Sharing Our Stories of Good Roommates and Roommmates From Hell :)

[tampa24]

As I mentioned in an earlier thread I remember back to the days in the forum where we had only one update per week on Friday night. Believe it or not the forum was quite active at the time even though we did not have continuous new scenes to discuss. What did we talk about? Well we talked about our lives. We talked about past experiences and how they helped us to grow and mature. We talked about how we coped with past relationships. We talked about the good times. As well as the not so good times. We asked each other questions about our experiences in life and had heartfelt conversations.

Do you have stories of roommates who were wonderful additions to your life experience? Maybe you met the love of your life through roommates. Do you have stories of roommates who really did you wrong in one way or another? Please feel free to share them here.

 

[tampa24]

Part 1.

I'll share one rather long story to hopefully get this thread going. I'll change a name or two to protect the guilty here. lol Bob and I met in college nearly 27 years ago. I was in my early 20's. He was in his mid to late 20's. He was an Episcopal deacon. He did have the title of "Father". He wore a white color on the job and all. He came from a very wealthy family but of course was not wealthy himself. Because of his silver spoon upbringing as a child and teenager, he still had what we would call today, "Champagne tastes on a six-pack budget". lol We struck up a friendship. The friendship evolved to where we were pretty close. It did reach a point where we became kind of friends with benefits. We were not boyfriends. Just a good friendship.

I visited him often when he lived in his apartment alone. He was always better off financially than me in college. If things got tight he just called his parents. When he later got one roommate in particular (who was also a young college student) he complained to me about the thoughtlessness of his roommate and the roommate's girlfriend. Talking about annoying habits like the roommate leaving his partial dental plate just sitting on the kitchen counter outside of the case. He said the roommate's girlfriend would eat his food without asking. He said that he resorted to hiding his jars of peanut butter under his bed in his room just to keep it away from the other two. lol He said the girlfriend would pour a tall glass of milk that he bought and paid for, drink a fourth of it and then just walk away and leave it.

I felt so badly for him that he had to put with people like that. My roommate experiences up to that point in the dorms and in apartments had overall been very positive. Toward the end of our college days we did not have "benefits" anymore. Things had evolved into just a platonic friendship. Fast forward about 2 years after my graduation. Bob and I had lost touch for quite a while. I was working a full-time job on salary that was kicking my ass with 55-65 hour weeks and relatively low pay. He called me up out of the blue at work and asked to meet up. We did.

My situation was that I was in a 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment by myself. The roommate I moved in with graduated and got a job in D.C. I had lined up another roommate before he left and then at the last minute he backed out. I was royally screwed. It took over half my take-home pay just to make the rent. Let alone utilities, gas for the car, insurance, food etc. And as I say I wasn't making very much. I hadn't found another roommate yet but was actively looking.

Bob was in a bad way too. He was renting a bedroom in a house with two young female roommates. The women were very nosey and always going in to his room to snoop when he wasn't there. He said he would keep the door closed when he left. On two occasions when he came home he would go into his room, open the closet, and the roommate's cat would come scampering out. He said the one roommate's boyfriend was picking up on the fact that he was gay and was hitting on him for "a piece of the action" as Bob put it. He really wanted out of the house, even if it meant breaking the lease he had with the women. Again I felt sorry for his terrible luck with roommates. The stars were aligned in such a way that it made perfect sense for me to offer him my place.

Even though I didn't like the idea of helping someone break a lease...I did help him smuggle his stuff out. He didn't have the nerve to tell them he was leaving. I got him moved over to my place. Little did I know that he of all people would be a roommate from hell. I would almost immediately start to regret it. I found out that he had no stable job or income. His life was in freefall mode even though I didn't know that at the time. He wasn't making anything of himself. I even had to buy groceries for him when he moved in. Needless to say, I was getting no rent money.

I later found that he was on the outs with his family because they had sent him about $14k dollars cash to buy a car a year before, and he used it to take a boyfriend on a first-class trip all over Europe. So they had cut him off. Of course once the boyfriend had gotten the all-expense paid trip to Europe out of Bob, he was long gone too. Ain't love grand? haha

Then I got my first phone bill. Normally it was about $30. It was $240. I freaked. I immediately said, "You can pay for this. Right?" He said yes. He had bene calling family in Canada at international long distance rates during the peak business rate hours and had called long distance within Florida and all over the country. Stupidly I actually gave him the phone bill and told him to take care of it. He said he took care of it. Then he met some guy at a club and was staying over at his place several days and nights a week.

 

[tampa24]

Part 2.


