There’s No Such Thing As Cheap Room
My Very Worst Roommate is still my roommate. I met D in the fall of 09. An old high school friend of my boyfriend, we became friends, and when it was discovered that we would be both in town for summer school, I asked if I could rent out her extra bedroom. Originally, the plan was that my boyfriend and I would share the room, splitting the rent and making a cheap room an even sweeter deal. Little did I know that the “sweet deal†would come with racism, belittling, and the formation of an inferiority complex. As soon as my boyfriend got a job in another town that requires him to be away for most of the time, her real personality surfaced.
D hates black people. And illegal immigrants. And Indians. Basically, anyone that isn’t an at least upper middle class white person goes on her hate list. She isn’t shy about saying so, either. As a fairly liberal and extremely tolerant individual who is currently studying sociocultural influences and racial histories in education, listening to someone rant and rail about the Dred Scott decision being “just and right†as well as saying that Arizona is right to stop and arrest all “brown people†and that Prop 8 was the right choice is worse than nails on a chalkboard.
She’s also made numerous references to the time that she hooked up with my boyfriend in high school, threatening me if I ever break his heart. She badmouths me to her boyfriend behind a barely-shut door, conspicuously locking it whenever I’m in the TV room and she “wants to be alone.†My food is relegated to a half of a shelf in our large pantry, while the space it previously occupied gets taken up by one bag of chips-that’s supposedly her (non rent-paying) boyfriend’s space.
When I try and talk to her about anything -including when she barged into my bathroom and turned the lights out as I was sitting on the toilet-I am threatened with eviction and told that it is her house, her rules, and that I can just shut up and live with it. Constantly, I get reminded that I am on scholarship, and should be grateful that she is “letting (me) live here.â€
*sigh* Two more weeks.
This girl sounds like a total cow, I’m glad you only have 2 weeks left D:
The racism part sounds like my in laws…and I only have to deal with them a few times a year….I could not imagine living with it.
I imagine with the lag time of submitting this and it being selected, the OP is out of the situation! Yea!
how rude. time to fine another roomie after this is over. how awful!
Um, just because it’s her house doesn’t mean she can barge in when you’re making a mookie & turn the lights off.
I can only imagine her repeating Glenn Beck’s ignorance based rants, or Sarah Palin’s folksy, huckster, tweets over and over again.
Why does a girl need the light on when she’s on the toilet? It’s not like she’s gonna miss in the dark.
On that last day (if it hasn’t come already) just before you leave for good, is a good time to tell her what a horrible person she is, and since there’s no way in hell you’ll be going back, don’t hold back.
To TheRestofTheStory, I hope that’s sarcastic. I’ve had the misfortune of using the bathroom in complete darkness. Try finding the toilet paper in the dark, or the soap, and turning the faucet on and off. Actually, try finding the sink with the lights off, without stubbing your toe onto it. Not to mention that it’s dangerous. There are lots of slippery surfaces, like tile floors, and hard, porcelain fixtures sticking out of the wall.
Restofthe story are you trolling or being serious?
Ditto what biff said, OP has most likely (and thankfully) moved out by now. I hope you tell your boyfriend OP and I hope he believes you. Good luck!
what a bitch. You should leave with a bang…
Rest of the Story is our tongue-in-cheek commenter who has been around these sites for some time. Welcome to My Very Worst.
Hah! I love TROTS’s comments. To think that a simple little joke about the lights being off turned into a Very Special Episode Of The Bathroom Visit (Oh, the horror!) is sort of funny in and of itself.
you should leave us her email address. :evil smile:
She needs to be slapped. I hope you do it… it’s for her own good.
I have to speculate this. The commenters on this site are bunch of 60 yearers, who just discovered the internet or something? I can’t believe somebody had to explain TROTS’s comment and not to mention the huge hot-gas-filled-balloon-huge argument on doormat op’s story.
I hate op does not post that girls email id or admin does not actually publish that if she posts it. Fats it’s not your place to slap her even if she needs it. I am glad you sympathize with OP and everything but it’s not your place to do that. Ever heard of cyber-bullying?
@ oi and everyone else getting hot under the collar, please see our comments policy: http://myveryworstroommate.com/comments/
hey guys! op here.
there’s another part of the story that happened literally the day after i submitted it.
she has a very large lab, that while mostly well behaved, loves to jump on people and bites to get attention. i am a very small person, and the dog has frequently knocked me into walls and drawn blood. the bf and were coming back to the apartment to watch a movie, when the dog jumped on me and scratched me up severely. exasperated, i told the dog to stay down. D grabbed the dog, shot me a dirty look, ran into her bedroom and locked the door. the boyfriend and i thought it rude, but not out of the ordinary for her. about 15 minutes later, out comes D, and only addressing my boyfriend, informs him that she is going to the store, and can she leave the dog with us or “will it be too much of a bother.” my boyfriend kindly explains why i was upset (the scratches all down my side). D’s response? “well, she doesn’t have to be here. [the dog] was here first.”
i moved out that night.
@admins – the comments, mine included, seem to be a bit in the twilight zone lately
Maybe it’s the heat?
@creatureteacher – glad you’re out of there and loved the story.
@admin, thanks!
@ tronner – The heat indeed. We’re taking your comments as a promise that all will be calmer when the weather turns!:)
Eek, OP did you just have to make it worse. >.< Nothing drives me more insane than irresponsible dog owners who make other dog owners look bad. The dog needed to be told down, corrected, and your former roommate is a dingdong for enabling behaviors most people don't like in dogs (The lab was saying hello in lab language at least ^_~).
Jeezy creezy! What a nutjob…
And I too find it funny how people got upset at TROTS’s comment. That’s his (or her) M.O.
Everyone needs the light on for a crap, so they can see that they’ve wiped their arse properly. Even I turn the light on for *that*, and I can do most things in the dark at home (including peeing and having a wash).
I for one have always found TheRestOfTheStory to be a delightful addizzle to any thrizzles hizzle or shizzle deigns to commizzle on.
It always amuses me when people become friends and then move in together and then realize, hey! This person’s rude and crazy! I dunno why.
troll is trolling for the lulz.
Good thing you’re out now, it’s awful that you had to put up with that. Here’s hoping your next roommate is much nicer