What's the most 'bachelor' thing you ever did? (1 Viewer)

[DevilsTrifecta]

Was at this bar that had the worst bathrooms ever. Had to take a dump really bad but didn't want to go home so I went under some pine trees in the apartment complex behind the bar. Wiped my butt with my underwear and left them under the trees.

You didn't grow up to work with EG72 did you?

 

[RudiStein]

Got the power turned off, so we lifted the carpet, drilled a hole into the basement and ran 2 big honking extension cords from the basement thru the hole to our living room so we had a space heater, TV and stereo.

In one place we lived, we had what we called "THE VOID". We had a living room window that went out, and it basically was a 4 story enclosure maybe 8 feet by 8 feet -- picture something like an elevator shaft that went down to the ground, but it was just enclosed by other exterior walls (I'm guessing some additions somewhere caused this, it couldn't have been planned). You could see down to the ground but there was no way to get there from the ground level. We threw all our trash out the window when we moved out.

My buddies moved into a place once before the power was turned on. They ran an extension cord from their neighbor's back patio light for about a week. Used one of these

I believe that Void thing was is an 'air shaft'. My friend lived in an old apartment with one of those. Looked like something from 1920s NYC. Kept expecting to see Vito Corleone throw a broken gun down it.

 

[Dexter Manley]

"I was about to sit down to a nice pot of ramen, and enjoy it with a ruler. My roommate wanted some, so I dumped half of it on a piece of paper, and snapped the ruler in half so he would have a utensil as well.I've also eaten Easy Mac with a staple remover by cocking my head back and letting the noodles fall into my mouth."

Ruler!

And the staple remover

 

[DevilsTrifecta]

Had sex with a really nasty chick and had to throw out my mattress (I only had a mattress on the floor).

Gonna need some details here.

My mattress smelled so bad I couldn't sleep. Easier to throw it out than to clean it.

 

[Zow]

Yours is a bit more crazy, but I've done:

1. Used a Busch Light box as a dining room table for the longest time.

2. Didn't do laundry until I had re-worn every pair of boxers/underwear I had at least 3 times. That was gross.

3. When my toilet broke I used my sink for about a week because I didn't feel like telling my landlord.

4. Threw dishes out in the trash instead of washing them.

5. Slept on a mattress on the floor for an entire year - living in two separate places.

6. Sprayed deodorant in my pants because I was going to see a girl and I had ran out of soap.

7. Hired a younger girl who I felt awkward to date to clean my place for me on a bi-weekly basis even though she didn't do a good job because I felt bad for her situation and it was the only way I could justify to myself staring at her ###.

8. I don't think I've ever actually bought napkins.

9. Have always just ate the total cleaning cost (basically given up my rent deposit) because I have no desire to clean my apartments.

10. Used a basketball as a meat tenderizer (sp?)

 

[Shooter McGavin]

3. When my toilet broke I used my sink for about a week because I didn't feel like telling my landlord.

Tell me you didn't crap in the sink.

 

[Jobber]

In college, I once had a bum buy my groceries with food stamps and I reimbursed him with cash at a huge discount.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

I believe that Void thing was is an 'air shaft'.

per wiki:

Old Law Tenements are tenements built in New York City after the Tenement House Act of 1879 and before the so-called "New Law" of 1901.The 1879 law required that every inhabitable room have a window opening to plain air, a requirement that was met by including air shafts between adjacent buildings.

Interesting, it was by design. Good info here.

 

[Nigel]

Got thrown off campus middle of sophomore year with two buddies. Moved into a ####hole off campus apartment and found a 20 lb turkey in the freezer. Date indicated it had been there over a year. Threw it in the oven on SB Sunday and when it looked done put it on a table in the middle of the room, among a hundred or so people. No plate, utensils, napkins or side dishes. In five minutes it was a skeleton. Juciest bird ever.

 

[DevilsTrifecta]

3. When my toilet broke I used my sink for about a week because I didn't feel like telling my landlord.

Tell me you didn't crap in the sink.

That reminds me:One time the sewer pipes got all clogged up with tree roots. Landlady took her sweet time getting them fixed so we would lean up against the garage in the backyard and crap there. You had to put a plastic bag underneath and throw it away after so the dogs wouldn't roll in it.

 

[pantherclub]

My first roommate in Charlotte NC didnt wash his bedsheets for 2 years. Honest truth. Not surprisingly he never got laid.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Got thrown off campus middle of sophomore year with two buddies. Moved into a ####hole off campus apartment and found a 20 lb turkey in the freezer. Date indicated it had been there over a year. Threw it in the oven on SB Sunday and when it looked done put it on a table in the middle of the room, among a hundred or so people. No plate, utensils, napkins or side dishes. In five minutes it was a skeleton. Juciest bird ever.

 

[The Hardline]

3. When my toilet broke I used my sink for about a week because I didn't feel like telling my landlord.

Tell me you didn't crap in the sink.

