People Share The Weirdest And Worst Things Their Roommates Ever Did

Sharing an apartment with a stranger involves getting used to their good and bad habits. Often, people have to put up with their roommate's zero sense of cleanliness, even if it is their biggest pet peeve.

Having a roommate means you don't have the privacy you usually do while having an entire house to yourself. It also means you often have to share things and learn to live with someone you haven't lived with before.

Some people on Reddit shared the weird things that one of their roommates had done to them. Most people were surprised to experience those things.

Comments have been edited for clarity and grammar.

1. Bittersweet Symphony

u/pm_me_butt_stuff_rn: Not my current roommates, but I had a roommate in college who used to play Bittersweet Symphony on repeat all day and every day. He played it from the minute I moved in till even after I moved out.

I moved down the hall to another kid's room because this was just one of the weird things he used to do, and I still used to hear it constantly playing whenever I'd walk by. I really used to like that song, too, but it's ruined for me now.

2. She Stole Our Toilet Paper

u/Demonfizz: I had a roommate who absolutely refused to buy toilet paper. After weeks of her stealing ours, the other three of us started hiding it so she would be forced to buy her own.

Instead, she started taking heaps of napkins from restaurants and stealing rolls of our paper towels.

One night, we all went out to dinner. We found the entire basement flooded when we came home because she backed up the toilet with things she shouldn't have flushed.

Besides that, she would keep piles of old food around her room and never do laundry. She was the most disgusting human being I've ever met.

3. The New Roommate

u/eatmereddit: In my last two years of school, I rented a house split between five guys, one of whom was a last-minute addition that I begged them not to let live with us.

I even offered to pay the rent for his room while I looked for a new one. But I got outvoted, so we had this guy, who I'll call Roger because he looked like Roger from "American Dad!"

Roger did not seem physically able to walk without stamping his feet. Multiple guests commented on how loud he was. Oh, and he wore his winter boots inside.

Roger said our Wi-Fi was too slow. He wanted to play Xbox Live while watching Netflix, so he ran an ethernet cable from our kitchen, through the front hall, and up the stairs into his bedroom.

He didn't tape it down nearly, either. It hung low in several spots, making our house look like a spaceship in disrepair.

He loudly proclaimed how brilliant he was and how much faster the internet was now, not realizing someone had already cut the ethernet cable.

Roger frequently fell asleep with loud music or TV on his tower speakers and would not turn it off unless his favorite roommate said so. Yes, he would be rude to the other three of us and then act all apologetic if Juan told him to be quiet.

One night, it came to a head. He fell asleep during exams with loud music, waking the whole house up. All of us (his man-crush Juan included) knocked on his door for almost an hour, trying to get him to turn it down.

When he wouldn't answer, we decided to jimmy his lock and turn it down ourselves. He was fast asleep with noise-canceling headphones on. All this time, he fell asleep to music and TV just to torment us.

4. The Mean Notes

u/petrilstatusfull: I had a roommate who would (attempt to) leave unjustified, scathing, passive-aggressive notes for just everyone: our apartment neighbors, cars parked outside, and even our landlady.

The notes had overly polite language, underlines, and randomly capitalized words, always written in red marker.

The notes were always rude enough to get her beaten. She always signed them from both of us. I followed her around that year and removed the notes quickly and quietly.

5. I Need to Go to the Bathroom!

u/storefront: This is about my friend's roommate, but that's hardly important. My friend's roommate comes stumbling into their dorm room (first year).

It's blatantly apparent that she is heavily under the influence of alcohol. She starts shouting, "I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM," waking my friend.

She sees her roommate just staggering back and forth through the doorway. She stayed in bed because she really didn't know how to react. Her roommate returns through the door once more and reiterates that she needs to go to the bathroom.

Before her roommate had left to go to a party, she had placed her white Macbook on her chair by her desk. The rationale here is that we believe the white from the laptop on the seat made the chair look like a porcelain toilet in her roommate's mind.

So, she approaches the chair, pulls down her pants, and sits on her laptop. My friend braces herself because this situation can only go one way.

