Roomate problems--with a twist

boysx3
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:57:30 +0000

I just got back from treating myself to a solo lunch at Panera. I love eavesdropping on conversations around me.

and I just heard a doozy.

A girl was just back from her first semester at our large flagship university. She was obviously upset–on the last day of the semester, her roommate had dropped the bombshell of telling her that she had arranged to move out and room with someone else the next semester. The girl at Panera wanted her mom to help her block the other girl’s move out of the room. Not wanting to have a random person move in to the room, I can understand–although the original roommate pairings were random I think. But the girl (and her mom apparently–they were writing a “script” for the call the mom was going to make to the housing office)–but in all my years here on CC, and all the problems we have had here with people wanting their roommates moved out/ or to move rooms themselves–this is the first time I have ever heard of someone wanting to block their roomie from moving into another room.