Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying roommates

I need to build a tunnel to the bathroom.

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I'm on my own in a 2BR unit now but God this thread would have been therapeutic six months ago!

My drunk imbecile of a housemate had been watching the football at the house next door, but they had got sick of him and dumped him back in my lap. So I get this pounding at my bedroom door, he's demanding to know the score but my TV isn't set up properly so you can't read the whole of the scoreboard that's permanently in the corner of the screen, he grabs the remote and starts fiddle-arsing about with it, swearing his head off, gets nowhere, pulls back at the absolute last minute before throwing the remote through the screen. We watch for about five minutes, next break in play he goes out to get Jim Beam & coke number 217 for the evening, but something obv distracted him so he doesn't come back to my room thank Christ. When the game's over, all is quiet so I go out to the kitchen, he's practically passed out but asks me who won, I tell him, it's not the result he wanted so he's off again. About five minutes later I escape, by now it's getting on for 11.30 pm so I'm getting ready to turn in and next thing I know he's put New bloody Order on at full volume.

I cop it for maybe 15 or 20 mins, then pack a bag with three days worth of clothes, stick it next to the front door, go back into the living room and tell him to turn that crap off. He tells me to firetruck off, so I grab the bag, bolt straight out the door, jump into my car and do my first burn-out since getting off P plates up the street, all the while this guy is running after me waving his arms around. I slept that night in my car outside a mate's house three suburbs away.

Next morning around 10 I get a text from this guy, I can always tell how sober he is by how good his spelling is and it's OK so I go home later that afternoon. He has only the vaguest memory of what happened, which may have been a deflecting tactic except he aint smart enough to be that devious. It was the second time he'd carried on like that in six months and for two of those months I was overseas. He was also on anti-depressants and God knows what else, drinking half a dozen stubbies a night at least, and he was tangled up with a woman who was stark raving bonkers with an ex-hubby on the warpath and a son in jail.

I decided there and then that I was too old by 20 years for all that Young Ones crap, and shared houses had turned into my concept of Hell. My last house before this one, I had left it because the owner got married, and I'm still very close to that couple eight or nine years later, but for every good friend I made that way I could make a cricket team out of all the utter bloody no-hopers and head cases I've shared a roof with and absolutely nothing else.

By a quite incredible turn of events over the next couple of weeks, I was out of this place in a month.

Eff alcoholics.

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Putting the heater on 78-80 degrees sounds dumb and like a huge waste of gas/power.

I do not have any hobbies or interest that would affect your life in the apartment

oh I think you do

The "no visitors for more than 30 minutes" and giving a week's notice for presumably overnight guests? is the most mental part of that, to me.

Assuming s/he's as clean as s/he wants a roommate to be, I was ready to live with that weirdo until s/he started talking nonsense about keeping the thermostat at 70-80. That's gross.

feel like even for the rules I could comfortably live within that the slightest noise would summon them out of their room to watch disapprovingly, probably making a note of the times and dates of your almost-line-crossing

like, I never have guests, but if someone offered me a lift and I invited them in it would be nice not to have my housemate standing there with a stopwatch and a decibel meter

my roommate is KILLING ME with his 45minute long bathroom routine during the critical hour from 8-9am

i've been late to work every day this week, just waiting for him to get out so i can brush my teeth and run out the door; haven't had time to chat with him about it since he's been out during the evenings. also don't want to leave a passive aggressive note for him ):

ask very seriously to shower with him

Are you just brushing your teeth? Maybe keep your toothbrush and toothpaste out of the bathroom and brush them in the kitchen. You should still talk to him, but that might keep you from being late until you can.

xp hahahaha I like that idea much better.

i don't know how to talk to roommates. i feel that the second i've made a suggestion i've entered into "passive aggressive" territory.

xp lol

yeah i've thought about brushing in the sink, but i don't really feel comfortable taking a pee in the sink (which is the other critical part of my morning routine). kinda wish chamber pots were still acceptable tbh

xp yeah that's kinda how i feel

If you do use the kitchen sink, make sure you brush your teeth before you pee in it.

i sympathize so much. one of my roommates takes 45 minute showers at the most inopportune times. mostly when the #2 train is arriving at the station

pee in a bottle and leave it in his room

what drives me nuts is that i keep waking up earlier and earlier to try and quickly get in there before he does and somehow he ends up turning on the shower as soon as my alarm goes off!

i hate when they leave the bathroom all steamy :(

he's also an early riser, so he's had more than enough time to take a shower before i even wake up GAH IT DRIVES ME NUTS

xp haha yeah i've definitely been wiping off the mirror every day this week

i'm convinced that one of my roommates had the electrician wire the bathroom light and ventilation fan to the same switch for some reason. wth

anything to stop the humid dregs from someone else's shower from frizzing up your hair imo

