This is the truth. I've had numerous terrible roommates.BoneSnapDeez wrote:Having a bad roommate, at least once, is like a rite of passage.
Probably the worst was this guy who was perpetually 3 credit hours away from finishing his associates degree - He'd been that way long enough to have earned his bachelors if he'd actually cared to go to class / not drop out on the third week of class every semester. He trashed his room, was always late with money for the power bill, ate everyone's food, and was generally a lazy asshole.
We'd have to explain to him that he was in his early twenties and that trying to score with high school girls was going to impress no one but the local police. His aspiration in life was to be a UFC fighter - somehow subsisting on an all Jack in the Box diet and weed was supposed to get him into the octagon. He disappeared for two weeks once. We thought he was dead, but he showed up with a cast and a broken face one morning, bragging about how he'd been getting into fights in jail. Found out later he'd done two weeks for late parking tickets. Real tough guy.
I finally had to call his mom to get money for the power bill. First question I asked was why they kept giving him money to live in a shitty apartment 30 miles away from the rest of his family. Point blank, no hesitation, to a complete stranger she admitted that her entire family was so ashamed of him that it was worth the money just to keep him away.
And now I am thinking that this topic might deserve its own thread.
