep when she was working on things, you couldn't make a peep when she was trying to study (ever hear of a library...) etc. yet she had NO problem talking through a movie when i was trying to watch it.</p>
<p>Yea, I'd never heard of it until I came to college and noticed that Koreans were paranoid about fans in general. Lol, some of the things you'll learn in college will be more random than others :) .</p>
<p>err, drunken roommate bursting in repeatedly in the middle of the night -- sometimes with some friends she hooked up at local club or bar or whatever (so a bunch of strangers bursting into your room at night when you're sleeping soundly) -- followed by loud talking, repeated coming in and out of the room, more drinking, promises they'll get out soon, moans and nightmarish screams when she finally went to bed to sleep, one or two attempts to have sex with one of these 'friends' (she later said she thought i was sleeping, but they were so loud the woke up half the suite), and to top it all off drunken urination in the corner of the room (you see, she was too lazy to make 10 steps to get to the bathroom) -- the carpet stank like 10 processing facilities for over a month -- at one point my CD player was gone from my desk after one such night (but i should have been smarter and never left it there)</p>
<p>my friend had a roommate who liked to draw on the walls -- when engaged in this activity she mainly quoted the bible</p>
<p>I am not in college yet but I have a friend and has the roommate from you-know-where...</p>
<p>Her roommate is an absolute nympho! The boyfriend is always over having loud sex and the futon now has stains all over it (I ended up sleeping on the floor it was so nasty when I visited her). When my friend takes a shower, her roommate will lock the door while she has sex and will not let her in until she is done. When the girl is not making passionate love, she is butt naked talking on the fun.</p>
<p>i feel bad for my friend because she is really shy and will not confront the girl. If I were her I would talk to the RA but she says she does not want conflict. Luckily she is moving out this week for the summer and will be rooming with a friend whose sex life is not so active.</p>
<p>ooooh my best friend is going to amherst next year, i hope he doesn't have a roomie like that. sorry about your roomie being annoying as heck like that!</p>
<p>People actually have died from fans (<- or so i have heard) but that was also because of other factors combined.. (like being drunk lung problems to start out with etc) I have been told when you are using a fan, it is just normally safer to live your windows open...</p>
<p>Not in college yet but my sister had a terrible time with her first roommate. </p>
<p>She had a fifteen year old boyfriend from high school who would always come and <em>visit</em> her every other day along with his two year old son. (Yes, you read right, the guy became a father at 13.) She was smelly (think sweaty socks & butt mixed) and only bothered to take a bath once every two weeks because she said taking a bath everyday was a waste of resources. When my sister went home for the weekend, she would sleep on my sister's bed and leave bodily <em>crumbs</em>. They had a mini fridge inside their dorm and my sister used to buy snacks and stuff to put in it but stopped when her roommate gobbled EVERYTHING up leaving only a generous pile crumbs at the bottom of the box or bag. When she ran out of batteries for her cd player, she would just take the batteries out of my sister's remote control and exchanged them with the used up ones. When she ran out clean underwear, she would take my sister's, wear them, stretch them out beyond human recognition with her giant a<em>*, and then put them back. She threw her thoroughly soaked pads in my sister's little trashcan. She downloaded all this anime porn sh</em> in my sister's pc. </p>
<p>She fell out of the window of their third story dorm while rocking back and forth on a chair but managed to not die much to everyone's disappointment...</p>