*Inspired by AngieBelle* College roommate horror stories??

[Fishbone†]

Not to scare our new and current college DISers, but I could tell you a book full of horror stories!! Guess I just didn't have good luck. I can't be the only one..... anyone have any stories??

Just one of mine:

My freshman year, I went to a small Christian College, where rooming on Campus was mandatory for those under 25 and over 15 miles from campus. They bunked us four to a room and eight to a suite.... lots of fun and adjustment for an only girl with three brothers!!! One day I'm an only girl, the next, I have 96 sisters!! I don't suppose it would have been so bad, if one of my new sisters hadn't been Toni......let's see, where do I start?? I could be thankful that I wasn't into clothes, and didn't have a "movie star" size wardrobe, because I wouldn't have had anywhere to hang them.....but then I'd have to recall that Toni did have a "movie star" wardrobe, which she continually washed and laid out on my bed to dry!!! Nothing like sleeping in a bed that constantly felt like I'd wet it!!! And I could be thankful that I had gotten enough money for graduation to purchase a brand new computer to do my homework on, but then I'd get upset all over again remembering how Toni had used it without my permission and spilled pop all over it and my 12-page New Testament History Synopsis. It's not bad enough that I had to retype it, but that I had to retype it on a typewriter as my computer didn't seem to like Rootbeer in it's keys or on it's motherboard!! I don't even know how to use a typewriter - and whatever happened to that "ding" at the end of the line like in the movies?? I do think my favorite times though were when she would get a phone call around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning and have a jubilant fun-filled conversation while sitting on my legs and eating a Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pocket. Oh how I cherished those nights.

 

[minniecarousel]

WOO-HOO! Sounds like fun!

I didn't go away to college - so I don't have any fun stories.

Let's hear some!

 

[AngieBelle]

Oh my freshmen year roommate was the worst...things started out ok, but little by little, everything I did annoyed her. She would constantly make comments about me or look at me funny. We decided to get separate phonelines, but if anyone called for me on her line, she'd get very annoyed. One time she yelled at me "I'm not your @#%-ing answering service!" Another time when I was in the room, the phone rang, and she picked it up and said "she's not here" and hung up. I never did find out who that was. She'd tell me I didn't shower enough. She chastised me for being online all the time and for playing with dolls. She called my music crap. She called me inconsiderate for singing a lot. She accused *me* of being mean and of causing her to be mean. When we were both in the room, the tension in there was so strong you could feel it. She finally moved out after the holidays.

 

[Kermit]

I only lived with my first roommate for a few days. It became obvious quickly that we weren't meant to be together. I was living at an on-campus apartment because the dorms at this school (University of Texas at Arlington) were hideous. They offered a roommate matching service, but the only questions they asked were if you smoked and if you drank.

It started out badly when I saw the apartment. For some reason they gave us a handicapped unit, and neither of us needed it. The apartments were tiny with very little storage space anyway, and then this one didn't have any cabinets under any of the sinks because they were set up for wheelchairs. The light switches were low, and the pole for clothes in my roommate's closet was only half-way up, so she'd never have been able to hang up dresses.

Then my roommate got there. She was nothing like me. As soon as she unpacked her boxes, she left to go get a tattoo. She did ask me if I wanted to come and get one, but I said no. Fortunately, the fact that we couldn't stay in that unit anyway gave me a convenient excuse for leaving. My next roommate didn't end up being wonderful, especially since she stole money from me and she got a dog who had mange and didn't treat it so the apartment smelled like a rotting dog, but she was a little nicer than the first one.

 

[danacara]

Whoa. My freshmen year I had seven roommates - and they all remain decently close friends of mine! I lived with 10 different girls over four years, and 9 of them were wonderful. The last one had some major social adjustment issues (her twin sister was a model, and she was a mousy little vengeful reaction to that). She is now working for the CIA drilling holes in rocks in a lab. I think that's a job that suits her social capabilities. (I was pretty ticked off by the time I moved out, but we made it work for a year).

 

[tkyes]

Oh goodness - where to start?

To put it mildly one of my old roomates Jessica was insane! I thought we would get along at first, we both had the same major, but it didn't happen.

She had 2 boyfriends that she was stringing along at the same time. She expected me to lie for her when one would call and say that she was someplace other than where she was (because she was with the other one). She screamed at me one night because she forgot to ask me to cover for her so I told boyfriend #1 that she was with boyfriend #2.

She also accused my DH (boyfriend at the time) of making fun of her and her clothes. The only problem is that I was in the room at the same time as the alleged conversation took place and somehow I didn't hear the horrible things she claimed that he said.

I also got the phone calls at 2:00 in the morning too. I had all early classes, she had late ones so she could sleep in. She was well aware of my schedule and of the fact that I'm a light sleeper. She used to litteraly throw her books on her desk from across the room at all hours of the night to see if it would wake me up.