As she braced for impact, her roommate released a sigh of relief that, unfortunately, was synchronized with the release of her bladder and bowels. Despite her laptop being covered in urine and feces, her roommate denies that this ever happened.

6. I'm Allergic to Avocados

u/questingthebeast: I lived with three of the worst girls I've ever met when I was in college. I signed a year-long lease with them, and it lasted two months before I noped out and found some poor soul to take over my lease.

They ignored me 98% of the time, except for when they ate my food in the fridge before going downtown (which they did every week Thursday-Sunday) and locked themselves out (which happened Thursday-Sunday coming home from the bar). Also, when they stood outside my door and loudly made fun of me or mocked my appearance.

So, I'm a pretty chill person. I would hang out with other friends and just come home to sleep. Then, another friend accidentally let it slip to one of the girls that I'm allergic to avocado.

It's just when I eat it. I can be around avocados with no adverse effects. The next day, I opened the fridge, saw they had cut all their avocados in half, and piled them on and around my food in the refrigerator.

They didn't know I only get sick when I eat avocado, so they just wasted time and money in the hopes of what? Poisoning me? Making me sick? Giving me an allergic reaction? Come on.

7. The Spying Homeowner

u/lkattan3: My old "roommate" (he was the homeowner but lived in a shack in the backyard) would come into my room early in the morning and watch me sleep. I was a bartender then, so I would get home about an hour before he left for work.

I was always thoroughly passed out when he'd leave, and I'm a heavy sleeper, so I only noticed this was happening for MONTHS when a guy I was seeing stayed up and caught him opening my door.

There was also a second door to my room that I could not open (it was locked from the other side). I don't know what was happening there, but I'm pretty sure the homeowner was also spying on me from that room. He was a completely crazy person.

8. The Running Shower

u/ani3D: My roommate thought they could 'clean' the shower by leaving it running super-hot with the door closed. All day. Maintenance had to pry the door off its frame just to get it open. The wood had swelled up so much from all the moisture.

My roommate had left the shower on and gone to work, but that was my day off from work. I didn't know anything was amiss until I realized I had heard the shower running for several hours.

I knocked, but of course, there was no answer. I panicked and tried to open the door. As far as I knew at that point, it was locked (it sure wouldn't open, in any case, and I didn't realize it was swollen shut).

So, naturally, I thought one of my roommates had locked themselves in there and, I don't know, died or something. I went utterly hysterical, and I called the housing office.

They broke down the door, and after that, I was just confused until my roommate got home to explain. At that point, though, I was mostly just glad I hadn't found a body.

Then we got the bill after they had replaced the door, and the roommate in question tried to weasel their way out of paying for it.

They fully intended to make all four of us split the cost, and NO WAY was that happening. They did eventually pay up, thank goodness—the end.

9. He Didn't Remember Doing Anything

u/apocalypticradish: Right after college, I lived in a house that rented out rooms individually. Most people were fine, but you'd get the occasional weird roommate. Then there was Doug. Doug was about our age, unemployed, and would drink almost every day.

He was also a total slob and would make huge messes in the kitchen before going back to his room to drink some more and blast loud music.

The next day, he wouldn't remember anything, see the big mess in the kitchen, and whine about "people being gross."

Of course, when we pointed out that it was his mess, he'd always say he didn't remember doing it, and it couldn't be his mess. Yeah, Doug, I can't imagine why you don't remember.

He was eventually kicked out because his parents refused to pay his rent anymore. I genuinely hope he got some help because his drinking habits were not good.

10. My Roommate's Girlfriend

u/nonchalantpedestal: In college, my roommate pretended he had a girlfriend who lived in England (we are in the US).

He talked to her on the phone while we were both in the dorm. Of course, my roommate was friends with her on Facebook and a few of her friends whom he had "met while visiting her." He used to talk about how much he missed her, especially getting intimate with her.

I found out after I moved out that she never existed. That was a fake profile, a fake name, and fake pictures.

He was talking to no one (except himself) on the phone. I have no idea why he'd go to such lengths for this lie, but I felt weird about the whole thing once I found out.

