Mar 19, 2009

Day Six - BufBloPoFo

Forget the suspense. Mine was my dorm room in Durham, North Carolina. It wasn't really a "home away from home." It was more like being at camp. You had bunks, and you could even put them on the ground so it looked like two normal beds. Because when people came over, they knew that this was your place, and those were real grown-up beds, and not just cots at some day camp. We were in the big leagues now.

Turns out our "big league" could have used some performance inhancing drugs.

1) We didn't have running water, which meant everytime you wanted to cook some ramen noodles in your microwave (the pot of water boiler was currently cooking your roomie's big feast), you had to walk your lazy ass down to the bathroom and get it from the sink. The bathrooms weren't co-ed, but that didn't stop the wrestler who lived down the hall from stinking up the joint. Just the place I want to be when fetching my sink water.

2) Roommates and why using multi-purpose rooms suck. It's not your fault. You're reasonable. In fact, so is he. Two people simply cannot share a multipurpose room. The dorm room is supposed to be used for many, many things. And when you're trying to use one that requires silence, there's simply no room for any activity requiring sound. Be it a quick game of Power Hour, or a full blown kegger (which is more fun than any of us will admit), any noise breaks the silence, and that purpose of the room is temporarily, shall we say, destroyed.

And if that doesn't suck enough, it's worse when it's you who is making all the noise. School's hard. Study is like torture. You finally get a chance to be away from the all-knowing parents, and do what you want to do (which, yes, sorry ladies, does involve getting laid) and now your super cool roommie is ruining it???? You should feel bad, but all you can feel is resentment.

Of course, living with that exact same roommate, in say....a two bedroom apartment wouldn't be plauged by this problem. The disease is roommate-itis. This is highly scientific stuff here. The cure? Two bedroom apartments. Spread the word. Remember the best part about saving a roomate-lationship is that when you do it, you're saving two for the price of one ;)

So, that was pretty much it.

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