You know, I never really understood trigger-words until I got... ROOMMATES I hated my roommates Except for you, Isaac. (He watches my videos) You:"Oh, James! You didn't hate your roommates. You just...mildly disliked them!" YES I DID! When I first moved out of my house and went to college, the day I moved into my apartment and I opened the front door, this is what I saw: Keep in mind all the build up that has gone into this moment. First, I had to accepted into the school. Then, pick my major and classes. Then, I had to find an apartment close to the school and get everything set up there. Then I had to pack everything up into a suitcase, kiss my dogs goodbye, and then be all on my own, for the very first time. I opened the door to where I would be living for the next eight months and this is what I see: someone sleeping on a couch, he was wearing some bright fast food employee uniform, the TV is on, there's a Halo Five poster hanging on the wall, the sink, counter and table is full of dirty dishes, there's a big industrial-sized trash can that is overflowing, inside the fridge, there was an empty box of Dr. Pepper, a bottle of ketchup and a Jumbo Cosco-sized pack of hotdogs. (pause) WHERE DID ALL THESE DISHES COME FROM? Fun fact: those hotdogs were still in the fridge when I left. But the WORST thing that was there, was there was about a MILLION basketball cards just lying on the floor. I'm not even exaggerating--here's proof: Okay, so I got a single-room because I brought all my drawing stuff and I would feel bad if I shared a room with someone and he had to deal with all my drawing stuff being there. (And also I wanted to be alone.) Looking back, I'm so glad I got a single room because that room couldn't even fit myself. Literally--I could stand in the middle of the room, hold my hands out and without moving my feet, I could touch the walls of the room. Maybe I just have long arms, I dunno. I mean, I could settle for a small bedroom but what made living there so horrible-- were the ROOMMATES! What I didn't realize was that these boys also got private rooms. so that means that they too, were socially awkward and kept to themselves. Which you might think is a good thing, BUT YOU'D BE WRONG. On the first night of being by myself, I unpack all my drawing stuff and I set it all up, Then I turn on the computer and the screen is just BLACK. Nothing was turning on. I tried everything to fix it and it just wasn't turning on. Eventually, I contacted the people who made it, sent it in and got it back working. But during that week while the tablet was being fixed, Like seriously, no joke, that was probably the worst week of my entire life I'm being serious-- making comics and Youtube videos was what kept me SANE. and that first night of being on my own, and my tablet broke, I, I cried guys. I couldn't even eat FOOD I was that sad. I hit rock bottom. I remember just watching CaptianSparkelz and Game Grumps highlights all day. but then, the day I got it back, I was a drawing MACHINE. I posted a comic the very same day. So let's spend the rest of this video talking about these previously mentioned roommates I had. The first person I need to talk about is Isaac-- he was the only one that I liked and he's also the only one I told that I made Youtube videos. Now this boy wore OBEY caps, he vaped, and he said stuff like, "That's DOOOOOOOOOOPE" but you wanna know why I liked him the most? BECAUSE HE DID THE DISHES. Like, me AND him did the dishes! (It wasn't just him okay.) I'd probably never become friends with him in any other circumstance. I just wanted to say that he was the cool one. I Like him. Hi Issac! I miss you. I was looking at this post on the internet and it was where the old memes are today and the after picture for the scumbag Steve meme It looked exactly like my roommate who I'll just make up a fake name for... Steve for convenience I'm pretty sure I was roommates with a meme. Just put a fedora on this meme and boom! That's my roommate Steve. And it was a very fitting meme too! This guy wouldn't do the dishes He always cooked this ramen thing in the microwave And it would leave this gross juice stuff behind So then when I would go to use the microwave, it would get my paper plates soggy So I would have to check every time before I used it to make sure that there was no juice stuff behind! And also at night, he watched Anime. Without headphones. SUBBED. Anime has a certain sound to it, I don't know if you knew that. It's like normal Japanese but really... Emphatically. Luckily, it was usually late at night when he started watching So I would just have to get to sleep before he started and I would be all good! You: "James, why didn't you just ask him to turn it down?" I DID!! One night, I went into his room and I said... "Hey man can you turn it down?" And you know what? He did turn it down