11. My Roommate's Toothbrush

u/Pro-FoundSound: She had this cup full of liquid by her bed. There's really no better way to describe it.

She kept her toothbrush in it, bristles down in the liquid, and when it came to toothbrushing time, she took the toothbrush out, brushed her teeth, spit into the cup, and shoved it back into her cup. I'm retching just thinking about it.

12. The 'Disgusting' Couple

u/jenniferberry: I used to live with what I've decided was one of the most disgusting couples ever.

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment. They would use my dishes and leave them in their room, unwashed, usually with food in them.

They didn't want to buy a litter box for their cat, so they took a plastic gallon tub and dumped litter in it. Their cat constantly urinated in their closet on their shoes, and they'd just continue wearing them.

But the worst: I had to clean everything when we moved out. I knew we wouldn't get our deposit back otherwise. The couple had cleaned most things, and I told them I would clean their room.

They said cool (they would never do it), so I went armed with gloves, a scarf covering my mouth, and a bottle of bleach. Boy, I was unprepared.

I walk in, and this stench just hits me. Their bedroom door was always closed, and they had incense burning, so I never smelled it.

They had a couple of cardboard boxes filled with feces and toilet paper. I ran out of there quickly and called them, screaming and demanding to know what was happening.

They said sometimes I would be in the bathroom, and instead of knocking or holding their bladder, they would use the boxes. They tried to play it off as "we take it out once a week" like it was changing the litter box.

13. Our Food Went Missing

u/yashyashya: We had a ton of food going missing, and we all knew who it was, but my best bud (landlord) bought a webcam and set it up discreetly in the kitchen.

Within a couple of days, we caught the guy eating a stick of butter straight from the wrapper and then went into the pantry, grabbed a bag of sugar, and just started chugging it. He was making cookies in his mouth.

14. The Chicken Lover

u/superfrankii: I lived with a magician. Of the many moments, the odd one that I remember vividly was when he was about to leave the country for about two months.

Before he left (hours before going to the airport), he filled the freezer with whole chickens. Then, he got really upset when we ate them to free up space.

15. The Narcissist

u/MyNutsin1080p: I lived with a roommate who was a complete and total narcissist. It was a $1500/mo apartment (three-bedroom apartment in a nice part of town) that should have been $500 a person, but he was lazy and maybe contributed ~$150 of that.

His girlfriend wasn't much better, contributing about the same amount per month, but she was at least more pleasant to talk to.

I lived with them for about six months and paid the $1200 I was paying to cover the rent because I didn't want my credit to take the hit that would result from an eviction.

They went out to eat, drink, and dine with each other the whole time. Meanwhile, I could never do anything because I was burning up all my cash to cover the rent.

Of course, I would talk to the dude to say, "Man, this can't continue. It's stressing me out. I can't afford to buy food most of the time," but since he was a narcissist, he would turn the argument around to somehow make it about how ungrateful a person I was.

The end finally came when I spoke with the leasing office and explained that while I loved the apartment, I was the only one giving the property managers any real money, and the situation was untenable.

I also said I would love to continue doing business with them (possibly with a smaller apartment), but I was locked into my lease. I couldn't afford to pay an early termination fee.

They looked up the paperwork and said, "Well, it looks like only [the roommate] filled out lease paperwork, so you have no legal obligation to pay the rent."

"Is that so?" I responded. I thought briefly and told the agent, "You should probably get eviction paperwork ready for next month. I have no intention of continuing to fund their lavish lifestyle. What other units do you have?"

I went back to the apartment and began packing. One day, they came home to see that my bedroom was empty and my car was gone.

They started packing like crazy for three days, having to throw a lot away because they would get locked out before they could get it all.

On the second day, the power was cut because it was in my name at the old apartment, and now that I had my place, I wasn't about to pay for the power in two different houses. So, they had to pack frantically in the sweltering July heat in total darkness.

16. The Mysterious Smell

u/juco818: I am a girl, and I live with a girl, so you'd think our apartment would be pretty clean, right? Nope.

