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<p>Roommates. Can&#39;t live with &#39;em, can&#39;t live without &#39;em...meaning you literally probably couldn&#39;t afford to live somewhere without their portion of the rent. If you get lucky, sometimes you and your roommate just click, and cohabitation is easy! However, most times you just end up actively avoiding each other and leaving passive-aggressive notes about dirty dishes left in the sink on the refrigerator door.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="368" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-f0GlGl.gif" width="480" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>On Wednesday, Journalist Gene Demby (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/966733164478631938">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/966733164478631938">GeeDee21</a>5) shared <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html">this</a> insane article from<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html"> <em>NY Magazine </em></a>about a serial-scammer who ended up being the ultimate bad roommate. Demby said reading the piece made him curious about other bad roommate horror stories, and so he asked Twitter to share theirs.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This makes me wonder about your worst roommate stories. Go!<br><br>I’ll start: came home one Sat and had an eviction notice on the door. Turns out roommate had been taking my rent money — at that point, $5K — to pay for his dues to his Scientology-lite cult group. <a href="https://t.co/jAd1YfXAyF">https://t.co/jAd1YfXAyF</a></p>&mdash; Gene Demby from South Philadelphia. (@GeeDee215) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/966410242203570179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>They certainly delivered:</p><h2>1. Hide your Nutella.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i had this roommate who would binge eat all my nutella and bread. and then get really apologetic and buy me another nutella and loaf of bread. and then binge that again. and then apologize. i would hide it in my room but he&#39;d sneak in and ate it again. and then apologize, again.</p>&mdash; ahmed ali akbar (@radbrowndads) <a href="https://twitter.com/radbrowndads/status/966421844755664898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. You can&#39;t even report this bad roommate to the landlord...because she is the landlord.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mine was a landlady who also lived in the house: she wouldn’t let me use the washer/dryer because “people are dirty” (direct quote) and, several times, woke me up at 3am to ask me if I’d been cooking.<br><br>She also stole all my mom’s care packages...and my passport...</p>&mdash; The Malevolent Yuniverse (@mallory_yu) <a href="https://twitter.com/mallory_yu/status/966439331316543491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>After posting the Tweet, Yu added, &quot;I did manage to get the passport back through some finagling (i.e. I bribed her horrible son with $25 and candy to find it for me the night before I moved out).&quot;</p><h2>3. Even if you&#39;re not afraid of snakes, this would freak you out:</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This was in college, but my roommate hid a 4ft bald python under our bunk bed for 4 days before I found it. <br><br>Our very first conversation involved my snake phobia so needless to say we were not off to a great start.</p>&mdash; 👱🏻‍♀️ big little middle part 👱🏻‍♀️ (@somuchbetter88) <a href="https://twitter.com/somuchbetter88/status/966489071622041600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. Speaking of creepy crawlers...</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My worst roommate kept killing my tarantulas during their afternoon walk-time around the apartment. <a href="https://t.co/6gfRUkjzIb">https://t.co/6gfRUkjzIb</a></p>&mdash; Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) <a href="https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/966424196413829120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>You know, there might be two sides to that story.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="266" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-1-SqzBLW.gif" width="480" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. What&#39;s worse than not being invited to a party in your own house? Well...</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/realdawnsummers/status/966425921069731841</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Dinner by phone light sounds kinda romantic, tbh.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We lived in a studio apartment together. When I was sleeping, he would walk in, turn on the light, and start making dinner. When I was making dinner, he would turn off the light and go to bed. I got very good at cooking with my phone light. <a href="https://t.co/TNBk4UR0w5">https://t.co/TNBk4UR0w5</a></p>&mdash; Brian Hamilton #BlackLivesMatter (@_brianhamilton) <a href="https://twitter.com/_brianhamilton/status/966460759436877824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. You think rabbits are cute? Think again.