Bad flatmates

[megalomaniac]

My flatmate is driving me crazy! Does anyone have any experiences with bad flatmates that they wish to share? I'm sure there are many of you in worse situations than mine...

[Thalia]

I once had a housemate who'd talk so loudly on the phone that i could hear every word of the conversation (this was fife park so it wasn't particularly difficult to do that ) or else would play crappy music so loudly that i was ready to kill her at times :-/

Other than that the only problems i've ever had are with flatmates being messy.

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You've been nothing but an angel every day of your life and now you wonder what it's like to be damned...

[flossy]

* Ran away to America without paying his share of the bills.

* Never cleaned his room to the extent where you could smell it as you entered the house.

* Kept all shared crockery and cutlery in his room.

* Would take his laptop into the bathroom and remain there for hours on end.

I don't think people are meant to live together!

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Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

[sweet]

Had one that was often in a bad mood and simply took it out on everyone - you'd say "Morning" and she'd give you evils and stomp off...

Not to bad once in a while but with it happening most days relations became a bit frosty, which was a shame 'cos she could be great.

[Das Feuer liebt mich]

My ROOMMATE (even worse) continually turns the radiator off in the room and I am ALWAYS left freezing to death. The most annoying thing about this though is she waits till I’m asleep then turns it off so I wake up half way through the night wondering why I’m nearly dying of hypothermia. She also brings her friend into the room and they talk really loudly but any time my boyfriend is in the room she acts like a total BITCH towards him. Aaaaahhhhhhh. You have got me started now. Also when I try to have a long lie she makes as much noise as is humanely possible. She leaves crap lying about the room……so forth, I better shut up now. I hope she doesn’t read The Sinner Hahahhahahahahaha

[Bizarre Atheist]

The girl who lives above me (in a ground floor flat in the centre of town) is, and I can't stress this enough, AN EVIL PSYCHO BITCH FROM HELL. She is loud and has louder friends and the loudest parties on Sunday and Monday nights, and when I go upstairs to complain she is so blind drunk that she barely understands what I'm trying to say. Sundays and Mondays! I mean really! I can usually convince her to turn her horrific drum&bass down for a good 20 minutes before she turns it up again. The last party she had saw people urinating out of her window and into my garden.

I'm contemplating barring her front door and setting fire to my flat. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA.

My flatmates, on the other hand, are rather nice chaps whose only failing is to tell me off for taking luxuriously long showers. Which I need telling off for, really...

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[mackie]

Sometimes it's best not to live with really good friends - it can render a once perfectly wicked friendship to one of annoyance. You learn a lot about people when you live with them...

[flossy]

Anyone know any good bad-flatmate-revenge style things? They always make me smile.

NB My housemates this year are lovely so I won't be trying these out!

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Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

[Super Jock]

I have an awful flat mate, the rest of my flat mates are amazing, and he just leeches of everyone else, never cleaning, never buying stuff for the house, and leaving his filth everywhere and is agressive to house mates when they try talk to him about it. But what I think is amazing that now, after we've tried talking to him, made clear we don't wanna live with anymore, he's loosing friends and most of our house have no intrest speeking to him. He's not made an effort to change his act. Personally if my house mates once my friends are beggining to hated me, cause I was a lazy slob, I'd at least try to make an effort to make up for it. We can't really do very much now, as we've got another 3 months of him, and worse still he's on the contract to live with us again next year, anything we say will just make him act worse. What do you do???

[Frank]

Quoting Super Jock from 11:34, 20th Feb 2007
What do you do???

There is an Assassins Guild in St Andrews, y'know...? If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire an Assassin...

On a more practical note: kick and punch him?

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[nighteyes]

I'd say whine to your landlord/lady, enough complaints about the cretin and he/she may toss him out on his ear. I'm sure that somewhere in the contract there will be something about keeping the house in an acceptable state.

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i didnt say i was consistant, just right!

