100 WAYS TO CONFUSE YOUR ROOMMATE
1. Insist that you are a vegetarian and protest anytime your
roommate eats meat. Then leave "Slim Jim" wrappers on the floor and lie
on the bed holding your stomach everytime your roommate walks in. If
he/she asks about the wrappers, say you know nothing about them.
2. Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate's head while
he/she is asleep. Keep a pair of scissors by your bed. Snicker
at your roommate every morning.
3. Every time your roommate walks in yell, "Hooray! You're back!"
as loud as you can and dance around the room for five minutes.
Afterwards, keep looking at your watch and saying, "Shouldn't you be
going somewhere?"
4. Trash the room when your roommate's not around. Then leave and
wait for your roommate to come back. When he/she does, walk in and act
surprised. Say, "Uh-oh, it looks like, THEY, were here again."
5. Every time you see your roommate yell, "You son of a..." and
kick him/her in the stomach. Then buy him/her some ice cream.
6. Set your roommate's bed on fire. Apologize and explain that
you've been watching too much "Beavis & Butthead." Do it again. Tell
him/her that you're not sorry because this time, they deserved it.
7. Put your glasses on before you go to bed. Take them off as
soon as you wake up. If your roommate asks, explain that they are Magic
Dream Glasses. Complain that you've been having terrible
nightmares.
8. Eat lots of "Lucky Charms." Pick out all the yellow moons and
stockpile them in the closet. If your roommate inquires, explain
that visitors are coming, but you can't say anything more, or
you'll have to face the consequences.
9. Set up meetings with your roommate's faculty advisor. Inquire
about his/her academic potential. Take lots of notes, and
then give your roommate a full report. Insist that he/she do the same.
10. "Drink" a raw egg for breakfast every morning. Explain that
you are in training. Eat a dozen donuts every night.
11. Every Thursday, pack up everything you own and tell your
roommate you're going home. Come back in an hour and explain that no one
was home. Unpack everything and go to sleep.
good one.
12. Every time you wake up, start yelling, "Oh, my God! Where the
hell am I?!" and run around the room for a few minutes. Then go back to
bed. If your roommate asks, say you don't know what he/she is talking
about.
I nearly bust my gut here!
13. Draw a tiny, black spot on your arm. Make it bigger every
day. Look at it and say, "It's spreading, it's spreading."
14. Buy a McDonald's "Happy Meal" for lunch every day. Eat the
straw and the napkin. Throw everything else away.
15. Buy a plant. Sleep with it at night. Talk to it. After a few
weeks, start to argue with it loudly. Then yell, "I can't live in
the same room with you," storm out of the room and slam the
door Get rid of the plant, but keep the pot. Refuse to discuss the
plant ever again.
16. Buy a Jack-In-The-Box. Every day, turn the handle until the
clown pops out. Scream continuously for twenty minutes.
17. Hang up pictures of chickens all over the room. If your
roommate eats eggs, yell at him/her and call him/her a cannibal.
18. Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so,
look at your roommate and mutter, "Soon, soon...."
19. Lock the door while your roommate is out. When he/she comes back
and tries to unlock it, yell, "Don't come in, I'm naked!" Keep
this up for several hours. When you finally let your roommate in,
immediately take off all of your clothes, and ignore your
roommate.
20. Bring in potential "new" roommates from around campus. Give them
tours of the room and the building. Have them ask about your
roommate in front of him/her, and reply, "Oh, him/her? He/she
won't be here much longer."
ha, ha - do it to AMit!
21. If your roommate comes home after midnight, hit him/her on the
head with a rolling pin. Immediately go to bed, muttering,
"Ungrateful little..."
22. Pile dirty dishes in your roommate's bed. Insist that you don't
know how they got there.
23. Collect hundreds of pens and pile them on one side of the room.
Keep one pencil on the other side of the room. Laugh at the
pencil.
24. Feign a serious illness for two weeks. Have a priest come to your
room and visit you. Write out a will, leaving everything to your
roommate. One day, miraculously "recover." Insist that your
roommate write out a will, leaving everything to you. Every time
he/she coughs, excitedly say, "Oooh, are you dying?"
