Adventures in Housemates – College Friend
Housemates can be a great way to split costs or make money, but for me, housemates always become more of a mess than a savings. This is one of those messy stories. The names have all been changed for privacy.
Britney and I had been friends all through college. I spent college mainly living in a fraternity, so living with a girl was a new thing for this gay guy. It was great to have a friend around most of the time. She was fun to take to the gay bar and was fun in general. We had so many good times together. Britney was always a fun party girl in engineering college, but she was always having guy drama. We would go out to the bar several times a week so she would have someone to drink with and commiserate with her boy problems. However, the housemate setup was doomed to failure. She could get mad quickly.
Her Birthday was during a winter snowstorm and we were going to take cabs to the club she had a VIP section at. We were unable to get cabs so sh threw a fit and got one of her friends to drive 6 people to the club. I stayed behind being the only other person living in the apartment. We could not get a cab all night. She kept calling and telling us we were dead if we did not make it. After 2 hrs of trying to get a cab we gave up. Not having anything to eat and not being in any shape to drive we ate about half the birthday cake and played board games. She returned several hrs later said it sucked and we should have went. Got pissed about the cake.
Nothing was very good after the Birthday blowup. Then in Spring we decided to hold a dinner party where we would each invite two people. The dinner party was going fine everyone was having a good time. Britney’s friends left shortly after dinner because they had long drives. Britney then left the party and went to her room. My friends being more local stayed for a bit we talked and played games. An hour or thirty minutes after her guests left she emerged from her room went to the kitchen and said, “You need to clean this mess now!” I said no and some remark about how she is not fair when I had guest over. She then told me if she was not fair then move out. I turned to one of my two guests and asked if I could move in, the move happened the next day.
Britney then accused me of stealing a single fork and was holding my mail hostage. I threatened police and then my mail magically showed up.
For my transient lifestyle at the time, rooming with Britney was not that bad other than I lost a friend over it. And really dirty dishes are a dumb reason to dump a friend. We had fun times but were spending more on housing that should be spent for an apartment in that area. I was able to save some but not much. I would rather have not lived with her and still had her as a friend than save the small amount of money I was able to save and lose a good college friend. I regret losing a good friend so quickly.
Did you ever lose a friend because you shared a lease? Did you make a better friend from living together?
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