What Wild Thing(s) Did Your Former Roommate Do That Made You Realize They Were Toxic?

New roommates are either the chillest people or a walking red flag. 🚩

Hi, friends! The school year is just around the corner, which means a bunch of new college students are about to meet their best friend or greatest enemy for the next year: their dorm roommate.

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Sometimes the whole ~random university housing~ thing really works out, and you and your roomie are a great pair who hang out all the time. Sometimes, though, it's a year of passive-aggressive sighing, loud phone calls when you're trying to sleep, and your food "mysteriously" disappearing from the fridge all the time.

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BuzzFeeders who've had bad roommates, I have a question for you: What roommate red flags did you miss that you wish you'd noticed sooner?

Perhaps they mentioned "occasionally" having a friend stay over once or twice a month, and it quickly turned into them basically living there (and eating all your favorite cereal).

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Or maybe you caught them in a little white lie to get out of doing their fair share of the cleaning, and they gaslit you into it happening again...and again...and AGAIN.

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Or perhaps you have more than one roommate, and one of them was always blaming the other roommate for things that went wrong or missing...only for you to later find out that it was the first roommate all along.

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Whatever it is, I wanna hear about it. In the comments below or via this anonymous form, tell us about the roommate red flag(s) you wish you'd known about before moving in with someone new.