25. Live in the hallway for a month. Afterwards, bring all of your
stuff back into the room and tell your roommate, "Okay, your
turn."
26. Keep a tarantula in a jar for three days. Then get rid of the
tarantula. If your roommate asks, say, "Oh, he's around here
somewhere."
27. Tell your roommate, "I've got an important message for you." Then
pretend to faint. When you recover, say you can't remember what
the message was. Later on, say, "Oh, yeah, I remember!" Pretend to
faint again. Keep this up for several weeks.
28. Bowl inside the room. Set up tournaments with other people in the
building. Award someone a trophy. If your roommate wants to bowl
too, explain that he/she needs bowling shoes.
29. Walk backwards all the time. Then pretend to trip and hurt
yourself. Fake an injury and go through a long, painful recovery.
Start walking backwards again.
30. While your roommate is out, glue your shoes to the ceiling. When
your roommate walks in, sit on the floor, hold your head, and
moan.
31. Explain to your roommate that you're going to be housing a
prospective student in the near future. One day, bring in a pig.
If your roommate protests, hug the pig and tell your roommate that
he/she hurt its feelings. Watch T.V with the pig, eating lots of
bacon.
32. Make a sandwich. Don't eat it, leave it on the floor. Ignore the
sandwich. Wait until your roommate gets rid of it, and then say,
"Hey, where the hell is my sandwich!?" Complain loudly that you
are hungry.
33. Punch a hole in the T.V. Sit and watch it anyway, complaining
about the poor picture quality.
34. Wear a cape. Stand in front of an open window for about an hour
every day. Then, one day, when your roommate is gone, go outside
and lie down underneath the window, pretending to be hurt, and
wait for your roommate to return. The next day, start standing in
front of the window again.
35. Collect potatoes. Paint faces on them and give them names. Name
one after your roommate. Separate your roommate's potato from the
others. Wait a few days, and then bake your roommate's potato and
eat it. Explain to your roommate, "He just didn't belong."
36. Fill an empty shaving cream can with whipped cream. Use it to
shave, and then spray some into your mouth. Later on, complain
that you feel sick. Continue this process for several weeks.
37. Cover your bed with a tent. Live inside it for a week. If your
roommate asks, explain that "It's a jungle out there." Get your
roommate to bring you food and water.
38. Keep a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the room. Look at it with
fear for a few days. Then stay out of the room entirely, opening
the door only a crack and whispering to your roommate, "Psst! Is
it gone?"
39. Break the window with a rock. If your roommate protests, explain
that you were hot. Open and close the broken window as you
normally would.
40. Throw darts at a bare wall. All of a sudden, act excited, telling
your roommate that you hit the bull's eye.
41. Send flowers to your roommate, with a card that says, "I'm sorry.
It won't happen again." When you see them, start ripping up the
flowers. Repeat the process for a few weeks.
42. Call your roommate "Clyde" by accident. Start doing so every so
often. Increase the frequency over the next few weeks, until you
are calling him "Clyde" all the time. If your roommate protests,
say, "I'm sorry. I won't do that anymore, Murray."
43. Hire a night watchman to guard the room while you are sleeping.
44. Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if he
knows how much an elephant weighs, and look at the floor on the
empty side of the room with concern.
45. Practice needlepoint every night. At one point, grab your thumb
and scream, "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Cry hysterically for a few
minutes, and then go to bed. Sob and sniff all night.
46. When your roommate comes in, pretend that you are on the phone,
screaming angrily and shouting obscenities. After you hang up,
say, "That was your mom. She said she'd call back."
47. Every time your roommate comes in, immediately turn off the lights
and go to bed. When he/she leaves, get up and loudly yell, "Okay,
guys, you can come out now."
48. Start wearing a crown, all the time. If your roommate tells you to
take it off, say, "What the hell do you think you are? A king?"
49. Sit in front of a chess board for hours, saying nothing, doing
nothing. Then, look up and say, "I think this game goes a lot
faster with two players."
50. Talk back to your "Rice Krispies." All of a sudden, act offended,
throw the bowl on the floor and kick it. Refuse to clean it up,
explaining, "No, I want to watch them suffer."
