'Housemates tell me to watch TV in my room... No problem!': A common roommate feud gets resolved with satisfying malicious compliance

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 12, 2023 9:00 AM EST

Living with roommates is always hit or miss. It's not easy to find people you can live in harmony with. Everybody had their own way of life and even if you love that person out in the real world, when it comes to your living space, they might completely clash with you. It's normal, so don't feel bad if you have had roommate issues. Once you find that perfect roommate combination though, it truly is glorious—feels like you're living in your own uplifting sitcom. 

However, this Redditor was not in that ideal situation of having good roommates. She was, unfortunately, stuck living with a few entitled rich dudes who treated her hard-earned things with zero respect. She was the only one in the house who had a job, and she worked often. She brought her own TV into the house and was fine sharing it with the housemates. Unfortunately, the boys' entitlement started to shine through and they started treating the TV like it was their's and would team up against her when she wanted to use it. Finally, one squabble had her maliciously complying. She have them a heads up earlier in the day that she wanted to watch something at a certain time. Yet, when that time came the boys had taken it over and they told her to just go watch TV in her bed room (using her laptop, but they did not specify that). So she graciously said "okay," and proceeded to unplug their dumb video game console in the middle of their game, and take the TV back into her room. They were not happy, but she was just doing what they asked. (LOL) 

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    Posted by u/Dazzling_Ferret3985 20 hours ago Housemates tell me to watch tv in my room, no problem! S OC
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    I read another story on here which inspired me to write this, but mine is nowhere near as interesting unfortunately. During my first year of university, I shared a house with one other girl and 3 boys.
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    The other girl kept to herself mainly. I was the only one who had a job and therefore that really bought anything with me other than clothes and a laptop. I decided to be nice and put my TV (quite a decent sized one, I had saved up for a while) in the front room so everybody could watch it as I could always
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    just use my laptop when I was in my bedroom. One of the boys brought a PlayStation with him and connected it to the TV, which I had absolutely no problem with. For the first couple of months, everything was fine and they shared using the TV really well. I
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    would generally watch an hour or 2 the days I wasn't working and they used it most of the other time. After a while, every time I wanted to watch a program I used to get "there are three of us and one of you just go and watch it in your bedroom so we can play fifa" for a lot of programs
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    I have no problem watching on my laptop but there are certain things that are really better to watch on the real TV and I did point out politely that the television did belong to me and I was only wanting it for an hour (I would also give them plenty of notice when I
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    wanted to watch a program) eventually I just had enough and snapped, I came down to watch something after I told them the previous day I wanted to watch it and they told me to go and watch it in my bedroom. So I did exactly
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    that. from and I unplugged the tv disconnected their PlayStation and carried it up to my bedroom. I set it up just in time to watch my program which I had to turn up extra loud to drown out their moaning and banging on my door.
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    The only annoying thing is the next day one of them had called the bank of mummy and daddy who apparently agreed with them that I was awful, and had ordered a new tv for them so they only really went without for a week or so until till it arrived (it was a bit smaller too).
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    yParticle 19 hr. ago No good deed goes unpunished. It's a good lesson to learn while still in school!
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    (it was a bit smaller too) I like how you got that final shot in. Nice MC.
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    Dazzling_Ferret3985 OP. 19 hr. ago Thank you! I was also the only one who drove and surprise surprise I didn't exactly fancy giving lifts to any of them anymore
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    Zoreb1 19 hr. ago "Ask your parents to buy you a car" would have been my response.
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    Dazzling_Ferret3985 OP 19 hr. ago Haha none of them had a driving license but I know two of them had cars much newer and nicer than mine bought by their parents back where they lived, they just never finished their lessons. Their attitudes really did make me glad I came from a working class background and knew the value of money
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    Civ1Diplomat 18 hr. ago . Wow... Entitled much? How dare you use your money for your own benefit and not give to or share with others who are used to having mommy and daddy give them everything? /sarc
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    Dazzling_Ferret3985 OP. 18 hr. ago They were very entitled, there were a few other incidents through the year such as them using my cooking equipment and leaving them un washed with caked on food for days and I would refuse to wash them myself on principal
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    but then meant i couldn't use them either. After a few occasions of this I ended up taking my pans etc to my room and bringing them down when I needed them
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    yParticle 4 hr. ago The sad thing about that is that community living can be great if you each bring something to the table. But one spoiled je k can ruin that for everyone. And you can't even confront them about it because they have no comprehension why their actions psed you off.
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    Dazzling_Ferret3985 OP. 3 hr. ago I honestly believe the issues were mainly due to 2 of them. When alone the third was quite sweet and I don't think he would have pulled anything like this on his own. My other two years were so much better, we had one issue second year with
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    someone not paying his share of this bills but luckily I had his grandparents address because he's asked me to post him something when he was staying there over Christmas so I sent them a very apologetic letter explaining the situation and gave them my phone number. When
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    they called I was so scared they were going to be mad at me for writing to them but the opposite. They said they'd been slowly seeing changes in their grandsons behaviour but were shocked he would do this,
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    they thanked me for letting them know and they sent me the money and said they would deal with getting it off him. I'd met them a few times and they were lovely people so I did feel mad writing to them
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