300 WAYS TO ANNOY YOUR ROOMMATE(S)
1. Draw a tiny, black spot on your arm.
Make it bigger every day. Look at it and say, "It's spreading, it's spreading."
2. 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/She just didn't belong."
3. 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/her
"Clyde" all the time. If your roommate protests, say, "I'm sorry. I won't do
that anymore, Murray."
4. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class. Twitch a lot.
5. Keep hamsters. Each day when your roommate goes out, let one go. Leave bloody
kitchen utensils around with hair on them. Vomit often and complain constantly
of having an upset stomach. If your roommate mentions the missing hamsters start
talking about golf or the weather.
6. 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."
7. 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."
8. Steal a fishtank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them.
9. Become a subgenius.
10. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
11. 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.
12. Speak in tongues.
13. Wear no clothes in the room except a cowboy hat.
14. Lay in the middle of the room and chant to pagan gods.
15. Plant grass in the carpet and scream at your roommate every time s/he takes
a step in the room. Put up a "please don't walk on the grass" sign.
16. Give your roommate's clothes to the Salvation Army.
17. Pretend to shower often but only wash your hair in the sink. See how long it
takes your roommate to notice.
18. Read lots of science fiction and begin to act as though you think your
roommate is an alien in disguise. Jump on him/her and try to rip off the
humanoid mask the alien is wearing.
19. Invite a homeless person to live in your room and sleep in your roommate's
bed.
20. Set off the smoke alarm in your room and tell the fire department your
roommate was smoking.
21. Become your own twin brother and tell your roommate that you and your
brother never appear in the same place at once. Tell your roommate the same
thing again after leaving and coming back into the room.
22. Sleep face down under your mattress on a bunk bed and stare at your roommate
all night through the springs.
23. Wear ammonia as a cologne.
24. Whenever your roommate goes to sleep, wake up.
25. Whenever your roommate wakes up, go to sleep.
26. Have really weird friends who have strange loud conversations. Whenever your
roommate walks in, you all be quiet and stare at him/her until s/he leaves.
27. Mount a wall-sized mirror on your wall and then ask your roommate not to
look at it because demonic forces from the other side will escape into this
world if s/he does.
28. Build an antfarm. Let your ants have "jailbreaks". Then ask your roommate to
help you hunt down all the renegade ants.
29. Wear nothing but tightie-whities whenever your roommate has guests.
30. Nail boards across your window. When your roommate asks why, tell him/her
you know they're all watching you.
31. Start a scab collection. Keep it in a locked glass case on your desk. Tell
your roommate that you know s/he was looking for the key.
32. Leave Kleenexes dipped in mayonnaise on the floor. Tell guests that your
roommate is disgusting and show them.
33. Start a new-wave cult. Hold nightly candle-lit rituals in your room with
your followers.
34. Begin to accumulate a used gum ball. Weigh it every day. Accuse your
roommate of stealing gum.
35. Throw blood on your roommate when s/he is wearing a coat and shout, "Animal
killer!"
36. Get a friend to leave a phone message for you with your roommate, saying the
test results came back positive. When your roommate tells you, cough, faint, and
then refuse to discuss it.
37. Laugh a lot in the morning. Tell your roommate to be happy all the time.
38. Put no-doze pills in your roommate's drinks.
39. Set your alarm clock for three o'clock. Push the doze button every 5 minutes
when it beeps for the next five hours, each time telling your roommate that
you'll wake up in five minutes.
40. Get your roommate's social security number. Call the registrar and switch
all of his/her classes. Tell your roommate at the end of the term that the
Philosophical Environmental Anthropology exam is supposed to be really hard.
Wish him/her luck.
41. Play Dungeons & Dragons all the time. Tell your roommate to obey you because
you are the Dungeon Master. Attack invisible dragons with a cardboard sword.
42. Make a voodoo doll of your roommate. Kill it.
43. Learn the words to all your roommate's favorite songs. Sing along.
44. Learn to play an accordion.
45. Make a contract with the Mafia to kill your roommate. Become a born-again
Christian and dreadfully regret your actions. Explain to your roommate the
situation, how sorry you are, and that there is nothing you can do to prevent
the hit. Try to convert your roommate before s/he dies.
46. Build a snowman out of big balls of toilet paper. Throw water on it and
begin to cry that the snowman is melting.
47. Put Vaseline on everything. Tell your roommate that you were just trying to
"loosen up" the room.
48. Tell your roommate on a daily basis that s/he is projecting negative karma.
49. Whenever your roommate gets clothes back from the laundry, hide them. Then
wear some every day until you have removed all the stolen clothes from hiding
and they are all now dirty. Ask your roommate to wash them again.
