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WAYS TO CONFUSE YOUR ROOMMATE
Smoke
jimson weed. Do whatever comes naturally.
Switch
the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
Twitch
a lot.
Pretend
to talk while pretending to be asleep.
Steal
a fish tank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them.
Become
a sub genius.
Inject
his/her Twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
Learn
to levitate. While your roommate is looking away, float up out of your seat.
When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin.
Speak
in tongues.
Move
you roommate's personal effects around. Start subtlety. Gradually work up to
big things, and eventually glue everything s/he owns to the ceiling.
Walk
and talk backwards.
Spend
all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in the middle of
your room. Number them.
Spend
all your money on Transformers. Play with them at night. If your roommate says
anything, tell him/her with a straight face, "They're more than meets the
eye."
Recite
entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
Casablanca,") almost inaudibly.
Kill
roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a kazoo. If your
roommate complains, explain that it is for your performance art class (or hit
him/her with the wrench).
Collect
all your urine in a small jug.
Chain
yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you food.
Get
a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off when you are.
Ask
your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of
weeks."
Buy
as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can. Pretend to masturbate
while reading them.
Fake
a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come, pretend
nothing happened.
Eat
glass.
Smoke
ballpoint pens.
Smile.
All the time.
Collect
dog shit in baby food jars. Sort them according to what you think the dog ate.
Burn
all your waste paper while eying your roommate suspiciously.
Hide
a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash can. When you get
hungry, root around in the trash. Find the food, and eat it. If your roommate
empties the trash before you get hungry, demand that s/he reimburse you.
Leave
a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list of grievances.
Paste
boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
Shoot
rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and then look away
quickly.
Dye
all your underwear lime green.
Spill
a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
Buy
three loaves of stale bread. Grow mould in the closet.
Hide
your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse him/her of stealing
it.
Remove
your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).
Pray
to Azazoth or Zoroaster or The Boog. Sacrifice something nasty.
Whenever
your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then stand up. Announce that you
are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this up for three weeks.
Array
thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser. Refuse to discuss
them.
Paint
your half of the room black. Or paisley.
Whenever
he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start with "Didja ever
wonder why...." Be creative.
Shave
one eyebrow.
Put
your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under there and pile your dirty
clothes on the empty bed frame. If your roommate comments, mutter "Gotta
save space," twenty times while twitching violently.
Put
horseradish in your shoes.
Shelve
all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain loudly that you can
never find the book that you want.
Always
flush the toilet three times.
Subsist
entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
Buy
a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it at
least
hours
a day. If your roommate complains, explain that it's an assignment for your
primitive cultures class.
Give
him/her an allowance.
Listen
to radio static.
Open
your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close them as soon as
you wake up.
Cry
a lot.
Send
secret admirer notes on your roommate's blitzmail.
Clip
your fingernails and toenails and keep them in a baggie. Leave the baggie near
your computer and snack from it while studying. If he/she walks by, grab the
bag close and eye him/her suspiciously.
Paste
used kleenexes to his/her walls.
Whenever
your roomate comes in from the shower, lower your eyes and giggle to yourself.
If
you get in before your roomate, go to sleep in his/her bed.
Put
pornos under his/her bed. Whenever someone comes to visit your roommate when
they're not home, show them the magazines.
Whenever
you go to sleep, start jumping on your bed . . . do so for a while, then jump
really high and act like you hit your head on the ceiling. Crumple onto your
bed and fake like you were knocked out . . . use this method to fall asleep
every night for a month.
If
your roommate goes away for a weekend, change the locks.
Whenever
his/her parents call and ask for your roommate, breathe into the phone for
seconds
then hang up.
Whenever
he/she goes to shower, drop whatever you're doing, grab a towel, and go shower
too.
Find
out your roommate's post office box code. Open it and take his/her mail. Do
this for one month. After that, send the mail to him/her by UPS.
Collect
all of your pencil shavings and sprinkle them on the floor.
Create
an imaginary cat for a pet. Talk to it every night, act like you're holding
it, keep a litter box under your desk. After two weeks, say that your cat is
missing. Put up signs in your dorm, blame your roommate.
Call
safety & security whenever your roommate turns up his/her music.
Follow
him/her around on weekends.
Sit
on the floor and talk to the wall.
Whenever
the phone rings, get up and answer the door.
Whenever
someone knocks, answer the phone.
Take
his/her underwear. Wear it.
Whenever
your roommate is walking through the room, bump into him/her.
Stare
at your roommate for five minutes out of every hour. Don't say
Tell
your roommate that someone called and said that it was really important but
you can't remember who it was.
Let
mice loose in his/her room.
Give
each of your walls a different name. Whenever you can't answer a problem, ask
each of your walls. Write down their responses, then ask your ceiling for the
final answer. Complain to your roommate that you don't trust your ceiling.
