100 Ways to Freak Out Your Roommate
- Smoke jimson weed. Do whatever comes naturally.
- Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
- Twitch a lot.
- Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
- Steal a fish tank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in
it. Talk to them.
- Become a subgenius.
- Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and
MSG.
- Learn to levitate. While your roommate is looking away,
float up out of your seat. When s/he turns to look, fall
back down and grin.
- Speak in tongues.
- Move you roommate's personal effects around. Start
subtlety. Gradually work up to big things, and eventually
glue everything s/he owns to the ceiling.
- Walk and talk backwards.
- Spend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack
the cans in the middle of your room. Number them.
- Spend all your money on Transformers. Play with them at
night. If your roommate says anything, tell him/her with
a straight face, "They're more than meets the
eye."
- Recite entire movie scripts (e.g."The Road
Warrior," "Repo Man," "Casablanca,")
almost inaudibly.
- Kill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian
arias on a kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain
that it is for your performance art class (or hit him/her
with the wrench).
- Collect all your urine in a small jug.
- Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to
bring you food.
- Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it.
Turn it off when you are.
- Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just
for a couple of weeks."
- Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can.
Pretend to masturbate while reading them.
- Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the
paramedics to come, pretend nothing happened.
- Eat glass.
- Smoke ballpoint pens.
- Smile. All the time.
- Collect dog shit in baby food jars. Sort them according
to what you think the dog ate.
- Burn all your waste paper while eying your roommate
suspiciously.
- Hide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of
a trash can. When you get hungry, root around in the
trash. Find the food, and eat it. If your roommate
empties the trash before you get hungry, demand that s/he
reimburse you.
- Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk.
Include a list of grievances.
- Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
- Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is
turned, and then look away quickly.
- Dye all your underwear lime green.
- Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
- Bye three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
- Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet.
Accuse him/her of stealing it.
- Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents
(postage due).
- Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster. Sacrifice something nasty.
- Whenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then
stand up. Announce that you are going to take a shower.
Do so. Keep this up for three weeks.
- Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your
dresser. Refuse to discuss them.
- Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
- Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions
that start with "Didja ever wonder why...." Be
creative.
- Shave one eyebrow.
- Put your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under
there and pile your dirty clothes on the empty bedframe.
If your roommate comments, mutter "Gotta save
space," twenty times while twitching violently.
- Put horseradish in your shoes.
- Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall.
Complain loudly that you can never find the book that you
want.
- Always flush the toilet three times.
- Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
- Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania
Polka," and play it at least 6 hours a day. If your
roommate complains, explain that it's an assignment for
your primitive cultures class.
- Give him/her an allowance.
- Listen to radio static.
- Open your window shades before you go to sleep each
night. Close them as soon as you wake up.
- Cry a lot.
- Send secret admirer notes on your roommate's blitzmail.
- Clip your fingernails and toenails and keep them in a
baggie. Leave the baggie near your computer and snack
from it while studying. If he/she walks by, grab the bag
close and eye him/her suspiciously.
- Paste used kleenexes to his/her walls.
- Whenever your roommate comes in from the shower, lower
your eyes and giggle to yourself.
- If you get in before your roommate, go to sleep in
his/her bed.
- Put porno's under his/her bed. Whenever someone comes to
visit your roommate when they're not home, show them the
magazines.
- Whenever you go to sleep, start jumping on your bed . . .
do so for a while, then jump really high and act like you
hit your head on the ceiling. Crumple onto your bed and
fake like you were knocked out . . . use this method to
fall asleep every night for a month.
- If your roommate goes away for a weekend, change the
locks.
- Whenever his/her parents call and ask for your roommate,
breathe into the phone for 5 seconds then hang up.
- Whenever he/she goes to shower, drop whatever you're
doing, grab a towel, and go shower too.
- Find out your roommate's post office box code. Open it
and take his/her mail. Do this for one month. After that,
send the mail to him/her by UPS.
- Collect all of your pencil shavings and sprinkle them on
the floor.
- Create an imaginary cat for a pet. Talk to it every
night, act like you're holding it, keep a litter box
under your desk. After two weeks, say that your cat is
missing. Put up signs in your dorm, blame your roommate.
- Call safety & security whenever your roommate turns
up his/her music.
- Follow him/her around on weekends.
- Sit on the floor and talk to the wall.
- Whenever the phone rings, get up and answer the door.
- Whenever someone knocks, answer the phone.
- Take his/her underwear. Wear it.
- Whenever your roommate is walking through the room, bump
into him/her.
- Stare at your roommate for five minutes out of every
hour. Don't say anything, just stare.
- Tell your roommate that someone called and said that it
was really important but you can't remember who it was.
- Let mice loose in his/her room.
- Give each of your walls a different name. Whenever you
can't answer a problem, ask each of your walls. Write
down their responses, then ask your ceiling for the final
answer. Complain to your roommate that you don't trust
your ceiling.
- Take your roommate's papers and hand them in as your own.
- Skip to the bathroom.
- Take all of your roommate's furniture and build a fort.
Guard the fort for an entire weekend.
- Gather up a garbage bag full of leaves and throw them in
a pile in his/her room. Jump in them. Comment about the
beautiful foliage.
- When you walk into your room, turn off your lights. Turn
them on when you leave.
- Print up satanic signs and leave them in your room where
he/she can find them.
- Whenever you're on the phone and he/she walks in, hang up
immediately without saying anything and crawl under your
desk. Sit there for two minutes than call whoever it was
back.
- Insist on writing the entire lyrics to American Pie on
your ceiling above your bed. Sing them every night before
you go to bed.
- Use a bible as Kleenex. Yell at your roommate if they say
Jesus or God Dammit.
- Burn incense.
- Eat moths.
- Buy Sea Monkeys and grow them. Name one after your
roommate. Announce the next day that one died. Name
another one after your roommate. The next day say that it
died. Keep this up until they all die.
- Collect Chia-Pets.
- Refuse to communicate in anything but sign language.
- Eat a bag of marsh mellows before you go to bed. The next
day, spray three bottles of whip cream all over your
floor. Say you got sick.
- Wipe deodorant all over your roommate's walls.
- If you know that he/she is in the room, come barging in
out of breath. Ask if they saw a fat bald naked Tibetan
man run through carrying a hundred dollar bill. Run back
out swearing.
- Leave apple cores on his/her bed.
- Keep feces in your fridge. Complain that there is never
anything to eat.
- Piss in a jar and leave it by your bed. When your
roommate isn't looking, replace it with a jar of apple
juice. Wait until your roommate turns around. Drink it.
- Don't ever flush.
- Buy an inflatable doll. Sleep with it.
- Hang stuffed animals with nooses from your ceiling.
Whenever you walk by them mutter, "You shouldn't
have done that to me."
- Lick him/her while they are asleep.
- Dress in drag.