35 Horrendous Roommate Situations That Would Be Funny If They Weren’t So Relatable

Living with a bad roommate is a surprise; you wouldn’t agree to it if you knew. They gradually reveal messy or gross habits, and by then, it’s often too late.

Many have faced nightmare roommates, making it a shared experience. Some had crazy habits like leaving their dirty dishes in the sink or leaving the stove burner on all night. It’s like a rite of passage, preparing us for living with a spouse.

Check out these roommates and see if any of them can match the level of badness of yours.


1. “Family Member Has Cancer And No Immune System, And Is Largely Bed-Ridden. We Sanitized Her Whole House A Few Days Ago. Came To Pick Her Up And Found This. Told Her Roommate To Move The F Out, Immediately”

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3. “And So It Continues”

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5. “I Have A Dream”

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6. “A Solution I Made In An Old Share House To Solve A Milk Thieving Problem”

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7. “Saw This On Fb And Thought It Might Help Some People Here!”

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8. “This Was The Only Way To Ward Off My Roommate From Sipping Out Of My Mouthwash Without Me Knowing… She Used 3/4 Of The Bottle, Does She Really Think I Am That Dumb That I Won’t Notice? Hope She Freaks Out”

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9. “Saw This On Twitter.. Felt It Belonged Here”

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10. “I Come Home To This Fairly Often”

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11. “Left My Apartment For About A Month Because Of Covid. Came Back To Find This, The Ac Set To 40 * F, The Sink Running,the Back Door Wide Open And The Roommate Moved Out”

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12. “Asked My Former Flatmates Not To Use Metalware In My Nonstick Pot, Was Told I Was Being Unreasonable And That They Wouldn’t Scratch It. My Sister’s Identical Pot Of The Same Age Pictured For Comparison”

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13. “Roommate Decided It Was A Good Idea To Put An Incense Cone On The Lid Of My Telescope. Went Right Through And Landed On The Mirror”

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14. “I Was Gone For 1 F**king Weekend!!!!”

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15. “#tbt To My College Days”

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16. “At One Point In Time There Were Close To 20 Cups On The Coffee Table In The Living Room”

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17. “When Your Housemate Uses The Living Room As His Bedroom”

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18. “Top -> All Time Was Like A Checklist Of Memories I Suppressed”

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19. “My Roommate Thinks These Spatulas Are Clean And Still Uses Them To Cook”

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20. “Woke Up To This Today”

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21. “My Roommate Occasionally Leaves Careless Messes In The Kitchen. I Started Labeling Them As His Art Projects”

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22. “Guess You Can’t Expect People To Know About Dryer Lint”

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23. “Accidentally Locked My Roommate Out Of The Bathroom For 2 Minutes, I Promptly Unlocked Once She Notified Me, And Her Natural Reaction Was To Remove The Doorknobs From The Doors In Our House”

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24. “Burn Hole I Discovered Hidden Underneath My Roommates Bed After I Kicked Her Out. Pineapple For Scale”

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25. “Day 6 Of Living With A Roommate For The First Time. I’m Looking For A New Place”

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26. “I Guess My Latino Culture Triggered My Roommate”

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27. “Roommate Used My Favorite Turtleneck As A BBQ Rag Last Night :-/”

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28. “My Boyfriend (22m) And I (21m) Live With A 23f And 28m. I’m Sick Of Constantly Playing Mommy To Them”

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30. “I’ve Asked Her To Stop Popping Her Pimples And Sticking The Pus On The Mirror Three Times Already…. This Is Just Embarrassing For Her Now”

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31. “Why Is Replacing The Toilet Paper Roll So Hard?? The World May Never Know”

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32. “It’s Sad That It Was Necessary To Write This. There Was A Time I Bought Pie, The Next Day, I Went To Get A Piece (Hadn’t Tried Any Yet), And There Was Only One, Small Sliver Left. There’s No One Else That Lives Here, He Ate The Whole Thing Himself. He Did The Same Thing To My Krispy Kreme, Rip”

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33. “Love Trying To Make Myself Breakfast Before Work In My Lovely Kitchen”

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34. “My Roommates Were So Bad That I Finally Said, ‘Screw It’ And Got My Own Place. My Wallet Is Hurting But My Sanity Is Intact”

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35. “The Living Room Was Like This For 4 Months. All From One Person”

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