Double Worst
I have a 2fer for you.
I moved in with a friend of a friend who was looking for a roommate. She wasn’t too bad. We had some minor problems with cleaning and food sharing and stuff like that. All fine until I came home one day and all the furniture was gone. The couch, the TV, all of it. It was all hers–she had moved out without even telling me, taking all the furniture with her. So I scrambled to acquire a couch, a TV, all the stuff she’d taken , from my mom.
Now this was one of those apartment complexes near a university where each roommate pays separately for their own room, so it was no skin off my hide for her to be out of there. However, if you couldn’t drum up a roommate on your own, the complex would match you with someone. And that’s what they did. They matched me with A, a 17-year-old deaf girl (I was 20 at the time).
A was perfectly nice, but, being out of her mother’s reach for the first time, she was developing her wild streak. She constantly had friends over, most of whom were still in high school, some of which were as young as 15. They would party in the apartment all night, practically every night. The kicker was when I came home one night to find an apartment full of 15 -year-olds on ecstasy rolling around on the floor.
Afraid of being arrested, I spent most of the next two months, until the end of my lease, staying at my mom’s. Not that I didn’t party some myself, I just generally did not with high school kids. Yikes.
How was her deafness relevant?
I think the implication was that her mom was extra watchful because of the disability, so once she was away, the girl could finally cut loose.
I went to a school on the same campus as a school for the deaf. It sounds like a stereotype, but I saw it firsthand.
Most deaf kids grow up around hearing kids, and they are the odd one out. When they get to a school where there are other deaf kids, they suddenly have a social explosion. Many deaf kids never meet another deaf person until they get to college, and it’s a crazy experience. They spend much much more time socializing than the average student.
Obviously, in this age of political correctness, I have to say this doesn’t apply to ALL deaf college students, but many.
Wow, that sounds really sketchy.
I was also wondering why the fact that she was deaf was relevant. I could imagine her parents being pretty protective.
Also, I really like the painting accompanying this post, any chance you ghostly admins could let me know who did it?
High school kids, literally.
RJ- the painting is by Edward Hopper, I think.
Thanks!
it is hopper but i can’t remember the name.
I could see why her being deaf was relevant…the fact that she was away from home and probably was even MORE sheltered by her parents because of it…but seventeen yikes!
@RJ Lo and FrauB are right. It’s Edward Hopper’s “Sun in an Empty Room.” We love that sometimes MVWR can prove to enriching in an art history kinda of way, as well as for regular laughs.