30 People Share Their Worst Roommate Experiences

Your home isn't just the place that you sleep at after work. It should be a place of rest, relaxation, and enough solitude to help you gather up enough strength to go back out there and face the world. But something happens when you have a bad roommate. It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like getting home after a long day, putting the key in the door, and getting a spark of anxiety thinking "I wonder what I'm going to have to deal with now."

And there are a great deal of troubles one can deal with in a roommate. An overly passive roommate who doesn't do dishes and gets indignant when you suggest that they do them. A person with no boundaries who steals your stuff. The smelly guy. It's all part of the tapestry of stressful people to live with, and none of it is conducive to living a fulfilled, healthy, or even relaxing life. So to all the roommates out there who "have no idea why all my roommates are always so mad at me, I didn't do anything wrong," feel bad about it.

 And also you still owe me money.

For people who at least left eventually, here are some of the worst and weirdest houseguests people have experienced.

Bride Makes Plans To Have Wedding In Complete Darkness, Doesn't Get Why This Might Be A Bad Idea

There are times when we get so married to a concept that we forget about the practicality, means of execution, or how it will affect other people. This bride wants to honor her blind parents with a wedding in total darkness. For the whole wedding. And at first pass, that's a sweet thing to want to do. And then you remember that having 200 wedding guests who have not lived their lives navigating total darkness try and make up for it in one evening might not be the most stellar plan.

It's one of those things that is again, very cool in theory. But when you find yourself talking with the wedding planner about what kind of night vision goggles your caterers need to wear so that they don't spill food on your glowstick-covered father-in-law, it's time to take a step back (hopefully without bumping into a lost wedding guest) and think about if there is a way to honor your parents in a way that doesn't turn your entire event into a rave-like, unnavigable tripping hazard full of scared old people.

For some fun wedding stories, here are the most terrifically trashy wedding people attended.

Overworked Assistant Gets Independently Audited to See If Role is Required, Ends Up With 10K Raise

An overworked assistant, whose technical title was "helper," found themselves under scrutiny after an independent auditor was hired to evaluate their necessity as an employee. 

This thread was posted to r/pettyrevenge by the overworked assistant, Redditor u/Frostytoes99. 

The assistant explains in their post that they found a niche for themselves within the company by helping the technologically illiterate members of the organization with simple technological tasks. They estimated that they saved 15 hours of work every day on top of the value that they produced in their own work.

One day, a mysterious individual appeared at the office. Some sleuthing revealed that this person had been hired to see whether or not the assistant's position was necessary. After facing their vulgar behavior, the assistant decided to make moves. They took unscheduled leave on a Friday and decided to leave the company in disarray. 

By Monday, they were receiving phone calls; their boss was begging them to come back by Wednesday. 

The auditor was gone, and they received a 10k bonus for their contributions. 

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Mild Vandalism That Made The World A More Interesting Place

We can't exactly tell people to go out and write clever and stupid things on signs, but it does just kind of have a way of happening. It's inevitable, like gravity. These vandals slip in and out of the night, unseen by the public. They're seekers of their own kind of justice. Like batman, but with a sharpie instead of billions of dollars worth of assets to spend on crime-fighting. 

 It's hard to look at the words "public canal zone" without thinking about the terrifically fine ways one could simply scratch out a few letters and turn a regular sign into some magic. And sometimes one or two small changes, a post-it, or a well placed googly eye is all it takes. We're bored of walking around life and not seeing jokes on stuff, so the more quips get sprinkled into our dull, useless lives the better.

For the sign-hungry, here are some funny signs from this weird world.

Family Demands Sibling Give Money to Habitually Pregnant Sister, Threaten With Disownment

This family has grown used to using this sibling as a cash grab to subsidize their habitually pregnant sister's existence. The sister, of course, is the pride of the family due to her penchant for popping out little grand-babies for their fawning parents. 

This thread was posted to r/AITA (Am I the Asshole) by the sibling u/Pale_Arachnid_8452 who shared this story to the popular subreddit to see whether or not they were in the wrong for not wanting to give any more money to their pregnant sister. 

The family insists that the sibling should help by lending money to their sister since they are the "older" sibling (by 2 years.) The sibling is adamant that they should not have to lend any more money to their sister which has drawn the ire of the family. 

Commenters have, largely, taken the side of the sibling, telling them that they should give no more money to their family and should even cut the family off.

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People Standing In New And Intriguing Ways

It's honestly a shame that we're given only a basic 3 poses of "laying down, sort of crouching, and standing." Like what is this, Call of Duty? These pioneers of posture are bringing new shapes to the field of standing. Who knew you could just put your knee up on stuff like that? Is there a good reason why it's unusual to pop down into a super deep squat while waiting for the bus? We can think of about four good reasons not to, but who's to stop you?

Maybe if there's one lesson to be learned from these, it's that if you invent a new form of sitting or standing, and you're in public, it's legal for someone to take a picture of it and put it on the internet. But at least it's a better reason than how a lot of other people find themselves on here. So straighten that back out, push out your keister like you're hiding eggs for Easter, and look at all these interesting positions people found themselves in.

Car Karen Tries to Use Shoulder to Skip Traffic, Crashes Into Convenient Cop

This Karen thought that she could use the shoulder to skip a queue of traffic on the motorway but when a semi-driver decided that he was going to have none of that and intervened he caused her to crash into a conveniently placed police cruiser. 

This thread was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by the Semi driver, Redditor u/fmintar1. They shared this story to the popular subreddit to share how they got one up on this queue-dodging cretin.

The types of people that do things like this are the absolute worst and they are a plague on society. They think they are clever for using "tricks" that no one else is using. The thing they are too stupid to realize is that literally everyone else has thought of those things but have not utilized them out of respect for their fellow human and in order to abide by the rules and ethics that make up the backbone of society. The types of people who dodge queues in traffic or at the shop are too stupid and cruel to make this cognitive connection and subsist by being parasites of the good nature of others. 

 The commenters have made some good points here… At no point should you do what this driver has done. You have NO idea why that particular person is rushing up the shoulder. 95% of the time they could just be a total tool-bag but they could be having a medical emergency or desperately trying to reach a loved one before they pass on. 

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