Roommate horror stories. Everyone has one, or knows someone who does. The Collegian Living Magazine asked a few of you for your quirky roommate stories. Many people were hesitant to share, fearing that the strange roommate would return for revenge after being talked about in the paper. Here are the stories we collected.

"I have two roommates, and one of them's a heavy drinker. He spiked the orange juice that the other roommate, who's really strict, was drinking, for about two months. He never knew."

(They told him about it later.)

-- Bryan Zorzi (junior-information sciences and technology)

"She didn't have any posters on the wall, like none whatsoever, and she wouldn't let me put any posters on the wall. So my side was all decorated, and hers had nothing."

-- Kristina Bennett (junior-chemical engineering)

"My freshman year roommate, one of her proudest things was that she had shoplifted every color of Revlon lipstick."

-- April Kent, lecturer in English

"My roommate has a weird complex with making sure the door is locked. She'll get up in the middle of the night to make sure the door is locked. It'll be 3 in the morning, and I'll hear her get up to check the door."

-- Katie Bofinger (freshman-biobehavioral health)

"My roommates this year, I live in a townhouse, they played a prank on me."

(They told her they were going to hire a maid, which she didn't want to pay for. Instead, they cleaned the entire house themselves to keep up the façade.)

"They ended up doing it, cleaning the whole place up, and said the maid came."

-- Roma Vakil (graduate-marketing and business administration)

"He always told the same damn story. It was about him and his buddy and they were driving and they went up on a berm. He told that story about 50,000 times."

-- Collin Imhof (sophomore-economics)

"He has allowed the bunny [costume] to sleep on his bed for the past couple of months, and basically, he sleeps on the floor.

My roommate also jousted in the hall the other day, with a Swiffer and a 12-pack box of Sunkist on his head."

-- David Maino (sophomore-architectural engineering)

"I had this really bad upper respiratory infection, I don't know if you would call it inflammation or whatever; it was horrible."

(After going through a month of coughing, this student went to a specialist who said the cause could be large amounts of perfume, which her roommate sprayed religiously.)

"She had like a million stuffed animals all over the room, and the curtains and her bed and all over her clothes -- she used to spray it every day. Even after I found out about it and told it to her, she was like, 'Well how about I spray everything in the hallway, and then bring it in?' "

Sarah Rohan (sophomore-animal bioscience)

"I used to get like prank phone calls from the Scream guy." (The frightening caller, she learned later, was her roommate speaking into a voice-changing machine.)

"I didn't know what to say to her -- what was I going to say?"

-- Chandan Nag (senior-marketing and communications)