A Bloody Mess
Part II from yesterday’s post…
My Very, Very Worst Roommate was a girl I lived with for the next three years. (Why would I do this to myself, you ask? Because I’m a “nice person” and we were friends.) My second roommate, call her A, was a slob. I was not the neatest person my first year, but after the catastrophe that was B (yesterday’s story), I got clean. So, I’m a tidy person living with a slob. Not such a huge deal. Until you add the manipulative, passive-aggressive component, which made everything so much worse. I couldn’t even talk to her about trying to tidy up because she chalked it all up to her “terrible childhood” and the fact that she had Asperger’s, which she neglected to seek treatment for. Finally, once she had left bloody underwear out, left raw chicken on the counters for hours, “forgotten” to lock the door all semester and neglected to pay laundry money, I decided it was past time to ditch the friendship, and my other roommate, E–who is fabulous–agreed that it was time for A to find new housing. A drew it out for many weeks, but finally she was safely moved out and E and I were able to live in a clean, happy apartment. E and I expect to be friends for many years to come, but nothing can erase the terrible images that have been seared into my mind by the terrible roommates I’ve survived.
Which roommate do you think us is the Worst one? Tell us below.
Roommate A is definitely the worst! Bloody underwear? Eww!!!
I’d much rather live with a slightly messy weird girl, than a nasty pig! Roommate A was worse.
A all the way.
A just messy odd ball of a girl is far preferred to a chalks-it-up-to-issues-excuse-making manipulative brat. Ugh, I had a pretty f’ed up childhood where I wasn’t taught a lot of “normal” things. It’s called wanting to grow and become yourself versus being a shadow of what you desire. I despise that attitude.
stop splitting the posts into two. it ruins both of them.
I agree with Michael, it makes it less interesting to split them into two tiny stories.
I get that they’re technically two different stories, but if they’re submitted as one, they should be posted as one. Chopping it in half ended up ruining this part of the story because it just wasn’t as interesting as the Peter Pan chick, and it’s fairly lame ’cause the author was trying to keep it quick to keep the story from being too long, so it feels like there could’ve been more funny details or something. Okay, so she was a slob. And?
(If the OP is reading this comment, the failure’s not on your part. I’m just seriously not digging this new attempt at whatever’s actually going on here.)
I just wish the posts could be longer in general, since people probably leave out interesting details in the interest of brevity. But I suppose it must be tedious to proofread or whatever.
Leaving out raw chicken and bloody underwear, while maybe not as goofy as a Peter Pan obsession and loud phone sex, is still pretty damn disgusting and as far as I’m concerned is nothing like being slightly messy.
Bloody underpants girl is the worse roommate.
Yeah I am not digging these split posts either – I like Heather’s suggestion that if the posts are going to be split, each half could be longer and allow for more detail. Seems like the whole point of this site is to be able to tell a good story…
dude. enough with this “to be continued” shit. It just makes it boring and annoying. It’s like instant one star.
God, terrible writing on this one.
I actually think the concept on the TBC is interesting if it had a cliffhanger ending. Maybe something like “and then me and my husband came home to find our roommate (my ex-boyfriend and my husband’s brother) washing a live donkey in the jacuzzi tub. When we said “why are you washing Borris in our tub when you haven’t done the dishes in fourteen months” he said….. TO BE CONTINUED!!”
I think TBC is the worst roommate.
I am sorry, but nothing matches bloody underwear, raw chicken and the ‘aspergers’…a slob is ok but filthy and disgusting is something else.
“i have asperger’s”, the last refuge of an asshole
Not to mention Asperger’s (at least in my experience) has nothing to do with cleanliness. It does of course affect how responsive people are to being told to clean up (not at all) but not how disposed they are to be clean. She might not think that you might not appreciate her bloody underwear lying around, but that wouldn’t affect how she’d feel about it. Moreover it’s not as if aspies can’t learn to be neater than normal as a coping strategy (most do). I call ‘bullshit irrelevancy’ to your flatmate’s claims to have Asperger’s, whether or not she had it.
I think that ‘aspergers’ and ‘adhd’ are being used by adults to explain a number of personality and behaviour problems that they don’t want to address.
Aw man, now I wanna hear the rest of tronner’s story!