I also had a roommate like this freshman year. He was a fat kid, didn’t shower unless I told him to, never went to class, never left the room (except to eat), and talked to his mom on IM all the time. Weird. He was seriously the poster child for someone that adjusted to college life very poorly.
kill him. duh.
sarcasm.
maybe.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I also had a roommate like this freshman year. He was a fat kid, didn’t shower unless I told him to, never went to class, never left the room (except to eat), and talked to his mom on IM all the time. Weird. He was seriously the poster child for someone that adjusted to college life very poorly.[/quote]
You had to tell him to shower? Jesus… That’s worse than mine. Did he clean up after himself? Because mine and TylerPK4l’s won’t to save his life. He just eats shit and throws it on the floor… This is all going back to the
“Mommy-followed-me-around-the-house
-and-picked-up-after-me-and-now-i-
don’t-have-any-common-courtesy” Bullshit.
[quote]dirtbag wrote:
If its a pc get metal shavings when he is sleeping blow them into the computer case. Same for laptop. Next time he turns it one it will fry. I am guessing you can only afford so many before you go broke![/quote]
That is really brutal, haha, i prefer something more maddening
chloroform + rape
Stick it in his pooper?
I didn’t see anybody else mention this but yourself may be the root cause of the problem (and I don’t mean that in a condescending way at all). What I mean is this guy has been bothering you for a quite a while now. From what you have described you seem to be similar to me in that you are a nice person who doesn’t like to have to say things like this to another person. So instead you have let this anger and frustration build up over time and now you are ready to go “ape shit” over it.
You have said you mentioned to him something about the headset and his talking while playing CS is annoying yet the next night he just continues doing it. When you are awakened by this say something at the time! For example: “hey… I talked to you about this the other day and you said you wouldn’t do this; why are you still doing it?” Maybe he just truly doesn’t realize how disrespectful he is being. If he never had to worry about such a thing in his liftime until now he won’t even understand until you make him very aware. Or there is the other extreme where he does realize and just doesn’t give a shit about how you feel which would suck… 
Anyways I think what I am ultimately trying to say and what others have already said in fewer words is you need to man up. I needed to do this my entire life and haven’t learned how until recently and I feel a lot better. Don’t let that shit bottle up inside of you man… it will make you bitter. If you say something to him, and I mean REALLY say it and he still doesn’t listen, don’t resort to violence or yelling and screaming, you will just bring yourself down to level that you may not be happy with later.
I’ll cut this off because I feel like I’m rambling; though I will admit it is hard not to ramble as there are so many things to consider.
The thing to do was to say something the first time he did it.
I’m as polite, eager to please and nice as they come, but if someone’s keeping me up at night “DUDE SHUT THE FUCK UP I’M TRYING TO SLEEP” is going to ring through the halls.
I’m surprised you showed this level of restraint. Admirable, in its way, but it’s not going to get you what you want. Especially since you’ve let it build up for so long; now when you confront him he’s going to be thinking “WTF? Why is he flipping out now? What an asshole…” the whole time you’re talking to him.
Many times nice/reasonable people will become very bitter and resentful of others for perceived slights; when in reality those other people don’t really even notice.
I think of it this way: by letting people know (“dude, pick up your fucking garbage. It fucking stinks in here. I’m not your mother. Oh, and I’m bringing my girlfriend back tonight. Here’s ten bucks, make yourself scarce.” etc…) how to behave around me, I am doing them a tremendous favor for all further interaction with the rest of the human race.
By being just a little bit of an asshole, you could actually be HELPING someone. Plus it’s fun too.
That is nothing man. My roommate and his girlfriend get in fights bi-weekly - not recent either, this has been happening for 2 years. These fights are LOUD and VIOLENT and often in the middle of the night. It’s amazing…no matter how much you expect a loud noise will suddenly happen, it still always gives you an adrenaline surge at 3am.
You think rotten food in the fridge is bad? How about rotten food on the floor?
They are messy, and are an absolute waste of human life.
I have very little recourse, because my roommate’s parents own the house. Living with him is the price I pay for being able to live in a luxury house while in university.
Cut his balls off. Obviously this looser doesn’t need them…
[quote]Thomas Gabriel wrote:
That is nothing man. My roommate and his girlfriend get in fights bi-weekly - not recent either, this has been happening for 2 years. These fights are LOUD and VIOLENT and often in the middle of the night. It’s amazing…no matter how much you expect a loud noise will suddenly happen, it still always gives you an adrenaline surge at 3am.
You think rotten food in the fridge is bad? How about rotten food on the floor?
They are messy, and are an absolute waste of human life.
I have very little recourse, because my roommate’s parents own the house. Living with him is the price I pay for being able to live in a luxury house while in university. [/quote]
So you trade your dignity and peace for a fucking luxury house? What’s wrong with people nowadays?! Fuck it!
Seriously, man the fuck up and if it happens again go find some small and cheap room. You don’t need a luxury house for studying hard.
[quote]timtimmah19 wrote:
So brief summary, I’m stuck with an awful roommate. We have the whole nothing in common thing going on, but I could deal with that. He never NEVER leaves the room, which really sucks for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is the fact that my girlfriend lives down the hall, yet there is still no way to get time to ourselves on a regular basis.
He buys perishable food, takes up room in the fridge and then lets it rot. He throws his crap everywhere. He stays up until ungodly hours of the night playing computer games and talking into his headset and then his lazy ass sleeps throughout the day. Usually I could deal with this too, except now I have lifting for football that I have to be at by 6:30 am and he’s still up until 3 playing his games, effectively keeping me awake.
I would tell him to knock it off, shut it down, or move it elsewhere if he were anyone else. However, I don’t know what to do with him as a) he has no friends here b) he’s from the west coast so his friends back home who he plays with are however many hours ahead, so he can’t do his crap earlier I guess and c) the lounges are usually taken by people studying their collective asses off who would be even less tolerant of this crap.
I’ve tried introducing him to people to get him out, to no avail. I basically feel bad for him right now, so I have a really difficult time telling him off for his games, since it really seems to be all he has…
So long story short, what can I do to get him to stop this stuff? Do I tell him off anyway, retaliate by actually doing what I want to do during the day, regardless of if he’s awake or asleep, or what? It’s driving me absolutely nuts.
btw, I tried asking for a transfer but it fell through so now I’m stuck here for the rest of the semester (May 15), so I have to make do with what I have…[/quote]
Your roommate sounds like my brother.
this reminds me of a recent flight to hawaii, oddly enough.
I’m about 6 ft tall, and I was flying “economy” or whatever the fuck the cheapest option is, to get to my sister’s wedding.
I got stuck in the classic scenario, guy infront of me reclines his seat until my knees feel like they are being used to hold his seat up, and some little shit behind me keeps kicking the back of my seat. And to add irony to it, yup, no headphones.
I asked both mr in the front and dipshit in the back to stop. It took me going apeshit an hour later to finally stop both of them. Sometimes asking politely just doesnt cut it, and you need to be a man. However, keep in mind the reprocussions of whatever you do. I’ll just say, the flight attendents were not happy with the way I handled it.