Moving into a flat or house share is often the best way of financing rental costs than can otherwise be extortionate for young people living in cities.

Living with someone you don't know is great for building character, and there's a good chance you might become lifelong pals. That's not to say you aren't taking a massive gamble every time you put pen to paper on a lease with a total stranger. You can quite easily commit yourself to six months under the same roof as someone who puts handwritten warning notes on their cheese or meditates naked in the hallway in the middle of the night. Your instinctive feelings towards a person definitely count for a lot, but you can never know for sure what you're letting yourself in for. But as weird and wonderful as some of your ex-roomies might be, we can almost guarantee that they don't come close to the people described in Tweets sent to writer Dawn Foster. She issued a callout to her followers for their worst flatmate stories, starting with one of her own. https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/737230126254022656 https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/737234718014509056

Then came the responses, which ranged from the agreeably quirky to the..well, have a read for yourself.

First up, your standard toilet stinker-outer. Most people will encounter one in their lives.

https://twitter.com/MsJenAllison/status/737397792646254592

This one's a bit more niche...

https://twitter.com/Mattallwright/status/737231430972022785

Always a good way to kill some time...

https://twitter.com/MelanieReesCIH/status/737231383186264064

Who needs personal hygiene?

https://twitter.com/soapachu/status/737230649573138432

Yeah, we probably wouldn't have stuck around for long...

https://twitter.com/patrickashe/status/737240386628915200

Suppose that's one way of doing it...

https://twitter.com/SearleAdrian/status/737326401481805824

Probably not going to win any flatmate of the year awards this one...

https://twitter.com/Goldfishwars/status/737238372121464832

This guy makes Saul Goodman sound like a safe bet...

https://twitter.com/alexburd/status/737235179169808384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The fact that this woman feels she got off lightly tells you everything you need to know about the other stories...

https://twitter.com/ellenfromnowon/status/737248066428866560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

True love conquers all...

https://twitter.com/JM_Underwood/status/737238125639000064

A dickhead of the very highest order...

https://twitter.com/ShinraAlpha/status/737239712851693568

And finally this idi...oh wait, no this guy gets a pass. There can't be many better ways to finish a night.

https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie/status/737240555223175168