You might have gotten stuck with a random roommate and they turned out to be horrible. Some realize that the saying, “you don’t know someone until you live with them” is all too true.

From cleaning disagreements, sassy sticky notes, to the flat-out “psychos” we have to live with. Having an awful roommate can sometimes make everything worse. Since moving away to school I have had my patience tested and have maintained a level head. Majority of the time, I find myself laughing at the attempts people make to try to get under my skin.

However, when you come home to bike locks preventing you from getting into your cabinets you can’t help but wonder.

Having a roommate that creates a stressful living environment makes everything in your life feel worse. Nobody likes walking out of their bedroom to see that entire box of Pop-Tarts you just bought thrown in the trash.

Or pouring yourself a bowl of cereal and reaching for your milk that you just bought to find it empty. Your organic and expensive milk.

Everyone who has lived with someone they don't get along with knows that you also grow to be annoyed by their friends too. Especially when your roommate invites about eight of them over, gives them your food, and then proceeds to say such horrible and untrue things about you, you find yourself laughing out loud at the immaturity.

After you spend hours every Sunday cleaning up the entire apartment until the extremely early hours of Monday. Scrubbing someone's boot prints off the floor, cleaning the stove top, counter top, refrigerator, and every single surface, picking up trash off the floors and emptying out half drank cokes, even putting rose water in your diffusers and buying a fan to get rid of the wet dog smell in the apartment. Just to wake up a few hours later to find your diffusers not only turned off but unplugged, your fan unplugged, and dried grease already on the stove top.

So you make a cleaning schedule that evenly divides the chores up because you are on the pre-law track and you do not have time to clean up after someone else. Then see it thrown in the trash, that you will have to take out because if you don't do it she'll just take the bag and throw it on the ground and leave it for you to take out.

Then, one day you come home to see she finally cleaned for once!

Then you hear her complain about how you never do anything around the apartment and she does all the work.

Then right as you start to lose your temper, you remember you are above childish behavior. So you laugh and remember that someone who can't even refill your water filter after using it without permission isn't worth your time and energy. Besides, you have more important things to do.