Hey, so this is weird, right?

[GilloD]

So I got this job DESIGNING GAMES in LA. But my wife can't join right away, she has stuff to finish in Chicago (Dont fucking ask, that's like a 100,000 word post). So I looked for like roomshares and stuff. I met a nice couple who were renting out their living room near my work for 550$ and it was a solid deal and month-to-month, so whatever. I met them and they were nice and then they texted me and were like "We think you should move in!" and I was like "Okay, cool! I have to go back to Chicago to get a bunch of stuff, I'm happy to write you a check now, but I won't be back until next week" and they were like "It's fine, just pay us next week".

So yesterday I send them a text being like "Hey, see you on Sunday!" and they're like "Hold on, you didn't talk to Dad". They now want me to sit down with their parents and like a. Group interview? I know it's important for due-diligence and whatever, but. I'm 27, they're like 25-ish. Are we not adults? This is fucking weird, right? I'm not over reacting?

[Eric P]

Are their parents paying for the apartment or co-signers?  It seems a little odd at first but it's probably not a big deal.  Unless they're cultists.

Just don't let the parents see your party pictures and you should be fine, I think

[Joe Molotov]

Unless they're cultists.

If you do well during the initiation orgy, you're in.

[GilloD]

Are their parents paying for the apartment or co-signers?  It seems a little odd at first but it's probably not a big deal.  Unless they're cultists.

Just don't let the parents see your party pictures and you should be fine, I think

I'm just allergic to the idea of anyone over the age of like... 22 being like "Hey, I gotta ask my Dad first" when it comes to making life decisions.

[Mupepe]

Yeah that is a bit odd but maybe their parents own the place and they just want to see who is going to live there like a regular landlord in a subletting situation.  But if they're still tied to their parents at that age then they are probably pretty weird and/or messed up.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I'd assume their parents own the place and it's not a big deal.

[demi]

PMing you GilloD

[GilloD]

That's even weirder! It's an apartment! And they both have jobs! I derive a lot of self-worth from kind of making it on my own, I cant help but be skeeved by two, working 25 year olds who cant hash out a rent check

[GilloD]

Where's your Himuro plinko you fucking hack.

Haa. I sent Demi a terrible version a long time ago. I should make a new one, I've gotten way better with AS3/Flashpunk.

[Tasty]

Where's your Himuro plinko you fucking hack.

It's about to be removed from my Dropbox, demi better upload it to the front page ASAP.

Where's your Himuro plinko you fucking hack.

Haa. I sent Demi a terrible version a long time ago. I should make a new one, I've gotten way better with AS3/Flashpunk.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=37570.0

Anyways Gillo, good luck, living the dream. Game design is sort of a far off dream job for me.

[Huff]

They are probably just renting from their parents and can't have you sign a lease without the parents consent. Not a big deal

[chronovore]

  Nice. Make sure you get dad's card, Gillo D!

[BlueTsunami]

GilloD is gonna' bring his own Martha Marcy May Marlene experience back to Chicago. Should be fun to read.

[GilloD]

Found a better, cheaper place and politely excused myself. Now they probably think I was a serial killer.

[ManaByte]

Probably Scientologists.

[chronovore]

Found a better, cheaper place and politely excused myself. Now they probably think I was a serial killer.

Good for you.

[GilloD]

I can't believe how much I didn't follow up on these stories. This one ended SO BADLY

I got this cheap apt. when I first moved to LA, I was living in the living room of a 2br. This little dude meets me one afternoon and shows me the place, no one is home, but it's like relatively clean and close to work, so whatever. I sign the lease, which he insists we do in the basement.

So I move in day one and the door opens and my new roommate steps in and goes, "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" and I guess the dude never told him he was renting out the living room, but everyone cooled off.

Like 3 days later I wake up to someone I've never seen POUNDING on the door. It's the landlord! Apparently the dude who showed me the place, who was sub-leasign the place, has been stealing everyone's money for months and avoiding the landlord. We're now being evicted!

So I go full Nancy Drew on this and dig up all the info I can find on the dude who sub-let me the place. I gather a dossier and I go to my new roommates and I'm like "LETS SET UP A STING". Roommate 1 goes, "Ehhhhhh I have a gun in here in case things get weird, I'd rather not talk to cops" and Roommate 2 is like "I sell some pills on the side, no cops please"

So I use my dossier to talk Arpit, the sublet dude, into giving me back all my $$$. Then one night I cone back to the apartment and it's like..... 120 degrees inside. Turns out roommate 2 had turned on the overn and opened the door to heat the apartment. He then went down the street to sell some crack, was aprehended by the cops and was unable to return to the apartment and close the oven door.

