Comments on: The Strange Décor of Wacky Roommates

By: the creature

the creature — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:23:27 +0000

one of my past college roommates kept her mildy annoying Spanish-speaking boyfriend (as well as his always-present Spanish-speaking brother) around nearly constantly. they stayed up late everynight, when i just wanted them all out of my house.

i have nothing against Spanish-speaking people. what was so irritating was the fact they she never really seemed to learn their language, so most of their conversations consisted of “what do you call this in Spanish?” and drinking large quantaties of alcohol. ugh. she finally moved out and moved in with boyfriend-and-brother.

my rebate check will go towards paying off my credit card debt, in turn paying off my recently necessitated new fuel pump for my car. it is a bummer being so monetarily responsible. although i may pull aside a small portion of it to get a new tattoo i’ve been lusting over…(that way i will be helping local business too!)

By: GFoskett

GFoskett — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:52 +0000

1) A door room roommate in college had a lover who stayed over many a night. Ugh. The most interesting thing on “display” was her lover’s prosthetic leg that I tripped over a few times.
4)We are using our stimulus rebates to pay off debt. Boring but wise. Why does “wise” have to be so boring? Being a grown-up sucks sometimes.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:42:15 +0000

1. Giant inflatable penis in the living room of apartment shared with three others during university.
2. The Making of Thriller. behind the scenes of Michael Jackson’s zombie video.
3. Took my step sons to a restaurant when their father was out of town. Sat by the giant fish tank. Youngest kept says, SUPER LOUD ” that fish is pooping ” Then after about a dozen times, and me quietly trying to distract him, he yells “EEEEEWWWWWWWWW He JUST ATE HIS OWN POOP”
4.We are going to use the refund from the American government to pay the bill from the Canadian goverment.

By: Marta

Marta — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:51 +0000

3. I was a hostess at the local TGI Friday’s when I was in high school and one night I was standing at the hostess stand waiting to go home. The restaurant was kind of dea but the bar was packed. Out of no where, this couple starts arguing and the man storms out the big double doors that all Friday’s used to have. Next thing I know the woman launches her frozen alcoholic beverage at the doors, the big crazy glass shatters and both the doors and I are covered in frozen booze and fruit juice. I had to go in the dish pit and hose myself off so I could drive home without smelling like I was tanked!
As far as employee stories, a co-worker of mine at another Friday’s had a side job cooking at Chili’s and on a bet put a latex glove over his head with the fingers sticking up (so he looked like a chicken) and took off running around the restaurant clucking as loud as possible and flapping his arms.
Honestly, I could write a series of posts on the craziness I saw in my 9 year stint working for TGI Friday’s!

By: jiminyjillikers

jiminyjillikers — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:14:35 +0000

1. My roomate my freshman year of college had a picture of herself gutting a deer hanging on the wall (I’m a vegetarian, I think she hung it up just to spite me…)

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:21:42 +0000

I had a horrible roommate in college, she was literally crazy. (in that she checked into a mental institution a few months after moving out…) We had a lot of weird moments, but one of the worse was when I returned from Christmas break after visiting my grandmother in France. I’d been gone for a month. There were at least 7 bags of trash on the balcony, and she hadn’t changed the cat’s litter box since I’d left. Plus, she was refusing to talk to me since I wouldn’t move out. She thought I was stealing her boyfriend… (I thought he was gross and he creeped me out, I used to stay up and wait for her to get home when she was on dates to make sure she got in ok.)This was the same boyfriend who set our apartment on fire a few months earlier- not a major one, but damage was caused. Needless to say, not a great roommate situation.

By: Coeli

Coeli — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:45:25 +0000

As my mother, sister, and I were leaving a family restaurant, we heard a huge argument in the kitchen which then moved into the lobby. One of the cooks was yelling threats at a waitress. The owner told the cook to go get his things and get out while he called the cops.

We went as far as our car, but decided to stick around in case the police wanted a witness statement from us. That’s how we were in the right place to see the cook slip out of the back door with a chef’s knife, disappear behind the building next door, and return without the knife. We told the police when they arrived a couple of minutes later, and the last we saw of the cook he was face-down on the sidewalk being cuffed.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:54:29 +0000

1. I used to know a guy whose room was completely filled with action figures. Shelves and shelves of them, even his desk and nightstand were covered…basically every flat surface had action figures on it posed to attack. His closet was completely full with all the boxes from them. I once asked him why he saved all the boxes, he said, “In case I move.”

2. Back in the day my friend was videotaping himself smoking pot in his room and his dad walked in and caught him, it was the funniest video ever but he taped a concert over it.

3.After eating at a diner my friends and I waited about a half hour for our check before finally complaining the manager that we hadn’t seen our waitress in 45 minutes. He went back in the kitchen and then she came out and was crying. She said she fell down in the kitchen and thinks her arm is broken. We all felt like jerks so we left her a huge tip…$50 on a $40 check.

4. I already got my refund and bought a new guitar with it!!!

By: Fruppi

Fruppi — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:05:01 +0000

1. My first college roommate had a bunch of chippendales pictures from an old calendar, on which she had taped pictures of her boyfriend’s face.

4. On tuition and books! I start classes to get my teaching license May 17 and my husband is going back for a seminar for his license renewal in June. Yay college!

By: shelly

shelly — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:43:14 +0000

since i got divorced and my daughter is now claiming herself, i had to pay in $340 this year. my incentive check will be $300. i’m in the hole by $40. sigh.