| My worst roommate (and I've had some bad ones) | | | | keen on having a stray dog around. Jason, the psycho, |
| was on my semester at Tel-Aviv University. It started | | | | completely lost it when he was told he couldn't keep |
| on the group flight there, with this obnoxious surfer | | | | the dog ("if he goes, I go, because he's the only one |
| looking guy who was seated next to me (I was on an | | | | who understands me"). He got right in my face and |
| aisle, he was in the middle). On the ten hour flight, he | | | | threatened to kill me if I turned him in (remember our |
| had me put something in or take something out of the | | | | size and strength disparities...), since I was the only one |
| overhead for him at least fifteen or twenty times. He | | | | who was home when he came charging in with this |
| just wouldn't leave me alone, and was constantly | | | | poor mutt. Later that day, after the security guards |
| begging me to change seats with him, and grab a pen, | | | | and the program people told him the dog had to go, he |
| and put this card in his bag... When we got to the | | | | took off, and wasn't heard from for a couple of days. |
| dorms and had our orientation meeting, it turned out | | | | A few days later, he showed up and was hanging out |
| that I was in the same apartment as him, though thank | | | | in a room down the hall, when someone called security, |
| god not the same room (each apt was 2 double | | | | as we had been instructed to do should he return. |
| rooms with a common kitchen and bath). | | | | From what I'm told of the incident, he went out onto |
| This guy was unreal. He was a bleach-blond surfer, | | | | the balcony (4th floor) and threatened to jump when |
| rowed crew, was well over 6' and very muscular (I'm | | | | the police arrived on the scene. After a tense |
| 5'7" and thin), and just a total jerk. He constantly ate | | | | confrontation, they charged him and were able to |
| the food belonging to the rest of us, claiming that he | | | | subdue him after he punched at least one officer. He |
| had no money, nevermind the $100 packages full of | | | | was then carried - literally kicking and screaming - off |
| crap he'd send back to his girlfriend in CA. After two | | | | the University's property and was taken into custody. |
| weeks or so of his constantly disrespecting the other | | | | He spent about a month or so in a mental facility in |
| three of us, things got a bit tense. The first turning point | | | | Israel before he was deported back to America. |
| was when he used an entire pack of my roommate's | | | | When my roommate got back to the apartment, he |
| razors to shave part of his head, and from then on he | | | | discovered that Jason had left us a final message. |
| seemed to be in ever-lessening contact with reality. | | | | Using a razor, he had cut open his finger and painted a |
| About a month into his stay, he decided to adopt a | | | | message in his own blood on our bathroom mirror |
| stray dog that he found near the beach while surfing. | | | | ("you all lied to me, blah, blah, blah"), then tied the bloody |
| This, of course, couldn't happen, because you can't | | | | razor to a rose and left it on the kitchen table. |
| have dogs in the dorms, and the rest of us weren't too | | | | Now that is a roommate from hell. |