I Feel Like I've Remembered This Before

Goddammit, but college students are irritating little shits. It seems I finally have the contempt for students of higher learning that they have for their high school brethren. Clearly it's been building for years, the fact is that I'm older than most of the people with whom I hang out, but my own immaturity has tended to cancel the effect. Now that I'm not in school, now that I'm 25, now that I'm living on my own (with my girlfriend), I discover (well... rediscover) my loathing for these idiots.

I suppose the cause of my current rancor is the fact that my idiot roommate decided to have a party, like students do, in our place last night, with exactly 57 seconds warning. That's cool. And sure, our places has walls like paper (mostly to be expected in housing that students can afford), and sure college students stay up late and are generally loud, but here's the thing... by 3:00 you need to shut the fuck up and, for example, NOT drunkenly kick doors in the house at which you're partying waking anyone in a two-block area.

And of course, double standards, my favorite. Hold on to your chairs, ladies and jellyspoons. My roommate's boyfriend, who was drunk, but not falling over fucking sideways like she was, he was still relatively cogent (probably because he figured he *had* to be), was, after the girl had finally sent most of them away around 3:45 in the morning (after I came downstairs and made them all feel like assholes), trying to help her find something, and commenting casually that she loses things all the time. Not in a ha-ha way, not being mean, just a commment, inciting her to roar down the stairs and start yelling at him (joy!). So now they're yelling about god knows what, hooray, and I retreated to my room where Abby was still sleeping, my little industrial lathe (the noise that girl makes when she's sleeping is incredible). I can hear her shrieking at him about how she always pays for everything and this and that and whatever. I also hear him asking if she has set an alarm for today (which she had not) and him helping her get that taking care of.

Cut to this morning. Just a little bit after Abby left for work, I hear from across the hall, "Well why the fuck didn't you wake me up when the alarm went off? You're trying to sabotage me! That meeting with my adviser was really important" "Well then why didn't you get up when it went off?" "I didn't hear it. You got up and walked around!" "Yeah, I prodded at you for a couple of minutes." "Well why the fuck did you turn it off?? You got super drunk last night, and drank all my shots and now you're trying to drag me down with you!!"

Elation!

I can hear them smoking now (well, I can hear them coughing), so they must have made up.

God, college students are dumb.