Living in a school hostel with roommates is a lottery. You get a roommate you get along with by pure chance, which doesn’t happen too often. If you’ve lived with a roommate whose singular purpose in life is to suck the life out of you, you will relate, in some ways, to this post.

1. When you get into your new room and find out that your new roommate is someone you have a beef with

Great. We’re off to a good start.

2. When you patch things up with each other and you think everything will be smoother from there

Who knows? We might even become best friends.

3. When it’s only been a week but they’ve started borrowing your things.

Your quality of life will be better if you could just buy your things, you know?

4. When they don’t even ask anymore before they ‘borrow’ your things.

This wasn’t what I meant when I said whatever is mine is yours.

5. When your things start to get missing but you don’t want to ask them to avoid a confrontation

This thing better turn up.

6. When they start to complain about how dirty the room is but they are the reason it looks like that

Plis dear, that’s not how it works.

7. When their partner becomes an unofficial occupant of the room

Should I leave the room for them or stay and make everyone uncomfortable

8. When they turn you to the doorkeeper because they’ve lost their keys and come back late

Why can’t you come back early like every normal person?

9.  When they start an argument with you over the littlest things

I can’t wait to leave this room for you.

10. When the session is over and they ask you if you’d like to live with them again.

If you don’t geddifok.

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