50. Learn a lot of quotations. Whenever you talk to your roommate, say nothing
but quotes for three weeks.
51. Adopt an iguana. Collect the skin peelings. Give them to your roommate as a
peace offering from Peter (the iguana).
52. Bring several dogs to your room. Hold conversations with them whenever your
roommate comes in. If s/he complains, tell him/her s/he is being prejudiced on
the basis of your friends' species. Call him/her a bigot.
53. Sign up your roommate for all the radical organizations on campus. If they
call, tell them s/he is very interested in and in favor of their cause.
54. Buy seven different colored yo-yo's. Practice with them seven hours a day,
alternating yo-yo's on the hour.
55. Create an animal cemetery in your floor. Hold memorial services. If your
roommate complains, tell him/her that s/he has no respect for the dead.
56. When your roommate is typing, type on your keyboard in synchronization.
57. Become a Trekkie. Talk to your communicator. Tell Scottie to beam you up and
run quickly from the room. If your roommate asks, tell him/her "Dammit, Jim, I'm
just a doctor!"
58. Buy forty two-liter bottles of generic soda. Dump out one bottle. Every time
you drink a bottle, piss in the empty one. Do so until you have thirty-nine
bottles of urine. Complain to your roommate that generic soda tastes awful.
59. Order five anchovy pizzas in your roommate's name. When the deliverer
arrives, tell them that your roommate likes to play jokes on the pizza place and
then your roommate lies about his/her ordering. Tell them where s/he is.
60. Put in your contacts when you go to bed. Scream in agony as you rip them
from your bloody eyelids in the morning. Put them in again that night. Complain
to your roommate that you just can't see a darned thing anymore.
61. 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 every time your roommate walks in. If s/he asks about the wrappers,
say you know nothing about them.
62. Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate's head while s/he is asleep.
Keep a pair of scissors by your bed. Snicker at your roommate every morning.
63. 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?"
64. Trash the room when your roommate's not around. Then leave and wait for your
roommate to come back. When s/he does, walk in and act surprised. Say, "Uh-oh,
it looks like THEY were here again."
65. 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.
66. 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.
67. 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.
68. 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.
69. 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 s/he do the same.
70. "Drink" a raw egg for breakfast every morning. Explain that you are in
training. Eat a dozen donuts every night.
71. 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.
72. 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 s/he is talking about.
73. Buy a McDonald's "Happy Meal" for lunch every day. Eat the straw and the
napkin. Throw everything else away.
74. 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.
75. Buy a jack-in-the-box. Every day, turn the handle until the clown pops out.
Scream continuously for twenty minutes.
76. Hang up pictures of chickens all over the room. If your roommate eats eggs,
yell at him/her and call him/her a cannibal.
77. Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so, look at
your roommate and mutter, "Soon, soon...."
78. Lock the door while your roommate is out. When s/he 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.
79. 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? S/he won't be here much longer."
80. If your roommate comes home after midnight, hit him/her on the head with a
rolling pin. Immediately go to bed, muttering, "Ungrateful little..."
81. Pile dirty dishes in your roommate's bed. Insist that you don't know how
they got there.
82. 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.
83. 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 s/he coughs, excitedly say, "Oooh, are you dying?"
84. Live in the hallway for a month. Afterwards, bring all of your stuff back
into the room and tell your roommate, "Okay, your turn."
85. Keep a tarantula in a jar for three days. Then get rid of the tarantula. If
your roommate asks, say, "Oh, she's around here somewhere."
86. 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.
87. 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 s/he
needs bowling shoes.
88. 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.
89. 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.
90. 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 s/he hurt its feelings. Watch TV with
the pig, eating lots of bacon.
91. 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.
92. Punch a hole in the TV. Sit and watch it anyway, complaining about the poor
picture quality.
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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.
96. 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?"
97. 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.
98. Throw darts at a bare wall. All of a sudden, act excited, telling your
roommate that you hit the bull's eye.
99. 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.
100. Smoke jimson weed. Do whatever comes naturally.
101. Hire a night watchman to guard the room while you are sleeping.
102. Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if s/he knows
how much an elephant weighs, and look at the floor on the empty side of the room
with concern.
103. Practice needlepoint every night. At one point, grab your thumb and scream,
"Owwwwwww!" Cry hysterically for a few minutes, and then go to bed. Sob and
sniff all night.
104. 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."
105. Every time your roommate comes in, immediately turn off the lights and go
to bed. When s/he leaves, get up and loudly yell, "Okay, guys, you can come out
now."
