The Rootmate Rant Topic

[Bo Hart]

I have complained about my roommates in the past. However, I have the urge to rant about them a lot more frequently. If I posted every time I got the urge, I would be banned for cluttering this board. As a result, I will confine all of my ranting into this topic. Feel free to join in if your 'mates are giving you trouble, too.

Lets give some introductions here:

Kody - my rationale roommate; college student; easy-going
Chad - my other roommate; done with his 2-year stint at a Tech School; messy and dirty; lazy

Some of the stuff I may rant about probably sounds incredibly trivial, but I get pissed about it because:
a) the principal of it
b) I'm dirt poor

Maybe some of these will sound really mild, but the culmination of them over time will hopefully add up to give you an idea of how stressed out these guys get me.

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Here we go.

A bit of a preface here: our dryer sucks. You pretty much have to run a load through twice to get it to try.

Last night I decided to do some laundry. All of my pairs of pants were dirty, so I had to get some done. I threw them in the washing machine. Chad was about to go up there, and I explained my stuff was in there. A half hour later, I threw my stuff into the dryer and told him the washer was open.

I woke up this morning to get my clothes out of the dryer... when I opened it, I noticed it was Chad's stuff in there, not mine... I turned around, and found my soaking wet pants sitting on top of a hamper. I tried to salvage the load, but after drying again, they were still wrinkled and they smell like crap. I guess somehow in his irrational brain, he felt it was OK to throw my clearly-not-dried pants out of the dryer in lieu of his own crap.


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Our cable bill the last three months has been $120 or so (its so high is because we're paying an extra $40 a month fo NFL Sunday Ticket). Anyway, when we signed up, we got this offer: three months of the premium package at the price of the base package. It was like $30 in savings a month.

Yesterday Chad came up to me and said, "Hey, I need $50 for the cable."
Me: "We've been paying $40 each for two months now, how is it $50?"
Him: "The premium offer ran out, but I decided to keep it (the package) for another month. I wanted to record some movies."

So why the hell am I on the hook for that? That would be like ordering a boxing match on Pay-Per-View and expecting him to pay his share, even if he didn't watch it. I could see a rationale person asking their roommates before-hand if they were willing to chip in for another month of it, but him doing it without asking us -- especially when neither Kody nor myself use it -- really pisses me off. Er, him doing it and expecting us to pay for it, I should say.

The kicker is that he didn't really want to record movies at all, he just forgot to call and downgrade the package. He didn't want to tell me that, because I always give him crap about being lazy. Regardless of the reason for us still having it, its not justified and I'm pissed off.

Kody gave him the $50 but said he wouldn't do it again. I told him I wasn't paying for his mistakes and gave him $40.

[cardinalkarp]

I love your roommate rants.

Your one roommate is a turd. If he would've pulled that laundry stunt I would've been inclined just to throw his back in the washing machine and get it nice and wet again for him.

[Popeye_Card]

I don't miss having roommates after reading stuff like this (which happens all too often).

I had a long-running argument with a roomate over lids on trash in the kitchen. I am firmly pro-lid--it keeps the smell in the trash, and keeps bugs away. He was firmly anti-lid, thinking that if it's always open, the smell dissapates into the room, and doesn't stink to high heaven when you open it. That didn't make sense to me. If it stinks that bad, then you take it out.

A couple of months later, with the lid generally off the trash can because I was getting sick of always putting it back on after he would leave it off, we get an infestation of fruit flies in the place, and I have to bomb the entire house.

F'ing roommates. They'd always pull the washer stunt as well. They would also always leave dishes in the sink, full of water. It's one thing to let a pot/pan or something soak. It's another to fill just a glass you were drinking out of full of nasty water, and just leave it in the sink. Just rinse it and put it on the counter if you don't want to wash it right away.

I'm getting pissed just thinking about all this crap.

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[Popeye_Card]

Oh, and if I've been saving one last Sam Adam's Winter Lager for 4 months, DON'T F'ING DRINK IT. I can't buy more for 6 more months! That goes for Pumpkin Ale too.

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[cardinalkarp]

I'm getting pissed just thinking about all this crap.

Me too!!

Oh, and if I've been saving one last Sam Adam's Winter Lager for 4 months, DON'T F'ING DRINK IT. I can't buy more for 6 more months! That goes for Pumpkin Ale too.

Have they stopped selling it yet? I just picked up a couple six packs over the weekend. I need to know when that stuff is pulled from stores so I know when to REALLY stock up.

[Popeye_Card]

Oh, and if I've been saving one last Sam Adam's Winter Lager for 4 months, DON'T F'ING DRINK IT. I can't buy more for 6 more months! That goes for Pumpkin Ale too.

Have they stopped selling it yet? I just picked up a couple six packs over the weekend. I need to know when that stuff is pulled from stores so I know when to REALLY stock up.

No, that's an old rant that was revived by me thinking about it.

But the Schlafly Pumpkin Ale will probably be leaving the shelves soon. I think the Christmas Ale (which replaces it in the rotation) comes out this weekend. So I would plan on stocking up. Last year, it went quick once it switched to Christmas. But maybe they've beefed up their supply a bit in response to last year.

I think I'll pick up a couple more 6-packs this weekend, just in case. I need to remember to beef up my Coffee Stout supply next spring as well before it's pulled for 6 months.

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[Cronos]

Sometimes I can't tell if my roommate isn't doing any of the dishes because he's absentminded and forgetful(he doesn't get a lot of sleep) or just being lazy. I have to constantly remind him to do some of the dishes and I don't want to seem like a nag.

As well, I buy a lot of the groceries--I mean A LOT of the groceries we use--and I don't really know an easy way to split up the buying of things since we both eat whatever each other buys and or brings. I think there has to be a more even way of splitting that up, but I don't know how to balance it out except every so often have him go on a grocery run and have him pay for any and everything.

Other than that, I really don't have any problems with my roommate. He's a pretty laid back, cool guy.

[cardinalkarp]

Why wouldn't you guys just split the cost of the groceries anytime you go shopping?

[thrill]

Why wouldn't you guys just split the cost of the groceries anytime you go shopping?

Some eat more than others. Some have more expensive items than others.

It's better just to buy separate food and leave each other's crap alone.

[Popeye_Card]

As well, I buy a lot of the groceries--I mean A LOT of the groceries we use--and I don't really know an easy way to split up the buying of things since we both eat whatever each other buys and or brings. I think there has to be a more even way of splitting that up, but I don't know how to balance it out except every so often have him go on a grocery run and have him pay for any and everything.

If you're going to generally share food like that, the best thing is to probably have a money pot for groceries. Whenever I've shared a house/apartment with multiple people, we opened up a joint checking account and just put an even amount into it every month. Then paid all of the bills (and shared groceries, and kegs) out of that account.

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