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December 11, 2008 |
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Rachel vs. Roomie
FOUND by Adina
in Los Angeles, California
This was in a dorm at UCLA and I can't decide if I feel worse for Rachel or her roommate (who has a snoring boyfriend AND a bitchy roommate).
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Two years ago, my roommate moved a boy into our dorm room. They weren't dating, she just wished they were. She settled for cuddle-buddies. Anyway, he was the rudest and most inconsiderate person I've ever met, like he used to start watching movies at 4 am when he couldn't sleep, on full volume. and he sang all the time, and once i came home to find him in MY bed. The roommate and I still don't speak.
Feel bad for Rachel.
Nah -- feel bad for Oscar, man...
I mean, "Ocsar."
Anyway, did she sleep somewhere else? Or not sleep at all? Who has a midterm that ends that early? How does she know he'll be back exactly at 8:20am? And who will be paying said shit, Ocsar or the roommate?
I'm in complete sympathy for the author of the note - getting no joy from Ocsar, but plenty of sleepless nights. The person being 'loved up' by ocsar may put up with it for the benefits, but where there are no benefits there is also no putting up.
Of course, Ocsar could be a big snorning dog ...
Oh my gosh, I can completely sympatize with the author. I used to get kept up all night by roomates/dormmates who snored/yelled/had boyfriends over/etc. and I have felt exactly like her. However, I hope I dealt with them more productively, like talking about it in person afterward...
@ Kermit: It didn't occur to me to feel sorry for Oscar, but you have a great point. I intended to ask about who was going to pay shit, but you beat me to it.
If you pay in US currency, the appropriate unit is the dollar. Other units are Euros, Pounds, Krona, Dinar, Rupee, etc. What is the appropriate unit when you have shit to pay?
I don't blame her.
Some people don't know just how bad one's snore can be.
I had a friend growing up who sounded like he was trying to inhale a liter of snot and a tank of air all at once and at times the volume actually rumbled the walls. He wouldn't stop for anything. Hit him with a pillow and he'd just go right back to sleep and snore.
He was a good guy. I just avoided staying overnight.
Aaaaah, dorm life. This brings back memories....that I wish it wouldn't. I was forced to sleep in the lounge once, after being rudely woken at 2 am, so a roommate could get some action. He was so drunk he peed her bed. Karma is a bitch, but she has a keen sense of humor!
I feel bad for Rachel. It is hard to think clearly when you are stressed about an exam and haven't slept. The natural response is to lash out on the roommate and the creature (be it man or dog or one and the same) that kept you awake.
It's not bitchy to be really hacked off when one's roomie's boyfriend keeps one awake the night before a midterm. I feel really bad for this girl. Sharing space with other people can be a real hell.
Why can't they just build smaller rooms at American universities, designed for one person? No one shares here in the UK, it sounds like hell!
Sounds like Oscar needs a C-PAP machine...I pictured O as a dog. Like a big drooling Saint Bernard
Not only that, he's also a big GROUCH!
Earplugs, Rachel. The foam-rubber kind that are shaped to fit the inside of your ear. I recommend Quies brand from France. They're magic.
I once stayed with some people for 2 weeks; they slept in a room down the hall of a large, old house, but I couldn't sleep because of the husband's snoring! Literally it sounded like he was dragging a heavy, studded trunk over a hardwood floor all night (with great detriment to the floor.) His wife apparently was "used to it" and slept through it night after night. How can you get "used to" that??
It's not his room, he's not paying for it. Third-party overnighters in a dorm are a nightmare. Dorm life is bad enough.
See your RA, Rachel. They'll programme a little "surprise" visit.
Oscar -
I like to picture Oscar as about 15 years older than the roomie... he way's about 220lbs. Use to be buff now he has saggy moob's and lots of body hair. Loves to break wind and scratch his ass after doing so. He's claims to be a narcoleptic, but really suffers from carb comas from all the Ramen noodles he eats. Where's his girlfriends robe - all day cause he'a always falling asleep. Commonly lets the robe belt dip in the toilet (prior to flushing)by accident. Has a comb over that goes down to to his back tat when he gets out of the pool. Back tat says - "This is a one way street." with a devils tail arrow on off the last T in street point towards his ass crack.
When he talks he sounds like a drunk Robert Goulet... "Hellooo Rachel ... How are you my lady? I made my comfortable in your bed last night... hope you don't mind ...or get turned on by that... it you know what I mean sweetcakes."
To make money (Paypal) he runs an amateur porn site off of the Roomie's PC. Likes to post pictures of himself with the roomie doing it on Rachels bed. The site is call www.meandmyladyontheroomiesbed.com.
ha! Blow n in thawind beat me to it! I was thinking big dog..possibly old.
ah, well..I've had to put up with some snorers and it sucks.
I agree...ear plugs. They have saved me at hostels, noisy hotels, etc.
weighs! (ugg not enough coffee)
Wear's as well... ssheeesshh
heh heh heh. I have had to put up with snorers and schnorrers.
Both suck.
@ Elaine....Sometimes we still have tiny tiny dorms and STILL have to share the room......about enough room to walk through the beds on either side of the room with two desks at the end of the beds and a TV in the middle.....not fun.
my cousin's daughter lives in a truck trailer, in the Netherlands. They've stacked up a bunch of the, they're little apartments. Quite ingenious, actually.
snoring does suck.
At least Oscar is not masturbating to his internet girlfriends on a web cam, which is what my then-boyfriend-now-husband's roommate did while we were in the room. Dorms are the worst.
