Insane roommates: Mine was a guy I shared an apartment with

[ohiosmith]

in Cleveland for a very short period in 1968. He bathed once a week (every Saturday afternoon). After he finished his bath he would wash his soiled clothes in the same water, then his dirty pots, pans, and dishes, and finally his dog.

The dog's coat was kinda tie-died from the colors that ran and he would constantly find and eat bits of food in his fur.

[nini]

1. OMG

:puke:

[LDS Jock]

2. I don't think

anyone is going to top that one.

[ET Awful]

3. I've had some weird roommates. . .

but nothing comes remotely close to that, for which I shall be eternally grateful!

[JVS]

4. That guy sounds cool!

[cally]

5. Uggh!!!

You won. I started with, well many folks only bath once a week because water is scarce. You got me with the clothes and dishes. :puke:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. gross!

i have two current roomies who have never bathed in their lives...buts its ok...i am used to their fishy smell though...and they are soooo cute

[sir_captain]

7. My college roomate

freshman year gave me a box of tongue depressors to use to hold down his tongue if he had an anxiety induced seizure. He also wore bow ties every day.

A few weeks later, he told me he had dreamed about deformed male genitalia.

I started to lock my bedroom door at night after that...

[JVS]

9. hahaha

[sir_captain]

10. yeah

he was a certified freak. he eventually had to take a year off for "psychological problems."

[Endangered Specie]

13. Only a year...

You should have commited him

[sir_captain]

16. well, he was subject to a psych evaluation when he tried to come back

and since that was after i graduated, i don't know how it went...

seriously though...i was convinced that this guy was the second coming of the unabomber

edit: now that i think about it--this guy was a world champion scrabble player as well. man...

[zauberflote]

8. Yuk, did you move or did he?

My story at least involves a clean person. During my student days long ago I shared an apartment with a decidedly paranoid person. For weeks he kept asking me, "I keep getting headaches. Do you know anything about it?"
I would alway say no and he would always snort as if he knew I was lying. I never knew what to make of it.
Finally he came right out and said I had hooked up a pipe to his room from mine and was sending some kind of gas into it.
Freaked me out. He didn't seem as if he were going to get violent but it was still disturbing. Finally after several accusations I tried confronting him with logic. We were in a basement apartment and his window was at ground level facing the driveway. The owner of the building was a contractor who often left his truck idling with exhaust pipe facing the window, which was often open.
I tried the argument of Occam's Razor. "What is more likely," I asked, "that I have bored through your wall so skillfully you can't even see the hole, then hooked up a pipe and rigged it up to some complex smoking-out mechanism I have so well hidden it can't be seen just so I can take hours out of my life trying to give you a headache? OR, maybe, just maybe, might the exhaust from the truck be getting into your room?"
"No," he said, "you're doing it."
I was outta there.

[ohiosmith]

15. I moved after walking in on him while his dog was licking his unowhat.

[kitkatrose]

17. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww...

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Canuckistanian]

11. I was gonna tell my story

But that one made me feel sheepish.
Don't tell me - he moved down to Texas, became an exterminator and is now a Congressman?

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Well, you win

All roommates I might have, from now on, no matter how bizarre they might be, I shall remember yours and think to myself, "Well, it could be worse."

[Endangered Specie]

14. wow, now I feel like my problems with my roomates arent so bad after all.

Thanks!

[mouse7]

18. I think I saw him on HBO's Deadwood last night.

He might have been one of several in the cast.

[m-jean03]

19. A girl who didn't talk

EVER -- unless I initiated the conversation. I got tired of her coldness, and the last week we lived together, I didn't try to start a conversation -- just an experiment, right?

Well, that whole week we DIDN'T SAY A WORD. Weird.