most of my roommates have been pretty decent. i'm sure at some point i was a poor roommate - i vaguely remember answering a door with a PTRD wearing whitey tighties and a СШ-68, a steel combat helmet from the 1960's. i may or may not have had some liquor.
anyway my roommates, while not terrible had some off-putting qualities (names changed):
1. Aaron worked a rather pungent and "menial", but well paying sanitation job and saw fit to do laundry separately from his other clothing. in the kitchen sink.
2. Benjamin rotated through girls quite frequently. Anne was legitimately psychotic and was committed (they met in a ward...) during the majority of their relationship, by phone and the occasional visit. Beatrice stabbed him in the leg during sex in a bid to somehow convince him she was serious about their relationship and was wife material. Charlotte had a small (several grams a month) cocaine habit. Desiree was a low-budget escort and very high maintenance. it didn't help that she started propositioning friends and family for money in exchange for sex. Eileen was a meth junkie and regularly stole things, and was pinched when she tried to carjack a parked car from a driveway. Francine was actually quite a friendly person. she also had some sort of desperate compulsive disorder (?) that got her deeply involved in interpersonal drama; complete with trying to hook up with friend's SO' and stealing small things or having drunk pity sex from random men (and some women) then going on miserable crying jags for days on end. eventually Ben decided (?) he was bi and is now in a wonderful relationship with Gerald, an illegal Canadian immigrant that overstayed a student VISA and is paying his way by selling weed.
2. Carlos could never keep a job longer than a couple weeks at best - the biggest issue was he had no qualifications yet thought very highly of himself. he was usually behind on rent and had to constantly pawn things, steal things to sell or barter with, or lived in near poverty. to this day, i believe he's working at a call center for an ISP and loves his title: Level 2 Support Engineer.
3. David is on dialysis. David also is Type 1 diabetic. David really likes gambling and liquor. this is not a good combination for David. i have had to pick him up at the local horse track or casino because his sugar got too low and he passed out. also he's on welfare.
4. Edward was a mutual friend of myself and Frederic that i lost touch with. turns out he and his dad (a trucker i think) lived a couple blocks away and we caught up. maybe a month or two later (i was a working college student at the time, finishing a degree), i learn that Edward is short on rent because he threw a party during his dad's absence and blew a bunch of money of stupid decisions. i loaned him a significant amount of cash for this purpose. he more or less ducked out with the cash and refused all contact, and his dad vanished as well. his divorcee mother was no help in locating them other than apologizing, and i learn that the money was instead used to partially buy a motorcycle (used one) that he promptly drove without a license and crashed somewhere. since he "got nothing" out of the cash he saw fit to not pay me back. i went to court over it, which he didn't appear at, and then i placed a lien against him, which to this day is unpaid.
anyway, during this time, the events of Frederic were in swing. Edward has more or less vanished by i hear things on occasion about failed bands, selling drugs, doing drugs, running out on pregnant girls, and various bills and debts. still living, likely shacking up with some girl, not working, and either selling drugs or living on welfare. as it goes.
5. Frederic is a dear friend from when i was in high school. he's always been a very liberal pothead stereotype but is a good person otherwise. we both went to the same community college, but when i went to a 4-year, he fell in with Edward (above) and with various communities online which not only deepened his liberal politics, but also got him into a lot of game design stuff. he left community college to go to some for-profit college, bought a car, and when his mother died and left him some cash, he spent it mostly on tuition and his friends and on stupid shit instead of being productive with it. his courses never went anywhere and was a complete waste of time. all the money ran out, and he moved in with me for a while. he was fine while we lived together apart from the weed, the constant political stuff, and his fixation on making a name for himself in video games (with no programming knowledge or modelling, or animation, or scripting, et c ). he did keep a job for quite a while though, but blew the money on various vices. after i moved him my own home, and he moved into a basement, he confessed that he kept knowledge of Edward from me like where he was or his particulars because Edward was effectively paying for Frederic's food and board with drug money and he didn't want to risk that. hard to fault him when he was otherwise homeless.
Frederic eventually shacked up with a girl, and got a few unstable jobs, but kept nothing, living paycheck to paycheck and constantly borrowing money from me. about $10,000 as of today. i will let my accounts payable text speak for itself below. note that it's been some 7 years now. he's still pushing the videogame design angle, making mods and stuff for GTAV now i think, and getting into arguments at his seasonal jobs (which gets him fired) and more recently has applied for welfare.
$130 partial for car tow fee
$200 back rent owed
$30 borrowed late june 2010
$100 bicycle/pump/rack/lock
$10 GTA
$70 food and BART tickets
$70 tony's laptop AC adapter and battery
$400 rent for december 2010
$100 for comcast bill
$20 airsoft
$960 loaned 6/27/11
$165 bike tire installation
$100 loan for insurance training and gasoline
$120 loan for work boots
$30 Payday 2
$115 gasoline money
$240 misc meals
$2284.25 brakes, alignment, et c for honda 3/4/15
$120 work boots/socks
$150 honda radiator repair
$500 1st mo rent 6/22/15
$45 split crab shack meal 2/12/16
$1000 rent 6/1/16 check #1425
$2250 personal loan to buy 7/20/16
$1450 debt purchase for motorcycle 3/25/16
$800 debt purchase personal loan 3/25/16
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-$150 payment 2/9/13
-$150 payment 3/9/13
-$150 payment 5/6/13
-$150 payment 4/1/14
-$100 payment 9/8/14
-$30 forgiveness (birthday)
-$200 payment 1/9/15
-$140 payment 4/25/15
bonus fun fact i just remembered: Ben's ex Charlotte was a maid of honor at a mutual friend's wedding. she made out with another friend during the wedding reception (not at the ceremony to be fair) and acquired cocaine in exchange for sex (blowjob for the dealer (another guest) in the venue's restroom)... all while still at the wedding. she then hooked up with yet another friend, a well meaning, but very promiscuous sheriff's deputy, and made enough drunk/drugged up sexually explicit calls to him at all hours to the point he changed his number and ditched his old phone.