'My roommate told me my Social Security number': 20+ Utterly unhinged roommate stories

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 28, 2023 11:00 AM EST

Living in close quarters with someone forces you to be up close and personal with their messy rooms and weird habits. Lots of people have bad roommate stories — some can only be shared anonymously! While having a terrible roommate is awful at the time, it can result in some hilarious stories to tell your friends after the fact, as these people below know all too well. 

Communication is key when living with other people, but some of these bad roommates are terrible at it. There are reasons why certain ultra-specific rules get invented – just ask the "no Mr. Beast and chill" guy. Some women wrote that their roommates left gobs of hair in the shower, and one unfortunate soul got their toothbrush taken by their roomie! 

Scroll down to check out this latest batch of nightmare cohabitators. Then, in this article, 40 people shared their most scandalous unpopular opinions. 

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    Organism - Can hear my roommate talking trash about me on the phone almost everyday to her mom. The walls aren't that thick girl
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    Organism - At Heritage Halls my roommate told me my social security number as I walked in our room. I have no idea how he got that because my card is at my parents house. One of my favorite roommates I've had but I still have no idea how he got that
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    Font - Had a roommate at byui who shaved her hair off and left it all in the shower. I wish I had gotten a picture because it was impressive and also so gross.
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    Font - I had a roommate who didn't understand food sanitation while cooking. I had just walked in the door from coming back from my classes and there he is taking a frozen chicken breast from the freezer. I had to work on a project so I watched from the table while I worked. He put the frozen chicken in a pan on high heat. As the outside of the chicken cooked and turned white he cut it off and ate it and continued to cook the remainder of the chicke (whichwas pink). He repeated that sequence unt
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    Font - Elussy @endlessblissx Replying to @brightblueorb moved into my bff's apt after his sister split on him, he gave me the impression he was like 2-3 months behind on rent, WHY i find out that he was actually almost a year in default and the apt complex was tryna evict him? he bounced to family, left me with his apt and never paid
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    Font - I walked in on my roomate using our dish washing sponge to clean mud off his shoe in the kitchen sink. He tried to just leave the sponge there after he was done.
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    Font - patientlywaits4vampire @wolfmantrav Replying to @brightblueorb RM was dating a new guy but never told me. I came home to our tiny apt and she was gone but he was there. A person i never knew existed just chilling on the couch at my place. It freaked me out, though i guess some people would just go with the flow. I wasn't feeling it that day.
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    Font - i got this giant bag of pistachios from a friend that i would snack on while studying. i would put all of the leftover shells in a cup on my desk and then dump them in the trash when the cup filled up. one day i went and dumped them in the trash and my roommate comes back from school and looks in the trash and is like "aww why'd you throw away the pistachio shells?" and i was like "well it's not like they're good for anything." and he said "aw i like to suck on them and get all the season
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    Font - In the second week of school my roommate had a girl over, not even during visiting hours smh, but they were in bed together for FOUR hours, I walked in to find them under the covers and my roommate said that they were just "watching Mr. Beast videos" I kid you not, they ended up falling asleep and I came back in to get my computer and my roommate woke up and said "Don't make it weird dude, it's only weird if you make it weird", eventually we kicked them out but what a way to kick off the
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    Sky - Because of this we now have a very strict "no Mr Beast and chilling" policy
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    Font - matt @crackaIackin Replying to @brightblueorb after my roommate and I figured out we couldn't live together, one of the first things she took out of the apartment was the cushions to her couch. When I eventually left (I warned her with that date) I took my wifi router I had been paying for myself and she got mad Imao
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    Organism - My roommate thinks our dorm with four other people living there is her family's house and always has family reunions in our dorm living room with a bunch of grandmas, uncles, etc. with no warning. The day after my birthday, my other roommate had baked and decorated a birthday cake for me. But later, my roommate had a bunch of random family over to our dorm for her grandma's bday. They sang happy birthday to her with my cake then proceeded to eat all of my birthday cake. Reduce reuse r
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    Organism - I had a roommate who would leave her hair allll over the shower. Like not just a few strands, I swear she was making Picassos with that stuff. Idk how you get out of the shower without remembering to clean that monstrosity up but it somehow always ended up being my job
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    Organism - After cleaning the bathroom, I left the towel I used to scrub the shower drying in the bathroom. The next day, after the towel dried, I found my roommate using it to dry his dishes. I didn't want to address the situation bc it was so awkward, go cougars!
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    Font - was Current roommate role plays fight scenarios in the bathroom mirror. This morning's production another installment of the character I like the call "The Date Defender". It started with, "Hey you should apologize or things are going to get ugly." "That wasn't a threat. It was a promise." *imagined martial arts probably learned from watching Chris Evans's stunt double*
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    Font - I was on a trip for two weeks and then I came back to my apartment, everything was normal... Then I saw on my roommates friend's spam account that my roommate was holding my toothbrush in the picture. My toothbrush is kind of silly, it is a baby toothbrush, so at first I thought my roommate was just showing her friend my silly toothbrush. I sent the picture to my roommate asking why? Then she
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    Font - just replied with "I knew I would get in trouble for this, I just forgot my toothbrush at home!" So apparently she USED my toothbrush while I was gone... she was literally never going to tell me she did that. There are SO MANY simple things she could have done instead, like not brushed her teeth, used her finger, replaced the toothbrush she used, but no. She chose the most selfish way out and just kept it a secret...
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    Font - I had a roommate who was very.....comfortable. She asked us if we were okay with her not wearing pants around the house. I was uncomfortable about it cuz I barely knew her but I wasn't gonna say no you can't go pants less in your own house ya know? So she would do it all the time and not be fazed at all. Even though we lived on a ground floor apartment that usually has the windows open
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    Font - The worst of it was when she came out of her room pants less and walked into the living room/kitchen WHILE THE BISHOP WAS IN OUR APARTMENT Not an ounce of shame.
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    Organism - I came out of my room at 1:20am because two of my roommates (1 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 - +#1 Bean Simp @itsstarmoo : Replying to @brightblueorb I was basically a maid who didn't get paid didn't help to clean after moving out and cat puke was staining his carpet. Dye all over the shower. He demanded he got some of the deposit back from me after I cleaned the whole place up.
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