My roommate is a huge slob, but it's not just clothes-on-the-floor-type stuff; it's legitimately gross and disgusting messiness.

Like she'll leave her menstruating dog's dirty panty liners on the coffee table in the living room. She cracks open eggs to use the whites, then leaves the shells and yolks in the sink to rot.

She leaves half-eaten sushi trays on top of the bookcase, so her nasty little dog won't get them, but I don't find them until days later when the smell betrays their location.

Besides the careless lifestyle, she's a pretty good roommate (she pays rent on time and is not super noisy), but this is a significant flaw that I've meant to talk to her about for a while.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, she went on a three-week vacation with her family. She made minimal attempts to clean up some of her stuff, which I appreciated.

However, on Thursday night, I got home from work, and there was a horrible smell lingering in the house—like vanilla/beer/mold, and I couldn't tell where it was coming from.

I go through the fridge and throw out all her old food. I take out every garbage in the house, but the smell remains. I scanned the tops of all the furniture to ensure there wasn't a sushi tray I missed, but nothing. Defeated, I went to bed.

The following day, the smell was worse than ever. I walked past the door to her room (which had been shut since she left), and the smell seemed worse there, so I ventured inside.

The putrid stench hung thickly in the air as she had turned the fan off, and this is Texas in the summer. I immediately noticed my large Pyrex lasagna dish in the corner, covered in tin foil. Unthinkingly, I removed the tin foil cover, and a CLOUD of these tiny, brown, gnat-like insects swarmed out from underneath.

I gasped, coughed, and choked as one of the insects flew up my nose and became attached to the back wall of my nasopharynx.

I could feel it inside my nose, but it was pasted to my nasal passages with no way out. At that moment, I was so disgusted and blind with fury I paid it no mind.

I looked down at the pan of what had formerly been banana bread to see a chunky, gelatinous substance now covered with maggots and filamentous black fungus. It was too much.

I grabbed the dish, stormed into the parking lot, and then chucked the whole thing into the dumpster while cursing my roommate loudly.

When I got back inside, I got in the shower and, becoming more aware of the sensation of an insect so deep up my nose it felt like it was touching my brain, began to vomit for the next half hour.

I puked so hard it came out my nose, and though it burned so much, I think it finally dislodged the fly because I couldn't feel anything after that.

This was probably one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I work in a hospital and have seen several awful things.

17. My Roommate in College

u/Clementinequeen95: It was the first year of college when my roommate returned after having drinks at night and wet our carpet and some of my clothes. Despite the room smelling like urine, she denied all of it in the morning.

She would have random guys over constantly and get intimate with them with me in the room (even though she had a boyfriend).

She ended up getting arrested twice during the first semester for substance abuse. She was pure chaos and ended up in poor academic standing since she never attended class.

In the second semester, her parents required her to come home every weekend, which made things much better.

18. They Taught Her a Lesson

u/mein_kampfy_shoes: This is not my story, but a friend of mine had a rough time on her first week living in a new place with many guys.

She originally wanted to rent with her friend, but, unfortunately, her friend pulled out of the university course at the local university they were attending together. Hence, she had to find somewhere to rent alone.

She rented a room in a house shared with four other guys, who were also students. After the first week, she informed them she was going to the shop, and they asked her to pick up some toilet tissue for the house. Unfortunately, she forgot, and they were pretty upset about it.

So the next day, after being out of the house the entire day, she came home to find her bedroom walls and bed sheets smeared in feces. Their idea was to teach her a lesson about forgetting to get toilet tissue.

19. He Loved Having Pizza

u/TheOldKanyeWest: Not me, but my girlfriend's brother went through this. He lived in a quad with three other guys. They all met through Facebook before moving in.

Everyone was normal until about a month in. The one guy would never leave his bed and would only eat pizza. He would leave the empty pizza boxes in his bed and sleep with them on or under him. He never threw them out.

The real nail in the coffin was when he apparently clogged the toilet. The plunger wasn't getting the job done, and after 15 minutes, he panicked.

