Roommate experiences you're glad you never had

Now that you are a little over a month into the new school year, you’ve probably become well acquainted with your roommate, suitemates and hallmates. You might even know them a little too well.

But what is the craziest roommate story you have ever heard? Well, we wanted to know.

Leslie Nguyen, a sophomore biology major, said she heard of a guy drunkenly walking into the wrong room on his hall, removing his pants and retainer, and crawling onto the top bunk where he proceeded to cuddle with the guy in the bed. Talk about getting close to your hallmates.

Freshman Blake Messerly said he heard about a guy who had a roommate whose girlfriend lived in their room for the first month of school. The roommate and his girlfriend would have sex at all hours of the day — even in the shower and while the guy did his homework on the other side of the room. Awkward.

“I have heard of a guy whose laptop got peed on by his roommate,” said Jordan Vanbeek, a sophomore exercise and sports science and business administration major. I wonder if ITS can repair that damage.

Tammy Lee, a sophomore biology major, said she knew of a girl who would cut up her roommate’s clothing so they would fit her, wear them and return them to her closet. That takes sharing clothes to a whole new level.

In my time, I have heard some extreme cases of crazy roommates. I have even heard a case of some girl’s roommate eating her hair follicles. Yes, you heard right. She would pull her hair out and eat the ends of her hair. Yum.

But nothing could prepare me for the last story I heard.

Claire Slevin, an exchange student from Ireland who studied at UNC last semester, said her friend’s roommate was a typical kind of oddball. Well, not so typical. She slept with a rock underneath her pillow each night and when asked, said the ‘spirit rock’ housed her spirit.

One day when she was out, her roommate got curious and looked underneath the pillow to find a plain old rock — nothing fancy. When the girl returned to the room, she immediately started to scream, “You looked at my rock — my spirit can feel it.”

So the next time you criticize your out-of-touch roommate for being antisocial, not going out or living under a rock — just think, at least she isn’t sleeping on one.