An Ex-Best Friend
My Very Worst Roommate was also my best friend from high school. I was a pretty sheltered and passive person, so I attracted controlling personalities. She had one for sure. She had a pretty messed up family, but I didn’t know the half of it until we moved in together. We moved into a pretty nice dorm room that had its own bathroom. She had family in the area, so she got there early and claimed all the space she wanted. There were two wardrobes but only one dresser, so she took the entire dresser. She had her entire half of the room decorated by the time I arrived.
None of this was too bad, but I also discovered that she only showered about once a week. She did not shave the tops of her feet, so there was a huge patch of hair there. She had this really long, really thick hair that really did only need to be washed about once a week, but she didn’t take a shower unless she was washing her hair. She would let it get to the point where her hair was itchy and smelly. If she wore makeup one day or evening, she would just wipe it off with a washcloth (liquid foundation).
As I said, she had a very controlling personality. She thought it was OK for her to have a boyfriend, but not me because then I wasn’t available to meet her every need. She told my mom that my boyfriend hit me (he didn’t). She complained endlessly about my boyfriend (who’s now my husband) to our other friends, my mom, her mom, her boyfriend and really anyone who would listen. Before I met my boyfriend, she set me up with this weird friend of her boyfriend’s who had been utterly destroyed by his previous break-up. Also, she had a tendency to only date guys of a different religious persuasion than she was. Two examples were the Mormon and the Jehovah’s Witness dudes she dated. She disagreed with both religions and tried to get both of them to promise they would quit those religions.
We lived together for one year and then I moved in with another high school friend who was also pretty damaged, but by then, I was mostly living with my boyfriend so it didn’t matter. I never had a roommate again!
Ok so this girl sounds a bit mad: especially telling your mum that your boyf beat you when he didn’t. But am I the only one who doesn’t understand the comment about shaving the top of your feet?! Who on earth shaves the top of their feet?! And in any case why would it bother you?!
didn’t shave the tops of her feet? was she a hobbit?
Your roommate was big foot?
“She did not shave the tops of her feet, so there was a huge patch of hair there.”
The HORROR! Your roommate had body hair that you found objectionable.
Really, OP, stick to the story. She sounds like a bad roommate, but this bit of information is completely irrelevant. Telling us about her hairy feet says a lot more about you than it does about her.
I’ve also had a bad roommate that had hairy feet. Her hairy feet had nothing to do with her being a bad roommate, and I imagine the same applies to your roommate. So really, you just make yourself seem shallow and petty by making a point of it.
Getting away from the whole hairy feet issue, I’m at least glad to hear that her lies about your boyfriend didn’t destroy your relationship with him.
hahaha, I laughed at hairy feet. I don’t mind body hair, but hairy feet? funny.
I don’t know, but I’ve been told, hairy foot woman ain’t got no soul
On your roommate’s behalf, it’s hard to find another person who believes in Sasquatchism.
The hairy feet thing sounds disgusting. Ick!
What a controlling chick. It sounds like someone needed to take a chill pill.
Umm…WUT???? Shave the tops of her feet???
Too bad, I don’t either.
I so hate having to back hand my waxist for not getting every teeny hair off the top of my feet.
This is refreshing after a weekend where my best gal pals and I laughingly shared our own body hair woes.
I love reading these bad best friend stories, I can totally relate- especially that type of friend that doesn’t want you to date. Admins, I’ve asked before, wouldn’t it be great if there was a mvwbest friend category? I’ve got my submission ready and it doesn’t include hobbit feet
OP here. The hairy feet just goes to show general oddness. I don’t care if people don’t shave, but she shaved both her legs and her armpits but didn’t do the tops of her feet, and she wore sandals a lot. And they seriously had a beard.
Do a lot of people have hairy feet? I’ve never noticed….
@meow/OP – Your addition in that comment that her feet had a “beard” totally made the whole hairy feet bit make more sense…and cracked me up, I now have this mental picture of a pair of feet with little goatees.
I knew someone in high school who thought her feet were excessively hairy, so she shaved them whenever she shaved her legs. I don’t remember if they actually were all that hairy…I do remember that she was really weird about body hair, so they probably weren’t too bad.
My boyfriend and also my boyfriend, but then my boyfriend boyfriend Boyfriend and yes, boyfriend.
the writing isn’t that good so it’s a bit hard to make sense, but she sounds wacked. But if she was your best friend for so long, how did you know so little about her?
…”She did not shave the tops of her feet”.
Wait… what? Is this normal? Do some girls really shave their feet? Man, the things people do to wear sandals. I’d say ‘guys really don’t care about that stuff’ but I remember a recent conversation I had with a friend when we were discussing a very pretty mutual acquaintance and he opined “yeah, but she’s got hairy arms” so maybe I’m the unusual one in not caring. Really though, feet shaving?