Roommate Squabbles

When I was in college, I shared a campus run 2 bedroom apartment with 4 other girls. (Yeah, the basket ball players got 3 bedroom apartments to themselves, for FREE while those of us who PAID our own tuition were jammed together like rats.)

I had a room mate who always used to eat everyone elses food. She came from a wealthy family, was 21 years old, had NEVER held a job, had rich parents, never paid for anything, came in from dates in the middle of the night (and I, who sleep very lightly, had to share a room with her) and was a general PITA. We did make it clear to her that she was not allowed to have sex in the apartment, as several of the girls had lived with her before and that had been an issue.

Anyway, one time I had made some deviled eggs and had such a taste for them. I was sitting in class, thinking about these eggs (I was a vegetarian at the time and had a $20.00 a week food budget, while this girl came from a very rich family and almost never bought food) I got home and went to the refrigerator, and my eggs were gone! I was so upset and so hungry I started to cry. This was not the first time she had done this and everybody was sick of it.

SO, we all talked about how certain food was communal food, but that some food was ours alone. She just sat there and nodded, and kept doing it.

SO, a few days later I made an other bunch of deviled eggs. But, before I put the mashed mayonnaise-d yolk back into the egg, I filled the inside of the whites with hot sauce and hot pepper and black pepper. You could not see it from the outside.

I got home from class the next day, and ONE egg had ONE bite taken from it (she put the rest of it back) She, however, didn't touch my food again.

It's rare that something works out so well like this. But, this time it did.

Man, I had a ton of roommate issues my second year of undergrad. My roomie was on the basketball team so when she finally came home at night she wanted to invite friends over and loudly watch trashy MTV shows (I personally can't stand MTV). Of course, night-time was when I was trying to finish all of my lab reports and such. Then she would fall asleep with the television on and I wouldn't be able to sleep. Finally after much fighting, our useless RA missing three meetings with us, and me cussing her out in the hallway, she bought some wireless headphones for her TV. She was still a total pain in the ass on so many levels though.

For me as a roommate, I have a tendency to turn off my alarm clock in my sleep. This means it has to go off three times or so before I actually get up, and I could see that being really annoying if I'm waking up early than my roomie.

Pardon me, y'all but I'm in a world of fascination. I think it's interesting how even though I'm asking about our own bad habits, people still can't refrain from mentioning the behavior of others first or at some point in the text. Simply fascinating.

Anyway. I'm a smoker and I know that annoys the piss out of a lot of people. Um, I tend to watch the same set of reruns over and over again as background noise while I multi-task. I take extremely hot showers and the bathroom mirror is often fogged for twenty minutes or more, so having only one bathroom would have been a problem. My husband and I are attached at the hip and have been for a very long time so he's always around or we're always locked in the bedroom. I refuse to care for someone else's pets more than they care for the pet themselves. If that makes sense...no I won't walk your dog while you're out partying or doing whatever just because I live there. But, I will rehome them without consulting you if you're consistently gone for more than 16 hours a day, five days a week and keep the poor thing in a cage. (Trufacts, I actually did this to someone once. The dog, the previous owner and the current owner are a thousand times happier for it.)