Under Suspicion
My freshman year roomate was an ultra-religious Korean guy named Paul. At first we got along by ignoring each other, but as I spent more time in my dorm room doing work, I was exposed to more of his peculiar tendencies. He only listened to two types of music: Christian rock, which sounded like Third Eye Blind only all the lyrics were about Jesus and hard-core Korean rap, which sounded exactly like American rap, except everything’s in Korean besides the occasional “motherfucker.” Â He would watch one of the Rush Hour movies over and over again, but not the whole movie. Just the same 4-minute sequence where Chris Tucker almost falls off a building. Over and over again. Every night.
Then things got weirder. I would come back to my room when the weather was still warm, to find him in nothing but boxers and the thermostat cranked up past 80 degrees. He sang along to his music in a high falsetto. He’d leave his laptop open with pictures of him and other Korean guys hugging, wearing very little clothes. But at the same time, he always had his Bible on his desk, and updated his AIM profile to declare that he “hated fags.” As someone with several gay relatives, I’m fine with homosexuality, but people who have their true nature suppressed and distorted by religion are all but insane. I avoided my dorm as much as I could, but one night, everything collided into a mess.
I came back to my dorm room in a hurry at around 9 PM on a Thursday and finding the door unlocked, walked right inside. Paul was in the sink area, wearing nothing but boxers as usual. As I walked in, I looked ahead and saw a completely naked guy sitting on his bed, feet propped up like he was resting. A moment of utterly awkward silence. I quickly grabbed shoved my stuff into my backpack, as the other guy hopped up and struggled into his pants. As I made a hasty exit, I could hear the other kid say, “So Paul… need uh, any more help with your, uh, Comp Sci?” Comp Sci my ass.
Next he’ll be trolling RentBoy.com for luggage carriers…
ewwww……puts on a show…….and is gay but trying to hide it….from who?
is it wrong to find this story erotic?
How do you spell hypocrite? P-a-u-l.
I can picture him wearing Sailor Moon boxers.
Well somebody’s ass sure got Comp Sci’d.
Back in college, when I was dating my now-husband, one of his dorm suite roommates would always crank the thermostat way up and then just walk around in swim trunks. My husband would keep turning it back down to a more reasonable temp, and the two would continue to battle it out passive-aggressively this way. One evening, this guy removed the thermostat’s dial and locked it in his room, preventing anyone from changing the temp. I can’t remember how they got it back from him, but they did eventually.
Among his other irritating habits were leaving his room locked when he was gone over the weekend with his alarm still blaring, borrowing money and never paying it back, sneaking into his roommates’ rooms and stealing their alcohol, constantly chugging giant tubfuls of some nasty proprietary chemical-laden muscle drink (and then leaving the empty tubs everywhere), absolutely never lifting a finger to help clean anything… and the list goes on.
I suppose this should be its own MVWR entry, but he wasn’t my roommate, and I know my husband would never take the time to write up the whole story =[
could you write it up on his behalf? it still sounds pretty bad…
@ Margaret – yup….one wonders if he has a future in toe tapping in a bathroom stall as well.
I was going to leave a comment that Koreans are pretty affectionate with each other, even of the same sex, and it’s not gay. I lived in S. Korea for three years, and often saw guys hug, girls holding hands on the street, etc. It wasn’t considered gay because “Korea has no gay.” Fortunately, the more educated knew there are homosexuals in Korea (obviously), but many are still very closeted, due to the discrimination against them (think USA 1950′s).
Then I read the rest of the entry. Yeah. Comp Sci HIS ass!
* Korea has no gays….sorry!
lol cuckoo! cuckoo! or maybe “cock”oo?
This is just really sad to me. My brother is gay and I know he struggled with it for many years because my parents are extremely homophobic.
The OP and by assumption, Paul, were only in first year of University/College. Hopefully Paul has gotten more comfortable with himself and matured. (Or will mature as he gets older) and realizes how important it is to be honest with himself.