Dirty Vege

During my freshman year at a big state university, I had the pleasure of moving in a week before my roommate did. Getting well-adjusted to my new home for a year, I met my roommate L and learned that she lived a 5-minute bike ride away from campus. That meant I could cross bonding and hanging out with her off of my list, but at least we could share the experience of our first year at college together.

Looking back, it was a godsend that our rooms were “divided” partially in half by a wall that housed our desks on either side. Things weren’t too bad at first. We kept to ourselves most of the time. L was a vegetarian and would warm up odd smelling things in the microwave that lingered in the room for awhile. But who am I to judge? No biggie. Then it became clear that L wasn’t a clean person. I use clean in the loosest sense of the word. We both had our own closet space and drawers, but I doubt that L utilized any of that space, because most of the time her floor was covered in clothes and underwear (yes, no shame in leaving thongs and bras on the ground). It was something that my guests and I would just laugh at. Imagine my shock when she would “pack” to go home for break or a weekend and just throw everything in a black trash bag.

But the kicker is that L and her boyfriend loved having sex. Loved it. It probably happened about once a week, when they thought I was sleeping. I did learn that sleeping is pretty hard to do with moans, groans, and the sound of sheets rubbing against the plastic covered mattress coming from a few feet away. I decided I was done with L when one afternoon her boyfriend came in and asked if I could hang outside for awhile while they were alone in the room.

We don’t keep in touch.

Comments (26)

emAugust 6th, 2010 at 6:12 am

am I the only person who thinks that “loved having sex” and “once a week” don’t really go together?

emAugust 6th, 2010 at 6:14 am

seeing as no one else has commented, my above question makes no real sense… let’s pretend I said “Am I weird for thinking that ‘loved having sex’ and ‘once a week’ don’t really go together?

Ann MarieAugust 6th, 2010 at 6:33 am

I do think that’s weird, em. A couple times a night? Yeah. Or at least several times a week. I think it was thoughtful that for once they asked to have the dorm for a while. Would she prefer they “sneak” the sex in at night? Also, I don’t get the shame of bras and thongs. Since when is underwear shameful? Maybe if there were skid marks. And as for being a dirty girl because she didn’t like to use the dresser, eh. That’s not really the end of the world and it’s actually really common for high schoolers and university students. I think you’re lucky that this was the worst.

once a week?!August 6th, 2010 at 7:20 am

yeah, with you both on this one… once a week is not a lot, especially for randy students living away from home for the first time!! You got off lightly :-)

TedAugust 6th, 2010 at 8:25 am

WHOA! Once a week! Those crazy nymphos! Why didn’t you call the cops?!?!?! ONCE A WEEK! That’s insane! I’m surprised they could still walk… How did they find the time for classes?

tronnerAugust 6th, 2010 at 8:35 am

Was it tantric sex? Did the “once a week” last for 24-48 hours?

LauAugust 6th, 2010 at 10:46 am

Lol once a week XD
Poor you :’(

MeshellAugust 6th, 2010 at 10:51 am

Tronner has the comment win.

laurenAugust 6th, 2010 at 11:36 am

lame.

RJAugust 6th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

Meh…and I don’t really understand the first paragraph. If I couldn’t hang out with someone if they lived a whole five minute bike ride away, I’d have no friends. But maybe I read it wrong (?)

AndrewAugust 6th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Maybe she threw all of her stuff in black garbage bags because she was just going to wash them at home? When I lived away at college I would just throw all my dirty stuff (usually by that point everything I owned) in a bag & wash them at the house.

I’m sure living with her was a different experience but I’ve had much worse. But then again, this is your VWR & not mine.

SheaAugust 6th, 2010 at 3:43 pm

Wow, once a week. That’s terrible. Those teenagers and their crazy sex-fiend ways! /sarcasm

Seriously, if she showered and actually took laundry home, you got off very lucky. And they actually asked for privacy? Awesome. I’d take that over loud moans 2 feet from my head at 4am any day.

sYDNEYAugust 6th, 2010 at 6:55 pm

this is shamefully lame.

ThandiAugust 6th, 2010 at 8:13 pm

Me too Andrew, I threw my laundry in a black garbage bag every Friday and took it home to be washed. What I don’t get is how she lived on campus if she lived five minutes away? Does her family live five minutes away and she moved into a dorm? I thought it was universal that priority is always given to students from other provinces/ places… I guess it depends on the country and area.

anyway, back to the story- em, yes, “loved having sex” and “once a week” don’t really go together.

AristoAugust 7th, 2010 at 7:33 am

I know it’s cool on these blogs to unconditionally be a asshole to the OP, but am I honestly alone in thinking that I wouldn’t want people having sex five feet away from me while I was trying to sleep, whether it happens once or fourteen times a week?

lolAugust 7th, 2010 at 7:39 am

Vegetarian food isn’t smelly. Wtf?
Once a week isn’t that often.
Underwear isn’t shameful.
LOL

Lizzie MeyersAugust 7th, 2010 at 11:19 am

The first paragraph makes absolutely no sense. “She lived a 5-minute bike ride away from campus”. Uh… You two lived together, so doesn’t that mean you lived a 5-minute bike ride away from campus too? And how would this affect the “bonding” process at all?

International human of mysteryAugust 7th, 2010 at 12:22 pm

@lolAugust – I think so too, but then I think meat smells awful, and my friend thinks vegetables smell awful. Some people just don’t like smells. I hate the smell of mushrooms! (Random addition xD )

Once a week is not LOVING sex. And to be fair, they tried to be discrete – when they thought you wouldn’t hear, or trying to lessen discomfort by asking you to leave. Just throw a pillow at them, so they know you’re awake.

ewwAugust 8th, 2010 at 4:11 am

that’s nasty. listening in to other people having sex while you’re in the room would make me puke right then and there and i would aim at the lovebirds. thank god i didn’t jump the bandwagon and live on campus.

anonAugust 8th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

I think op meant that that since the room mate’s family was 5 minutes from campus, the roommate would go home often, so they weren’t bonding on the weekends.

TedAugust 9th, 2010 at 7:12 am

Somewhere out there is a normal girl with a MVWR story that is this OP

zomboidAugust 9th, 2010 at 8:24 am

sex once a week at age, what, 18? was this bible college?

wafflesAugust 9th, 2010 at 10:13 am

I don’t get the five minute away thing either. why would you go to college five minutes away from your house and live in the dorms? how is that anything other than a colossal waste of money?

AuntyRuckusAugust 9th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

MVWR was this uptight chick I roomed with my freshman year of college. I was trying to be nice and only bang my boyfriend once a week, you know, so she wouldn’t be sexiled that much, but she would stay the WHOLE TIME we were getting it on. Thank God my parents were only 5 minutes away from campus.

C-rushAugust 12th, 2010 at 7:41 pm

That poor, sheltered OP. Hope your college experience wasn’t all as lame as that.

maryAugust 13th, 2010 at 1:22 am

i know of several private colleges that require freshmen to live on campus no matter how close their families may actually live to the campus.

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