One would think not...but something as equally disgusting was one of my old roomates had what he called his "Oyster Jar". Every morning (especially during the winter months when cold season was rampant) he would hork up his overnight loogie and spit it into this big old pickle jar he kept in his bedside table drawer and then replace the lid. It was absolutely He never could explain the WTFs regarding this behavior which was more than fine with me. He always used to threaten one of our other roomates with it though saying that he would douse his bed with it, etc if he ever touched his Totinos pizza again. He finally launched it off the balcony into the parking lot when we moved out. That guy was solid.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

I had a roommate in college who was too lazy to get out of bed to piss during the night, so he kept a plastic 2-liter bottle with him. I had to finally put a stop to it when he started leaving full bottles around the room.

 

[bostonfred]

Had $7.41 in checking account. Deposited $3 with $10 cash back.

 

[The Hardline]

Had $7.41 in checking account. Deposited $3 with $10 cash back.

Finance Major....Damn this thread is making me I had forgotten stuff like this.

 

[Cunk]

Supper one time: Magic Shell on a plate (I did freeze it first)

Supper another time: Lettuce and salt

Had a couch made from a booth taken from a Friendly's with some discarded couch cushions.

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

 

[Postradamus]

We knocked a midget sized hole into our kitchen wall after a few cases, but instead of telling the landlord or fixing it, we stole a giant construction sign like this and hung it on the wall until we moved out.

For beer pong, we used the same cups for over 3 months. Those cups probably saw well over 1000 games of pong and maybe 200 different people. Yeah, repulsive. We just washed them and prayed no one had SARS.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

I'm trying to picture how this would work, and all of the possibilities are pretty damn funny.

 

[RudiStein]

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

 

[bostonfred]

Random drunken brawl put a huge hole in the wall right before we were moving out. Instead of fixing it, we covered it with posterboard and had an art major mix paint that would match the wall well enough that you couldn't notice. Got our deposit back.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

 

[Nigel]

My old roommates and I used to have a couch on cinder blocks behind our regular couch in the living room for more viewing area. We called it the dog pound. Not an original name, but it came in handy.

My old roommates and I had a similar setup. We called it "The Skybox". It was a big hit on NFL Sundays.

We brought a bunch of couches from adjoining rooms into one room, eight couches in all, and set them up like you did but in a square. In the middle we suspended a Connect Four game from the ceiling, and called it the Connect Forum. We were high.

 

[Bluestaples]

My old roommates and I used to have a couch on cinder blocks behind our regular couch in the living room for more viewing area. We called it the dog pound. Not an original name, but it came in handy.

My old roommates and I had a similar setup. We called it "The Skybox". It was a big hit on NFL Sundays.

We brought a bunch of couches from adjoining rooms into one room, eight couches in all, and set them up like you did but in a square. In the middle we suspended a Connect Four game from the ceiling, and called it the Connect Forum. We were high.

 

[Sarnoff]

-Slept on a mattress on the floor

-Had the cliche cable spool and milk crates for furniture

Box springs are a waste.But did you have the random orange traffic cone in the corner for 'decoration'?

I have the pin from hole #3 at Bowling Green's golf course as decoration.

Took the laminated poster-sized Value Meal display from a Taco Bell drive thru once and hung it on the wall as a poster.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

We brought a bunch of couches from adjoining rooms into one room, eight couches in all, and set them up like you did but in a square. In the middle we suspended a Connect Four game from the ceiling, and called it the Connect Forum. We were high.

Last sentence is redundant, though.

 

[Sarnoff]

-Stole TP from gas station bathrooms

About 5/6 years ago, Alex Trebek was doing contestant interviews on Jeopardy!, and came to this girl and said "Says her on the card that you don't buy toilet paper." She replied, "Considering what it's used for, I find it hard to justify spending money on it. If you're resourceful, you can get it elsewhere for free."Haven't bought TP since. Xanadu was when I got a job at a place that left the janitorial supply closet unlocked. I'd pack up 30, 40 rolls at a time and walk out the back door.

 

[The Future Champs]

Moved into a house with 3 other guys and no working shower. Our plan was to fix the shower in the first week. Six months later we were still showering in the basement, standing in a 10 gallon galvanized tub, under a garden hose that was hooked up to the utility sink.

It worked pretty good, too.

 

[Postradamus]

During our cowboys and indians party, we had a bonfire and we ran out of logs (not really) so we decided to toss our freshly pissed on couch into the fiery inferno to keep it going strong.

That's not bachelor at all, actually. Logs are pretty much free and that was our only couch.

 

[DevilsTrifecta]

Had $7.41 in checking account. Deposited $3 with $10 cash back.

Finance Major....Damn this thread is making me I had forgotten stuff like this.

St. Patrick's Day: Me and my roommate were so broke we had no booze and no food.....scoured the house and gathered up enough change to get a bottle of Jameson and a 6-pack of Guiness. Best St. Patty's Day ever!

 

[Sarnoff]

I know I'm not the only one:

Had a regular size fridge and two mini-fridges after moving in with a roommate. Regular-size fridge was the kitchen beer supply. One of the mini-fridges we put next to the sofa with a lamp on it as an end table, that was our "too lazy to walk to the kitchen" beer fridge. The other mini-fridge was next to the normal sized fridge, that one was for food.

