Complain about your roommate thread!

College Life
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<p>@Appleska: Try talking to your roommate about your concerns-- I think the non-verbal manner (saying ‘Excuse me’) shouldn’t really be brought up because it’s her personality but when it comes to locking the door, and being considerate of one another = something you should talk to your roommate ASAP. Decide what the policy will be when one person is sleeping (i.e. using headphones, only desk lamp and leaving the main light off, etc). I personally think using the microwave is fine. Some people like night time snacks. If you’re a light sleeper, the sleeping masks and noise-canceling headphones or ear plugs might be worth investing in.</p>

<p>And I have a question:
Are roommates allowed to bring guests over for the night? Particularily the opposite gender when it’s a SINGLE GENDER floor? Like in Orly83’s case… would we be able to bring it up to our RA’s? 'Cause that is unbelievable. >.></p>

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<p>^ Haha lol, I know for sure that you’re not being serious because that would almost be sexual abuse and unless you enjoy being sexually abused (which I have a creepy sense you do), you would’ve already reported your situation to the school and that perv would’ve already been kicked out of college…</p>

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<p>Swap Beds. Problem Solved</p>

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<p>Orly: if you were telling the truth and it got to be that big of a problem, you’d have found somewhere else to sleep. :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p>And, as for me, what roommate? It’s gotten to the point where my “roommate” doesn’t even sleep in our room anymore, he sleeps down the hall in the RA’s room (our RA has a roommate, so it’s not like there’s a lot of room for him; I think he literally sleeps on the floor). He hangs out in the RA’s room whenever he’s in the dorm; he NEVER comes into the room during the day and when I run into him in various places around campus he either literally turns around and walks in the opposite direction or pretends not to notice me. When he wants to take a nap, he goes to the RA’s room. Even the RA pretty much ignores me; the other day I got locked out and couldn’t remember how to go about getting a spare key, and she said, “Uh… so what do you want me to do about it?” Our entire door is covered with stupid notes from the RA and her roommate; everyone on my floor and from various other floors is all chummy with my RA, and when I even try talking to her, she acts like I have some sort of highly infectious disease. </p>

<p>I guess this is to my benefit because at this point it’s almost like I have a single, but I feel like I’ve done something wrong. I don’t have any friends at ALL on campus yet and the only people I’ve spoken to since I’ve gotten here are my parents and one of my friends who goes to the same university, and I had hoped that my roommate and I could at least be on speaking terms. I mean, I’ve barely SPOKEN to the guy; how could I have offended or upset him? I’m a fairly neat person, I don’t think I smell, I don’t snore, I don’t steal or play loud music or have sex in the room… w.t.f? should i maybe just drive off a bridge?</p>

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<p>^Wow, your RA doesn’t sound helpful at all. Are there anyone else you could talk to, someone who holds higher authority over the RA? That is, if you have a problem with how the RA is unhelpful, etc.</p>

<p>Personally, I wouldn’t mind if my roommate was hardly in the room lol. It’d be like a single -kinda. xD</p>

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<p>Here we go. So one night last year one of my roomates (i lived in a triple) came back ridiculously drunk, even though I didn’t know it at the time because I was almost asleep. My other roomate was watching tv on her laptop (its like 12:30) and giggling and talking to herself. After my roomate’s been in the bathroom (connected to our room) for about 15 minutes I get really worried. So I get out of bed and open up the door and she’s lying on the ground in a pool of her puke, still puking and barely conscious. Now I’m not mad at her, sure she had a little too much, but she’s generally a good roomate so I can forgive. It’s my OTHER roomate who I have a complaint about. I ask her to come help me and all she does is wail about how SHE never wants to get drunk. To make a long story short, I clean up my roomate, get her into bed, clean/disinfect our bathroom, get her clothes in the washer, and liberally spray some air freshener. What’s the response from my useless roomate. “Ew. You made our room STINK of bleach and air freshener.” Then went back to watching tv on her computer. I had to be up at 5 the next morning and I woke up every 1/2 hr to make sure my roomate was ok. What a b****</p>

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<p>LOL @ some of these responses. I can’t help but laugh and feel really sorry for some of you guys! </p>

