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offline mimi on 2004-07-10 20:54 [#01272896]
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oh, she is so annoying. she watches my tv all day so i
never get a chance to watch a movie or something...she makes
me do all the bullshit like put in the air conditioner...the
first 3 months of living with her and paying equal rent she
grabbed the room that was about 2.5 times the size of my
pitiful closet. don't worry though, that situation was
rectified by my moving into the living room and putting up
curtains! she never takes out the trash, but if i let my
dishes sit in the sink for like 2 days, i get a little note
that says "please do the dishes." plus she wanted me to get
my boyfriend to pay a third of rent for spending the night,
which somehow i averted (am i wrong in thinking that if
someone is sharing my half of the apt, that he should be
splitting my half of rent?).

and i sit here like a little bitch and take it because in
real life i am (you all may have a hard time believing this)
too nice and/or passive to ever start any kind of fuss. but
i have less than a month to go and this hellish first year
'on my own' is over and i can get the fuck out of here.
what was i thinking?

come on i bet you guys have some horror stories, too.


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-07-10 20:57 [#01272897]
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this is why i bust a third of my pay to live alone :)


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2004-07-10 21:00 [#01272898]
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That is what i would do.


 

offline mimi on 2004-07-10 21:02 [#01272899]
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i tried to get her to let me sublet or something so we could
just both go our separate ways back in december...but she
wasn't down for it.. and rather than ditch out on my first
lease (hey, don't wanna ruin my name quite yet), i stuck it
out.


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2004-07-10 21:06 [#01272900]
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That is commendable, i either would haved moved out or i
would go out of my way to annoy her.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-07-10 21:06 [#01272901]
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turn the situation around. have fun irritating /her/.


 

offline mimi on 2004-07-10 21:09 [#01272902]
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haha, i did do one thing that's kind of awful. when she
went to japan earlier this year, i let my guinea pig run
around in her room (he is a compulsive shitter). when she
came back she was convinced we had mice.


 

offline mimi on 2004-07-10 21:09 [#01272903]
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i swear it was only one time though.


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2004-07-10 21:10 [#01272905]
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Next time lock a cat in there!


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-07-10 21:13 [#01272907]
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haha...yeah,from my experience you should be to her the same
way she iz with you.
get back to her on the same level and only then she will
notice what is like to be in ur shoes.


 

offline xf from Australia on 2004-07-10 21:16 [#01272909]
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you're right. as childish as it may seem, it's the only way
you can rationalise with some people.

and you'll probably feel good doing it :)


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-07-10 21:20 [#01272912]
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in that kinda situations it's the only was to do so,imo.
i mean,if the oposite person isn't willing to take the
share.


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-07-10 21:30 [#01272916]
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i dont think getting revenge on yer housemate is wise.
especially if you have 6 months left in each others company.
my last housemates mood got worse and worse over a number of
months and he never brought up his greivances until i
decided to move away. myself on the other hand, i always
mentioned all the little things immediately. admittedly im a
bit of a clean-freak


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-07-10 21:32 [#01272917]
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so yer in my book communication is of most importance


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-07-10 21:56 [#01272920]
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3some


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-07-10 23:36 [#01272933]
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i think if her room was really 2.5 times bigger than yours,
she should have to pay a bigger share of the rent, but
that's something you must work out beforehand. and she
shouldn't have any say over who stays with you.

all things considered, you could have a much, much worse
roommate.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-07-10 23:37 [#01272934]
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...not that she doesn't suck, but i'm just saying look on
the bright side...


 

offline mimi on 2004-07-11 00:03 [#01272943]
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oh, of course i should have worked that out before hand, but
bear in mind that this is my first apartment and in my
excitement i never thought to use a tape measure (won't
make that mistake again).

anyhow, i would love to hear about other people's roommates
from hell, too!


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-07-11 00:15 [#01272947]
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i've had the roommate from hell, but i won't go into details
for fear of retribution... :)


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-07-11 00:28 [#01272952]
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i did the whole best-friend-roommate thing. it's typically a
disaster, but worked for us, for the most part, as we're
very alike in habits etc. some horrific episodes, yeah (he
was fond of picking up absolutely vile and filthy used
furniture from the alleyway), but we got along for the most
part. nonetheless, i gotta find a place for next year
sometime in august, and i think i'm going to go for an
anonymous roommate.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-11 05:29 [#01273029]
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i never had a roommate :(


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-07-11 05:30 [#01273030]
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A female roommate that sucks. I wouldn't have thought that
would have got much sympathy from lads...it sounds like a
dream provided she wasn't too ugly.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-11 05:33 [#01273031]
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she could suck all day long for all you care, right?


