23 Wild Stories About Roommates from Hell

‘You know I could’ve killed you right now?’
23 Wild Stories About Roommates from Hell

apartment. Sharing a living space is less than ideal, especially when your roommates have different ideas about cleanliness or how important it is to pay your water bill on time. Even good roommate situations have unavoidable moments of frustration.

Some roommates, though, cross any and all boundaries of reasonable co-existence. People that aren’t just unpleasant, but borderline inhuman. Stories about those nightmares are what s shared in a Reddit thread about “roommates from hell.” 

Read on to hear about the kind of roomies that would even have the rats saying, “We gotta get this guy out of here.”

_thepet 9mo ago Edited 9mo ago Had a roommate who got diagnosed with colon cancer part way through the year. It was a roller coaster of emotions as his treatment progressed throughout the school year. I ed him as much as I could and couldn't believe he chose to stay enrolled and on campus through it all. At the end of the school year he broke the news to me, his cancer was terminal and he didn't have much time left. We said goodbye as we left for the summer, me thinking it was the last time I'd probably ever
WhyTheHellnaut • . 9mo ago I once woke up at 2am and saw a ghostly figure sitting in my computer chair and heard the sounds of rushing water. Initially thought I was hallucinating, but turns out my roommate was stone drunk, mistook my chair for a toilet and pissed all over my floor and belongings. I confronted him about it and he denied everything, maybe didn't even .
xsweetbriar 9mo ago Edited 9mo ago She drank Watermelon Sourpuss liquor 24/7, dripping it everywhere making all surfaces sticky & sickly sweet smelling. She would be up until 1-2am blaring Eminem on her stereo. Never would turn the lights off on her side so I had to get used to sleeping in a bright room, and would make about 6 KD macaroni cups a day in my microwave - any time of day or night. She would fuck a different guy every week, no notice, I was always home. She'd just say oh haha sorry I thought you were fast asleep.
h1r0ll3r 9mo ago Not roommate but more of a floormate. Had this one gal that was really friendly with everyone on the floor (boys & girls). She was always in someone's room hanging out and would eventually go to someone else's room to hang out. Did this routinely every day after classes. Welp...turned out she was the resident closet junkie and would go to everyone's room being really friendly, to steal all their shit. Watches, jewelry, wallets, laptop....anything worth money. Everyone found out after a mid-term party when she was out in the parking completely blasted on whatever she was
AggressiveYorkie 9mo ago She stole my towel and got shit or blood on it, idk and I don't wanna know, then denied it when the towel was literally in front of us. She ate our food. She lied about the most random and stupid things. Was literally caught in the act of eating one of our snacks and said I'm just eating an apple. It was a pretzel. Oh, and she lied about having ovarian cancer for years And took people's donations for treatment.
RaistAtreides 9mo ago It wasn't the roommate who left dishes to rot in the sink. It wasn't the roommate who pirated movies and got me fined cause my name was on the . It was the guy who smelled so bad that simply walking past his room you could see cartoon smell lines wafting out. That smell was baked into the soul of the room. You'd need a goddamn priest to fix that godforsaken space.
diffyqgirl 9mo ago My now-husband had a roommate he would always complain about and to my chagrin, | thought, surely it can't be that bad. We were long distance, so | never met the guy. Over winter break (so, while my husband was gone) the guy kidnapped his girlfriend and locked her in their closet for several days.
posi_mistic 9mo ago Many nights she would wake me up by watching kiddie shows (like LazyTown) at full volume and weeping loudly in her bed as she crunched on chips because she was homesick. She lived 30 minutes away and could have commuted instead of dorming.
edgarpickle . 9mo ago My roommate didn't shower or do laundry for the entire semester I lived with him. Не and everything he owned (and subsequently everything I owned) smelled like raw beef.
KnuteViking 9mo ago Well when we moved into the apartment style dorm in the fall, he'd been there all summer doing summer classes. His food in the fridge and pantry were literally rotting. Не wasn't there to help, so my friend and I spent a while just getting the cleaning done ourselves. Now when I say rotting, I mean with actual maggots and whatnot. Just nasty stuff. It wasn't our job, but we were gonna have to live there, so we scrubbed it all with bleach and made damn sure the place was fucking clean. Later that day he came
