[Kim]

We used to have cockroaches in our dorm, does that count? :mrgreen:

Kim, that more than counts...that's even worse! hock:

-Jenna

I know, it was sick. Luckily my room was furthest away from the kitchen, which is where the main roach problem was, so I didn't find the buggers in my bed but some people did.... hock: :rambo:

My main problem was this guy who on Tuesdays had to get up real early for some screwed up reason, at like 05:30 or so and would use his radio as an alarm clock. Every Tuesday morning I'd wake up in the middle of the night cause music was blasting through my walls :twisted:

[Kim]

I live right across the street from my campus and at least once a week they will send a squad or a ladder to check out false alarms, mostly its drunk freshmen screwing around.

Same kind of thing happens with the Amsterdam trams. Young kids pretending to be funny yank on the emergency brakes, the whole tram comes to an abrupt halt and what they don't realise is that the tram has to go through a whole procedure in order to continue its journey after something like this.
Not funny when you've been out all night and just reaaaallly want to get to bed... :x

[grooveless touque]

I had a pretty bad slumlord in my second year of university (since nobody else seemed to pick up on this one). The water heater broke one time and it took over two weeks just to get him to replace it - I was busing out to my mother's house in Herring Cove twice a week for showers. And do you have any idea how hard it is to wash dishes in ice cold water?!

Oh and the house had the worst insulation in the world...Viking thatch huts retained heat better. We kept the thermostat on 90 all winter and still had to wear sweater ebcause it was usually about 57-60 degrees in the house.

OH and the f**king door didn't close or lock. And I spent EIGHT F**KING months yelling at people to make sure they close the door tightly or it flies open and the wind gets in and it takes a week just to get the house back to being as warm as it was before the door was opened. ARGH!

[Jenna_Bird]

I had a pretty bad slumlord in my second year of university (since nobody else seemed to pick up on this one). The water heater broke one time and it took over two weeks just to get him to replace it - I was busing out to my mother's house in Herring Cove twice a week for showers. And do you have any idea how hard it is to wash dishes in ice cold water?!

Oh and the house had the worst insulation in the world...Viking thatch huts retained heat better. We kept the thermostat on 90 all winter and still had to wear sweater ebcause it was usually about 57-60 degrees in the house.

OH and the f**king door didn't close or lock. And I spent EIGHT F**KING months yelling at people to make sure they close the door tightly or it flies open and the wind gets in and it takes a week just to get the house back to being as warm as it was before the door was opened. ARGH!

you win. hands down. i'd take the bats over a bad showering situation.

-Jenna

[The Heron Outside]

Earky morning fire alarms were a regular part of my rez experience last year. We talk about it now, and after waiting outside for 20 minutes at 4.30 in the morning, the feeling of getting back into bed is so good, it almost makes it worth it...but not really. :roll:
I lived in South rez @ Guelph, the largest rez hall in Canada I believe...some 1700 kids in this massive building. Oh the stories...one of my favourites, your standard night, everyone just sitting around shooting the sh*t and someone comes flying into our room-"THERE'S PIGS LOOSE DOWNSTAIRS!" Sure enough, get downstairs and there were pigs everywhere, someone had set them loose. I guess that's what you get for going to an agricultural school. As far as drunken debauchery goes, I did a lot the things people complain about...I figured I only get to be a "Freshman" once...you stick all kinds of riled up 19 year olds together in a building, all kinds of good stuff is bound to happen. :thumb:

[Jenna_Bird]

this morning....at 7...while running late and showering...FIRE ALARM GOES OFF AGAIN. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: this means war.

-Jenna

[dyersbay]

Do you leave the building everytime one goes off? Wow I don't know how you stand it! hock: