In the intervening years I've moved cross-country and now live with J4y, another undergraduate aquaintance. J4y doesn't have a job, real prospects of getting one, and drinks most of the day. His parents are wealthy, so he's basically a live-in bum. I've got little truck with him, as he's great with the bills and decently clean.
This afternoon I returned from a marathon editing session; and here's what I saw when I stepped in the door:
two empty bottles of winepair of unrecognized shoestwo plates of half-eaten foodCD player blaringcigarette lighter with a smouldering roach in itlit incense.unlocked dooropen windowno roommate.
Twenty mintutes later J4y arrived with G14n in tow, stoned and drunk. This would not bother me in the least, were it not for the following piece of information blurted by an unsober J4y: G14n will be living in my goddamn apartment for 'a while.' I would like to use this thread to post my immediate reaction: THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU FUCKING DO WITHOUT INFORMING YOUR ROOMMATE. I now live with a bum and a burnout. I don't dislike either of them, but -- and I intend this non-sacreligiously -- Holy Jesus Bluddy Fukkin Christ! I work extremely long hours, live very tidily, and really value the few quiet minutes I can spend in the apartartment. And those are no longer. This is all.
Crap, crap, crap, crap.
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
i wish i had some advice
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Ive lost close friends over shared living situs tho because I have no qualms about bailing someone up over bills and cleaning and things so I might not be the best advice, heh.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
also: look at the snafu by the base of the toilet: the hair would be bad enough on its own, but ... dear mother of pearl necklaces ... what is that brown crap http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/hair.jpg ?
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
Trayce - if it were my roommate's it wouldn't bother me as much. Or if it were mine (though this is, for a number of reasons, unlikely), I'd deal with it. But this. is. gross.
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Laura E (laurae55), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I speak from experience, natch.
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Free the Bee (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Honestly I have plenty of trouble saying NO to people in lots of contexts so I understand that it isn't easy but honestly I have NEVER been so goddamn passive aggressive in a roommate situation. Jesus Fucking Christ, son, get a grip, stop writing about all this shit on the I Love Strangers Network and next time he says you're freaking out or being an asshole let him have it.
I haven't read this thread before and like, dude, holy shit you're a pushover. I would have more sympathy but... dude.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not saying for you not to update it, Remy, but update it by saying I KNOCKED THE FUCKERS OUT THE DOOR!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link
G14n showed up an hour ago. He walks in the door (not knocking) and right into my room. He places two $20s on the desk and says "This is so you don't bitch. Me and my girl are here for two days." And he walks out. I move into the living room, and there's a HOT HOT HOT girl. She's HOT. And she's in my living room. She's vapid, too, but she's dressed revealingly.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
seriously, fucking hell, gah, enough already.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
$10.00/night/person paid in cash, in advance to me. Three nights max.
Nobody sleeps in the lounge.
If you use any X of mine in the fridge, you buy me a whole new brand-new X. Even if X is like a tablespoon of milk in coffee, you buy me a new gallon of unpasturized organic grade A milk.
I will not clean up after you [J4y, or J4y's friends]. But I will hire a maid to clean up after you [J4y or J4y's friends] and I will pay her with your [J4y] credit cards, savvy? Also, give me the credit cards in advance. [DONE!]
For every (x) hour after 12:00 you keep me awake by being loud, I will wake you (x) hours before 8:00 by being loud and watching TV at top volume in the lounge.
Finally: you will all sleep in J4y's room. All three of you. On the one twin-mattress on the floor. '(They were like "uhh.... okay...")
And agreed to all of the conditions. They were all drunk at the time, but none of them were the sort of pass-out drunk where I consider common-decency contracts null and void. So I decided to say: you must also spend the entire day out of the house tomorrow, and promise never to come back after this trip. I'm sick of your living in my house.
The room goes silent. G14n goes 'I thought you were joking' and I said 'fuck no.' and they all got up and left, like "We'll sleep on Meg's floor. She's way cooler. J4y, you come over there too. Dude, what a dick you are, Rems, man!" So I'm alone again, but I've got J4y's credit card.
And that should be that.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I lost a v good friend in a situ very like this. I dealt with it badly but at the time I didnt know how else to handle it. He left owing me money and its taken some years for us to now be civil again. Meh. People are poo.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Otherwise... I'm just keeping J4y's credit card for an opportune moment, since he has no idea where it is and is too inept to report it stolen.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, it is imperative that you hit it with hot girl. On the couch.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Phrase Of Nightmares (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of It's Starting Already (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 29 May 2005 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link