roomate

what's your definition of a roomate?
ANYBODY who lives with you?
someone who lives at the same place in a separate bedroom?
how about someone who shares your bedroom and is your significant other, you know you can still refer to them as your roommate.

or how about, when asked all the subtle hints of whether or not you have a gf, aka, "so you have a roomate" "you live here with a roomate" " your roomate made that for you" all those little subtle 'do you have a gf' questions could've been answered with "no, my gf made it" "no my gf lives with me" "no i own this place with my gf" could've been used! instead of the flat out "no."

awkward - when you go up to someone's apartment, believing there is no roomate, and then having him say "anybody ... home...?" and out pops a girl... AWK.W.ARD...

what do you say?

"hi, i have to use your bathroom" and scamper off.