<p>I must’ve really lucked out. I got decent roommates, even if we didn’t become BFF’s we always got along! My dorm roommate would sing outloud to Disney songs. (Kiss the Girl, A Whole New World, Mulan’s Make a Man Out of You, etc.) He wasn’t EVER embarrassed, the door was nearly always opened when he was in the room and everyone on my floor could hear him. Luckily, he eventually stopped singing along to Disney songs!!! Some people on the floor thought he was gay based on the way he acted, LOL. He’s the youngest of his siblings so he was prob baby’ed, hahah. </p>

<p>During soph. year, he rushed for a frat. One of my dormmates told me that when everyone was watching the Lakers game, he was baking cookies in the kitchen! When the other guys screamed/yelled, he apparently looked at them like they were crazy and asked why they were yelling…he really hates physical activity! Interesting guy to say the lease. </p>

<p>He admitted that I was the best roommate he had (after soph year). The real reason was that I didn’t like being in the room with him b/c he would usu. have some of dormmate there, so I wouldn’t be able to do work…LOL.</p>

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<p>@all the people with roommates that don’t do their laundry. all you gotta do is get blacked-out hammered and throw up on their bed or **** in their sheets. problem solved.</p>

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<p>@Brandoniscool,
It’s not you who lucked out, it’s the people on this thread who ended up in miserable situations… Roommates are usually not this terrible, the people you hear about on this thread are stuck with exceptionally insane people who are pretty hard to find in regular society…</p>

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<p>I live in a triple with two other roommates who seem nice and I’m able to coexist with them so there’s no butting-heads happening, but my two roommates are practically like best friends and they have been having this friendly relationship right from the very first day. They always plan lunch together, go out partying together, etc. and sometimes I just feel like I don’t even exist :frowning: I always knew triples would 90% of the time, end up this way AND I even KNEW before I met them that I’d be the odd one out. But it’s fine. I have my own group of friends, but it’d sometimes be nice to be invited to something just once. </p>

<p>PLUS this one roommate ALWAYS LEAVES THE WINDOW FAN ON! Even when she’s not in the room it’s just on all the damn time, 24/7! It’s been driving me nuts! I’m always so freaking COLD! I sleep in my jacket, sweater, fuzzy PJ pants, and fuzzy socks every night under a down blanket. IN MY JACKET! Could she not get the message?! Who leaves the fan running when it’s 50 degrees outside?! I can’t imagine the winter -_- She better not have that thing on by November or else I’m really going to flip out. I’ve never approached her on the subject since it is her fan and all, but DAMNIT.</p>

<p>/rant.</p>

<p><em>Yes, I’m bringing this thread back</em></p>

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<p>My roommate is a great person; gets stuff done and sleeps at a decent time.</p>

<p>I just wish my roommate would talk to me… I mean a simple hello in the morning would suffice.</p>

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<p>I have an annoying roommate who
-never cleans up her crap off of her side or desk
-has NOT taken her trash out once with her trash can since the start of school
-has five alarms that goes off at different time two/three hours prior to waking up
-never wakes up on time for her 8am class T/Th
-very jumpy awkward
-turns on the fan when it is cold outside
-and is avoiding me. Well maybe if she didn’t annoy then maybe I wouldn’t be so difficult
-never makes her bed or change her sheets ONCE
-best part is? After revising our roommate contract and leaving a note about the fan situation, she complete IGNORES them.</p>

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<p>Suitemates, I like that you noticed that you left your hair on the floor in the bathroom, and I appreciate that you cleaned that up (I don’t have brown hair, so I know the brown hair scattered on the bathroom floor that I saw last night before it was cleaned up wasn’t mine). However, could you also remove your hairballs from the hair trap in the shower drain as well? I do that with any hair of mine that’s left over after I finish taking my shower, so I’d like it if you guys did the same as well, thanks. I can’t stand showering when there’s a bunch of hair in the shower drain, so I always get some toilet paper to remove the hairball in the shower with (because even if it’s my own hair, I cannot stand to touch hair or the hair trap with my bare hands).</p>

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<p>I love my roommate. Really, I do. We’re good friends and we’ve lived together for almost 2 years now and we’re signing our lease for next year (we were together a year and a half in the dorms and then we’ll have been together for 2 years in an apartment) but I’m sick of doing dishes. So sick of it. We do dishes by hand and I’m constantly doing them because she’s never here except to eat and sleep (sometimes). I understand that you’re busy, but seriously? I clean everything else (bathroom, kitchen, etc). Hell, I even paid for our stove to be cleaned because there was something wrong with it and didn’t ask you for a dime. Do your freaking dishes. </p>

