My roommate pulled the fire alarm 14 times in one semester because of burnt popcorn, and I counted every single one | Bad Roommate Stories - Talk Freely
The "I counted every single one" part is what gets me. That's the human brain deciding this thing is now a project, and once that switch flips there's no turning back. I do this with my upstairs neighbor's stomping, I know the exact schedule now. We turn annoying stuff into stats because it gives us some feeling of control over something we can't actually fix. The real trick is that your roommate probably never even knew the number, and that's the part that would drive me up a wall.