Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Have a Roommate

I will say that officially I have learned my lesson to never have a roommate again.  I have lived on my own for a long time.  Then all of a sudden, a friend of mine is in desperate need of a place to live.  Her daughter had had enough of her living under her roof.  Being the nice person I am I let her move in with me on a temporary basis.  It’s very interesting what you learn about people when they move in.  Their habits, dislikes, likes, attitudes, etc.  Let the nightmare begin…….

Reasons to not get a roommate:

1. Your place basically becomes theirs by their choosing.
2. They take over the couch along with the remote.
3. They invite people over that you absolutely do not know and wouldn’t consider having over.
4. They hang around like leeches when you have a date over knowing full well you had already told them well in advance about this.  Hinting to them in the most subtle, but firm way that they need to exit for the night and be elsewhere.
5. They are absolute drunks who enjoy being loud and destroying your property and raiding your frig of the food you purchased.
6. They promise to pay rent or at least the utilities, but when it comes time to pay, they seem to be always broke.  So YOU wind up paying for everything.  *Utilities will always go up when you have another person in your dwelling.  I know, my roomie jacked mine up to $200 and I live in a small condo.  Go figure!
7. They are not motivated to go to their jobs.  They basically can’t keep a job.  Better yet, they refuse to go find a job!  These are the ones that think their sugardaddy or sugarmomma are around the corner.  They are waiting for some filthy rich one to take care of them.  Reality, people!  We all have work, most of us that is!
8. They are constantly arranging your home to their taste, which normally sucks.  Either they are neat freaks, which is okay to a point or they are absolute slobs!
9. They are sticking their fat noses in your business and want to be part of all you do.  Example:  Go to the grocery store, go to your family’s house, go out to the gym, go to a restaurant.  Again, this is the leech syndrome I call it.
10. When you are in your bedroom and want to be left alone, they always seem to knock on your door to ask for something stupid and/or bug you constantly for no reason knowing full well you do not want to be bothered. 
11. They mess with the thermostat.  My roomie is in her 50s and has hot flashes.  I know, I know!  One day I’ll get to experience that, but I’m still young.  Nothing like waking up and your roomie has put the AC down to 64.  Talk about an icebox and talk about my freaking electric bill!!  It’s called a nifty lockbox so that their fat greasy fingers can’t mess with it again!
12. Lastly, YOU WILL TOTALLY LOSE YOUR PRIVACY!!  Again with bringing the date over, they need to scram.  Take a cab to the local watering hole and drink themselves into a state of oblivion.  Go get a hotel room!  Go hang at the corner!

So now you have it!  I was only doing a so called friend a favor and instead she became a financial burden, a leech, a pain in the butt, a drunk, a lazy ass and just altogether a moocher!  So never again will I ever let someone move in with me unless it’s my significant other.  Even then I’d have to take my time with him moving in, but I’m sure it’s much better than this roomie.

She wore her welcome out too many times.