In Hell Everyone Has A Roommate

Let's face it devoted reader, in today's day and age times are tough and money is hard. Often times good hard working folks like you and me are forced to tighten our budgetary belts and make financial sacrifices in order to survive.
With that thought in mind many folks choose to share a living space with a roommate.
Being that I have at one time or another been a poor struggling 20-something myself, I've had my fair share of roommates. Allow me to highlight some of the pros and cons of sharing your home with a roommate:

CONS:

• One of the roommates will undoubtedly be horrible with money, lose their job, or have a gambling addiction. This will resulting in someone (aka you) having to pick up the slack in order to cover their basic bills so the power won't be shut off.
• One roommate will always be cleaner than the other. This mean that one person is always going to be doing the cleaning housework all the while resenting their roommate's slob-like ways.
• No matter what time of day it is you will never be able to get to the living room TV first. You will have to chose between watching whatever God awful show your roommate is watching in the living room or hiding out in your bedroom to watch what you want uncomfortably on your bed.
• You will never be able to walk out the front door without be grilled about where you're going, when you'll be back, or if you want some company.
• As soon as you walk into the kitchen and open the refrigerator your roommate will no doubt join you in the kitchen and get in your way as you're trying to prepare a meal or snack.
• When your roommate is trying to sleep you will always have the TV up too loud. This works the other way too, because when you're trying to sleep your roommate will also have the TV volume up too loud for you to find your peace.
• Your roommate will always leave his/her clothes in the dryer for days and days forcing you to remove them yourself so you can put your own wet laundry in to dry.
• Your food and drinks will mysteriously disappear from the fridge or cupboard.
• If you bring a guy or gal home you can always count on adding a third to your party once you arrive because your roommate will always be up, in the living room and ready to talk your date's ear off.
• No matter the time of day, if you want to take a shower, your roommate will make it to the bathroom before you. Then you have to wait...and get cold water.

PROS:

• If a killer sneaks into your house in the middle of the night you might get lucky and kill your roommate first.

I don't know why I find this so funny...

Four Things I Miss

1. James Bond Week On TBS - I remember a million years ago in December around my birthday TBS used to show a full week of back-to-back James Bond movies. I would always make a point of watching as many as I could and taping all the best ones. Sadly, TBS quit doing that at some point and now on rare occasions some other cable networks will halfheartedly put together a “James Bond Weekend”, but they never show all 22 films and it’s just not the same.
2. Using My Bike As My Mode Of Transportation Before I Could Drive - As a youth before I had my drivers license my friends and I roamed all over the local area only on our bikes. We would ride up to a nearby gas station and buy sodas and junk food snacks or ride up to the library along the narrow two lane road. Traveling was an adventure back then, something driving a car just doesn’t seem to match.
3. Wizard Magazine - Wizard was a magazine about comic books that isn’t published anymore. In the days before the internet was so common all the big news for geeks like me came from the pages of Wizard Magazine. They always had articles and lists that sparked hours of debate and conversation amongst my friends and I. Some of the happiest reading times of my life were when I had a brand new issue of Wizard and a study hall period in middle school.
4. Martin Scorsese Gangster Movies - Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed*…Scorsese just doesn’t make movies like this anymore. I’m well aware that Scorsese has been pegged as a “gangster movie-maker” even though the majority of his 52 films don’t deal with gangsters…but you know what? If you do something better than everybody else you should embrace it. I would be perfectly happy if Scorsese made one gritty gangster movie every 5 years, that way he could make all these other movies he wants to make but he still is providing the world (a.k.a. me) some good old fashioned mob drama!

*I’m not counting Gangs Of New York. That was a period piece and not a true gangster epic.