Roommate Scenarios

Roommate #1 ______Roommate #2 ______

Directions: With your assigned roommate & discuss each scenario. You must come up with a nice way to handle the problem you and your roommate are having. Write your solution in the blank space of this handout. Choose 10 scenarios below & answer with thorough responses.

  1. Your roommate ate dinner last night and left all the dishes out and now your cat is eating off them. How do you address this with your roommate?
  1. You have a huge final tomorrow, you have already been studying for an hour and your roommate walks in with five friends ready to have a party?
  1. You always have free time and your roommate never wants you to have any friends over, you have tried to talk with them about it and they always tell you no friends the best way to deal with this is?
  1. Your roommate always has their boy/girlfriend over it didn’t bother you at first but now they are there everyday using your hot water and eating your food. You should?
  1. Its time to pay rent this is the second time your roommate needs money they say they are broke—yet they just bought a new TV for their bedroom. Last month you helped them out this month you should say?
  1. Your roommate has a cat. This does not bother you except that it is pure white and likes to lay on all of your clean clothes and your roommate has not changed its litter in 3 weeks you have a date coming over how you should address this nicely.
  1. It’s your first week of college and your roommate is kind of different then you are. You totally do not agree on the same music (they play it loud while they study) and they have decorated your entire room gothic what should you do?
  1. He's always home, affording no privacy or time alone. It's like living with a rent-paying slug-- a hint of personality that sits in your living room, collecting dust.
  1. Your roommate has no friends and is super clingy. He treats "So what are you up to?" as an invite. None of your friends want to call, because he annoyingly attempts to befriend them all.
  1. You're overjoyed he finally met someone until his significant other moves in. You come home and he's on your couch, sipping your drinks, sorting your mail -- which would be kind of cute if he was your boyfriend. Your greeting quickly goes from "Hello" to "Hey" to "Are you still here?!" Soon you feel like an intruder in your own home.
  1. That roommate of yours is never home. Where at first you praised your good fortune, his disappearing act has left you curious. Where does he spend his days? He doesn't seem to work, yet he has money for bills. The kitchen is all yours, because he doesn't appear to eat. When he is around any attempt at small talk reveals nothing. And there are all those odd-hour calls and pages. When pushed, he says he works "in sales." His friends are nice if a bit quiet and mysterious. Is he low-maintenance and private or just plain creepy?
  1. Your roommate loves to hunt and is always shooting things in your back yard this didn’t bother you at first until now—He wakes up and shoots at something everyday. The neighbors are starting to complain and people think you are him sometimes giving you dirty looks.
  1. Your roommate is a pig. He gets into your food eats it and never pays for any. How do you approach your roommate in a nice way?
  1. Your roommate spills on the carpet and never cleans it up how do you approach this nicely?