'In terms of the big 5 personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism), I think agreeableness sticks out to me as being the least heard about. I would...
I'm halfway moved out! :D In the last couple of hours the following happened: -Rmt opens window (it's 90 degrees out) and wonders why it's hot in the apt. -Rmt also opens back doorway to...
The one major redeeming part about my place in the summer is that it's on the ground floor and it's always cool inside. But my roommate cooks meat 24/7, 365 days a year and we keep the windows...
It mostly comes out in my absurd sense of humor, but also when writing. I think someone who loves their job uses their imagination every hour of the day. I think imagination is worth most...
Co-worker: I'm reading this book called 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.' *proceeds to explain the contents of the book up to page 30 for twenty minutes Me: My favorite book is Man's...
Roommate went on a trip to visit his brother. Unfortunately, he forgot to leave a check for the last month of rent. In the past, I've reminded him when rent is coming up because he tends to...
Now my roommate wants to move out too, because he doesn't want to get a bad roommate for the summer. So I won't sublet my side, my apt. manager will find new tenants, and we'll still get our...
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Sry for the double post but: I'm finishing up my current job, gave my roommate and apt manager 30 days notice I'm going to find a sublet and move out (I live in a big city, so finding a sublet...
My biggest gripe with extroverts is that 90% of the time they lack self awareness. Like, they don't realize that introverts recharge when they're alone, and extroverts when they're with people. They...
The other day, I wake up at 6:30 to the smell of my roommate cooking his usual potato chorizo hash with eggs, toast, and bacon that he cooks every. damn. morning (my room is right next to the...
There's a reason I will always return to this website: Being an INFJ is rough. I don't mean to sound defeatist, I'm generally a hopeful person, but encountering people day-in and day-out who...
Advice on the internet in a nutshell: Google: Roommate who doesn't compromise. 1st result: yahoo answers: My roommate doesn't work, eats our food, cranks the heat up to 90, and smokes crack in...
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It's safe to say I will never room with a marketing person again. Wanting to remove the cellophane from the window to get fresh air into the apartment quickly became, It's going to be the same...
Apparently, there's a craze of people who hate on coffee because it's a drug. I will end you if you try to stop my addiction to my favorite drug!
I know what you mean lol. I've had my fair share of strange roommates. My last roommate was actually a lot of fun, and we had a lot in common. Yes, we did things that occasionally bothered one...
I like your idea about having a few drinks with him, though he generally avoids alcohol unless he goes out partying all night. I know some people who just think being loud/obnoxious is part of being...
I sort of do this already to an extent. Recently, I've begun frying up potatoes with onions and garlic to spice up the apt. He doesn't like that. But I just can't compete with cooking every. single....
I just don't get it when someone doesn't see any issue with cooking heavy meals like this with strong ingredients/smells. I met him off of craigslist, and I made sure to ask if he does anything out...
I did, unfortunately, but I could find someone to sublease for the summer, probably. If not, my landlord is pretty understanding and I would talk to him. I just have a really difficult time being...
I'm thinking about moving this summer. My roommate is too much. About 3 months in of us living together he quit his full-time job and became a marketing freelancer. He does this 2-3 times a week,...
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I wish I were more intrepid, and that I had more friends who read books or watched documentaries (but also weren't snobs about it).
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr Additionally, this passage from the opening of The Brothers Karamazov comes...
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Roommate vent #5879: I tried to turn on my tv this morning with the remote. I press the on/off button about 10 times, moving the sensor this and that way. I take off the battery cover and lo and...
OH NO!!! lmao Skip to about 10 seconds in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-enD42J6w
Reisiger, I've always respected your opinion because of how compassionate you are when talking with others and dealing with others' problems. I have wondered, at the same time, how you deal with it...
http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/templates/759494.jpg The blank stare. You're talking with someone, enjoying a topic of a conversation you think you both are interested in. Then the other...
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl A Grief Observed - CS Lewis All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr The Chosen - Chaim Potok The Last Battle - CS Lewis The Best Short Stories of...
This made me think of a quote from the book Freakonomics (they're talking about why parenting experts make bold statements and contradict each other so often): The authors go on to say ...
Been feeling like a bit of a loner lately. This quote from an article in the guardian helped:
Probably one of the more obnoxious things people (extroverts?) I know do: 1. I'm wearing headphones, listening to music/a podcast/it's my way of saying, Don't disturb. ...
I think it's pretty dumb when people call critically acclaimed things boring or not entertaining and all of the sudden that becomes a valid reason to completely avoid something. It's one thing...
So not to get into anything too personal, but there were several instances where I clearly said that's not cool, or this is frustrating to me, and yet I felt like he wasn't listening (cooking raw...
Thank you for explaining this. I work with kids with ADD/ADHD and even 3rd graders dodge the topic :). I don't mean to, like, judge my roommate and say he's a bad person or anything for not telling...
The topic of ADHD came up with my roommate last night. I was talking about kids I work with, and he said, I went to a doctor, and was diagnosed with a mild case of ADHD. Which, sort of surprised...
A few months ago one of my closest friends told me, you have a big red button on your back after I told him some of my concerns with some of our mutual friends. What he said resonated with me. I...'
