So imagine you're told that this is your future roommate

This happened to me freshman year. My old roommate moved back to Pennsylvania and the school assigned this Japanese exchange student to me, sending an info sheet (his hobbies included "reading book" and smoking) and a cheerful letter. Going from a comfortable single to having a roommate who looked like he was going to send my kidneys on the first FedEx plane back to Osaka kinda sucked, but then some kid from Cincinnati who owned Candy Land and rolled his own cigarettes moved in instead. Problem solved.

But sometimes I still think about how my life would have been different.