for that night. THAT NIGHT. That one night. The very next night... [Music] But you know, he wasn't too bad He would spend most of his time in his room playing video games and I would spend most of my time in my room, drawing. So except of the microwave juice thing, we didn't get in each others way too often. Here's actually a funny story! So when I was filming the part in the Vegan video, when I crumbled up Oreo's over Reese's puffs Steve walked into the kitchen and he saw me filming this sugary vegan concoction and i just said to him... "D-Dont Ask" OK, so here's is the Roommate that I hated the MOST! His fake name will beeeeee ... HUNTER. He was the one asleep on the couch when I first walked in And he was the one who had collected all those billions of basketball cards. JUST basketball cards. And he kept them all in the front room. What's the point of having sports cards when you can't even play with them! I mean, I spent money on Magic: The Gathering cards But that's because it's an actual game that you can play with friends. What do you do with sports cards! I mean, I guess you can leave them in the front room of your apartment Maybe, one day, your roommate might make a video about it though! He left his Mountain Dew bottles on the floor, He farted in public. He always complained that Steve didn't do the dishes, but he wouldn't do the dishes either! One time I was tired of doing everyone's dirty dishes So I bought a big stack of paper plates for everyone to use. But Hunter took the paper plates to a party without even asking me and he didn't even bring them back! but the worst thing this guy did... one day he told me "My Ex-girlfriend doesn't want our dog anymore... So he's coming to live here." WHAT!!!!!! So this boy wants to bring a dog into an already very small, cramped apartment! I COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS The dog's name was Snoopy and I loved him! Hunter would put him in his kennel at night, but one night I was like... "Hey Hunter, Snoopy can stay with me if you want" And then BOOM! From that day forth, I was the one taking care of Snoopy! Snoopy would now sleep in my room I would be the one who took him out for walks And I fed him slices of lunch meat. What was great was that when I would go into the kitchen and Hunter would be watching TV he would call for Snoopy. Hunter:"Snoopy! Snoops! SSNNOOPPSS!" But he wouldn't come This dog would follow me everywhere! And then one day Hunter said: "Hey do you just wanna HAVE Snoopy?" "I was gonna get rid of him." And then I said I would take him! And then later that same week... Hunter moved out. He took all the toilet paper too. He basically gave me a dog! Of course I loved that dog... But we lived in such a small space and I was always busy with school and drawing, I knew these weren't the best conditions for a dog to live in, and I'm pretty sure my apartment didn't even allow pets So I asked people I knew if they wanted Snoopy My grandma got one of her friends to take care of him I dropped Snoopy off and I've never seen him since And that's it. The End. There was another roommate who I didn't even mention He always worked a lot so I didn't really see him too much He had an electrical toothbrush I think since I was already mad at my roommates When I'd be tryna go to sleep And he would start brushing his teeth I would hear the electrical toothbrush going eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh And I would just start shaking with anger Like: [Heavy breathing] Just use a NORMAL TOOTHBRUSH DDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUU Also I wanna thank you all for a million subscribers, I mean, as I'm recording this, I don't have a million just yet but hey, when this comes out, maybe I'll have a million who knows? I'm counting my chickens before they hatch, there could be another Youtube purge But the next will probably be the million one so cool 'kay thanks for watching, wear your seat-belts unless you're my roommates. Hi Snooooopppppyyyyy, m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m. His name's Snoopy.
Roommates can suck, but I've found that the ones who can't make it work and just complain about everyone tend to be the biggest assholes. Most issues can be resolved by approaching people diplomatically. It's not hard to be like "hey man, can you please do your dishes. I don't want to have to wash someone else's dishes so I can use them." Or "can you please turn that down. I'm trying to sleep." And then just keep on it.
I feel like this guy is more upset about his social inadequacies and is just projecting it on others. He cried and said he "hit rock bottom" because his tablet didn't work. God forbid you should have to hang out with and talk to your new roommates. Maybe if he showed enough respect to bother getting to know them, they would have some respect for him.
