College Essay # 247

247. Write an imaginary dialogue between you and a roommate late at night when the lights are out and neither of you can sleep.

Me lying awake in bed getting bored and having nothing to do while my roommate is busy studying for a European History test.

Me: Hey! I’m bored; let’s do something fun.

Roommate (R): I’m kind of studying, but this gives me an excuse to not study so sure why not?

Me: So what do you want to do?

R: Anything, but something that won’t get me into THAT much trouble.

Me: I’m hungry.

R: Just look in my cupboard, you’ll find something to eat.

Me: I’m not that kind of hungry! Please go and make me some noodles.

R: Are you crazy, shut up. The kitchen is closed, how can I make food for you now?

Me: I don’t know, but I’m starving. Aren’t you?
R: I guess I’m kind of hungry. But who has a kettle.

Me: Dhoenkyi does, get one from her, if she’s not using it. Ohhhhh!! And get a bobby pin from her as well; my hair is disgusting me right now.

Roommate goes to Dhoenkyi’s room, but is unable to get the kettle but manages to get the bobby pin.

R: I couldn’t get the kettle but I got the bobby pin.

Me: Exactly what I wanted.

R: Huh?
Me: You still remember how to open a lock without a key right?
R: looks skeptical Yeah, I still know how why?

Me: So let’s do what we did last year and open the kitchen so you can be a nice friend and cook for me. Pretty please?!?!

R: No way am I going to go and do that again. Remember what happened last time?

Me: thinking about what happened last time Not really no. But I do remember that we didn’t get into any trouble.

R: I don’t care we are not going to do that again. You can just starve to death.

Roommate goes back into bed, and I lay in my bed really pissed off.

Me: You’re not a really nice friend you know. I really AM starving.

R: Well so am I, but I don’t want Ms. S to come back eat my head off.

Me: Oh, she won’t do that, maybe she’ll give you a lecture about how breaking the rules is a bad thing, and then on, and on, and on she’ll go. You’ll just have to bare it for, oh, 20 minutes or so.

R: I’d rather not die of boredom, thank you very much.

Me thinking for a while and my roommate trying to get some studying done.

Me: Tell me one person you really get annoyed at.

R: That’s easy, Ms. S.

Me: You want to have an early April fool’s Day?
R: What are you thinking of?
Me: Let’s go wake up Jyots first.

R: First tell me the plan.

Me: Let’s go get Jyots, knock on Ms. S’s door and tell her that you’re in a desperate need to buy TP. Tell her you asked everyone that was awake, and they only had a little or no TP left.

R: Okkkkkaaayyyy.

Me. She’ll probably be really annoyed at this point, but then manages to get that motherly act out and then takes to the store. Then come back and tell her that you’re really grateful. The go back to our room for a while and cut the TP into long strips.

R: What are we going to do with that?

Me: Well we’re going to TP her door.

R. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Good idea, but why would we do that? Won’t she suspect us?

Me: No because then we’re going to go ask Jyots for an extra TP roll. She always has extra anyways.

R: Good idea. Let’s do it. I’m really getting annoyed at her these days. She just shushes people too much. It’s getting on my nerves. Someone yelled at her the other day. She stopped shushing for 5 seconds and then started again. That woman, I tell you.

Me: Excellent. And don’t worry; she won’t know its us.

Roommate and I carry out the plan and it goes as we expected it to.

We then return to our room.

R: You know that it’s like three o’clock in the morning?

Me: So what? It’s not like I have a test the next day.

R: gives me THE look Yeah, I wonder what I was doing awake in the first place.

Me: Oh! Right, I forgot about your Euro test. Go ahead, study.

R: Nahhh. I’d rather not. It was a fun night, and I don’t want to spoil it by learning about the Enlightenment thinkers.

Me: Suit yourself. I’m going to bed though. That was one hell of a night. Thanks for being my partner in crime tonight!

R: No problem, always happy to help. Hopefully she’s stupid enough to think that we didn’t do it.

Me: I hope so too! Goodnight, and good luck for your test tomorrow. I’m sure she’ll be easy on you after everything you worked for tonight. :D

R: I hope so too. ;) Goodnight.

After moments of silence.

R: Shit! We have Chemistry first in the morning.

Me: So?
R: His ACCENT!!!
Me: HAHAHAHAHHAHA! Goodnight.