A new roommate moved in last month.

He has 7 cats.   I was not fond of that idea.

I'm renting a room in this house though and I'm not the landlord.

He also smokes and I don't so we agreed at the beginning that he would smoke outside.

I assumed that he was smoking outside.

For weeks now though, I've been smelling a strange odor in my bathroom and thinking it was some kind of mildew or mold.

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I've bought all kinds of cleaners and scrubbed everything down.

Yesterday I bought a giant bottle of bleach and poured it down my toilet tank thinking maybe there was some mold in there.

I notice the smell mostly fades during the day but then it's really strong at night.

The roommate's room is right on the other side of my bathroom.

He gets home from work just before midnight every night.

Today after pouring all that bleach yesterday I was quite certain that the smell was gone.  There was no trace of it and I was finally happy.

Then tonight at around 12:30 p.m. I started to smell that terrible odor again.

"That's impossible!!" I thought.

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"I cleaned it all so thoroughly!!  The smell was gone!!" I was exasperated until it occurred to me.

It's the smell of cigarettes or cigars.

I took his word for it that he wouldn't smoke but it only happens at night once he gets home from work.

I actually did catch him smoking in the house about two days after he moved in and he swore to me up and down he would never do it again.

Looking around now that I can see smoke even in the air.

This isn't the first time a roommate has lied to me though.

If there's one thing I've learned when you first interview your potential roommate it's that when you ask him questions he will always just tell you what you want to hear.

I myself have a huge problem with lying.  If I tell someone I'm going to do something........ I do it.

If I tell someone I'm not going to do something....... I don't do it.

Now you could say "hey he lives there too" but this is a really small house and there are three of us living here.

Creating a smoky environment when two of those three people don't smoke is extraordinarily inconsiderate.

If there's one thing I've learned about roommates is that they always lie to you.

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