god damn this was annoying
If you wanna talk about shitty roomies. I live with 3. Total of 4. 3 of us are ON the lease. Two of us have cats, mine is a service cat, theirs is just a cat. Which they paid the deposit for. And told me I had to pay half of it. ADA states I don't. So my complex waived my deposit. Their cat is a fat orange cat like garfield. He eats nonfuckingstop. They have him on a diet and feed him twice a day. Half a cup at 7am and half a cup at 7pm of soft cat food..... if they fucking remember. My cat is a royal tabby. Her name is loki lucifer edwards. She lives up to her name. Shes my pride and joy and keeps me happy. She has her food bowl out all day because she doesnt eat non stop. Just a bite here and there. Her food bowl usually lasts her 2 days before i need to refill it. Roughly 1 maybe 2 cups fills her bowl. I now have to hide her bowl because they lock their cat our of their room and he sneaks in and just eats the whole fucking bowl in 1 sitting. He has horrible teeth and cat breath. They never play with him. My cat also hates dogs. She is the alpha animal. And will fight anyone animal who tries to eat her food when shes around. My 3rd room mate is not on the lease. And has a tiny ass dog that barks only at me. My cat hates kappy (the dog). Hes scared of everything and tries to eat my cats food and she beats the shit out of him. Its hilarious. This 3rd roomy also smokes pot. Heavily. She probably spends over 2grand a month on pot. Is always late on rent and never does anything but smoke in her room. Which is next to mine. I wouldnt have an issue but i get drug tested everymonth for my work. Free health care? Kinda. #taxes pay for it. Now the two roomies that are on the lease pay the most in rent.(male/female/engaged to each other). The male. Lets call him J. Complete fucking control freak. 1. Do not touch the thermostat. 2. Do not leave electronics on or plugges in. 3. Will toss your laundry out of the washer done or not to was his and his fiances cloths. 4. Complains about everything (you cant leave your cats food out my cat is on a diet) you need to wash my dishes, you need to not eat so much were trying to save up to buy a house. You need to pay more rent. Fucking fatasses ate csfe rio 15 times this month. Save money my ass. You cant let your cat out of your room if your not home. He pays the cable bill he gets the remote (tv is mine not J's) I pay 300$ a month for rent. So i dont really care. But he pisses me off because i work 14-18hour shifts mon-fri. I don't eat breakfast or lunch. Only dinner. Ill come home and he'll complain about the stock pile of dishes after he cooked dinner for him his fiance and the pot head. And make me do the dishes. Oh and he didn't cook for me. So i always do the dishes for food i didn't get, and have to cook my own food. Heres the kicker. They used my grocies that im on a tight budget for. So some nights i dont eat period. Now onward to the fiance of J lets call her JJ. Shes the mastermind behind J. Because J is whipped as fuck. If she doesnt get her way she makes J do it for her. She never cleans, never cooks, is hella fat and Complains that her work is to hard. She works in networking. Ive done some networking and im currently in a hard labour job at the moment. I know things can be hard in certain jobs but she complains about the smallest things if not the same thing for months on end.... get over it. And stop stealing my toilet paper JJ. JJ parents where in town and left their dog, husky, with j and jj. Without telling me, the dog now lives with us. Its a huge husky and tries to eat my cat. So shes forever locked in my room. Sometimes i lock the husky in the bathroom when no one is home so my cat can get out stretch and play. I have tried to get loki and the husky to get along but she just hates dogs. And this husky will kill my cat. J doesnt care, his excuse is your car is in my garage and this is my home since J pays more. We have a 2 car garage in our condo with a pad that you can store atvs, bikes etc. My car is small and will fit on this said pad, but he wont allow ot because he wants to turn it into a den. the only time he goes into garage is to get burritos out of the deep freeze and then sits on his ass in his room playing LOL screaming and raging. Rarely ever has friends over. He also complains that he wants me to get ride of my car. Because his leather seats are to hot. Well its a two car garage pull in the other side. His reason- thats his wifes spot. She NEVER PARKS THERE shes afraid of hitting the walls in her tiny ass car.
Now your all thinking. Themute. Why not move out? Well ive made some shitty adolescent choices in life
Had a kid with an x fiance who left me after she found out she was pregnant and now pay child support (upwards of 400$+) a month. 387$ is my standard but i owe back child support which I'm paying off weekly. I no longer get to see my son. Im fucking depressed. Because of debt and working my ass off weekly. And weekends
My car is in need of a new engine .. ita ceased... i forgot to change the oil during my dibocle with the babymama. Why not sell it? I owe 13k on it. New engine 7k used 6,990.10$ crate 6,700$. Looking to just fix it and sell it.bank is allowing me to not pay car insurance as long as its in a garage. (I cant afford a storage unit) or id put my car there.
I make 14$ cutting concrete. Id like to keep this job for 1 year and sneak in my son on my taxes to reap that tax break before his mother does. Reason? She gets all my taxes anyways due to backpay child support and if i have 1 job its faster to file. Im also roughly 21-22k in debt.
I owe 2k on lawyer fees from court about who gets what rights to the child. I lost. 3k in backpay childsupport
4.5 I seems to have shitty luck because no matter how hard i try to better my life i fuck up. Yay me.
But all in all im sure theres is a way out of this rut. I'm probably not looking hard enough and making a big deal out of nothing. Who knows.
Tldr: i live with shitty roommates and have poor life choices that im trying to change.
Ohh not to mention i started paying rent via cashier checks from my bank, boy oh boy did they have a kick out of that. They are leaving town tomorrow to Disneyland out because they want to and wanted my rent is cash for spending money on their trip. Glad i started doing that. So much for them saving money right?