How to Annoy Your Roommate
1. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
2. Twitch a lot.
3. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
4. Steal a fish tank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them.
5. Become a subgenius.
6. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
7. 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.
8. Speak in tongues.
9. 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.
10. Walk and talk backwards.
11. Spend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in the middle of your
room. Number them.
12. 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."
13. Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man, "Casablanca,")
almost inaudibly.
14. 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).
15. Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you food.
16. Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off when you are.
17. Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of weeks."
18. Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come, pretend
nothing happened.
19. Eat glass.
20. Smoke ball-point pens.
21. Smile. All the time.
22. Burn all your waste paper while eyeing your roommate suspiciously.
23. 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.
24. Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list of grievances.
25. Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and then look away
quickly.
26. Dye all your underwear lime green.
27. Buy three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
28. Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse him/her of stealing
it.
29. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).
30. 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.
31. Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser. Refuse to discuss
them.
32. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
33. Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start with "Didja ever
wonder why...." Be creative.
34. Shave one eyebrow.
35. 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.
36. Put horseradish in your shoes.
37. Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain loudly that you can
never find the book that you want.
38. Always flush the toilet three times.
39. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
40. 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.
41. Give him/her an allowance.
42. Listen to radio static.
43. Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close them as soon as
you wake up.
44. Cry a lot.
45. Send secret admirer notes on your roommate's Email.
46. 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.
47. Paste used kleenexes to his/her walls.
48. Whenever your roomate comes in from the shower, lower your eyes and giggle to
yourself.
49. If you get in before your roomate, go to sleep in his/her bed.
50. 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 mon th.
51. If your roommate goes away for a weekend, change the locks.
52. Whenever his/her parents call and ask for your roommate, breathe into the phone for 5
seconds then hang up.
53. Whenever he/she goes to shower, drop whatever you're doing, grab a towel, and go
shower too.
54. 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.
55. Collect all of your pencil shavings and sprinkle them on the floor.
56. 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.
57. Call safety & security whenever your roommate turns up his/her music.
58. Follow him/her around on weekends.
59. Sit on the floor and talk to the wall.
60. Whenever the phone rings, get up and answer the door.
61. Whenever someone knocks, answer the phone.
62. Whenever your roommate is walking through the room, bump into him/her.
63. Stare at your roommate for five minutes out of every hour. Don't say anything, just
stare.
64. Tell your roommate that someone called and said that it was really important but you
can't remember who it was.
65. Let mice loose in his/her room.
66. 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.
67. Take your roommate's papers and hand them in as your own.
68. Skip to the bathroom.
69. Take all of your roommate's furniture and build a fort. Guard the fort for an entire
weekend.
70. 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 foiliage.
71. When you walk into your room, turn off your lights. Turn them on when you leave.
72. 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.
73. Insist on writing the entire lyrics to American Pie on your ceiling above your bed. Sing
them every night before you go to bed.
74. Burn incense.
75. Eat moths.
76. 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.
77. Collect Chia-Pets.
78. Refuse to communicate in anything but sign language.
79. Eat a bag of marshmellows before you go to bed. The next day, spray three bottles of
whip cream all over your floor. Say you got sick.
80. Wipe deoderant all over your roommate's walls.
81. 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.
82. Leave apple cores on his/her bed.
83. Don't ever flush.
84. Hang stuffed animals with nooses from your ceiling. Whenever you walk by them
mutter, "You shouldn't have done that to me."
85. Lick him/her while they are asleep.
86. Dress in drag.
87. 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 everytime
your roommate walks in. If he/she asks about the wrappers, say you know nothing about
them.
88. Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate's head while he/she is asleep. Keep
a pair of scissors by your bed. Snicker at your roommate every morning.
89. 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?"
90. Trash the room when your roommate's not around. Then leave and wait for your
roommate to come back. When he/she does, walk in and act surprised. Say, "Uh-oh, it
looks like, THEY, were here again."
91. 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.
92. 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.
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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 he/she
do the same.
96. "Drink" a raw egg for breakfast every morning. Explain that you are in training. Eat a
dozen donuts every night.
97. 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.
98. Every time you wake up, start yelling, "Oh, no! Where 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 he/she is talking about.
99. Draw a tiny, black spot on your arm. Make it bigger every day. Look at it and say,
"It's spreading, it's spreading."
100. Buy a McDonald's "Happy Meal" for lunch every day. Eat the straw and the napkin.
Throw everything else away.
101. 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.
102. Buy a Jack-In-The-Box. Every day, turn the handle until the clown pops out. Scream
continuously for twenty minutes.
