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Living With A Roommate
Living with a roommate
Having a roommate is an unpleasant experience. Everybody is instructed differently and has his own way of running a household. Having to learn everyone’s character can also be a challenging within itself because one can be different than one is used to. For me, I have found it quite difficult to live with other people because they tend to not to pick up after themselves, they also have no regard for your feelings, and they could be careless about your personal belongings. I have categorized the roommates that I have lived with into three categories: A dirty roommate, disrespectful roommate and hazardous roommate.

The first roommate that I have encountered was by far dirtiest I had ever lived with. He would not take out any trash, even if I were not over there, it would have been piled up all over the floor. Because he cooked in the room and never do the dishes, so I had to do them. One day I come into the room from classes and I noticed an awful smell. To my surprise, I found out that it was his sports shoes, and wet clothes. He had played football for two days ago, and I thought he would have washed all his sports clothes as well as the shoes, or put them out to dry, but to my concentration he put them all under the bed and left overnight. I could not bear with that awful smell so the next morning I got up and cleaned them all.
The second roommate that I have lived with was a very disrespectful one. He would come into the room around 3 to 4 at night. That would have been fine if it was not for the reality that I had to get up early to go classes. Besides that, he gave his friends a spare key of us, so he and his friends would come over regardless even if anyone was in the room or not. One day I was looking for something of mine, so I asked him where it was. He told me that one of his friends had come into the room and walked out with it. To my surprise, not only did they leave with my item but they had also eaten some of my biscuits that I

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