So the daughter has settled into the nightmare of her roommate situation. I get the update during major upsets like when the girl somehow uses my daughters uber account at 1am to get rides from bar to bar, and the drivers are calling my kid and waking her up to let her know they are there. How did she get that account info? No idea.
I hear about the variety of used condoms that this girl keeps on her desk for some reason…..for days at a time. Uck. In bright and very festive colors, and her habit of using my daughters things and then leaving them dirty and on my daughters desk for her to clean up.
Normal roommate problems like lack of privacy, lack of cleanliness….. and other things like bringing alcohol and drugs into the room. All sorts of annoying things in between.
I have talked and talked to her, tried to get her to SAY SOMETHING to this girl….. along the lines of, “Hey, I don’t like this….”, or “No, it’s not ok for you to bring another nameless guy over and expect me to find somewhere else to sleep again”. But, in her fear of causing conflict, she remains silent.
So instead of discussing this, and finding out if this girl is just completely blind to what havoc she’s creating, or really the selfish groupie she appears to be, Rachel just decided to request a room change.
Her plan is to get a new room assignment, and then maybe tell the girl as she’s moving out… or maybe just move out secretly and not tell her at all.
I think this is not the best idea.
I have given all the unsolicited advice I can think of. At LEAST give this girl the opportunity to respond to your complaints. See if there is a way to work things out. You never know if your next situation will be better or worse.
She seems to think she knows this girls personality well enough by now….and that anything she says will end up making things worse.
Maybe she’s right. She is living with her, knows her better than I do. From what I’ve heard, I do think living together would always suck…but maybe it could suck less…..
It’s hard watching this, knowing I can’t fix it for her.
momsranting 
On the bright side, it will make for some GREAT party stories when she has graduated. Like when my roommate used my face cloth for removing her pubic hair with Nair and leaving it on the bathroom countertop to find…. That is always good for some laughs. 😉
Oh. God.
Wow! That must be really bad. I was looking through some bad roommate posts and being a blogger about my own experience with a bad roomie. This is terrible!
yes, definitely pretty bad… but I’m happy to say she’s got a new roommate and things are much better… and now she’s got her own story to tell!