March 3, 2011 - 5:03pm
In Erika's Experience: Don't hook up with your hallmate
BY ERIKA MAYER
I know, she looks really good when she comes back from the shower wrapped in just a hot pink towel. And he has a tendency to not wear a shirt. The temptation is there and it would eliminate the embarrassing walk of shame on Sunday morning. It’s feels like an itch you just have to scratch.
Go buy some calamine lotion for that itch because scratching it is not a good idea. Sure, you don’t have to go outside for your walk of shame, but the walk is a lot more shameful when you run into your RA while walking across the hall still wearing last night’s clothes. Hall hookups are impossible to keep secret and the level of the ensuing gossip would put even an all-girls boarding school to shame. You’ll be That Girl or That Guy who broke the cardinal rule of dorm living.
You lose all the benefits of an anonymous hook up too. Hooking up doesn’t seem like such a good idea when you have to continually see the other person every day for the rest of the year and see every one of their other hook ups come and go. Also, it’s going to be really hard to pretend like you haven’t seen them naked. Not to mention hard for your hall to pretend they don’t know what it sounds like when you climax.
God forbid, what if it turns into a relationship? You lose that whole mystery about what you really look like when you wake up in the morning and how messy your room is. All your dirty laundry — literally and figuratively — is out there from the beginning. Worst of all, when you decide it won’t work because you can’t stand them being around 24/7, you’ll never be able to leave your room again.
