{"id":15694,"date":"2010-07-15T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15694"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:08","slug":"froph-kelly-the-former-roomates-of-gary-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15694","title":{"rendered":"Froph, Kelly – The Former Roomates of Gary Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Former Roommates of Gary Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unless you’re that mythical creature who was lucky enough to live with friends and family in perfect harmony before getting married and living happily ever after with another person, chances are you’ve had some problems with roommates over your life.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve lost friends because of roommate drama, as have pretty much everybody else I know, and I still think that I able to avoid the worst of the possibilities of roommate drama before deciding years ago that I was going to just live by myself from then on (outside of getting married or moving in with somebody for something other than a financial reason, that is), and it’s suited me just fine.\u00c2\u00a0 This brief history lesson into my personal life was brought about because of this comic, as Kelly asked an old roommate of hers (who she describes as the perfect roommate for being able to put up with just about anything and still call the offender a friend) to make a list of all his old roommates since moving to Seattle in 1992.\u00c2\u00a0 What came out of it was a fascinating cast of characters, all briefly described on a single page with their likeness.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe this will be worse than your experience with roommates and it might (sadly) be better, but people described in here include a mooch (there always has to be at least one), a man who didn’t care about world news but got constant updates on his phone for sports teams scoring (and his conservative wife), a pot smoking USA basher, a perfectly groomed hipster who never left the house, a nut cracker collector (also a deadbeat), a constant liar, a gay Mormon, a kid who smelled like greasy hamburgers, a horticulturist on steroids, and a confused hooker.\u00c2\u00a0 He even briefly describes his experience with Kelly, but they’ve stayed friends and the only remotely bad thing he had to say about her was that she “dated an obviously gay man”.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a couple of other winners in here, but you get the idea, and the fact that there are surprises left means you might recognize an old roommate in the unlisted pile.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s odd for nostalgia, good for a cautionary tale, and also good to gawk at the many wonders of how human behavior changes when forced to live with strangers.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n

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Website The Former Roommates of Gary Jones Unless you’re that mythical creature who was lucky enough to live with friends and family in perfect harmony before getting married and living happily ever after with another person, chances are you’ve had some problems with roommates over your life.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve lost friends because of roommate drama, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2626,4222],"class_list":["post-15694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kelly-froh","tag-the-former-roommates-of-gary-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15694"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16328,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694\/revisions\/16328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}