He walked out of the bathroom, took a wire hanger out of his closet, fashioned it into a stick, and went back in. The toilet flushed.

He returned, fashioned the hanger back into a hanger shape, rinsed it off, and PUT HIS SHIRT BACK ON THE HANGER INTO THE CLOSET. Any sensible person would THROW THE HANGER out.

20. Hiding from the Cops

u/MikeNoble91: I lived in a house with a guy who let his friend hide from the cops in our basement. The friend had ended the lives of two people in a robbery.

21. Several Roommates

u/[deleted]: My roommate never cleaned dishes and would leave them until they got moldy. Everybody used to do her dishes, but then we stopped and kept putting them on her bed, which she put on her room's floor.

She was a proud drinker and would constantly cause issues around the house, as well as lock other roommates out and barricade doors if someone made her upset.

Another roommate the year after was some kid who was generally a nuisance. One night, he got kicked out of a party and drove his car into a few other vehicles in the lot before crashing into an apartment complex and busting the gas pipes. They had to move people out into hotels for a while, literally. He turned himself in the next day.

Another was a regular guy, but one day, he came home looking late for something and said, "Hi, man, I got to go for a little while. You can use my parking spot and can have girls over."

Either that night or the following day, I got a couple of messages on Facebook asking if I was this guy's roommate, to which I said yes, and they informed me he tried forcing himself on someone and threatened to end her life because she didn't put out and were asking if I knew where he went or what car he drove.

I was trying to get out of my lease so desperately after that. My roommate was a menace to MANY girls who ended up posting all their messages and encounters.

22. My Landlord's Family

u/LauraPa1mer: On the first night in the new shared apartment I was renting, my landlord slept on the floor in my living room on a rug.

I thought that was weird, but I could not argue, as I needed a place to live. Then, over the next couple of months, my landlord moved in and brought over eight family members from Turkmenistan, including a newborn baby, and they all lived in 2 bedrooms (and by bedrooms, I mean one was the living room!!).

When I complained, they locked me out of the apartment. I called the police, who let me in and scolded the family. It was a nightmare. I finally got out of there and never looked back.

23. The Unexpected Visitors

u/Sue-Tree2930: A family of three came to my apartment and told me the other roommate had invited them to stay at our tiny apartment for an undetermined period. The roommate didn't discuss this with me beforehand. She was away on a month-long vacation.

24. The Careless Roommate

u/1lazylady: This guy kept falling asleep while smoking. I got mad every time and woke him up. He bought me a fire extinguisher at a yard sale one day. He thought it was the best joke ever.

One night, he fell asleep on the couch. His cigarettes rolled off onto the carpet. The carpet, sofa, and his shirt caught fire. He never woke up.

I woke up after having smelled it. I grabbed his gag gift and put it all out. His shirt and hair were GONE. He was okay.

He didn't go to the hospital, but things would have been much worse if I wasn't there or the fire extinguisher wasn't there beside my bed. I moved out immediately.

25. She Messed With My Food

u/Nuttonbutton: My roommate poisoned my food. She started with "harmless" pranks like putting salt in my Jello before it set.

Then, she put bleach in my pasta water like I wouldn't smell bleach noodles. She would steal my underwear, wear them during that time of the month, and put them back in my underwear drawer unwashed.

I spent YEARS being afraid of food and people. I already had a bad relationship with food because of my mom. This made it so I wouldn't eat at restaurants, or my friends' food they cooked to share, or eat anything that wasn't in a tightly sealed package.

26. I Was Annoyed

u/Delfishie: I had a roommate who did the following many things. When the four of us won a "decorate your door for Christmas" prize, she demanded that the three of us hand her our cash prizes because "her work had caused our apartment to win."

She would never pay for groceries and then invite her friends over so she could cook enormous meals for them using the stuff that everyone else had purchased.

She once drank a lot in one sitting, vomited all over the couch, and then left for a week's vacation the next day, leaving the furniture reeking of vomit.

She believed in a karma system where if she did something good for a stranger, she could take something from one of us.

