'So petty and gross': 15+ Cringe Roommate Stories

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 13, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Some people are born to be good roommates; others are meant to stay away from all humans and live entirely alone. That may sound savage, but it's just the truth. When you start having to cohabitate with other humans outside of your immediate family, you should have to undergo some sort of personality test to see what the best kind of living situation might be for you. That way, you're saving yourself and any potential future roommates the trouble of having to passive-aggressively communicate to one another that the other person needs to, well, get their act together. 

 

This r/AskReddit contains some classic and some shocking roommate stories. We've got the standard guy who refuses to do the dishes, but then we also have the guy who raises rats as pets. We've got a party animal who leaves a mess all over the rug, and then we have a guy who impulsively took off and moved to Virginia with absolutely no notice. It seems that more roommates turn out to be nuisances than good friends. Keep this in mind before you move in with your best friend; otherwise, you'll learn the hard way that not all friends make great roommates. 

 

Keep scrolling below for this collection of cringe roommate stories. For more stories like this, here is a list of funny fibs people were told when they were young.

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    Product - "What's the worst experience you've had with a roommate?"
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    Font - BaaBaaTurtle. 4 hr. ago Hel on the carpet while making eye contact. Still a good boy though. (My dog) 437 Reply Share
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    Font - Future Detective_912. 3 hr. ago I (f) let him stay with me because he was homeless. He would eat everything, not clean up after himself, and never paid for anything. He would always invade my personal space, try to kiss me, and even crawl into my bed. Finally I'd had enough and we went to puppy classes. He's fairly well behaved now but still has no respect for my personal space. 307 Reply Share
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    Font - SoloPogo 4 hr. ago You know Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory? Exactly like that guy but no where near as smart, but condescending, insulting, with boundary issues. Was there for two months and had to get out, or would have ended up with charges. 236 Reply Share
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    Font - goodgirlgonebad 75. 3 hr. ago Shared a quad in college with a girl named Monica. She was fine in the beginning but then began doing things like hiding the toilet paper, trying to limit how much time we spent in the shared living room, allowed a homeless man to sleep on the sofa and hoarded cutlery. She decided she wanted to be a vampire and had her teeth filed into points.. at the end of the year we started referring to her as "Demonica ". ↑ 166 Reply Share
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    Font - DarkGinnel 5 hr. ago 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.
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    Font - 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 we went out to smoke. Would roll his eyes at me when I politely asked him to not sit on my car. 114 Reply Share
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    Font - MobiusAzarath. 4 hr. ago edited 2 hr. ago 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 dishes on the ground of her bed.
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    Font - 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. Edit: this was posted on Barstool which is I think a national social media page. I don't wanna reveal location but don't believe me u
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    Font - Clementinequeen95 · 3 hr. ago Freshman year of college- she came back drk night 5 and pissed on our carpet and some of my clothes. Then in the morning she denied all of it despite the room smelling like piss. She would have random guys over constantly and them with me in the room (even though she had a bf).
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    Font - 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.
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    Rectangle - MoonMaripossa - 5 hr. ago . all he smelled like the time and i could never build up the courage to tell him
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    Font - ATXKLIPHURD. 3 hr. ago My current roommate has this problem. I think he doesn't brush his teeth. His breath smells like death and raw sewage. And the smell permeates his room and you can smell it when you walk by.
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    Font - Mindofmierda 90.4 hr. ago I called to ask if he had his half of the rent and he informed me that he was on 195, headed back to his hometown of Virginia. Dude cleared his out of the apartment and dipped with no warning.
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    Font - dibbiluncan 3 hr. ago This crazy, entitled, hypocritical spoiled brat of a person I was assigned in a college apartment. Everything was fine until I offered to buy a wireless router for all three of us to share. She agreed to split the cost, but then when it came out to $20 each she threw a huge fit. She refused to pay, so I refused to give her the password. She got in my face and screamed at me, but I didn't flinch (I'm a foot taller than her and I had just gotten out of the Army lol). T
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    Font - One day I needed to do dishes and her stuff had been in the dishwasher for days, so I finally just took it all out and put my stuff in instead. I came home to find all of my dishes in the sink again, covered in maple syrup. So petty and gross.
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    Font - Another time, I accidentally threw a single can in her trash can instead of mine. She came out on the balcony screaming at me and threw it off the third floor, where it hit my car and dented it.
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    Font - The final straw that caused me to move out early: we all smoked weed, including her and her boyfriend, but one day she called the cops on me for it. Thankfully I heard her on the phone with them, so I took anything incriminating and left before they got there. Most of it was my boyfriend's anyway, but until then my place was cooler than his. I just left it all there until I was able to move.
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    Font - She also got in huge screaming fights with her boyfriend and smashed his laptop and phone, so I guess I should've expected the worst from her.
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    Font - Ok-Cheetah-9125 3 hr. ago I had one that would just straight up steal my stuff. One that brought home 2 rats as pets, and we ended up with 29 rats in what felt like no time at all.
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    Font - ExMoIsMyPersonality. He'd wake up every 2-3 hours, demanding to be fed. Not just to be fed, but to be held while being fed. Then he on me. Babies are fun. 2 hr. ago
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