He does have the right to be a douche bag but when he is doing things to disrupt the house (as David has described) then they have the right to kick his @ss to the curb.

God grants douche-bag rights? And here all along I thought douchebags were just freelancing.

God grants douche-bag rights? And here all along I thought douchebags were just freelancing.

 

...hell, I thought they were Freeloading!

Doesn't he have a god given right to be a douche bag?  Why do you and your other roommates have the right to force your belief system on him? 

 

If you were being the least bit serious, then you, sir, are a douche bag.  If, however, you were joking, then you, sir, are a funny douche bag. 

Those renderings are great!

Doesn't he have a god given right to be a douche bag?  Why do you and your other roommates have the right to force your belief system on him? 

 

If you were being the least bit serious, then you, sir, are a douche bag.  If, however, you were joking, then you, sir, are a funny douche bag. 

 

He just likes to instigate and stalk me wherever I go. Not sure what part of "restraining order" he doesn't understand.

 

Those renderings are great!

Thanks for this.

David, I'm wondering did all the occupants of the house have a meeting to discuss house rules? 

 

 

House rules?!?! Come onnnnnn!!  If the guy is gonna eat other people's food and such, you think he gives a shit about "house rules".

 

That's like telling a thief that breaking and entering is illegal.

I'm telling you - tube sock + bar of soap - makes a fantastic blackjack. :-D

David, I'm wondering did all the occupants of the house have a meeting to discuss house rules? 

 

I wasnt here when landlord fixed the window. He hasn't answered my call. I was hoping he could come by and put the fear of God into Pete. Something will inevitably give soon though because he's living off of credit cards. The way I see it, it would be best if we could get a replacement, I'm sure the landlord would be up for it.

^Someone's paying those credit cards. I'd say it's about time for a call to Pete's mommy and daddy.

I would die laughing if he went into bankruptcy at such an early age.

I assumed they were paying it too until our cable was shut off a few days ago due to nonpayment and he had to pay with his credit card.

Credit Card = Instant Debt.

 

Why do so many find that a hard concept?

But Credit Card = Instant PS3, iPod, Plasmascreen...

Credit Card = Instant Debt.

 

Why do so many find that a hard concept?

 

Why is a credit Card equal to instant debt.  I pay everything by credit card, because I don't carry cash.

 

And what I meant by house rules/guidelines.  When you it was agreed he would be moving in did you have a discussion about what is and is not acceptable behavior?  Utilities payments?  Food arrangement?  Cleaning arrangements, etc.

 

Situations like this, is why I highly doubt, I'll live with anyone again.

Can this thread be put in the Best of UrbanOhio collection.  This is quite possibly the funniest thread I've ever read on here...priceless.

Just sneak up on this guy with a pair of scissors while he's focused on his little computer geek game and start cutting computer cables.

Just sneak up on this guy with a pair of scissors while he's focused on his little computer geek game and start cutting computer cables.

 

On that note, magnets and computers usually seem to get along.

On that note, magnets and computers usually seem to get along.

 

So does a beer which is accidentally spilled on the motherboard..

So does a beer which is accidentally spilled on the mother******...  :wink2:

Somebody start a "Roommates" thread.  I would do it myself, but since I've lived with over 30 people and worked on a boat with dozens more I can one-up every story. 

 

Registered sex offender?  Lived with one.

Use of date rape drug on premesis?  Check.

Cocaine and cash on the coffee table?  Check.

Police calls?  The later the better, I say.

Expensive stuff stolen?  Yep.

Holes in the wall?  Been there.

Sink ripped off wall?  Yep. 

Toaster fire?  Yep.

Mushrooms growing in closet?  Yes, and not the illegal kind.

Cat lady? Lived with one.

Professional juggler?  Lived with one. 

Male cheerleader?  Yep.

Male cheerleader who got sued for blinding someone with a slingshot?  Yep.

19 year-old female roommate with 55 year-old boyfriend?  Geesh.

Indian guy who poured jugs of water on his head while muttering "mimimimimimi"?  Yep.

 

 

 

jmecklenborg....ick!  :-o

^^But what about the other people you've lived with.

^^^What are you...like 50 or something?  Over 30 different roommates and you worked on a frickin' boat with dozens more?!!?

