Our junior year, there were 4 of us living in an apartment built for 3. According to the school, however, it was plenty big enough for 4 (hah!). One of our roommates was in her own world, marched to her own beat...you get the idea. E, C and I would frequently come home to a group of people we'd never seen before in our living room watching a movie at the invitation of K. She meant well, but it was always a random group, people she barely knew, and usually freshmen. In her attempt to be hospitable she would offer them food and drink...which was great, except that she would offer them our food and drink! Needless to say, these random movie parties became both an aggravation and a joke.
One night, after stumbling upon such a party in our apartment when all E and I wanted to do was sit in the stillness of our living room and veg, I was feeling ornery. Obviously E was as well because she went along with it. One of the guys asked to use the restroom and we told him where it was, then I added, "but it's a quarter."
The look of shock on his face was priceless. Oddly, he believed me! We kept the charade up for a while, with talk of how expensive the water was and how toilet paper was going up in price, and we had him going for quite a while. Finally someone, though I can't remember who, filled this poor freshman lad in on the joke.
The best part of the whole thing? We didn't pay for the water OR the TP. The school did!
2 comments:
You could have made a fortune if you charged an entry fee at the door.
these are great! i'm totally going to enjoy reading them. maybe i'll do the same, but i don't know if i can come up with 20 of that many interesting anecdotes. hmmm. i like the entry fee at the door idea ... though i don't know that we were home too often when people came over. mostly just came home to find people there and our snacks gone...
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