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[maddog]

^Ewww! Bloody things and toilet issues are the worst!

This reminds me of the dorm where we all were supposed to share in the cleaning (about 15 girls on the floor). It was so disgusting. It was a drunkfest every night and there was always vomit all over the seats in every stall. I couldn't take it and ended up cleaning much more than anyone else. Even an open bottle of what appears to be urine sat outside a shower stall for a month.

I laughed pretty hard about the squirrels. Those are some high maintenance squirrels, sleeping on silk panties! They're probably male too. Those pervs!

[HubbaWubba]

How do you forget to flush the toilet! Seriously!!!

Speaking of disgusting bathrooms, I don't have any roommate stories but an acquaintance story. A friend of a friend invited me and the friend over to her apartment one night before we were going on for the night. I went to use her bathroom and it was so disgusting. She lived alone but the bathtub (which had see through doors) was all soap scum that looks like it was there for ages. And the toilet bowl was quite disgusting too. I didn't even bother to go and waited until we got to our destination. If you are that busy or lazy not to clean, then hire someone to do it for you!

[Zophie]

Originally Posted by Carmen82

I've had a couple of bad roommates! The worst was in my final term at university - a girl I lived with would ALWAYs 'forget' to flush the toilet after taking a #2. It was soooo gross! This happened on 4 separate occasions. She would also leave bloody tissue hanging out of the garbage. I finally moved out after a month because I coudn't stand to live with her! Dirty bathrooms are my pet peeve!!

How in the hell do you forget to flush after doing a #2???

[Carmen82]

I have no clue! But it was the grossest thing ever! After the 2nd time..I dreaded going into the bathroom for fear that it had happened again!! Geez seriously, you're smart enough to make it into university, but not smart enough to flush a toilet?!?

[razorbackbelle0]

[glamgirl84]

One of my college roommates stole the tiffany heart necklace that my late grandmother bought me for my high school graduation. i could never get enough evidence to get her in trouble for it but people saw her wearing it after the fact. I just finally came to terms with the fact that I wasnt getting it back and bought myself a new one- but Im sad that the one my nana gave me is now gone I hope the necklace is now like that ring in lord of the rings and gives my ex-roomie back luck for the rest of her life!

[DiorKiss]

Originally Posted by glamgirl84

One of my college roommates stole the tiffany heart necklace that my late grandmother bought me for my high school graduation. i could never get enough evidence to get her in trouble for it but people saw her wearing it after the fact. I just finally came to terms with the fact that I wasnt getting it back and bought myself a new one- but Im sad that the one my nana gave me is now gone I hope the necklace is now like that ring in lord of the rings and gives my ex-roomie back luck for the rest of her life!

I would be so, so mad and sad! It has personal feelings behind it. How horrible. But indeed, karma is a b*tch, it will get back at her!

[rainrowan]

oh, i cannot believe i just lost my entire post! LOL!!

well, i've had a couple of nightmare roommates. One roommate was a foreign student whose wife was overseas. I would find him on the phone trying to start relationships with young college girls he'd met on campus. Then he would call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, so much that he racked up over $600 phone bill he never paid. At the time, we were all splitting the phone bill 4 ways but this was ridiculous. We had to take him to court and they took it out of his wages.

ok, this part is the post I lost so i'll just briefly say: there are nuts out there!
I had a roommate who would eat all my food and replace it with crackers or something stupid like a slice of melon. Or she'd try to sneak her filthy panties into my wash when I was leaving for the laundry. I would have shared my food but I was so poor I was living paycheck to paycheck and surviving on bulk chicken all the time. I wrote a note in anger and then decided against giving it to her and tossed it. Somehow, she fishes it out of the trash and reads it! Of course she's not minding that i decided not to deal with it but she decides that it means war. She basically made my life a bloody hell for some time. This meant screaming at me and inviting all her co-workers after work to give me dirty looks, it upset me that these were people with so much hatred and I'd never even met or spoken to them before. I'd go back in my room and cry.

