Woman Teaches Roommate a Lesson After He Eats Her Food, Leaving Homecooked Meal Out Overnight

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Sienna Varady
Jan 2, 2024 5:00 PM EST

I'll say it again for the benefit of those in the back: revenge is always best served cold. They ought to be completely taken aback by it and not notice anything unusual, and only then will you be able to genuinely experience the fulfilling sense of success and achievement. But what about unintentional retaliation—does it fit the bill? Are you still experiencing that amazing sense of fulfillment and contentment?

The answer is unquestionably yes! The story that follows is the tale of an angry roommate who has had enough. And once we cross that threshold, as I'm sure you're all aware, there's no turning back. Therefore, up until things shifted, OP and her roommate led a quiet life. The roommate, who we'll call Harry from now on, started robbing OP of her food and causing problems for the entire apartment. Because Harry had made it clear that he could eat anything she made, OP came up with a clever scheme to get even. But things didn't quite go as expected at first. Some would even argue that things went better, but whatever, I'll let you make that decision. Scroll down and tell me what you would do if you were the person in place of OP! And don't forget to check out funny reasons employees had to take a day off work here!

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    "Incidental payback ended bad roommate issues for good..."
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    Incidental petty revenge ended bad roommate issues for good
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    This happened to me quite some time ago when I was sharing a small two bedroom house with another guy from college. The house was divided into two bedroom/bathroom living room and a kitchen in between. We shared these spaces areas with a
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    without issue for about two years. We didn't have problems with food storage, food sharing, etc. It really was a good living arrangement because we both just worked and went to our classes, and played video games on the weekend or had a couple friends over. Pretty normal stuff.
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    Well, Harry (not his real name) started taking the drinking too far in our junior year. Way too far. Completely reclused to his bedroom only, pretty much only coming out at off hours to get food or throw trash away. Cans and cans of beer just stacked ceiling high.
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    He moved his TV and console into his bedroom instead of the living room. Started being very particular about food and went through phases of eating nothing but fast food (taco bell and KFC) and then eating nothing but these weird
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    juice drinks from a coffee shop down the road. Didn't want me storing my snacks near his items anymore. It was just weird. He kept doing his chores, kept going to classes, and didn't really care that alc lism was taking
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    over his life. We (my friends and I) had a lot of conversations with him, his parents came down and saw him, his advisor got involved... Nobody really took it seriously because he was still working, still passing classes, still "showing up.'
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    So we just tried to take care of him the way we could at home, stopped bringing al hol over from friends, etc. Kept help information out on the tables, etc. Here's where the issue started really affecting me directly
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    eventually. So his weird food thing then turned into taking all of my own food. I was really p sed about it because we had been living issue-free around this topic and he clearly had no issue buying his own stuff. This went on for way longer
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    than it should have before I got fed up and did "something" about it. Talks didn't work, labeling didn't really deter him. I ended up keeping my non-perishables in my room and only kept things I planned on eating day-of in the
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    fridge or freezer. It made coming home and trying to figure out lunches and dinners more stressful than it should have been. One day I got a wild hair up my a and decided I was going to douse him with a spicy food so hot he'd
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    think twice before eating my stuff again. He without fail would steal any Asian/noodle anything I had in the fridge or freezer, so one day I bought some fresh shrimp and decided I would make extra spicy noodles for him to "eat" (steal). I
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    made my dinner that night and ate it (fried shrimp and some noodles/veg), and then made a second portion of the shrimp and noodles, but made the noodles sauce very spicy with a little bit of pepper extract and pepper oil.
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    Here's the funny part. I packaged the noodles up in the fridge like I would have if it was my meal prep, and I ended up leaving the fried shrimp on the counter overnight. I meant to of course package the shrimp with the noodles as part of
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    the meal. Well, he did in fact steal my food when he came in the next early morning (he worked until 3am some nights). Including the shrimp that had been sitting overnight on the counter, probably at least 8 hrs or so at that point if not a little more.
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    He had vi ent diarrhea and vomiting probably 3 hours after he ate his stolen meal. I woke up to him vomiting in the kitchen sink because he was getting a glass of water and another round hit him. I said man are you okay, what's
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    wrong. He goes man I think it was the shrimp on the counter. I was confused and then remembered, I said oh the shrimp I made last night? I forgot to put them up? He said, yeah man I ate it when I got in from work and didn't think twice
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    about when you had made them. Bad move on my part. I was fighting a laughing fit. I asked him if needed anything and he said nah he was fine. He slept it off, re-hydrated himself and we never had an issue with him eating my food again for the last year and a half we lived together.
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    BAT123456789 · 14 hr. ago The best part is that your forgetfulness was more effective than your petty attempt!
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    ohlookanthracct OP. 14 hr. ago Truly more effective. Never said anything about the spicy noodles. Must not have phased him at all haha.
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    Traditional Cut37 11 hr. ago Why were you so nice doing all of it though? I would have asked why he touched my s t...
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    Indigojoyglow 3 hr. ago. This is hilarious. You should have used ghost pepper oil.
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