Bad Roommate Habits
Things to watch out for and habits to avoid

In your old room at home, sleeping naked or wandering around in your underwear is perfectly acceptable. Unless you're really lucky, you probably won't be able to live that way with your new roommate. Roommates will learn to live with most habits, but, there are some behaviors that cross the line... or make you want to draw a line across half of the room. If you find your life being increasingly irritated by some of these habits, confront your roommate about how you can work together to ease the growing tensions. There is a good chance that your roommate has some beef with a few of your habits too, and it’s better to deal with it before it becomes a situation where you’re afraid that you will wake up at night to find your roommate hovering over you with a knife in hand. Here are a few of the more common complaints.

Warning Tickets

• Not refilling the Brita pitcher
• Leaving soda cans, dirty dishes etc. all around
• Never taking out the trash
• Offensive room decorations
• Barging in when you're naked
• Losing the TV remote
• Never knocking when the door is locked
• Do not use furniture as a napkin. Use a napkin.
• Not giving you telephone messages

Misdemeanors

• Singing with headphones on
• Mooching off your roommate's Eaglebucks
• Possession of smelly laundry
• Not washing bed sheets
• Unauthorized use of your computer
• Never offering to buy printer supplies (if you're sharing a printer)
• Leaving the fluorescent light on all night while you're trying to sleep
• Mail theft
• Eating all of your food
• Always having people in the room, or never leaving the room. Everyone needs some alone time.

Felonies

• Having a "live-in" boyfriend or girlfriend. You could've sworn only 2 people are supposed to live in your room.
• Sexiling beyond reasona
• Destroying something in the room, getting fined, and blaming it on you
• Breaking something of yours and not telling you. Don't try to hide it, that strategy really never seems to work.
• Failing to maintain personal hygiene on a regular basis
• Asking to use one of your papers for their class
• Puking in the room