My Junior year of college, I lived with this amazing girl named Kim on our sorority hall. (In Greensboro, a house with more than four women is a brothel, so sororities were forced into university dorms.) Sometimes in the spring, we got a wild streak & decided to get hamsters.
Don’t ask. I still don’t understand what made two twenty-year-olds run out & buy two hamsters when they barely had enough money for books & Ramen.
I will say that at 3am, putting the hamsters in their rolling ball & watching them scoot down the hall was a highlight of my college career. So they (& all the drama hiding them from the RA’s) were totally worth it.
But that summer, my housemates were not as “pleased” with my smelly little friends. Kim had her own apartment & had sworn she was taking the little furballs, but after no returned phone calls, Katie (in the picture above) & I decided to take matters into our own hands. So one afternoon in a little sneak-attack we liked to call “Operation Hamster Drop,” we left those kiddos on Kim’s doorstep, rang the doorbell, & ran like hell.
Kind of like a flaming bag of poo on your doorstep, minus the flames.
Wow, abandoning pets that depend on you for food and care and running away doesn’t really seem that funny to me!
Dude, Sacramento has that SAME law. But Sac State (yes that’s the name of the school) didn’t even let us have the dorms.
Stupid gold rush and the overabundance of hookers, and then never taking the law off the books.
So did she ever talk to you again?
Yeah I agree with Elizabeth C above…. what happened to the hamsters? pets are not disposable, even if they are the result of an impulsive decision.
I was a tour guide for my university when I was a senior. (Yes, i was *that* …er… cool!) I was embarrassed when a man on the tour called me out when I mentioned the whole “can you believe why we don’t have sorority houses?!” story that I swore to be true. He challenged it strongly and said it was an urban legend, I should know better, clearly my elite university had taught me the value of critical thinking, etc. I never shared that tidbit again. .
Hopefully I am a bit more polite than Mr. Ass in 2001…
http://www.snopes.com/college/halls/brothel.asp
Taylor and I decided Senior year that Gerbils would be a wonderful idea. Until one day…one of my sorority sisters said, “Sally, I think your gerbils had babies. There’s an awful lot of squeaking going on under that coconut hut.” Sure enough, I lifted up that stupid hut to find, in horror, five pink babies. I screamed and made Taylor take them back to the pet store.
First off- HILARIOUS! I love it!
Second- To everyone being an ass about it, I’m sure the hamstes were fine and taken care of. Lighten up and laugh about the story. Yeesh. People these days…smh.
BLAIR! I SO HAD A GERBIL IN COLLEGE. His name was Nemo and he was a super big hit at parties, lemme tell ya. NSCU wrestling team loved him.
yeah, I cant’ really laugh at this one. We have a pet hamster and it’s actually a rescue hamster from a small animal rescue.
I bet Katie opened the door, saw the hamsters, and left them on her front step to die a long horrible death. OR Katie never returned to her home and the hamsters died a long horrible death. OR Katie opened the door, saw the hamsters, laughed, and cared for them as she had originally agreed to.
PA has the same law. Its not enforced but state universities don’t have sorority houses.
Hahah how have you never told this story on here before?!?!
And btw, I love how “college wild streak” is buying rodents.
i had a pet rat in college. my roommate was cool with it until it got out of it’s cage one night and snuggled up to her in bed. oh the screaming.
i loved little ratty but i would have been freaked out too. lol
and for god sake people, i think blair knows the rules of engagement by now. i feel confident in assuming she would not have told this story if the hamsters had met a terrible ending.
I ate the hamsters. With fava beans & a nice chianti.
I’ve always thought of hampsters as snake food, so I’m not sure why people are all up in arms…
I’m not being an ass, but I have to admit that this story makes me feel bad for the hamsters, too.
I can do you one better!
I got a pet hamster my first year out of college in my tiny little one bedroom apartment. When I grew tired of it (because, come on, everyone gets tired of a hamster) I set it free in a field on the edge of town. I’m pretty sure it was happier in the wild then in its one cubic foot cage… you know, until it was inevitably eaten by a hawk.
Lubbock has the same city ordinances, so no one can live at the sorority and fraternity houses at Texas Tech either.
