I despised my first college roommate (and the feeling was mutual). But I doubt I’d dump on him after 25 years ( or 40 as the case may be).
Unless there was a felony involved if you still bear this bad of a grudge after this long then you have a problem.
The only thing my freshman roommate and I had in common was the key to the room. I think he only started three unprovoked conversations with me all year.
But that was probably because he was a much more sophisticated guy than I was then, or than nearly all of us were then; and we thought he was weird.
ML/NJ
Every roommate plus person who knew Cruz in college says the same. It is not one roommate like you’d like to make it.
Most normal people don’t still talk about college like he just left last year and not 25 years ago. Cruz is the one that talks college and debates he had in college. To me it’s weird like you have nothing to be proud of since college. So since Cruz talks college all the time, I think the roommate is fair game.
I’d dump on mine. I don’t despise them but I’d tell a few tales and can certainly see how someone could get you riled up after all those years. There are some real wackadoodles out there and I had more than my fair share:
1 - the druggie ho who within the first 5 minutes plastered the walls and the bathroom suite with posters of naked men. She claimed to have serviced half of the rich married who’s who in Ft. Worth. It was believable as she was out a lot. I kicked the skank out at the end of that first short summer semester and she dropped out after the second summer semester. She had bragged about going to T. Cullen Davis’ (there’s a wiki page if you don’t know him) with a “date” and it was a few weeks later in August that the murders occurred.
2 - that next summer session was a girl who’s brother (some big company executive) was involved in something... never found out what but it involved big powerful scary dudes. A group of us made the mistake of stopping by the brother’s unexpectedly on the way to a weekend at her parents - undercover cop in the ceiling, two more in a van in the parking lot, a black mustang that drove by and signaled when we went out to eat and some guy who confronted my bf in the restaurant restroom. We told her parents and they confirmed it with the brother and blam! her dad had a heart attack.
3 - next was the crazy freak who cooed like a dove 24/7. I stayed out of the room as much as possible, got a job and hung out anywhere but the dorm room. She didn’t come back the next semester and left all her stuff.
4 - then there was the crybaby who missed her bf back home so much she dropped out within two weeks. Couldn’t pull herself out of bed to go to class for all her bawling and crying and pity party. Whaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid thing was a HS valedictorian so had a 4 year free ride but lost that semester and likely the whole scholarship because she soon married the guy during his HS senior year.
After that, I paid for a private room. Funny thing, they never advertised private rooms but when I asked, the charge was $7 extra per semester. Yep, seven little dollars, lol.
Was his ex-roommate gay? (*Note to PC Principal: "Not that there is anything wrong with that.")
I can see Cruz The Debater getting under the skin of a gay roommate enough that he'd still dump on him after 100 years.
My first Navy (post boot camp/A/C school) roommate at NAB Coronado used to buy half gallons of vodka, drink them, and pee in the empty bottles - saving them in his locker. “For a future urinalysis test*.
His favorite music was death/speed metal, and looked up to Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, etc. Even drove a little yellow AMC wagon with the wood paneling.
I think I can handle Ted Cruz as President.