I live with a 30 year old Teenager

Oh Boy do I have a Bad roommate for you guys!

Cast:

TW: Train Wreck the Main character

BF: Train Wrecks Boyfriend

OR: Other Roommate

ME: me

Quick Note: This is a story of about 2 years so if the time line seems a little wonky it’s because this is all from memory.

To set the scene a little I bought a house a few years back and am paying the mortgage on it. To help with savings and to live more comfortably I rent out two bedrooms with essentially full access to the house with the exception of the master bedroom.

The rented rooms aren’t large, but are comfy unless you’ve got a king sized bed they’re about 10 x 10 give or take. I rent out the rooms for slightly under what I pay for the monthly Mortgage and I handle all other utilities.

Enter TW; TW was my first Tenant and admittedly started off fairly normal. She came with a good recommendation from a mutual friend and after a brief negotiation she moved in for a slightly cheaper rent with the verbal agreement of I’ll give you a cheaper rent but in return help keep the place clean. (Wasn’t much 50 dollar difference) She agreed and shortly thereafter moved in.

To describe TW she’s around 28 – 30, dresses in band t-shirts, owns a wide variety of darkly shaded lip stick and eye shadow, dyes her hair a variety of odd colors (orange, blue ect..) on a monthly basis and would probably describe herself as a struggling artist.

With that out of the way let’s get to it. TW started off as previously mentioned a pretty good roommate. She’d clean the house once a month take care of the dishes once a week (we have a dish washer so most work was really just loading it and putting stuff away).

This lasted for about 3 months and then I guess the honeymoon stage of independence wore off and she basically just stopped doing all of this. She began inviting people over, would let them drink all my beer / soda and then not replace it unless you called her out on it. When she did finally replace something it would always be of lesser value. If you bought premium import beer in a 24 pack TW would buy a domestic beer in a 6 pack and call it even. It quickly came apparent you need to hide alcohol if you wanted to ever have the chance to drink it yourself.

TW also decided that she didn’t like the trash can in her room which was one of those standard plastic cans with an open top. TW fancied the bathroom trash can though, which was a nice stainless steel can with a lid and a foot lever. She kindly swapped them out and then stuck band stickers all over it. When asked why she blew it off and said “don’t worry dude they’ll come right off”

TW got fired from her job around this time for talking back to her manager. She was now out of a job. She did Uber Eats as a part time gig and still seemed to be able to pay her rent on time. This lasted for about 4 months during this time she began working less and less. Despite her ample free time she never seemed to have any for dishes or cleaning. According to her she didn’t cook so the mess was never hers. She seemed to conveniently forget she makes tea every day and uses silverware.

She started just bringing guys over at 2 am to “hang out” in her defense on this, she worked in the restaurant industry so it wasn’t completely crazy for her to have friends up this late on a Tuesday. Waking up to random dude’s on my couch the next morning became a normal thing. Other Roommate and I brought up we don’t mind her having friends over but at least warn us, and introduce us. Before we wake up to yet another strange person in the house. This upset TW because we were picking on her and she “was never allowed to have her friends over” never mind that her friends have clocked more hours on my couch than I have.

She decided to liven the house decor a bit around this time and kindly displayed all her art everywhere she could find a nail. So part of my house has an aaah!! Real Monsters / Nightmare before Christmas theme going on now. There wasn’t room for her whole collection so she just removed stuff on walls (like the only clock in the living room) that got relocated to the garage, in her mother’s suit case which just randomly appeared one day as a set of 3 filled to the brim. She decided to just leave those sprawled out in the middle of the floor.

It was around this time OR hooked TW up with a new job (another restaurant job) she worked an average of 25-35 hours a week and complained about how stressful it all is. She again has no time to do anything which was true, after working a 7 – 8 hour shift she’d only have 17 hours to sleep so her schedule was honestly a nightmare.