103. Hang up pictures of chickens all over the room. If your roommate eats eggs, yell at
him/her and call him/her a cannibal.
104. Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so, look at your
roommate and mutter, "Soon, soon...."
105. Lock the door while your roommate is out. When he/she 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.
106. 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? He/she won't be here much longer."
107. If your roommate comes home after midnight, hit him/her on the head with a rolling
pin. Immediately go to bed, muttering, "Ungrateful little..."
108. Pile dirty dishes in your roommate's bed. Insist that you don't know how they got
there.
109. 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.
110. 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 he/she
coughs, excitedly say, "Oooh, are you dying?"
111. Keep a tarantula in a jar for three days. Then get rid of the tarantula. If your
roommate asks, say, "Oh, he's around here, somewhere."
112. 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.
113. 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 he/she needs bowling
shoes.
114. 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.
115. 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.
116. 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 he/she hurt its feelings. Watch T.V with the pig, eating lot s of bacon.
117. 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 is my sandwich!?" Complain
loudly that you are hungry.
118. Punch a hole in the T.V. Sit and watch it anyway, complaining about the poor picture
quality.
119. 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 stand ing
in front of the window again.
120. 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 just didn't belon
g."
121. 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.
122. 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.
123. 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?"
124. 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.
125. Throw darts at a bare wall. All of a sudden, act excited, telling your roommate that
you hit the bullseye.
126. 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.
127. 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 "Clyde" all the time. If your
roommate protests, say, "I'm sorry. I won't do that anymore, Murray."
128. Hire a night watchman to guard the room while you are sleeping.
129. Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if he knows how much
an elephant weighs, and look at the floor on the empty side of the room with concern.
130. Practice needlepoint every night. At one point, grab your thumb and scream,
"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Cry hysterically for a few minutes, and then go to bed.
Sob and sniff all night.
131. 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."
132. Every time your roommate comes in, immediately turn off the lights and go to bed.
When he/she leaves, get up and loudly yell, "Okay, guys, you can come out now."
133. Start wearing a crown, all the time. If your roommate tells you to take it off, say,
"What do you think you are? A king?"
134. 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."
135. 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."
136. Change the locks on the door. Don't let your roommate in unless he/she says the
secret word. Change the secret word often. If your roommate can't guess the secret word,
make him/her pay a tithe.
137. Scatter stuffed animals around the room. Put party hats on them. Play loud music.
When your roommate walks in, turn off the music, take off the party hats, put away the
stuffed animals, and say, "Well, it was fun while it lasted."
138. 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
mon key.
139. 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.
140. 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.
141. Sign your roommate up for various activities (Campus tour guide, blood donor, organ
donor).
142. 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 c urse on
your roommate.
143. Wear your shoes on the wrong feet, all the time. Constantly complain that your feet
hurt.
144. Hit your roommate on the head with a brick. Claim that you were trying to kill a
mosquito.
145. 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.
146. 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.
147. 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."
148. 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.
149. 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!"
150. 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."
151. Read the phone book out loud and excitedly ("Frank Johnson! Oh, wow! 837-9494!
Holy cow!")
152. Shadow box several times a day. One day, walk in looking depressed. If your
roommate asks what's wrong, explain that your shadow can't box with you anymore due to
an injury. Ask your roommate if you can box with his/her shadow.
153. When you walk into the room, look at your roommate in disgust and yell, "Oh, you're
here!" Walk away yelling and cursing.
154. Put up flyers around the building, reporting that your roommate is missing. Offer a
reward for his/her safe return.
155. 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 th e
funeral.
156. Draw a chalk outline on the floor. When your roommate comes in, say, "Don't worry.
It's not what you think." If he/she asks about it again, immediately change the subject.
157. 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.
158. Paint a tunnel on the wall like they do in cartoons. Every day, hit your head as you
attempt to crawl through it. Hold your head and grumble, "Stupid road runner...."
159. 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.
160. Hold a raffle, offering your roommate as first prize. If he/she protests, tell him/her
that it's all for charity.
161. Make cue cards for your roommate. Get them out whenever you'd like to have a
conversation.
162. Talk like a pirate, all the time. Threaten to make your roommate walk the plank if
he/she doesn't swab the deck. Arrrrrrrrr!
163. 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.
164. 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.
165. 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.
166. Watch "Psycho" every day for a month. Then act excited every time your roommate
goes to take a shower.
167. 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.
168. 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.
169. 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.
170. 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, "Stu pid horseshoe...."
