Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A bad roommate.

College means roommates. Sometimes these roommates aren't our first choices. Since my freshmen year I have learned this and have come up with slightly creative ways to deal with such people.

The rules are simple you have to be friends of some sort, meaning that you both chose to live with each other and thought it would be a good idea. You have to have mutual friends who come over to see both parties. You have to be of the opposite sex and not dating, hooking up, or whatever you want to title any sort of sexual encounter. Although I guess you could just alter the list to fit the gender. Lastly you have to like the person just not like living with them.

Now for the fun. All of the below "activities" have been done by me or done to me. It's all fun in games when you live together.
1. Not allow parties because you're tired when roommate and friends are talking about getting drunk.
2. Counter attack: throw the party anyways.
3. Counter attack 2: throw a party when roommate has a test to study for.
4. When throwing a party together hide the toilet paper in your room and tell only YOUR friends where it is. (this is really effective when the other bathroom is upstairs and makes great for awkward conversation of roommate's friends asking for squares of TP)
5. Make friends with roommate's friends.
6. Invite roommate's friends over.
7. On everything you buy write your name in all caps, just to show it's yours.
8. Hook up with roommate's friends.
9. Have sex with girlfriend so roommate and friends can hear.
10. Counter attack: make loud noises during their sexy time. Very funny.
11. Take lots of funny pictures of drunken roommate and post them on Facebook.
12. Turn music on really loud early in the morning when roommate is hungover.
13. Party with roommate's friends when roommate is studying.
14. When watching TV with friends turn on TV in your room loud.
15. Counter attack: say I love that show and all go up to room to watch show together. VERY funny.
16. Talk about what a "tool" your roommate was last night to your friends and roommate.
17. Put all your movies, Cd's, and anything else that could be shared in your room and always close the door.
18. Counter attack: Bring the apartment football to your fraternity.
19. Come home late at night and be really loud and talk for as long as you can (This keeps roommate and girlfriend up wondering where you were and angry the next day they didn't go.)
20. Together drink anything in the beer fridge left by friends for longer than two days and talk about all the funny stuff you pull on each other. THE BEST.

I LOVE my roommate and love that we can do these things to each other and still be civil. Note: Before you pull any of our stunts make sure your roommate has a sense of humor. I recommend putting clear cling wrap on their toilet... You will find out real fast what type of a person they are.

2 comments:

  1. Another great list! You are an expert in passive aggression, it seems, but the self-awareness and humor here (the caveat at the end is important, and reaffirms the jocular tone) really elevate this. Love the "counter attacks".

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  2. this is amazingly wonderful and very true.

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