Comments on: The Loudmouth

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:44:37 +0000

I’m sort of with A on the anti-air-freshener bit. They don’t smell good, they just add another, slightly less offensive smell to the mix. Of course, the way that problem should be solved is cleaning up the source of the stinkiness and air the room out.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:13:08 +0000

@Meshell

“It also sounds like she was eating Lox and cream cheese, which is fairly common for someone of the Jewish faith to eat.”

It’s fairly common for ME to eat (not, however, my Jewish father-in-law who loathes smoked salmon; leave it to his Christian daughter-in-law to love it, eh?), but not without washing the cutlery or making sure that congealed, stinking crustiness doesn’t pollute a communal space.

I too thought the OP went a little over the top on some of the ‘weirdness’ – just sounded a fraction socially awkward, and I kinda like some people like that; perhaps I am one – but there’s no social or religious exemption from being clean and considerate in a shared space.

By: Sika

Sika — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:52:03 +0000

OP…you might as well be MVWRM…acting like we’re friends until suddenly we’re not

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:52:11 +0000

It’s a shame that so many of these “bad roommates” could have been solved with a few simple and polite comments. I’ve had the passive-aggressive roommate who bitches to her friends and posts comments online about how annoying I was instead of asking that I stop whatever it was that I was doing to bother her. I’ll admit that it’s really hard to live with someone who has a completely different sense of humor and tastes in entertainment, but I think it’s possible to get along as college roommates as long as you don’t spend every waking moment together (i.e. trying to hang out in the same crowd when you’re not really socially compatible) and you communicate your problems when you have them. I think you could have dropped the hint that you didn’t want to hang out all the time by just letting her know a couple times that you’d like to spend an evening or two without her (not because you don’t like her, but because even happily married couples need some time apart now and then). Most people would get the hint, and it would be a lot nicer than spraying air freshener.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:26:00 +0000

What’s so difficult about saying “Hey, your lox spread is stinking up the room, would you mind cleaning up properly after eating it?”

By: zomboid

zomboid — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:51:18 +0000

i think the worst person in this story was the vampire dude…she turned up looking ‘as though she’d been strangled’ and he reported on a comment she made while he was mauling her neck like she was the freak…?

By: OP

OP — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:08:15 +0000

Meshell, as the OP I take offense to the suggestion that I was a “spoiled college girl.” I myself did not join a sorority, nor did I have any desire to, but I was friends with enough girls in sororities to know that they are not all the stereotypical bimbos that you generally see in movies. I found it extremely arrogant of my roommate to assume so, especially when she went so far as to mock my friend for wanting to join one. I guess I did not do a good job of explaining how arrogant my roommate was- her taste was the only good taste, be it in movies or music or whatever, and she generally acted as though she was smarter than everyone around her.

I will admit that I was not good at communicating my problems with her, and she might not have realized how offensive the fish smell was, especially since I am also messy (though I think there’s a big difference between messy, which I am and dirty, which she was). But I should have said something to her- my only excuse is that I was an 18 year old who was terrified of confrontation.

I will admit that she wasn’t actually my very worst roommate- my actual worst roommate slept with my boyfriend, but that story isn’t really funny and I felt that the Facebook note and the nasty knife were much more fitting anecdotes for this site.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:15:56 +0000

Yeah, to me it just seems like a massive amount of lack of communication. She seems pretty irritating but mainly in an awkward way.

But that knife shit sounds nasty.

By: JoJo

JoJo — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:56:35 +0000

I don’t think she was so bad. Not washing up is irritating but the OP should have just asked politely before it built up into such an issue. The OP probably had no idea that she was just “tagging along” with the OP’s friends, as far as she knew she’d got to collage met some friends everything was going fine, then suddenly her roommate became increasing hostile, and she never got invited out anymore. It probably wasn’t a sudden reaction to the air freshener, she had probably already got the impression already her roommate had gone off her and it was just the final straw. It was PA to write the facebook note, but then again so was the air freshener move.

By: TMS

TMS — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:39:48 +0000

Aside from the not washing the knife she used she doesn’t really sound all that bad. A little strange, maybe socially awkward, but not horrible like some other posts on here.