technically, mike in boston only has two roommates, but roomie #2’s ever-present girlfriend has become the apartment’s de facto fourth resident…the non-rent-or-utilities-paying kind.
explains mike: “we only have one thermostat for the whole apartment, but our rooms are so tiny that we can typically keep the heat off and the place stays at 68-70 degrees.” once winter came, however, the girlfriend wasn’t too pleased with this arrangement…and took to surreptitiously cranking up the heat into the mid-80s.
after one too many nights of waking up in a sauna, mike and his allied roommate decided to fight back —in true passive-aggressive style — by removing the (detachable) thermostat from the wall.
drama, of course, ensued.
mike’s roomie then posted a counter-attack:
grammar aside, that one pretty much did the trick.
related: kill hamster too?
363 responses so far ↓
#1
Pooki
I can never get my thermostat to a perfect temperature. Either it’s too hot, or too cold. It only ever really works for me if I keep the heat cranked and the window open.
Sorry, Al Gore.
Nov 11, 2008 at 10:43 pm rating: +17
#2
Elbie
I have an ex-BF that kept the window open during an ice storm and still complained that he was hot. (Hence the ex part. I’ll be celibate before I get pneumonia.)
However, I also had the option of going to my own toasty bed, so Team 2 to 1 here…
Nov 11, 2008 at 10:51 pm rating: +18
#3
Martin Heidegger
I think the whole problem is that it’s “fucking freezing”, as the note says. It wouldn’t be freezing if the roommate and his girl weren’t fucking… so maybe it’s time to be passive-aggressive back and put some ice cubes in the sack. Or on the sack. Whatever.
Nov 11, 2008 at 10:55 pm rating: +3
#4
Wesley
Let her turn the heat on.
…and if the majority must rule (which doesn’t make much sense anyway), let her have a vote. 2:2 = tie.
She and their roommate are a package deal. They accept him, they accept her, and he does pay his share of the bills.
Nov 11, 2008 at 10:58 pm rating: +2
#5
John in IL
If you don’t know the name of the “Heat thing” you don’t deserve the fucking heat.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:01 pm rating: +161
#6
Jenny in Winston Salem
As one who has lived with the “extra” roommate, I say they should turn the AC on. Don’t ever, EVER, tell someone what to do in a home you don’t pay rent in. And while you’re at it, pay for the food and drink you consume, and the toilet paper you use. BITCH!
Sorry, I feel better now. I hate “extra” roommates.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:11 pm rating: +92
#7
Julia
Wow, the audacity of this bitch. Not only does she have the gall to adjust the temperature in an apartment that’s NOT HERS, she goes and posts a bitchy note about it!
I’m with the apartment-dwellers all the way. Tell her to buy a sweater or something. Or, you know, GTFO.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:16 pm rating: +42
#8
booge
Put on a sweater and quit your bitchin. I once lived in a house with a shitload of roommates where the heat bill was $300 and that was Winter in motherfucking Santa Cruz, California, one of the most temperate climates there is. Seriously, why does the ambient indoor temperature have to be the perfect one for people to be happy? I never understand. Do you all go outside and shake your fists at the heavens every day when it isn’t 81 degrees? Heater and window? What the fuck? Put on a cardigan. It opens in the front! High clothing technology, at work for you.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:19 pm rating: +64
#9
Walrus
“your” is not the same as “you’re”
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:24 pm rating: +8
#10
laurz
i too lived in a house with a billion roommates in santa cruz, and our heat bill was outrageous. also had something to do with the fact that our doors didn’t shut all the way to the outside because our house wasn’t built on a foundation and it sank down when the ground got muddy from the creek flooding. the gas heater was broken most of the time but once we got it fixed it would get so hot that i melted the bottom of a shoe on it, and also made a grilled cheese sandwich. all the heat just went straight out the crooked door anyway. team sweater/blanket/bottle of wine!
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:28 pm rating: +3
#11
Nicole
What a waste of money! Put on a sweater and have some soup.
My house is usually at 64, though I do not have any heat, besides a wood stove
I am lazy, and haven’t built a fire yet this winter. Now, I am just trying to see how far I can go until I break down and build one.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:38 pm rating: +3
#12
aaa
Why not psychologically damage the girlfriend until she refuses to enter the apartment? Like take pictures of her when she isn’t looking and put up a buttload of copies all over the apartment.
(Although this orignally wasn’t my idea. Read it someplace on the internet.)
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:51 pm rating: +5
#13
stringyhair
But my boyfriend, your roommate, doesn’t like when my nipples are that hard! Consider the nipples and put the heat thingy back.
Nov 11, 2008 at 11:52 pm rating: +5
#14
MoxieHart
Team Janine Kishi. It makes more sense to put on a sweater than to try to adjust the environmental temperature.
Nov 12, 2008 at 12:07 am rating: +2
#15
Canadian Deadhead
Would it be too lowbrow to describe the notes as a ‘heated debate’?
Yep, it sure would!
Nov 12, 2008 at 12:24 am rating: +9
#16
biscuit
Democracy wins again!
Nov 12, 2008 at 12:50 am rating: +3
#17
Mudhooks
When I was in college in Toronto, I had room mates who (apart from keeping me and the neighbours up with their noisy lovemaking) insisted that the thermostat be turned down so low that you could see your breath. You had to wear a coat and hat in the house.