 

offline face pixellator on 2004-07-11 05:44 [#01273036]
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My first flatmate was a horror, too.. She took me to court
over an unpaid phone bill, which sucked cos she was the only
one who used the phone and she refused to give me an
itemised bill so I could settle my payment... In the end, my
friends ran her out of town.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-07-11 06:01 [#01273047]
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"(am i wrong in thinking that if
someone is sharing my half of the apt, that he should be
splitting my half of rent?). "

Yes, because I bet he doesn't just use your "half of the
apartment". Does he use the living room, kitchen/bathroom?
It's unreasonable of her to expect him to pay rent if he's
just there one or two nights a week say, but if he's there
more than that, you can see her point. Somewhere I lived
before a mate had his gf staying for over a week and it was
a real pain- less chance of you getting to choose what's on
tv, not being able to wander around in you boxers in the
morning, having to wait longer to use the bathroom, etc.

My flatmate:
Pays my council tax,
Pays all the bills,
Does all the housework (aside from my dishes and "manly"
stuff like assembling furniture, going in the loft, moving
heavy things, etc.),
Does her dishes etc. in a timely manner,
Lets me have the upstairs landing for my wardrobe, book
shelf, etc. (so I can keep my room just for audio gear),
Doesn't mind me playing music, ever,
Doesn't mind me having mates over,
Lets me know in advance when she'll have mates over,
Has lived in the area all her life, so knows the good pubs,
shops, garages, etc.

So I can't complain. I have had some really gash flatmates
in the past. Not doing your dishes for a couple of meals is
irritating, but when you come back from a week away (and
when you left all plates etc. were clean) and have to
do the dishes before you can start cooking because they have
dirtied literally every plate, it drives me into a rage.
Doing the dishes straight after cooking is easy, if you're
careful, you can do about half of them whilst you're still
cooking. If you leave it for days:
a) It's a massive job
and
b) It's so much harder- the food has dried on, etc.

I came to blows with 2 out of 3 flatmates in the house I was
in during my second year at uni. Over silly things, but it's
bad when you live in the same house as you can't really get
away from the other person.


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-07-11 09:38 [#01273128]
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yeah, good roomates are hard to come by..


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-11 11:24 [#01273160]
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sounds like you're letting a lot of what irritates you
happen to yourself.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-07-11 12:55 [#01273216]
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Nah, I couldn't last all day, plus, in my old age, I would
require adequate recorvery periods.


 

offline weltact from Taiwan on 2004-07-11 19:09 [#01273575]
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i would kill for a flatmate that does house jobs


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-11 19:11 [#01273576]
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i've lived with i guess 15 or 20 different roomates. out of
those i only didn't like living with two.

one was completely insane. compulsive lyar, disgusting
alcoholic, and constantly thought he was having a heart
attack. he'd go to the emergency room 2 or three times a
week. he would pull out a lighter and start burning the
coffee table that i built.. then when i'd look over at him
and tell him not to burn my table.. he'd then tell me with a
straight face that he wasn't burning it!.. i mean, i was
watching him do it, smoke was coming up, everything... nuts.
he would pass out on his bed, with no sheets, on top of
bicycle gears and books, with all of his clothes on, and a
freshly opened beer, then when it spilled all over him he
would wake up and yell at ME for pouring it on him.

the other roomate was just a slob... his dog would walk
around the house on it's period dripping blood on the
hardwood floors and licking it back up, his room smelled
like piss, and he was really loud in the morning.



 

offline mimi on 2004-07-11 19:14 [#01273581]
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well i did word that a bit strangely. he really isn't
sharing my "half" of the apartment. we hang out in my room
(never the 'living room' unless she's asleep), he uses the
bathroom, true, but not the kitchen. but i do have to point
out that her boyfriend stays over just as frequently as mine
(though mine keeps more of his stuff in my room i'll bet).


i really bet she has a list of things that i do that drive
her nuts, too, though. like, for example, sometimes i
forget to turn on the fan in the bathroom when i take a
shower, so the room stays steamy extra long. well i'm sure
there's something more awful than that that i've got no clue
bothers her, but you get the idea. i'm just glad we don't
pay utilities or have a phone line to argue about, because
we both love to crank the a/c. i already feel like a cold
hearted bitch when i have to remind her to pay for her half
of the internet bill.

20 more days!


 


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