The last straw came when she's screaming at me again and again saying "you don't exist!", I finally snapped and I came out fighting. Mind you, I generally don't confront but this time I was backed into the corner one too many times so I lashed back and she ran back into her room. She gave me a dirty look but she probably didn't expect li'l ol' me to say a word. One of the worst roommate situations I ever had.

[guccimamma]

Originally Posted by glamgirl84

One of my college roommates stole the tiffany heart necklace that my late grandmother bought me for my high school graduation. i could never get enough evidence to get her in trouble for it but people saw her wearing it after the fact. I just finally came to terms with the fact that I wasnt getting it back and bought myself a new one- but Im sad that the one my nana gave me is now gone I hope the necklace is now like that ring in lord of the rings and gives my ex-roomie back luck for the rest of her life!

i had 4 roommates at the beach one summer...and my string of pearls that my grandmother gave me, suddenly disappeared off my nightstand. since there were 4 of us, i couldn't prove which person did it. but i know in my heart who did it. i loved those pearls, i never told my grandma they were stolen. i bought a similar strand when we got married, so she would think i was wearing them.

[annanas]

i only had one long-term flatmate, and i'm fairly determined never to do it again she wasn't *as* disgusting as some of the ones on this thread, but pretty bad..

-she'd always eat in her bedroom, and she'd leave dirty plates with bones and fat from meat still on them on the floor for weeks on end. she complained that the place was a mess and that we really needed to get a cleaning lady. ummmm i wonder why?

-sometimes i'd find used pads rolled up not in the bin in the bathroom, but on the shelf ABOVE the bin?? i never understood why if not to spite me, it would have been *more* effort to get them to balance so that they stayed there.

-her bf was there at any random time. they at least had the sense not to have sex when i was there, but he was just so annoying and arrogant as a person that i couldn't even stand him being there. he enjoyed telling me my friends were lazy and unambitious (they did better in their degrees than he did). he had the smelliest feet i've ever encountered. if i was there when i knew he was coming i'd pretend to be napping/already have gone to bed.

-she used to go to bed earlier than i did, and she'd make me turn the tv in the living room down when she went to bed. this sounds perfectly reasonable, but i KNOW you can't possibly hear the tv in the room she stayed in unless you have your ear glued to the door.

-she said she had high cholesterol, yet about a year into us living together she started to eat bacon and eggs every morning. she woke up much earlier than i did and set the fire alarm off without fail when she was cooking this healthy breakfast because she claimed the extractor fan didn't work and refused to turn it on. she left the frying pans out and never wiped the stove and left the grease to collect until i couldn't stand it anymore. she knew very well there is no smell i hate as much as the smell of a fried breakfast. yet she supposedly couldn't eat ice cream once in a while because it was bad for her

-she let her bf store a bunch of crap in the flat for his ebay business even though that was breaking the lease. she said it didn't count because she was just "helping a friend"?? yeah, that's what i'll tell the insurance company if someone breaks in to steal his stock and the insurance doesn't allow business to be conducted on the premises

-one time i found, in a sainsbury's (a supermarket) carrier bag in the hall, printed maps to a sex shop, a dungeon (*not* london dungeon if you get where i'm going with this) and a rather mysterious looking rubber object that appeared to be double ended. this didn't bother me so much as amuse me, but who leaves things like that lying around in the hall?? fortunately her room was such a mess that i just threw it in there when she was out and it landed on a pile of mess and she never asked about it. i sort of wish i had asked now.

-she refused to pay when we got a huge gas bill because our consumption was greatly underestimated for about three years and the meter was never read. she came up with a bunch of bs excuses as to why she wouldn't pay, and only eventually agreed to after about a month and a half because i was going to take her to court. this was the straw that broke the camel's back, she'd already moved out for other reasons but now we don't speak at all.

