I read this a while back, and while it's pretty long, it's worth it. The sheer insanity of it all makes me appreciate normal roommates.

I think he was taking shits in the bathtub and covering it with newspapers, like some kind of foul lasagna.

That was a great read. Thanks for the killer linkage fl_projekt.

Why wasn't an ass whuppin applied, and repeated as necessary ?

how come the roommate's name keep changing back a forth between 'Jed' and 'Jeb'?

FAKE?

Nocal is not talking about me when he says that.

Gee, thanks for clearing that up, uart.

This story, independent of it's subject matter, stinks. Too many inconsistencies.

• He's a stickler for the law, yet steals his roommate's stuff.


• To fix the leak, he lets himself into the apartment through the broken/non-functioning front door. For the 'Big Showdown', he has to use his key.


• He gears himself up for the 'Big Showdown' like an eight year old preparing to assault a long abandoned tree fort, complete with leather jacket and motorcycle helmet. Why no latex gloves or rebreather mask?


• Jed/Jeb's ganked belongings were stored in a storage locker accross town, yet dickcheese conveniently kept Jed/Jeb's motorcycle helmet.


• His helmet gets shit on it, so he discards it. Didn't the rest of him get shitted, too? Why not ditch his whole get-up?


• The stench of what he describes could not have possibly been contained to that small apartment. Why were no neighbors complaining of the stench?


• A little duct tape isn't going to keep the odor of months worth of stockpiled shit out of his little room.


There are many more, but I'm tired and really don't care.

I call Attention Whore on this one...

I second Clavis on this one. This article is bullshit / wishful thinking.

It's still a great read ... I took it as fiction almost from the start.

no, actually it wasn't a 'great read'. It was a great story, fiction or no, it was entertaining to imagine one's self under similar circumstances. but it was very poorly composed. I don't want to be too hard on the guy because I'm not sure if maybe it's because it was pieced together from a message board discussion and just assembled poorly. But really, if the guy that wrote this was truly a college student, he should get his money back. That college ain't teaching him shit.

Besides all of the story inconsistencies no NORMAL person would put up with this behavior for more than 15 minutes.