106. Start wearing a crown, all the time. If your roommate tells you to take it
off, say, "Who the hell do you think you are? A king?"
107. Change the locks on the door. Don't let your roommate in unless s/he says
the secret word. Change the secret word often. If your roommate can't guess the
secret word, make him/her pay a tithe.
108. Move you roommate's personal effects around. Start subtlely. Gradually work
up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he owns to the ceiling.
109. Walk and talk backwards.
110. Spend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in the
middle of your room. Number them.
111. 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."
112. Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
Casablanca,") almost inaudibly.
113. 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).
114. Collect all your urine in a small jug.
115. Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you food.
116. Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off when you
are.
117. Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of weeks."
118. Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can. Pretend to
masturbate while reading them.
119. Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come,
pretend nothing happened.
120. Eat glass.
121. Smoke ballpoint pens.
122. Smile. All the time.
123. Collect dog shit in baby food jars. Sort them according to what you think
the dog ate.
124. Burn all your waste paper while eying your roommate suspiciously.
125. 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.
126. Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list of
grievances.
127. Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
128. Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and then
look away quickly.
129. Dye all your underwear lime green.
130. Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
131. Buy three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
132. Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse him/her of
stealing it.
133. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).
134. Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster or The Boog. Sacrifice something nasty.
135. 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.
136. Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser. Refuse to
discuss them.
137. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
138. Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start with "Didja
ever wonder why...." Be creative.
139. Shave one eyebrow.
140. 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.
141. Put horseradish in your shoes.
142. Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain loudly that
you can never find the book that you want.
143. Always flush the toilet three times.
144. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
145. Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it at least
7 hours a day. If your roommate complains, explain that it's an assignment for
your primitive cultures class.
146. Give him/her an allowance.
147. Listen to radio static.
148. Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close them as
soon as you wake up.
149. Cry a lot.
150. Send secret admirer notes on your roommate's blitzmail.
151. 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.
152. Paste used kleenexes to his/her walls.
153. Whenever your roommate comes in from the shower, lower your eyes and giggle
to yourself.
154. If you get in before your roommate, go to sleep in his/her bed.
155. Put pornos under his/her bed. Whenever someone comes to visit your roommate
when they're not home, show them the magazines.
156. 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.
157. If your roommate goes away for a weekend, change the locks.
158. Whenever his/her parents call and ask for your roommate, breathe into the
phone for 10 seconds then hang up.
159. Whenever he/she goes to shower, drop whatever you're doing, grab a towel,
and go shower too.
160. 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.
161. Collect all of your pencil shavings and sprinkle them on the floor.
162. 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.
163. Call safety & security whenever your roommate turns up his/her music.
164. Follow him/her around on weekends.
165. Sit on the floor and talk to the wall.
166. Whenever the phone rings, get up and answer the door.
167. Whenever someone knocks, answer the phone.
168. Take his/her underwear. Wear it.
169. Whenever your roommate is walking through the room, bump into him/her.
170. Stare at your roommate for five minutes out of every hour. Don't say
anything, just stare.
171. Tell your roommate that someone called and said that it was really
important but you can't remember who it was.
172. Let mice loose in his/her room.
173. 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.
174. Take your roommate's papers and hand them in as your own.
175. Skip to the bathroom.
176. Take all of your roommate's furniture and build a fort. Guard the fort for
an entire weekend.
177. 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.
178. When you walk into your room, turn off your lights. Turn them on when you
leave.
179. Print up satanic signs and leave them in your room where he/she can find
them.
180. 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.
181. Insist on writing the entire lyrics to American Pie on your ceiling above
your bed. Sing them every night before you go to bed.
182. Use a bible as kleenex. Yell at your roommate if they say Jesus or God
Damnit.
183. Burn incense.
184. Eat moths.
185. Buy Sea Monkeys and grow them. Name one after your roommate. Announce the
next day that that one died. Name another one after your roommate. The next day
say that it died. Keep this up until they all die.
186. Collect Chia-Pets.
187. Refuse to communicate in anything but sign language.
188. Eat a bag of marshmallows before you go to bed. The next day, spray three
bottles of whip cream all over your floor. Say you got sick.
189. Wipe deodorant all over your roommate's walls.
190. 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.
191. Leave apple cores on his/her bed.
192. Keep feces in your fridge. Complain that there is never anything to eat.
193. 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.
194. Don't ever flush.
195. Buy an inflatable doll. Sleep with it.
196. Hang stuffed animals with nooses from your ceiling. Whenever you walk by
them mutter, "You shouldn't have done that to me."
