Today, I should be working on my big project for work due next week. Instead, I'm walking in and out of the block to get all my things from my flat. My roommate lied about paying the rent for months now and has actually been spending all the money on lotto tickets. And no, he didn't win anything. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a week after spending most of my paycheck on a down-payment and rent on a new apartment, I found out the "landlord" I paid was a scammer. Turns out the real owner was away on vacation, and he'd stolen most of her stuff before showing me the place. FML
Today, my roommate and I had to pay our first installment of rent. He's nowhere to be found. FML
Today, my landlord emailed me, stating that she hasn't been receiving my rent. After some investigation, I found out she's been using the money to buy booze, and hasn't been putting it into the house owner's account. FML
Today, I came home to found all of my belongings out on the street. My roommate, who is also my brother, apparantly neglected to pay his part of the rent, and we got evicted. FML
Today, my roommate played a crazy April Fool's joke on me by not paying his rent this month. Good one. FML
Today, my boyfriend moved out and took all his things with him. He also took some things that didn't belong to him, namely my rent money. My landlord comes tomorrow. FML
Today, I texted my flatmate to ask him when he would be paying his portion of the rent, since he has told me he would be late this month. He wrote back to inform me that he had moved out last night while I was away, and that he won't be paying me anything. FML
Today, after moving in with a friend I've known for 9 years, I found out he's going to jail soon, and refuses to work or get a new job, making me unable to pay rent as he eats all my food. FML
Today, I went to the casino and put $500 into a game and lost it all. I tried another $100 and won it all back, plus some. Instead of walking out ahead, I kept trying to hit bigger and ended up losing all my rent money. Rent is due and now I can’t pay it. FML
Today, I woke up feeling out of step with life. Work owes me money for 6 months-worth of projects I did. I collected loans to take care of my sick dad and manage myself, and now my bosses are refusing to pay what they owe, so my account balance is blank. FML
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Top comments
gracehi 33
Your roommate has a serious problem... Aaaaaaaaaaaand now it's yours. :/
The_Bleeder 13
The room mate is going down a long dark tunnel scrounging for the fewest cents, just a couple dollars roommate thinks to them self, once they find it, they go to the nearest lottery machine, it's been weeks since they have had food last, and he spends that couple on the machine after looking at the menu in the casino. He hits the jackpot, then within minutes after that, he has died of malnutrition...
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Comments (21)
RichardPencil 32
Didn't win anything ... as far as you know.
mfmylifesrsly 30
Pretty sure if he won something he'd be paying rent lol
RichardPencil 32
If he won something, he'd have to split it with the OP. If he just pretended he always lost, he'd get evicted, too, then go live in his mansion he bought with the millions he won. PS: Message me, please.
domolovesyoshi 33
Desperate much?
sophiehelen 32
Probably wouldn't be paying rent, clearly got a problem if he spent a few months rent on tickets. Would gamble away the winnings
barleyguy 17
wow what a prick. seems like something that should have been brought up earlier. you think your landlord would mention at some point. sorry to hear eh
tounces7 28
Exactly - how does this even happen? I mean do they pay their landlord with separate checks? Don't most people at least pay them at the same time? And the Landlord wouldn't even mention missing half the rent for MONTHS? Especially since they'd know they are only missing it from one person? Whole thing seems kinda suspicious.
ZombieScoobyDoo 20
They could do what my roommate and I do. She just writes me a check for her half of the bills. Then I pay them. We never pay rent separately.
gracehi 33
Your roommate has a serious problem... Aaaaaaaaaaaand now it's yours. :/
Cali 57
Anyone else wondering how many lottery tickets this involved?
Lalala579121 28
I think probably enough that we don't want to know.
KingKralj 31
This shit should be illegal, so that idiots like him don't do this kind of shit
cootiequeen4444 11
I'm pretty sure it is. just the cost to press charges might not be worth it in the end.
The_Bleeder 13
The room mate is going down a long dark tunnel scrounging for the fewest cents, just a couple dollars roommate thinks to them self, once they find it, they go to the nearest lottery machine, it's been weeks since they have had food last, and he spends that couple on the machine after looking at the menu in the casino. He hits the jackpot, then within minutes after that, he has died of malnutrition...
thunderniron 22
How do you know he didn't win anything? Obviously he'll lie. ?
RebbeAsh 10
OP commented later that his roomate would gamble away any winnings
Brain_fart 20
What a nightmare! The same thing happened to me a few years back only they were spending my rent $ on Meth. I should have known no one loves cleaning THAT much.
Straya_chick 8
Everyone thinks that the roommie would lie that they didn't win anything. I think it's more likely the roommate actually won sometimes, but any winnings would have gone into more tickets. someone who spends rent money on gambling obviously has no restraint on such things.
Lollyman 2
£2 per lotto ticket.... the rent is expensive in England....****, that is a lot of lotto tickets! Are you sure he didn't win? Who the **** trusts room mates with rent money?