CryptographerGood925 . 9mo ago Had a roommate that was an absolute slob. Clogged the toilet one day and we (other roommates and I) hounded him to take care of it. Не let it sit for a couple months and refused to fix it. Finally we called our landlord and he pulled out coffee filters. Dude was wiping his ass with coffee filters and flushing them, or at least trying to. Was the worst smelling bathroom ever.
0xd0gf00d 9mo ago Had a roommate with whom I shared a room in grad school. That guy used to trade stocks in India during US night time and insisted on keeping all the lights in the room on. I ended up sleeping in the living room so many nights. Eventually found out that the person who sublet his place had left for the adjacent apartment after getting frustrated by that jerk. No one else in the apartment spoke to him either. I was so glad to leave that place.
oneeyedtoni 9mo ago She had a baby over summer break (did not tell us she was pregnant), babies were not allowed in the dorms so the baby lived off campus with her mom. But she would bring the baby to stay in the dorms if we annoyed her. Asked her to clean the bathrooms = infant in the dorm room crying all night. Asked her to stop eating our groceries = she brought the baby to the dorm for finals week. Didn't sleep and did terribly on my exams and two different job interviews.
threadbarefemur 9mo ago Stayed with this one guy in my dorm who was super friendly, but never left his room the whole year. We shared a five bedroom apartment and everyone had their own room. Our unit developed a mouse problem, and my roommates noticed a bunch of their dishes went missing. Turns out my roommate had a hoarding problem and was the source of our mouse infestation. When summer came and we had to move out, we saw inside his room for the first time - piles up to the ceiling of trash, garbage, used mouse traps, and dirty dishes.
nerdiculous 9mo ago My roommate was addicted to SNES roms and would play them for 36 hours straight and then sleep for 36 hours straight. It was like this for the entire year until his GF would come to stay over for a few days and they would just snuggle in his bed the whole time giggling.
gogi_apparatus 9mo ago This was my buddy's roommate. Не would get drunk every night and would be very belligerent. Не would wake up my friend at 3am with a knife and say shit like you know I couldve killed you right now? That guy ended up getting help and has been a total saint since.
RedditFedoraAthiests 9mo ago I dated a girl that had a roommate from China, that had horrifically bad teeth, and no sense of space or humor. I went over one time and she was screaming at her bc she had divided the sink in two, and you could only use your side, but the water from her side got the other side wet. She really needed professional help.
Ok-Lavishness-7904 . 9mo ago Before cellphones, racked up a $1300 phone sex tab on the house phone in one month. Thrown out immediately, took him to small claims court
osnapitzbrit 9mo ago We were friends in high school, with her being a year above me. When she suggested we be roommates my freshman year, I figured it was better than rooming with a stranger. Turns out she saw me as her BEST friend and became very jealous + possessive when | started making new friends on campus. She demanded a best friend day (day where I spent it all with her and only her) when I got into a relationship to prove that I wasn't abandoning her.
IrishRoyalty. . 9mo ago Competitive LoL player, would stay up til 4 AM yelling into his headset and playing on the world's loudest controller. I asked him multiple times to keep it down, and he'd immediately go back to yelling.
UofTCadet 9mo ago Pot luck roommate my freshman year. Brought up a fact from the news about Oprah being influential and wealthy. My roommate refused to believe me then genuinely said, black people don't have a place in our society. I immediately walked out the door, to the students affairs office, and requested a change. Moved out two days later.
LeicaM6guy 9mo ago When I was eighteen, I had a dorm roommate named Dougie. Dude kept a plastic bathroom tarp hanging around his bed, was in his mid to late twenties, and was a huge shut in. One day while he was moving out, his drawer spilled open and a bunch of porn mags dropped out. A heartbeat of awkward silence es, then he looks up at me and shouts WHY DID YOU PUT THOSE IN THERE?
Snoo11882 . 9mo ago She wasn't the worst, but she had some pretty gross habits. There was one time she was waxing her crotch with those wax strips and after she ripped one off it fell face down on the floor in the room. The rest of the semester had dried wax glue and pube hair on the floor. She refused to clean it.

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