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31st May 2016

People are sharing their weirdest flatmate stories and some of them will give you nightmares

Because who wants a peaceful life anyway?

Matt Tate

Moving into a flat or house share is often the best way of financing rental costs than can otherwise be extortionate for young people living in cities.

Living with someone you don’t know is great for building character, and there’s a good chance you might become lifelong pals.

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That’s not to say you aren’t taking a massive gamble every time you put pen to paper on a lease with a total stranger.

You can quite easily commit yourself to six months under the same roof as someone who puts handwritten warning notes on their cheese or meditates naked in the hallway in the middle of the night.

Your instinctive feelings towards a person definitely count for a lot, but you can never know for sure what you’re letting yourself in for.

But as weird and wonderful as some of your ex-roomies might be, we can almost guarantee that they don’t come close to the people described in Tweets sent to writer Dawn Foster.

She issued a call-out to her followers for their worst flatmate stories, starting with one of her own.

Then came the responses, which ranged from the agreeably quirky to the..well, have a read for yourself.

First up, your standard toilet stinker-outer. Most people will encounter one in their lives.

This one’s a bit more niche…

Always a good way to kill some time…

Who needs personal hygiene?

Yeah, we probably wouldn’t have stuck around for long…

Suppose that’s one way of doing it…

Probably not going to win any flatmate of the year awards this one…

This guy makes Saul Goodman sound like a safe bet…

The fact that this woman feels she got off lightly tells you everything you need to know about the other stories…

True love conquers all…

A dickhead of the very highest order…

And finally this idi…oh wait, no this guy gets a pass. There can’t be many better ways to finish a night.

Got any flatmate stories that top these? Let us know immediately at hello@JOE.co.uk, or drop us a message on Facebook.