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Topic: I need funny or unusual college roommate stories
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| ljs22 | Posted – 7/5/2007 5:56:52 PM | show profile | email poster Hello, I'm writing a piece about strange college roommate/dormmate experiences and need stories from current or former students. Please get in touch if you had a weird roommate and want to share. Thank you! |
| bjhunter01 | Posted – 7/12/2007 7:28:10 PM | show profile | email poster Strange Dorm Mate Okay. Here's a strange one for you. Back at Northwestern University in the early '80s, there was a guy in our dorm who unfortunately was very strange. He lacked social skills, seemed to be in his world, didn't bathe very much, and therefore smelled pretty bad and had greasy hair. The strangest thing about him was that when he walked on the sidewalk, he would NOT step on a crack. I didn't believe it when someone first told me about it, but one day, looking down into our quad at the Foster-Walker complex, there was he, walking along, and in a jerky moment, avoided each crack. I heard that he was on the five- or six-year plan. I'm not sure whatever happened to him. And another student in my dorm, who was very nice but had narcolepsy, kept falling asleep when I was trying to tutor her on some subject in her dorm room. I had never before encountered narcolepsy so I didn't understand why she was doing it. And unfortunately for her, this problem caused her to have to leave the school because of poor grades. |
| keltoi | Posted – 7/12/2007 11:52:58 PM | show profile In my dorm in freshman year at a NJ state college the guy next door to me got stuck with a roommate that wasn't a day under 55. The man's name was Browning (first name), he had a bushy moustache, and always wore a red crocheted cap and sunglasses and constantly tried to fit in with us 18 year olds. We were convinced he was a narc. Oh--and my roommate and I got into an argument one day that wound up with both of us throwing all of the other one's possessions out our 3rd-story window onto the front lawn, including furniture. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 7/13/2007 1:10:12 AM | show profile I think you ought to transfer if by the second semester of your freshman year you don't have and /or have heard of at least a dozen strange roomate stories. There's the woman who's boyfriend moved into a triple. There's the roomie who practiced witchcraft. There's the roomate who planned a robbery where all his computer stuff and some of his roomate's stuff was stolen so that he could collect on the insurance. There's the virgin who had a nervous breakdown and went streaking through the halls at the end of spring finals. There's the two football players who, thanks to an arrangement by a roomate, let themselves into a dorm room and ran a train on her roomate. There's the girls who roomed in a house of Derby with the Berkeley naked guy. There's the roomate who dressed exactly liker her college roomate so she could steal her boyfriend (or is that a movie starring Bridget Fonda?) There's the roomate at Stanford who's "roomate" turned out not to be a Stanford student at all. You'd think going in and out of the window would have been a clue, but those private grade-inflated university students, well, just how bright are they?) Why don't you be a friggin reporter and go to a few college campuses or get online and find these stories for yourself? |
| maggiekb | Posted – 7/13/2007 12:43:19 PM | show profile Oh Geez... I got a good one...though I don't know if the girls involved will go on the record or not. I had a friend in high school who was sort of hystrionic (sp?). Everything revolved around her. She believed she had some sixth sense powers. And she used both these things to sort of manipulate a lot of people. When we went to college, I kind of started drifting away from her, but I became friends with her roommates and with the guy she was dating at the time. Who she later ended up cheating on with his best friend...because the best friend was her magical, destined soul mate. We (her roommates and I) suspected this was going on, but had no proof. Until the roommates broke into her AIM history and her online diary. Turns out, she was not only boinking this guy behind his best friends back, she was doing it on her roommate's bed. And laughing about said fact. Naturally, the roommates got pissed and got even. First, they rubbed their bare butts all over her bed. Then, intending it just as a joke, they told one of our guy friends that he should go masturbate onto her pillow. He acted like it was a big joke, too. But apparently he took the request more literally than it was intended. A few minutes later he came out of the bedroom with her pillow and a big, white glop in the middle of it. Panic ensued. The glop was wiped off, but the spot was still there so my friends just turned the pillow stained side down and hoped my ex-friend wouldn't notice. The next morning, the ex-friend ran into me at breakfast and started complaining about a car alarm that had gone off in the parking lot and how she'd had to cover her head with her pillow all night. |
