Updated: weird flatmate?
You may have got a bit of a laugh from our weird flatmate posts and here are the latest - oh the joys of living with people!
I came back from a big night out, left my contact lenses in a glass in the kitchen cos couldn't find their container... my very clumsy flatmate got up in the morning thirsty (and still very under the weather) and "drank" my contacts thinking it was a glass of water... aaarghh... Elena, Greater London
One of my flatmates used to stick clumps of her hair that came out in the shower, on the shower cubicle wall. It was disgusting! Rachael, North West
One guy, had the hairiest back in the world and used to sleep in the lounge in only his boxers, very unpleasant..... He tried to use removal cream on it once and had to ask one of the other flatties to scrap all the cream off.... Grossamatosa. Jessica, East Anglia
My weird flatmate used knickers for face flannels and she cooked chips at 2am. Tamara, South West
I live with germalina!! Blows his nose and leaves the tissues all over the carpet one day there were about 20 - in fact there are remnants of tissues all over the house - drives me mad as he is school teacher and in contact with so many germs. I am not at a neurotically tidy girl, but you know there are limitations!! Eats yoghurt and puts the spoon thats been in his mouth on the carpet, shelf, tv, etc, together with his banana skins, apple cores, etc, rank! Never makes sure the loo's flushed properly, and then puts the seat down - so there's a shock when I lift it up! Oh to have a place of my own!! Emma, East Anglia
Oh, don't get me started on weird flatmates. I did a placement in Scandinavia in about 1997 and stayed for three months in a bedroom owned by this couple of about 90-100 years old. Anyway, they turned out to be voyeurs although I was too naive to realise this at the time. I did wonder why I heard lots of noises from their room if ever my Swedish girlfriend came over to visit - this was the sounds of two people getting up and opening their wardrobe which I found out about a week before I left was wired up with a hidden camera. Dave, Midlands
They described themselves as a "Breathairian". They only drank fruit juice. Never food. Andrew, South East
There were also some weird things flatemates had kept in the fridge....
Hes prosthetic arm. Blodwyn, South West
I guess that would be me. I had to euthanise a sick goldfish, and the kindest way is to put it in a pot with some water and freeze it. Rachel, Greater London
Some savings in an envelope! Melinda, Wales
Little mice that he bought for a friend that he was visiting on the weekend and who had a snake that he wanted to feed. Lala, West Mildands
A pet rat that had died. Iain, Scotland
Urine Sample! YUCK! Bella, North West
A bee's nest. Charlie, Northern Ireland
A maggot-y apple that she was going to take back to the shop and demand a refund on, only she never had time to get to the shop and she refused to throw it out. Gena, North West
Comments
Strange ugly/smelly flatmate - used to put his washing into the washing machine once a week, then sit naked in the kitchen, until it was dry out of the tumble dryer, and the put it all back on again..... NOT nice as he was over 50.....(And didnt have a bath in between) - a replacement kept being sick into pans and leaving them under his bed - when he moved out we found all the pans, and tissues stuck to the carpet under his bed....YUK - he used to dance infront of the mirror in the bathroom singing into a hairbrush.
Another flatmate fell asleep on the phone to his girlfriend and we had a 7 hour phone call on the bill cos she fell asleep too.....but even better, my mate and I used make snowmen in our kinky underwear after drinking blastways! - Student life eh???
Posted by: Bob | March 23, 2006 11:05 AM