 

[Disco Stu]

He always used to threaten one of our other roomates with it though saying that he would douse his bed with it, etc if he ever touched his Totinos pizza again. He finally launched it off the balcony into the parking lot when we moved out. That guy was solid.

 

[Zow]

3. When my toilet broke I used my sink for about a week because I didn't feel like telling my landlord.

Tell me you didn't crap in the sink.

Nope, lived a block from campus so I would run there if need be.

 

[bostonfred]

Went to a going out of business sale at a clothing store. Bought a mannequin for $1. Dressed it in tomorrow's clothes instead of hanging them up.

 

[Sarnoff]

I'm sure I was below $20 in my checking account once and couldn't use an ATM anymore. Also, maybe 7/8 years back, waited for Ramen Noodles to go on sale for 10 cents a brick instead of the usual 15/20 cents. Stocked up huge. To this day I still have a drawer or two stuffed full with noodle bricks I haven't bothered to throw away yet.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

My old roommates and I used to have a couch on cinder blocks behind our regular couch in the living room for more viewing area. We called it the dog pound. Not an original name, but it came in handy.

My old roommates and I had a similar setup. We called it "The Skybox". It was a big hit on NFL Sundays.

We brought a bunch of couches from adjoining rooms into one room, eight couches in all, and set them up like you did but in a square. In the middle we suspended a Connect Four game from the ceiling, and called it the Connect Forum. We were high.

 

[Nigel]

Did not have enough money for spring break so I did a phantom deposit in a Bay Bank ATM where I deposited an empty envelope that I claimed had a $400 check in it, then immediately did a $400 cash back withdrawal. They were mad at me when I got back.

 

[Sarnoff]

At Mardi Gras one year, we paid to park in a garage and slept in my car. Can't remember if it was because we couldn't afford a hotel room or if there were no hotel rooms available. Pretty sure it was the former.

Buddy of mine decided to go to Mardi Gras with some college friends. They were all in Florida together. Knew they couldn't find a hotel room, so they drove to NOLA in a U-Haul with a mattress in the back.

 

[FlapJacks]

Had a clog in the shower. Instead of doing anything about it we just put a chair in there and stood on it.

 

[Sarnoff]

We had a utensil drawer in the kitchen dedicated to bottle cap storage. Because we HAD to do this so that we could see how many we could collect. We were WILD!

We had those glossy-painted cinderblock walls in our dorm room, the ones where if you rubbed a bottlecap (the smooth side, obviously) against it, it would stick in place. The wall was full by the end of the year.

 

[RudiStein]

What the hell happened to us, man? We used to be fun.

We used to drink liquor we found in dumpsters on furniture we also found in dumpsters! Now we brine chicken for 3 days in a row and watch 'Lost' at 8 billion dpi.

We crapped in the sink, wiped ourselves with coffee filters and stood on chairs in the shower! Now we have to have a 'steam showers' and use baby wipes on our tushies.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

One time, I had sex with a homeless guy for crack.

 

[northern exposure]

I used to fill my pockets with salt, pepper, ketchup and sugar packets whenever I went to a fast food place, so I didn't have to buy it.

Woke up after a night of drinking to discover I had no milk , so I used water + coffee whitener in my cereal.

Three of us left the bar and only had enough money for either some cheap food or a taxi. We walked to a pizza place and ordered a pizza to be delivered. Asked the driver if we could catch a ride with him. He drove to our apartment with the pizza and the 3 of us in the car. When we got to the apartment we paid him for the pizza and invited him in for a beer for his troubles.

Took multiple samples from the product demo lady at the grocery store and called it lunch. Used to raid the neighbor's mailboxes when free product samples like cereal were delivered.

 

[Kendall]

One time, I had sex with a homeless guy for crack.

Hope you liked the crack, cause I know I liked the sex.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Did not have enough money for spring break so I did a phantom deposit in a Bay Bank ATM where I deposited an empty envelope that I claimed had a $400 check in it, then immediately did a $400 cash back withdrawal. They were mad at me when I got back.

Not saying I did this in my bachelor days, not saying I didn't. Just saying I believe this man's story.

A chick I was trying to bang in college did this, too. Her bank was not amused.

 

[The Hardline]

One time, I had sex with a homeless guy for crack.

That is disgusting

 

[Sarnoff]

So first I tried a hair dryer to defrost the freezer.

The wall A/C unit in my first place would ice over all the time, hair dryer'ed it a few times.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Three of us left the bar and only had enough money for either some cheap food or a taxi. We walked to a pizza place and ordered a pizza to be delivered. Asked the driver if we could catch a ride with him. He drove to our apartment with the pizza and the 3 of us in the car. When we got to the apartment we paid him for the pizza and invited him in for a beer for his troubles.

genius!

 

[That Little Voice]

Three of us left the bar and only had enough money for either some cheap food or a taxi. We walked to a pizza place and ordered a pizza to be delivered. Asked the driver if we could catch a ride with him. He drove to our apartment with the pizza and the 3 of us in the car. When we got to the apartment we paid him for the pizza and invited him in for a beer for his troubles.

Shark move.