'I have a roommate that says she only needs to brush her teeth once a week on Sunday': 30+ People who ratted out their worst roommates ever

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 21, 2023 11:00 AM EST

You never really know a person's quirks and habits fully until you've lived with them. For these poor roommates, it's too late! They're already stuck living with a person who is convinced that they're doing everything right, and their roommate is the one interfering, actually. 

I've had wonderful luck with roommates in my own life, they all were normal and clean (great qualities in a cohabitator). The worst thing that ever happened was when my roommate put an egg in the microwave and as soon as she took it out, it exploded! It got in her hair, splattered on our carpet, it ruined the bowl…and we were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. (Who knew eggs were explosive?!) It was a whole situation at the time, but it became a funny memory. 

No one is perfect, you just have to try to get along with the room mate you're assigned to, whether in a college dorm or a four person apartment. The poor people below had some of the worst roommates I've ever heard of! There are some genuinely weird dudes and dudettes in the world, and they don't stop being oddballs just because they're living with someone. If anything, they get too comfortable and increase their socially awkward habits.

Check out these insane roommate tidbits below. Then, give a big side-eye to this annoying mom who demanded a seller go above and beyond to bring her free products. 

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  • 01
    Product - I bought some bath and body works soaps and asked my roommate how she how she liked them. She said that she doesn't use them. I asked why. She said that she doesn't wash her hands. I moved out ASAP.
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    Font - I just switched roommates. New roommate sets alarms at half-hour intervals from 2am onward. It's the only way he'll get out of bed on time
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    Font - I lived with a girl who would wash her hair in the sink instead of the shower so she could "re use mascara and foundation " for the next day and leave a giant puddle with hair ): and also would have guys sleep over in our living room (like she was out there too) every night for like WEEKS. I'd have to step over them when I left for class. When she finally moved out she tried to steal a bunch of my clothes and dishes. Not to mention she would hide food in her hamper and forget about it and
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    Font - My roommate drinks about 5 gallons of milk a week, because he doesn't like the taste of water.
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    Font - I had a roommate who used her student loans to buy and board a horse. Then she didn't have enough money to pay tuition. She would also steal our food in the middle of the night. Probably because, well, horse.
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    Rectangle - I have a roommate that says she only needs to brush her teeth once a week on Sunday. She'll also hang her skid mark stained garments in the bathroom for days on end.
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    Font - I had a roommate go through a really bad breakup, and he stopped showering for THREE WEEKS. To say the room smelled bad is an understatement. He rarely left the room, letting the odors sit and fester. The room REEKED. I'm pretty the fumes violated some geneva conventions. I bought air freshener, but it only made things worse. I felt bad for the guy and didn't say anything. Instead I just avoided my apartment like the plague and held my breath until I passed out at night
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    Organism - Winter of 2020 I had this roomate who I had never met before but I was moving in with my friend but I could tell he was pretty intense. The first morning there I walk into the kitchen and he has a bottle of bleach and my first conversation with him he doesn't ask my name but asks if I want to bleach my armpits with him and I was like dang next time I gotta get to class Then 2 days later we have our FHE and I sit down at out table and the same Roomate looks at me and is like "hey man w
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    Font - apartment can sit here" and I like what? Haha Did the armpit gesture mean nothing ? These interesting interactions continued through out the semester and on Sunday's wed be leaving for church and he's shout really obscene words and questions at us in a really weird tone like he was on something. Fast forward to when COVID hit, I went out of town and was on my way back one weekend and I got a call from another Roomate who is super innocent. And he's on the phone freaking out
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    Font - cause the one Roomate who's had some problems, had gotten completely wasted and passed out after throwing up everywhere in his room and he didn't know what to do. So when we got back we got him into his bed and cleaned up his throw up. It stained the floor and the complex took it out of our deposit and wouldn't give it back. So it was the weirdest experience ever when he got up the next morning and acted like nothing happened. We ended up dumping his special drink out in the dumpster and
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    Font - One time I came home to the fire fighters in my apartment because my roommate put dominos pizza in the oven to keep it warm while still in the cardboard box, then she left and another roommate came in to preheat the oven for something else and it caught on fire. This isn't bashing on my roommates at all. Loved them. Just thought it was hilarious to come home to that I have a video too I'll send
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    Font - I came out of my room at 1:20am because two of my roommates (I couldn't believe it was only two of them) were still conversing at full volume, at 1:20am. My bunkmate said, at 1:20am, "Oh, by the way, I hope you're not offended if I sleep out here on the couch because you snore really loud." I told him of course I wasn't offended by that. And I'm not. I imagine I do snore quite loudly when I finally fall asleep at 4:30am.
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    Font - I had a roommate who wasn't the best cook. One day I was in my bedroom doing homework and listening to music. I heard a yell from the kitchen/living room area. Now, my roommates knew each other from before we all moved in and they were always yelling or freaking out about normal every day stuff so I didn't think much about it. A minute later my roommate yells my name so I walk down the hall to the kitchen to see what is up. My roommate is legit holding a pot that is on fire. Flames are pr
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    Organism - She is asking me what to do as she is wielding that thing like a mad woman. I take it, put it outside on the front step and sprinkle baking soda on top. The fire goes out. I guess she didn't wash the pot well enough and there was still oil in there from the last time she used it. When she turned on the stove, she just left the pot there for like 10 minutes with nothing else in there and came back to it on fire. Our fire alarm never went off