After waking up one morning and getting ready for work I heard a knock at my door only to find an officer parked in my Driveway another on the side of the house and another adjacent to him. The cops were cool I explained I lived there and I was not the person they were looking for. Turns out they wanted to chat with TW, and asked if she was home. Her car was still in the driveway at this point so I said most likely and I’d be happy to go fetch her but it might take a few since she works in the restaurant industry and usually gets home late. The officers were more than happy to wait. They were going to have their chat, and I wasn’t going to get my door kicked in it was a win/win. TW upon learning the police were looking to have a chat asked me to tell them she wasn’t home. I shut that down and told her they already knew she was there and to get dressed and go talk to them. After 15 minutes of crying she went outside and then shortly thereafter left in handcuffs. She was in jail for about 4 days. Still pending litigation and currently has a state issued ankle bracelet. (wont go into more detail on this for privacy reasons)

Around this time OR and I have started jokingly referring to TW as our unwanted adoption. She’s like living with a moody teenager. If you ask her to do something you’re giving her Anxiety. If you ask her if she did something it also gives her anxiety. We just stopped talking to her since apparently everything gives her anxiety. She can’t clean anymore she’s suddenly allergic to Bleach. She just opts for not cleaning the bathroom her and OR share. No dishes are hers still. If we’re lucky she’ll do them once every 3 months. We bought bleach free cleaner surprisingly, she still doesn’t clean unless OR yells at her. This also gives her anxiety.

It’s probably been 6 – 8 months since the arrest TW is behind on rent up till this point she’s been good about paying it. Despite her flaws, she’s got that going for her so I gave her a break. I understood that getting arrested can screw with your income she ended up being around two months behind on rent. Anytime I ask her about catching up you guessed it, she gets anxiety.

Sometime after the arrest TW has been missing for about 4 days or so it seems. Turns out she’s not missing just her car. It got towed due to lack of payment. She does nothing about it and hitches rides to work. I again understand shit happens need to make money to get money so I help her out and give a ride once or twice. Keep in mind since this is food service she mostly works nights. I’m a regular 9 – 5 person so she leaves for work when rush hour begins and right when I get home. It’s not an ideal situation for me. It’s been 3 weeks since then TW seems to have no motivation she’s apparently fine with everyone just giving her a ride. OR and myself offer to do adult things for her and call in find out what she owes, where her car is, and what she needs to do to get it back. We give her all this information, she does nothing with it. Two weeks later OR finally schedules with TW to go get her car because she’s tired of giving her rides or lending her, her car.

TW’s car doesn’t start now turns out leaving it in a tow yard for over a month has a down side. It takes her another 2 months to get the battery replaced queue more catering to TW’s profound laziness. All of this of course leads to more triggering of her anxiety.

After a few months of the triggering her anxiety game I got tired of it. Sent her a text and basically told her I’m tacking on another 100 to her rent to help towards the debt she owes and if she doesn’t like it there’s the door, See ya in small claims court.

TW decided to pay her rent again. Shortly after this discussion TW is suddenly cleaning again albeit mostly her own room, a bit too much as a matter of fact it’s weird I’ve never seen this person so motivated in her life. Turns out TW has gotten herself an out of state boyfriend. They met on an app and apparently hit it off.

TW becomes increasingly motivated, BF is paying for a gym membership now to help TW get in shape. I think she’s been to the gym a total of 5 times since then that was about 3 - 4 months ago. BF supports her tells her he cares about her even after knowing about her legal issues. He wants to help her. He starts paying her rent for her. An onslaught on Uber eats, Door Dash, and other food delivery services are now a daily occurrence she get about 3 meals delivered a day. Meanwhile work is getting more and more stressful she decided she doesn’t need to take this crap anymore and puts in her two weeks’ notice she’s going to get her ankle bracelet off and move in with BF She’s got it all figured out.

There’s just one small problem with this plan. She has never once, even tried to speak with her Public Defender that would require effort after all. OR being a good friend again offers to go adult on her behalf to find out if she can get her accessory taken off. Her request is denied.

Her two weeks are in though on to bigger and better things now. Except her whole leaving the state plan is ruined. She speaks with management, and decides to stay on. But now she only works about 2 days out of the week. But all is well, TW’s BF is still supporting her more than ever.

TW and BF are in some kind of relationship I wouldn’t call it a good one they fight every other night it’s mostly him accusing her of cheating on him which is frankly impossible she never leaves the house. She screams at him telling him how much she loves him and begs him not to leave her. This happens in a weird shitty relationship cycle every two days or so. Most recently I woke up to the sound of her screaming at him at about 6:30 in the morning. She was promptly asked to stfu.

There really isn’t a great ending to this as I still live with TW. She’s currently in the shitty relationship and still screams at her BF every other day. If you’ve stuck with this and are asking why the hell are you still living with that? The answer is simple: “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”

TLDR: I live with a 30 something year old teenager incapable of handling anything by herself

Wrote this mostly to vent hope you guys enjoyed!

Submitted June 19, 2019 at 08:36PM by Onyzilla http://bit.ly/2XYFXF3