197. Lick him/her while they are asleep.
198. Dress in drag.
199. Buy Lay's potato chips with all your money. Stack the bags in the middle of
the room in a pyramid. Eat them whenever your roommate is in the room. For every
one you eat, offer your roommate one, each time telling him, "No one can eat
just one."
200.
201. Steal a tire from a fraternity lawn. Bring it to your room. Bathe it. Name
it. Sleep in it.
202. Leave your room and lock the door. Proceed to bang on the door screaming,
"Let me in. Let me in." Get mad at your roommate for locking you out.
203. Talk on the phone a lot. Don't pick up the receiver.
204. Talk to your roommate but don't let any sound come out. Get mad at him/her
for not listening to you.
205. Ask your roommate if Bob, your invisible friend, can stay the night.
206. Ask your roommate if he/she can turn down the music; Bob has a headache.
207. Start a brothel.
208. Constantly slip and fall -- on your carpet.
209. Post a sign in your bathroom that reads: "If it's yellow let it mellow, if
it's brown flush it down." Check every time to make sure he/she follows it.
210. Invite the Dean to sleepover.
211. Invite the school President to sleepover.
212. Invite your roommate to sleepover.
213. Let your alarm clock go off and refuse to turn it off. If your roommate
comments, pretend not to hear anything.
214. Walk into walls.
215. Leave little notes in the shower for him/her.
216. Every time you take a shower, yell audibly, "I'm melting, I'm melting!"
217. When your roommate has friends over, get under your covers and stare at
them through a little hole in the covers. Use a telescope.
218. When you leave the room, put on a screensaver that says, "I'm watching
you."
219. Make a care package for your roommate. Leave the room and ride back and
forth outside your window saying, "Speedy Delivery!" until he/she comes out.
220. Move very stiffly and grin. Tell your roommate that you've turned into
Gumby.
221. Open a can of HIS beans or spaghetti, empty it into his bed and then
replace the can in his cupboard.
222. Crumble a few packs of crisps into his bed.....they take ages to clear off
again.
223. Replace the fuses in his electrical equipment with a lower rating (useful,
as my housemate can't wire a plug up)
224. Move all of his furniture outside
225. Eat jewelry. Accessorize food.
226. Smash your roommate's favorite cassettes and wrap the tape around your
naked body, running around the apartment screaming "Fly, be Free! Fly, be Free!"
227. Watch TV at least 15 hours a day. Before doing so, turn the set around so
it faces the wall. Watch the back of it.
228. Invite your roomie to play catch out in the yard. Every time you catch the
ball, catch it near your head. Fall to the ground screaming.
229. Frantically scribble something on paper. When finished, eat it. Start
again.
230. Complain about your menstrual cramps. Loudly. This works best, of course,
if you happen to be male.
231. Make some rice for dinner. Pause suddenly, spit out a mouthful and scream
"Maggots! Maggots!" Blame your roommate. When done, make more rice and finish
eating.
232. Try to convince your roommate that you are indeed Louis XVI of France.
Every time he grabs a knife or cuts something scream in terror and go running
out of the apartment clutching your neck.
233. Pretend you are Jan Brady. (Marsha Marsha Marsha!)
234. When talking to him/her, alternate between being exceedingly polite and
awfully rude every sentence.
235. 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.
236. 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.
237. Challenge your roommate to a duel. If he/she refuses, claim that you have
won by forfeit and therefore conquered his/her side of the room. Insist that
he/she remove all of his/her possessions immediately.
238. Sign your roommate up for various activities (Campus tour guide, blood
donor, organ donor).
239. 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.
240. Wear your shoes on the wrong feet, all the time. Constantly complain that
your feet hurt.
241. Hit your roommate on the head with a brick. Claim that you were trying to
kill a mosquito.
242. 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.
243. 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.
244. 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."
245. 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.
246. 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!"
247. 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."
248. Read the phone book out loud and excitedly ("Frank Johnson! Oh, wow!
837-9494! Holy cow!")
249. Shadow box several times a day. One day, walk in looking depressed. If your
room mate asks what's wrong, explain that your shadow can't box with you any
more due to an injury. Ask your roommate if you can box with his/her shadow.
250. When you walk into the room, look at your roommate in disgust and yell,
"Oh, you're here!" Walk away yelling and cursing.
251. Put up flyers around the building, reporting that your roommate is missing.
Offer a reward for his/her safe return.
252. 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.
253. Draw a chalk outline on the floor. When your roommate comes in, say, Dont
worry. It's not what you think." If he/she asks about it again, immediately
change the subject.
254. 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.
