TT 21 Foolproof ways to annoy your roommates

Hmm. . . how can I annoy my roommates. Let's think.

1. Leave food out on the counter to rot for several weeks.

2. Be the first one to shower in the morning: use all the hot water and shower for well over half an hour so everyone else is late. This works especially well if there is only one bathroom and everyone else is dying as they try to find a potted plant.

3. Use all your roommates dishes, then leave them dirty in the sink for over a month.

4. Keep a pile of dirty clothes as large as your bed on the floor so there's nowhere to walk.

5. Start the washing machine, which is broken so it makes loud banging noises as it washes, right as your roommate is about to fall asleep.

6. Decorate the apartment with horribly kitschy items so your roommates are embarrassed to show people where they live.

7. Don't pay your part of the bills, then get mad and act like you already did when they ask for the money.

8. Leave hair and makeup spills all over the bathroom counter.

9. Never clean the toilet or shower.

10. Eat all your roommates ketchup and never replace it. Then act like you don't know who would have used it all.

11. Claim your roommates movies and cds as your own as you are moving so they don't realize they're gone until it's too late.

12. Demand that everyone in the apartment be completely silent whenever you watch tv or a movie, which is most of the time.

13. Try to hit on your roommate's brother and hint that if your roommate was a good friend, they'd set you up. Also, loudly proclaim that if you like any guy your roommates had better back off, even if the guy has absolutely no interest in you.

That's just a sampling of all the joyous experiences you can have with roommates. There are many fun moments in between, but enough of the items listed above will create more than enough roommate drama for anyone.

Now, this list applies specifically to women, but I'm sure many of these translate for both sexes. I've had the misfortune to experience all of these (and have probably been the perpetrator of several). They are guaranteed to drive everyone around you absolutely mad.