Male cheerleader who got sued for blinding someone with a slingshot?  Yep.

 

So much for that stereotype.  :wink:

Male cheerleader who got sued for blinding someone with a slingshot?  Yep.

 

So much for that stereotype.  :wink:

 

I bet it wasn't a slingshot!  LMAO

Is that some new term the kids are using nowadays?!? I need to get hep to the jive!

Is that some new term the kids are using nowadays?!? I need to get hep to the jive!

 

MayDay got it!  LOL

Can this thread be put in the Best of UrbanOhio collection.  This is quite possibly the funniest thread I've ever read on here...priceless.

 

Mastercard.

 

So does a beer which is accidentally spilled on the mother******...  :wink2:

 

Motherboard?

>Is that some new term the kids are using nowadays?!?

 

I've been living at this place for a few months, then one day I'm reading this article in the paper about three former OU students getting sued.  Apparently at one of the all-day springtime street festivals a trio was shooting water balloons with one of those giant slingshots.  A drunk guy comes walking down the sidewalk and says "hey, shoot me in the face with that thing".  They shoot him in the face from a porch, maybe 10 feet away.  His eyeball ends up in the grass.  He sues them, 18 months later they're ordered to pay him a combined $80,000 or so.  I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about. 

 

The sex offender thing happened because a guy moved out and put an ad on Craigslist.  Brett moves in.  Two weeks later a friend of another roommate who lived down the street said they got a notice that a sex offender had moved into the neighborhood.  I looked him up on the web and sure enough there he was.  Then a week or so later he asks to look something up on my computer.  He goes to type something  into Google and his name comes up, leftover from when I searched for him.  An argument ensues, after which he declares everyone in the house a "backstabber".  He moves out after about six weeks total but not before a "friend" of his came over and rode off with my mountain bike, never to be seen again. 

 

His story went something like this: He said he went home with some girl who said she was 18 or 19, then he wakes up the next morning and realizes he went home with the girl's mom a few years earlier.  The mom suspects the daughter brought him home to make her jealous, a cat fight breaks out in the kitchen, it's revealed that the daughter is only 16 or whatever, and the mom presses charges, he's branded a sex offender for 10-odd years.     

 

 

 

Note to self: Stay away from the CL's personals.

LMAO

 

This stuff is DEAD ON Pete, except he's older. Honestly, I think this game will be the downfall of America.

 

 

this one too if you have time

 

 

This is quite possibly the funniest thread I've ever read on here...priceless.

 

I don't know, the windex incident was a pretty good one too.  :laugh:

 

David, how much is your rent?  Less than $300?  If so this is a small price to pay for those savings.  Every time you see your rommate, think about the $6 you saved today basking in his presence instead of living alone.   

 

I don't think I've ever seen a 1-bedroom apartment, anywhere, for less than $300, and typically it's at least $400 even in cheap cities.  In a big city, living alone pushes $1K automatically. 

 

Think of it this way...if you save $2,000/yr on rent that's $20,000 by the time you're 30, if you keep it up.  And if you get a second job at a restaurant, you save say 4 meals per week, or 200 per year, or roughly $1,000 right there in food aside from the extra income of say $7,000.  Put it together and you can save and make $100,000 more by age 30 than the next chump.  Don't own a car and you're up to $150,000 for the decade.

 

Repeatedly people complain about how they can't retire on time or whatever, so much of it has to do with little insidious expenses, a second car (where I grew up a second car was very rare), etc.  I know a guy who is 55 who still delivers pizzas on top of his salary job because he understands what I'm talking about. 

 

Meanwhile I knew some clown who got out of DAAP making $45K his first year, his parents paid his rent and car, and yet this guy never had more than $1K in the bank because he ate out every night, accumulated about $20,000 in musical recording equipment (which was rarely used, and which he never made any money with, and which he got a whopping $3,000 for when he sold it all), went on trips all the time, etc. 

