Some of the stories that you guys have sent me have detailed some pretty horrible folks that you've lived with. But this story from Corinne I think is the worst by far....
"Last year, while at university, I lived in an on-campus apartment with 6 other girls. One girl, Lena, had moved in late, and admittedly, didn't fit in. First of all, she was the only black girl and the rest of us were white or latina. Don't get me wrong, none of us were racist... except Lena. When she got pissed off she would refer to us as "white bitches" and would constantly go on about how she didn't like most white people. Apparently, in her mind, racism was okay, provided it was black people hating white people.
But that was only the tip of the iceburg... One of the major problems we had with her was her constant partying. She'd come in drunk and high at all hours, usually having forgotten her door key, so she'd ring the doorbell continuously, or bang on our windows, until one of us let her in. And she’d usually have some noisy, annoying friends in tow. Now, when she first was moving in, she asked how we felt about her smoking weed, and we said it was cool, provided she didn't do it anywhere in the apartment. She adhered to that rule for nearly the entire first semester, then suddenly stopped caring despite us constantly asking her to smoke outside or at a friend’s place.
Furthermore, she said we were infringing on HER RIGHTS by asking her not to perform ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES in the house, which we could ALL get busted for. It stunk up the entire hallway so badly that I'd have to hole up in my room and turn off the heater so the smell wouldn't come in through the vents (the smoke literally made me ill). Her total apathy for our feelings was most apparent the day I walked in on her sorting her weed on the kitchen table. Her substance abuse wasn't just weed, but also drinking.
She'd come in SO drunk that she'd literally get lost on the way to her room... which was the FIRST door in the hallway. Once she threw up in the bathroom SINK and didn't even clean it up until the next day. She also used to dump her dirty bong water in the sink, but not rinse it out. We suggested the toilet because it's easily flush-able, but naturally she didn't listen. Other random atrocities include: blasting her music at ungodly early hours of the morning when the rest of us were sleeping, then getting mad at her roommate for typing at 2:00 in the afternoon while she was trying to nap; leaving empty food wrappers/containers on or even IN the couch or coffee tables for DAYS until someone else cleaned it up; leaving part of a BLUNT in the couch; leaving food out overnight and then getting mad at us for throwing it away; NEVER taking responsibility for cleaning her dishes; not cleaning up after her friends' messes; and a poor sense of personal hygeine.
As in, she once threw up a little on a sweatshirt, and then wore it for the next week without washing it. Not to mention the STENCH that came from her room. It literally smelled of ass, feet, and marijuana. We're also pretty sure she hadn't changed her sheets all year...
And lastly, my favorite story: One day she left her SHOES on the KITCHEN TABLE. Dirty shoes. Where people EAT. So I put them in her room with a note asking her to please not put shoes where we eat. She thought it was one of the other girls, and ripped her a new one, saying to never "disrespect" her stuff by "throwing" it on the floor, and not to touch her stuff ever. There were many other atrocities, but luckily I've blocked them from memory.
The worst part was, try as we might, we couldn't get her kicked out because none of the authorities ever caught her in the act of doing anything. Plus, when they asked us, right in front of her, if we'd ever seen her doing illegal stuff, we said no because she was INCREDIBLY intimidating. She never made a direct threat, but would often mention how she had "beat some bitch's ass" or taken one of our kitchen knives to a fight. Eventually, the hostility rose to such a level that she took the initiative and left. It was about the only mature thing she'd ever done..."
Is this girl the worst of all the flatmates? Does she deserve that title? Let me know below!
