16 Confessions From People With Roommates That Made Us Reconsider Living With Anyone
finding that perfect roommate can sometimes be near impossible. These real-life confessions from people with roommates show just how chaotic sharing a living space can be. Vote up the most chaotic confessions!
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Called The Police On Herself
From Redditor u/Misstainted:
My ex-roomate called the cops on herself
She’s always been petty and dramatic, anyhow.. a few weeks ago she freaked out when I told her I need to raise her portion of rent because of inflation on our rent and utilities. She didn’t like that and decided to move out and of course be super dramatic and make my life hell in the meantime.
So today, she came to get the last load of her stuff and rudely threw a bunch of her garbage to the end of our walkway.. like this is several bags and stuff that she was expecting me to haul away at my expense.
So I put them in a neat pile by her parking spot and told her she can grab the last of her stuff if she takes the garbage with her too.
She didn’t like that idea and called the cops…. (Such a waste of their time)
I told them I was willing to hold something as collateral, or I’d accept if she gave me money for the dump fees, basically I was willing to compromise as long as I wasn’t left to haul at my cost.
A few mins later, she’s stuffing all the garbage in her car lol. Then she was instructed to grab the last of her stuff and leave the key. And to top it off, I overheard she apparently has unpaid fines lol.
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Beauty Is Pain For This Roommate
From Redditor u/Present-Road-4786:
My roommate uses a mole remover to scar himself in order to look cool.
Few weeks ago I saw my roommate with a red looking scratch mark over his left eye. Over his forehead skips his eye and down his cheek. Like some sort of anime scar to make some teenage antagonist look edgy and cool.
He said he got it setting up some gardening equipment. I shrugged and moved on with my day. Last night I saw he had left a mole remover out in the bathroom sink. Today his scratch is fresh and blistery with new dried blood on it. He is actually burning his flesh to seem cool?
Should I be afraid? He watches anime a lot and is 50 years old.
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Testing, Testing
From Redditor u/cokevanillazero:
My roommate is weird as sh*t and I think he may be setting up recording devices in the house.
He’s very quietly trying to sound check something, I keep hearing him in the kitchen clearly but faintly saying “Kitchen.” and then there’s a loud popping noise, and then “Check.”
He’s done it four times now. What the f*ck.
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A Secret Ingredient In The Shampoo
From Redditor u/these-r-myconfession:
Let me start off by saying my old roommate in college was a f*cking b*tch…
We shared a bathroom, but didn’t share products. I noticed during one of my showers that she had the same shampoo and conditioner bottles in the shower for a long time. I picked them up and they were both completely empty. Which obviously meant she had been using mine for I don’t even know how long.
So since I had about a quarter left in my bottles, I peed in my bottles, left them in the shower, and went out and got new ones and carried them in and out when I took a shower secretly.
Eventually my bottles were empty mwahahaha
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Dealing With A Messy Bathroom
From Redditor u/ThunderClap175:
I go to college in midwest United States. I live in a dorm an have a roommate who shares a bathroom with me. He’s not from the United States and seems a little nervous to talk to anybody who isn’t from his home country.
The first few weeks of college, I started to notice pee on the toilet seat. No big deal, I cleaned it up. After about the 10th time, I asked him if he could stop peeing on the toilet seat, or if he does, wipe it up. He said okay and went on his day.
About 3 months later, I started to notice pee all over the floor, toilet seat, and all around the toilet; worse than before. I used my own toilet paper and started going through it very quickly, so it was getting expensive.
I ended up walking over to his side of the counter and grabbing one of his extra towels. I’ve been using it to clean pee for about 1 month now and I’ve definitely noticed a change in color due to the urine and the fact that I’ve never seen him wash it. I feel bad about it, but what he’s doing is disgusting and I’ve tried to tell him to stop many times. Should I feel sorry and stop?
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It’s A Way Of Life
From Redditor u/[deleted]:
My vegan housemate has a ‘vegan cat’. So she thinks. I regularly feed it meat and wet cat food.