I had all of his junk in the second bedroom, was getting no rent or financial help in any way and he was not communicating with me at all from the boyfriend's place. He knew I worked the evening shift so he was purposely only coming back to my place when he knew I wouldn't be there. I always turned off the AC when I went to work. One night I got home around 2:00 am. I was so exhausted that I immediately just ripped off my clothes and passed out asleep. I knew he had been home briefly because he had turned on and cranked up the AC. Thoughtlessly he left it running when he left. I knew he probably had it too high but I was so tired I just left it as it was when I went to my room to pass out.

By morning I was freezing in the bed with covers on. I got up and turned off the AC. As soon as I got out of bed I knew the place was like an icebox. I figured he might have put the AC at 65 or something. He had put it in the 50 range instead. Then I had foolishly let it run all night. The difference of nighttime and morning temps in the 80's outside had formed condensation on my glass patio doors. The condensation had then turned to a sheet of ice! There was a solid layer of ice about half an inch thick in patches on the window. I didn't even know that was possible.

I went into his room and found a new phone bill that he had hidden from me. It showed that the last month's bill for $240 had not been paid. There were penalty fees and so on. Then he had charged an additional bill of another $350 for the next month. He had been calling friends all over Canada and other U.S. states and Europe. He had even been calling phone sex lines at $3 a minute on my dime. An Episcopal priest, mind you. Then I saw that most of these calls were made from another number but charged to me. He was calling the operator from his boyfriend's house and having his calls charged to my phone line.

I immediately called the phone company and pleaded, explained and tried to get some kind of payment plan set up so I would not lose service or have my credit rating go down the toilet. I told them to block any third party calls from my phone line permanently. I asked how much more was due now beyond what was on the last bill. It was about another $170 into the next month's bill. All long distance third party calls charged to me from other places. Didn't everybody in the late 80's early 90's get phone bills for $750? I had to get a loan from the bank to pay for it. I had depleted just about all the credit I had available to me at the time.

I called the apartment complex and told them to change the locks. That was another $30 that I couldn't afford. But of course I couldn't afford not to. A full two weeks later I got a call from him. He had been in jail for drug possession. I really was that naïve at the time that I didn't know that he was into drugs. He never did them around me. Then he made some arrogant remark typical of the super wealthy, that Whitney Houston would make famous much later with her "Crack is whack" comment. He said to me "Just to be clear here. It wasn't crack. It was cocaine." So happy he shared that with me. I felt so relieved to hear that of course. Ughhhhhh....

He had no money to pay me for back rent or the phone bill of course so the friendship just ended. His stuff was still in my house preventing me from moving another roommate in. But I wasn't about to let him have his stuff without him showing me some money. He mentioned that he knew the locks had been changed. (Telling me of course he had tried to sneak over again while I was at work.) He also asked me if I had changed my phone number. (Because he had obviously kept trying to make third party calls.) I just told him no. That I hadn't changed my number.

Months go by and he calls to tell me he is joining the military. He lied about his age on certain documents that allowed him to enlist. He asked if he could sign a promissory note agreeing to pay me back the money. I did need his belongings out of my apartment and out of my life. He signed a promissory note for the phone bill, past rent, etc. ($1,500 total.) We had it notarized at the office of the apartment complex. He joined the military. I got one letter from him in the military with no money. And then I never saw or heard from him again. Of course I never got any real apology. Nor did I ever see a dime of that money.

Can anyone relate to any of this story? LOL

 

[KRU1996]

Roommate of Merde Story:
While living in Aston Hall dorm at Texas A&M University. The first roomie was a White redhead who walked in and saw that his roomie would be a Black brownhaired. The redhead's sister flirted hard with the Black guy, the next day the redhead switched rooms. The next roomie for the Black student was a White crewcut blond guy who had frogged out of the Corps of Cadets. On the first night, the Black student who was a young Republican and dressed for bed in pajamas and a robe was shocked when his new roomie simply dropped trou and undees and jumped into bed. It turned out that the White boy was a cousin of Democrat Walter Mondale. The Republican offered a pair of pajamas to the unclad roomie, who refused because his family were nudists and his parents had been anti-war activists. The Black roomie's father was a high-rianking armaments engineer for General Dynamics. A White nudist liberal freak and an upstanding Black pajamaed paleo-conservative. Turns out the Black roomie and the White roomie got pasted one night and had sex and showers together everyday for a month. Then they fought and the Black roomie had the White roomie charged with sexual assault. The White roomie received a prison sentence and was expelled from TAMU. The Black roomie became a proud founding member of Kappa Rho Upsilon.

