Girl, Interrupted
I was doing a three-week summer program at a college. When I arrived, my roommate’s stuff was already there. Her purse looked fashionable, so I was afraid that she was going to be some cool blonde girl who’d think I was lame. Thus when she lurched in and was stumpy, brunette and odd, I was more relieved than anything. The next day I began noticing things. Every time she entered the room, she would throw herself onto her bed and lie whispering and giggling to herself or her iPhone for the next 15 minutes. The random fits of tears and constant mouth noises didn’t help. Squish, squish, squish. I think she was playing with her retainer. Then one day she couldn’t find her towel.
“I don’t know where to find your towel. Good luck! I’m going to the library,” I said.
She let out a blood-curdling shriek of anger, just two feet behind me. Talking to our RA about it later, my roommate said that there was a precisely 1.5% chance that she had some sort of mental disease. Needless to say, I pretty much then lived at the library.
Haha! The ’squish, squish, squish’ made me laugh!
Let’s get this straight… You judged her before she even walked into the room.
I don’t doubt that she was weird and uncomfortable to be around, but you might have had a better time had you approached it differently. And a young gal between 18 and 22 who is a bit weird just might say the same shit that a 14 year old mall goth would — “I hear voices and I like them” or “there is precisely 1.5% chance that I have some sort of mental disease.” There are tons of ways to gain attention, and whether it’s good or bad, you definitely gave it to her.
that doesn’t sound like judgement to me…it sounds like an assessment based on this fancy purse and what we attach to it in our minds.
However this girl sounds like yet another borderline paranoid schiz…probably with rich parents who farm her out so they don’t have to deal with her. Sad sad sad….at least it was only 3 weeks.
Sounds like you were a bit of a bitch to her when she was upset… I don’t think you could really have gotten an accurate feel of her in 3 weeks.
If she was your worst roommate ever, then you got off pretty lightly!