Freek Your Roommate
Insist that you are
a vegetarian and protest anytime your roommate eats meat. Then
leave "Slim Jim" wrappers on the floor and lie on the
bed holding your stomach everytime your roommate walks in. If
he/she asks about the wrappers, say you know nothing about them.
Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate's head while
he/she is asleep. Keep a pair of scissors by your bed. Snicker at
your roommate every morning.
Every time your roommate walks in yell, "Hooray! You're
back!" as loud as you can and dance around the room for five
minutes. Afterwards, keep looking at your watch and saying,
"Shouldn't you be going somewhere?
Trash the room when your roommate's not around. Then leave and
wait for your roommate to come back. When he/she does, walk in
and act surprised. Say, "Uh-oh, it looks like, THEY, were
here again."
Every time you see your roommate yell, "You son of
a..." and kick him/her in the stomach. Then buy him/her some
ice cream.
Set your roommate's bed on fire. Apologize and explain that
you've been watching too much "Beavis & Butthead."
Do it again. Tell him/her that you're not sorry because this
time, they deserved it.
Put your glasses on before you go to bed. Take them off as soon
as you wake up. If your roommate asks, explain that they are
Magic Dream Glasses. Complain that you've been having terrible
nightmares.
Eat lots of "Lucky Charms." Pick out all the yellow
moons and stockpile them in the closet. If your roommate
inquires, explain that visitors are coming, but you can't say
anything more, or you'll have to face the consequences.
Set up meetings with your roommate's faculty advisor. Inquire
about his/her academic potential. Take lots of notes, and then
give your roommate a full report. Insist that he/she do the same.
"Drink" a raw egg for breakfast every morning. Explain
that you are in training. Eat a dozen donuts every night.
Every Thursday, pack up everything you own and tell your roommate
you're going home. Come back in an hour and explain that no one
was home. Unpack everything and go to sleep.
Every time you wake up, start yelling, "Oh, my God! Where
the hell am I?!" and run around the room for a few minutes.
Then go back to bed. If your roommate asks, say you don't know
what he/she is talking about.
Draw a tiny, black spot on your arm. Make it bigger every day.
Look at it and say, "It's spreading, it's spreading."
Buy a McDonald's "Happy Meal" for lunch every day. Eat
the straw and the napkin. Throw everything else away.
Buy a plant. Sleep with it at night. Talk to it. After a few
weeks, start to argue with it loudly. Then yell, "I can't
live in the same room with you," storm out of the room and
slam the door. Get rid of the plant, but keep the pot. Refuse to
discuss the plant ever again.
Buy a Jack-In-The-Box. Every day, turn the handle until the clown
pops out. Scream continuously for twenty minutes.
Hang up pictures of chickens all over the room. If your roommate
eats eggs, yell at him/her and call him/her a cannibal.
Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so,
look at your roommate and mutter, "Soon, soon...."
Lock the door while your roommate is out. When he/she comes back
and tries to unlock it, yell, "Don't come in, I'm
naked!" Keep this up for several hours. When you finally let
your roommate in, immediately take off all of your clothes, and
ignore your roommate.
Bring in potential "new" roommates from around campus.
Give them tours of the room and the building. Have them ask about
your roommate in front of him/her, and reply, "Oh, him/her?
He/she won't be here much longer."
If your roommate comes home after midnight, hit him/her on the
head with a rolling pin. Immediately go to bed, muttering,
"Ungrateful little..."
Pile dirty dishes in your roommate's bed. Insist that you don't
know how they got there.
Collect hundreds of pens and pile them on one side of the room.
Keep one pencil on the other side of the room. Laugh at the
pencil.
Feign a serious illness for two weeks. Have a priest come to your
room and visit you. Write out a will, leaving everything to your
roommate. One day, miraculously "recover." Insist that
your roommate write out a will, leaving everything to you. Every
time he/she coughs, excitedly say, "Oooh, are you
dying?"