Take
your roommate's papers and hand them in as your own.
Skip
to the bathroom.
Take
all of your roommate's furniture and build a fort. Guard the fort for an
entire weekend.
Gather
up a garbage bag full of leaves and throw them in a pile in
When
you walk into your room, turn off your lights. Turn them on when you leave.
Print
up satanic signs and leave them in your room where he/she can find them.
Whenever
you're on the phone and he/she walks in, hang up immediately without saying
anything and crawl under your desk. Sit there for two minutes than call
whoever it was back.
Insist
on writing the entire lyrics to American Pie on your ceiling above your bed.
Sing them every night before you go to bed.
Use
a bible as kleenex. Yell at your roommate if they say Jesus or God Damnit.
Burn
incense.
Eat
moths.
Buy
Sea Monkeys and grow them. Name one after your roommate. Announce the next day
that that one died. Name another one after your roommate. The next day say
that it died. Keep this up until they all die.
Collect
Chia-Pets.
Refuse
to communicate in anything but sign language.
Eat
a bag of marshmellows before you go to bed. The next day, spray three bottles
of whip cream all over your floor. Say you got sick.
Wipe
deoderant all over your roommate's walls.
If
you know that he/she is in the room, come barging in out of breath. Ask if
they saw a fat bald naked Tibetan man run through carrying a hundred dollar
bill. Run back out swearing.
Leave
apple cores on his/her bed.
Keep
feces in your fridge. Complain that there is never anything to eat.
Piss
in a jar and leave it by your bed. When your roommate isn't looking, replace
it with a jar of apple juice. Wait until your roommate turns around. Drink it.
Don't
ever flush.
Buy
an inflatable doll. Sleep with it.
Hang
stuffed animals with nooses from your ceiling. Whenever you walk by them
mutter, "You shouldn't have done that to me."
Lick
him/her while they are asleep.
Dress
in drag.
Steal
a tire from a fraternity lawn. Bring it to your room. Bathe it. Name it. Sleep
in it.
Leave
your room and lock the door. Proceed to bang on the door screaming, "Let
me in. Let me in." Get mad at your roommate for locking you out.
Talk
on the phone a lot. Don't pick up the receiver.
Talk
to your roommate but don't let any sound come out. Get mad at him/her for not
listening to you.
Ask
your roommate if Bob, your invisible friend, can stay the night.
Ask
your roommate if he/she can turn down the music; Bob has a headache.
Start
a brothel.
Constantly
slip and fall -- on your carpet.
Post
a sign in your bathroom that reads: "If it's yellow let it mellow, if
it's brown flush it down." Check every time to make sure he/she follows
it.
Invite
the Dean to sleepover.
Invite
the school President to sleepover.
Invite
your roommate to sleepover.
Let
your alarm clock go off and refuse to turn it off. If your roommate comments,
pretend not to hear anything.
Walk
into walls.
Leave
little notes in the shower for him/her.
Every
time you take a shower, yell audibly, "I'm melting, I'm melting!"
When
your roommate has friends over, get under your covers and stare at them
through a little hole in the covers. Use a telescope.
When
you leave the room, put on a screensaver that says, "I'm watching
you."
Make
a care package for your roommate. Leave the room and ride back and forth
outside your window saying, "Speedy Delivery!" until he/she comes
out.
Move
very stiffly and grin. Tell your roommate that you've turned into Gumby.
Open
a can of HIS beans or spaghetti, empty it into his bed and then replace the
can in his cupboard.
Crumble
a few packs of crisps into his bed.....they take ages to clear off again.
Replace
the fuses in his electrical equipment with a lower rating (useful, as my
housemate can't wire a plug up)
Move
all of his furniture outside
Eat
jewelry. Accesorize food.
Smash
your roommate's favorite cassettes and wrap the tape around your naked body,
running around the apartment screaming "Fly, be Free! Fly, be Free!"
Watch
TV at least 15 hours a day. Before doing so, turn the set around so it faces
the wall. Watch the back of it.
Invite
your roomie to play catch out in the yard. Every time you catch the ball,
catch it near your head. Fall to the ground screaming.
Complain
about your menstral cramps. Loudly. This works best, of course, if you happen
to be male.
Make
some rice for dinner. Pause suddenly, spit out a mouthful and scream
"Maggots! Maggots!" Blame your roommate. When done, make more rice
and finish eating.
Try
to convince your roommate that you are indeed Louis XVI of France. Every time
he grabs a knife or cuts something scream in terror and go running out of the
apartment clutching your neck.
Pretend
you are Jan Brady. (Marsha Marsha Marsha!)
Frantically
scribble something on paper. When finished, eat it. Start again.