For example, suppose she helped an associate move a heavy piece of furniture. In that case, she should be able to get away with not buying any groceries for an entire month because "she learned it by helping her friend with moving furniture."

She once agreed to give a mutual friend some of my extra clothing because she was headed to the building where that friend worked. She then handed that clothing to a stranger instead.

She would borrow money and then never pay it back. Besides that, she would turn the channel on the TV while other people were watching.

All of this looks minor, but repeated minor annoyances add up enormously. By the end of the year, my roommate could do something as minor as eat one of my bananas, and I'd be super annoyed because of all that resentment.

She also had good sides to her personality, but examples of selfish short-sightedness often overshadowed those parts.

27. The Crazy One

u/CerbysMom: In my first year of college, I had a roommate who did many awful things. I'm lactose intolerant and bought soy milk to put in our pitifully tiny dorm fridge.

Despite never giving me money for groceries, my roommate would call me while I was at the grocery store and ask me not to get soy milk because she didn't like it.

She also said she disliked the low-sodium soup I would buy. She did buy a case of ramen once in the nine months we lived together that she graciously let us eat.

She walked around our shared room in her underwear and left dirty underwear lying everywhere. She walked up to me while I watched a DVD on the television I brought and demanded that I give her the remote so she could watch her soap operas.

Her justification was that I'd "already seen this movie too many times." She would stay up late watching reruns of her soap operas with the volume blasting while I was trying to sleep for an 8 a.m. class.

When I sleep on my back, I snore. This usually isn't a problem because I've trained myself to sleep on my side, but .01% of the time, I accidentally roll onto my back.

I warned her about this and told her to throw a pillow at me to wake me up and roll onto my side. I was woken up one night by her shaking my shoulder with one hand and shaking my throat with her other hand. She says she thought it was my other shoulder. I still don't believe her.

Thankfully, I got into an apartment with a fantastic roommate the following year, while my suitemates (whom I would have liked to live with) lived with this crazy roommate against my advice. It took them a month to tell me I did the right thing by running away.

28. 'Demonica' Was My Roommate

u/goodgirlgonebad75: Shared a quad in college with a girl named Monica. She was fine initially but then began hiding the toilet paper, limiting our time in the shared living room, allowing a homeless man to sleep on the sofa, and hoarding cutlery.

She decided she wanted to be a vampire and had her teeth filed into points. At the end of the year, we started referring to her as "Demonica."

29. The Nightmare Roommate

u/nedjulian: I have had some bad roommates, but nothing compares to my friend's worst nightmare roommate.

My friend had this roommate who was always in his room or not in the house. He was filthy and was starting to think that he had some mental problems.

One day, my friend came home, and after figuring that his roommate was home, he called out his name, "Kevin!....Kevin!"

He heard no response directly but some noise in the unfinished basement. He entered the basement. It had a cement floor, washer and dryer, and very little to no natural light coming in.

He goes down the stairs and tries to turn on the lights, but nothing happens. Then, he moves over to the light in the center of the room. There is broken glass on the floor from a smashed lightbulb in the fixture above him.

Suddenly, my friend's roommate came out of the dark corner of the room with a knife. He hurts him in the stomach and side. My friend wrestles and makes it up the stairs and out of the house.

This happened before cell phones were common, so he had to go to a neighbor's house to call the cops. It turned out the roommate was going schizophrenic and having a psychotic break.

30. Where Are All the Plates and Glasses?

u/meeshkyle: Two months in, I realized my roommate was nasty. We both kept to ourselves pretty much.

One day, I went to grab a plate from the cabinet and noticed we needed clean ones. I looked in the dishwasher, and it was only half full. Where are the rest of the plates and glasses?

I entered his room and found seven plates and ten glasses on his desk. I grabbed them so we could clean them and noticed A LOT of molds growing on the bottom plates. It was so disgusting that I left it there.

My roommate came home, and I told him he needed to clean his room and learn to walk the simple 20 feet from his room to the kitchen to put his dirty dishes away after he uses them. He told me he could do what he wanted.

Two weeks later, he got mold sickness and puked all over the bathroom. I was out of town for work and returned to a nasty, disgustingly smelling bathroom.

