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csi_sanders1129“If you guys don’t mind, can you maybe go listen to music somewhere else for a while?”
Apparently, them’s fightin’ words.
My roommate and her friend were in the room again. I was planning on talking to my roommate – about stuff on our roommate agreement, like no friends in the room after x time, and maybe proposing a no phone calls after x time amendment, as well, but I hadn’t seen her long enough to bring it up since the other night – and they were blasting youtube video at rather impressive volumes.
I’d been in the room when my roommate returned earlier, watching an episode of Supernatural. It was on megavideo and the time limit ran out about 10 minutes from the end. I went to get some dinner, figured I could watch the rest of it when I got back.
When I did get back, they were both in here, both chattering away on the phones that might as well just be super-glued to their ears, and playing obnoxious rap music. I played the last 10 minutes of the Supernatural episode (at a volume I had to strain to hear over their plethora of auditory assaults) and then settled in to read the last ~70 so pages of With Malice Towards None.
They’d been at it for a while, maybe 45 minutes or so. The annoying friend was singing (horrendously), my roommate was like acting crazy, banging on the walls and stuff (which, I had to point out, the lounge is not next to our room, someone else’s room is next to our room, so they’d probably appreciate it if you stopped doing that). I dunno, they were hyper.
Anyway, I was starting to get a headache, so I asked them if they wouldn’t mind going to hang out and watch videos in the friend’s room instead, at least for a while.
The annoying friend’s response? ‘We can’t, my roommate’s in there.’ [On another note, the other day, apparently a friend of her roommate’s was in their room and OMG sitting at her desk and how dare she just assume she can do that. In telling this story, she moved my backpack, my jacket and moved my chair across the room without asking. Hypocrisy, yay? I questioned this. Her response, ‘but that’s different.’]
I was done at that point. ‘I’m sorry, why do I have to be subjected to this and your roommate doesn’t?’
This apparently set the obnoxious friend off. She turned and glared at me and was like ‘Weren’t you just listening to music? Why do we have to leave, you should just go to the lounge!’
‘Uh, I was watching the tail end of a TV show I’d already been watching before you two showed up and started being loud. And no, I can’t go to the lounge because I need my computer for homework and it doesn’t get internet in the lounge (sadly, it also doesn’t get internet in the library, I tried that earlier).’
She was scoffing and saying ‘so what?’ as I responded to this.
In all fairness, my roommate seemed to realize that they were, in fact, being annoying, and tried to get her friend to just go, but the friend wasn’t done yet. ‘You’re always doing things like this, I’m sick of it!’
Okay, first of all, what? I nearly had a panic attack the other because I didn’t say anything. Despite the fact that I’m not friends with either of these people, I’m nice. I share things, hell, I’d helped the annoying friend figure out some song she couldn’t remember earlier this morning. And, yeah, I pointed out that they were being obnoxious with kicking the walls, but pardon me for not wanting the people next to us enacting revenge at like 4am or something. Of all the things I want to say, hell, of all the openings I’ve had to say things, I bite my tongue like 99.8% of the time. And if that was in regards to me asking them if they were done messing around in photoshop the other night, I’m sorry that I wanted to get some sleep before an early class? Second of all, my response: ‘What are you even talking about? Usually I have headphones in all the time. My ear has been annoying the hell out of me so I haven’t been using them, I’m sorry that inconveniences you? Not to mention, I don’t see why I have to be the one using headphones ALL THE TIME.’
At this point, my roommate had dragged her as far as the door. She was still commenting with things like ‘Don’t even talk to me right now’ and ‘ no, we shouldn’t leave’ and just generally bitching about my roommate giving in to my apparently ridiculous demands.
‘You do know this isn’t your room, right?’
‘Yes, and that’s the only reason why I’m leaving. This conversation is over.’
…Wait, what just happened? Aren’t I supposed to be the one that’s pissed?
I’ve come to the realization that I can tolerate my roommate for the most part – I can ignore most of the annoying things and live with her. However, my tolerance level goes out the window as soon as the annoying friend shows up.
ETA: Surprising development - Later, my roommate came back and apologized for her friend's behavior. Was not expecting that. Sadly, the conversation kind of died there because she went and left again.