I also agree with Elizabeth C. What happened to the hamsters? Can you fill us in on the outcome and (hopefully) calm some of us down?
All of you saying your town has the same “brothel” law…are you not seeing the Snopes link posted above? It’s just an urban legend!
hooray for Elizabeth, for making herself the biggest ass in this story! you maybe are kidding, but maybe you aren’t. Pets are a commitment, all sizes.. so to say you got sick of one? I’m not going to bother continuing to elaborate on the multiple levels of douche that you are if what you said is even true.
Y’all. Simmer on Hamstergate.
The hamsters were well cared for by Kim (the roommate who’s doorstep we left them on) as they lived out their lives with her. They were left with her because she had an apartment of her own for the next year, unlike me, who lived with four other girls (that hated the hamsters) & then I went back into the dorm.
We had made sure Kim was home at the time of the drop, so the hamsters were out there MAYBE five minutes before she sent off an IM (remember instant messaging?!).
& no, I wouldn’t do that now. But if dropping off hamsters safely on the doorstep of a friend that would care for them almost ten years ago makes me a bad person, then so be it.
signed,
the gal with the rescued dog who fostered a dog before having a baby.
Ahahahaha! That’s awesome! Too funny.
I am cracking up at this story. Hamsters are RANK. Omg, I remember my senior year old high school I offered to take the biology hamster home to care for it during winter break and I couldn’t WAIT to get rid of the damn thing. It was stinky, it ate its own shit, it ran on its wheel all night long and keep me awake.
Kinda like my jackass cat. But he doesn’t eat shit, he just pukes up hairballs on my bed.
So funny…my roomie and I decided for some reason to get a ferret our freshman year…that thing STUNK. It was discovered by the RA eventually and we got a fine and he was hipped to my parents house. They were not pleased at first with the stinky new family member, but became very attached
I remember people hiding kittens and all kinds of things…lol
LOL, DH and I got that same wild streak, and wound up with 3 of the little buggers. When I finally got tired of being the only one to clean up after, feed, and play with them, I tried to find another home and after being unsuccessful, I released them onto my parents’ 6.5 acres to roam the woods to their hearts’ content…until they were *likely* eaten by feral cats or the like.
Hahahahaha Hamstergate! Who knew people were so passionate about hamsters?!
I’ll stand up first in line for the flaming for saying this, but this post is actually my deal breaker post.
Not because it’s hamsters. But because it’s a joke to half of you. Ha ha ha. Hamsters are snake food, not pets. It’s ignorance and it’s stupid and even if you wouldn’t do it now, posting about it with pictures as some sort of brag book of neglect for living things doesn’t sit right with me.
My very close friends run a rescue for abandoned small animals; ferrets, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas. And stupid college kids and stupid stunts like this are half the reason they have a rescue.
I just can’t laugh. And justifying it by saying you wouldnt’ do it now, you were young, you were in college or they were fine after… that’s like saying ” I can say the N word because my BFF is black”
Sorry dude. Love Ya BA, think you’re a great gal.. but this post just lost me.
Peace out yo’s.
My college roommate and I definitely went out and got hamsters too! lol but I am slightly ashamed to admit that I took mine to an emergency vet at 3am because he couldn’t get off of his back. He had to be put to sleep.
Yup, I am a weirdo.
um, my dormmates went and got chicks from the feed and seed store for easter (we’re from nc. farming stores abound). what they didn’t think through was 1-no pets in dorms, duh. 2-baby chicks grow up to be big chickens. and 3-chicks poop all over the place. and not the cute little pellet kind. the slimy egg yolk kind. plus? my BF/now DH was the RA and about had a conniption. fortunately i knew a guy who had a farm where they raised chickens. i am such a rule follower, but i have to admit, i did have some fun with mcnugget and cutlet (seriously-2 of them were lucky enough to have those names) before we sent them to their forever home =)
Good Riddiance BONZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s take bets on how long it is before bozner is back commenting on another post.
Telford Hall baby, home of EKU’s ADPI’s. We didn’t have houses either, and I have no idea if it was because it would’ve been considered a brothel, but that’s hillarious!
I never made it past the line ” in Greensboro a house with 4 or more women is considered a brothel” Um what?!! so apparently you got a hamster?