How to confuse your roommate
--------------------------------------

1. Sit up. Say "time to make the doughnuts." Leave. Do this often.
2. Every five minutes, get up, open door, peek out, close door, and look relieved.
3. Name your socks.
4. Express an extreme fear of sunlight. Move away from and flinch at any areas of the room that are sunny.
5. Pick up the phone every five minutes and say "hello." Look confused and hang up.
6. Answer the alarm clock when the phone rings and vice versa.
7. Try to make meals using your roommate's electric blanket.
8. Hang your posters upside down.
9. Unwrap a candy bar. Throw the chocolate away. Eat the wrapper. Smile.
10. When listening to the radio, sing along with different lyrics and a different tune.
11. Address your roommate by a different name each time you talk to her/him.
12. Speak in limericks.
13. Announce "nature is calling." Run for the phone. Answer it.
14. Seal an envelope. Write a letter. Complain loudly that you cannot get it into the envelope. Discard and repeat.
15. Aerate your underwear drawer. Claim "they" are not getting enough oxygen.
16. Constantly drink from an empty glass.
17. Respond to your roommate's questions with unrelated answers.
18. Every time you handle something of your roommate's, use a tissue or gloves.
19. While unlocking your door with the key, complain that the engine won't start.
20. Name your animal crackers. Mourn them after you eat them.
21. Put black tape over the eyes of the people in your roommate's pictures. Complain that they were staring at you.
22. Leave for class through the window.
23. Insist that they call you a different name every week. Never admit to being called any other name after each name you choose.
24. Talk to yourself in different voices.
25. Whenever the phone is for your roommate & you answer, say "Oh, I'm sorry, this isn't the State Prison? then I have the wrong number." & hang up. Repeat using different names until the person stops calling back.



Back 1