Apparently, them’s fightin’ words.
My roommate and her friend were in the room again. I was planning on talking to my roommate – about stuff on our roommate agreement, like no friends in the room after x time, and maybe proposing a no phone calls after x time amendment, as well, but I hadn’t seen her long enough to bring it up since the other night – and they were blasting youtube video at rather impressive volumes.
I’d been in the room when my roommate returned earlier, watching an episode of Supernatural. It was on megavideo and the time limit ran out about 10 minutes from the end. I went to get some dinner, figured I could watch the rest of it when I got back.
When I did get back, they were both in here, both chattering away on the phones that might as well just be super-glued to their ears, and playing obnoxious rap music. I played the last 10 minutes of the Supernatural episode (at a volume I had to strain to hear over their plethora of auditory assaults) and then settled in to read the last ~70 so pages of With Malice Towards None.
They’d been at it for a while, maybe 45 minutes or so. The annoying friend was singing (horrendously), my roommate was like acting crazy, banging on the walls and stuff (which, I had to point out, the lounge is not next to our room, someone else’s room is next to our room, so they’d probably appreciate it if you stopped doing that). I dunno, they were hyper.
Anyway, I was starting to get a headache, so I asked them if they wouldn’t mind going to hang out and watch videos in the friend’s room instead, at least for a while.
The annoying friend’s response? ‘We can’t, my roommate’s in there.’ [On another note, the other day, apparently a friend of her roommate’s was in their room and OMG sitting at her desk and how dare she just assume she can do that. In telling this story, she moved my backpack, my jacket and moved my chair across the room without asking. Hypocrisy, yay? I questioned this. Her response, ‘but that’s different.’]
I was done at that point. ‘I’m sorry, why do I have to be subjected to this and your roommate doesn’t?’
This apparently set the obnoxious friend off. She turned and glared at me and was like ‘Weren’t you just listening to music? Why do we have to leave, you should just go to the lounge!’
‘Uh, I was watching the tail end of a TV show I’d already been watching before you two showed up and started being loud. And no, I can’t go to the lounge because I need my computer for homework and it doesn’t get internet in the lounge (sadly, it also doesn’t get internet in the library, I tried that earlier).’
She was scoffing and saying ‘so what?’ as I responded to this.
In all fairness, my roommate seemed to realize that they were, in fact, being annoying, and tried to get her friend to just go, but the friend wasn’t done yet. ‘You’re always doing things like this, I’m sick of it!’
Okay, first of all, what? I nearly had a panic attack the other because I didn’t say anything. Despite the fact that I’m not friends with either of these people, I’m nice. I share things, hell, I’d helped the annoying friend figure out some song she couldn’t remember earlier this morning. And, yeah, I pointed out that they were being obnoxious with kicking the walls, but pardon me for not wanting the people next to us enacting revenge at like 4am or something. Of all the things I want to say, hell, of all the openings I’ve had to say things, I bite my tongue like 99.8% of the time. And if that was in regards to me asking them if they were done messing around in photoshop the other night, I’m sorry that I wanted to get some sleep before an early class? Second of all, my response: ‘What are you even talking about? Usually I have headphones in all the time. My ear has been annoying the hell out of me so I haven’t been using them, I’m sorry that inconveniences you? Not to mention, I don’t see why I have to be the one using headphones ALL THE TIME.’
At this point, my roommate had dragged her as far as the door. She was still commenting with things like ‘Don’t even talk to me right now’ and ‘ no, we shouldn’t leave’ and just generally bitching about my roommate giving in to my apparently ridiculous demands.
‘You do know this isn’t your room, right?’
‘Yes, and that’s the only reason why I’m leaving. This conversation is over.’
…Wait, what just happened? Aren’t I supposed to be the one that’s pissed?
I’ve come to the realization that I can tolerate my roommate for the most part – I can ignore most of the annoying things and live with her. However, my tolerance level goes out the window as soon as the annoying friend shows up.
ETA: Surprising development - Later, my roommate came back and apologized for her friend's behavior. Was not expecting that. Sadly, the conversation kind of died there because she went and left again.
