My roomate is a dickhead

[LS20]

We moved to the city together after college

-I did all the apartment hunting (we decided to live here)
-My name is on all the bills (of course we split but i do all the paying/organizing)
-He has never vacuumed the place - i had to urge him to even buy a vacuum cleaner
-I do the grocery shopping every week - 1+ hours each time .. sometimes twice a week
-Ive cook every single meal in the house
-As labor exchange for the cooking, he's supposed to do dishes....
-Hasnt done any dishes/kitchen cleaning since Sunday
-I bought the widescreen Plasma TV foro the living room....
-which, for the last 2 days, he has literally completely occupied by playing video game---started before i get home from work, playing through the time i cook dinner, and still playing by the time i get to bed. no exaggeration

however, what prompted me to post this was that I just realized today is Thursday and "The Office" was on... which I missed due to his continuous video game playing on my plasma

needless to say, we're splitting ways

 

[sixone]

Familiarity breeds contempt.

 

[KLin]

You did all that before realizing your roommate is worthless? You better smarten up .

 

[imported_bum]

Make sure he doesn't burn in your plasma :Q

 

[monk3y]

That really sucks. You never really know how a person is until you live with them. I take it you were friends at some point so try not to let this ruin your friendship (though I fear it will, it did for me).

 

[doze]

You are his wife

 

[SonnyDaze]

And how long did you two live together in college? And you didn't notice this trend then?

 

[FoBoT]

Dupree?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

why are you buying his food?
why are you cooking his meals?
why are you cleaning up after him?
why is he using your tv if you want to use it yourself?

roommates don't do that for each other on a regular basis

 

[JC86]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
Dupree?

I was just thinking that.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
And how long did you two live together in college? And you didn't notice this trend then?

i'm guessing they just went to college together, not lived together. or the roommate just did a 180 and became lazyman.

 

[chambersc]

... he played through "The Office?" MURDER!

 

[Tylanner]

my roommate walks around the ****** house like hes walking on jupiter, goddamn earthquake at 8am every morning.

 

[Howard]

Sounds like he's got it pretty good. You, on the other hand, are weak sauce.

 

[Indolent]

wow, you're his bitch

haha, I like the fact that you shop, cook, and clean for him but what prompted you to complain on an internet forum was that he caused you to miss a dumb tv show. You ever ask him about any of this? What does he say?

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: doze
You are his bitch

fixed

 

[Aharami]

but you will make a princess very happy someday

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: doze
You are his bitch

fixed

... how was it broken before? Proper english.

 

[zinfamous]

hope he didn't burn in the plasma with his videogames....bummer

this is what you do: remove dirty dishes from sink (hopefully they've been sitting there for 1+weeks). place them on his bed. hillarity ensues.

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: doze
You are his bitch

fixed

... how was it broken before? Proper english.

He change "wife" to "bitch".

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
why are you buying his food?
why are you cooking his meals?
why are you cleaning up after him?
why is he using your tv if you want to use it yourself?
roommates don't do that for each other on a regular basis

1. we split all food and costs
2. i cook = he cleans up (which, of course, doesnt end up happening with equal reciprocity)
3. because we share common spare. his mess lying around = my apartment messy. for truly "common" cleaning chores i start doing something and he gets the hint and follows. for stuff that is purely his, i just collect them and toss them in his room
4. i bought the tv, and he was supposed to get the playstation and HD-converting dvd player. he couldnt come up with the dvd player so that never happened (i just ordered it myself last week).

the tv share is supposed to be fair.. and it pretty much has until last week when he became addicted to grand theft auto

Originally posted by: doze
You are his wife

it would very much seem so. yes.

Originally posted by: monk3y
I take it you were friends at some point so try not to let this ruin your friendship (though I fear it will, it did for me).

right on. we were friends in college (though never lived together). i did know all along that he was messy, and expected him to be messy -- though i had a chance hope that it was a "college period" thing and he would change acts after once transitioning to professional life.



the reason we decided to room was that we were both moving to this new city at the same time. i personally had very very little time with which to look for housing... this was complete convenience over me chancing with random craigslist roomate.

although what i said was completely true (not exaggerated), it actually isnt terrible. me picking the apartment means i can literally walk to work while he suffers traffic. i enjoy cooking (just not every single day). think of this as the classic roomate scenario where one person is messy, but the other person is very tolerant of, though his girlfriend HATES it (a la Shawn of the Dead?).

anyways, really, what set me over the edge was the fact that I missed "The Office". you dont fck around with my Must See Thursdays on NBC. >:|

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: dbk

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: doze
You are his bitch

fixed

... how was it broken before? Proper english.

He change "wife" to "bitch".

Ah, I guess the person being quoted edited his post because they both said bitch when I looked at it.

 

[Wuffsunie]

Reminds me of the situation some friends are going through. One is responsible and does work around the place. She's getting shafted. He's a lazy, lazy bum that lost an easy call center job because sitting around all the time "hurt his back." (He does have diagnosed back problems.) Funny how it doesn't hurt enough for him to stop playing WOW all day long, though.

Anyway, things finally came to a head as he told her that she's really not pulling her weight around the place and will have 3 months to shape up or move out. This while he's standing in the dog-hair covered living room that is his responsibility to clean up.

 

[bacon333]

Originally posted by: doze
You are his wife

 

[scott916]

If you don't put your foot down, you have no reason to complain. If my room mate was on my damn tv that I bought when I wanted to watch something and wouldn't get off, I'd unplug his video game and change the channel. You've gotta man up, dude. You're allowing him to walk all over you, if I was a lazy ass chump and you let me be like you're letting him, where's the motivation to change? He's got it good.