People are telling their worst shared house stories – our 15 favourites
People have been telling their worst experiences of sharing a house and it’s either a hilarious nostalgia rush or a grim reminder of day to day living (depending on where you’re at right now).
It began with a story in New York magazine about the ‘worst roommate ever’.
Here are 15 of our favourites (and don’t forget to share yours in the comments. We’ll do another post with the very best).
1.
This makes me wonder about your worst roommate stories. Go!
I’ll start: came home one Sat and had an eviction notice on the door. Turns out roommate had been taking my rent money — at that point, $5K — to pay for his dues to his Scientology-lite cult group. https://t.co/jAd1YfXAyF
— Gene “GD” Demby (@GeeDee215) February 21, 2018
2.
i had this roommate who would binge eat all my nutella and bread. and then get really apologetic and buy me another nutella and loaf of bread. and then binge that again. and then apologize. i would hide it in my room but he’d sneak in and ate it again. and then apologize, again.
— ahmed ali akbar (@radbrowndads) February 21, 2018
3.
College roommate abruptly stopped speaking to me; I alter came home to find her stuff gone. All she ever said was she “told housing services what [i] did.” I later found out she was mad I didn’t show enough respect when her boyfriend told me he was related to the Wright Brothers
— amara (@caitlinamara) February 21, 2018
4.
Mine was a landlady who also lived in the house: she wouldn’t let me use the washer/dryer because “people are dirty” (direct quote) and, several times, woke me up at 3am to ask me if I’d been cooking.
She also stole all my mom’s care packages…and my passport…
— Mallory Yu (@mallory_yu) February 21, 2018
5.
When I was in residence my roommate *told* me I had to leave for the night when her boyfriend came to visit. When I got back there was a condom wrapper in my bed. https://t.co/GbiZQAMAS1
— Kaitlyn (@KaitAlexB) February 21, 2018
6.
Sophomore year I discovered that my roommate had been using my toothbrush for six weeks. The weirdest thing was that he claimed not to understand why I was upset. https://t.co/16XSvBHyE3
— Jacob Remes (@jacremes) February 21, 2018
7.
This was in college, but my roommate hid a 4ft bald python under our bunk bed for 4 days before I found it.
Our very first conversation involved my snake phobia so needless to say we were not off to a great start.
— ✌🏻 (@somuchbetter88) February 22, 2018
8.
In college, I had this dream that I was on a boat in the middle of a storm. I kept rocking back & forth, and thought I was going to die. When I woke up, I was still moving.
After 10 scary seconds, I realized my roommate was having sex in the lower bunk. https://t.co/mboYJKSbZC
— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) February 21, 2018
