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That's hilarious. Toilet paper is a big bone of contention with roommates, I think because it represents everything else: consideration, splitting work & finances fairly, etc. I remember when my grad school roommate and I were getting to know each other, the first thing she said was "I just want you to know I go through toilet paper like it's going out of style!" I was like okeeee

I had one terrible, awful roommate in college. She scarred me.

The terrible roommate did every roommate sin in the book. Her boyfriend was at our house 24/7...except the time I came home to hear her loudly having sex; then the phone rang..and whatya know, it was her BF calling to ask where she was. So yeah, the guy in her room was not her boyfriend. She would take my clothes without asking, wear them, and ruin them. I bought myself a cute pair of embroidered suede tall boots. Before I ever even wore them, she took them and wore them to a frat party and walked in muddy grass in the rain. They were ruined. She bought a cat without asking me, then was never home and totally ignored it until it went crazy and started acting out by peeing on everything and clawing up her bed. She hit on my most recent ex boyfriend. We were super poor and she would eat all the food I just bought for myself. Her BF came to my house (when I wasn't there) and used my desk top and printer to print 25 class copies of a stupid 10 page story he wrote for a creative writing class. He finished all my ink and paper. Didn't replace. When I finally got her to move out, she stole two of my shirts and all my silverware.

If you can believe it, we were FRIENDS our freshman year in the dorms. She was pretty nuts.

Luckily, I had great roommates after her.

@Raindrop: there is so so so much more. I have dozens of stories about her.

Not me, but an ex lived with a roommate (well he rented the finished basement of his house to a friend) when they were in their late 20s and the roommate would use all of his toiletries, so he took to keeping his shampoo, soap, toothpaste, etc in his room. The roommate also never replaced the toilet paper (or bought toilet paper) and would just use tissues instead, until those were gone too. He would eat food in the fridge that didn't belong to him - including our dinner/takeout leftovers!

Also, he was just a jerk.

I had...interesting roommates...most of my college career.

Freshman year there were three of us in a smallish apartment type situation and one of the other two just moved out suddenly, without warning, and told my other roommate it was because of me. We had literally no warning, she hadn't complained about me, other roommate was confused as to why she would, etc. It was beyond bizarre. She deleted me off of Facebook, refused to look at me if we passed walking by, etc. Anyways, so she left us in a lurch and either needing to fund several thousand dollars on our own or find someone else unexpectedly. The other girl in that situation was fine and we're good friends to this day but she was the type who was REALLY into politics Freshman year (and pretty much only freshman year haha) and she plastered our apartment in Barack Obama posters despite the fact that I didn't agree with her political views. Finally we compromised and agreed she could have some INSIDE the apartment but not on our windows. She was also the type to have a new boyfriend every week and I came home to her making out with someone new all the time which was just...awkward.

Second year my roommate was someone random because I didn't want to go the live with friends option, which looking back was a mistake. She almost got kicked out of school due to grades and her older brother somehow got my number and was calling me all the time to "check in" and make sure she was studying, going to class, etc. which was just awkward because I didn't want to rat her out. She also never cleaned so her side of our space looked like a bomb went off.

Junior year I lived in a house with NINE girls and as you can imagine, drama was king. This roommate was probably the worst. She liked to have conversations with me...while naked. She would just walk up, buck naked, and talk for like 30 minutes about her day. It was WEIRD. She was also obsessed with Disney and decorated her side of our shared room with tons of Disney princess paraphernalia. I hated that. We also had a roommate in that house that I shared a bathroom with and she would leave little pieces of toilet paper with blood on them (she scratched/picked at her skin) around the bathroom every single day and one day she got blood somehow ALL over the shower curtain and refused to clean it. Very odd. Oh, that same girl also asked me to buy her gas on a few occasions and even asked me to pay her rent once. (I didn't.)

My senior year I lived in a house with 9 other girls as well and it was a lot better because I had my own room but still got to live with several friends. We still had our issues but for the most part everyone was respectful.

I don't miss roommates. Or college.

I was lucky enough to live with two AWESOME best friends for 7 years (through college & after) and during our first 4 years living together we always had 1-2 other people living with us. 2 were particularly bad.

One used to come home super late every night after being out partying and would cook a ton of food and leave it all over the kitchen & always leave the milk out on the counter, like, every night. She NEVER did her dishes - so we just started putting them in her room and she got the "hint" haha, but it was still an ongoing issue.

The other one sorta went off the deep end, put a lock on her door, and eventually moved out without any notice which was tough because we had to makeup the $ for her share of the rent.

I had one absolutely terrible roommate. There were 3 of us, and I was friends with my roommate who I'll call C. C was friends with A, so I trusted her judgement on roommates. A was awful. She basically had her boyfriend move in with us and stay in her room with her. He used all of our stuff, ate all of our food, used our water, internet, cable, etc, and didn't pay a dime towards rent or any utility. They were also home ALL THE TIME, and spent most of their time in the common areas.

One night, DH (who was my boyfriend at the time) and I came back to my house from being out for dinner. It was around 11ish, and he came in for a few minutes. As we approached the door, I smelled gas. I opened the door, and the house was FILLED with gas. A had left the gas burner on low, and the flame went out. She left to go out to the bar with her boyfriend, and gas was pouring into the house with C sleeping upstairs having no idea anything was going on. It was a row home, so if a neighbor so much as lit a cigarette, the entire row would have gone up.

We had a month left on our lease, and I had enough of her. I completely flipped out on her irresponsibility of almost killing all of us. Her boyfriend told me that I was overreacting. C...who hates confrontation, totally shut him down. I don't ever remember being that angry at anyone, ever. C and I moved out and got our own place together until we both got married.