Sharing aroom with another person can beawonderful experience... orthe beginning ofyour villainous origin story. Because nomatter how much you sign acontract, what noone tells you isthat you also sign apact with the unknown: strange habits, uncomfortable silences, habits that defy logic, and moments that make you wonder ifyou are not staring atahidden camera. Inthis article, wegather 20true stories that prove that living together isabox ofsurprises and that sometimes what comes out ofthat box isnot exactly agood partner... but astory you will tell atevery social gathering for the rest ofyour life.
“Myroommate moved out inthe middle ofthe night and left this behind.”
- Iwas onvacation. When Igot home, Iwalked inand the carpet was soaked. Ilooked tomyroommates for anexplanation, but they were sitting around watchingTV asifnothing had happened. Itturns out that three days before Ireturned, the water heater had exploded, ruined the carpet and flooded myroom, which was right next tothe heater. They just decided toignoreit.©CtrlAltDeleteS***/ Reddit
- Myroommate had aroom with her own bathroom and constantly clogged the toilet with napkins because she didn’t want tobuy toilet paper. After cloggingit, she would resort tousing other people’s toilets inthe hallway with nointention offixing her own. But one day she clogged ours aswell. Sowhile she was out, meand myother roommates went into her room tosee what was wrong with her bathroom, and what wefound turned our stomachs: there were months offeces still inthe toilet, along with piles ofclothes all over the floor. She also had two dogs that she neglected and was always trying tokeep the money from the community recycling. She was the worst.©snowlin/ Reddit
- Myfriend’s roommate staggered into her dorm room alittle disoriented (freshman year ofcollege). She started yelling, “INEED TOGOTOTHE BATHROOM,” which woke myfriendup. She saw her roommate stagger out the door, but stayed inbed because she didn’t know how toreact. Important fact: Before her roommate came out, she had placed her white laptop onthe chair next toher desk. The reasoning here isthat wethink the white laptop onthe seat made the chair look like aporcelain throne inher roommate’s mind. Soshe walked over tothe chair, pulled down her pants, and sat onthe laptop. Myfriend braced herself, realizing that this situation could only goone way. Asshe braced for impact, her roommate let out asigh ofrelief that unfortunately coincided with the release ofher bladder and bowels. And even though the evidence was there for all tosee, her roommate denies that this ever happened.©storefront/ Reddit
“When your roommate doesn’t understand the concept ofpersonal hygiene and you’re tired oftelling him towash his stinky body every other day.”
- Iused tolive with amagician. Ofthe many strange momentsI lived with him, the oneI remember most vividly was when hewas about toleave the country for about 2months. Before heleft (hours before hewent tothe airport), for some strange reason, heopened the freezer and filled itwith whole chickens. Then hegot very angry when weate them tomake room.©superfrankii/ Reddit
- Itwas literally the first night weslept inthe same room with myroommate, soitwas alittle awkward since weonly knew each other’s names. But night came and wewent tosleep. Suddenly Iwoke uptothe sound ofher screaming “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOO” and then she threw all the blankets off the bed onto the floor. Atthat pointI freaked out and asked her ifshe was okay, but she didn’t answer. Instead she satup, looked around, saw the window and whispered, “No, not the window...” Then she got upand went tothe window. Atthat pointI realized she must besleepwalking orreally crazy. She got tothe window, grabbed the lock with both hands, and closed and opened the window over and over again while whispering toherself. She never openedit, but after about 3minutes she let goand said, “Yeah, that’s it.” And then she started towalk back toher bed, but when she passed mybed she stopped and turned tome. Then she fell asleep (Ihope) and looked atmefor 2minutes. She started whispering toherself again, walked past her bed tothe door, shuffled through the middle ofit, turned around and walked back toher bed and went back tosleep. Iwas scared, butI never told her. She never did itagain.©Unknown author/ Reddit
- The first night inthe new shared apartmentI was renting, mylandlord slept onthe living room floor onarug. Ithought itwas weird, butI was innoposition toargue, asI needed aplace tolive. Then, inthe next two months, mylandlord moved inand brought 8relatives from Turkmenistan, including anewborn baby, and they all lived in2bedrooms (and bybedroomsI mean one was the living room!). When Icomplained, Iwas kicked out ofthe apartment. Icalled the police, who let meinand scolded the family. Itwas anightmare. Ifinally got out ofthere and never looked back.©LauraPa1mer/ Reddit
“Myroommate keeps turning onthe heat inour apartment. Itisliterally 72degrees outside right now.”