<p>Sigh. I feel better.</p>

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<p>Dear Roommate,
I know the past few days were tough for you. You had to accept the fact that the whole dorm isn’t yours, and that you can’t always get what you want. Next year you’ll have your friends but until December you have me. Could you please not send me random texts messages last minute that you and your boyfriend want the room? I gave you fours hours on a day that work for the three of us to have the room. Any more than that should be at least asked a day before hand. He does have a dorm right across from us. Less than a 5 minute walk. Now that I’m not working I will be in the room more during the day, and that is where I focus best. Please understand that when you send me a text, and I will respond asking you to go to his dorm because if it is last minute I may have been planning on going back to the room to work. I feel you have been very RUDE about that, and very demanding. It is OUR room, and just because I’m taking my loft down does not give you a right to be even worse about it than before. I know you have a very insecure relationship that is why you call over 5 times a day, and see each other at least 1 once a meal and say I love you over 20 times. Please I get the picture your insecure that he will break up with you again. Maybe you shouldn’t have forced him back? Just a suggestion.
Sincerely,
Your more than cooperative roommate.</p>

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<p>^ lol wow

oh man I was so sure you were my roommate writing about me, but then I saw “her,” phew</p>

<p>for me, new roommate this year… wants me to take out my trash every week, thinks gummy bears grow mold after 3 days, keeps thermostat at 80 F when its 95 degrees outside, aghhh</p>

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<p>Seriously I think this thread was created for me.</p>

<p>My roommate today sent me a text when I was with my Grandma asking if she could move my printer to our window ledge. She took over the whole ledge, and instead of using the outlet right above her bed she is using the one on my side, which I will be using once I get my side set up on Friday…I’m just going to unplug it, and move all her crap to her side. So what happens since I didn’t responded? She move the printer herself. I swear when she comes back and asks why I moved it back to my desk, I’m just going to say I was moving it on Friday because I need it. I don’t know how dumber, and egocentric she can get.
They need to have a crappy roommate support group at my University. </p>

<p>I’m glad she doesn’t ask me to take out the trash though. I generally do it anyway because I don’t like food sitting in there after a few days. Although I didn’t last week and she took it out. :confused: Some progress. I just keep reminding myself, hopefully, only 1 1/2 months until I transfer, and she gets the nice surprise of a new roommate. No tv, no printer for her anymore. Oh I don’t know about everyone on here but chewing with your mouth open is very annoying to me and my roommate does it. Its so bad I want to rip my ears off. Ugh.</p>

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<p>My roommate is quite possibly the loudest person alive, and the most needy and lazy. </p>

<p>She snores like a dinosaur. We live in a suite. Two bedrooms right next to each other, and a bathroom, with two girls in each bedroom. The girls in the other bedroom can hear her through the walls with the TV on and the girls who live in the dorm next door to us came over one night to complain about the noise. I’m a very light sleeper and cannot sleep at ALL. I’ve resorted to sleeping on the bathroom floor(which sucks considering I have back problems) with all the fans going and the TV in her room turned up. We’ve talked to her about her snoring, but she acts like she doesn’t care. She was going to get a sleep study done but can’t afford it. I also have to get up at 5:30 every morning to go work out. That isn’t fun after you’ve slept on the bathroom floor and have only gotten about…2 hours of sleep. I’ve been sleep deprived for the past two months.</p>

<p>She is also very dependent on us because she doesn’t have a car. She asks us to take her to Wal-Mart every week because she’s “out of food”. When we won’t take her, she tries to make us feel guilty by walking around going “I’m soooo hungry, I haven’t eaten aaalll day and I have no food.” The dining halls are right next door to our room. We even asked her why she doesn’t just eat in the dining hall instead of going to Wal-Mart every week, and she says she doesn’t have time to eat there because she has “so much homework”(although all she ever does is sit in the dorm on Skype or Facebook). We also tell her there’s a shuttle that takes people to Wal-Mart everyday, but she claims she has not time for it because of “homework”(again…all I ever see her do is Skype, Facebook, and hang out with friends). How the heck do you have time for me to drag you 10 miles to Wal-Mart for you to shop for two hours, but you don’t have time to walk 50 feet to the dining hall to eat already prepared food?! Oh, and it’s NOT my fault you didn’t eat today…get off Skype and GO TO THE DINING HALL. That’s why it exists. </p>

