Bonus Room Bust
MVWR story began when my mom and I decided to rent out the extra room (which happens to have a closet that is separated by a piece of cardboard from my room letting every noise in) at our place. She decided to rent to her old friend who was about 35 and has four cats, which was cool because I already had one and a pair of Roborovski hamsters. When she moved in, all was well and the cats, the hamsters and the humans got along. We would do a food deal once a month where we would pay $25 each and get a huge box of meat and other frozen snack food. Before she moved we also explained all the details of our city’s bus transit and we would go swim laps together. A few weeks later she was working at a halfway house and could easily pay the $350 for rent. We would pick her up after her shift at 12 a.m. but she soon complained that the 1/4-mile walk to the bus stop was too far for her flat feet and demanded we give her rides to work. A few days later, she dramatically came in the door and started complaining that she had to walk to the mall and how her feet are all messed up and that she needed new stuff for her room, even though she knew the bus would take her there.
We both had computers with no internet, which I needed for school and she wanted, so after her harrassing my mom for it, we added it to her phone bill. When she got the internet, she proceded to use it to play loud music and when I would play mine, she would complain and bitch that it was too loud and she couldn’t hear hers. She started buying alot of stuff online. Her cats began getting into my room, which was always closed, and would climb on my shelves and dresser and knock my vases off and try to eat my hamsters by ripping the screen open. She ate all the meat and wasted the better cuts on chilli. She demanded we keep the house immaculate and said that the floor was never clean. She also demanded we spray the shower with Scrubbing Bubbles after every use. Yet she started using my razors to shave her, well yeah, and would leave hair and my razors hairy on the bathtub for all to see. She would take all my pads and tampons and she would leave used tampons on top of the trash not wrapped in TP.
The last straw: she had physical therapy for her feet so my mom took her over there. A few hours later she came home acting funny, claiming she bought $50 in Pizza Hut, and left it on the bus with her wallet. My mom took her to the bank to pay rent and cancel her credit card, but she couldnt write out a check for shit, so my mom took me to my then-boyfriend’s and took her home. That morning, I made my mom a birthday cake and it was in the fridge. My mom went to lunch with her friends and later called me to tell me that our roommate ate 2/3 of the cake with her hands. I was flaming furious. I had my dude take me home and I bitched her out and she cried that she didn’t eat it. Turns out, she took twice her pain meds and got more at the therapy. While in her room, I saw a wine bottle and she said she was sober. An hour later, she came back into my room and was freaking out. We took her to the ER. She was fired shortly after and owed us $700 in rent that she couldn’t pay because she wasted it on booze and junk. We threw her out.
Reading this made my eyes hurt. About 1/4 of this post is even relevant and the rest is “and then, and then, and then, and then.”
I agree… I don’t like hating on posters but i physically squinted to try and work out what they were saying… sounds like the roommate was unhinged but sorting out the order of events and their relevance is exhausting!!
It just gets worse and worse. Why not throw her out within a month? Nice friend…mom.
I hate to don my little twirly Grammar Cop hat, but the poor writing of this entry made it really hard to focus on the story…
I agree with everyone else. It was poorly written, so it was a little hard to follow at some points.
But she sounds like a horrible roommate.
I agree with everyone else also. I’m kind of not sure what the problems were because it was written in such a disjointed manner.
Yeah, I’m with all of you guys. It was just hard to decipher at times. She *does* indeed sound like a nightmare of a roommate but $350 for one room? Wow…remind me not to live there LOL
Where I live, $350 for a room falls in the “dirt cheap” catagory. Your usually paying closer to $600 for a room. Yeah, this one was hard to follow because of the writing but does otherwise sound like a pain of a roommate
Dear God. Who the hell eats half of someone’s BIRTHDAY CAKE? With their hands like an animal? At that advanced stage of douchiness, you should be lucky she wasn’t smearing her own shit on the ceilings (or did you leave that detail out?)
I sort of thought “crazy cat lady” from the Simpsons. 4 cats and a closet for a bedroom? mmmmmm, I bet that smelled AWESOME!
whatever, the grammar doesn’t bother me.
if anything she probably just didn’t have any time to study grammar in school because of this batshit crazy roommate living at her house
it was hard to follow this story…but yeah, she sounds like a real wackadoo.
This is why you calm down and proofread things before submitting them. Good story, just felt like a run-on sentence fueled by “Oh man, I just remembered something else she did.”
Poorly written and filled with irrelevant details. And while she sounded pretty crazy, some of the requests don’t sound that unreasonable (spraying down the shower, keeping the floors clean). This needs some serious organization.
why was your mother friends with this woman?
Not to be snobby, but you can’t expect the greatest roommates to rent a room separated from another room by cardboard, either. That sounds kind of trashy to me. But aside from that, she was pretty messed up sounding.
a little way in to reading this i was thinking ‘there has to be some kind of substance abuse going on here’. Bingo! jesus, it seems like your mom may not have been looking out for u as much as she could have. even without nightmarish renters sounds like yall have issues – no offense but i only say this cuz this reminds me of some stuff my mom has put me through. good luck with everything and i hope youre in a better situation now.
Who puts in to buy a shared “box of meat”? That just sounds revolting.
It wasn’t the best writing but the story was still good (horrific?). Leaving used tampons unwrapped for all to see is beyond gross. I hate it when I see disgusting bloody tampon/pad messes in the stalls of public restrooms… wrap those things up for god’s sake, think about the next person who wants to use the trash bin, not to mention the poor janitor who has to clean it up!
Bambam: Demanding they spray down the shower after each and every use? That sounds crazy to me; unless someone has some sort of nasty disease then regular weekly cleaning should be enough. As for the clean floors, since we don’t know how clean or dirty they actually were, it’s hard to tell.
Cat: I’m pretty sure she meant “cardboard” as a way of implying how thin the wall was between the closets, and not actually a real piece of cardboard.