Random Worst Roommate Horror Stories (20 items)

(#17) The Roommate Whose Husband Lost It

If we've learned anything from early reality television, it's that people with strong personalities should only live together when they're on camera and have a series of producers telling them what to do. If you're married to someone in the military, you're dealing with so much stress and anxiety that moving in with someone who's also dealing with those anxieties might be a bad idea.

There's a good chance that you'll clean the house you're staying at and your roommate's husband will get so mad that someone else cleaned his house that he'll get into a fight with his wife. If you're feeling lonely. join a book club instead.
(#8) The Roommate Who Outlawed Cooking Bacon

It makes sense to sign a contract with your roommates because everyone should know what their obligations are to the space they're occupying. It's called being adult, but a 10-page contract that forbids bacon, red sauce, and threatens a monetary fee if you receive junk mail is too hot for our blood.
(#12) The Roommate Who Constantly Had Bad Breakups

We've all had a roommate who's gone through a bad breakup, but imagine if your roommate had the most hellish breakup every other week. You'd never get any sleep, your front door would be permanently vandalized, and you might even have to deal with one of their ex's parents. No thanks.
(#7) The Roommate Who Took Her Roommate's Identity

Brittany Ossenfort met her roommate, Michelle, through a mutual friend. Everything was going great until Michelle got all Single White Female on Brittany and started an unofficial, solo look-alike contest. Brittany was fine with everything until she got a call from a local police precinct asking her to bail "Brittany Ossenfort" out of county. It turns out that Michelle was actually a trans sex worker who was caught soliciting to a police officer, and when she was arrested she took on Brittany's persona.
(#2) The Roommate Who Pooped In The Room

While staying in a hostel in Barcelona, a weary traveler was woken up in the middle of the night by a trunk Brazilian guy wearing nothing but a towel. After some heated words, the guy noticed that his hand smelled terrible. When he turned on the light he saw that his hand was covered in some mystery feces. When he confronted the Brazilian, he played dumb, and in the time it took to wash his hand off the Brazilian had fallen asleep in his bed.
(#9) The Roommate Who Left Their Pee-Soaked Laundry Around

It's bad enough to have a roommate who's stoked on going to Burning Man every year, but when they start leaving around their urine-soaked, skunk weed-stinking laundry for you to deal with, your life may have hit rock bottom. This writer for XO Jane managed to actually do her terrible roommate's laundry for her while she was busy getting lost in the desert. What a sweetheart.