Scandalousness...

Heard the song "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" by Barbara Mandrell the other day - brings back memories!! I always used this song as a "lyric swap" to represent a couple of my freshmen year suitemates... fitting for a typical southside suite of six single rooms. I had a couple suitemates who, shall we say, "knew the town." And when I say they "knew the town", I mean they KNEW the town. :-o On average during any given night we had 8 people sleeping in a suite of 6 single rooms. Hmmm...

So I used to sing this as "Sleeping Double in a Single Bed". I present my version of these lyrics below:

Sleeping double in a single bed
Doesn't matter that you don't pay rent
You should leave but I can't let you go
'Cuz I can't stand sleeping all alo-oh-ne

Sleeping double in a single bed
My suitemates are all trying to forget (you)
I could have had more space for me instead
I'm sleeping double in a single bed

A few funny stories from those days:

We heard a huge crash in one of my suitemate's rooms. In response to my question "hey, are you ok?", she goes "um, yeah... I just... knocked all the books off of my shelves." Riiiiiiight...

One of our "guests" was in our restroom, and had the doorstop wedged in the door backwards (in other words, preventing anyone from opening the door). I was unaware of this and was wondering who was dumb enough to pull something like this, so I kicked the doorstop out of the way. Out comes this tall, red-headed dude who says to me, "Which one are you?"

Another suitemate brought a guy in at 2AM. It just so happened that most of the suitemates were still up and talking in the lobby. Doh! Walk of shame. I'll leave the details out of this one because it gets worse...

Man. I am so glad that living situation only lasted a year!! Can you believe the number of people who start shacking up like crazy just because they have their own rooms?! Better than having a roommate who brings in his/her multiple lovers, I guess...