Weird flatmate?
In my first year of University I lived with, quite possibly, the skankiest girl you'll ever meet. She was allergic to all forms of tidying up and cleaning to the extent that our cleaners refused to even enter the flat. Her room was waist high in rubbish and she had no compunction about using other people's crockery as makeshift ashtrays. One night , one of the boys was sick on her sheets. She slept on them the whole night then bundled them up and stuck them in her wardrobe where they remained- for the rest of the year! Fiona
I lived with a guy that had OCD. In the morning it became such a mission to get in the bathroom as he'd have to do his daily ritual of repeated things (opening, closing the dorr 10 times etc)- not good when your in a rush!! I ended up having to plan the time i'd get into the bathroom the night before with him so i wouldn't be late for my appointments the next day!! Leon
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I lived with a girl who had a bad habit of pinching my food, then telling me about it, saying she was sorry, and promptly doing it again the next day. The worst was when she went on a major health kick after christmas and started only eating mung beans, organic veg, lentils, brown rice and tofu. It looked disgusting. Now I like a balanced diet but that does include occasional junk as well as more healthy stuff (no mung beans though!). One day I cooked myself up a lovely pasta dish, but as usual, cooked too much and chucked the rest in the bin. About ten minutes later, my flatmate popped her head round the door ... "Was there anything wrong with that pasta you threw in the bin?"... "Why?" I asked "No reason..." she replied. I didn't give it a second thought. But a week or so later I read on her blog that she had picked my food out of the bin and eaten it... GROSS. I would love to give the url of the blog, it shows her pretentious self off brilliantly, but it contains some personal details so I won't. Plus, I only just moved out last week... my deposit cheque hasn't arrived yet and I can't jeopardise that!!! I now have two great new housemates - mum and dad - they are so happy that I've flown back to their empty nest...
Posted by: Rachel | March 7, 2006 07:29 PM
I used to live with a guy that was so hairy that his nickname was Chewy ... as in Chewbacca. The problem was, everytime he had a shower, the left a film of hair in the bottom of the bath --- it was so gross. We almost had to hover the hair out!!
Posted by: Rick | March 8, 2006 01:44 PM
My room was the only one in the flat with a full-length mirror. I caught my (male) flatmate a couple of times, hairbrush in hand, dancing and singing in front of the mirror with music on at full volume. A bit odd but harmless enough. One day I caught him in a...err..'compromising' position in front of my computer in my room!! I put a password on the computer and the next day he started asking me advice on what computer he should buy...absolutely no shame!! Definitely a weirdo.
Posted by: Alex | March 8, 2006 07:32 PM
I shared a house at University and we had all the usual problems of piled up washing up, no-one entering the bin etc. One day I saw a strange brown liquid running down the kitchen wall. When we investigated it, the source was an ex-celery stick which my friend had put in his food cupboard and forgotten about....
Posted by: Jim | March 9, 2006 10:58 AM
In the seventies while travelling, I lived in a doss house with a Lebanese man who I swear was into car smuggling. The rest of us were decidedly skint but he was always turning up dressed like Arthur Daly driving his Mercedes. He offered me the chance to earn some cash by driving a Merc to Lebanon for him. I was a bit naive in those days(and totally skint!) and I turned up at his "friend's" flat to get the car. His "friend" would not open the door to me and said he had never heard of this guy and that I should go. I never saw him again, probably a good thing!!
Posted by: Ian | March 13, 2006 01:18 PM
There are some seriously strange people out there - I'm glad I live alone
Posted by: fido | April 13, 2006 12:55 PM
i had a flatmate who liked to go into my room and borrow things like batteries or whatever.. wihout even asking. It was strange, boys knew not to just walk into girls rooms without any warning. he was so weird i put a lock on my door but instead of taking the hint, he'd simply walk into the kitchen and say 'sarah your door is locked' as if i didnt know. eventually i talked to my other housemates (who were all guys) and found out that he never did it to them. they teased me saying he just fancied me but i was really worried. the final straw was when he did infact try it on. he marched into my room, without knocking as usual, and tried to kiss me. panicking i slapped him and pushed him away. he moved out a week later
Posted by: sarah | July 1, 2006 12:27 PM
You can't be 11725 serious?!?
Posted by: Max Ballstein | August 18, 2006 03:48 AM
I live in a house with 4 other girls. The problem with a house share is that there is a continuing flow of people. Anyway, I've noticed that there is a crockery theif. I swear that are plates and stuff are disappearing, but we don't know where it's going. Not only that but last weekend I was rudely awoken at 4.30am by the sound of music. Thinking it was the neighbours I went downstairs to give them a telling off but it turned out to be my Slovakian housemate. She said that she didn't think anyone was home! she didn't even say sorry
Posted by: Terri | August 22, 2006 01:24 PM
I have two French guys staying with me they wash up, do the washing, use the vaccume cleaner and cook. They say please and thankyou! I never here them come late! No loud music even when girlsfriends visit!!!
Am I the lucky one.
Posted by: martyn | August 24, 2006 09:05 AM