August 13, 2004

Who gets the bigger room?

I will be moving at the end of the month into a brand spanking new two bedroom apartment. It is a very exciting time in my young life, as it is the first apartment I will rent where I will pay an assload of money in exchange for living conditions that are actually suitable for human beings not living in third-world countries. From the 2000-year old house I'm in now, to the closet I subletted last summer in Milwaukee, to the tenant extortion scam known as Cambridge Apartments I stayed in my senior year at Marquette, I've lived in a variety of differently shitty places.

There is only one stumbling block. One of the bedrooms in my new place is slightly bigger than the other. They're not different enough to justify paying different amounts of rent, but are different enough to justify a proper decision process, besides "First one to get his stuff into the big room gets the big room" (which I would win, by the way). A few different methods have been proposed: A coin toss, a slam dunk contest, a mechanical bull-riding competition. All of these contests are complicated by the fact that my future roommate is in another state, and will be until after I have already moved in.

My plea to YOU
Ok, I usually refer to my audience as 3 or 4 people, but seriously, I've talked to different people who say they read this, so I know it's at least 6 or 7 people. I need all of you here. Have you ever had this problem? What decision process did you use to decide who gets the bigger room? Do you have any novel ideas even if you've never had this problem yourself? How would these ideas work over long distances? Even if your idea doesn't work over long distances, if it is awesome enough, I can wait a few days before claiming a room. PLEASE, leave any ideas, the crazier the better, in the comments section. If your idea is chosen, I will send one dozen roses to your mother, with a card thanking her for shooting you out of her birth canal (actual wording may include tact). Posted by mill1991 at August 13, 2004 1:19 PM

Comments

Do paper scissors rocks over the phone. Thats the ultimate decision maker right there.

Posted by: Stew Pidaso at August 13, 2004 5:01 PM

I secured the larger room in my apartment through a vigorous best out of three rock paper scissors competition. I won with the deadly one two punch of the rock, paper combo.

Before the match started my roomate informed me that he has never in his history of living arrangements got the larger room, yet you have to stay strong when they say that and remember that they are just trying to get you off your game. You have to be a fierce competitor.

After the match he went on to inform me that he lost two years in a row drawing straws, so there is another option for you

Posted by: Positively 18th Street at August 15, 2004 10:52 AM

Well, I had a similar problem with Linz my first senior year in college. What we did was to pick names out of a hat, and the first person picked got the first pick of rooms. I was picked first (absently) and Linz was picked second, so in his chivalry, Linz picked the best room and gave me the second best room. A-Hole

Posted by: Nathan at August 16, 2004 12:39 PM

>>I was picked first (absently) and Linz was picked second, so in his chivalry, Linz picked the best room and gave me the second best room. A-Hole

Well, in all fairness, one is a smaller number than two, so being picked first should probably get you the smaller room. Its just logic, man.

Posted by: Tim at August 16, 2004 12:45 PM