When I arrived home from classes, I would put the heat up for a few minutes to defrost my feet (while standing on the air vent) and turn it down. They would arrive home later and freak out because I had the audacity to not want frost-bite.
My room was so cold that if you touched the wall, you worried your skin would stick to it.
My room was the former upstairs kitchen and I used the pantry as a closet. I had tacked up a blanket in a vain attempt the keep some heat in. One day I noticed it was sort of rucked up in one corner and pulled on it to straighten it and discovered that it was being held up by a 1/4 inch of ice.
That was the day that I told my cheap room-mates that if they didn’t keep the heat turned up to at least 70 degrees, I would be taking up the matter with the health department.
I would have moved but I was on a lease. The problem was solved for me when one day early in Spring, I came home to find my bedroom ceiling on the floor. It seemed that because of the lack of insulation and the buildup of ice inside the ceiling from condensation that built up (because they wouldn’t put the heat on), the ceiling collapsed.
Had I been home at the time, I could have been killed.
Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 am rating: +47
#18
mal
THAN is not the same as THEN either. I don’t think you can make fun of someone’s grammar if you suck at it too.
Nov 12, 2008 at 1:38 am rating: +1
#19
Canthz_B
If your cold go, then you’re healthy again.
Nov 12, 2008 at 2:28 am rating: +3
#20
secondsout
Makes me wonder just how cold it is at her apartment if even she won’t go there and braves the tundra of the boyfriend’s apartment.
Nov 12, 2008 at 3:00 am rating: +6
#21
WolfDog
You have been Dugg, prepare for a site failure.
Nov 12, 2008 at 3:26 am rating: 0
#22
Wade
Maybe the first note has nothing to do with the thermostat, but is instead a plea from the girlfriend for her vote-losing boyfriend to bring “the Heat”.
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:03 am rating: +26
#23
anglophile
Maybe she could turn on the cooking thing for a little extra heat.
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:11 am rating: +22
#24
Woman on the Verge
Hello? Mishee? Where are you? I’m here for All-Mishee-all-the-time….
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:31 am rating: +1
#25
ohREALLYfool
I had a roommate who weighed close to 300 pounds, but was somehow always freezing in the winter. She would get up in the middle of the night and crank the thermostat up into the 80s, but said she couldn’t sleep in a sweatshirt/sweatpants because they made her too hot. Our heat bill was always outrageous, but it was in her name so I just started giving her money for 1/3 of it instead of 1/2.
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:43 am rating: +8
#26
ohREALLYfool
Also, I like how the girlfriend had to point out that “it doesn’t get warmer without the heat.” Thanks for the 1st grade science lesson, genius…
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:45 am rating: +15
#27
GhostWriter
… Mike and his “allied” roommate? Come out of the closet, boys- you’re in Massachusetts, not Florida!
Nov 12, 2008 at 7:48 am rating: +10
#28
GhostWriter
A democracy can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves the content of the heating fund (while the minority freezes).
- author unknown
Nov 12, 2008 at 8:30 am rating: 0
#29
fantasy
Hey, Girlfriend, put your damn clothes on.
What do you expect if you run around naked just to make sure that everyone will know that “You have SEX!”
Quit being an attention whore and get dressed.
Nov 12, 2008 at 8:36 am rating: +7
#30
Team Unitard
That heat thing was fucking delicious.
I had to do it. The other posts just weren’t doing anything for me.
Nov 12, 2008 at 8:44 am rating: +17
#31
anglophile
If she’s that cold, she can always put on a hat.
Nov 12, 2008 at 9:22 am rating: +3
#32
thirty six red
I bet it is feck’in cold in the cumdumpster.
Nov 12, 2008 at 9:39 am rating: +2
#33
claw71
I wouldn’t have responded with a note. I would have taught this bitch a lesson by walking around the apartment naked. After seeing about four or five deep knee bends in the middle of the living room she would have taken the hint and moved her bony ass back to her place.
Nov 12, 2008 at 10:02 am rating: +20
#34
Goldie
I don’t understand this. Mid-70s is hot enough for me to feel uncomfortable; mid-80s in a small apartment probably would make me pass out. Who the heck can survive in this heat? The only reasonable explanation is… the girlfriend is not human at all. She is one of the Crab People. The girlfriend is used to living beneath the Earth core, where temperatures are high. She cannot operate properly at 68-70, hence her inability to do a 69. Do not give her back the heat thingy – if you do, she will regain her powers and take over the world.
Of course I may be overreacting and possibly the girl is just a cannibal who’s trying to fry Mike and his roommate in their own apartment, and eat them.
Nov 12, 2008 at 10:05 am rating: +10
#35
Agent Inspired
I’m team 2:1. Even as far as the girlfriend should be considered, couples get one vote.
Also, if she’s there that often, I’d up the boyfriend’s share of the rent and bills. She’s probably using a fair share of hot water and TP, too.
Nov 12, 2008 at 10:09 am rating: +1
#36
Dare
I’ve got to point out that the ultimate in Passive Agressiveness here is the Boyfriend of this chica (aka Roomie #2). What kind of douche let’s his girlfriend post a note about the temperature to HIS roommates. I mean seriously dude, grow a set and either ask your roommates to increase the temp yourself, or buy your GF a sweater for Xmas.
Nov 12, 2008 at 10:39 am rating: +12