'She had an absolute meltdown': Flatmate moves out of state with college roommate's wallet stashed in car, then tosses wallet into trash

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 31, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

When faced with an arduous situation, do you cave and give in to an easy solution, or do you stand up, tough as nails, and return fire?

The arduous situation in question, from OP's point of view, is that she was about to get caught stealing all the other roommates' stuff. And she had a total meltdown. But let's start from the beginning. As this story is told by u/CharmingUniversity98's point of view, we shall start there. Many years ago, back when OP was in college, they lived with 4 roommates. Because OP had way better credit than the rest of the lot, they put the internet/cable under their own name; otherwise, the deposit would have been a whopping $600.

You would think the other roommates would be grateful, but alas, one was not. OP was offered a $300 Visa gift card upon signup, but this gift card never arrived. Or at least, it did, but it did not fall into OP's hands. Instead, one of their grubby-fingered roommates felt they were entitled to the money, and spent it. How did OP find out? Because it never arrived, OP called the company and found out that someone had already used it.

It didn't take a genius to know that one of OP's roommates was the culprit, but the question was, which one? As the weeks went by, OP began ruling some of them out, as everyone's stuff began disappearing. One day, one of OP's roommates had a total meltdown, as her wallet had 'vanished'. Scroll down to read how the events unfolded.

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    Font - Posted by u/CharmingUniversity98 12 hours ago Roommate stole from me, so her wallet "vanished." Back in college, I had better credit than my three other roommates so I put our
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    Font - internet/TV under my name otherwise the deposit would have been $600. The cable company offered me a $300 Visa gift card upon signup. Two months later, I called them because the gift card never arrived. They tell me they sent it a few weeks ago and
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    Font - eventually I'm able to find out from Visa that someone used it at the Whataburger, Target and r store near my house. I'm d off because obviously | р one of my roommates has used it, but I didn't know which one.
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    Font - A few weeks later, roommate #2 complains that their $200 birthday gift card to Target has gone missing. His mom still had the receipt, and the store was able to tell her that someone used it at the Target near our house. He's obviously p d off too, but we've now realized it's
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    Font - probably one of the other two roommates. Couple weeks after that, roommate #3's wallet disappears. We turned the house upside down looking for it and we knew it had to be in the house because her car key is attached to her wallet (and her
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    Font - car is parked at the house). She is absolutely frantic. Sobbing, screaming, hyperventilating, etc. Throwing s : everywhere and just having an absolute meltdown while tearing the house apart. We had never seen her behave like this, so we're all kinda surprised she'd be THAT
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    Font - upset about her wallet. It's stressful, sure. But I genuinely was concerned about how she was reacting. She says the gift card thief must have taken it, implying it is roommate #4 (the only person who hasn't had something stolen yet).
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    Font - A few days after that, I found her wallet in the trunk of my car. We had gone to get groceries together and I guess she just laid it in the trunk while we were unloading. I'm like "holy s : I found her wallet!" and then I open it up because I'm just excited to confirm that I did indeed find her wallet. Bam!
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    Font - Both stolen gift cards front and center. No doubt. The Visa gift card has my name printed on it and roommate #2's mom had written something in sharpie on his gift card. I realize she had a meltdown because she was afraid we'd find out she was the thief.
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    Font - I left the wallet-cash and all right where it was: pushed up against the inner lip of the trunk so you couldn't see it unless you leaned farther into the car. A locksmith wouldn't make her new keys without the title. And the title was in the glovebox of
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    Font - her locked car. All in all, she spent about $500 replacing her DL, title and keys. Not to mention not being able to drive her car for several weeks!
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    Font - I moved out of state with her wallet still in my car. Finally tossed it in trash several months later. Sometimes the universe assists you with petty revenge.
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    Font - Spiritual_Victory541 +1 · 10 hr. ago She left the stuff she stole in your car and kept her title in her glovebox? She's a dumb thief. 433 Reply
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    Font - InhumaneUnsacrifice. 12 hr. ago I mean you could send her a picture after you moved out "look what I found!" for ultimate carma 2.2k Reply
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    Font - CharmingUniversity98 OP 12 hr. ago I thought about it, but I didn't want to have to return her wallet and key. 1.3k Reply
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    Font - 18k_gold 12 hr. ago +3. Did you ever tell your other roommate that you found out who the thief was? 3.4k Reply
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    Font - CharmingUniversity98 OP . 11 hr. ago. edited 11 hr. ago I did! Apparently Target was able tell him that the thief purchased some specific makeup products, so he snooped in our rooms for it. He
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    Font - found it in the back of her underwear drawer, so his revenge was replacing all of her a with Burnett's for months. She "lost her V₁ taste" for v a by the time we all moved out.
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    Font - irrational-numbers 16 hr. ago Am I the only person who thinks you took this way too lightly??? 1.1k Reply Share
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    Font - CharmingUniversity98 OP 15 hr. ago Probably not! My adult self probably thinks I took it too lightly, but it's pretty funny in hindsight. At the time it was very satisfying. 642 Reply Share
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    Font - Lego-Panda-21 16 hr. ago Could have gone down the route of extra petty. Waited until she had forked out all that money for everything then magically walked in the property a few days later with her wallet,
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    Font - minus the gift cards, and proudly announced you had found it..She would have snatched it and opened it to check for the gift cards, at which point you could pull them out of your pocket and infront of the other room mates, ask her if she was
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    Font - looking for the gift cards you found in her wallet, you know, the ones that didn't belong to her.. ↑ 511 Reply Share
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