[bnjj]

I've always been thankful to have never had a roommate and after reading these posts am even moreso.

[Laurie8504]

Oh my gosh, some of these are so awful, it makes me feel a little better about my experience :

My freshman year of college I went pot-luck because my cousin had a really great friendship form that way, and I just didn't really have anyone I would have wanted to room with anyway.

So I get there, and the girl I was assigned to is a transfer student from the other state college, she was a sophomore. And a very liberal one at that. I have nothing against democrats, but this was an election year and she would sit in our room (about 13' by 15') and scream obscenities at the debates on tv. I would leave and go all the way down the hall to the common lounge and I could still hear her.

Come to find out, that was just the tip of the iceberg. She brought pets into our room on two occasions (which would have resulted in us getting kicked out if she had been caught). She had a warrant out for her arrest in Texas, she had pot in her purse (I wasn't snooping, she joked about the cat getting into it), and I walked in on her in bed with a girl. More than once...apparently they were just cuddling.

Anyway, needless to say we didn't room together after that semester. Honestly, all of the talking we did that entire semester would not have filled up one hour. I was terrified of her.

[MJDaisy]

omg some of these stories are sooo horrible! this is my new favorite thread!

i have a bad roommate story...unfortunately i still live with her. i live in a 4 bedroom apartment. we just moved in last august. 2 of my roommates are amazing!! but the third...not so much. last semester she ALWAYS was at her boyfriends, literally it was like she wasn't here. but over break they broke up so now she has been here all the time. well...last semester the few times she would be here she would take our dishes and then leave them in her room for days at a time to mold over while she stayed at her boyfriends. we would have to go into her room and get them out and then we would clean them. right before break we went in and noticed she had a bag of grapes on her dresser. well, when we got back from our MONTH LONG winter break, we went in her room and saw they were still there...molded over. it was DISGUSTING. she always leaves her food out. now that she lives with us, she always cooks and leaves her gross food in the sink...we don't have a disposal so my roommates and i always pick her nasty food out of the sink after it is rotting. she NEVER does the dishes, she just makes dirty ones. she does laundry just about every day but leaves them in the dryer so that we have to move them for her. i am the one who shares a bathroom with her. she has let the trashcan overflow for about 2 weeks now and i refuse to be the one to take it out since it is all hers, so i started my own trash and keep it in the linen closet. she hasn't bought toilet paper ONCE since we moved in, so today i took it out and stored it under my bed. also she has her LOWLIFE/SKETCH friends come over (i keep my bedroom locked...i don't trust them at alllll) and smoke pot ALL the time. she smokes 3-4 times a day. my roommates and i don't do drugs at all...and it stinks up our apartment so badly. my room is next to hers so it comes through my vents and makes MY room smell bad. it makes me sooo mad! it's pathetic to see how she needs drugs to live day to day. she isn't living with us next year....so i only have til May 1st with her.

[claireZk]

^ I had a roommate JUST like that and I finally just packed up my dishes and bought paper plates and plastic cups and utensils. I also started making her and the other roommate at the time go shopping with me and split the bill. I'd just buy massive quantities of things like toilet paper so they'd get the hint. Then when we were running low I'd be like "We're running low on t.p. again. Time to go shopping! " They hated me for it, but whatever. It worked...

[annanas]

oooh i can't believe i forgot about this!

-one time when i was on my year abroad she went home for three weeks. she cancelled the cleaner, but i figured it wouldn't hurt to have her anyway so i uncancelled her and sent my mother over to leave her some money. she was NOT happy when she called me from there. turns out my beloved flatmate had left out, in the living room, a bowl of bolognese, a pan of spaghetti, and a bowl of chocolate mousse when i confronted her about it she said it's not a big deal (?!?!?!) and that the cleaner (who she had cancelled in the first place) should have cleaned it up. ummm, no, that's your job you filthmonger

-oh, and one time when she went home she left the dishwasher full of dirty dishes so they were all molded over when i got home