<p>She also told my other roommates that her parents have said “Why should we come get you when Kayla can just bring you home when she comes?”. I’m now tempted to leave her here for Thanksgiving break or ask her parents for gas money(she has no job). We live 4 hours away, and even though my car has good gas miles…it’s still a lot of money for me. </p>

<p>Speaking of food…</p>

<p>I went to the food court on campus and paid $11.00 for some chicken tenders and fries, and brought it back to my dorm to eat. My roommate wasn’t there. However, ROTC needed me for something so I left. I come back an hour later and ALL MY FOOD HAS BEEN EATEN. My box was empty and in the trash. ***? She was also gone, and my other two roommates had gone home for the weekend, so it WAS her who ate my $11 worth of food that hadn’t even been touched. I thought I was going to strangle her.</p>

<p>Her headphones sound like a live concert. We can hear her music outside in the hallway with the main door shut AND our bedroom doors shut, and one night our other roommates had to come tell her to turn it down because they could hear her headphones in their room and it was keeping them awake. </p>

<p>She is the LOUDEST person I have ever seen. She eats loud, she breathes loud, she walks loud, her music is constantly loud, she talks loud, she laughs RIDICULOUSLY loud, she even writes loud because she bangs down on the paper when she writes.</p>

<p>Also…she sheds hair everywhere. There are PILES of black hair on the bathroom floor and pretty much everywhere and she just leaves it on the sink. </p>

<p><em>Sigh</em>…I hate this woman. The bad thing is, it’s too late for room changes. Somone kill me…at least I’d be getting some sleep. :(</p>

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<p>My roommate freshman year was a ridiculously nice guy, was very neat and really easy to get along with. Except he had this girlfriend who lived on the floor below us and she was CONSTANTLY over and I found myself getting sexiled 3-4 times per week and sometimes they fooled around when I was laying in my bed or doing homework at my desk. Usually I’d leave, but 80% of the time I’d come back 45 minutes later and they’d still be going at it. </p>

<p>I talked to him about this towards the end of Fall semester and told him that it’s really awkward for me to come back and have to sneak through their part of the room as they were pounding one another just to get to my desk, and he found the conversation awkward and became really apologetic and it stopped happening for about two weeks. Then they both got so horny from not playing as frequently that they came back in full force and I’d come in at 2PM on a weekday and they’d be under his covers rolling around and I’d simply turn around and leave. Once it got colder outside and cuddling season was in full swing, it was way worse.</p>

<p>Not to mention; it didn’t really bother me, but she spent the night in his bed with him EVERY night. And they’d cuddle and whisper until the wee hours of the morning. They weren’t having sex, but just having them sleeping together across the rom from me every night was a little awkward. </p>

<p>Otherwise, he was fine.</p>

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<p>I cannot stand my roommate at all. It’s only November and I already detest her. There are many things she does that I don’t like, but the main one I need to get off my chest is how she never ever tells me when she wants the room to herself for a few hours. I have walked in on her and some other guy countless times now. </p>

<p>And then they also get mad at me and make it seem like I’m disturbing them on purpose. It’s also extremely awkward.</p>

<p>This always happens at really inconvenient times too. Like one Friday morning I had just gotten out of the shower and I come back in my bathrobe and towel to find them lying in bed together. And then she gets all disappointed, like I purposely ruined something for her. My phone and shoes were in plain sight and my shower stuff was gone. Where the hell did she think I went?!</p>

<p>It’s gotten to the point where I’m pretty much terrified to come back to the room after every time I leave. (Unless I’m absolutely 100% positive she’s not there, which is almost never) Like yesterday, for example, I left the room at 8am for class and stayed away and didn’t come back until 1am and they were both lying in bed together! And right now it’s 9pm and I’m in the library, with nothing but my computer, trying to gather up the courage to go back to my room. I need to take a shower, and I’m exhausted since I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night, but I’m sitting in the damn library like a crazy person because my roommate is ruining my life.</p>

<p>Oh yeah and yesterday after I got back and 1am and the guy left she asked me if I wanted her to text me when he was in the room, and I was like, “Yeah, whatever, if you want” except the only problem is I haven’t payed my phone bill so I can’t exactly receive text messages so now I’m even more scared to go back because what if she really did text me this time?</p>