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XUL
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Roommates
#18982115 - 10/15/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think in my life I had about 2 - maybe 3 - good roommates out of around 20. It especially irks me when issues arise about money.
My roommate drinks all night, skips work, loses his job, and now he can't pay his share of the utilities; yet he has already paid his rent. So now our utilities may go out - unless I pick up the slack.
Get the fuck off my back fucking stress monkeys!
So what would you do in order to resolve this issue in a cordial manner?
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Re: Roommates [Re: XUL]
#18982122 - 10/15/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i'd be like wtf r u doin with ur life quit draggin me down cuz of ur poor choices get ur head in the game
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Re: Roommates [Re: Sheekle]
#18982129 - 10/15/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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except i'd do it in the most positive non-confrontational way possible where negative retaliation wouldn't be a viable option
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Re: Roommates [Re: Sheekle]
#18982162 - 10/15/13 04:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Roommates [Re: XUL]
#18982170 - 10/15/13 04:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had a few friends let me stay with them a few months, I'm a hard person to live with but so were they. Was thankful they helped me out, though the one friend fucked me over for a QP of pot.
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Re: Roommates [Re: fapjack]
#18982211 - 10/15/13 05:01 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have had ~15 roommates in the past 6 years and the best two I have had were from craigslist this past year. Cleaned up after themselves, did their dishes and what not.
Now the rest of the roommates have been people that I have known and it always feels like I do 90% of the work around the house just to keep it looking respectable. Never had too many $ problems with roommates which I suppose is good.
And XUL has the right idea ha. That will take some of the stress away momentarily.
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Re: Roommates [Re: XUL]
#18982253 - 10/15/13 05:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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ow, as for your question as to what you should do to get him off your back... I would try to find a time when he seems least susceptible to lashing out at you in some sort of tyrannical fashion and calm him down so you can nicely inform him of his duty to place equal funds for the bill.
If he can't come up with the money then perhaps you may wish to ask him politely to move somewhere else, but, I don't think you should say this to him directly, I think it should be a very subtle "get out of here", something that won't make him think you are telling him to leave, but which, in reality is exactly what you were wanting to say.
You could hire someone on campus to locate where he is staying and try to harass him to paying his fees, but I don't know if I would do that if I were you, just some random idea I got, but sometimes youve gotta do what youve gotta do. He may think you are purposely picking on him, as if you are singling him out when you should all be making a group effort to pay the money, but, I don't think he'll take it the wrong way if you are kind, since I myself and so kind & obliging, always one to sacrifice myself for the greater good, you might wish to take after me and perform a good deed, perhaps donate all your money and allow him to stay there forever, don't make him pay anything just allow him to be there without doing one thing, he shan't think you are doing it for some ulterior reason such as running experiments on him etc...
Well hopefully you fix this slight incongruity in your friends personality, for he seems a very hard person to get on with since if someone shared a room with me and wouldn't pay I'd probably be as upset as I can only imagine you are.
Good luck mate!
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Your brother ditched his wife to marry someone else's girlfriend?
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I've had some fucking crazy roommates who have like..tried to tunnel through the walls with wire clothing hangers and shit, but I've never been in a situation where they've made me risk coming up short on utilities and for that I'm grateful...
The aforementioned crazies actually got evicted by the landlord, there were 10(sometimes 11-12 depending on if someone had a lady/boyfriend hanging around) living in a huuuuuge Victorian, so the landlord put us all on different leases and divvied up the basic utilities to a flat monthly rate. Super convenient and really the only way I'd feel comfortable living with that many people. Before that I was always subletting and not on the lease myself. I dunno the best way of dealing with this situation, but I don't think I'd worry about being all that cordial, honestly.
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Re: Roommates [Re: fapjack]
#18982305 - 10/15/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had 26 roomates. 21 were great.
I get to hand pick them though.
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Re: Roommates [Re: XUL]
#18982335 - 10/15/13 05:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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OP why don't you just live alone?
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Re: Roommates [Re: NWlight]
#18982338 - 10/15/13 05:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sheekle take your cartoon scribbled signature animations the fuck off!
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Re: Roommates [Re: NWlight]
#18982340 - 10/15/13 05:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's often not an option for people, expense-wise .
Hell, I'd want nothing more than a sweet little studio apartment for myself, but even that is more pricey than living with roommates - or you're in a totally shit area.
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