"She Poisoned My Food": 30 People Share Their Roommate From Hell Stories

She never cleaned dishes and would leave them until they get REALLY moldy like multi color colonies that are 4 inches tall. Everybody used to do her dishes but then we stopped and kept putting them on her bed. To which she put the f*****g dishes on the ground of her bed. She was a proud alcoholic and would constantly cause issues around the house as well as lock other roommates out and barricade doors if someone made her upset. Baby s**t. AND another different one the year after was some kid who was generally a nuisance but one night he got kicked out of a party and drove his car into a few other cars in the lot, a couple people, and drove right into an apartment complex busting the gas pipes so they had to literally move people out into hotels for a while. He turned himself in the next day.

One of my roommates worked for trugreen Lawn care and signed me up for service without my knowledge. We lived in a house and their was 4 of us. Somehow he got the bright idea to steal some of my information and sign me up. I owed hundreds of dollars to trugreen and they sent me to collections.

I was pissed. I called trugreen and told them what happened after weeks of trying to get the problem solved and talking to multiple people they finnaly closed my account. And fired my roommate.

Well then he lived there free loading for months. I finally moved out of that place and never had a roommate again.

College roommate- we were in the same room (2 beds) for the first year.
She was extremely insecure and needed to have freshly washed and blow dried hair for every class.
So for her 8am class she was blow drying her hair in our room at 5am waking me up every week.

I tried to have a talk with her saying hey it’s a loud blow dryer you’re waking me up and I’m tired all day because 5am is too early for me. Can you please blow dry your hair in the bathroom atleast?

"No!! The mirror isn’t big enough!!!"

What about using my blow dryer? It’s quieter

"No!! Mine is ionic and cuts down on frizz!!"

How about doing your hair the night before so you don’t do it at 5AM?

"NO! My hair gets RUINED in my sleep!!!"

Well you know no one is going to notice your hair that much for an 8am class

"NO!! I notice my hair!!!"

Her solution was for me to wear earplugs in my sleep. I said no ear plugs will be able to drown out her loud blow dryer and besides they will just fall out in my sleep…

Anyway she cried. She cried to everyone. I was evil.

I tried to switch rooms saying it’s affecting my academic performance (it was). They refused saying we need to work together. The floor don talked to her and later told me she’s so insecure about her hair probably because she is not healthy (she was alluding to her weight/obesity)..

Anyway let’s just say I was excited to move out at the end of the year

He got drunk with the neighbors then accused them of stealing his cellphone. Then he slashed their tires. I woke up to the neighbors banging on my door with guns but the little s**t had already left. His cellphone was in between some couch cushions in my house btw.

Freshman year of college- she came back drunk night 5 and p***ed on our carpet and some of my clothes. Then in the morning she denied all of it despite the room smelling like p**s. She would have random guys over constantly and f**k them with me in the room (even though she had a bf). She ended up getting arrested twice during the first semester (she had painkillers that were not hers and she got a marijuana charge lmao). She was pure chaos and ended up in academic poor standing since she literally never went to class. The second semester her parents required her to come home every single weekend so it made things much nicer lol.

I have a few but one really stands out. I was living with 7 guys in a 4 bedroom house in SF, 1 bathroom. Worst place I ever lived, covered in mold, rats everywhere, etc (was cheap and we were broke). Was actually super fun until "Jason" moved in. Jason must have been on the spectrum which I was sympathetic to, but it didn't make living with him any easier.

* First night he came into the kitchen from a run wearing nothing but short shorts, grabbed my milk from the fridge, must have been 1/2 galloon in there, chugged the whole thing straight to the dome. Then put the milk back in the fridge and asked "is there any more milk"
* Used other people's towels. When we told him "this isn't an airbnb, we each have our own towel" he stopped using a towel at all and just walked around buck naked dripping shower water
* Ranted for hours, alternating between extreme delusions of grandeur (I am the greatest financier to ever live) and extreme self loathing (I am worth less than a cockroach)
* Got kicked out of his coding bootcamp, presumably for behavioral reasons, so started walking around the house all day. When we would come home from work everything would be moved around, including in our rooms. Nothing ever went missing, it was just like he's been in our rooms and tried to make us not notice. To this day I shudder to think what he was doing in there

In the end we took the coward's way out. The rest of us just moved together to a new house and told him the lease was ending. He was only there for a month. He moved in on the first, and moved out on the last day of the month. He argued that - since he didn't *sleep* in the apartment the last day of the month he was owed rent back for that last day. We tried to explain that when you rent an apartment you pay the entire month, and when you leave you move out on the last day of the month. I was the master tenant at the time and wanted to just give him the $30 and be done with it, but another roommate insisted I shouldn't do that. He continued to email me for *months* calling me all kinds of horrible things.

He was a big dude, 450lbs big, I lived with him for a year during college. He would sometimes have 3-4 days off from classes and weekends etc, and wouldn't shower at all. He would sit on his computer and just stink up the whole apartment with his BO. Just absolutely awful.

Lived in a house share for 7 years so have a few stories.

2 that are tied for the worst.

First was a guy who had skin issues, refused to get help, shed flakes everywhere, shower, sink, toilet.
Ended up in the washing machine too when he did his washing, which ultimately ended up in everyone else's clothes when they did washing.

I felt sorry for the dude, super intelligent, kind, happy and friendly. Just didn't look after himself.

Second was a guy who lied about his job, never went to whatever it was, and regularly got up during the early hours to randomly scream at the top of his lungs and bang all the walls, the floor and ceiling in his room to ensure it woke everyone up.

Hated the dude for this, and hated the fact he used my car as a bench when he went out to smoke. Would roll his eyes at me when I politely asked him to not sit on my car.

I was in college. Was sleeping and heard a banging on the door. I had just woken up and hadn't heard anything said, just heard the banging and figured my idiot roommate locked himself out or something. I dunno. I was woken up by banging. I got up and unlocked the door and opened it a bit before walking away without looking at all. I was groggy and young and had it in my head that it was just him. Suddenly there's a flashlight on me and I put my hands up. It was the cops. Apparently, my roommate was shooting bottle rockets at the neighbor's house with his friends and came back into the apartment to hide in his room while I was sleeping. F****n idiot. At some point later on after we weren't roommates anymore I found out he had been charged with a hit and run and sexual assault. Not sure the specifics and I doubt they were at the same time. He was that kind of guy. I spent most of my time out of the apartment when possible.

I lived with a girl in college who let her dad pay for everything. He was putting thousands down on her tuition and she never went to class, was failing and had to change her major like 4 times, and to this day I don’t really think she managed to graduate.

So she decided to get a puppy without asking, didn’t train him, had her bf and dad send her money for him. The dog ruined so much furniture and was just a general nuisance. I liked going for walks so I took him out more than she did.

She eventually got engaged to her boyfriend, who was in the process of becoming a marine and on the other side of the country. When we turned 21, we’d go to bars and she’d ask me to hold her engagement ring so she could try and get free drinks or because she “didn’t want to lose it”. Sometimes I put it on hoping men would avoid me lol.

Ended up in a huge fight between her, our other roomate, and myself over petty drama. Last I heard her wedding was cancelled because she cheated on her marine boyfriend and got pregnant with a guy who already had a kid. Still don’t think she got her *COMPLETELY FREE* degree either.