‘She was powerless against us’: Flatmates force entitled roommate to move out by shutting down the electricity whenever she is home

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Apr 3, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

There are many ways to calmly deal with an annoying roommate. What most people do, presumable, is just try and ignore that roommate as much as they can, and live as separately as they can. If that does not work, some people might try and work out their issues with their roommates, but knowing people, that is hardly ever the case. The last option is to find a way to get the roommate to move out, without causing much of a scene, and this Reddit story is the perfect example of such an option.

This story is told by one of three roommates in a small flat, we'll call her OP (Original Poster). One of OP's roommates, Chloe, was constantly complaining about everything and was simply really difficult to live with. So OP and the third roommate found a way to keep Chloe out of the flat for extensive periods at a time. They would shut off the power in the flat, and tell Chloe that the electric bill hasn't been paid. Chloe, who didn't want to pay for it herself. would leave the flat and go stay with friends, and then OP would turn the power back on. And this went out on and on…

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    "She had no power to stop us"
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    Oh no the electricity is off again...
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    This happened about 18 years ago. I (F 16 at the time) moved out of the family home and lived with a guy (Eric) and girl (Chloe) in a flat on the no so nice side of town owned by a slum landlord. I knew Eric really
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    well (and continued to live with him for another 4 years) but didnt know Chloe that well. I don't remember much about living with her but I do remember after we'd been
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    living together for about 6months Eric and I got really fed up with Chloe's constant complaints about our home life (a expectation vs reality problem - nothing was ever good enough). She complained
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    about everything and never got her rent to me on time - now bear in mind we were all young newly independent teenagers who had low paying jobs and doing the best we could.
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    One night she had a go at me for not doing her dishes and I went through her. I rememebr she was right in my face screaming at me and I just screamed back. I think the
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    gradual build up of anger realised all at once and I know now that we were not arguing about the fact I never washed her dishes but about everything else. She would never apologise
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    and would just be over-sweet next time you spoke to her - I really struggle with folk like this to this day.
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    After the blow up she went back to her room and Eric and I watched TV in the living room when the electricity cut out. We had one of those meter cards and had run out of money.
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    Chloe came through and asked if we had any money to get electricity. Still missed about the argument earlier, Eric and I said not at the moment although planned to get some later on
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    that night. Chloe arranged to go to her friend's house and stay the night because she couldn't live with no electricity. She left, and Eric went to the shop to get electricity added to the card, but we never told her.
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    Eric and I went about our usual stuff, but decided that we much preferred not having Chloe about so whenever we left the house we would switch the mains switch off. Chloe came
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    back to the house on three occasions over the next week whilst we were out and saw that the electricity still hadn't been sorted so went back to her friends house for a few more days. Overall we had her out
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    the house for almost two weeks - I remember being so relieved at the peace and quiet, and Eric, our friends and I had a great time. She moved out not long after. Good riddance!
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    Piddy3825 2 days ago petty revenge - best served with a circuit breaker...
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    gertvanjoe ⚫ 22 hr. ago Best served with cold wires
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    CoderJoe1 2 days ago Her absence was electrifying
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    JoySubtraction ⚫ 1 day ago She was shocked.
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    Murwiz 1 day ago She was powerless to stop you.
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    BeautifulPhantom1 · 1 day ago She was shocked that she needed to act like an adult after moving out of her parents' house. Having to clean up after yourself and pay rent on time must
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    have been too much for her teeny brain to comprehend at first. Hopefully she grew up, got more responsible, and less argumentative as she moved on to irritate others.
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    Dranask 1 day ago • She had a short fuse.
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    Weekly Talk3907 - 1 day ago There's no place like ohm
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    Zonnebloempje 1 day ago Great idea... I really hope you did not have anything in your fridge, and no freezer at all...
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    • newsy0011 1 day ago You guys got a charge but she was discharged.
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    teachthisdognewtrick. 1 day ago That kind of behavior is revolting. I'll see myself out now...
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