I'm about to re-enter the world of roommates for the first time in 4 years, wish me luck

i'm convinced that one of my roommates had the electrician wire the bathroom light and ventilation fan to the same switch for some reason. wth

That's quite normal, isn't it? Still annoying though

we had them wired to separate switches before which was nice because you could leave the fan on + lights off, so that you could ventilate the foul miasma after a shower

Get comfortable enough with your housemate to shower and shit in front of them (this works great, highly recommended)
In lieu of that I always just knock and ask before showering and my roommate started doing the same

I gave my notice and my lovely roommate has begun his transformation into a vengeful ex. The couch is mine but my roommate decided to have a new couch brought in, two months before I move out. Now there is an extra couch in the middle of everything and a lot of scootching.

Nothing really says "nice living with you!" than acquiring replacement furniture and piling it everywhere

Get comfortable enough with your housemate to shower and shit in front of them (this works great, highly recommended)

Hah what?

I live in a place w 6 roommates (currently, changing soon tho) sharing 1 bathroom so every other day somebody needs to pee really bad and someone is in there. I sympathize. I just go outside if i really need to pee.

That 45 min shit is lame and totally wasteful. I really don't see any reason to be in there for more than 15 mins. What do you do for the other 30? I don't wanna know...

#1 thing i hate these days is leaving shit around. I'm guilty of this but usually it just ends up in my room, so there will be four or five cups in my room. Cups that i own. What really gets on my nerves is just leaving cups/silverware/etc. all over the house. So it ends up that we have no clean cups or spoons in the kitchen cabinet and drawer, but they are loose all over the house. We have used cups on the front porch, in the living room, in multiple places in the kitchen, etc. There's an empty tin of ice cream sitting on a table in the garden with a spoon in it and another spoon on the table. No-one offered me the ice cream so I'm not cleaning it up. I'm not your mom.

Hah the other day i heard some rhythmic banging in the kitchen, my roommate had a slinky attached to the pots and pans that are hung up over the oven and was tapping on it. I wanted to cook some food so this conversation took place on my way in:

"What's up?"
"Just makin' some jazz."
"...How eccentric."
"...Thanks, man."

new landlord/roommate is better than the last guy, but still a little irritating. he's gay and made a pass at me when I first started living here ... we went out to grab something to eat and he treated me like I was a date or something, which I wasn't too thrilled with. he'd pour my drinks, touch my knees with his and touch my hands, brush up against me, and get generally flirty with me. and crap, if I were attracted to a woman like that I definitely wouldn't be touching them or making presumptions... which is especially worse since this guy is my landlord. the dude seems pretty socially awkward, so I'll just chalk it up to that.

he's also condescending and a little rude, but at least I can safely keep my distance. last guy would get even more pissed off if I just tried to do my own thing. the other roommate I have here is, finally, the perfect roommate ... we both just do our own thing and chit chat when we see each other. no fuss, definitely no muss.

this guy's becoming an annoying turd. it's impossible to talk to him, he has some obnoxiously condescending thing to say even when i'm trying to be polite. i said i had a friend who was coming to visit me for the weekend, and then he goes and meticulously checks the calender to see if it's OK ... looking at each date ... humming and scratching his chin... pondering, and then saying "yeah, it's OK". this guy's got nothing going on in his life, he inherited a shitload of money and does nothing everyday. i can't imagine what he might have coming up that would make it impossible for somebody to stay in my bedroom for two days.

Great, looks like I have to do another "conversation". My landlord's a Dracula-esque douchlord and I'm getting too old for this crap.

Beyond looking at me like a piece of meat and trying to get my dick, he's an all-around condescending prick and gives me shit for like ... taking two Fridays off in a row after being sick and having a hellish work schedule. "oh you've taken four Fridays off now. are you going to take every Friday off this summer???" and makes obnoxious personal commentary about my life, like ... if I take a 20 minute bike ride he'll comment "oh that was fast". like wtf dude get a life.

I think this is the last time I live with anyone. Cripes there are a lot of creeps out there.

so it's been over 3 months. what's going on? did you and gay man finally hook up? jk. but seriously it seems like you just can't find a decent roommate. of course the simple and best solution is to live solo.

i live with 2 roommates but i can't imagine living with 5 other guys. i'm assuming that is a dorm/frat situation so it's kind of understandable.

anyways, best to always live alone or with an SO if you must.

still living here, going to move out soon. think this guy has autism or something, he's a pretty bizarre dude. my other roommate has the same exact problems with him, but she's a woman so she doesn't get the whole snooping on me while i'm folding my underwear shit.

think random roommates in the suburbs work a little different than in the city, just about everyone i know here either still lives with their parents at age 30 or have their own places. definitely moving back to the city after this!