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When I lived in LA, my roommate bought two &#39;miniature&#39; rabbits off a guy on the Venice Boardwalk. Needless to say, they soon became enormous, peed on everything, and because they were both male, had constant, terrifying, Watership-Down style fights to the near-death</p>&mdash; Madwoman in the Gattic (@emilygadabout) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilygadabout/status/966425656392339456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="331" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-2-ntYHpA.gif" width="480" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. This tweeter found herself in a sticky situation.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">True story: In college I had a roommate have an orgy in our living room and then when we confronted her with housing staff, she refused to move out, so we just had a passive-aggressive standoff for months. It was horrendous. <a href="https://t.co/LEGXozcx5S">https://t.co/LEGXozcx5S</a></p>&mdash; Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) <a href="https://twitter.com/CahnEmily/status/966423261981667330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. This is a nightmare for germaphobes.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sophomore year I discovered that my roommate had been using my toothbrush for six weeks. The weirdest thing was that he claimed not to understand why I was upset. <a href="https://t.co/16XSvBHyE3">https://t.co/16XSvBHyE3</a></p>&mdash; Jacob Remes (@jacremes) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacremes/status/966455633741598720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. This HAS to be the weirdest roommate fight in history.</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/caitlinamara/status/966436604796530688</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="389" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-3-QivvPC.gif" width="600" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. We feel like there has to be more to this story...</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I once had to explain to a roommate that he couldn&#39;t do cocaine with minors in the attic <a href="https://t.co/XsntXnfgDb">https://t.co/XsntXnfgDb</a></p>&mdash; Anthony Moser (@mosermusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/mosermusic/status/966478469403209728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. You&#39;re not supposed to wake a sleep-walker, but in this case, we&#39;d make an exception.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WOW. This makes me so glad that my “worst roommate” stories are really mild. Freshman year of college, I roomed with a sleep-walker. Woke up to her sitting on top of me in the middle of the night on more than one occasion.</p>&mdash; Dianna E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/diannaeanderson/status/966415711177461761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. Sometimes you have to walk on egg shells around your roommate. Other times, you have to walk on...broken glass?</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My horrible roommate broke a huge glass bowl, then didn&#39;t pick it up...FOR SIX MONTHS (I was done with his shit by then and wasn&#39;t about to pick it up. Also, once he let my dog obtain and eat an entire chicken carcass)</p>&mdash; Erin Blakemore (@heroinebook) <a href="https://twitter.com/heroinebook/status/966427274307235840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Mazel Tov! It&#39;s a melon!</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I had a roommate who would stress eat watermelon, then get drunk, then decide that her &quot;food baby&quot; was an actual baby, buy it baby clothes online, and then fall asleep and wake up the next day and do it all again. We had so many baby clothes.</p>&mdash; Sara Lang Gifford (@SaraLang) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraLang/status/966435720012460033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="240" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-4-WWecle.gif" width="320" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Do you have a bad roommate story that tops these?</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

People are sharing their most horrific bad roommate stories. Hide your Nutella.

April Lavalle

Roommates. Can&#39;t live with &#39;em, can&#39;t live without &#39;em...meaning you literally probably couldn&#39;t afford to live somewhere without their portion of the rent. If you get lucky, sometimes you and your roommate just click, and cohabitation is easy! However, most times you just end up actively avoiding each other and leaving passive-aggressive notes about dirty dishes left in the sink on the refrigerator door.giphyOn Wednesday, Journalist Gene Demby (@GeeDee215) shared this insane article from NY Magazine about a serial-scammer who ended up being the ultimate bad roommate. Demby said reading the piece made him curious about other bad roommate horror stories, and so he asked Twitter to share theirs.This makes me wonder about your worst roommate stories. Go!I’ll start: came home one Sat and had an eviction notice on the door. Turns out roommate had been taking my rent money — at that point, $5K — to pay for his dues to his Scientology-lite cult group. https://t.co/jAd1YfXAyF&mdash; Gene Demby from South Philadelphia. (@GeeDee215) February 21, 2018 They certainly delivered:1. Hide your Nutella.i had this roommate who would binge eat all my nutella and bread. and then get really apologetic and buy me another nutella and loaf of bread. and then binge that again. and then apologize. i would hide it in my room but he&#39;d sneak in and ate it again. and then apologize, again.