Temper Tantrum
My freshman year of college, I was randomly paired with this girl. By the end of our first week her side of the room was a total mess. There was clothes and food everywhere. She was even sleeping with trash and leftover takeout in her bed. Finally, I asked her if she could please clean up. She then called her mom and started screaming that she couldn’t “stand the white bitch anymore,” and demanded that her mother come and take care of things. Whatever her mom said, she must not have liked because she began to cry and scream that I was oppressing her and that her mother didn’t love her and didn’t care. She started ripping up her books, pulling at her hair, smacking herself, throwing things and smearing old food on the walls, the whole time explaining to her mom what she was doing and telling her it was her fault. At least point I was seriously freaked out so I went down the hall to a friend’s dorm and called housing who evicted her right then and there.
Wow. That’s just unfathomable.
ha! brilliant.
What the holy hell!
Good thing the mother didn’t take her side or come to the college! Can you imagine Mini- and Mega-Tantrum together!?
Wow! Good thing that ended fast!
Mom probably told her to grow up and that she wasn’t going to come running every time she had a problem with somebody. And this is just from the OP asking her ONCE, nicely to clean up that sent her into a total freak out. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if after the first few seconds of her freak out, mom hung up and she was yelling at the dial tone.
I’m really proud of her mother & the school for not putting up with her shit.
i don’t understand how she came to be such a howling arsehole in the first place when her mother clearly had a sensible attitude, though
spoiled little brat!
wow, i didnt’ know housing could DO that?
Just a though, you don’t really expand on what happened during the lead up to the freak out, but based on what you described, was there any point at which you thought it might be a good idea to talk to someone professional about the situation and see if you could help the girl.
Late teens to early 20 is the typical time females begin to show signs of any mental instabilities; combine that with being away from home for the first time, this may have been the first warning signs of a serious problem.