Who teh heck is Rachel?!??
I've totally been on the other side of this note. I once had to share a very small room with 3 roommates (staff house at a resort...). While I never had sex when the roomies were there ,which is more than I can say for most people who worked with me, my boyfriend did occasionally stay over. I woke up one night to hear my roommate screaming "make your boyfriend stop snoring!!!!" I never heard anything, but apparently he snored quite loudly.
This from the girl who had drunken fist fights with her boyfriend (and by that I mean her attacking him) while *I* tried to sleep.
Snoring is the worst! I purposely try to go to bed first, before my husband, so I can fall asleep before he does(because he falls asleep in like, 5 minutes!). His snoring isn't even that bad, but it still keeps me awake. :(
My daughter snored like an end of the bender passed out trucker until we had her tonsils and adenoids taken out. Now she sleeps so quietly that sometimes I panic and check to make sure she's still breathing.
While I can appreciate the visual of Oscar (or Ocsar) being a large, drooling Saint Bernard, I once lived with a toy poodle named Oscar (scurvy!), so I can't get past THAT mental image.
Baby Basil said it: Earplugs. They come in handy in a wide variety of situations. get some and quitcherbitchen.
i like it when my boyfriend snores. its cute :)
How do we know the author is Rachel? I couldn't find a name on it (or maybe I am just blind?).
It's Rachel and Jenn - the one who borrowed the underpants for the job interview, and the keys to the apartment (from the Found a few weeks back) - so now not only is shewearing her underpants all the time, and leaving the door open, but she has a snoring squatter sidekick that she brings to the equation....
No right to call Rachel a bitch, I wish I had her guts! My roommates boyfriend sleeps here 4-5 nights of the week, but he's graduated and lives an hour away so I feel bad saying he's got to drive home! This boy snores like a beast and watches football ALL EVENING (like from 6pm when he gets here till 12am when they go to bed) even when I'm trying to do work. I've actually chosen to sleep in the lounge before. And today on my facebook wall it showed up that he's coming tomorrow, during exam period. Glad she asked if THAT was ok. I swear, if she didn't consider me her best friend, I'd write a note a lot meaner than this one.
@understanding...an all girls dorm is where all the boys are my dear.
What mlm said. All of it.
Last year I had one really bad roommate. She accused me of the most random trivial crap (which I was never guilty of) and yelled at me about it, not let me respond, then would storm out in a huff. One time she brought her friend over to yell at me, who I had never even met before, to accuse me that I had hung up on her when she called the room. Nevermind that I was sleeping when it supposedly happened, and that I couldn't even WALK because I had spent the previous night at the hospital for 6 hours in a wheelchair due to a amazingly swollen foot.
She'd also turn on the tv in the morning really loudly. One morning I was woken up by Guess Who the Drag Queen Is on Maury. She also left me lots of passive aggressive notes on the white board in our room.
Some nights she would bring her girlfriend to the room and they would stay up until 4 am talking really loudly. She didn't care that I had to wake up at 8 am, she'd just chatter the hell away. Somehow she even managed to SHAKE my bed (which was a single, not a bunkbed or anything) when she was sitting at her desk while I was trying to sleep.
I basically avoided my room all semester. Ugh.
Ok, had to rant! I feel much better now.
I wish I had somebody to sleep with... My newborn doesn't count... he doesn't sleep...
my roommate comes home throwing up in the middle of the night.
How would the earplugs work if she has to get up early, because I assume she needs an alarm...?
I snore ridiculously loud, too. The girls I date don't seem to mind because we'll typically be heffed up on something or other. Plus, they always have something fucked up with them anyway, so I can always play that card:
Bitchy-bitch: "You snore too loudly!" (which I can't help)
Me: "You ought to do some situps"/ "read a book"/ "pay for the drugs sometime." (all of which Theoretical She CAN do something about)
Living with a loud snorer is pure hell - especially if you are a light sleeper or insomniac.
My ex-husband started snoring about 6 months after we married.
It was so loud I could still hear him when I was upstairs in the back bedroom, door shut, earplugs in and he was downstairs, on the couch, with the surround sound blaring. There was no escaping it. I would be up for days sometimes.
I had to go elsewhere to crash-sleep over the weekend. I would sleep 14-20 hours straight without moving. At times I would stay at my folks for a couple weeks because I was just so drop dead tried that I was unable to wake up for work. It takes a toll on the non-snorer's health, sanity and the relationship - let me tell you.
A lot of obscenely loud snorers don't care to do anything about the snoring because it doesn't keep THEM awake. Honestly I don't see how it doesn't vibrate their skulls with decibels like that!
Now I run for the hills anytime I discover the guy I am seeing snores louder than a cat purr!
For some reason when I read this the first time, I thought it was to the person she stayed with. I had a picture of this college student going out and getting wasted, and then drunk texting her ex boyfriend that she still loves, but who no longer wants anything to do with her. When he didn't answer her texts she thought (in her drunken state) that she'd just show up at his place. He was chillin at his dorm ignoring her texts when she showed up. She was being really loud and drunk and he didn't want her wake anyone up or cause a scene so he let her stay. The next day when she woke up he was already gone. She was mortified by her own actions the night before so she left this note before she left, trying to blame her prior strong, drunken, unwanted come-ons on her roommate's snoring boyfriend. She was trying to be cool about it so the ex wouldn't think she was crazy ex-girlfriend.