My Ex-Hubbie’s Friend and Roommate: Part 2
Continued from yesterday...
J also liked to sleep in the living room instead of his bedroom. This was a huge problem. He slept odd hours and sometimes we would have company over to watch a movie and he would refuse to leave to go and sleep in his bedroom.We would end up having to sit on the floor and listen to loud snoring while trying to hear the movie. Also, he liked to sleep in pajama bottoms with a huge hole in the crotch and wear no underwear underneath.
The only way I got him to sometimes sleep in his room was when I threatened to start up a website called “Where did J sleep last night?” And take a picture everyday. If he slept in his room, I would only show his bedroom door. If not he would have a picture posted of him on the couch. That pissed him off and did get him to occasionally sleep in his own room and I never actually followed through with the website.
We also had got a new puppy and J really, really liked him. That was fine. Except he would fall asleep with the puppy on the couch and then almost kill him by suffocating him or rolling on top of him So we had to absolutely insist that he did not have him on the couch with him!
Eventually we found somewhere else to live. My ex is still friends with him and I still keep sort of in touch. He’s not a bad person really. Just the Very Worst roommate!
I was about to get all snappy about threatening the website (why threaten an embarrassing website when you can just tell him to get off the couch while hitting him with pillows or threats of being out on the street) when I realized my roommate who is my little sister gets away with similar.
I would say the worst roommates are always the people closest to you as they use the familiarity to be complete and utter douchenozzles. As I put my foot down to set boundaries for my little sister (who is 25 and I am 27), I find her temper tantrums more frustrating than anything. These close roommates can really take advantage of your goodwill. What sucks is that my little sister is very helpful, kind, and often has my back in a lot of ways — she just cant fathom why I don’t want her in my office when my boyfriend and I are cuddling and talking about whatever. Ugh, boundaries!
LOL well the web site was a last resort. We had told him to sleep in his own room. Woke him up repeatedly and aksed him to go to bed (which he didn’t). I had even taken to using the spray water bottle I had bough to train the puppy not to do bad things on J! He really didn’t like it…but still wouldn’t go to bed. Even when he did get squirted with the water bottle. However, that training technique did work on the dog. LOL
This really wasn’t worth being a two-parter, I thought it was going to be really long. Funny story and all but this second half is more of a “The rest of you should’ve grown some balls” as opposed to it just being that dude’s fault.
Wow Heather, thanks. I’m sorry you don’t like that its a two parter and all but zeech! Have you ever been in that sort of situation?
Countrygirl, I don’t think you should get offended at Heather’s comment, her comment is more about the people who run this website.
I thought your story was funny, especially the part about squirting your roomie with the waterbottle lol
Mmm, yeah, I’m not really digging the two-parter thing. If a story’s going to be in two parts, it needs to be heinously epic.
Everyone is being way too critical. The story itself is actually pretty amusing
I agree it was an amusing story, but not amazing enough to be a two-part deal. Actually, even an epic story shouldn’t be divided into two parts in my opinion, unless it is very extremely long. These stories are an entertainment-for-the-moment kind of thing, and readers aren’t interested in hearing “Tune in next time for the jaw-dropping conclusion!” By the time they come back the next day after catching up on all their other favorite blogs, they’ve already forgotten the first half of the story.