Smelly Hippies

Advice to the hippies: Dr. Brauners sucks. Oh, and Jerry's dead, so get over it...

RATINGS (1-10, 1 being not a lot and 10 being off the charts)
ALL THE HIPPIES
Spoiled (8)
Crazy (4)
"Blonde" (3)
Slutty (3)
Irresponsible (10)
Drug Addled (9)
Anal (0)

After Flora and Cam, my BF and I were really cautious about getting another roommate and we wanted someone, sane...

We found Bobby, a shy Asian raver who seemed very nice and very responsible. And he was for the first 4 months, than he went to a hippie rainbow gathering. I have never been to one, but I've seen people who have and it all turns out the same. they come back with weird hippie names and stop shaving and showering. This is exactly what happened to Bobby.

One month after Bobby came back from the hippie cult convention, and the day that rent was due he told us he couldn't pay it. "But", he said "I have a friend who lives in Big Sur, and only comes to Santa Cruz 2 days a week, and he can pay half the rent". We were basically blackmailed into it because we didn't have the money to pay Bobby's share, and so we had ONE more hippie living with us.

Then a month later, we came home and there was a note for us from Bobby. He went to Arizona to hang with some other hippies, and he didn't know when he'd be back, but he left us with a NEW roommate who could pay the remainder of the rent. This new roommate was a hippie named Tara and her baby daughter. Gee-reat...

And now we had TWO hippies and one baby.

Well the first hippie, I forgot his name, started staying more than 2 days a week, and inviting his hippie friends over. So did Tara. On any given day there were at least SIX hippies at our house. At this point we might have nipped it in the bud, but I had broken up with my bf cuz he was being a jerk and he refused to move out of the house. And he knew that having a passel of hippies was not my idea of fun so he fought for them to stay and I was outvoted.

Well, then Tara's baby daddy got out of jail and moved himself in. Then they went to some festival and brought back THREE more hippies. And they kept doing this until we had ELEVEN hippies staying on our floor. One had even commandeered our dining room, hanging a hammock up next to the table, and decorating the room with stuff he found in the dumpster (the dumpster - WTF)!

There was a hippie van parked out back, a pile of sage on the back porch, the house smelled like Dr. Brauners soap since they used it wash themselves, their hair, their dishes, their laundry. The neighbors were unhappy and so was I, so unhappy that I put in my notice. And then it got worse. This was the first and last time that I had a phone in my name. I got a $550 phone bill, where all the charges were to the jail (where Tara's babydaddy was), Massachusetts (where Tara's family lived) and Idaho (where my ex-bf's family lived), hmmm, who ran up the phone bill? I asked them all for their share and they got together and told me that they'd already paid me (WHAT, like I had amnesia and somehow misplaced $550 at the same time - AS IF @$%Y$^#@*%$#^)
So I got stiffed for $550 on my way out the door. For a group of "peaceful, loving people" they sure were selfish, mean and thieving.

As I'm sure you can guess, I'm not a hippie fan and I probably never will be, not after that...