Before I start my long story... I've gotta apologize to the Christians on the board because my seriously screw-loose ex-roomate was a Christian... more over a fanatic.
My first semester staying away from home, my parents rented a double room for me and this high school mate's parents talked to my parents about allowing their daughter to share a room with me. Technically, I rented out half of my room to her. Things started out pretty okay until a couple of weeks later. My room was infested with her.
She shopped nonstop for clothes... eventually the only wall in the room that wasn't covered by her clothes... were the windows. Even the double decker bed railing were filled with her clothes. (She imitates the way Japanese girls dress which is totally inappropriate in tropical climates) I live in a very humid country. A room that transformed into her closet became almost suffocating. I kept quiet and let her do that... even when we only had a table fan to share in the room and she's adjust the fan to face the top bunker where she sleeps and locks the position while I'm at the bottom bunker sweating like nobody's business.
In about a month, I realised that she's a fanatic. Fanatic Christian and Japan Culture Worshipper. Being a concern friend, walking back from college along a highway that was being built at night was very dangerous, my other roomates and I told her that she should spent money on public tranportation back to the apartment instead of walking back. She turned around and told us that she believed that her god would protect her. Then we asked her if she got kidnapped, what would happen? She said that the kidnappers would not hurt her because her god would protect her. Again, everyone kept quiet.
Then came a time where we got into an argument, I'm a freethinker and the rest of my friends Buddhists, she told us that we would all burn in hell because we weren't Christians and because the argument was that new age music was satanic.
(She sleeps hugging her bible
and everything is about her god and religion)
Then it was music. I had a CD player in the room. I told her she was free to use the player. She played Gospel and J-Pop ALL DAY LONG. When I wanted to play my music, I was told to plug in my head phones because she didn't like the music I listened to.
(as if I liked her music) Same went with my personal TV set. While me and my housemates watched a movie on the VCR, she wanted to watch Sailormoon on TV. 6 of us gave in to her and we left the apartment.
The final straw was when I totally lost my patience at the end of that semester. I decided that I couldn't share a room with her anymore. I told her that I wanted my privacy. She cried to my other roomates and they sympathised with her a bit. She bunked in with them after that. She didn't want to talk to me about it civilly. She told her parents untruths about my reasons why I wanted her out of my room. Her parents called up my parents at 1am, cursed and swore at them. They were caught off guard and was very shocked... because they couldn't believe these people who claimed that they were strong believers in their religion. My parents were cursed to hell by them. They called me a few minutes after. I was so hurt by that and the next day, my roomates booted her out citing that the landlord discovered that there was an illegal occupant in the apartment.
After this one try at sharing a room with someone. I rented single or double rooms by myself. I refused to share.