Strange College Roommates

[mskani]

With all of these discussions about going back to school made me think back to my days at the old stomping ground.

My freshman year roommate was one year older and very smart. The only thing was that I made the mistake of telling her that I was a sound sleeper. Thinking that she would use this to do some late night studying. Instead she brought a guy back to the dorm and had relations with him with me in the room--but I was awake--just too embarrassed to say something.

During my sophomore year in college, I had this roommate who hung a life-size blow-up shark on our ceiling. This thing had to be over five feet long! What was weirder she also hung a net on the ceiling (giving the illusion that the fish was caught in the net) surrounded by tiny plastic octupuses (or is it octupi?) and seahorses.

I swear that I must have dreamt that I was in the movie Jaws at least ten times!

My junior and senior year--I got a single room!

Does anyone have any weird roommate stories?

 

[Lars624]

My nephew had to change roommates because, how should I say this........his roommate was rather enamored with himself and acted on it often whether he was alone or not. When they went to bed at night my nephew could hear him, he walked in on him numerous times, the guy just wasn't shy about it at all.

 

[DocRafiki]

nope, but your 2nd roomie sounds very creative. I would have liked that, I think.

Actually, on WDWCP, I did get a roommate that stank to high heaven! She put all her clothes in our closet (she moved in months after I), and all my clothes instantly reeked. Luckily, I got to move out of that bedroom only a few days later.

I also lived in a house with 5 other people in Orlando one summer. This guy and girl were having sex in one bedroom while the other roomie was in there. And they wonder why it was so hot in their room! We would fight about the A/C all the time.

 

[Kteacher]

My first roommate kept snakes in the room, and kept an aquarium of mice to feed the snakes. The last straw was when I came back to the room and found a rat in my trashcan under my desk-she was going to feed it to her boa Needless to say, she got kicked out of the dorm the next day!

 

[BarryHom]

I had a roommate who took the TV and VCR that was in the living room into his own room. I wondered why he did this. Then one night I heard moaning coming from his room. I wondered what the heck he was watching. Then I pass by his room one day and there were these videos with...um...scantily-clad women. Let's just say "X" marked the spot!

 

[bsnyder]

My roommate ran away on the 4th day of school. Didn't tell anyone, including her parents....she just got on a bus for home. It caused quite a stir for the 12 hours or so that she was "missing" and the school officials were asking me a zillion questions about whether I knew where she was, what she had said to me about being so homesick, etc.

I was quite anxious when I took DS to college a few weeks ago. I kept thinking back to my horrible experience, and hoping that he wouldn't get a dud. Luckily, the guy turned out to be really nice AND ready to go off to college. They may not turn out to be best friends (that's kind of a crap shoot) but I think they're getting along well.