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hallidae
2007-09-01 11:07 pm UTC (link)

Oh, man, roommate horror story time.

Our first year at college, one of my buddies wound up rooming with this chick named Lydia. Oh, the stories I could tell about Lydia. But I'll keep it short as I can. She was the epitome of the stereotype of spoiled brat youngest child. She was ultra-fundamentalist (drove away one of our friends because he was gay, another because he was adopted). She had to be included in everything, and whined when she wasn't. She insisted on controlling everything my friend did, from when she was allowed to go out (always bringing her along) with us, to what she could eat.

And the worst thing of all: She had the cleaning skills and personal hygiene of a dead rat. I shit you not, she took one shower in a ten week quarter. You couldn't stand downwind of her, and whenever she invited herself somewhere, we had to have all the car windows open and spray it down once she was gone. And, the height of nasty... she gave us all fleas.

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limyaael
2007-09-01 11:58 pm UTC (link)

Ick. I knew someone who did that (gave her roommate fleas, I mean, not the other parts).

That was the point at which her roommate, who was in a sorority, got two of her sisters to help her frog-march the dirty one to the bathroom and force her to take a shower, in cold water. That must have been one of the weirdest "Help your freshman sisters out!" task that any of the older girls on our campus had. That year, anyway.

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	photosinensis 2007-09-04 05:08 am UTC (link)
	I know a guy who was literally locked in his bathroom by his roommate, his suitemates, and the RA and they wouldn't let him out until he at least showered. It was at that point that he learned the importance of hygiene. Other than his fear of haircuts and shaving razors, he's fine now. I've even been told that he's learned to do his own laundry. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kahrohseh 2007-09-02 12:05 am UTC (link)
	Wow. I was about to share my roommate horror story (she had a toilet brush holder with "princess" on it and made her mom do her part of the cleaning prior to move-out) but I just can't beat fleas. Please tell me something horrible happened to her? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hallidae
2007-09-02 12:13 am UTC (link)

Well, we finally couldn't take her anymore, and at the beginning of the next quarter, my buddy decided to move in with me (my roommate and I had our own problems, mostly due to her habit of leaving acrylic paint in the sink, ordering me around, and playing her death metal music at four in the morning, and we split). Lydia stalked her for two months after that, trying to figure out which room we were in (different residence hall than the one she and my friend had lived in) and threatened me. We both moved into apartments at the end of the year to escape. Last I heard, she'd scared off eight more roomies in the course of a year before bombing out of college.