I moved out 2 days later. WHAT A MEMORY

[BlackMage]

The fuck is wrong with you

[studyguy]

I can't believe how much I didn't follow up on these stories. This one ended SO BADLY

I got this cheap apt. when I first moved to LA, I was living in the living room of a 2br. This little dude meets me one afternoon and shows me the place, no one is home, but it's like relatively clean and close to work, so whatever. I sign the lease, which he insists we do in the basement.

So I move in day one and the door opens and my new roommate steps in and goes, "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" and I guess the dude never told him he was renting out the living room, but everyone cooled off.

Like 3 days later I wake up to someone I've never seen POUNDING on the door. It's the landlord! Apparently the dude who showed me the place, who was sub-leasign the place, has been stealing everyone's money for months and avoiding the landlord. We're now being evicted!

So I go full Nancy Drew on this and dig up all the info I can find on the dude who sub-let me the place. I gather a dossier and I go to my new roommates and I'm like "LETS SET UP A STING". Roommate 1 goes, "Ehhhhhh I have a gun in here in case things get weird, I'd rather not talk to cops" and Roommate 2 is like "I sell some pills on the side, no cops please"

So I use my dossier to talk Arpit, the sublet dude, into giving me back all my $$$. Then one night I cone back to the apartment and it's like..... 120 degrees inside. Turns out roommate 2 had turned on the overn and opened the door to heat the apartment. He then went down the street to sell some crack, was aprehended by the cops and was unable to return to the apartment and close the oven door.

I moved out 2 days later. WHAT A MEMORY

 
How many red flags slapped you in the face before you dipped my dude.
Was the job you signed up for actually a wacky ponzi scheme too?

[Beezy]

 

[GilloD]

I can't believe how much I didn't follow up on these stories. This one ended SO BADLY

I got this cheap apt. when I first moved to LA, I was living in the living room of a 2br. This little dude meets me one afternoon and shows me the place, no one is home, but it's like relatively clean and close to work, so whatever. I sign the lease, which he insists we do in the basement.

So I move in day one and the door opens and my new roommate steps in and goes, "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?" and I guess the dude never told him he was renting out the living room, but everyone cooled off.

Like 3 days later I wake up to someone I've never seen POUNDING on the door. It's the landlord! Apparently the dude who showed me the place, who was sub-leasign the place, has been stealing everyone's money for months and avoiding the landlord. We're now being evicted!

So I go full Nancy Drew on this and dig up all the info I can find on the dude who sub-let me the place. I gather a dossier and I go to my new roommates and I'm like "LETS SET UP A STING". Roommate 1 goes, "Ehhhhhh I have a gun in here in case things get weird, I'd rather not talk to cops" and Roommate 2 is like "I sell some pills on the side, no cops please"

So I use my dossier to talk Arpit, the sublet dude, into giving me back all my $$$. Then one night I cone back to the apartment and it's like..... 120 degrees inside. Turns out roommate 2 had turned on the overn and opened the door to heat the apartment. He then went down the street to sell some crack, was aprehended by the cops and was unable to return to the apartment and close the oven door.

I moved out 2 days later. WHAT A MEMORY

 
How many red flags slapped you in the face before you dipped my dude.
Was the job you signed up for actually a wacky ponzi scheme too?

Kinda.

[Sai]

Arpit

[Robo]

The fuck is wrong with you

 

I feel like I’ve stepped into a time warp to a simpler time.

[chronovore]

How many red flags slapped you in the face before you dipped my dude.
Was the job you signed up for actually a wacky ponzi scheme too?

No, but now GilloD sells Herbalife, so it's a close thing.

[EarthBound64]

2012:

So I got this job DESIGNING GAMES in LA. But my wife can't join right away, she has stuff to finish in Chicago (Dont fucking ask, that's like a 100,000 word post). So I looked for like roomshares and stuff. I met a nice couple who were renting out their living room near my work for 550$ and it was a solid deal and month-to-month, so whatever. I met them and they were nice and then they texted me and were like "We think you should move in!"

2017:

I can't believe how much I didn't follow up on these stories. This one ended SO BADLY

I came expecting you to leave your wife for a threesome with the new roommates.
Leaving disappointed.

[bluemax]

What a tale!

[Cryo]

Who the hell names their child Arpit

[Diunx]

My grandpa name is Arpit

[studyguy]

Too close to Armpit.

[GilloD]

This is such a good forum

[naff]

How many of these are there? tales of the lost boritos mega thread could be in order

[Joe Molotov]

Unless they're cultists.

If you do well during the initiation orgy, you're in.

The Bore was way ahead of the curve on getting kidnapped by sex cults.