My housemate and I both got cats a few months back. Being vegan, she wants to keep within her moral lifestyle and not feed her cat any kind of foods that contribute to the passing of other innocent creatures. Its diet consists of only water and cat biscuits. And the odd piece of bread.
As a result her cat had relatively consistent diarrhea, and wasn’t showing any signs of improvement. I started feeding it wet cat food and meat (that I buy for my cat) and now it’s back to pooping like a normal cat.
She’s convinced it’s because she changed brands of cat biscuits.
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A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
From Redditor u/cactusb**ties:
i put fish tank water in her coffee maker
when i was in college, i had the worst roommate ever. no respect for privacy, noise, or my food in the fridge. what had really tipped the iceberg for me was the day she started yelling at me for the way our room smelled. told me i needed to be showering at least once a day. i wasn’t the problem; it was her stupid microwave meals that made our place smell like sh*t.
i didn’t have enough balls back then to tell her to f*ck off, so what did i do? the next time i had to clean out the water for my betta fish’s tank, i dumped the semi-gross water into her fancy keurig coffee maker. she made coffee in that thing for the next week until i moved out. i have no regrets.
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Caught Red Handed
From Redditor u/Mon_El12:
Caught my roommate in my room.
I had told my roommate I was heading out to run an errand but I realized I forgot my wallet so I ran back upstairs to get it. As I was coming up the stairs I saw my roommate come out of my room and go the other way into the kitchen, any doubt that I just saw him in my room was erased as the door bounced off the door hinge (you need to turn the handle to close it) coming to rest at a half open position in front of me, I always leave my door closed.
I paused in front of my door and looked over to my roommate standing visibly nervous in the kitchen. I asked him, “What are you doing?” inquisitively but not angrily, he quietly mumbled a “nothing” and I just nodded and went to go get my wallet, kind of in shock he would take advantage of my space like that.
I’ve been locking my door every time I leave my room since then and he’s been avoiding me and my other roommate even more than he did before. He was one of my most trusted friends before me moved in together, now I can’t even trust him… It’s a bummer.
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Stuffed With Lint
From Redditor u/Karakurizer:
I’ve been stuffing dryer lint in my friends socks for years
It started when we were roommates in college. The guy would never take his clothes out of the dryer for the next person to use it. So I started stuffing all the lint into his socks and did it continuously. Till this day when I’m at his house I still do it and I honestly don’t think hes caught on… Sorry bro
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Infinite Garlic Powder
From Redditor u/Ted_E_Bear:
My roommate is convinced that he has infinite garlic powder.
I’ve been living with my roommate for a little over two years. Early on, I noticed that he really liked putting garlic powder on just about everything. We each have our own separate bottles of garlic powder. His is medium-sized, and the one I buy is the size of a garlic powder you’d find in a restaurant kitchen.
One day, I noticed that his garlic powder was about halfway empty, so I decided to play a little silent prank. Once about every week or so for the past two years, when my roommate wasn’t home, I would put just enough garlic powder from my bottle into his bottle right up to about the halfway point so that he would never run out of garlic powder. I also consciously store my garlic powder at the back of my section in our pantry so that he never happens to notice how much garlic powder I have on hand.
Yesterday, after all this time, he passingly said out loud, “I don’t understand how this garlic powder is lasting so long. I think I have infinite garlic powder.” Needless to say, it took a lot to contain my composure, but I didn’t even acknowledge what he said even in the slightest.
Now, the problem is that we both have to move out by mid-October because our landlord is selling the apartment, and we’re both going our separate ways. I really want to keep this secret to myself because: One – I’d hate to spoil the magic. And two – I think I’d come off as pretty weird, because who does something like that really?
But after vigorously thinking it through and weighing my options, I decided that I have to tell him the truth and break the news to him about his magical bottle of garlic powder. I’d hate for him to run out at his next apartment and start questioning reality itself, so I think it’d be best if I just make the heartbreak quick, easy, and direct.
So yeah… Wish me luck.
TL;DR: Started playing a prank on my roommate and now he is convinced that he has infinite garlic powder.
