Readers Respond: Worst Roommate Ever
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Old room mate

My room mate was 42 years old under 5 feet tall with a criminal record (assault charge and dwi!) with an out dated hair style living in a dorm! Myself and my other room mate saw her naked multiple times. She left pee on the toilet seat. She would leave her razors clogged with pubic hair in the shower. She drank so much our apartment smelled like a bar. She was always talking and cursing loudly on her cell phone. She pees with the bath room door open. She comes in late at night and cleans for hours.
—Guest LaLa

My roomate likes to leave trash on my side of the dorm room. First granola bar wrappers, now pizza boxes...sitting on my fridge.
—Guest Sick of dorms already

Everyday is a new day for me but for my roomate it's the same routine. Everyday he talks about how his life is pathetic. He talks about how he doesn't know how to talk to girls, how he doesn't have friends, how he is unathletic, etc. He does this EVERY DAY. Here's the real kicker. He says of the two of us, I'm the negative one! I also brought all the videogames, the TV, the nice fridge, the printer, EVERYTHING, and guess what HE HAS A FIT OVER USING HIS TISSUES WHEN I COME BACK TO MY DORM TO FIND MY WII OR PS3 OR XBOX MISSING BECAUSE HE TOOK IT TO THE LOUNGE TO PLAY ALONE WITHOUT ASKING!!! wait... there's more. He talks about how he likes to imagine being in conversations instead of being in conversations... he finds that conversations are boring and he would prefer analyzing them... but at teh same time he complains about having no friends and no social contact...very pathetic. I have stories that i will put in my next post right after this one because i just hit the surface
—Guest terrible terrible terrible

This is my 5th year in a dorm, i went to a boarding high school, so i think i know how to live with people. My roommate is in her first year of college, and the first time away from mommy and daddy. Well, she has taken me a surrogate parent basically. She tells me all her problems, aspirations, fears, oh and i clean up her vomit. She likes to have our little heart to hearts starting at 2 am, which is when i like to be asleep seeing as how i have 8 am classes. But i do find it hard to sleep through her jumping on top of me and stabbing me with a fork when she wants to have a chat. But the most endeering part of her is that she likes to vomit, and her receptical of choice is the very center of the floor of our shared dorm room with the windows that dont open. The real kicker is, i am a germaphobe and she cant understand why i dont like vomit to be splattered across our floor because it "looks like modern art". I love living in dorms, it is SO much fun.
—incrediblyirritated

My two current roommates are terrible. The guy is an alcoholic who is afraid to be alone so there are always atleast 3 people over. He broke his brother's leg one night in a drunk fight. Then he shot a hole in the ceiling with his shot gun and didn't even apologize when he was sober. His girlfriend allows her cat to claw and pee on everything in the house, including my $2000 couch
—Guest cowgirl

I had a roommate who was loud and obnoxious. she liked to bang on the walls and yell all the time.
—Guest Jordan

My roommate's parents called her every morning at dawn to make sure she got up for class. She didn't even have an early morning class. Neither did I.
—Guest Jen

I had a roommate who didn't flush. Ever. Not a good surprise first thing in the morning to find leftover...you know. I was out of there in three months.
—Guest Apryl

My freshman year of college, I had three roomates in a suite and they were all extremely loud in an annoying, goofy way. They would answer the suite phone by screaming into the receiver - several of my friends almost went deaf. And it was impossible to study either in the common room or the bedroom I shared with one girl. I ended up spending most of my time with friends in a different dorm.
—MdMomof3