&mdash; ahmed ali akbar (@radbrowndads) February 21, 2018 2. You can&#39;t even report this bad roommate to the landlord...because she is the landlord.Mine was a landlady who also lived in the house: she wouldn’t let me use the washer/dryer because “people are dirty” (direct quote) and, several times, woke me up at 3am to ask me if I’d been cooking.She also stole all my mom’s care packages...and my passport...&mdash; The Malevolent Yuniverse (@mallory_yu) February 21, 2018 After posting the Tweet, Yu added, &quot;I did manage to get the passport back through some finagling (i.e. I bribed her horrible son with $25 and candy to find it for me the night before I moved out).&quot;3. Even if you&#39;re not afraid of snakes, this would freak you out:This was in college, but my roommate hid a 4ft bald python under our bunk bed for 4 days before I found it. Our very first conversation involved my snake phobia so needless to say we were not off to a great start.&mdash; 👱🏻‍♀️ big little middle part 👱🏻‍♀️ (@somuchbetter88) February 22, 2018 4. Speaking of creepy crawlers...My worst roommate kept killing my tarantulas during their afternoon walk-time around the apartment. https://t.co/6gfRUkjzIb&mdash; Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) February 21, 2018 You know, there might be two sides to that story.giphy5. What&#39;s worse than not being invited to a party in your own house? Well...https://twitter.com/realdawnsummers/status/9664259210697318416. Dinner by phone light sounds kinda romantic, tbh.We lived in a studio apartment together. When I was sleeping, he would walk in, turn on the light, and start making dinner. When I was making dinner, he would turn off the light and go to bed. I got very good at cooking with my phone light. https://t.co/TNBk4UR0w5&mdash; Brian Hamilton #BlackLivesMatter (@_brianhamilton) February 21, 2018 7. You think rabbits are cute? Think again.When I lived in LA, my roommate bought two &#39;miniature&#39; rabbits off a guy on the Venice Boardwalk. Needless to say, they soon became enormous, peed on everything, and because they were both male, had constant, terrifying, Watership-Down style fights to the near-death&mdash; Madwoman in the Gattic (@emilygadabout) February 21, 2018 giphy8. This tweeter found herself in a sticky situation.True story: In college I had a roommate have an orgy in our living room and then when we confronted her with housing staff, she refused to move out, so we just had a passive-aggressive standoff for months. It was horrendous. https://t.co/LEGXozcx5S&mdash; Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) February 21, 2018 9. This is a nightmare for germaphobes.Sophomore year I discovered that my roommate had been using my toothbrush for six weeks. The weirdest thing was that he claimed not to understand why I was upset. https://t.co/16XSvBHyE3&mdash; Jacob Remes (@jacremes) February 21, 2018 10. This HAS to be the weirdest roommate fight in history.https://twitter.com/caitlinamara/status/966436604796530688giphy11. We feel like there has to be more to this story...I once had to explain to a roommate that he couldn&#39;t do cocaine with minors in the attic https://t.co/XsntXnfgDb&mdash; Anthony Moser (@mosermusic) February 22, 2018 12. You&#39;re not supposed to wake a sleep-walker, but in this case, we&#39;d make an exception.WOW. This makes me so glad that my “worst roommate” stories are really mild. Freshman year of college, I roomed with a sleep-walker. Woke up to her sitting on top of me in the middle of the night on more than one occasion.&mdash; Dianna E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) February 21, 2018 13. Sometimes you have to walk on egg shells around your roommate. Other times, you have to walk on...broken glass?My horrible roommate broke a huge glass bowl, then didn&#39;t pick it up...FOR SIX MONTHS (I was done with his shit by then and wasn&#39;t about to pick it up. Also, once he let my dog obtain and eat an entire chicken carcass)&mdash; Erin Blakemore (@heroinebook) February 21, 2018 14. Mazel Tov! It&#39;s a melon!I had a roommate who would stress eat watermelon, then get drunk, then decide that her &quot;food baby&quot; was an actual baby, buy it baby clothes online, and then fall asleep and wake up the next day and do it all again. We had so many baby clothes.&mdash; Sara Lang Gifford (@SaraLang) February 21, 2018  giphyDo you have a bad roommate story that tops these?

Roommates. Can&#39;t live with &#39;em, can&#39;t live without &#39;em...meaning you literally probably couldn&#39;t afford to live somewhere without their portion of the rent. If you get lucky, sometimes you and your roommate just click,...