Annoying living situations!?

messicamouse · 07-10-2007, 09:01 AM

In an effort to make me feel better... who else has an annoying living situation??

I live at my boyfriend's mom's house with his brother. His brother is probably the most annoying person in the world. He is 17 and never leaves the house. Ever. He sits on the computer (the only one in the house) most of the day. What does he do on the computer?? He reads wikipedia... all day, everyday. If I ever get a chance to use the computer (like now) it is only when he is at school (but now its summer) or at his dad's (which he is now). Blah. AND he talks.... and talks.... and talks.... to me about nothing I care about for hours on end. Even if I am sitting in the living room, clearly watching something, he will come in and just start talking. Even if you don't pay attention, he still talks. Oh the horror.

Oh and of course there is only one bathroom and he tends to take his showers at the worst time. The other day, I came home from the gym, it was like 1pm. I walked in the door, clearly gross and sweaty and he was sitting at the computer. I went upstairs to take my clothes off and put on a towel to get into the shower. I come down stairs (less than 3 minutes mind you) and where is he???? IN THE SHOWER!!!! wtf?

Yup. I could continue, but that is good enough.

Anyone else?

Geschpooklichkeit · 07-10-2007, 12:02 PM

Two families live in this one family home. I'd go on but I have neither the time nor reasoning at this point to avoid infraction.

Enaress · 07-10-2007, 01:13 PM

Well it might not be as bad as others, but I used to live on the top floor of a very brokendown-type apartment building, one where you can hear the TV of the people on the first floor from your room. Pretty much makes playing any rhythm game impossible due to the noise/vibrations from the controllers. Plus my room was barely big enough to even fit my bed inside. There was water about 50% of the time, and my shower was literally a hole in the wall I had to step inside. My living room was on a 10 degree downward slant due to the middle of the building sinking. I'd say the only good thing about it was the fact that I had a roof over my head.

JulieRMZ · 07-10-2007, 01:54 PM

I had a few annoying living situations in college. "Best" one was a girl who complained that her roommate from the previous year would bring her boyfriend over for the weekend and they'd "get down" in the top bunk while she was in the bottom bunk. A few months into the new school year, when she got a boyfriend, any guesses as to what she did while I was trying to sleep in the top bunk? Ick.

That one was almost as bad as the following year, with an OCD vegetarian apartment-mate who wigged out about anything that had ever touched meat ever touching any of her stuff. If any of my apartment-mates left something small, like a couple of pens, on the living room coffee table, she'd leave nasty notes on the kitchen whiteboard telling us that we should all "be adults and clean up after ourselves." At one point, she practically broke down my bedroom door in order to wave a toaster in my face-- apparently, I'd left one Pop-Tart's worth of crumbs in the crumb tray, which was so disgusting, didn't I know how to clean things, I'm a worthless human being who should be forced to live on the farm with pigs, etc.

DeusExMachina · 07-10-2007, 01:54 PM

I lived in a very dirty apartment. I mean VERY dirty. My friend got sick as a result for sleeping at my place which made me feel bad. I don't think i got sick because I already developed antibodies against most of the parasites in there.

I AM THE PROPHECY. · 07-10-2007, 03:33 PM

I'm sleeping on a fucking couch that accommodates about five and a half of my six feet. It's pretty uncomfortable. Add this to the fact that said couch is in a portion of the house that receives frequent traffic from the rest of the family and things kind of suck! I'd like to move out but I have to get a job first, so hopefully that'll happen before too long.

Geschpooklichkeit · 07-10-2007, 03:34 PM

I sleep on a futon on the floor. One got flooded so I had to take my brother's old one so he could get a twin-size mattress.

I don't know if I should call it annoying or tradition, though. I've slept on the floor all my life one way or another. For a time I had to use an air mattress.

kimcicle · 07-10-2007, 05:14 PM

My sophomore year of college, my freshman year roommate convinced me to move off campus to a 3 bedroom apartment with one of his high school friends. I thought it would be a great way to cut down on rent costs and give me a little extra pocket money for buying things. It worked, but man, there were a few things about the place I didn't like.

My neighbors were loud as fuck all the damn time. They would have parties when I was trying to study / sleep at something like 4 in the morning. Didn't happen all the time, but apparently they were deaf because their TV was always turned up and they would laugh so freaking loudly to everything.