- Myroommate incollege wanted toclean the silt stains out ofour shared bathtub, sohepoured bleach and vinegar (not even sure why wehad that inthe dorm) for a“super strong cleaner.” After using the bathroom and getting dizzy, Iasked what was inthe bathtub, and when hetoldme, Ididn’t think itsounded right, soafter asingle search, the first result said itwas deadly. Itproduces chlorine gas that can kill within minutes.©Guy_with_big_truck/ Reddit
- Myroommate (the owner ofthe house) asked metoswitch rooms with her. She was moving out inamonth and was using alot ofmyclosets for storage, so(apparently) itwould beeasier for her topack ifshe stayed inmyroom (itturned out she really just wanted the better room for when her boyfriend came tostay.) Itold her I’d rather not, that the thought ofhaving togothrough everything and change rooms tomove back inamonth was too much. But Itold her thatI had noproblem with her coming inand out ofmyroom topack, asitwould bealot less hassle, and she agreed. The next dayI went out with some friends for afew hours and whenI returned she announced a“surprise” with abig smile onher face. She had switched our rooms.©Zinzidec/ Reddit
- Myroommate came into myroom whileI was out and left her curling iron onmylaptop, melting the top right down tothe screen. The screen was completely ruined. When Igot homeI noticed itand asked her ifshe did itbecauseI don’t even have acurling iron, myroommate denied itand said itmust have been, quote, “aghost oraburglar.” ©bdonn/ Reddit
“Myroommate constantly yells athis game and takes upall the space inthe freezer.”
- Incollege, myroommate had agirlfriend who lived inEngland (wewere inthe US). Heused totalk toher onthe phone and everything while wewere both inthe bedroom. Myroommate was ofcourseFB friends with her and some ofher friends hehad “met” while visiting. Heused totalk all the time about how much hemissed her, how much heloved her, etc. But then, afterI movedin, Ifound out that this girl NEVER existed. Fake profile, fake name, fake photos... Hedidn’t talk toanyone onthe phone (except himself). Ihave noidea why hewould gosofar for this lie, butI felt very strange about the whole thing whenI found out.©nonchalantpedestal/ Reddit
- Ihad aroommate who was easily distracted bythings. Anything. Hemight have athought about why the stars are certain colors and then goonamission tofind out why. Oritmight beacuriosity about the air pressure inhis tires. The problem was that when this happened, hewould simply walk away from whatever task oractivity hewas doing. Asaresult, wehad alot ofburnt dinners and clutter all over the house.©Unknown author/ Reddit
- Ihad aroommate incollege who used toplay Bittersweet Symphony onrepeat all day, every day. From the minuteI movedin, toeven afterI moved out (Imoved down the hall toanother kid’s room because that’s just one ofthe super weird things heused todo, andI still heard itplaying constantly wheneverI walkedby). Iused toreally like that song too, but it’s ruined for menow.©pm_me_b***_stuff_rn/ Reddit
“I’m going tolose mymind.”
- She took afork towork every day with her lunch. But the forks never came back. Wementioned itbecause ithad never been aproblem before she movedin. Webought abox ofmore forks...just forks, and they started disappearing too. She denied ituntil wecaught her eating lunch one day and asked tosee her purse. She apologized and boughtus abox ofplastic forks. Weasked her tomove out soon after, asshe was weird and not agood catch anyway. Oddly enough... wenever had the fork problem again.©wlane13/ Reddit
- While myroommate was abroad for asemester, his brother lived withme. One thingI noticed was that hebought alot ofbutter. Alot! Wealways had about 3-4 sticks inthe fridge, and itwas not always the same few sticks, but hewas always buying new ones. One timeI asked him what hewas doing with somuch butter. Alittle nervously, hesaid itwasn’t his (which was very strange because wewere the only two people living there and none ofmyfriends brought the butter and henever had friends over). When hemoved out, the butter also disappeared. Tothis day, Idon’t know what heneeded itfor, andI don’t thinkI want toknow.©MariaCP86/ Reddit
- Myroommate has acat and for some reason hekeeps buying itpotatoes. The cat doesn’t eat them oranything, hejust gets them for him toplay with. Iusually come out ofmyroom once aweek tofind shredded potatoes and plastic all over the floor, carpet, couch, you nameit. Hecleans itupwhenI get onhim soI guess it’s not abig deal but it’s still weird; just buy him astuffed mouse orsomething lol.©G0ats1ayer/ Reddit
Now that you’ve finished reading, you might want tochange the lock. Oratleast look twice before entering the kitchen. But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Weall have astory like that.
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