51. Change the locks on the door. Don't let your roommate in unless
he/she says the secret word. Change the secret word often. If your
roommate can't guess the secret word, make him/her pay a tithe.
52. Scatter stuffed animals around the room. Put party hats on them.
Play loud music. When your roommate walks in, turn off the music,
take off the party hats, put away the stuffed animals, and say,
"Well, it was fun while it lasted."
53. Hang a tire swing from the ceiling. Act like a monkey. If someone
besides your roommate comes in, cease acting like a monkey and
claim that the tire swing was your roommate's idea. When you and
your roommate are alone again, continue acting like a monkey.
54. Unplug everything in the room except for one toaster. Pray to the
toaster. Bring it gifts. Throw some of your roommate's possessions
out the window. Say that the toaster made you do it.
55. Challenge your roommate to a duel. If he refuses, claim that you
have won by forfeit and therefore conquered his side of the room.
Insist that he remove all of his possessionsimmediately.
56. Sign your roommate up for various activities. (Campus tour guide,
blood donor, organ donor).
57. Start dressing like an Indian. If your roommate inquires, claim
that you are getting in touch with your Native-American roots. If
your roommate accuses you of not having any Native-American roots,
claim that he/she has offended your people and put a curse on your
roommate.
58. Wear your shoes on the wrong feet, all the time. Constantly
complain that your feet hurt.
59. Hit your roommate on the head with a brick. Claim that you were
trying to kill a mosquito.
60. Steal something valuable of your roommate's. If he/she asks about
it, tell him/her that you traded it for some magic beans. Give
some beans to your roommate.
61. Instead of turning off the light switch, smash the light bulb with
a hammer. Put a new bulb in the next day. Complain often about the
cost of light bulbs.
62. Videotape yourself hammering a nail into a wall for a while, and
then stopping. Play the tape in your room. Right before the
hammering stops on the videotape, look at the screen and say,
"Don't do that."
63. Buy a lamp. Tell your roommate it's a magic lamp, with a genie
inside it. Spend a week thinking about what to wish for. At the
end of the week, report that someone has released the genie from
the lamp. Blame your roommate.
64. Whenever your roommate brushes his/her teeth, watch him/her do so.
Take notes. Write a paper on it, and circulate it around campus.
If your roommate protests, say, "The people have a right to know!"
65. Collect potato chips that you think look like famous people. Find
one that looks like your roommate. Burn it, and explain, "It had
to be done."
66. Read the phone book out loud and excitedly. ("Frank Johnson! Oh,
wow! 837-9494! Holy cow!")
67. Shadow box several times a day. One day, walk in looking
depressed. If your roommate asks what's wrong, explain that your
shadow can't box with you anymore due to an injury. Ask your
roommate if you can box with his/her shadow.
68. When you walk into the room, look at your roommate in disgust and
yell, "Oh, you're here!" Walk away yelling and cursing.
69. Put up flyers around the building, reporting that your roommate is
missing. Offer a reward for his/her safe return.
70. Buy a watermelon. Draw a face on it and give it a name. Ask your
roommate if the watermelon can sleep in his/her bed. If your
roommate says no, drop the watermelon out the window. Make it look
like a suicide. Say nasty things about your roommate at the
funeral.
71. Draw a chalk outline on the floor. When your roommate comes in,
say, "Don't worry. It's not what you think." If he/she asks about
it again, immediately change the subject.
72. Drink a cup of coffee every morning. When you finish it, gnaw on
the mug for about ten minutes. Then, look at your roommate,
immediately put the mug away, and quickly leave the room.
73. Paint a tunnel on the wall like they do in cartoons. Every day,
hit your head as you attempt to crawl through it. Hold your head
and grumble, "Damn road runner...."
74. Leave memos on your roommate's bed that say things like, "I know
what you did," and "Don't think you can fool me." Sign them in
blood.
75. Hold a raffle, offering your roommate as first prize. If he/she
protests, tell him/her that it's all for charity.
76. Make cue cards for your roommate. Get them out whenever you'd like
to have a conversation.
77. Talk like a pirate, all the time. Threaten to make your roommate
walk the plank if he/she doesn't swab the deck. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!
