So I'm a pretty easy-going person. I get along with pretty much everyone and I put on a nice face if I don't. This is a pretty handy thing when it comes to roommates, as I'm sure you are all able to relate to. I have two roommates right now. I'm pretty close with one of them and we get along really well. The other one.... she drives me up the fuckin wall. Like I said, I'm pretty easy going so I tolerate her and I don't make drama. Lately, I can hardly stand it when she opens her mouth, which is pretty much every minute that she's awake. She talks constantly, and I kid you not, its always about selfish, 'the-world-revolves-around-me' topics like "Oh my God, I feel like people always try to talk to me at the bar" or "I don't know what to wear out tonight, I wore this on New Year's Eve and there are pictures of me in it! What should I do? It didn't bother me so much at the beginning of the year, but as time has gone by, she's become even more self-involved. Now the commentary isn't just vain and meaningless, its ridiculously self-centered and even cruel. Last week we were watching tv and a commercial came on for a charity fund in the middle east. Cheryl popped in with "I'm not trying to be mean but I really don't care what's going on over on the other side of the world." I couldn't believe that came out of her mouth. She has no conception of worldly issues, other people or other cultures. She must really believe that everything exists to please her.
I usually try to explain to her why these issues are important but I feel like it's a lost cause these days. After the conversation about child birth, (she said that she would never have kids because they would ruin her body and she couldn't love them because they would cause her so much pain during labor) I realized that I needed to start tuning out her shallow, selfish comments. I am not exaggerating when I say this, everything that comes out of her mouth is about her. Even if it starts out as "how did your test go..." the phrase continues with "So I was walking back from class..." or "Waking up is sooooooo annoying..." I have to say that living with a person like this has really made me more aware of move words and consideration for others. I hope I never come across as the kind of person she is.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with her or respond to her let me know. I'm leaning toward a physical response, but I'd kind of like to keep a clean record, and I wouldn't have anywhere to put her body anyway... kidding.
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That must be annoying! I don't know what to tell you, but whenever my roommate drives me crazy I just hide in my room and try to stay positive. If worse comes to worse though, I've got a pretty big basement with dirt floors you could bury her in. Kidding, of course. Good luck!
That really sucks. My apartment is really small and one of my roommates hates to be alone, even if I'm just in the other room. My strategy was to buy earplugs and hide in my room when I need space. Then you can pretend you can't hear anything they're saying.
roommate stories, I love them. I had a very bad experience with my roommate! I moved in with two girls that I met in the dorms, which clearly from my experience was not enough time to get to know someone. We all got along well until one of my roommates got a boyfriend. I had to listen to her bitch about her boy problems, and these were not normal boy problems. She would get upset if he didn't buy her flowers every Friday, yea I'm so not that girl. So it turned into uglyness because I realized I hated who she was.. haha. But yea I spent a lot of time avoiding her and staying in my room, and I would find myself doing things that I knew would piss her off and vice versa. It was a really uncomfortable situation for me but sometimes you just have to let stuff roll off your back otherwise it will be a really stressful living environment. I wish that I wouldn't have been so critical because I wouldn't have been sooo stressed out about that stupid girl!
I would say ignore her. When I had a roommate, what I hated was she would take my things without asking. She thinks it's okay, but it is not okay to me and I am a pretty possessive person. But I realised that if I spend time thinking and worrying about her taking my things, I can't concentrate on the other stuff I have to do, so just ignore the annoying person.
Well after meeting her, I'm not sure that anything you say or do is going to sink in that much. She strikes me as one of those people that are too oblivious to the rest of the world to even be affected by criticism.
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