Oh the joys of roomates!!

tamie

 

[Miss Jasmine]

The second roommate I had was the worst. This was Fall term of my Freshman Year (I had started in the Summer, that roommate wasn't great but nothing like this one).

First of all I was assigned to a dorm without Air Conditioning. I was attending the University of Florida so yes its still really, really hot in August and September. So it was starting off badly from the start.

Then my roommate...at first she seemed ok. We even had some of the same friends. I even went and stayed with her a few weekends at her home...then something happened. I have no idea what, but then she started having guys come over and spend the night and participaing in ahem certain activities while I was sleeping in the same room. She started snooping through my things and telling ppl about some personal issues of mine. She just got very, very nasty. I never found out why the change, I just started hanging out with my other friends sometimes crashing there at night. I could have asked for a switch I guess..but I hate moving.

 

[aprincessmom]

My freshman roommate was a horror show. Her mother filled out her roommate application and questionnaire. Which made her profile out as a non-smoking, studious, early to bed/early to rise gal.

WRONG!!!!

My first clue was when they moved her in. My parents had already come and gone, all my stuff was in my closet and dresser. Her mother comes over, opens up my closet and says "We'll just put your extra stuff in here dear" to my roommate. Not "She has so much stuff and no room to put it, could we use some of your space?" or "Would you mind if she put her overflow in here." I had to tell her that it would be only temporary because I was bringing more stuff back up in October and would need the room.

Her mother was extremely put out.

But this was just the beginning. Turns out Carolyn, much to her mother's dismay or ignorance or both, was a raging addict. Mostly cocaine but she liked her vodka, too, straight up with no mixers, preferably straight from the bottle upon waking. Which was usually at 2:30 in the afternoon because she had been up til 4 and 5 in the morning entertaining hordes of people in our room.

But wait...there's more.

Within 4 weeks of getting to school, she discovers she has a raging case of RINGWORM!!!!!!!!! And our entire room has to be disinfected, including all the clothes, etc. And her mother had the audacity to suggest that it was from me -- not her coke snorting, vodka swilling, no shower taking, party queen.

So...everything gets scrubbed (I have to pay out of my pocket to have my clothing disinfected and cleaned to beat the band). Within a week and a half, we are infested with FLEAS!!!!!!

Again, disinfect the room and clothing. This time I insisted to the dean that she pay for this since a) I was working to pay my tuition and didn't have the cash to continually have my entire wardrobe professionally cleaned every two weeks and b) I had been sleeping on the floor of the girls across the half since the 2nd week of the semester so technically I wasn't even living in the room, only using it for storage space and c) I filled out my profile honestly and since I got screwed so royally they ought to give me something (NOTE: I had tried to get placed in another room but because there were many students who had paid just as much as I did to literally live in the elevator lobby because of overcrowding, I was #423 on the relocation list and didn't stand a chance of getting anything but a space in the parking lot at that point...and winter was coming to Syracuse and it gets really cold there.).

So I spend my first year of college sleeping on the floor of other people's rooms and using my room as storage space.

On a side note, I successfully graduated and have fond memories of the experience as a whole (just not that particular situation). My roommate, on the other hand, was flunking out by end of freshman year. Her parents tried to make the college keep her by making a substantial donation (basically providing the endowment for a new chair within the art department). They kicked her out by mid-sophmore year despite the building.

 

[ratsrule]

I lived in a suite with 3 other guys.
One was a theater major who would really get into his part. I mean this freak would wear the costumes and only speak lines from the plays and stuff. Oh and he brought his GI Joe Collection from home It took up his entire desk!

Anyway we swapped him out for a beer guzzzling rugby player.

 

[Jenn]

Oh YEAH - I had 2 who were crazy at the same time.

There were 4 of us in one room - myself, one girl who was really nice but ended up being homesick and transferred to a school closer to her family within about 2 months of school starting, then the 2 freaks.

One was a rich snob. Nice clothes, nice stereo, nice everything. Wanted to bring HER stereo, TV, VCR, fridge, but didn't want anyone else to use it. Had a really nice boyfriend back home and was messing around with a guy up at school and wanted us to cover for her when the nice boyfriend called. The best part - she had a Oujii Board and would communicate with a certain spirit all the time. She would set up candles all around the room, hang a voodoo doll from the ceiling and "talk" to her spirit.

The other one was a headbanger. Black, heavy metal band t-shirts, black pants, black boots. Long, Bon Jovi style hair. Weird - didn't talk, kept to herself.

By April of my freshman year, I decided the dorm wasn't for me and I started commuting.

 

[luvwinnie]

roommates tried to STAB the guy in the next room becasue he complained her music was too loud. Needless to say, she was out of there fast....I was so relieved. Before that, she was always bringing guys back to the room while me and our other roomie were trying to sleep.