255. Paint a tunnel on the wall like they do in cartoons. Every day, hit head as
you attempt to crawl through it. Hold your head and grumble, "Damn road
runner...."
256. 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.
257. Hold a raffle, offering your roommate as first prize. If he/she protests,
tell him/her that it's all for charity.
258. Make cue cards for your roommate. Get them out whenever you'd like to have
a conversation.
259. Talk like a pirate, all the time. Threaten to make your roommate walk the
plank if he/she doesn't swab the deck. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!
260. 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.
261. 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.
262. 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.
263. Watch "Psycho" every day for a month. Then act excited every time your
roommate goes to take a shower.
264. 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.
265. 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.
266. 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.
267. 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....."
268. 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.
269. 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.
270. Hold Satanic ceremonies in the middle of the floor while your roommate is
going to sleep. Set up a large pentagram painted in blood on the carpet. Light
it on fire. Sacrifice goats in the pentagram. If your roommate says anything in
the morning look at the ground, mumble, and run away screaming incoherently
about the end of the world.
271. Dissect any stereo your roommate might have. Put it back together by gluing
things together randomly. Mention to your roommate that the stereo hasn't been
working properly.
272. Subsist on restaurant condiments alone (ketchup, mustard, salt, etc...
packets) for several weeks. Develop horrible acne. Nag your roommate about his
diets nutritional value.
273. Psychoanalyze everything your roommate does.
274. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
275. If you have all your hair, start wearing a toupee. If you are bald or
almost so, wear one of those bald head-hat-type-things.
276. Crawl instead of walking. Nibble your food very nervously. Occasionally
bite your roommate.
277. Eat glue.
278. Listen to death rock really loud and throw various types of fruits,
especially ones that will squirt nasty juicy stuff out, at the walls while
chanting something having to do with brutally murdering the person you live
with.
279. Watch CNN, The Weather Channel, The Golf Channel, that fish tank channel,
or the Byron Allen show 24 hours a day.
280. Spit a lot.
281. Dye your hair the same colors as Dennis Rodman does. Start trash talking to
your roommate and never show up for "practice".
282. Collect anatomically correct dolls of the opposite sex. Play with them a
lot.
283. Collect dolls and display them by crucifying them to the wall and scalping
them with a swiss army knife.
284. Never admit to ANYTHING. (ie. did you just take a shower? No comment. Did
you just go out on a date? Absolutely not, why would you think that?)
285. Be repetitive.
286. Spit a lot.
287. Collect your (or your roommates) dandruff in small sandwich bags. Keep
asking if your roommates scalp hurts. if s/he says no say "DAMN!" and storm off.
288. Practice voodoo on your roommate or anyone your roommate knows (ie.
parents, dates, friends)
289. Sing Monty Python songs.
290. Invite therapy groups for people driven to violence to be held in your
room. if your roommate protests, say not to worry, and that only one of them was
convicted.
291. Wear dirty overalls and chew hay. Occasionally try to milk your roommate.
292. Become a trekkie.
293. Wear a pocket protector and use the computer all the time. Always talk
about ram and other computer stuff. Tell him in detail about your discussions
with another trekkie who thinks Captain Picard is better than that guy that
William Shatner played. Ridicule the other trekkie.
294. Call your roommate names like, poo-poo head, wee-wee brain, or ca-ca
doo-doo head, or any combination of those.
295. Learn to juggle. One day when your roommate is out, drop a juggling ball
out the window and "hang" yourself halfway out the window. Pretend to have been
hit in the head. When your roommate comes in, tell him/her that your invisible
friend Bob got tired of your juggling.
296. Dress up as a clown and tell your roommate that you're going to join the
circus. Leave with all of your stuff, and then come back late at night. Wake
your roommate up and tell him that they wouldn't take you. Do this repeatedly
for a few weeks.
297. Build a mini snowman and put it in a petridish. Leave it on the windowsill
for two weeks. Hold impassioned debates with it. Be the best of friends. One day
melt the snowman. Go out. Wait until your roommate gets back and walk in. Look
at the puddle of water and scream. Fall to your knees crying and screaming at
your roommate, "How could you, you, you animal!!". Act like this until your
roommate buys you a drink.
298. Be naked a lot.
299. Get really fat and wear tacky, ill-fitting clothing.
300. Same as previous, except go around campus asking people out, telling them
that you are your roommate. Give them your roommates e-mail address, post office
box number, or whatever. Do so until your roommate has gotten at least 10 pieces
of hate-mail. For a challenge, don't stop until someone's boy/girlfriend beats
up your roommate