171. 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 j ack-o-lantern,
but you can't convince it to move out.
172. 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.
173. Hang a basketball net on the wall. Challenge your refrigerator to basketball games,
and play them in front of your roommate. Do so for about a month. Confide in your
roommate that you think the refrigerator has been taking steroids.
174. Drink lots of lemonade. Talk obnoxiously for hours about how much you love
lemonade. Then, one day, paint your face yellow. From then on, complain about how much
you hate lemonade.
175. Late at night, start conversations that begin with, "Remember the good old days,
when we used to..." and make up stories involving you and your roommate.
176. Whenever your roommate sneezes, go and hide in the closet for about an hour. Look
around nervously for the rest of the day.
177. Sit and stare at your roommate for hours. Bring others in to join you. Eat peanuts,
throwing a few at your roommate. Then say, "Boy, these zoos just aren't what they used to
be."
178. Tell your roommate that your toe hurts, and that means there's going to be an
earthquake soon. While your roommate is out, trash everything on his/her side of the
room. When he/she returns, explain that the earthquake hit, but only on one side of the
room.
179. Buy a gun. Clean it every day. One day, put a band-aid on your forehead, and refuse
to discuss the gun ever again.
180. Buy a lobster. Pretend to play cards with it. Complain to your roommate that the
lobster is making up his own rules.
181. Make pancakes every morning, but don't eat them. Draw faces on them, and toss
them in the closet. Watch them for several hours each day. Complain to your roommate
that your "pancake farm" isn't evolving into a self-sufficient community. Confide in you r
roommate that you think the king of the pancakes has been taking bribes.
182. While you are ironing, pretend to burn yourself. Start a garbage can fire in the middle
of the room. Toss the iron inside. If your roommate objects, explain that you are just trying
to get even.
183. Buy some turtles. Paint numbers on their backs. Race them down the hall.
184. Create an army of animal crackers. Put them through basic training. Set up little
checkpoints around the room. Tell your roommate that the camel spotted him/her in a
restricted area and said not to do it again. Ask your roommate to apologize to the ca mel.
185. Put out a plate of cookies at night. Tell your roommate that they're for the Sandman.
Take a bite out of one of the cookies while your roommate is asleep. The next morning,
accuse your roommate of having bitten one of the cookies. If he/she tries to t ell you the
Sandman did it, insist that you know what the Sandman's teeth marks look like and that
those are, in fact, not the Sandman's teeth marks. Grumble angrily and storm out of the
room.
186. Steal a tire from a fraternity lawn. Bring it to your room. Bathe it. Name it. Sleep in it.
187. Leave your room and lock the door. Proceed to bang on the door, screaming, "Let me
in." Get mad at your roommate for locking you out.
188. Talk on the phone a lot. Don't pick up the receiver.
189. Talk to your roommate but don't let any sound come out. Get mad at him/her for not
listening to you.
190. Ask your roommate if Bob, your invisible friend, can stay the night.
191. Ask your roommate if s/he can turn down the music. Explain that Bob has a headache.
192. Start a brothel.
193. Constantly slip and fall -- on your carpet.
194. Invite the Dean to sleep over.
195. Invite the school President to sleepover.
196. Invite your roommate to sleepover.
197. Let your alarm clock go off and refuse to turn it off. If your roommate comments,
pretend not to hear anything.
198. Walk into walls.
199. Leave little notes in the shower for him/her.
200. Every time you take a shower, yell audibly, "I'm melting, I'm melting!"
201. When your roommate has friends over, get under your covers and stare at them
through a little hole in the covers. Use a telescope.
202. When you leave the room, put on a screensaver that says, "I'm watching you."
203. Make a care package for your roommate. Leave the room and ride back and forth
outside your window saying, "Speedy Delivery!" until s/he comes out.
204. Move very stiffly and grin. Tell your roommate that you've turned into Gumby.
205. Study computer science and listen to techno while talking about robots taking over
the world.
206. Sleep with a banana (or lemon) and refuse to throw it out even after it rottens.
207. Wear a silly hat.
208. Tell him/her that you're committing suicide, and let him/her find some dynamite under
your bed.
209. Leave lots of pills in your drawer, and walk around like a zombie.
210. Move your bed around the room once a day, and leave it in a new position every
night.
211. Lock your door every time you go through it. Tell him/her that you're afraid of aliens.
212. Eat raw pasta for dinner.
213. Put bricks in the middle of the room, and explain to him/her that you intend to make a
fireplace to save electricity.
214. Write letters to yourself from famous people. Mail them to yourself.