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Running Up The Stairs
From Redditor u/Briekenberry:
I run up my stairs on all fours
Basically I go up them on my hands and feet.I started doing this when I was a kid, to the point one of the tiles on the wall under our stairs fell off because of the sheer force. I still do it now at 24.
My housemate hasn’t caught me yet and if he does I don’t know how to explain it. At least my habit doesn’t overpower me in public
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Living With Someone Who’s Almost Famous
From Redditor u/RichPplEatMyDreams:
I have no clue how to react to my “famous” roommate
Okay so I’m a college student and I’m looking for a new roommate since my old one graduated. Get an email from this girl whos interested, really nice girl, we talk a bit about pricing and when she can move in. Shes great, we agree, I say come on over.
Then she sends me an email “oh btw just be warned….” I go “whats wrong?” “My boyfriend and I are super famous youtubers so please don’t have a freak out, you probably know who we are. And please don’t be scared if ppl recognize us and start screaming. I’m just warning you now if it might become a problem.”
she links me her youtube, i have 0 f*ckn clue who they are. They both have 10k followers and roughly 300-500 views per video so it’s obvious the subs are either bots, people who subbed for sub or just people who saw a pretty girl and boy and forgot about them. They have very mediocre videos about relationships and travel and their dogs. They have a merch store and the girl has “influencer” on her insta bio.
While I admire her confidence It’s obvious she’s not actually as famous as she says and I don’t know if i pretend to freak out and feed her ego or have her throw a tantrum when she realizes I don’t care at all.
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Always Present, Always Waiting
From Redditor u/TheBigMasterPigg:
I walk quietly to intentionally scare my roommates and they don’t know I do it on purpose.
As I was going down the stairs to go to school she was waiting around the corner and just screamed at me which jumpscared me.
So for the past few months I’ve used my skill of floating as they call it to jumpscare both of my roommates, so every time they’re in the kitchen I simply materialize behind them, don’t say anything and just wait for them to notice my presence which most of the time results in screaming.
They’ve told me multiple times that I walk very quietly and should wear some shoes that make noise when I walk as I act confused and pretend to not know what she’s talking about.
B*tch I do it on purpose and you won’t see the end of it, expect me to always be behind you. It has been very fun and the reactions are always amusing.
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Ignored All Night
From Redditor u/kgatell:
I locked my roommate out of our dorm room one night
One night while living in the dorms I locked my roommate out of our room.
He had lost his key and was too poor to pay $100 for a replacement. That night, he had gone out to a party and I stayed in to study for a final. When he got back to the room around 2am he started to knock but I felt compelled to let him sleep in the common area. He knocked on the door and called my name for about 15 minutes. He didn’t even up passing out in the common area but kept checking on the door every hour until 6am.
I really hated his guts, he was irresponsible and it was my way of getting back at him for having to put up with him during a year.
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Fighting Noise With Noise
From Redditor u/sockthefeet:
I secretly play loud yelling ramblings of Gordon Ramsay to get my roommates to leave the kitchen, which is right next to my room.
I don’t like talking to them and I’m just surviving until I can move away.
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Lying About Bills
From Redditor u/[deleted]:
I kind of stole money from my housemates disguising it as bill money.
The gas and electricity bills came through recently, both being kind of high with it being the winter and everything. Everything was fine, I collected the money from my three housemates and I went and paid it into the bank before paying the bills online.
After re-checking the bill before I paid it, I noticed that one of them was a bit high compared to last year’s usage so I submitted a meter reading and it brought the bill down by about $60. It was then I realised that I could just pay this new bill, not tell my housemates and keep the surplus for myself, being strapped for cash at the time.
After paying this new bill, one of my housemates asked for a copy of the email the utilities company sent so he and his parents knew how much he paid. I quickly opened my emails, saved the page and edited the html to change the price I actually paid to the price he gave me money for. A day later, a revised bill came through the door while my housemates were out explaining the new price. I quickly opened it up (it was addressed to me), took one look at it, stuffed it in my paper shredder and turned on the paperless billing option on my account.
I don’t know if I’m gonna do it again if the opportunity arises. Only time will tell.
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