I don't have roommates, but one of my colleagues was telling me that her roommate decorated his room with a collage made out of cardboard six-pack containers and scotch tape.

people make no effort not to be annoying

wrong thread

I've finally decided, after one more year of living in this apt due to the cheap rent, that I'm going it on my own next year. Not only can I afford it, but I'm tired of depending on other people.

my newest roommate has been a friend for a while. he's a good dude, but he's now a month behind on rent and has been for several months. Which, considering how cheap rent is (less than $400 a month), I don't get how he's survived up until now.

I am not going to throw him out or anything - but I've had to tell him that in order to renew the lease in Dec, that he has to be caught up or he's out. I just don't get it, I guess - you're not going to find rent much cheaper in this area (the crime rates keep it cheap - it's bad over here), and if I were an asshole and kicked him out, where exactly would he go that would allow him to not pay his rent on time?

Oi.

dude, you gotta stop letting ppl take advantage - every time you say 'ok', that signals more and more permissiveness, so that one day when you eventually (hopefully) say 'not ok', those ppl freak the fuck out.

yea i know. it has been an area of focus with my therapist, it is an offshoot of having so little respect for myself that I just figure it's best not to speak up. but I've started lately....

another component is that ten years ago, I tended to lose my temper a lot and I don't like situations that threaten to put me back where I might lose my shit.

but you are right....I have been harassing him for the money tho lately

lease is up, had to tell him he could renew but only if he was caught up on rent by the end of the lease. guess what he chose not to do? :)

this is good for us both tho. he wrote some dramatic farewell to his friends on FB saying he's moving back home (the panhandle) to live with his mother as he "can't afford to live in Orlando anymore". (Your rent was $375/month - if you can't afford that, you can't afford to live anywhere).

Feel kinda sorry for this dude because he still has it in his head that there will always be people around to bail him out so he never tries very hard to be self-sufficient. He's been living this way for years, thinking that life will take it easy on him while he's low on cash, and wound up stranded several times due to either running out of gas on the way home and having no money to buy more, or having a tire pop and being unable to afford a tow or a new one.

a month ago, he decided he either needed a second job or a different full-time job. he applied for maybe two, didn't get them, then just gave up and spent his hours not working (ie most of them) binge-watching Game of Thrones in his room.

one of those Bohemian types from the theatre community that thinks that because he's an artist, he's fulfilled enough in life, so he shouldn't work more than he feels like and he'll just 'rely on his friends' to subsidize his sticky situations. which is all well and good if you're fine living in misery on your own, not so much when you're screwing over a friend by not paying your own share of rent.

roommate hunt begins now (shouldn't be too hard), but then I gotta get a condo of my own.

have no luck with this roommate situation. after a temporary one that was great, this new guy from r00mmates.c0m has not paid one single month on time and owes me $600. it's always another story (re: lie) and unlike the past roommate, I've been harshly reminding him that he needs to pay or get out, but going the legal route of eviction (he's not on the lease) is a pain.

and naturally my solution of serving a 15-day unconditional move out notice (which gives no opportunity to cure) was met with resistance by my brother as he can't afford the extra rent - at this point I'd rather just pay it myself to get the guy out.

He lied all throughout last week about his dad mailing him money and when it finally showed up today, it was $350 short. so now I'm going to have to draft another 3-day pay or quit notice, then go through the trouble of filing it in court, then having a sheriff evict him if he won't leave, all while worrying that he's either going to vandalize the place, steal my shit, or beat me up (none of which he's threatened, I just have OCD and come up with outlandish fears. that's not a euphemism, I actually do have it).

and if he does anything to jeopardize the property, it could affect my ability to finally move out and get a place of my own if I get evicted as a result (that much is my fault for renting to someone off the books). just stressing me the fuck out every day.

anybody had to deal with someone like this? I can't just change the locks cos legally they would have to let him back in as he's established month-to-month tenancy due to me accepting rent from him.

I already served him one 3-day pay or quit notice but he paid it so I legally had to let him stay after that.

I won! He was playing my xbox 12 hours a day and was two months behind on rent. I blew up at him and took the xbox and put it in a storage unit and served him an (accidentally invalid) 3 day notice and he left.

And i just got myself a 1 room place in a month.

boss schedules 30 min meeting with full team.
me: “what is this meeting about?”
boss: “I want to find out about x, y and z”
1 min later all questions answered
meeting cancelled

wth