Posted: February 10th, 2009, 2:15 pm
Can I participate?
For the second time since we moved to Chicago we are having roommate issues. The first time we moved into a place - which seemed like a good deal - sight unseen and the roommate turned out to be an addict of some sort. My money's on meth or speed. What's important is that she threw temper tantrums, laid in bed moaning and screaming all day and made my wife cry a handful of times. We got out of there post-haste and ended up moving in with another couple from Houston who...
...are moving out at the end of February having not given us a month's notice nor the landlord any. Now, I am actually glad to see them go, as she is the most passive-aggressive, combative control freak I've ever met. She expects us to pay half of a cable bill we don't use, even when we don't have a television. They don't lock the doors (her excuse is "having lived in the worst part of the Bronx, never locking the doors and having never had anything happened." I kept my mouth shut on what COULD'VE happened to her in that neighborhood). The kitchen is almost always a wreck thanks to her "cooking". She doesn't have any money to pay the electric bill despite cooking with a bottle of wine a night and buying stuff over the internet all the time. She never cleans her cat's litter box or takes her dog outside to pee/poop. Both animals have scratched up all the doors in the house. When we had to switch bedrooms because she would come home from work drunk and would keep us up for an hour or two she threw a hissy fit, screaming and moaning that we were taking up "all the space in the house" despite the fact that everything in the living room is theirs and they had the bedroom we have now before (which means they had MORE room before than we do now). After she used our kitchenware NUMEROUS times, even after I'd told her not to repeatedly, I left a note on them "Don't use our stuff" and her response was to write "ummm ur a shmuck" (she's illiterate apparently, too) and then "Pink Floyd sux" on them. Plus a lot more. All in the span of less than three months.
All this from a 27 year old girl with a master's degree in food/hospitality management that is going back to mommy and daddy in Houston because the job she took up here - at a luxury eatery - isn't paying her $60k a year starting. Cry me a river. What an immature spoilt brat. (As if you needed further proof of this, she is dating a man 12 years her senior simply to piss daddy off. She's a rich white girl and he's the quintessential "badass" rocker boy. They fight ALL THE TIME whenever he doesn't completely agree with her.) I will not be sad to see them go.
All I want is to find a good roommate to live with. Third time's the charm, I suppose...
For the second time since we moved to Chicago we are having roommate issues. The first time we moved into a place - which seemed like a good deal - sight unseen and the roommate turned out to be an addict of some sort. My money's on meth or speed. What's important is that she threw temper tantrums, laid in bed moaning and screaming all day and made my wife cry a handful of times. We got out of there post-haste and ended up moving in with another couple from Houston who...
...are moving out at the end of February having not given us a month's notice nor the landlord any. Now, I am actually glad to see them go, as she is the most passive-aggressive, combative control freak I've ever met. She expects us to pay half of a cable bill we don't use, even when we don't have a television. They don't lock the doors (her excuse is "having lived in the worst part of the Bronx, never locking the doors and having never had anything happened." I kept my mouth shut on what COULD'VE happened to her in that neighborhood). The kitchen is almost always a wreck thanks to her "cooking". She doesn't have any money to pay the electric bill despite cooking with a bottle of wine a night and buying stuff over the internet all the time. She never cleans her cat's litter box or takes her dog outside to pee/poop. Both animals have scratched up all the doors in the house. When we had to switch bedrooms because she would come home from work drunk and would keep us up for an hour or two she threw a hissy fit, screaming and moaning that we were taking up "all the space in the house" despite the fact that everything in the living room is theirs and they had the bedroom we have now before (which means they had MORE room before than we do now). After she used our kitchenware NUMEROUS times, even after I'd told her not to repeatedly, I left a note on them "Don't use our stuff" and her response was to write "ummm ur a shmuck" (she's illiterate apparently, too) and then "Pink Floyd sux" on them. Plus a lot more. All in the span of less than three months.
All this from a 27 year old girl with a master's degree in food/hospitality management that is going back to mommy and daddy in Houston because the job she took up here - at a luxury eatery - isn't paying her $60k a year starting. Cry me a river. What an immature spoilt brat. (As if you needed further proof of this, she is dating a man 12 years her senior simply to piss daddy off. She's a rich white girl and he's the quintessential "badass" rocker boy. They fight ALL THE TIME whenever he doesn't completely agree with her.) I will not be sad to see them go.
All I want is to find a good roommate to live with. Third time's the charm, I suppose...