Live in the hallway for a month. Afterwards, bring all of your
stuff back into the room and tell your roommate, "Okay, your
turn."
Keep a tarantula in a jar for three days. Then get rid of the
tarantula. If your roommate asks, say, "Oh, he's around here
somewhere."
Tell your roommate, "I've got an important message for
you." Then pretend to faint. When you recover, say you can't
remember what the message was. Later on, say, "Oh, yeah, I
remember!" Pretend to faint again. Keep this up for several
weeks.
Bowl inside the room. Set up tournaments with other people in the
building. Award someone a trophy. If your roommate wants to bowl
too, explain that he/she needs bowling shoes.
Walk backwards all the time. Then pretend to trip and hurt
yourself. Fake an injury and go through a long, painful recovery.
Start walking backwards again.
While your roommate is out, glue your shoes to the ceiling. When
your roommate walks in, sit on the floor, hold your head, and
moan.
Explain to your roommate that you're going to be housing a
prospective student in the near future. One day, bring in a pig.
If your roommate protests, hug the pig and tell your roommate
that he/she hurt its feelings. Watch T.V with the pig, eating
lots of bacon.
Make a sandwich. Don't eat it, leave it on the floor. Ignore the
sandwich. Wait until your roommate gets rid of it, and then say,
"Hey, where the hell is my sandwich!?" Complain loudly
that you are hungry.
Punch a hole in the T.V. Sit and watch it anyway, complaining
about the poor picture quality.
Wear a cape. Stand in front of an open window for about an hour
every day. Then, one day, when your roommate is gone, go outside
and lie down underneath the window, pretending to be hurt, and
wait for your roommate to return. The next day, start standing in
front of the window again.
Collect potatoes. Paint faces on them and give them names. Name
one after your roommate. Separate your roommate's potato from the
others. Wait a few days, and then bake your roommate's potato and
eat it. Explain to your roommate, "He just didn't
belong."
Fill an empty shaving cream can with whipped cream. Use it to
shave,and then spray some into your mouth. Later on, complain
that you feel sick. Continue this process for several weeks.
Cover your bed with a tent. Live inside it for a week. If your
roommate asks, explain that "It's a jungle out there."
Get your roommate to bring you food and water.
Keep a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the room. Look at it with
fear for a few days. Then stay out of the room entirely, opening
the door only a crack and whispering to your roommate,
"Psst! Is it gone?"
Break the window with a rock. If your roommate protests, explain
that you were hot. Open and close the broken window as you
normally would.
Throw darts at a bare wall. All of a sudden, act excited, telling
your roommate that you hit the bull's eye.
Send flowers to your roommate, with a card that says, "I'm
sorry. It won't happen again." When you see them, start
ripping up the flowers. Repeat the process for a few weeks.
Call your roommate "Clyde" by accident. Start doing so
every so often. Increase the frequency over the next few weeks,
until you are calling him "Clyde" all the time. If your
roommate protests, say, "I'm sorry. I won't do that anymore,
Murray."
Hire a night watchman to guard the room while you are sleeping.
Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if he
knows how much an elephant weighs, and look at the floor on the
empty side of the room with concern.
Practice needlepoint every night. At one point, grab your thumb
and scream, "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Cry hysterically
for a few minutes, and then go to bed. Sob and sniff all night.
When your roommate comes in, pretend that you are on the phone,
screaming angrily and shouting obscenities. After you hang up,
say, "That was your mom. She said she'd call back."
Every time your roommate comes in, immediately turn off the
lights and go to bed. When he/she leaves, get up and loudly yell,
"Okay, guys, you can come out now."
Start wearing a crown, all the time. If your roommate tells you
to take it off, say, "What the hell do you think you are? A
king?"
Sit in front of a chess board for hours, saying nothing, doing
nothing. Then, look up and say, "I think this game goes a
lot faster with two players."
Talk back to your "Rice Krispies." All of a sudden, act
offended, throw the bowl on the floor and kick it. Refuse to
clean it up, explaining, "No, I want to watch them
suffer."