Annoying things your roomates have done

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So anyways last night, my roomate goes out to a party. He gets back at 2am reeking of beer and cheap tobacco, I'm in bed trying to fall asleep. What does he do????

Turns on the lights in my room, puts on his radio and starts to balance his checkbook!

This one really takes the cake. It really does, this is worse than the time he came it at 4am the sunday after thanksgiving, turned the lights on and started to put all of his clothes away and make his bed.

This is even worse than the time he left the window to my room open during a rain/wind storm getting my computer all wet, WITH HIM IN THE ROOM!! (and it was him who opened the window to begin with)

This even beats all those muggy nights in september where he would crank up my fan full blast before going to bed, sending every loose piece of paper flying about.

And I've told him, time and time again, that I can't sleep with lights and noise. It doesn't even pay trying to talk to him about it, he don't listen!

wow nasty roomate try being asstertive

In all fairness, he was probably extremely drunk. Why else would he try balancing his checkbook at 2 AM? I don't think he was actively trying to piss you off, at least not in this particular situation.

You have more tolerance then me, i thought this was impossible but my god your flat mate would be 6 feet under by now if this was me in several differnt locations after dismemberment of course

Your roommate sounds like a fool.

Why do you have a room mate, are you at University?

You should report him for his own good.

He isn't one of those types who is always asking to "lend" (and never return) your possessions?

I had a roommate who was a Britney Spears fan and played her music constantly. She hung up two huge posters of said silicone-enhanced individual attempting to look sexy.

On the positive side, my therapist says the constant flashbacks may one day end.

Wow, by the sounds of it your housemate is incredibly thoughtless and you seem to put up with it much better than I ever would. When I was at uni, during my first year, I had this one flatmate who would come back at stupid o clock and slam doors, take drugs that used to stink the flat out, setting off the smoke alarms etc and she always used to do this when I had to get up early the next morning. She was that loud that the people in the flat below and above us could hear her. I'm no killjoy or anything as I can be a bit of a party animal myself but I am actually able to take others needs into consideration. Needless to say I didnt get on with her and me and another flatmate told her about her loudness and in the end we reported her. Then she stopped doing it because otherwise she got told she'd be kicked out. Result, so stop being too nice otherwise you'll continue to suffer and why should you?

When I was a child I had bad energy habits (like leaving the light on when I left a room or not closing the doors tight when it was cold out). My mother nagged at me until the energy conservation rules became very firmly entrenched, and now when my roomie leaves a light on it drives me crazy.

I can certainly sympathise about the lights, the noise and the smell and I just hate having sleep interrupted for any reason. If it's the policy for lights out at a certain time, I would point that out to the guy and report him if he kept doing it. I think he should at least get a couple of warnings.

But I personally hate muggy rooms and like lots of ventilation and a fan when it is hot and stuffy. Is it possible to put paperweights on your papers so they won't fly around the room while the fan is on? I wouldn't leave a window open so rain would go on the computer though.

If it gets really bad, is it possible to ask for a different room-mate? Surely there must be cases where 2 people find it impossible to put up with each other? Good luck, anyway.

I'd hate to have a roomie who smokes as smoking stinks the place out. And if they farted and smoked, that would be even worse. I suppose you could retaliate with air freshener sprays.

Stays up til five pretty much fully realizing that I cant go to sleep with the light on in my room and with him making noise (he only did that once) and coming in seeing me in bed taking a nap (which are generally neccessary for me as I only get like 5-7 hours at night) and then turning on the radio (on low granted) and the light to do his hw in the room when he could just as easily do it in the library or anywhere where Im not sleeping!

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