[OffHeGoes]

Quoting Thalia from 11:42, 19th Feb 2007
I once had a housemate who'd talk so loudly on the phone that i could hear every word of the conversation (this was fife park so it wasn't particularly difficult to do that ) or else would play crappy music so loudly that i was ready to kill her at times :-/

Other than that the only problems i've ever had are with flatmates being messy.

I'm quite sure I came under the messy category, very sorry about that!

If it makes you feel any better it was equally shit being in the room above said loud girl

[grrr]

dishes being left for a month. never cleaning (apart from about three times in the kitchen). never once picked up the hoover and used it.

love them to bits but it's annoying. Now i'm protesting by doing less in the hope that my flatmate gets sick of the mess. i hope it doesn't get to me first.

[Super Jock]

Now i'm protesting by doing less in the hope that my flatmate gets sick of the mess. i hope it doesn't get to me first.[/quote]

I've tried that, but it pisses someone in the house off eventually faster than them. Some people are just impossible.

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[nighteyes]

Have attempted the "do less" stance countless times over the last two years. In the end I snap and end up having even more to clean than if I had just continued at the rate as at the begining.

Quoting Super Jock from 00:04, 21st Feb 2007
Now i'm protesting by doing less in the hope that my flatmate gets sick of the mess. i hope it doesn't get to me first.

I've tried that, but it pisses someone in the house off eventually faster than them. Some people are just impossible.

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37104907[/quote]

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i didnt say i was consistant, just right!

[megalomaniac]

Ahh. I knew I'd feel better after hearing from other people in the same position as me. I could rant about the flatmate in question for hours and hours but long story short she's selfish, spoiled, lazy and dishonest... but at least she pays the bills. And she doesn't smell. Personally, living with someone so difficult has been a learning experience, but not one that I'd choose to do again.

[grrr]

Quoting nighteyes from 01:43, 21st Feb 2007
Have attempted the "do less" stance countless times over the last two years. In the end I snap and end up having even more to clean than if I had just continued at the rate as at the begining.

Quoting Super Jock from 00:04, 21st Feb 2007
Now i'm protesting by doing less in the hope that my flatmate gets sick of the mess. i hope it doesn't get to me first.

I've tried that, but it pisses someone in the house off eventually faster than them. Some people are just impossible.

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i didnt say i was consistant, just right![/quote]


it's just the two of us. and i can be stubborn it seems to be working slightly.

[Pan]

I think my flatmate was brought up in a family where his mum/dad did everything for him and cleaned up after him, as he doesn't do simple things like wipe surfaces after leaving crumbs/stuff all over them. Also, who takes a full bin bag out of the bin, ties it up, and then just LEAVES it on the kitchen floor?! The big waste bin things are just 2 secs away from our house! Honestly.


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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[munchingfoo]

Quoting Pan from 13:28, 22nd Feb 2007
Also, who takes a full bin bag out of the bin, ties it up, and then just LEAVES it on the kitchen floor?!

I have done this before, there are a number of reasons.

1. You are cooking dinner and wish to dispose of some packaging but the bin is full, you take the bag out, tie it up, and then put a new one in. Obviously you can't put it out since you are in the middle cooking. And with good intentions of putting out later....

2. No other fucker in your house EVER empties the bins. You are tired of always having to do it, so in the vain hope that someone will take notice you take the black bag out and leave it.



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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[nighteyes]

I have lived with someone that would take the binbag and leave it in the hallway. I stubbornly refused to remove it myself in the hope the girl who did it would actually take it out. It sat for 4 days before I caved in as the house was stinking. I didn't understand that.

The girl had to leave the house every day to go to class she could have taken it to the main bin on the way but she never did. And she did this every time she 'emptied' the bin. It was infuriating. And unfortunatly I live with someone who occasionally does the same only it gets left in the living room. I don't know who it is - I just don't get it.

As for not even knowing how to wipe down a surface - unfortunatly that is a complaint I share. I am starting to dispair

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i didnt say i was consistant, just right!