 

Oh, yeah, my rent is very cheap. 240 a month. He just needs a few @ss beatings. The more I scream at him the less he acts like this, so it should subside. I just don't think I should have to do the job his parents should have done a long time ago. I've met his mom; she seems like one of those parents who spoils thier kids out of guilt (over divorce or whatever else)

 

I agree with you about savings, I grew up with practically nothing so I don't feel like I have to maintain any sort of status quo. I don't think people realize how much eating out takes a toll on them. I can't even believe I've spent over 30 bucks just at a hole in the wall bar. I'm thinking about selling my car; I wouldn't get much out of it anyway but I don't use it much. Two tickets in the past month is ridiculous. They gave me a ticket for parking in front of my house, which is near a fire hydrant but I guess they changed the law regarding how close you have to be with one because no one has ever gotten a ticket parking there until now.  Taxation without representation, in my opinion.

I think generally rent around UC is cheaper than around OSU or practically any university I know if.  Overall rent is ridiculously cheap in Cincinnati, this is a direct result of the city losing population, but is way higher in new suburban apartment complexes with no bus service.       

 

>I can't even believe I've spent over 30 bucks just at a hole in the wall bar.

 

I was out one night when a guy had just gotten off a submarine, he picked up everybody's tab after midnight which alledgedly surpassed $1200. 

 

So yeah, get drunk ahead of time and only take $10 to the bars.  I've only used my credit card two or three times at a bar, that's where it gets really dangerous. 

boy, this thread makes me feel really old and responsible...

^Pete makes me feel old! I need to go set firecrackers off in the street or something before I have a midlife crisis.

Oh, yeah, my rent is very cheap. 240 a month. He just needs a few @ss beatings. The more I scream at him the less he acts like this, so it should subside. I just don't think I should have to do the job his parents should have done a long time ago. I've met his mom; she seems like one of those parents who spoils thier kids out of guilt (over divorce or whatever else)

 

$240 is good depending on what kind of premium you put on your peace of mind. Your other room mate has disengaged because he sees where going crazy all over Pete gets a person. But he's also enjoying cheap rent because of you.

 

Unless Pete experiences some life altering epiphany--or a stern warning from mommy and daddy--you should make your intentions of moving out known.

 

Go check out some places that are seeking room mates in your price range, and let your actions be known to everybody in your house. One of two things will happen. 1) You'll find a better place, or 2) Your room mates might get a little fear of god in them and reform to keep you on the lease and their rent cheap.

 

You might actually be able to negotiate your share of the rent downward. How does $200/month and no more sh!t fits sound to your room mates?

^Pete makes me feel old! I need to go set firecrackers off in the street or something before I have a midlife crisis.

at age 22 or so?

Why not write a letter to his parents?  Also, ask them to pay for your food that he has eaten and maybe they will say something to your roommate about it.  Of course, run it by some of us first to give you pointers and what not. 

 

Ok, maybe that was dumb but be more stern with him but do it without insulting him either.  Maybe post signs in your food pantry specifically calling him out.  "This food to be consumed only by David", initial everything that is yours.  If you catch him with it, hound him for it.

 

Also, threaten him with action and actually following through.  Next time he parks his car diagonally, get it towed. 

 

About the wireless, see about going in together with some of your neighbors and stop using your roommates.  I can't see you having any legal obligation to pay if you don't use Pete's.

 

 

Oh, yeah, my rent is very cheap. 240 a month. He just needs a few @ss beatings. The more I scream at him the less he acts like this, so it should subside. I just don't think I should have to do the job his parents should have done a long time ago. I've met his mom; she seems like one of those parents who spoils thier kids out of guilt (over divorce or whatever else)

 

$240 is good depending on what kind of premium you put on your peace of mind. Your other room mate has disengaged because he sees where going crazy all over Pete gets a person. But he's also enjoying cheap rent because of you.

 

Unless Pete experiences some life altering epiphany--or a stern warning from mommy and daddy--you should make your intentions of moving out known.

 

Go check out some places that are seeking room mates in your price range, and let your actions be known to everybody in your house. One of two things will happen. 1) You'll find a better place, or 2) Your room mates might get a little fear of god in them and reform to keep you on the lease and their rent cheap.

 

You might actually be able to negotiate your share of the rent downward. How does $200/month and no more sh!t fits sound to your room mates?

 

Good advice, thanks

 

^Pete makes me feel old! I need to go set firecrackers off in the street or something before I have a midlife crisis.

at age 22 or so?

