there’s your problem. (bolding mine)
That’s what happens when you ban god. Telephone companies might as well leave Alabama. 
How cute of you, Tuckerfan, to foster the village idiot.
Why the hell would he want to learn any cost saving numbers? He obviously has no intention of ever paying for his calls. I swear this guy’s clone used to be MY roommate. I owned EVERYTHING in “our” apartment. He would come home and flop on the couch and fall asleep, leaving me the uncomfortable chair for the night. If his girlfriend showed up I was supposed to disappear. He would always leave a teaspoon of milk in the carton so I would remember to buy more. Once I told him I was heading out of town for a long weekend, I had to stop home again to pick some things up, he was in MY bed with his girlfriend. He would dirty every dish in the house, and broiler in the oven, when it was my turn to do the dishes. When it was his turn, he would “accidentally” break half the dirty dishes to prove to me that he really wasn’t very good at doing dishes. When the lease was up, I told him I was moving. He said, oh yeah? Where are WE moving to? HAHAHA!!! I got a good laugh out of that one.
You better cut this leach loose before he bleeds you dry.
They have this wonderful new invention that would have been useful to you: a bed.
OK, I will come home from work and go directly to bed while my deadbeat roomie is flopped out on my couch. Sounds reasonable :dubious:
There ya go! Problem solved.
that sucks ccwaterback, I’ve had some unfortuntate roomate experiences myself. Went from one roomie with O.C.D to Super Slob.
And tuckerfan, perhaps you should leave detailed, step by step instructions taped next to the phone. Perhaps a detailed diagram would be helpful? You can NEVER go wrong with visual aides…
ccwaterback, I had a roomie like that once. He also had a restraining order put on him by his SO, who would show up once a week to have sex with him, remind him of the order, then leave. He would then turn on his police scanner to see if the cops were looking for him (and they often were, for other reasons). After the third consecutive month of not paying his rent, his butt got thrown onto the street.
After last night, I am convinced my roommate is mildly retarded. We had a power outage last night, and rather than sit in the dark (I have some candles and a flashlight, but I wasn’t about to break them out, since I figured the lights would only be out for an hour or two.) I went out and sat on the deck to watch the storm. (Fast moving, lots of wind, but little rain.) Jojo comes out to join me, and starts muttering about being afraid of the dark, and just rambling on in general. It was exactly like listening to someone with mental retardation talking. He’d start talking about something, stop, go back to the very beginning of what he was saying and when he reached his stopping point (obviously in the middle of his story), he’d loop back to the beginning again. He’d do this three or more times before finishing. Then he’d get stuck in this loop where he’d say the same two or three sentences over and over again for at least 10 minutes.
Well, if it makes you feel better, I had a roommate in college once who would never pay any bills, then buy me thinks like ligt-up phones that rang to the tune of “Fur Elise.” You know, things that nobody would actually buy off me so I could pay the bills. Although it doesn’t sound like this guys is even that considerate.
Maybe he really is afraid of the dark. I don’t understand the “I wasn’t about to break them out” thing.
Why not? Candles and flashlights are cheap. Seems like you were deliberately fucking with the dude. Maybe he is just an asshole, or as you suspect, is truly “mildly retarded”.
If the latter, then the candle thing was just cruel, IMO.
Well, at the moment, I’m not really sure where my flashlight is, so digging around for it in the dark would be a bit of a bitch, ya know? As for the candle, the only one that I’ve got that’s worth anything as far as providing light was in the room with him. He could have lit it at any time, but didn’t.
And I didn’t bother lighting candles for myself when the power went out when I was living alone.
This quote:
“I have some candles and a flashlight, but I wasn’t about to break them out, since I figured the lights would only be out for an hour or two.” led to my post.
Thanks for the elaboration.