5 Characters you might encounter in your flatshare
As you prepare to move in into your student accommodation that you share with 18 other students. You’ll need to know what kind of people you’ll live with. We have put together a list of 5 types of mates you will likely find in your new student flat. Let us know which characters YOU came across in the comments below!
The Clean Freak
You may diagnose this person as OCD, but the Clean Freak often plays a crucial role in making sure the place stays spotlessly clean. That suspicious sticky patch on the kitchen floor? Gone. The leftover pasta bake that had started to grow a furry white blanket? Vanished like magic. It’s all hunky-dory until angry post-it notes declaring FIRE HAZARD begin to appear on all of your favourite homely touches in the communal areas.
You have to take the rough with the smooth with this one though, don’t underestimate the gift of living with this squeaky clean companion.
The Talker (our fave)
At first you may be relieved to meet this flatmate, with their charming chatter and their cups of tea like mum used to make. Their keen interest in you and conversational flair will make you feel like your dream of living inside an episode of Friends is finally coming true, initially soothing those just-moved-in nerves.
But beware of the talker. When you take that 1am stumble to the bathroom, they’ll be there. When you go for a daring in and out dash to the kitchen in your underwear to grab that sweet first cup of coffee in the morning, they’ll be there.
Not only will they be there, but they’ll be ready and armed to debate the latest political scandal or whether the cause of the apocalypse will be a robot uprising and should we pull the plug on further development of artificial intelligence? Despite your best and most blunt efforts to say that you really must be heading off now, you will be trapped in a conversational vortex for the next 40 minutes.
Top tip: ensure you have a repertoire of excuses to wiggle your way out of The Talkers verbal headlock.
The Mummy’s Boy (or girl…)
Urghhhhh. This roommate is arguably the worst of them all. He may be a really chill person to hang out with, but man he wouldn’t clean a dish if you paid him a thousand pounds. As you enter his jungle-like room with mountains of smelly clothes used twice inside and out, you will need to become Gny. Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket to get this person to even consider the thought of cleaning his stinky underpants.
The party animal
As he announces his arrival to the flat by shouting ‘WHAT UP BITCHES?!’ and his only luggage being 2 massive speakers and a DJ set, you’ll know that’s the one.
For the first 2 weeks, this is the go to guy. He will make Freshers week the best time of your life, but that is the only week you should be his BFF. Stimulated by an inexplicable & supernatural force of nature, this fellah is exactly what it says in the title, an animal. He will get you to do the craziest stuff such as dressing up as a spanish maid, drinking shots that will make you blind if you have too much, and eating cat-food…
For your own safety and wellbeing, don’t get sucked into the party animal’s viral spiral of insanity, or you may find yourself diving off a balcony one day thinking you are a bird.
The Invisible One
You’ve heard their footsteps creak on the floorboards and seen their fleeting shadow in a darkened corridor, but you have yet to actually lay eyes on this mysterious flatmate. You may even begin to doubt their very existence.
But fear not – this phantom housemate can be tracked by their smell – in our experience, a combination of cheese, dirty laundry and cheap aftershave to cover the smell of weeks without showering.
Was it something you said? This stealth-like roomie will have you questioning whether you have in fact taken on the role of “The Talker” – or whether they simply have an aversion to human contact. Either way, you’ll have to find a way of interacting with The Invisible One if you want to find out. Best of luck.
So there you have it. Not looking very promising right?
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