 

21

 

 

 

Why not write a letter to his parents?  Also, ask them to pay for your food that he has eaten and maybe they will say something to your roommate about it.  Of course, run it by some of us first to give you pointers and what not. 

 

Ok, maybe that was dumb but be more stern with him but do it without insulting him either.  Maybe post signs in your food pantry specifically calling him out.  "This food to be consumed only by David", initial everything that is yours.  If you catch him with it, hound him for it.

 

Also, threaten him with action and actually following through.  Next time he parks his car diagonally, get it towed. 

 

About the wireless, see about going in together with some of your neighbors and stop using your roommates.  I can't see you having any legal obligation to pay if you don't use Pete's.

 

Hell, I'll use UCs wireless if I have to. Im not paying him anymore for internet. I could ask people upstairs about using theres and paying them. Hmm.

Here's Hayward's top 9 things I can't stand

 

I actually get along with all of mine pretty well, but there's a few ridiculous things that bother me.

 

 

1. Placing objects in front of my door.

My bedroom is right off the living room.  The door is between two chairs.  They place their computers and other expensive devices right in front of my door.  Why, I have no clue.  But I trip over them every morning or night when I walk out the door.

 

2. Playing music on a laptop

While you are in the same room either watching tv or doing homework should be illegal.  I HATE that tinny sound coming out of that speaker.  What's worse is when they try to sing along and don't know the words.

 

3.  Cutting hair in the sink.

One of my housemate's hair has required us to have our sink plumbing replaced twice  :mrgreen:

 

4. Leaving dishes out

This can actually be very hazardous to your health.  It's actually far worse than an unflushed toilet.

 

5.  Turning the heat up right when you get home.

We realize you are cold, but we aren't

6.  Stomping down the stairs.

You are clearly coming down the stairs.

7.  Interfering with my television experience.

Don't walk into the room and start scrolling through tv guide menus, taking half of the show out of the picture.

 

8.  Just walking into your room without knocking

I love when they say "Oh, I didn't realize you were here" which makes them even more guilty.

9.  Permitting friends to become roomates

We all have the same circle of friends, and it's okay if people stay a night or two.  But when they stay over and just won't leave for weeks it's a problem.  Two of my friends have just moved in because their high rise apartment flooded, and they tend to eat a lot, and not pay for it.  It's clear they won't be leaving for awhile.

I feel you brother

 

2. Playing music on a laptop

 

Seriously. And who wants to hear 80s power-ballads when they walk in the house? Wasn't that why God created headphones?!

 

 

4. Leaving dishes out

 

 

Certain people I know...umm...don't even buy soap; I've been using my own for about a week and have it hidden in my room (yes I'm that petty) and I don't even want to know how long he's gone without buying q-tips. The bastard is grimey. I guess he's too busy having a meeting with "the guild" or creating a strategy for the "raid" or something.

 

5.  Turning the heat up right when you get home.

 

 

True; we have vents in our bedrooms so our bedrooms are always warmer and with heat bills being RIDICULOUS we never have it above 68. Thank God there's a concensus.

 

6.  Stomping down the stairs.

 

 

Hardwood floors are the WORST when it comes to this. Flatfooted Mother#$%#ers sounding like Godzilla (devouring every bit of food in sight) .

 

7.  Interfering with my television experience.[/b]

 

I think it's time for a good ol' fashioned 5-across-the-eyes.

 

8.  Just walking into your room without knocking

I love when they say "Oh, I didn't realize you were here" which makes them even more guilty.

 

I hope this scenario didn't involve hand lotion. I never open any door in the house that is closed period because I'm scared.

 

9.  Permitting friends to become roomates

 

Hey, it's the same with prospective girlfriends; make them go through an application process (including credit score so make sure you get their SS number)

 

I don't mind having girlfriends stay for an extended period of time, particularly because they benefit the whole house through their cooking, plus they keep arguments from rising and everyone polite.

I don't mind having girlfriends stay for an extended period of time, particularly because they benefit the whole house through their cooking...

 

...and the five women on Urbanohio just simultaneously canceled their accounts.

I do not think there are 5 of us.

Correct. I think you are the only female member to post :)

there a couple other urban sistas that post