Also, that one roommate we moved in with? He was never there. We all split a cable internet connection, and he would fire up torrents and leave for days at a time WHILE LOCKING HIS BEDROOM DOOR. Even after we asked him to stop he would keep doing it and me and my other roommate wouldn't be able to play FFXI / whatever online game tickled my fancy.

He also said that he couldn't fall asleep if it was too quiet, so he would leave episodes of Futurama playing on his computer all night long. Usually, this wasn't an issue because either (a) he wasn't there, or (b) it wasn't loud enough to distract me. But sometimes he would crank up the volume, and no amount of banging on his door would wake him up. Sleepless nights FUCK YEAH.

It doesn't help that he was a slob, his room always smelled, he would use my dishes and never wash them, and expect us to take out the trash for him.

I love living on my own now. It's been, what, 3 years since then? I probably would still be roommates with one of the guys because he's cool, but eh!~

Enderkask · 07-10-2007, 05:27 PM

Friend of a friend was dorming at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This is a leading school for the deaf. For whatever reason, they placed him in a deaf dorm. So all around him he had people that turned there stereos up to max so they could just feel the vibration from the sound. They couldn't hear it, but they could feel it. Unfortunately for him, he could feel it.

Also, the people in the room above him? Yeah, they had sex a lot. Apparently, the deaf are very very noisy when they have sex, and he could only describe it as "wookie sex."

Mangojoyride · 07-10-2007, 05:59 PM

i have to live with random assholes (that change once every 4-6 months) in a REALLY small room. the beds are very... brick-like. every night they're rowdy obnoxious drunkards who could give two shits about your personal belongings. they play their music (its Gangtsa YEEEUGH) on insane volume levels every hour of the day.then they trash up the hallways and floor and expect others to clean up for them. they eat my food use my stuff, and borrow money for indefinite periods of time. they will never be sated.

and they're lazy as hell at work too

vjgyo · 07-11-2007, 12:06 PM

I had a horrible roommate when I transferred to a different college last year. She eventually moved out and I had this small, smelly room the size of a fridge box all to myself with 50 other girls in the hall that had no idea what being quiet was all about. The showers and bathrooms were shared and locked, so if you had to pee in the middle of the night, don't forget your key.

Right now I'm living at my mom's house for the summer. I'm rooming in my 2 sisters' room and it's a pigsty. I have no room to put my stuff and my makeshift dresser is an old potato box. At least it's a roof over my head so I shouldn't complain. I don't want to be here at all though because she threw me out of the house last year and I feel very unwelcome still. Yuck.

Beer Can · 07-11-2007, 04:42 PM

Armed frat-boy drunkards with bad taste in music and even worse personal hygiene.

That was my first year at college. I made a thread of FB about it. Yep. I just wish I had gotten a picture of the time one of them threw up all over the walls. Or the time the other one pissed all over the floor for no particular reason other than he was drunk.

**DjRandom** · 07-11-2007, 08:45 PM

No where near as bad as what the people in this thread have had but I'll give it a shot. I live with my parents and my fiance (hey its free we don't complain and its alot better now) and we go over to my fiance's moms house so we still get away for weeks on end and its great.

A while back my mom had completely changed for the worse arguing over the smallest and retarded things (my fiance and I live in my room and we eat in there) I'd get tired and want to take the dishes from the night before out in the morning, no my mother would make it a point to yell and I mean YELL in my face because I had not taken them out that night. She would pick fights for no reason and try to turn my dad against me; all because i had "turned 18" which was BS because she had started this atleast 2 years before I had turned 18. She would get so mad and even got mad enough as to tell my dad if he had done anything to say I was in the least bit right she would leave him. Well its better now shes back to before she ever started yelling at me and my father.

Geschpooklichkeit · 07-11-2007, 08:55 PM

When I go to college, I'm opening a hermitage.

JulieRMZ · 07-11-2007, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Excel-2007

When I go to college, I'm opening a hermitage.

Easier solution: tell everyone that you're an art-history major, and they'll run screaming in the other direction, afraid that your inability to be hired after college will rub off. You'll have your own little nook in no time.