Glen Callender UFA
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Wasting My Youth column archive

Memoirs of a recovering
ex-roommate

(8 parts)

Terrible true tales of the bad roommates that drove me to swear off roommates forever. Can be read in more or less any order, but the last one should be read last.

1 - The Loxapac chronicles

Ever had a bipolar, patholigically-lying, nymphomaniac roommate who attacked you with a knife? Been there.

2 - Don’t screw the crew

I have sex with my roommate, and guess what? I live to regret it. Warning: contains possibly the stupidest practical joke of all time.

2½ - The bear hunter

Fat hairy white guys don’t drive city buses for the money—they do it for the sweet lovin’. A terrifying glimpse into the twilight world of bus groupies!

3 - You’re just like the Europeans

Politically incorrect mayhem ensues when I share a campus apartment with a First Nations student. Features an intervention by God himself!

4 - A bond forged in silicone

The roommates of #204 are on the brink of civil war. Can harmony be restored through the healing power of breast implants?

4½ - Wart

He’s a cheat, a liar, a philanderer and a thief, and his dog is incontinent. Meet Wart.

4¾ - Future Stockbrokers of America

Dive deep into the psyche of Brad, one of the vilest people I’ve had the displeasure to know. Warning: contains excessive racism and sexism!

5 - There can be only one

I vow to the world that I will live alone forevermore—and can you blame me? An unfond look back at my years of rooming with strangers.

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