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    Organism - My roommates always use my olive oil, when I asked them about it they said olive oil is the best and too expensive for them. We had 2 other giant bottles of canola oil that have been sitting there untouched, so I filled an empty olive oil bottle with the canola oil. Now they use it to their hearts content without ever realizing the difference
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    Font - Okay, story time, kids! Two friends, "Carol" who had tagged along from their last apartment, and me are sharing space. Carol had grown a pumpkin in her gardening class last semester, and she was really proud of it - she put it outside our door almost as soon as we moved in. The other girls were like "whatever" at first, but as Halloween got closer, the pumpkin started looking kind of squashy. When we brought it up, Carol just turned the brown side toward the wall to hid the dying
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    Font - patch. November rolls around and the pumpkin seems to be actively mocking us - no matter what we say, Carol refuses to move it. DECEMBER COMES. The landlord has issued several statements telling us that vegetable stains on the concrete will result in fines. Fights have broken out. There are fruit flies permanently located in the hallway outside our front door. After a bad fight, one of the girls has had enough, and she throws the pumpkin away.
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    Font - It was a blessed relief to come home and see the orange monstrosity is gone, but later that evening IT HAD RETURNED. Carol, this TINY girl, had gone dumpster diving and BROUGHT IT BACK. She put it back in the hallway, this time covered in Christmas tinsel and pinecones, saying that since it was now holiday appropriate, no one could complain. So they didn't. The other girls just
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    Font - stopped talking to her completely. The pumpkin was just one of the ways that Carol was controlling and passive aggressive, so it kind of made sense, but now I had to listen to Carol complain about how mean they were. At the end of the semester the other girls knocked on our door and said goodbye to me, but didn't even look at Carol. YIKES. Weird times, man.
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    Font - I had a roommate who was super irritated she was assigned to clean the bathroom for cleaning checks because she quote "didn't even use the bathroom, all I do is shower and get ready in the morning". Not sure what her definition of bathroom usage is
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    Font - This last semester all of the roommates had moved out except myself and one other roommate. I went out with my family to celebrate something and on the way home he texted me asking me to get him toilet paper from the closet. I let him know I wasn't going to be home for about ten minutes, and thought he would get his own. Instead he said he would wait for me to get home so that I could get him some toilet paper!
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    Font - I've been holding off on sending in stories about this roommate because she follows this account, but I can't stay quiet any longer. This was the last straw for me. I doordashed myself a happy meal and a mcflurry last night because I had a bad day but I accidentally fell asleep while waiting for it to be delivered. When I woke up, I rushed out to grab it, expecting it to still be on the doorstep, but this roommate and her boyfriend were sitting on the couch, empty happy meal box on the gr
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    Font - I had a roommate who would constantly get locked out of the apartment so one morning while I was asleep in my undies, she had one of her male friends climb up the balcony into my room to unlock the door with her. Needless to say I had the shock of my life.
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    Font - had a roommate that would randomly bark and howl out the window when we would drive places. Any time we heard an actual dog we would joke that it was her. Seriously love her though
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    Font - I had a mission companion who i'm 99.9% sure put my retainers in the toilet water & then put them back in the case, thinking I wouldn't notice.
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    Organism - I bought some bath and body works soaps and asked my roommate how she how she liked them. She said that she doesn't use them. I asked why. She said that she doesn't wash her hands. I moved out ASAP.
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    Font - It was my first day living with this girl and and after taking a shower she left her wet towel on MY bed.
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    Font - She called the cops on me because I let a boy into my bedroom. The boy was my brother.
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    Rectangle - I had a roommate that harshly chastised another roommate for buying pizza on Sunday. Less than 5 minutes minutes later, he went over to the box and ate 2 slices without asking.
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    Font - In the second apartment I lived in I was rooming with this guy who was bigger. As part of his workout routine he would tape a garbage bag under his clothing and then go about his day, using it as a sweat suit. At the end of the day when he came home he would cut the bag open and let it drip all over our bathroom floor
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    Organism - So I had this really nice bowl for cooking and what not. Like, really nice. I came home from work one day and my roommate was washing his girlfriends feet in it! It turns out, that wasn't the first time either. Needless to say, the bowl stayed behind when I moved out.
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    Organism - In my second semester, my roommate sold his contract to this 18 y/o kid. He seemed fine at first. As it turns out, he had quite a few mental problems and really need some help. One day, he pulled out this jar with a thick grey liquid. It was liquid mercury. He just kept holding on to it and laughing. Never saw him again after that semester.
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    Rectangle - One of my roommates got a cologne air freshener and now our whole apartment smells like a middle school boys locker room
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    Rectangle - I had a roommate who was vegan and very vocal about it. After she moved in and my other roommates and I didn't really hang out with her she got very vindictive and would BURN Brussels sprouts on our stove whenever she was annoyed with us. Literally she would put a bunch of Brussels sprouts in a pan without anything else, leave them there until they were black, and then leave them on the counter and never eat them. That smell will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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