Hell holds no fear for me after this lot.
I have had my share of odd flat mates and will freely admit to being petty....

1st year Uni The girl who took over the sitting room as her TV was colour but because it was hers she got to choose what was watched, then inviting her female friend to stay over (sharing her double bed!!!) who then would stay up all night on her own and cook seperate meals, while my flat mate who blow styled her hair for an hour each morning demanded to pay less on the bills as she went home each weekend in her nice new car daddy bought her to see her boyfriend. This is the same BF who threatened to hit me because I moved the remote for the afore mentioned TV.... I said if he ever came back I would call the police. In this same flat while we were hime for christmas and easter the owner thought it was OK to stay overnight with the spare keys she kept.

2nd year Uni Owner occupier two words that should make you run a mile. Also like many of the other posts a social worker added wierdness Welsh speaking. She clearly wanted someine to pay her rent and never be there I know this cause she pretty much said it to my face. She was nice enough but did odd things like not put subtitles on when watching something in welsh because she thought it would damage the TV so I would try to read or something which was hard because she would keep telling me hat was going on “he just said to her that the baby’s not his” type thing. And one day she came home and I was playing on my game boy (old style B/W) and she freaked out thinking it might damage the TV. I never did work out how that might work. I was asked to leave due to ‘being there’ after 3 months. Then I moved in with friends who were loverly but it didn’t work out as they hadnt been married long and what with the baby they needed there space but thanks for mid term rescue. Finaly that year I ended up in a half board B+B where we were not allowed in the kitchen had to be in by 10pm no visitors and her strange grandson would hide behind the chairs in the students sitting room and spy on us. We had no say in what we had for tea and frequently if was something that I just couldn’t eat (I used to be quite fussy) and I was too poor to buy anything else (living on less than £3 per week). I learned to make meals with a kettle and did you know instant whip can be made by drinking 1/3 of a pint of milk and pour the powder into the bottle close and shake.

3rd year Uni A little tip if you’re a science student never live with art students they just ponce around smoking joints the size of parsnips and playin loud music with their mates while you try very hard to sleep the night before your exam/ big paper is due and not quite finished so requires an early start. They just don’t get it as exams happen to other people and deadlines involve making a mess on the carpet with little foam blocks and sandpaper.
Although at least one was the perfect house mate,never seen or heard and we even doubted that he existed until he got some mail!

3rd year summer break just me and one housemate left for the holidays and she is moving out in a couple of weeks. New guy comes to view a room seems a bit weird sets the spider sence jingling both of us after he leaves hope he didn’t like the place…. He did and moves in a week later he is about 35 and a philosophy student who likes the house because its near the art house cinema. Seems ok if weird, buys tesco value fizzy water cause its cheaper than the still type and makes coffee with is (I find out later that he isnt disposing of the bottles but collecting them). Wierd but harmless????? Not really the day the other girl moves out his manner changes he snaps. Coming home I say hi in the hall, as you do, only to be told in frightening terms that I will only speak to him if gives me express permision first. Among other things he is about a foot taller than me and the eyes say craaazzzyyyy…… I try to put up with coming home and locking myself in my room and hoping not to see him (when I do see him its scarey). I eventualy tell my land lady who chucks him out.

4th year more art students aggghhh!!! Nice people for the most part one guy leaves at christmas due to spending his grant and loan on gifts and travelling to see his GF. Unfortunately he left his biggest fan behind.
This is a boy who chose for his first year in Uni to leave the co-ed halls where the heating was stuck on "all the girls were running around in their undies" he complained, to move into a box room with a boiler in it just to be near his friend (who didn’t really like him that much anyway). Well we were all convinced so we took him clubbing with some gay mates of mine to get an expert opinion. It was decided that he couldn’t be gay because he hadnt ironed his T-shirt :-)
Later in the year he bought a phone as the house phone was broken and he decided he wanted a posh mobile handset which he would leave locked in his room when he went home for weekends, so we had to buy a cheap binatone anyway. Cant remember why but for some reason he go all worked up just before my exams and threatend to hit me and at about the same time my bicycle breaks were tampered with so I spent my final’s staying at my new BF’s place with the woman who was to become my mother in law (boy did she make me nervous, still does).

Many of the details of the wierdness and scaryness of these have been lost in the years since then , especially since after housemates from hell came neighbours from hell.

Also we let a friend stay for a couple of weeks as we foundout he was sleeping in his car. A couple of weeks turned into 3 months in the tiny 2 up 3 down cottage we were in at the time. I eventually asked him to leave as he wasn’t even looking for somewhere else. Well why would he, living rent and bill free.


I feel the need to ask...

IS IT ME ?????

Sorry about the length but I missed out loads to keep it this short.
(frankiemouse, Mon 9 Apr 2007, 2:32, Reply)