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If you’ve ever had a roommate, you probably have a story or two to tell. Because there’s nothing quite like sharing a living facility with a person you barely know. On some occasions, you become inseparable friends with countless memories to share, but it also happens that you don’t particularly enjoy each other’s company.
There are many reasons why your roommate may be bugging you. The classic scenario is getting your food eaten and this is what happened to the author of this story posted on the AITA Reddit.
Turns out, the 19-year-old student at an expensive college lives with a roommate who isn’t so well off. “She comes from a poor background and has to work because her parents can’t pay her tuition and she doesn’t even have a partial scholarship,” the author explained.
The author was kind enough to buy food for both of them until the roommate’s behavior became unbearable. Read below for how the story evolved!
A 19-year-old student had enough of her roommate eating all her food because she couldn’t afford her own, so she installed a mini fridge to keep her away
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For anyone who’s ever had a roommate, this scenario is not something they couldn’t imagine: you come home from a rough day at work, daydreaming about the chicken tikka you saved from yesterday. But as soon as you open the fridge, you realize you’re not having that chicken tikka for dinner, because someone else just did. Busted.
You start to wonder if roommate food etiquette exists and whether it’s too late to set boundaries. Dr. John Mayer, a clinical psychologist at Doctor On Demand, suggests having the food talk before the move-in day in order to not make things weird for the future. “If you address the subject from the beginning,” Dr. Mayer told Elite Daily, “it sets expectations for the future and tells your potential roommate a great deal about you.”
Someone was wondering what kind of cake it was to cost that much
Living with anyone is teamwork that requires collaboration on both ends. And now that rent prices keep sky-rocketing, and more and more millennials and Gen Z’ers can’t afford their own apartment, living with roommates is the only option. It’s either live close to your parents or big expensive cities, where career prospects and better-paid jobs are.
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This comes with some trade-offs, of course. One is less privacy, second is more awkward conversations about household chores and food etiquette. The third is a high chance of passive-aggressive behavior you have nowhere to hide from. Do you have a roommate story to share with us? Hit us in the comments below!
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Deborah B Deborah B Community Member Follow
Genuinely hungry and poor doesn't mean eating a whole cake in one day. It sounds like she has binge eating disorder, it's an addiction, and you are not required to enable her. If you are worried about her needing food, buy some cheap staples and leave them in the shared fridge - bread, eggs, peanut butter, carrots, maybe some bananas. You don't need to give her free access to your food if she's going to abuse your generosity.
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Rae Noble Rae Noble Community Member Follow
Genuinely hungry and poor and binge eating aren't mutually exclusive, but they actually occur together a lot because the eating patterns that are survival strategies when there isn't enough food, such as "eat as many calories as you can bc you don't know when you can get more" are disorders when there is enough food. Roommate needs therapy, hopefully a big expensive campus has student mental health services.Also, there are probably resources where roommate can obtain her own food - if she wasn't able to qualify for financial aid she may not qualify for govt food assistance, but a large expensive university likely is in a big enough city to have a wide variety of religious or community groups that have food pantries or hot meals with no restrictions (Most Sikh temples, for example, offer free daily meals to anyone, as they consider feeding the hungry to be a core religious practice)
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fu yu fu yu Community Member Follow
Hell no to that noise. And if I just bought an expensive cake and somebody who did not contribute a dime just ate all of it...her being hungry would be the LEAST of her problems
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CatWoman312 CatWoman312 Community Member Follow
I’d be livid. She said she can have some, but she helped herself to the whole thing. That’s just greedy, inconsiderate, and selfish.
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Karl Baxter Karl Baxter Community Member Follow
I shared a house with an entitled selfish rich kid who did no chores (because he had a maid to do that for him back home) and would drink a 10-year old single malt without sharing while I was drinking out of date cider. Worst of all, he stole my food without asking and thought he was doing nothing wrong. He got chucked out of college after one year for not doing any coursework. I gather he’s still being an entitled selfish prick somewhere in the US. He’s their problem now 🙂
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Jason Triggs Jason Triggs Community Member Follow
That's clearly someone who's never had to worry about money, thus doesn't appreciate that it actually costs money and time to stock the fridge with food.Jerks for sure. It's a combo of ignorance and arrogance.
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Deborah B Deborah B Community Member Follow
Genuinely hungry and poor doesn't mean eating a whole cake in one day. It sounds like she has binge eating disorder, it's an addiction, and you are not required to enable her. If you are worried about her needing food, buy some cheap staples and leave them in the shared fridge - bread, eggs, peanut butter, carrots, maybe some bananas. You don't need to give her free access to your food if she's going to abuse your generosity.
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Rae Noble Rae Noble Community Member Follow
Genuinely hungry and poor and binge eating aren't mutually exclusive, but they actually occur together a lot because the eating patterns that are survival strategies when there isn't enough food, such as "eat as many calories as you can bc you don't know when you can get more" are disorders when there is enough food. Roommate needs therapy, hopefully a big expensive campus has student mental health services.Also, there are probably resources where roommate can obtain her own food - if she wasn't able to qualify for financial aid she may not qualify for govt food assistance, but a large expensive university likely is in a big enough city to have a wide variety of religious or community groups that have food pantries or hot meals with no restrictions (Most Sikh temples, for example, offer free daily meals to anyone, as they consider feeding the hungry to be a core religious practice)
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fu yu fu yu Community Member Follow
Hell no to that noise. And if I just bought an expensive cake and somebody who did not contribute a dime just ate all of it...her being hungry would be the LEAST of her problems
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CatWoman312 CatWoman312 Community Member Follow
I’d be livid. She said she can have some, but she helped herself to the whole thing. That’s just greedy, inconsiderate, and selfish.
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Karl Baxter Karl Baxter Community Member Follow
I shared a house with an entitled selfish rich kid who did no chores (because he had a maid to do that for him back home) and would drink a 10-year old single malt without sharing while I was drinking out of date cider. Worst of all, he stole my food without asking and thought he was doing nothing wrong. He got chucked out of college after one year for not doing any coursework. I gather he’s still being an entitled selfish prick somewhere in the US. He’s their problem now 🙂
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Jason Triggs Jason Triggs Community Member Follow
That's clearly someone who's never had to worry about money, thus doesn't appreciate that it actually costs money and time to stock the fridge with food.Jerks for sure. It's a combo of ignorance and arrogance.
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