 

[allicat]

Mine tried to stab me. Seriously! Apparently, she was off her rocker and taking medication but I never knew it.
She could lie with a straight face and lied so much she believed everything she said. I could write a book about all the nonsense that took place.
I have never met anyone with horrible traits like that. The worst part- today she is a teacher!And believe me- someone like that doesnt change!

 

[ChibiJones]

I never had any horrendous roommates, but I know people who did.

The first one was my freshman year. I lived in a smaller, all-female dorm. At our first house meeting, a Muslim housemate of ours politely asked us to let her know when men were coming upstairs so she could make sure her head was covered & conform to her beliefs about modesty. Everyone assured her we would respect her beliefs & we did.

Flash forward a couple of months. I wake up & I hear her voice followed by a man's voice! (BTW, men weren't allowed upstairs after a certain time of night, I think it was 8pm-8am. No one really followed this rule, but this was like 3am).

The following morning, my roommate came back from the bathroom & told me to use another one. She said the floor of the shower was covered in hair & it wasn't long. Plus, the toilet was backed up. To this day, I have no idea what they were trying to flush, but just about every weekend, the toilet would be backed up.

Her BF was basically living there. She had a triple & the moved into the walk-in closet. He even left his razor & shaving cream in the bathroom! They would "express their love" in her dorm room while one of her roommates was there. She was telling people they were married religiously.

The two of them were caught once in one of the bathrooms. Our RA came & made them get out. And my roommate let me sleep through it! Man, the one night I'm a deep sleeper She was kicked out for violating the dorm rules shortly afterwards & moved into a dorm with a security guard.

 

[Jeafl]

I had 2 roomates my freshman year (we had 3 to a room). One was ok, but her father owned a sausage company in Chicago, and he would always send her boxes of sausages that stunk up the room. We got along fine though.

The other one was a lunatic! She was obsessed with the Rocky Horror Picture Show and could be found between classes dancing naked to the soundtrack on the desk. She had an aversion to clothing, and the minute she got back to the room she would strip down. It was extremely uncomfortable for me, and I was always nervous about bringing friends home, because you never knew what you would find. She also spent a good part of her time convincing all females to wear nothing but little girl lace anklets. She said it was so "freeing". The real straw that broke the camel's back though was when she started calling me at 3:00 in the morning to tell me she was going to kill herself by throwing herself down the stairs. She would never tell me where she was though, so I would run around to every stairwell on campus looking for her. I eventually moved out because I couldn't stand the stress.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

Freshman year I had a roomie that seemed very nice, but she was never around! She lived maybe 10-15 miles away (max) and she spent a lot of time going home. It kind of got lonely -- I had this room all to myself, but with another person's stuff in it. In the beginning she was there during the week, but away during weekends. Pretty soon she was rarely there at all. One weekend she stayed with 2 other friends (when boy, one girl) who slept on our floor. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear, "Craig, get off of me."

Sophomore year I roomed in a suite with some really good friends. It was 2 to a room and a bathroom dividing the whole thing up. Only problem was by December my friend and I knew we wouldn't be friends any more if we kept rooming together. So I ended up swapping with another friend who had a single (and what red tape we had to go through...Geeze, it was like a major hassle and we were all in agreement so you would think it would be easy).

Also that year my friends and I were active in the drama department and also were part of a local Rocky Horror Show troop (we'd go to the movie Saturday night and as the "offical" acting group we'd get in for free and act out the movie in front of the screen). Because we'd dress up before we went out (yes, we dressed wierd, but we only did it on Saturday nights and we weren't doing anything too strange) a bunch of girls decided that we were gay and satanic and spread some pretty nasty rumors, left nasty notes, etc. That was not pleasant.

 

[sharbear]

This is so much fun, keep those roomate stories coming. Makes me homesick for college. Don't you think everybody should go away to college to see what kind of people there are. I had the usual bad roomates.

I had a friend who had the worst luck, her roomate was a lesbian and she brought her girlfriends home. This was in the early '80's and it was quite a shock to a girl from the country. She handled it really well.

 

[cotye]

Yikes! What horror stories! Fortunately for me, I managed to snag a bachelor pad in my dorm (given that I was a grad student - stayed at home during my undergrad)... even though I had to pay through the nose, I was willing to do it. I can't stand sharing living and bathroom space with a roommate. UGH!

 

[JerseyJanice]

My younger brother had a very slovenly roommate one semester. The guy was a regular Pig Pen (remember the Peanuts character?).

Anyway, my brother got very upset one day to discover cockroaches running about. He said something to the roommate about it, and the roommate's response was, "they are God's creatures, too. Didn't you know He put them here to eat our crumbs?"