 

[joninliverton]

Roommate of Merde Story:
While living in Aston Hall dorm at Texas A&M University. The first roomie was a White redhead who walked in and saw that his roomie would be a Black brownhaired. The redhead's sister flirted hard with the Black guy, the next day the redhead switched rooms. The next roomie for the Black student was a White crewcut blond guy who had frogged out of the Corps of Cadets. On the first night, the Black student who was a young Republican and dressed for bed in pajamas and a robe was shocked when his new roomie simply dropped trou and undees and jumped into bed. It turned out that the White boy was a cousin of Democrat Walter Mondale. The Republican offered a pair of pajamas to the unclad roomie, who refused because his family were nudists and his parents had been anti-war activists. The Black roomie's father was a high-rianking armaments engineer for General Dynamics. A White nudist liberal freak and an upstanding Black pajamaed paleo-conservative. Turns out the Black roomie and the White roomie got pasted one night and had sex and showers together everyday for a month. Then they fought and the Black roomie had the White roomie charged with sexual assault. The White roomie received a prison sentence and was expelled from TAMU. The Black roomie became a proud founding member of Kappa Rho Upsilon.

I am totally and utterly confused by this post but I'm sure you Americans will understand it all. I suppose it's so unbelievable that it's probably true.

 

[mikeyank]

I am totally and utterly confused by this post but I'm sure you Americans will understand it all. I suppose it's so unbelievable that it's probably true.

Not at all Jon. I have the exact same feelings about this post as you do.

 

[Beth]

Roommate of Merde Story:
While living in Aston Hall dorm at Texas A&M University. The first roomie was a White redhead who walked in and saw that his roomie would be a Black brownhaired. The redhead's sister flirted hard with the Black guy, the next day the redhead switched rooms. The next roomie for the Black student was a White crewcut blond guy who had frogged out of the Corps of Cadets. On the first night, the Black student who was a young Republican and dressed for bed in pajamas and a robe was shocked when his new roomie simply dropped trou and undees and jumped into bed. It turned out that the White boy was a cousin of Democrat Walter Mondale. The Republican offered a pair of pajamas to the unclad roomie, who refused because his family were nudists and his parents had been anti-war activists. The Black roomie's father was a high-rianking armaments engineer for General Dynamics. A White nudist liberal freak and an upstanding Black pajamaed paleo-conservative. Turns out the Black roomie and the White roomie got pasted one night and had sex and showers together everyday for a month. Then they fought and the Black roomie had the White roomie charged with sexual assault. The White roomie received a prison sentence and was expelled from TAMU. The Black roomie became a proud founding member of Kappa Rho Upsilon.

As always, a "true KRU view." Love you!

 

[tim114114]

Roommate of Merde Story:
While living in Aston Hall dorm at Texas A&M University. The first roomie was a White redhead who walked in and saw that his roomie would be a Black brownhaired. The redhead's sister flirted hard with the Black guy, the next day the redhead switched rooms. The next roomie for the Black student was a White crewcut blond guy who had frogged out of the Corps of Cadets. On the first night, the Black student who was a young Republican and dressed for bed in pajamas and a robe was shocked when his new roomie simply dropped trou and undees and jumped into bed. It turned out that the White boy was a cousin of Democrat Walter Mondale. The Republican offered a pair of pajamas to the unclad roomie, who refused because his family were nudists and his parents had been anti-war activists. The Black roomie's father was a high-rianking armaments engineer for General Dynamics. A White nudist liberal freak and an upstanding Black pajamaed paleo-conservative. Turns out the Black roomie and the White roomie got pasted one night and had sex and showers together everyday for a month. Then they fought and the Black roomie had the White roomie charged with sexual assault. The White roomie received a prison sentence and was expelled from TAMU. The Black roomie became a proud founding member of Kappa Rho Upsilon.

I think I know this guy!

 

[joninliverton]

I think I know this guy!

Come on Tim which guy is that ?

 

[keylow365]

Roommate of Merde Story:
While living in Aston Hall dorm at Texas A&M University. The first roomie was a White redhead who walked in and saw that his roomie would be a Black brownhaired. The redhead's sister flirted hard with the Black guy, the next day the redhead switched rooms. The next roomie for the Black student was a White crewcut blond guy who had frogged out of the Corps of Cadets. On the first night, the Black student who was a young Republican and dressed for bed in pajamas and a robe was shocked when his new roomie simply dropped trou and undees and jumped into bed. It turned out that the White boy was a cousin of Democrat Walter Mondale. The Republican offered a pair of pajamas to the unclad roomie, who refused because his family were nudists and his parents had been anti-war activists. The Black roomie's father was a high-rianking armaments engineer for General Dynamics. A White nudist liberal freak and an upstanding Black pajamaed paleo-conservative. Turns out the Black roomie and the White roomie got pasted one night and had sex and showers together everyday for a month. Then they fought and the Black roomie had the White roomie charged with sexual assault. The White roomie received a prison sentence and was expelled from TAMU. The Black roomie became a proud founding member of Kappa Rho Upsilon.

Of course this would get posted by kru does the frat keep updating this or one person cause your frat seems really lame. Most frats are too busy partying to post random nonsense.