78. Set up about twenty plants in an organized formation. When your
roommate walks in, pretend to be in the middle of delivering a
speech to the plants. Whisper to them, "We'll continue this
later," while eyeing your roommate suspiciously.
79. Buy a telescope. Sit on your bed and look across the room at your
roommate through the telescope. When you're not using the
telescope, act like your roommate is too far away for you to see.
80. Keep some worms in a shoebox. When doing homework, go and consult
with the worms every so often. Then become angry, shouting at the
worms that they're stupid and they don't know what they're talking
about.
81. Watch "Psycho" every day for a month. Then act excited every time
your roommate goes to take a shower.
82. Wear a paper hat. Every time your roommate walks in, say, "Welcome
to McDonalds, can I take your... Oh, it's just you." Take off the
hat, sit, and pout.
83. Go through your roommate's textbooks with a red pen, changing
things and making random corrections. If your roommate protests,
tell him/her that you just couldn't take it anymore.
84. Leave the room at random, knock on the door, and wait for your
roommate to let you back in. If he/she asks about it, go on a
tangent about the importance of good manners.
85. Hang a horseshoe above the door. Make up stories about having had
good luck. Then, take the horseshoe down and wrap your head in
bandages. When you see your roommate, look above the door where
the horseshoe used to be, hold your head, and mutter, "Stupid
horseshoe...."
86. Carve a jack-o-lantern. Complain to your roommate that the
jack-o-lantern has been staring at you. The next day, tell your
roommate that the jack-o-lantern thinks he/she has been staring at
it. Confide in your roommate that you really don't like the
jack-o-lantern, but you can't convince it to move out.
87. As soon as your roommate turns the light off at night, begin
singing famous operas as loud as you can. When your roommate turns
on the light, look around and pretend to be confused.
88. Hang a basketball net on the wall. Challenge your refrigerator to
basketball games, and play them in front of your roommate. Do so
for about a month. Confide in your roommate that you think the
refrigerator has been taking steroids.
89. Drink lots of lemonade. Talk obnoxiously for hours about how much
you love lemonade. Then, one day, paint your face yellow. From
then on, complain about how much you hate lemonade.
90. Late at night, start conversations that begin with, "Remember the
good old days, when we used to..." and make up stories involving
you and your roommate.
91. Whenever your roommate sneezes, go and hide in the closet for
about and hour. Look around nervously for the rest of the day.
92. Sit and stare at your roommate for hours. Bring others in to join
you. Eat peanuts, throwing a few at your roommate. Then say,"Boy,
these zoos just aren't what they used to be."
93. Tell your roommate that your toe hurts, and that means there's
going to be an earthquake, soon. While your roommate is out, trash
everything on his/her side of the room. When he/she returns,
explain that the earthquake hit, but only on one side of the room.
94. Buy a gun. Clean it every day. One day, put a band-aid on your
forehead, and refuse to discuss the gun ever again.
95. Buy a lobster. Pretend to play cards with it. Complain to your
roommate that the lobster is making up his own rules.
96. Make pancakes every morning, but don't eat them. Draw faces on
them, and toss them in the closet. Watch them for several hours
each day. Complain to your roommate that your "pancake farm"
isn't
evolving into a self-sufficient community. Confide in your
roommate that you think the king of the pancakes has been taking
bribes.
97. While you are ironing, pretend to burn yourself. Start a garbage
can fire in the middle of the room. Toss the iron inside. If your
roommate objects, explain that you are just trying to get even.
98. Buy some turtles. Paint numbers on their backs. Race them down the
hall.
99. Create an army of animal crackers. Put them through basic
training. Set up little checkpoints around the room. Tell your
roommate that the camel spotted him/her in a restricted area and
said not to do it again. Ask your roommate to apologize to the
camel.
100. Put out a plate of cookies at night. Tell your roommate that
they're for the Sandman. Take a bite out of one of the
cookies while your roommate is asleep. The next morning, accuse your
roommate of having bitten one of the cookies. If he/she tries to
tell you the Sandman did it, insist that you know what the
Sandman's teeth marks look like and that those are, in fact, not
the Sandman's teeth marks. Grumble angrily and storm out of the
room.
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