Bill McNeal wrote:Worst roommate ever

Story about a guy from Philly who went to law school, didn’t pass the bar and then basically lived through his 30s and 40s answering ads looking for roommates and then making the primary roommate evict him after by antagonizing then and not paying. It’s a real roller coaster ride and worth reading til the end.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... -ever.html

Yeah that was really gripping

Bill McNeal wrote:Worst roommate ever

Story about a guy from Philly who went to law school, didn’t pass the bar and then basically lived through his 30s and 40s answering ads looking for roommates and then making the primary roommate evict him after by antagonizing then and not paying. It’s a real roller coaster ride and worth reading til the end.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... -ever.html

that was also good.

The suprise at the end happens very quickly. Would be curious to see more of the fallout and what happened to those close to Harry.

it's actually pretty recent. just happened in nov. 2017.

wild story, great read

CalvinBall wrote:The suprise at the end happens very quickly. Would be curious to see more of the fallout and what happened to those close to Harry.

Agreed, the author talks about Harry’s wife not being okay with Jamison being around and then boom. That’s about it. Would’ve liked to known a little more about their relationship and fallout, maybe she didn’t want to speak about it.

read that a few weeks ago. hell of a way to go through life.

it was only published on feb 21...

as i was posting i figured bucky would look up the actual date and correct me if it was within a few weeks. props for the quick response.

Confess I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I will based on the headline:

What would it take for you to be willing to host 20 parasitic worms in your body?

thousand bucks or so

depends on their life cycle. Some of their life cycles are more disgusting than others.

I let this one chick that I just started seeing at the time move in until her new apartment would be ready in about two weeks. I helped her move out, put some of her stuff in storage and actually saw her sign the lease for the new apartment.

First week was awesome, then on the 8th day, things got weird and was like I have to lose her. Figuring she's moving out and confronting to her on when exactly that would be, she did not give me a straight answer. I told her she had to move out at the end of the week, she told me I needed an eviction notice.

I talked to the police the next day and asked what I should do. They told me if she did a change of address and received mail, I would have to file a 30 day eviction notice. I was told even if she did not pay me a single dime and was on no type of bill or lease, they would make me let her in if I would change the locks.

Long story short, did not need the notice, did take her two extra weeks to move out and had to get a restraining order against her. In early February she exited this world, I learned a valuable lesson in trust, and also how ridiculously easy it is to be a squatter.

Wow. If you find yourself needing to be angry read this.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... eir-rights

Reading eagle just did a multi-day expose on the same topic.

Bucky wrote:Wow. If you find yourself needing to be angry read this.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... eir-rights

Thanks for that. There's a special place in hell for a lot of these people.

The Lottery Hackers
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/art ... o-winners/

A story about a guy who worked for Kellogg's cereal, designing packaging, but gets bored, so he quits and buys a convenience store which he will run until he retires. In his retirement, he figures out that a state lottery game has a specific feature that improves the odds to the point that if he plays enough, he can all but guarantee that he'll win money, but he's not alone...

That's a long one!

It's a good one too! Someone linked that somewhere else a few weeks back. I thought it was this thread but apparently not.

Bucky wrote:It's a good one too! Someone linked that somewhere else a few weeks back. I thought it was this thread but apparently not.

It was jersey in the lottery thread. threw me for a loop at first since i somehow read this one as being from the New Yorker.