School. The time when i get to go and share a very small closet with  another human being. It is also the time when i am forced to live among  the demographic of people i have come to hate the most. Yes for you  idiots out there than answer to that statement is college kids. Ranking  number 3 on my most hated list college kids are right up there with the  likes of the phrase "Because you/they can" and Flamers.
So where  does this all come into play with my life? In short i hadn't the  slightest idea, until i cam to UWO. You see my freshman year at college  was spent at UWW. I was hopefully going to get my MBA and go do that  kind of thing. However as you will all find out, that is just not going  to happen with me anymore. (more on that later) Anyway, being the retard  that i am, i had decided to get a random roommate for white water. I  wasn't worried about the type of person because hey, i was a freshman  and i could handle it.
I got lucky. My room mate was a total kick  ass person. He was not a college fool. Me and him got along perfectly.  We argued constantly about religion, politics, economics and the general  state of things. Basically the run down:
Him: Tan, RIPPED AND  CUT LIKE YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT. Basically an ambacrombie modle. Smart,  and generally a funny guy. In a really serious relationship with a girl,  had glasses and was alot shorter than me.
Me: (at that time, 1.5 years ago): Fresh on the Cross Country team, i was tan, skinny, and lean.
Anyway  me and him got along perfectly. No one wanted to come out and eat with  us, because it would always turn into me and him having a really deep  conversation/argument about some political/economic issue. So basically  it was me and him alone, all the time. I thank him for many things,  however the number one thing that i would have to say that really sticks  out is the following:
HE BROUGHT MY LAZY ASS TO THE GYM
And now, 145980714058145 protein shakes and hundreds of hours at the gym later, i look good. Really good (if i do say so myself)
Basically  at the end of my freshman year at UWW, i was beside myself with grief  that i was not coming back to UWW. Instead i was off to UWO to study  medicine. So coming into UWO and of course not knowing anyone here, i  decided (and hoped) that i would get lucky with another random room  mate. god damn. I was so wrong.
My luck sucks. With women, and now i guess with room mates.
When  i first arrived at UWO i had almost decided to move out on the street  when i first met my roomie. in a nutshell- the college guy. The typical,  stupid, arrogant, college guy that i have come to hate. So here i was.  Me- opinionated, political, philosophical (and frankly after the summers  performance with women, not in a good mood.) And here was my new  roomie, a college frat guy.
Dear God.
Basically i can sum  it up like this: i new i wasn't going to like him, when he brought up  politics and made a complete fool of himself talking to me, after that  it was all downhill. He of course, is at college to become a gym  teacher- and as you can surmise studies alot, and is a good student.
Back on point here.
Sitting  at this college, alone and with no friends, i was pleasantly surprised  to find out that one of my co workers from the pool (who i am on good  terms with) was also a UWO student. So i called her up, and tried to get  to know the social crowd/become big man on campus ext ext. however the  typical happened.
Promises were made, dates for going out were  made, yet after 2 weeks everything kept falling through. So basically my  one "friend" at this school is now flaking out on me, and while she is  hot- she is also brain dead, so defiantly not worth the effort. At this  point i thought that all hope was lost for me having a life- but then  another shot in the dark happened to fall my way.
Let me set the scene for you:
I  had just come from the gym, after an intense 2 hour workout. I had  quickly taken a shower, and there i was- lufa in hand, water cascading  down my man body through my crevasses and canyons that are my abs, when  low and behold, she comes walking around the corner.
Gymnast is a  girl that i went to elementary school with. While we were never good  friends, she was always nice to me and i was always nice back. However  when she came around that corner, and (i am presuming she was a bit  tipsy to find my ugly mug attractive) she stopped and eye raped the shit  out me.
When her brown eyes finally made it to my face her jaw dropped and she said "BEN! omg! its you! I didn't know you went here!"
After  pleasant commentaries were exchanged, she had given me her number and  promised that we had to go out and party. She said that she felt bad  that i was doing nothing that night, and promised to make it up to me.
So  next week end, i called her- and you guess it, no pickup. So i txted  her once more on Saturday and still nothing. No facebook, no call no  nothing. So yep- you guessed it, here i am sitting at UWO with no one,  no friends and no life. I am in a good mood.
At this point, i am  getting desperate to try and find some group of friends to hang out  with. So i do the first thing that catches my eye, student government.  Yep. I did it. Just to try and get some where with a group of people.  However, the group of people that i would find myself associating with  (and still associating with) want to make me stab my eye out.
I  ran for Vice President, and a guy that i had met on in my dorm, on my  hall- was running for president. I had this great idea for a campaign  poster, basically it was me and him standing holding a washcloth, and  with text under that said: Don't forget to wash behind your ears! Ben  and______ for President/VP 08/09. So we hung a poster in every shower  stall on every floor in all the boys and girls bathrooms in the entire  dorm. It was funny, i guess- but childish i will admit.
