I've looked up all the okay one-bedroom apartments and studios in the area

and found absolutely nothing under 2,000 per month

I'm not picky kind of person

so by "okay", I actually meant something normal, not hunted,

and with no roaches or ghosts floating and wandering around

during the daytime and nighttime

or just any time

Since there is nothing affordable

I ended up sharing the house with several roommates

Roommates could be a little bit crazy sometimes

but, hey, look at the bright side

I've learned a lot during the time living with roommates

Especially about how to choose the right ones

which is not a very useful survival skill at all

the very first thing they've learned about choosing the right roommate

is to avoid old people, umm...

I meant to avoid having a senior roommate

Not that I'm against old people

I truly respect the seniors since we'll all grow old someday

It's just that if you're at a certain age and you still can manage to have your own place to live in

there is probably something off

Well, at least in my experience

they all ended up not being able to pay the rent

So the rest of us had to cover for them

So there's this guy Michael

my sixth sense told me not to him as one of the roommates

But the owner of the house picked him,

so I didn't really have a say

The day after he moved in

I came back from a long day of work

I grabbed my towel, clothes, shampoo, and a bunch of other toiletries

and I was ready for a nice hot shower

I opened the bathroom door

and there he was

Sleeping in the bathtub with a slice of half-eaten pepperoni pizza

lying on his stomach

and he was snoring like thunder

I stared at him for a few seconds.

Hey, wake up!

Wake up

Hello, anybody home?

Well, I tried to wake him up in multiple different ways.

None of them worked

So he occupied the whole bathroom for the entire evening

Slept all the way through the night until the very next morning

and no one was able to wake him up

He literally slept like he's dead

except for the snoring part

Yeah, like a super loud snoring corpse

He slept in the bathtub several more times after that

with different types of delicious cuisine lying on his stomach

Until the day we found out about the needles.

Yes

the needles

it's actually the cleaning lady who first saw the needles

and...

It was in the trash can wrapped in a bunch of toilet paper

He was arrested before we even really figured out what the needles are for

but we all kind of guessed it

and I never saw him again

and there is this college kid who played really loud music after midnight

He also smokes weed inside of the room and pretended he didn't

it's not like we can't smell, you know

We've all got that one thing that Voldemort doesn't have

Nose!

and... here are the two more things to avoid

liars and disrespectful DJ wannabes

He moved away eventually

and one of his friends from the rowing team took over the room

He's tall and muscular with tanned skin

He worked out in the backyard every day

He tons of fried chicken with white rice,

which I have no idea why I'm telling you these

He's alright, except for the one thing that drove us nuts

You know how the floor could be a little bit wet after you showered

which is totally normal

but it's not normal when the water spot has some sort of color

mixed with the smell of Ammonia

and the color is not just any color.

It's like a subtle yellow

Yeah, you're right

I found out that every single time

after he uses the shower

He pees right there in the bathtub

and didn't even bother to rings it up

or hide the fact that he did it

He just left it there every single time.

It was gross

but I kind of feel it's going to be super awkward

if I just went up to him and be like

"Hey, dude"

Did you just pee in the bathtub?

just by thinking of it

I could kind of feel the awkwardness of silence already.

I've always felt like I need solid evidence

before accusing anyone of doing anything

But there is no way I can prove that it's him

unless I collect a sample of the urine

and send It to the laboratory for a DNA test.

I kind of wanted to do it

but who in the world does that right?

And he moved out after graduating from school as well.

So avoid people who pee or poop in public areas

this is not China, you know

and there's Kevin

the young man works for the United States Post Office

aka the USPS

He's cool

And I liked him and he knows a lot about post office

like how to mail your stuff or how to buy stamps

and I dunno

Just some regular post office knowledge

He eats lots of canned lentils

which in my opinion is not really something edible

Blah, who eats those

but it doesn't really bother me

He's still my roommate right now

And I hope he doesn't move away before I do

because I'm pretty sure I can't find someone

as chill and cool as he is

Despite the fact that he eats lentils

I've always had roommates since all the way back in college,

but at that time I lived in the dorm

Which's a very different situation

we had to share the same room, take the same classes

and enjoy or you could say endure each other 24/7

I'm just going to let my story end here

because I don't really want to expose how reckless I was

during my college years

I was young dumb and broke

just like all the other college kids

besides the ones come from those crazy rich families

So I'll just keep that as my little secret for now

I'm nice, gentle, positive, and lovely

but I have my dark secrets too

And I'm not going to reveal myself

until I trust you enough

Maybe we'll be friends or even roommates someday

Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Right?

I'm fly I'm free

like a bird in the sky

You can't stop me

once I'm flying so high

I'm fly, I'm free like a bird in the sky