re: Have a bad roommate story? Bet you can't top this guy! (Painful story linked)

That's awful. I have a funnier story:

My last roommate was a hypocondriac, alcoholic, obsessive compulsive, germophobic, racist, closeted gay guy. The other was a guy from Lake Charles, but that's not really paramount to the story.

The three of us lived in a 3 bedroom/2 bath apartment. When he moved in, the roommate (the first one I mentioned) got the room adjacent to the kitchen and one of the bathrooms meaning myself and the other roommate would generally be sharing the other bathroom, which was a little larger.

However, that first roommate discovered that the key to his room also locked the bathroom. So, instead of having 3 people sharing 2 bathrooms. It became one person with his own private bathroom that no one was allowed to use and 2 people (each with SO's who were over all the time) sharing one.

This got really annoying because every time he would leave the apartment, he would lock the smaller bathroom. This was the bathroom that was closest to the common room and made the most sense for guests to use, but because the bathroom was "his", he decorated that bathroom with stuff like pictures, decorative mats and matching towels.

The first time he noticed that I had used his bathroom (I had to piss when I got up one morning but the other roommate was showering) he confronted me and asked me why I'd used his bathroom. He then asked me if I'd used his toothbrush. Why the f&%k would I use another man's toothbrush!? Anyways, my SO figured out how to pick the lock with a bobby pin so we continued to use that bathroom without his consent when he was gone. He even noticed one time that the door was unlocked and confronted me about it. I just told him to open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.