So  election day roles around, and you guessed it, i got in for VP but, he  didn't get president. So there i was for the first government meeting  and holy shit-  i was surrounded with retards. As you already may have  guessed, they were the feel good happy go luck kids that are always  everywhere..........You know kind of like the person that is way to  energetic, and thinks that everything is funny? I knew it was bad, when  they were all laughing at my sarcastic remarks. Anyway enough of that,  it gets better! (for you, but worse for me)
So after a few  meetings in, the student government and the hall staff were all working  on decorating the hall together. I was in charge of painting the  windows, because of my artistic background. I had just finished  explaining my idea for my kick ass Sistine chapel idea,and ended my  painting prose with these words: "And we can paint it all in rainbow  colors YAY (the entire phrase was in a sarcastic, and down tone remark.)  Little did i know that at that point, i had just dropped a Hiroshima.
Stop now and think about what i said. Think- how is this going to come back and bite me?
Did i do something wrong?
Think about it- because the next part will blow your minds.
So  walking away from the government meeting, and heading back towards my  dorm room, i was stopped by the president. She said, ben can i talk to  you for a second. I said sure and she pulled me into a stair well.
Here is the bio on the president of student government:
SHE  has brown hair, and basically is not that attractive, however she is  smart, is in a really DEDICATED relationship, and generally is a  pretentious person.
So sitting inside of the stair well, it was  just me and her. At this point i still had no idea that i had done  something wrong. Until the inevitable.
HER: Ben what you said back there was really condesending.
Me: What? What did i say?
HER: Your comment about how we can make it all rainbow colors yay.
Me: What? why is that bad?
Her: Because there are a lot of people on the staff and the government that are bi sexual, lesbian or gay.
Me (in my thoughts): FUCK.
Me:  ya and? I never said anything condescending. It is a stretch of the  imagination to try and take what i had said and pull it that far out of  context.
*Now here is where Jerry Springer would be proud*
We  stopped our conversation mid sentence, because a staff member (an RA  basically is a person that looks after a floor in a dorm room. Generally  a junior or senior) this RA or the 7th floor came walking by us, and we  had both shut up.
Once he was a flight of stairs away however  SHE lept back at me with gusto. Basically she was saying something to  the effect, that i need to apologize, and that what i said was wrong,  and basically i need to watch what i say blah blah blah.
I am standing there looking perplexed. Pulling out my best i don't give a fuck attitude, i proceed to say the following:
You  know what president? I don't care. I am not going to apologize. If any  of the bi,gay,lesbian people were effected and feel that i was truly out  to go and get them with that statement, they need to get over  themselves.
Yep get over yourself. that is what i said. You see  dear reader- I only have 1 gay friend. I have gone out to dinner with  him on many occasions, and i have talked about many many things.
He  has told me this: Ben, i hate gay people. to which i respond, but you  are gay. His answer is what surprised me the most, and i will always  remember it.
"You don't get it. Ben there are two types of gay  people. One of them is doing it, to stand out- to cry out and say that  hey i am an individual. LOOK AT ME! I AM HERE AND DIFFERENT (basically a  flamer). He looked at me and said, but in reality they are hurting the  movement. Ben, if you were looking and listening to me now, could you  tell that i was gay?" To which i replay- no. He then proceeded to say  that people like that are faking it, and need to get over themselves.
Now back to our story.
Do  you remember that RA that came walking past me and the President? Well  he decided to come back down, and join in on our little argument. BUT!  guess what? He is "BI" so now it was president, and RA of the 7th floor  vs me.
It wasn't pretty. To this day the RA hates me, and will do anything to write me up, and make my life a living hell.
Me and president are now good friends, and i actually went snowboarding with her over Christmas break.
SO  basically, for the first few weeks of school- life sucked. I had no  friends, 1 enemy, and my classes were a shit ton of work. The only  bright spot on my week was Wednesday day. That was the day that i had  anatomy lab, and would spend most of the morning looking at cadavers,  cutting into cadavers or observing cadavers. (for those of you that  don't know what those are, they are dead people. Embalmed in ethanol. I  had an 86 year old Asian women. I named her Trisha. it was hot.)
As  great as Trisha was, the best thing were my two lab partners. Both of  them were women, blond, and seemed rather taken by me. So i decided to  try and purse this little interest of my further.
Thanks for reading!
Hope you enjoyed it.
 
 
oh my god i couldnt finish it. too much reading this late at night
ReplyDeleteGreat read.
ReplyDeleteYour roommate seems like a pretty cool guy.
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