My roommate complained about three different guys staying over, all three were my brother

[u/validharvey_353]

My roommate asked if we could talk last night and i immediately started trying to remember if id left something gross in the fridge.

Apparently shes been uncomfortable with how many guys ive been having over. She said she wasnt judging she just wanted a heads up instead of finding someone she didnt know in the kitchen before work.

Which is fair, except i haven't been seeing anyone.

I asked who she meant and she said shed seen three different guys leaving in the morning over the last few weeks.

All my brother.

He works about ten minutes from here but lives almost an hour away, so sometimes he sleeps on the couch after a late shift. Id told her he would occasionally stay over. They just havent really spent time around each other.

He had long hair and a beard until his girlfriend broke up with him. Then he shaved his head, regretted it, shaved the beard too. He's also been wearing glasses lately because his contacts are bothering him.

We were eating Chinese when she brought this up. I was folding the ad from my fortune cookie into a tiny square while she explained that she didnt want to have to put a bra on every time she went to get water.

I genuinely thought shed seen someone coming out of another apartment until she said "the bald one was nice though, he offered to take my trash down."

Thats when I figured it out.

I told her it was my brother and she said "okay but what about the other two?"

I said no, all of them. Same person.

She thought i was messing around with her. Actually got a little annoyed and said she was trying to have a normal conversation with me.

So i showed her his Instagram. She scrolled through a few pictures, zoomed in on one, then just put my phone down.

Apparently shed already told her best friend that i was having a "messy phase" and she wasnt sure how to bring it up. Meanwhile my brother has been eating cereal in our kitchen and going to work.

She apologized and we laughed about it, but then she admitted shed thought one of them was cute.

Obviously i asked which one.

She said it didnt matter now and started packing up the leftovers. Ive asked twice since and shes getting annoyed with me, but i feel like i deserve to know.

[u/Fit-Interview5425]

Cute story😎

[u/validharvey_353 → u/Fit-Interview5425]

haha thanks, much cuter once i realized i wasnt about to get a lecture about men i hadnt even met

[u/MyUserNameLeft → u/validharvey_353]

So… will you keep us in the loop and potentially post part 2 updating up on your roommate and brother’s relationship if and when they strike it up?

[u/Honest-Grand-9682 → u/Fit-Interview5425]

agreed with you

[u/gross_intermission]

Her telling her friend you were having a messy phase before talking to you would bother me more than the mixup lol. Meanwhile your brother is offering to take the trash out and somehow only one of his three appearances made the cut. Does he know about any of this yet?

[u/validharvey_353 → u/gross_intermission]

the “messy phase” did annoy me a bit tbh. i havent told him yet, mostly because he will immediately want to know which version she liked and i still cant answer that

[u/jamesziman → u/validharvey_353]

Especially because there's nothing messy about having people over, that judgy way of saying it would bother me a lot

[u/Big-Interest3569]

Honestly shaving your head and beard close together can make you look wildly different, so I can sort of understand her. The glasses being enough to count as a third man is where she loses me lol.

[u/werdsmart → u/Big-Interest3569]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KAjmfc3jMwnvx5ah8E

[u/validharvey_353 → u/Big-Interest3569]

yeah he does look really different without the hair. i was with her until she described the glasses guy and i realized she was counting him separately lol

[u/grottomaster]

She’s tryna smash the brother for sure

[u/validharvey_353 → u/grottomaster]

possibly but i need her to specify which one lmao

[u/ArtyWhy8 → u/validharvey_353]

Bearded long hair bro, that’s why it “doesn’t matter”

Sorry to your bro, tell him shaved head and a little facial hair is the way to go👌he’ll find better. She sounds judgy🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/NoMix459 → u/ArtyWhy8]

She’s not judgy. She found him cute one way (most likely with long hair and beard). She said he was nice to her so now that she realizes baldy and grizzly Adams are one and the same, she says it doesn’t matter. Because it most likely doesn’t matter.

[u/TheGrimDweeber → u/validharvey_353]

Which one?!
I hope it's the current one, or the one he feels most comfortable being.

[u/befitting_logic]

Wait so she remembered which guy offered to take the trash out but never caught that they all had the same name? Were they just politely avoiding introductions this whole time lol

[u/validharvey_353 → u/befitting_logic]

yeah i think i gave them both way too much credit for having introduced themselves lol. meanwhile she was waiting for me to introduce two more men

[u/Quiet-Act5323]

i get the haircut but the glasses too? clark kent had a point lol. between the photo she zoomed in on and whatever ad was in that cookie, i have questions

[u/validharvey_353 → u/Quiet-Act5323]

yeah apparently glasses were enough lmao, i didnt catch which photo she zoomed in on unfortunately. the cookie was advertising stake, which also left me with questions

[u/Foxingmatch]

Now she’s going to message your brother on IG. 😂

[u/Bootboiler2]

This story is lacking pictures.

[u/Disastrous7392]

Is a cute story, though I would tell my roommate if my brother was going to be crashing on the couch often.

[u/bipolar_stan → u/Disastrous7392]

Based on the story, her roommate did know about the brother.

But because he looked different the other two times, she assumed they were different people and was waiting for OP to introduce them.

And since OP had already covered the brother basis, she didn't mention it and the roommate thought OP was avoiding an introduction because she was being "messy"

[u/L1ttle_Behemoth]

WHICH EVOLUTION OF YOUR BROTHER IS CUTE SHE NEEDS TO SPILL THE TEA

[u/Zukeee1 → u/L1ttle_Behemoth]

Iiiii

[u/L1ttle_Behemoth → u/Zukeee1]

Happy cake day!

[u/Endurotraplife]

So does she just not wear clothes in front of you in the house?
Like “She didn’t want to have to put a bra on to grab water everytime” what unhinged comment is that?

[u/Big-Today6819 → u/Endurotraplife]

Under the t shirt or jumper to hide the nipples

[u/Remote_Setting2332]

Maybe let her know which nights he’s over so she can be prepared bra wise

[u/FocusTight5133]

That is way too funny I can't stop laughing

[u/Cyrious123]

No your brother deserves to know!

[u/chop0701]

Cute story 🤣

[u/Disastrous-Fact-2690]

Time to get your own place a studio maybe and don’t worry about roommat’s

[u/Extension_Bit_156]

I mean giving her a heads up he was coming, none of this would’ve happened lol

[u/Final_Towel7670]

No one figured out Clark Kent was Superman. She was not taking a good look at your brother. The one if them being cute was just to bring some levity. Do not put much into it.

[u/Woland77]

You certainly don't deserve to know your roommate's "type." Best to drop it

[u/Winter_Addition_1620]

So she thought you were sleeping with them and thought one was cute? I hope you don’t consider her a friend…

[u/OI812__OI812]

Even if he is your brother, she still could have a concern about someone frequently sleeping at the apartment. She signed on for one roommate, not one plus.

[u/CommercialEffort7409 → u/OI812__OI812]

exactly. And that is the real issue.

[u/hidden_agenda9612]

Sounds like someone was jelly lol

[u/Cromer1000]

That’s interesting

[u/_edzilla_]

You get ads on your fortune cookies?

[u/MammothBright4420]

So which one is the cute one. Asking for a friend

[u/LassHalfEmpty]

Lotta people here letting the talking behind your back about having a “messy phase” slide…

[u/ReadExpensive469]

Change your roommate, arguments are not worth it

[u/Individual_Rip_4720]

😩🤭

[u/Sharp-Property3237]

Shed?