It was a 3-day-old, non-cleaned, puke-covered bathroom. Let's say I talked to my landlord, and he was nice enough to work with me on our lease paperwork to evict him.

31. Stealing Money and Disappearing

u/[deleted]: My old roommate stole money for "utilities," stole money from other roommates, was into substance abuse, disappeared in his room for days, reappeared, and talked badly about the house, which he hadn't cleaned.

Before the substance abuse, he built a fountain in the backyard and shared pizza with us. He was awesome.

32. All the Things My Roommate Did

u/[deleted]: While we were throwing a party, my roommate locked a few guests in his bedroom with him and set off a bottle rocket inside the room.

He also set off fireworks behind our complex while the police were breaking up a party 50 feet away. When I confronted him about it, he pushed me hard twice.

When one of my other roommates asked him to do his dishes, he said that the cat left out the dishes. Besides that, whenever housework got done (cleaning the bathrooms or the kitchen or taking out the trash, for example), he would complain that he would do those things later that day and that we didn't give him a chance to contribute.

He quit his job after two months, the one he was using to pay rent, and mooched off his grandmother for rent and other expenses.

He was mean to everyone else in the complex. It got to the point where the rest of us (myself and two other roommates) wouldn't be invited over by the tenants of the other apartments if he was around.

He constantly reminded everyone that whatever they were doing, he could do better if he tried. On that note, he told everyone he was a senior in business even though he had dropped out and earned only 30 credit hours. He now wonders why I don't want to associate with him anymore.

33. I Lived with Roommates for Seven Years

u/DarkGinnel: I lived in a house share for seven years and have a few stories. Two of them are the worst.

First was a guy who had skin issues, refused to get help, and shed flakes everywhere, including the shower, sink, and toilet.

They also ended up in the washing machine when he did his washing, which ultimately ended up in everyone else's clothes when they washed theirs. I felt sorry for the guy. He was super intelligent, kind, happy, and friendly, but didn't look after himself.

The second one was a guy who lied about his job, never went to whatever it was, and regularly got up during the early hours to randomly scream at the top of his lungs and bang all the walls, the floor, and the ceiling in his room to ensure it woke everyone up.

I hated the guy for this and hated the fact he used my car as a bench when he went out. He would roll his eyes at me when I politely asked him not to sit on my car.

34. My College Roommate

u/pantlesspenguin: My college roommate was a mess. First, this was a tiny dorm; she brought a U-HAUL trailer, a Suburban, and a Mustang full of her belongings.

She wasn't there to study, just to party. She'd stumble into our dorm at 4 a.m., WAKE ME UP, and ask if anyone had called for her.

Our dorm phone had individual voicemail (this was before everyone had cell phones). She constantly had drinks lying out in plain sight everywhere. I drank, too, but I was a lot smarter about it. I just knew an RA was going to come over and see all that.

The kicker was when I returned to the dorm after a weekend visiting my hometown. She had a leaking McDonald's cup resting on my laptop that had been a graduation present from my parents.

I told her I was going to see about moving out. I went down to the admin offices to see what could be arranged. Luckily, there was a single room available just down the hall. Yeah, it was more money, but well worth it.

When I returned to my dorm, my roommate had already moved all my stuff into the hallway!! I hadn't even told her I could indeed move yet, ugh. I was so glad to be out of there.

One other story about her: in a couple of days, she got her tongue pierced and got pretty severely burnt in a tanning bed.

She was trying to look all cute by getting the piercing and tan, and I saw her walking down to the cafeteria very stiffly because it hurt to walk, and she had her tongue hanging out of her mouth because it was so swollen. I'll never forget that visual. She was only there for one year before she dropped out.

Living with a roommate is risky because one never knows who would live with them. Their roommate could be a wonderful person who becomes their friend or someone who just doesn't understand the concept of cleanliness.

Most of these Reddit users who shared their horrible experiences were glad to have moved out of their shared accommodation. Have you ever experienced something similar? Share it with us in the comments. We would love to hear all about it.